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Retro Heart
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Your friendly California Bay Area artist and VTuber coming at you from the sleek, ultramodern future of 19XX.
Biracial. Est’d 1985. He/Him.
Pleasing taste, some monsterism. Spread love, punch fascists.
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Bun-E03 Halloween costumes, just in time for Halloween 2. Not to be confused with Halloween 3: Season of the Witch.
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Bun-E03 striking her iconic idol pose with a big smile. Bun-E03 dressed as a Witch. Bun-E03 dressed as Morrigan from Darkstalkers with her own spin on the design.
November 2, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Bun-E03 dressed up as Morrigan from Darkstalkers, NEK-01 as Lilith, and CAT-SS as Felicia. Bun-E03 is bringing in a surprised and blushing NEK-01 with her arm, while CAT-SS looks over her shoulder in the background.
October 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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October 3, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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The final scene of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air with Will Smith looking over an empty room. Eggbug is also there. I'll always miss you, Cohost. Thanks for everything.
October 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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System reboot in progress.
Please wait. . .
September 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Okay, closing out this flurry of posts with some cleanup on something that never got done previously

Won't be able to get it done today but I think it could make a good "end of Summer" piece
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Mostly done lineart (with some glowing bits) of Bun-E03 holding a pair of themed popsicles and winking at the viewer, dressed in a tied t-shirt and bikini bottoms. The happy-looking rabbit-themed one in her right hand has a chunk bitten out of it, while the sour-looking cat-themed one is being held out towards the viewer.
August 31, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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We regret to inform you: It is Blue Stinger
Gonna run some tests on the Retro Achievement set I've been working on, starting soon:
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August 27, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Quick, slightly off-model Millenia sketch to start off the morning. Mostly focusing on the hands and forced perspective.
August 25, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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I'm so tired of these. They get through filters and show up now and again

Aside from assuming my personal email is out there from personal error or a WHOIS leak, it sucks that the baseline assumption is that every website exists to sell you a thing. It's a gallery. It has art in it. That's it.
A spam email offering to "bring your website to the first page on Google".
August 25, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Nova doodle to end the night on, practicing a few things, seeing where I can improve
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Digital art sketch of Nova, a woman with dog ears and tail, dressed in a sailor-style uniform. She's in mid-stride, turning her upper body and head to look at something out of frame while brushing some hair from the side of her head.
August 25, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Me: I should refocus on things that are a little more slice of life and less over the top for a while
Also me: What if a demon and oni were friends. And also squishy
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Quick(-ish) sketch of a demon and oni pressed together, with the demon posing like they're taking a selfie and drawing the oni in, who looks flustered.
August 24, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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If I try to keep applying little fixes to this it'll never get done, but I'm good with where it's at. I learned a lot in the process that I can apply in the future.
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Sera Penta (or Serpent A), a lamia, laying on her stomach while looking over her shoulder, her head rested in one hand. Her body and tail wrap around behind her, and a sword is stuck in the ground near her left arm. The environment is sunny, dry, flat, and cracked.
August 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Spent too much time reworking the sketch into a Very Polished Sketch in a way that adding color makes it feel "off" somehow, so have both arts of Trella
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Trella, a half-orc, posing with a cleaver held in her left hand and her right hand on her hip as she looks off to the side. Her clothes are mostly torn, including a shredded nearly black t-shirt with an HP/MP logo on it, cut-off jean shorts, and yellow leggings. Essentially the same image, but without the color. The t-shirt is still blocked out in black.
August 23, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Sent the full version of this to a close friend to show her what I was working on and she texted back "cleaver mommy" so I think I'm on track.

What track, I'm not sure, but I'm on it
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Close-up of lineart of the head and shoulders of Trella, a half-orc, looking to her side with a smug expression. She's holding a cleaver in her left hand.
August 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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For fun and a bit of world building, I made a custom wallpaper for my MiSTer to match the theme of the no signal image I swapped out a while back
A neon-colored set of grids behind a MiSTer FPGA launcher with a border labeled "SYS-A's Totally Radical Turbolauncher". The copyright is for Superfuture Technolabs, 19XX. A more muted background with a window that says "No Signal. If problem persists, notify SYS-A."
August 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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It's a million degrees out and I haven't been able to focus on art lately, so have a Millenia beach selfie from last year
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Millenia, a demon woman with orange hair, green eyes, and freckles, in a red and black bikini and t-shirt standing beachside while taking a selfie. The Toonami edit. A similar image with Millenia in a bikini without the t-shirt.
August 22, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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I can't decompress or exhale exactly but I guess my nervous energy from today is now just energy energy

So have some extra dialogue I've been working on for the Tech Support redeem for streams
Bun-E03 and The Monitor in an office setting. A small pop-up window is in front with SYS-A saying "Did you know? Anime is real!" The same scene with SYS-A saying "... and it CAN hurt you."
August 21, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Decided to spend some time this morning cleaning up an idea from yesterday's stream for an emote. Trying to balance the right amount of detail with being readable, the color of her glove and hair blur together at small scale, but I think it works
Snip of an emote labeled "Ohoho" featuring CAT-SS doing an oshoujo-style laugh.
August 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Revisiting the countdown idea I had a while back now that I've rebuilt SHOWTIME MODE Bun-E03 in Godot.

Her speaking animations are effectively tied to the length of an audio file but I'm looking into if I can tie it to a volume level instead
(The heel bounce timing was a fun coincidence)
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August 19, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Gonna rest on it for a couple hours and take another pass with fresh eyes, but I'm feeling good about this morning's progress
Close-up of a near final version of a lamia leaning forward on one arm looking off to the side. A sword is stuck into the ground behind her, while her body and tail wrap around.
August 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Art // Streamin'
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Dipped into the archives to find some unfinished stuff, gonna work on various art bits for a while
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Work in progress of a lamia laying on her front with a sword stuck into the ground behind her. Chibi Bun-E03 and The Monitor are off to the side on the overlay.
August 18, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Accidentally mixed some animations and I think Chibi Bun-E03's dab pose might also be able to double as a henshin(-a-go-go, baby) pose with the right expression
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Chibi Bun-E03 sitting on top of The Monitor with a serious expression on her face and her arms posed outward to her right side.
August 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Remember to stretch before you swim

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Quick sketch bust of a half-orc woman stretching her arms behind her head in a one-piece swimsuit.
August 15, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Knock it off, I'm not gyro controlled --
wait, how'd you do that
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August 14, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Sketching out an idea. They're two sides of the same coin, really
Partial sketch of Bun-E03 and Cinnamon Bun looking up at the viewer while making a combined heart shape with their hands.
August 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM