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ryv 🌿
@spectryv.bsky.social
✼ character studies thru crisis & growth. 🩸🌱
✼ illustration • character design
✼ exploring who we become under pressure.
✼ 25 • 🇵🇭 • folio + newsletter⤵️

🪶 https://spectryv.framer.media/
🌲 https://linktr.ee/spectryv
📨: spectryv@gmail.com
full essay: "sloppily, tenaciously" out now for ryveries on substack. 🔗🧡

open.substack.com/pub/spectryv...

for the people we're still becoming.
December 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM
what's the cost of giving up? and what does it take to keep showing up anyway?
December 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM
this is about the unglamorous gutter of the waiting game. you know you need the inner work for personal growth, that this phase is necessary in becoming yourself. still, imposter syndrome strikes. you fall into self-punishment or rumination.
December 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM
[ 🧵 ] when did waiting become suffocating?

you show up, you put in the hours. still, frustration bites. hard. patience feels like being smothered. how do you endure the gap between who you are and who you want to be?

#selfsabotage #overcomingperfectionism #emotionalhonesty #innerworkjourney
December 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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December 20, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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December 20, 2025 at 11:11 AM
new comic. -
for when you know what to do, but can't make yourself move. (1/6)

[ #overcominginaction #breakingpatterns #psychologicalhorror #comicart #mentalhealthart #choosingaction #darkart #indiecomics ]
December 20, 2025 at 11:11 AM
wip.

what's dripping?
December 18, 2025 at 9:53 AM
+ a timelapse!
December 9, 2025 at 12:07 PM
December 9, 2025 at 12:07 PM
starting a new mini-drawing series with my plant oc, bromie 🌿

anyone else in the throes of trying to overcome creative block? we must push through discomfort anyway…. GRAHHH!

#illustration #originalcharacter #characterillustration #art #selfgrowth
November 28, 2025 at 7:25 AM
what would YOU do if your survival hung by a thread?

part 1 of my infected survivors character design series! 🩹
what are your favorite survival media or archetypes? let me know below hehe

stay tuned for part 2! ✌️

#psychological #apocalyptic #28dayslater #scavengersreign #characterdesign
November 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
sometimes, when you feel something so grotesque... exploring its messiness through art is what the heart demands.

what's an art piece you know or have made that resonates with you in this manner?

quote this or let me know in the replies ❤️‍🩹

#lifequotes #creative #humanexperience #painandgrowth
November 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
take two of two. hey, i'm ryv!
i’m drawn to ghosts, plants, & the unknown. i like exploring poignant themes packaged in cartoons.

my mission is to help purpose-driven creatives find balance between their craft and their personal values so they can show up for what truly matters to them.
November 5, 2025 at 1:54 PM
has anyone here read god of small things arundhati roy

[ #booksky #art ]
June 15, 2025 at 11:48 AM
🍂
#art #oc
June 11, 2025 at 3:07 AM
real growth is deeply brutal
#rkgk
June 9, 2025 at 2:22 AM