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thatartisan.bsky.social
Aria
@thatartisan.bsky.social
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Just call me Aria. She/Her 🏳️‍⚧️

Freelance Artist/Animator
Previous work
- MARVEL: Cosmic Invasion
- He-Man: Dragonpearl of Destruction

Check out my info at thatartisan.carrd.co

Tags: #art #pixelart #digitalart #animation #oc
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still feeling crazy ill so I don't have any energy to refine these further, but I am dipping my toes into the world of grunt suit designing

#art #digitalart #oc
a couple low fidelity pen sketches of two "generic" mech suits. one has a more soldier-y aesthetic whereas the other feels a bit more space age.
November 23, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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I have been CRAZY busy lately but I finally got a little time recently to do some personal art, so here's another iteration on Fortuna.

Right side was an initial sketch to figure out vibes, Left is a refinement on the ideas using the symmetry tool.
#art #digitalart #oc
Two side-by-side digital sketches of a giant mecha, the first being a refined one that's mirrored down the middle, and the second being a much more freeform one that shows humanlike gesture. Both use a classic gundam Red/White/Blue/Yellow/Black color scheme, with slightly desaturated reds and blues. Overall the robot has a very standard giant robot silhouette, just drawn to my particular tastes in mechanical design.
November 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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with regard to game design please consult the objective chart
digital sketch of a generic looking smarmy guy gesturing to a chart behind him. the chart is a bar graph where the side axis is labeled "good level" and the two bars are "Game I Like" versus "Game You Like" The former has a score of 36 on an arbitrary scale and the latter has a score of -5, drawn below the horizontal axis.
November 16, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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i-no from last night
#art #digitalart
messy digital sketch of i-no from guilty gear strive
November 6, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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one of them horse girls my friend requested
#art #digitalart
low resolution digital sketch of super creek from umamusume. she looks up at the viewer with a timid expression
November 5, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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it's turtleneck season so here's a somewhat low effort self portrait to commemorate it
#art #digitalart
digital portrait of myself done without much refinement or care for the details. Drawn bust up, I'm a white woman with a calm but weary smile and long, straight red hair that dissipates into wavy curls near the bottom.
November 4, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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happy halloween folks
The Hornet-er, or something

#art #digitalart #oc
digital drawing of my character, The Handler, in a black latex bodysuit and red cloak, with a headband that makes her look like Hornet from the hollow knight series.
October 31, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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a fast and loose Handler sketch from last night
#art #digitalart #oc
digital sketch of my character, The Handler. She is a woman with long hair, hoop earrings, and academic-looking glasses. Her clothing appears damaged, and she looks exhausted with a strained smile on her face. She says "No, I'm all right! You don't have to worry about me. I just... need a second, okay? Feel free to push ahead, I'll catch up."
October 30, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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a willow I drew earlier for all the willow fans out there who have been patiently starving for more art of her. I keep neglecting to 😔

#art #digitalart #oc
digital brush sketch of my succubus character, Willow. She is drawn bust-up and looks at the viewer with a calm smile on her face
October 21, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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her girlfriend (the mechanic who also "pilots" her, but really just connects into the psy-link to enable the mech's weapons while Fortuna does all the flying) doesn't have a real design yet so I threw something very sloppy together for her, but her name is Missy.
digital sketch of the "awesome lesbian couple" meme where the couple in question is the woman in the replied to post, nuzzling her head against the head of another woman. Next to them is the "evil and intimidating mobile suit" which is also blushing because fortuna (the personality trapped in the mech's psy-core) is also effectively fortuna (the mech suit).
October 20, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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while I'm not ready to post the main body of the suit yet since it's still in progress, here's a look at the woman trapped in the main psy-core of my mech OC. she says her name is Fortuna, which is weird because that's also the name of the suit she wants to get out of so badly.
#art #digitalart #oc
digital sketch of a woman with a very unsure, nearly crying look on her face. her hair is long and flowing, almost holographic in appearance, and her ears are nowhere to be seen but instead she has panels off the side of her head reminiscent of fins or wings. Above her forehead floats an array of shard-like horns and a rectangular sigil, very reminiscent of the mech suit head I posted previously. her eyes have very vertical pupils, with an additional semicircle below them that is evocative of a power switch symbol.
October 20, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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a very loose Candrin sketch from earlier tonight for all the boykissers in my audience.
#art #digitalart #oc
bust-up digital sketch in black and white of my werewolf character, Candrin. he is in human form with a tired and slightly dopey smirk on his face looking at the viewer, hair tied behind his head in a very low, loose ponytail.
October 16, 2025 at 5:20 AM
thatartisan.bsky.social
Happy #portfolioday!

I'm Aria: pixel artist, animator, and fighting game enjoyer. An expert at subpixel animation, I specialize in larger sprites with consistent forms and anatomy!

Not currently looking for work, just getting my portfolio out there. Full portfolio at the info link in my bio ^^
October 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Meet Fortuna (V2)

#art #digitalart #oc
digital sketches of two mecha heads. One is far sketchier and in monochrome, attached to a body that's shown bust up, and the other is just a standalone head colored in with red, white, blue, and shades of black and grey. The new design is considerably more refined and has a much sleeker, more menacing appearance
October 12, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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are you shitting me
comparison between Warwick, a werewolf character from the new league of legends fighting game with bluish grey fur, ripped pants with brown belts, and a perpetually snarling face, versus Wolf, my own werewolf character, who has virtually the exact same idle pose, very similar clothing, and near identical color distribution on the fur
October 9, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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testing whether I prefer Wolf with a fully white muzzle or with a dark patch going down his snout that a lot of wolves have
digital bust-up sketch of my character, Wolf. He is a werewolf with golden eyes and a stoic (if slightly unamused) expression on his face, wearing a scarf and a mane created of his hair tied back in a ponytail. One version of the sketch has his nose fully white, the other with a band of his darker fur color going down the bridge of his snout
October 6, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Anatomy of the Fishe

#art #digitalart #oc
Digital sketch of my character, Topaz, a fish lady with a massive grin on her face holding up a peace sign with her fingers. There are a number of labels around the image, noting off parts of her anatomy. They include: Zero wrinkles on her brain - Thinks cats are adorable, never seen one in person before - Webbed fingers and glover-like pigmentation present on her hands - Fin-like appendages made of cartilige for hydrodynamic steering - Award-winning smile - Powerful swimmer's shoulders and hefty arms for carrying metal tridents around - Boobs are actually float sacs because fish don't need mammaries (every member of her species has them) (makes transitioning really easy) - Absolutely should wear a belt. doesn't. - Not a big fan of the government (her mom forced her to get a job as secretary to the president) (her mom is president of the ocean)
October 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
thatartisan.bsky.social
If you see this, post something monochromatic!
pixel art two-tone likeness portrait of willem dafoe. He stares straight ahead with a neutral expression on his face, all of the variations in value accomplished through varying dithering techniques despite the entire piece being only two colors, a light eggshell color and a darker warm tone somewhere between grey and brown. The piece could have been done in black and white, but I preferred it with slightly unconventional colors
October 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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the Fis
I don't draw her much lately and I figured I should rectify that

#art #digitalart #oc
digital sketch of my character, topaz. She is a fish lady with turquoise skin and luminous yellowish orange hair, wearing a suit jacket overtop of a swimsuit. She has a bright smile and a confident look in her eyes
October 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Sams
#art #digitalart #fanart #samus
digital sketch art of samus aran from the metroid series. she stands in her skintight zero suit, wearing a bomber jacket overtop of it (colored similarly to her power armor) and holding a drink in a plastic cup with a lid and a bendy straw. She looks at the viewer with a puzzled expression, saying "What? Oh, this? It's just a sports drink the federation whipped up for me. helps keep me energized when I'm working out. ...No. You can't have any. It's literally just sedated X-parasites. You'd die."
September 29, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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them.
#art #digitalart #oc
plushie designs for my characters. there is a grumpy werewolf guy, sassy catgirl, strange looking gangster, scowling robot, and a fish girl. their chibi proportions stare up at the viewer, inviting them to squish their adorable little faces.
September 24, 2025 at 10:26 PM
thatartisan.bsky.social
oh, that's mice in my new apartment showing up in the same week as my roof leaking
spongebob "oh that's just real nice" meme where a fish looks in a toilet with a saddened and exhausted expression, showing a truly profound fatigue for whatever he is seeing in there.
September 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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there is a list of things that would sell gangbusters and I'm pretty sure Tiny Wolf Plushie would be on that list
#art #digitalart #oc
digital sketches of my characters Wolf (An unimpressed werewolf with a stern expression), Adriana (A catgirl with a cute but devious smile on her face), and Spike (A very large mobster with grey skin and a pointy nose, wide grin with pearly white teeth) drawn as marketable plushies. they all have extremely chibi proportions and look adorable
September 24, 2025 at 12:18 AM
thatartisan.bsky.social
oh also. Gee, it sure is Yuri around here!
#oc
link from the faces of evil but heavily edited to look like my character, the handler, a female mage wearing slate blue robes and librarian-esque glasses
September 17, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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definitely the big pointy nose lol Spike has one of those too
extreme closeup of spike's fighting game sprite showing his extremely long and pointy nose
September 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM