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Ben | the art that b fein!
@thatbfein.bsky.social
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※ thatbfein.art ※
Illustrator & visual novel dev over at featherboy.itch.io
Check out prints at inprnt.com/frames/thatbfein/ !
I'm mainly on insta, under the same name!
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My most perfectly rendered background art, no crashes, definitely definitely, just a normal cafe
A glitched image of corrupted data, in streaks of noisy cyan, green, and yellow
September 5, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Older pen-an-ink illustration I did for the Mushrooms & Magic rulebook, a post-apocalyptic #mushroomfolk #monsteroftheweek system where you can get little buggy buddies..... sorting through old art and was really pleased by how these came out! 🍄

Available at featherboy.itch.io/mushrooms-an...
Illustration of multiple small thrips and other bugs, including a velvet worm, aphids, and leafhoppers
July 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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#portfolioday ! I'm a illustrator who works in science illustration, visual novels, ttRPG characters, and #kidslit , and am always happy to discuss projects 💖

Check out more links in the bio, or more of the VN games I've worked on at featherboy.itch.io
A visual novel screenshot, showing a crow homunculus in a cut paper style sitting at the bottom of a street lamp. Classical-style science illustration of a hoatzin bird and its chicks, climbing in a tree Illustration of two fairies with firefly wings, doling out soup from a witch-cauldron fungus An artfight illustration of a DnD character, a warrior woman with wings and a sword
July 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Hopping on the #kpopdemonhunters train! ✨️ Been seeing lots of genderbent designs for huntrix, but saja boys not so many.... and so, we fix that. 🫡

Will I draw more of them? No, probably not
Genderbent designs of the Saja Boys from the film "KPop Demon Hunters"
July 3, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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I'm doing artfight this year! Don't know how many I'll get through, but if you want something drawn by more, or to see more of my oc's, find me over there! Lots of spooktober VN characters, but not entirely!

#artfight #artfight2025 #teamfossils
July 2, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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#makeaterriblecomicday2025 with some more of the A Witch is Getting Married crew .... there's nothing so humbling as having to draw a character twice 🫠

The game is still free on featherboy.itch.io/a-witch-is-getting-married ), but wanted to explore them again before plopping them in #artfight2025 !
A comic of a ghost girl and a witch sitting in the rain. The witch asks if the ghost ever misses feeling the rain. The ghost, Hyssop, replies "eh. it's not so bad," as drop fall through her. A comic of a ghost girl and a witch sitting in the rain. The ghost stretches out a leg, letting the raindrops pass through as she says "I can stay out in a storm as long as I want and I don't get any colder than I am. But I can't be warmed either. And I miss the massage of it all. I liked when I had skin and hair and stuff." "But no laundry," the witch replies. "The no laundry is nice," the ghost agrees.
June 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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Trashwing Crowchild is another, shorter, halloween-y visual novel following an accidental homunculus figuring out what it means to be alive, and also how to get back to their nest - with some help from the high school across the way. featherboy.itch.io/trashwing-cr...
Screenshot from a visual novel, titled Trashwing Crowchild. A homumculus, made of a fledgling crow skeleton and bits of trash, sits at the base of a streetpole near a dumpster.
June 3, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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A Witch is Getting Married is a short visual novel delving into witches' weird ambiguous relationship woes, friendship, jealousy, and belonging! featherboy.itch.io/a-witch-is-g...
Screenshot of a visual novel, titled A Witch is Getting Married. A witch dressed in green and purple grumpily leans on a wall. A purple ghost, named Hyssop speaks, saying "Oh dear, that does sound bad"
June 3, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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Wanted to do at least one drawing for #mermay2025 - so here we are! 🦭 Will I do more before the month is out? Time will tell, but I had fun with one

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#mermay #illustration #selkie #mermaid #mermay2025guard
Two seal-mermaids holding hands as they swim back-to-back in the waters, one woth green-gold fur and the other with blue-grey
May 11, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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More of this year's #funguary drawings! How long will it take for me to post them all over here? Idk! But they're all on insta already, so at least there's that.

An indigo milkcap milkmaid, and a bird's nest fungus costermonger!

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#illustration #lactarius #cyathus #mushrooms #characterdesign
A blonde-haired milkmaid, with a dirndl dress modeled after an indigo milkcap mushroom, in shades of indigo and periwinkle A costermonger holding spore packets, with dark purple hair and a straw-like shirt, with a striped maroon scarf resembling a striped bird's nest fungus.
May 3, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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A slightly-late #invertefest post! Some gouache guys from last year, drawn from specimen - glorious scarab being a favorite of mine, in no small part due to its name
April 25, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Also, hello #kidlitartpostcard ! I'm a illustrator and papercutter with a heavy science / STEM background, looking for representation & projects. I love cozy, tender stories, and have done a lot of writing and illustrating in the visual novel world - check me out at thatbfein.art !
March 7, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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More #funguary roundup! Red cage and pixie parasol, and some lil fluffy creatures

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#funguary2025 #clathrus #mycena #mushrooms #illustration
A masked witch-like figure, with a red cage dress carrying a bag of small fluffy creatures A blue-haired woman in the rain, using her umbrella to shield a shivering fluffy creature
March 7, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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a mushroomy storytime 🍄

(decided I'm just gonna post funguary art here and there while I remember to do so)

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#funguary #funguary2025 #illustration #art #reading
A woman with blonde hair, reading a book while surrounded by curious mushrooms
March 1, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Another #funguary2025 piece - I'll do a roundup once they're all done, but really like how this came out! Tried to imitate some gibson girl -esque energy...

Day 27 (posting early), the scarlet elfcup! 🍄

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#art #illustration #gibsongirl #scarletelfcup #pezizales #fungi #funguary
February 26, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Smattering of #funguary2025 days... trying to get a feel for inking in CSP
February 16, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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silly old bear
oil pastels of a russet teddy bear
February 9, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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And another of last year's funguary pics - blue coprinopsis! With a rubber ducky cubaris isopod, because I love them
February 3, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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One of my favs from last year's funguary, Prototaxites. Posting a few of these before I work up to making new ones for this year! 🍄
February 3, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Art I did for a Root homebrew! Marsh Matrons felt like a natural extension of the toad warrior-nuns we were going with, and the hirelings were a chance to highlight the other major amphibian groups!

Plus I'm always delighted to draw a caecilian

(inspired by the great @d20plusmodifier.bsky.social)
Three woodland animals, dressed in medieval warrior-nun outfits and carrying weapons. A caecilian bears a polearm, a salamander carries a sword, and a frog wields a mallet.
February 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Trashwing Crowchild is the Spooktober VN that I probably poured the most of myself into, and it has a really special place in my heart as a result!

Also ended an unofficial trilogy of VNs all involving convenience stores somehow. Mostly unintentionally. featherboy.itch.io/trashwing-crowchild
a trash-homunculus in the form of a crow chick, lit by evening light, sits at the base of a street pole A teen girl in a black cat costume whispers to a crow-shaped homunculus on her shoulder, saying "If anyone asks, you're, uh, one of those normal puppets." A janitor, a teen in a cat costume, and a crow-shaped homunculus peek into a convenience store window from within its connecting laundromat. The teen is speaking, "they're closed! Aren't convenience stores always open on Halloweedn? I feel like that's a thing."
February 3, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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One of my favorite scenes from A Witch is Getting Married, our Spooktober 2024 entry (check it at featherboy.itch.io/a-witch-is-getting-married )

Hyssop ended up being one of my favorite designs, even though she shows up the least in-game. Incorporates her namesake plant subtly, but cutely!
A witch with purple and green dreads leans on an old farm wall, while a purple-tinged ghost looks on, bemused, from a nearby gravestone
February 3, 2025 at 2:40 AM