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The Green Herring
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he/she/they | Retro artist/gamedev/musician | #ANSIArt / #PixelArt | thegreenherring.neocities.org

🔞 Some of my art's for mature users only; check your mod settings!

My Art Feed: https://bsky.app/profile/thegreenherring.neocities.org/feed/aaaed2drywxfy
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The timelapse of me and my genderfluid aura, showing the creation of the base sketch on my phone at work followed by its transformation into full-size art on my computer at home! [2/2]

#Timelapse #FurryArt #OCSky #SonaSky #PixelArt #Pixquare #Aseprite
November 3, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Hey everyone, did you know you can just draw your sona whenever and however you want? I did the inset here on my phone at work, turned it into full-sized art the weekend after, and got myself a very Gender outfit along the way! Enjoy! :3 [1/2]

#FurryArt #OCSky #SonaSky #PixelArt #Pixquare #Aseprite
In this piece of 16-color 6-bit RGB pixel art, a green masculine-bodied fishperson with red eyes stands with one hand on their hip and the other gesturing toward themselves with a smirk, with their fish tail lifted and curled. They have long hair that is short on the left side with the right side falling over their head, and are wearing red glasses and rectangular earrings, a choker with a red medal on the front, an oversized deep-red V-neck t-shirt tucked into a long black pleated skirt with pockets, long fishnet gloves and stockings, and red slip-on shoes with black trimming. They are standing in front of an abstract background consisting of a flowing aura in the colors and arrangement of the stripes in the genderfluid pride flag: pink, white, purple, black and blue. This image is surrounded by a black rectangular frame with the aura continuing on all sides. Attached to the upper-right corner of the frame is a tiny and simplistic version of the same image with a flat-colored, featureless version of the fishperson standing in the same pose in front of the stripes of the genderfluid pride flag displayed at an angle. It is signed "TGH! 2025" and has the address "TheGreenHerring.NeoCities.org" written in the corner.
November 3, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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The #timelapse of Alex Graham (they/them), capturing my training in using #Pixquare to draw a larger piece than the previous one! [2/2]

#FurryArt #PixelArt #Furry #Art
October 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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The cat in my phone asked me to give them a body, a cute outfit and a name, and so I did. Meet Alex Graham (they/them), drawn on my phone once again! [1/2]

#FurryArt #PixelArt #Pixquare #Furry #Art
In a piece of 16-color pixel art, a fuzzy red catperson with yellow slit eyes in a dress floats through cyberspace giving a peace sign with an open-mouthed smile. They are wearing purple earrings, a choker, a small black dress with gold trimming, and arm and leg warmers with black and yellow stripes. They have long white hair tied into a long ponytail using a large purple bow with lengthy ribbons. They are surrounded by a bright cyan aura, and streaks of dark and bright one-pixel lines implying their movement. The image is signed "TGH! 2025" with text in the corner reading "TheGreenHerring.NeoCities.org".
October 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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The timelapse of the fingerpainted pixel cat in my phone! [2/2]

#Timelapse #FurryArt #PixelArt #Art #Furry #Pixquare
October 21, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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In a show to myself that one can draw anywhere with the right know-how, this pixel art cartoon cat was drawn on my phone with my finger right before work and during my breaks, then cleaned up at home (still on my phone). A friendly one, aren't they? [1/2]

#FurryArt #PixelArt #Art #Furry #Pixquare
A low-res pixel art portrait of a very fuzzy cartoon cat with yellow slit eyes looking on at the camera with a smile, in front of an abstract, dithered blue spotlight background. They are red-furred with golden eyes and flesh, a white tuft of hair falling forward between their ears, and white eyebrows. They are wearing a gold-buckled black collar which compresses the fur on their neck, causing it to fall over the collar and poke out from beneath it. The image is signed "TGH! 2025" in white block letters.
October 21, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Finally, the design sheet I created as my reference for this picture, featuring Blaze the Protogen with and without the armor! [3/3]

#FurryArt #PixelArt #RefSheet #CGA #Protogen #Art #Furry #Retro
A four-color CGA pixelart design sheet for Blaze the Protogen, they/them, a custom protogen design. They are wide-hipped with thick legs, their fingers end in sharp claws, and their long tail ends in an exposed metal rod tipped with a huge claw. They wear black armor that exposes their midriff, inner thighs and forelegs, with big bright gemstones embedded inside to imply power, as well as black gloves and toeless socks. Their ears are long and fennec-esque, and their hair comes out in a long, thick stalk. Their visor face is black and displays simple shapes implying a self-satisified expression. They stand in an A-pose facing the viewer, with various side views showing them with and without pauldrons and side armor, as well as the length of their tail. An additional pair of images shows Blaze without their armor, demonstrating their muscular build underneath.
October 13, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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The timelapse of Blaze the Protogen! I ended up playing with the Aseprite tools drawing the background until I arrived at the high-detail fiery aura seen in the final. [2/3]

#Timelapse #FurryArt #PixelArt #CGA #Protogen #Art #Furry #Retro
October 13, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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One seven-hour weekend livestream produced this CGA pixelart of Blaze the Protogen (they/them), burning with fighting spirit and ready to take on all comers! [1/3]

#FurryArt #PixelArt #CGA #Protogen #Art #Furry #Retro
Rendered through four-color pixel art in a high-contrast palette, a protogen, a cyborg alien, in black armor stands poised to fight with a blazing aura flame in one hand, challenging the viewer to approach them with the other. Their hair explodes from the back of their head in a wild stalk, and the molded display that is their visor face shows a confident smirk. Their ears are long and pointed, furred within. Their black armor is dotted with big, bright gemstones implying the power that they carry; and their fingers and toes are tipped with sharp claws. They are wide-hipped with powerful legs, and their tail sweeps back behind them with the fur withered away at the end to reveal its metallic interior, ending in a massive claw. Their surroundings are lit up with a burning aura radiating from the protogen, that is pushed away by their fireball and their beckoning hand.
October 13, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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[ LIVE NOW ]

I've got CGA protogens on the mind, and in particular this one! I'm going to pixel-art this one in an action pose and you're invited to watch!

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An excerpt from a pixelart design sketch for a custom protogen in a four-color CGA black/cyan/magenta/white palette, standing in an A-pose above the previously-listed stream address. They are wide-hipped with long fennec ears and long magenta hair, and are wearing black armor with cyan gems embedded inside of it.
October 11, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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The timelapse of my CGA protogen warrior! Mostly done in one evening; the rest of my time was spent cleaning it up, especially the messy background I gave to it! A symptom of figuring out my CGA drawing tech as I went. [2/2]

#Timelapse #FurryArt #PixelArt #CGA #Protogen #Art #Furry #Retro
October 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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A protogen warrior rendered in glorious CGA cyan-magenta! Why? Because I wanted to, that's why! [1/2]

#FurryArt #PixelArt #CGA #Protogen #Art #Furry #Retro
In a piece of four-color pixel art with a high-contrast palette, a protogen, a species of cyborg alien, soars through the air with their arm and knee forward and their other arm reared back, preparing to stab something with their sharp claws. The protogen, drawn in flat colors, has the appearance of a furred reptile with a face consisting of a shaped electronic display that shows a simple, smiling and determined facial expression. Their hair is a long stalk that is blown back by their movement, they appear to be wearing angular chest armor with pauldrons bearing ring patterns, their digitigrade legs are metallic with bulbs on the sides and furred forelegs, and their tail has fur missing in patches revealing its metal shell. They are outlined against an abstract background of an aura drawn with many long lines, implying the protogen is descending at high speed toward their target.
October 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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To anyone who's played/seen/heard of my ZZT game "Cyber Purge" and wonders if I regret naming the hero "Takami Bluesky" after recent events:

Let the record show I had never heard of this site until two years after the game was released.

Trans rights are human rights.

#FurryArt #ANSIArt #PixelArt
In a piece of blocky ANSI art from 2023, a white non-binary fennec fox with long, dark-blue hair, eyeshadow and flesh is seen from the chest up in a dark-blue long-sleeved button-up shirt with a white tie and white suspenders (UK: braces). They are staring in confusion at their smartphone, which is blasting the word "Bluesky" at them over and over in a giant speech bubble, as a yellow narration box shows them thinking, "Why's everyone talking about me like I'm a website?" Below is a dark-blue caption box identifying them as "Takami Bluesky (they/them)"; underneath is the name of their game of origin, "Cyber Purge". In the upper-right corner is the signature "TGH! 2023".
October 2, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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The timelapse of Elijah (he/him), condensing ~28 hours of streaming into 2 minutes! [2/2]

#Timelapse #FurryArt #PixelArt #EGA #OC #OCsky #Art #Furry
September 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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For #Skunktember, I bring you Elijah (he/him)! Drawn over the course of five Twitch livestreams in glorious IBM EGA 640x350 and less than 16 colors, he stands loud and proud of who he is! [1/2]

#FurryArt #PixelArt #EGA #OC #OCsky #Techwear #Art #Furry
In front of an abstract transgender pride flag background, on a platform colored with the trans pride stripes, a skunk man in techwear stands with his hand on one hip smiling at the viewer. He has a long spiky mohawk that runs down his back and falls over the side of his head. He is wearing thick red earrings on both ears, a red shrug with white trimming that reveals his top-surgery scars, baggy red cargo pants with white trimming on the pockets and legs, and red spats attached to white soles. Next to him is a view of his messy back fur, revealing that his shirt is cut in the back to let it through, and that his waistband goes over his skunk tail. Next this is a bust of the skunk man, still smiling at the viewer, with his mohawk falling on the other side and his fur patterns shown in greater detail.
September 27, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Been working on this IBM EGA 640x350 pixelart skunkman for four streams now; time to polish up this portrait and put in the finishing touches to the rest of the image! After that, I'll do a quick showcase of my usual format of choice: ANSI art!

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A crop from a piece of pixelart showing a portrait of a smiling cartoon skunk man with a long mohawk falling to the side, red eyes and a red earring, with the collar of his red shirt visible. An abstract trans flag background appears behind him, and there is a glimpse to the side of a figure made of pixels half the size of the rest, indicating the intended final resolution of the image.
September 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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I'm getting closer to the finish with this EGA 640x350 pixelart skunk man. Let's see if I can get the rest of the image looking nice and polished up!

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A bust of a red-eyed skunk man in a red shirt and earrings with a white accent looking at the viewer with a smirk, next to a view of his back revealing his shirt is open to let his white back fur through, but which is much blockier than the front view. Both are in front of a cyan and pink abstract background that is just as blocky.
September 25, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Good news: I have quite a few pics of it! ;)
A masculine but lean green fishperson with long parted hair wearing red glasses, earrings, and a tight red satin blouse over a heavy bosom, along with form-fitting black satin trousers with a noticeable bulge, greets the visitor to their website with a smile and a wave of their hand, their other hand resting on their hip and their tail lifted. The text says: "The Green Herring: Art, Games and More!" A masculine but buxom and slender fishperson with wide hips poses with one foot forward, as if walking, on a dirt path by the road on a coastal cliff during the daytime, with the rocky protrusion of Luscomb's Point in San Diego, California behind them and the ocean's horizon in the distance. Their huge fish tail rests by their feet. They are wearing a form-fitting red satin blouse and a tight black satin trousers, with a prominent bulge and red slip-on shoes. In the middle of a rave club, a green, lean, masculine but buxom fishperson, lit by one of the ceiling spotlights in the club, dances with red glowsticks in their hands that leave fiery trails. They have long, messy hair parted in the middle, circular red glasses, and a small red earring. They are wearing a cropped long-sleeved fishnet shirt, a fishnet sleeve on their tail with a zipper on the underside, and fishnet tights, underneath a top made of criss-crossing red cloth, red armwarmers with pleather fingerless gloves at the end, red short shorts with a thick bulge, and polished pleather boots with red shafts that are zipped shut on the sides. Behind them, the silhouettes of two muscular men, a horse and a rabbit, dance with their own glowsticks that leave trails, while wearing metallic jewelry lit by their sticks and clothes with trimming that glows in the dark. At a local bar, two genderfluid shapeshifters assuming feminine forms while wearing glasses and dresses are at the counter. One of them is a smiling green fishperson with a long and thick tail, wearing red-rimmed glasses in a red side-slit dress with black rubber straps, trimming and corset; long red gloves with black trims; and red thigh-high boots with black trimming and instep as well as exposed ankles and toes. The other person is a small, smirking, golden fennec fox with antennae, a black jewel in their forehead and a massive bushy tail, as well as black fur on their arms and legs suggesting gloves and stockings and a tuft of black fur on their chin. They are wearing blue-rimmed glasses, a blue collar, a long blue dress, gold bracelets and anklets, and gold rings on their fingers and toes. The fish is pushing away a barstool with their tail and beckoning the viewer with one hand as they lift their skirt to reveal the girthy bulge of their red panties; while the fox is sitting on the counter propped up with one arm, having pulled up their skirt to reveal their thighs and the prominent bulge in their own blue panties.
September 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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A clipped screenshot from Day 2 of the UNDERTALE 10th Anniversary stream, during the final boss fight, showing a scrolling grid of the art people sent with their memories under the anniversary stream logo, above creator Toby Fox's "Annoying Dog" avatar saying, "that's you guys" in reference to the Lost Souls the player character is reaching out to who are trapped in the boss' body. A crop from the screenshot showing, within the scrolling grid of artwork, my monochrome self-portrait I submitted to the memories event, depicting a fishperson with long hair, pointed ears, a collared shirt and glasses. A memetic screenshot of the American TV show "Spongebob Squarepants" depicting Spongebob excitedly pointing out the top of his head appearing in a new commercial for the Krusty Krab fast food restaurant where he works.
September 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Who is this charming man? 🦨 Whoever he is, It's time for me to take him across the finish line to his final picture size!

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A close-up of a skunk man's eyes, showing his red irises, his black-furred face and white stripe, his white eyebrows and mohawk, and his ruby-red earring.
September 21, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Spinning up an art stream! I tried one as an experiment a couple of days ago and it went well enough that I'll give it another shot! Going to see if I can finish the high-res pixelart I started!

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Screenshot of the opening screen of a Twitch stream featuring The Green Herring, a fish person with glasses in a satin blouse and trousers, standing in a green wireframe grid. It displays the URLs for their websites as well as a notice they will begin shortly.
September 19, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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A traveler pauses to take in the beauty of nature. Also, he's an Umbreon.

#FurryArt #PixelArt #EGA #Pokemon #Umbreon #FanArt #Furry #DigitalArt #Art
In this piece of high-resolution 16-color pixel art, an anthropomorphic Umbreon from Pokémon has walked down a forest path at night and stopped to look at a butterfly that has landed on his finger. The Umbreon is a black feline creature with long ears; glowing yellow rings on his ears, forehead, biceps, thighs and tail; and digitigrade legs. He is wearing a heavy purple cloak with the hood down, and one side of the cape draped over his raised shoulder revealing one side of his clothing, purple with white trimming. He is seen with a sleeveless mesh shirt cut below the pecs, a glove with a mesh sleeve, long shorts, and an open-toe boot with a mesh sock. His shorts appear to have been cut in one side to reveal the ring on his thigh. He stares at the butterfly with solid red slit eyes and a contemplative expression, as small creatures watch him from the trees with only their eyes visible in the darkness. The dirt road and the bushes on both sides lead away from him into darkness, with mountain ranges and the starry night sky visible in the distance.
September 9, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Guidance for followers and logged-in visitors who would like to view the 18+ / #NSFW entries in my #art feed and the 18+ / NSFW art I share from other artists:
To followers and logged-in visitors who would like to see the 18+/NSFW entries in my art feed and the 18+/NSFW art that I share from other artists: To view Non-sexual Nudity, Sexually Suggestive, Adult Content, and Graphic Media (violent/horror) art, go to Settings → Moderation, and then look under Content Filters. I recommend setting these to "Warn", which will hide the art behind a warning with a button you can click/tap to reveal or hide the art, so you can choose when to see it. Sometimes, Bluesky's automod will flag posts as "Sexually Suggestive (Cartoon)", which is for some reason separate from the other labels and cannot be self-assigned. To see these posts, look under "Advanced" on the Moderation menu for "Bluesky Moderation Service", then look under Labels for "Sexually Suggestive (Cartoon)" for the settings. I recommend "Warn" here as well for the same reason. Thank you for your support, and enjoy! ☻
September 1, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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An #ANSIArt beach scene for @necrotext.bsky.social, featuring her and her wife @serpentsaurus.bsky.social!

#FurryArt #TextmodeArt #FurryNSFW #PixelArt #Art #NSFW #Furry
In this piece of low-res 16-color textmode art, two smiling, heavyset women in bikinis sit on the beach eating ice cream sandwiches while looking at each other lovingly, supporting each other with their massive tails. One is a black Super Mario Bros. Piranha Plant with pink thorns, red petals and a green body covered in small thorns representing the plant stem, wearing a blue two-piece bikini containing her heavy bosom and bulge, along with spiked bracelets and a collar from which hangs a metal tag in the shape of a necktie. Her tail is green, starting dark and turning light at the end, and is tipped in a black ball with pink thorns. The other is a blue and black gryphon with tiger stripes and a white underbelly wearing a red two-piece bikini, whose top connects around its back and neck to leave room for its small feathered wings. Its tail is blue and fluffy with a white tip.
September 1, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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After years without one, I finally have a ref sheet for myself, featuring both my regular outfit and the body shape beneath! Don't be afraid to draw me in your own style; all this detail is just to avert any potential ambiguity!

#FurryArt #PixelArt #RefSheet #OC #OCSky #SonaSky #Sona #Furry #Art
A flat-colored pixelart ref sheet for a bright-green humanoid fish named Tavi Grace Hightower, or T.G. Hightower for short. Their pronouns are he/she/they, they are a Pacific herring and a shapeshifter, and may present as masculine or feminine. T.G. stands 182 cm tall. Their body type is slender and masculine, but with wide hips to fit their fish tail, which is as long as they are tall. They also have a fish fin on their back. They have deep-red eyes and long pointed ears; and are shown both bald and with long messy hair parted in the middle, longer on their right. They are seen with both a content expression, and an excited one with wide-open eyes and mouth revealing their tongue is bright green. Nearby is their mouth with sharp teeth, labeled "rare: only if threatened". Close-ups of the nose show the nose covering protrudes slightly above the nostrils. A section labeled "Head Angles" shows how the head works in 3D both bald and with hair. In one half of the sheet, T.G.'s outfit is shown: a long-sleeved deep-red satin blouse tucked into black satin trousers with a black belt, with deep-red slip-on shoes. It is form-fitting but not "painted on". The blouse is cut in the back to let their fin through. It has five snap fasteners to hold it closed in front, and its collar is fastened in the back with a silver clasp. The trousers are cut for their fish tail, with the belt fastened over the tail to hold it in place. The belt is connected in front with a clasp; in the back, it connects over the tail with a pair of snap fasteners. T.G. wears glasses with a ruby finish, and an infobox notes they are molded to T.G.'s head shape. On both ears, they wear rectangular ruby-finish earrings with diagonal corners connected with snap fasteners, with hinges at the bottom. On both sides of the sheet, T.G. is seen in cutouts with a feminine bosom, showing how the blouse fits around it. They are notably top-heavy in this state, with the tail off-setting the weight in front.
August 23, 2025 at 11:30 PM