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VAL

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Fighting for my life with this Epson Ecotank. First pizza wheel Mark's, now random dye issues- Does Epson know how paper works? Fuck glossy paper I guess?

Posters coming eventually lol...

Photo of my "Dimorphic Expressions" print , but with printing errors.

Photo of 4 prints of "Dimorphic Expressions" with different printing errors on each one.

Photo of a "Dimorphic Expressions" print that has small indents on it where the light reflects.

December 20, 2024 at 6:00 AM

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Neighborhood association is working on wreaths for our park, it's been a lot of fun decorating them together!

Photo of decorated wreath covered in a bow and various holiday bells & ornaments.

Table covered in partially decorated wreaths, unused ornaments, glue guns and glue sticks.

Photo of 2 decorated wreath covered in a bow and various holiday bells & ornaments.

December 20, 2024 at 5:53 AM

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We eatin' good tonight boys.

#thanksgiving

A leg bone of unknown origin and melted blocks of probably cheese. The plate is surrounded by 5 cups and an AUX headphone adapter. The tiniest cup has a suspicious red baggie in it.

December 4, 2024 at 4:26 AM

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I said it'd be here last week but I needed more time to cook fam, it wasn't ready. If my next mental breakdown makes another banger like this imma keep having them. #art #vectorart #graphicart #posterdesign #posterart #poster #blackart #artist #blackartist #illustration #digitalart #adobeillustrator

Vector art of a crying womans head with distressed eyes and a wide incongruous grin. The title says "I have so many Dimorphic Expressions", underneath it reads "Why am I smiling when I am so mad? My face hurts from smiling. Feels like I forgot how to look how I feel. Am I crazy? How long do I have to be strong?". Separately written are "13" and "Valmarie".

The woman has mascara running down her face, and snot coming out her nose. Covering her left eye is a star with a hypnotic swirl on the inside. This hypnotic star is repeated in various places throughout the image. Under her is a feelings slider of icons that starts at a happy smile, to neutral, to sad, to horrified, ending with the same dimorphic smiling expression of the woman. The final setting is currently active.

Eyes, Hypnotic Stars, and various chunky 70s text is used throughout the image. Screentones and a paper textures give the effect of copypaper.

December 4, 2024 at 2:14 AM

VAL

@valmarie.space

Okay one more, this one is too good not to include

Photograph of people looking down at a wide curving pool filled with rocks and colorful fishes. A large neon wave-shaped light tints everyting in the room blue and turquoise. A fish is being projected onto the wall behind them. The whole room curves and bends smoothly like water.

November 29, 2024 at 8:10 PM

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I never put the reference I used! This is what our Aquarium looks like. It's gorgeous inside too!

Photograph of The Baltimore Aquarium at the Baltimore Harbor at sunset. There are various tiles in black, white, red, green, and yellow on a gray cement building. The front has a neon led light in the shape of waves. The top is angular and made of tinted blue glass.

Photograph of people looking at the fishes at National Aquarium in Baltimore. The room is dark and the tank is bright, making all the people just black silhouettes against the deep blue background of the tank and it's various fishes. A fish bigger than a man and covered in spots floats in the foreground.

November 29, 2024 at 8:03 PM

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@valmarie.space

Idea: Make a "Free List"! If you sometimes realize you didnt already have an appropriate list for the account you want to add to it: keep a spare "Freelist", add them, go rename it, then make a new "Free List" for when the hair isnt thin enough from the last time you split it!

Me creating a bluesky list called "Free List".

November 24, 2024 at 7:23 PM

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Upcoming art next week! I saw & love this format to share #wips, super excited to post these when they're done, pretty close :3 2 are new very personal vent-pieces (bc I want to do more expressive work), the other 2 are for my room: a Maryland poster and my favorite drink (1 guess) #wip #graphicart

A collage of cropped works in progress. The visible text says "I cannot dissociate fast enough" "volume" and "Maryland". A square with a crying woman with a star over her eye, and a square with palm trees is depicted.

November 24, 2024 at 9:45 AM

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FINALLY! Progress! Finished the back mural for my battle jacket (meh). Long ways to go, but I started the first wave of patches on my jacket. Need more political stuff, memes, more of the actual punk-bands lol- but I'm doing it in order of passion, okay? I'll get there!
#DIY #Punk #battlejacket

Black jacket with a DIY mural of my "Core-Ruption" piece. It's surrounded with DIY patches from: Meshuggah, Suncinder, Zith, Bjork, Coheed & Cambria, Jack Off Jill, Malcolm X, Nu Game Plus, Sophie, Goldfrapp, The Smiths, Imogen Heap, Siouxsie & The Banshees .

A misfits patch, and 3 button pins, the first is of shirley manson, the second skeletal family, and the third says "written and directed by Quentin Tarentino", with a crack going over the words.

Black jacket with DIY patches of Ableton, Audio Technica, Kilohearts, and Reason.

Patches with: Mr. Robot, Garbage, ecology, Halo of the sun from silenthill, The chinese character for Rat, Leeloo holding a multipass,
Bobby Hutton, My Chemical Romance, a pride flag, and my cat.

November 22, 2024 at 10:31 PM

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@valmarie.space

Made a beary cute little #furry #minecraft skin. :p I would have gone for a bunny, but i'd rather be a bear with normal ears than bunny with flaccid broken erectile dysfunctional ears ( I do like this bonnie skin tho)

Minecraft Skin of a Bear in a maid outfit

a minecraft skin of bonnie from FNAF with it's ears flaccid and flat against it's head.

November 22, 2024 at 9:19 PM

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@valmarie.space

"Sprung on my Autumn Haired Lover" 8 years ago I made this mural of my (ginger) girlfriend like 1 months into our relationship because I couldn't get the Uhaul lmao.

Gay love is wild.

#art #vectorart #graphicart #blackartist
#illustration #digitalart #adobeillustrator #queerart #queerartist

Minimalist Vector Art of A woman with hair made out of fall leaves. The 70s retro styled text says "Sprung on my Autumn Haired Lover". The colors are all shades of brown, orange, and muted greens. She has an acorn cap for a nipple, and a serene smile that resembles the shape of a leaf as well.

November 19, 2024 at 11:36 PM

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The random words generator gave me "Personality Fragment" so I made this. It's actually I made for @synsira.bsky.social , I recorded myself making it too, but I wanted to post something today and it's sort of my current vibe, so here you go :3

Minimalist vector Art, the text says "personality fragment". Depicted is a woman with crystals separating her face and piercing through her head, she cries a single red tear but her expression is serene. The image uses only black white and red.

November 19, 2024 at 1:32 AM

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@valmarie.space

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

A screencap of hitting 69 Followers and a suggestive Lenny emoji in thre corner.

November 17, 2024 at 2:11 PM

VAL

@valmarie.space

"The Synsirazers" tour poster I did for some practice with shapes, but I still like it a lot.

#art #vectorart #vector #graphicart #scifi #posterdesign #posterart #poster #blackart #vectorart #blacksky #blackartist #illustration #digitalart #adobeillustrator #popart

Vector art tour poster depicting a pensive turquoise woman over a swirling pink groovy background. It reads: "The Synsirazers" in english, and "Happy Odyssey Tour" in japanese, followed by the year "2079" . The background is mint, contrasting against the deep green of the fonts.

November 17, 2024 at 12:38 AM

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"That canceled TV show you'll never stop thinking about forever and ALWAYS"

*quietly does "the movements" in tears*😔

Promotional poster for "The O.A." Netflix series.

November 16, 2024 at 4:32 PM

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@valmarie.space

"Baltimore Aquarius" is a fun doodle I did based on the Baltimore aquariums innate drip. I have to make this sweater for myself, it's so fun. Nearly done WIP.

#vectorart #art #blacksky #Baltimore #blackart #blackartist #minimalistart #minimalart #illustration #digitalart #adobeillustrator

Minimalist vector art of a black woman in a turtleneck sweater, which is covered in the same pattern seen on the side of the Baltimore Aquarium. Written across the thigh is the word 'Valmarie'. The end of her skirt has the shape of the neon waves on the front of the Aquarium. The Aquariums colors of green, yellow, red, white and black are exclusively used throughout the image. She has large gold hoop earrings, and her hair is a large round black afro that covers her eyes and matches her skin. Only bright red lipstick can be seen from under her hair.

November 16, 2024 at 12:22 AM

VAL

@valmarie.space

My most recent work I think, it's close enough to done I don't mind sharing it now.

#art #vectorart #vector #scifiart #horrorart #horror #darkart
#bodyhorror #graphicart #scifi #posterdesign #posterart #poster

Digital Vector Art of horrific fused heads in a sci-fi style. The text reads: "Core-Ruption. Core-Rupted. The Third Eye Sees what the core cannot speak. The absurdist speaks the corruption but she cannot see it. The anarchist sees the corruption, but she cannot speak it. It tries to bite the hand that speaks."

Further Description: A shoulder and neck has 4 heads warped and melted together in surreal ways. The bottom and center-most head is calm, the left head is manic, the right head is glaring at the calm one, and the top heads expression is unreadable because it's form is corrupted.

The corrupted head's eyes have no irises and their mouth functions as the calm faces third eye. The calm head cries a single corrupted tear, and out from it's mouth a hand emerges to cover the mouth of the angry head. The angry one bites down on the hand, and corrupted data pours from the wound. The angry heads left eye is connected to the top heads corrupted form, and it's right eye is being absorbed into the calm ones crying eye. The manic head is laughing and the corrupted data pouring from it's mouth connects to the corrupted head as well, but it's wide eyes are unfocused and covered by X-symbols. Two extra hands close around the neck, but it is not clear if they are choking, stabilizing, or keeping the head attached.

The text is interrupted by various blocks and X's, typically appearing on computers to indicate when the characters of a word are not available in the font being used.

A twisting miasma swirls in the background.

November 14, 2024 at 9:22 PM

VAL

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How I arrived on Bluesky:

#Queer #Disabled #Queerart #Art

A Tall buff hellokitty action figure seen from below holding a pride flag that represents bipoc, trans people, lgbt+, intersex ppl, and disability rights. The clouds above them part to reveal a majestic blue sky, and their freshly broken chains dangle from their now useless wrist-cuffs.

November 13, 2024 at 11:17 PM

VAL

@valmarie.space

Hahahahahahahaha.

They're cooked.

Sophie Gigante/Falcone & Oz Cobb staring at the camera intensely. It is from the show "The Penguin".

November 13, 2024 at 9:43 AM

VAL

@valmarie.space

New handle! :3
Tbh I dont know how to pick between this and

Valmarie@valmarie.art
Valmarie@synsira.net

November 11, 2024 at 6:58 PM

VAL

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My first #art post! I leave Lorem Ipsum in a lot, bc it's funny & weirdly profound to me that the placeholder text is scrambled ancient 45 BC ponderings from "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum", and this very based passage simply posits: 'Don't Suffer without Purpose', but that's still all we do lol?

An 80s inspired textbook cover depicting sea anemone in various purples and blues. The title says 'LABORTIS'. Various gradients, bar codes, geometric shapes, sonar maps, and novelty futuristic fonts utilize the palette of the sea anemone to create an aquatic design. The words are randomly placed excerpts of the Lorem Ipsum placeholder text.

a pink and purple pop art vector graphic of a black woman with an afro of words for hair,. Heart icons surround her, and she cries a stream of words. The english Text says 'Synsiromantic', and both the japanese and latin text are excerpts of the Lorem Ipsum placeholder text.

Vector art of a man holding his face in despair over a spiral that twist out from his eye. The english text reads 'Despaira', but the latin and japanese text is all randomly placed excerpts of the Lorem Ipsum placeholder text. The palete is dark, using only white, cyan as contrast. Grids, barcodes, gradients and nonsensically placed text make a hud-display of typographic shapes.

Simple black, yellow, and white Geometric Art. A womans face is layered many times over itself. The english text says 'Synsira.net', the latin text is randomly placed excerpts of the Lorem Ipsum placeholder text. The title says LOREM. Various graphs, polygons, grids, and chunky futuristic fonts cover the page to create a HUD-like display.

November 10, 2024 at 6:44 PM

VAL

@valmarie.space

An Ita bag and an upcycled old laptop bag that was kind of ugly and that I need to fix the zipper on lol. DIY Alt Fashion is a very big fixation in my life atm, so I thought these are both good post to share :3

November 9, 2024 at 12:04 PM

VAL

@valmarie.space

Made a space for any kind of Artist & Hobbyist! We are an interest based peer support group, and we share tools & community to get through inner & outer adversity!

If you're 21+ allied/inside the Disabled, Chronically ill, Neurodivergent, BIPOC, LGBT+, Women space: follow and msg me for a link!