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Xenotropos
@xenotropos.bsky.social
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Doodler, chief cook, and bottle-washer.
I aim for the paper and hope for the best.
I have 3 cats, 600 small rubber ponies, and a 10 year gap on my resume.
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Good Morning, my Backsplash Dragons!

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I have the concept of a plan: hide the ugly area behind my kitchen taps with a laminated dragon thing. See 8x10 pieces of noodles dragon in the making!
A rough sketch of a noodle dragon head.
November 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Prince Thousand-Enemies
A rabbit is drawn as if bending around itself while running. There are markings suggesting the moon and sun behind it on a yellow to brown gradient.
November 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Good Morning, my Embleer Hrair!

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Tonight we Watership Down the heck outta this sketch.
A sketch of a rather twisted looking rabbit. Strong Watership Down vibes.
November 4, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Finished the thing.

'8x10, watercolour, black ink, coloured pencils, on Bristol stock
A deer, or a somewhat alien spotted deer thing, looks at the audience from within a rounded black and white frame.
October 23, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Good Morning, my Rainy Day Cervidae!

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The lady behind me at my last convention said this was a "human deer". I don't know if I disagree with that.

Watercolour and what-not!
Black and white line art of a ... rather human looking deer face? With flowers and leaves, of course.
October 21, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Good Morning, my Second Day on the New New Meds!

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Giant unicorn face because my imaginations broke. With weird masked off spots.

Coloured pencil time! THRILLING!
A gradient from green to blue, then some skinny plants masked off overtop a giant ass unicorn head. The new meds are something, lemme tell ya.
October 14, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Owl.

- 8x10, ink, coloured pencils, acrylic ink, inktense pencil, on tan stock.
A drawing of a stylized owl, who looks like he'd rather you NOT hang about. There are fall leaves, pumpkins, a dying picket fence and some spooky trees in the moonlit background.
October 9, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Good Morning, my Spooky Boos!

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After much pressure from the peanut gallery I have agreed to draw an owl, in a slightly Hallowe'en scene.

A Boo Who, if you will.

Coloured pencil to follow black ink.
A WIP ink drawing of an owl against a night sky, in a fall/somewhat spoopy background.
October 7, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Drood this during my stream a while ago.
A portrait of a dragon. There's a diagonal bar across the image. Everything inside the bar is fully rendered in burgundy/blue/green while everything outside the bar is just an ink outline.
October 6, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Good Morning, my Noodle Beasts!

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Yes, a dragon. Again. But it has a rainbow mane so there's that.
A rather rainbow-ee noodle dragon WIP.
September 30, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Good Morning, my Mystery Boxes!

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Tonight : some personal art. If you can figure out what it means, more power to you.
A rough sketch of a rabbit-headed person sits in front of a drafting desk. A very curled paper or scroll is in front of him.
September 16, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Sitting in Aromatic Beans, a coffee house in Kanata (that's 1027 Teron Road if ya interested).

Good coffee, purchased from local roasters, Canadian owned and operated.

10/10 would recommend!
A picture of two chairs in their cozy interior. The books on the shelf are free to read.
September 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Kitty!
With leaves.

A pet portrait.
A drawing of a white cat in a bunch of vines or plants
September 10, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Good Morning, my Jellicle Cats!

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Tonight : working on a piece I sold in a local church charity auction. It's a portrait of a kitty. Yes, I'll pick up my halo at the door.
A WIP of a pet portrait, in this case a white kitty. He's surrounded by vines and leaves.
September 9, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Good Morning, my Celestial Serpents!

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Tonight : acrylic painting, again. A dragon, again. But the canvas is oval, so that's new.
A very incomplete oval portrait of a dragon. On black, of course.
September 2, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Good Morning, my Skӧlls and Hatis!

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Tonight : Colouring some Big Bookmarks. Thrills! Chills! Markers!
Several hand drawn bookmarks, inked but not coloured. From left to right: the wolf that ate the moon, a mechanical horse, a wolf eating the sun, a dragon, and a Pegasus.
August 26, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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"I don't care what anyone says, I like that movie."
An aged professor cleans a walrus task.
August 24, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Finished the thing I started during my stream:

Acrylic ink, black ink, coloured pencil, acrylic paint
A detailed drawing of a forear scene, drawn to look like it's a 3D model. In the far dark background is a glowy stag.
August 22, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Good Morning, my Enchanted Frogs and Ensorcelled Birds!

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Tonight : Since the last one sold, I'm making another of these fake depth perception pics. A Magical Glade With Magical Deer and Magical Plants and Magical Magic Magic.
An ink drawing of a "Magical forest", drawn in rough concentric rings to give the illusion of depth.
August 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Good Morning, my Commission Queuers!

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Tonight : I paint this dragon, a kind commission from Azzurra Bluefox!
A messy sketch of a rather stern dragon. He has one horn, not unlike a unicorns, on his forehead, and looks like he has not had a good day at the office so far.
August 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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This website has a lot of info:
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August 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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@swandog.bsky.social sent me!

I *hopefully* have some clarification on this crap situation regarding US small package tarrif stuff:

Sorry it's a lot, but it's...a lot.
August 7, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Finally finished this. Wanted to get it done before I fall face-first into my homework queue.

Coloured pencil on black stock. 8x10
A purple dragon glares out from a diamond-shaped frame in the center of the image. The four corners show a sun, a moon, a sunset, and a sunrise.
August 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Good Morning, my Castaways from Canfurence!

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Tonight :
Tonight we pray Picarto keeps its shite together and let's me finish this dragon thing. If we get done early I'll make Big Bookmarks.
This is the same image from last week. Nothing new here.
August 5, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Tonight :
Black paper, dragon, sun/moon....yeah, my imagination's broke alright.
A sketch on black paper of a dragon. Green painters tape outlines borders about the portrait.
July 29, 2025 at 10:08 AM