two sentence horror story: you're an indie game developer who's just finished making a game. now you need to market it.

Hi #PortfolioDay! I'm Pumpkin, a digital artist currently focusing on #manga and #visualnovels. I am currently available for long term projects!

🎮 pumpkin-spike.itch.io/jincan-under...
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💼 vgen.co/PumpkinSpike
📧 pumpkinspike18@gmail.com

#animeartist #gamdev #vnlink

Screenshot from Bread Makes The Heart Aflutter. Shows the bakery scene, with sprites of three fairies floating in the middle of the screen, and Emile's side portrait in the bottom left. The text reads: "Emile: Hello, Snowdrop. Hello, Azalea. Hello, Magnolia. It's good to see you, too!"

Cropped artwork of Eileen, the mascot of the visual novel engine RenPy, happily pulling a book out of a bookshelf. The book has the python logo on it.

Cropped artwork featuring the vtubers from Holostars English. The two in frame are Banzoin Hakka — who is holding up a drink with an excited look on his face — and Josuiji Shinri — who is looking at him with a smile on his face. Just out of view are Machina X Flayon and Regis Altare.

Screenshot from The Mysterious Thief Forget Me Not. It shows the museum interior, with Irina's sprite in the middle of the screen and Desirée's portrait in the bottom left. The dialogue reads: "Desirée: (It's just the two of us right now...)"

I'm Solara/Sol! I'm a Canadian illustrator and character designer who makes visual novels!
#PortfolioDay
solgallery.carrd.co

Hardship Of A Vampire

The scribbler's Dilemma

The Ghost's Call

The Useless Incubus and the ruthless Hero

I'm Saitoki, Indie Visual dev and freelance artist. I like making BL!
saitoki.itch.io
#portfolioday

Purple experiment with acrylic markers and gel pens. The girl on the left is Plum, one of @vndev.bsky.social's mascots.

Too carelessly done, but experimenting with color combination was a good learning experience.

if you want to support visual novel devs:
- wishlist our games on Steam
- leave reviews / ratings for them on store platforms
- tell friends about our games
- recommend them to streamers to play
- share posts on social media
- tell a developer you enjoy their work

Finished painting the cover of my sketchbook! It was fun.

Painted Micah on the backcover of my mini sketchbook. Gonna do Sylas on the front!

More acrylic marker sketch...

Sketched elias on the next page. I wonder if i should paint him...

Uneasy night. Acrylic marker hard...

Morandi gel pens mini painting...

I was looking for a scanner to scan traditional art and found a used multipurpose scanner-color printer for 1.6x price of the cheapest scanner, so why not... Printing old art is so much fun...

Oliver's Christmas part-time job and friends, redone with marker.

New day new sketch. I draw so much boys so i haven’t picked up the skill to draw longer hair well...

First girl in this sketchbook ever...

Tonight sketch. Which will totally goes into a HSOAV CG later.

I've been doing one quick colored sketch every night lately. It is effortless and fun, which improves my mood a lot.
Recently, i realized that it's much more economical to buy specific marker colors than buying a set of varied colors i never use, worst are oversaturated ones. Light colors are best!

One big advantage traditional art has over digital is that it's really therapeutic. My mind has been in a bad space lately, and just some quick doodles on paper really helped me.

Another bad attempt at traditional art... this time it's Ink.

screenshot of the Fall in Love Visual Novel Festival Steam sale page

hop on visual novels NOW !!

I've gathered 200+ romance-themed visual novels from 100+ developers across the globe and categorized them by romance type, genre, mechanics, amount of love interests, and more. NO EXCUSES TO NOT PLAY ROMANCE VNS ANYMORE!!!

store.steampowered.com/sale/fallinl...

@saitoki.itch.io and I worked on a small demo for #yaoi jam this year!

The Useless Incubus and The Ruthless Hero is a kinetic BL #visualnovel about finding and falling in love against the odds society has stacked against you.

😈🗡️ saitoki.itch.io/incubus-and-...

#blvn #boyslove

Animated a CG for #yaoijam2025...

Some #yaoijam2025 spoilers...

Tbh the reason I follow this manga was for the gay, not the murder mystery.

Our #yaoijam2025 project will have animation after all...

Confessions Of A Beta by saitoki ABO verse story about a scientist's misconduct

Suddenly, I had an idea for O2A2, so I made an impulse project over the weekend. Took an all-nighter, but I'm pretty happy how it turned out.
saitoki.itch.io/confessions-...

#yaoijam2025 progress:
- Sprites done
- BG 4/5
- CG 1/5
Here is some sneak peek!

Surely I'm not adding animation to my game...