The labor

Once In A Lifetime (acrylic on paper, from 2024)

The artwork shows a scene with ruin made of columns and vases. There are large vases and pitchers in the background. There are stacked constructions resembling temples. They are made of columns, vases and sculptures. Some columns are falling, some vases are broken and some roofs are sliding down. There's a round pool in the center decorated with mosaics on the outside. Broken plates, bowls and vases are scattered around it. Some have large eggs in them and some have flowers. There's a large open egg in the center. It lays on a broken plate decorated with flowers. A woman is standing at the center of the egg releasing a young heron. There are doves flying up on both sides of the heron. There are three adult herons landing in the pool. The artwork is mostly blue, grey, white and beige.

"Nuptial Rites". The illustration shows a wedding ceremony. There's a woman in the left side of the image. She wear a headpiece decorated with flowers and holds a large egg in her arms. There are stairs leading to an elevated stage with musicians playing lute on both sides of the stage. There's a skeleton in a festive clothes riding a white horse in the center of the image. There are festive robes behind them. The room is decorated with tiles and there are two roosters in front of the stage. There are some poppy flowers in the foreground. The artwork is colorful with much red, blue and beige.

The artwork shows a ceremony on a patio. There's a round pool in the center of the image and a round arch in the background. Sisters of the convent are placed in different locations performing different parts of the ritual. Half of them wear a peacock mask and half of them wear sun-like headpieces. There's a woman in the center on the horse. She wears a blue dress decorated with mosaic-like patterns. The horse is covered with blue patterns and stands still above the water. Two twins are sitting on the floor surrounded by large lilies. Behind them one sister plays a harp and another one is holding two bowls with mysterious light. There's a big mosaic tree in the background with other sisters dancing around it. There are two other sisters on top of the wall waving scarves. The artwork is mostly blue and light green

Commission for Ed Niedermeyer and autonocast. The artwork shows a scene with a city and an autonomous bus in the center. There are passengers in the bus. Some are sitting and some are standing. The bus has dome-shaped roofs. A man in a long coat is standing outside the bus holding a briefcase. Another man is selling some fake or stolen watch behind the bus. There are buildings and bridges in the background with a few more characters. All the characters are skeletons. There are some autonomous mini cars around the artwork. The artwork is densely decorated with patterns and tiles. It is mostly green, mustard, red and blue.

Hello #PortfolioDay !
I'm Anya, a freelance illustrator with a passion for patterns and complex scenes. I'm always open to new projects and would love to work more with indie creators this year!

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Have a good day 🌱

Mega Starmie ⭐

my oc Nia standing around in a cute scarf and cardigan knit cardigan patterned like a blue cloudy sky.

i haven’t had time to draw much of anything lately but i got my nias redesigned recently and drew her in her new outfit (outfit design by @tarte.bsky.social )💙

this is the kind of update that would make me spiral i hate when this happens

You have to open ms paint and you have to draw big scribbles across the canvas and then you have to paint bucket fill the closed sections of the scribbles. Ok?

what the fuck is a bi-decade. i meant once every five years. incredible.

it was good. again.

da world

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A risograph of a coyote stalks across a sunset, a sun setting from the upper corner of the image to under his tail. Inside the coyote is a landscape of various anthropomorphic desert animals looking up at a sprawling cloud in the sky

A scan of the Coyote Sunset riso :0) Ink colors used were sunflower, aqua, blue, and red.
Printed with Outlet PDX !

why do softblocks on this website not work. what the fuck.

a very small watercolor of a puppy plane and a puppy car playing in the road

they're playing :)

i do believe it is just about time for my bi-decade rewatch of Rover Dangerfield. so close to sharing a birthday with it. that woulda been wild.

:astonished: 😲 cut up and scanned

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shes going to teach them about friendship

An excerpt of an interview with art historian and critic David Sylvester which i think feels relevant to the environment artists find themselves in the digital/social media/algorithmic content age

like i don't really care what happens anymore haha. to any of them. sometimes i watch things to better understand their cultural effect and unless the finale really surprises me in a good way, it probably won't blossom too much wider for me into anything else.

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, listened to the radio play, and I'm soon to read the original short story and potentially the novel (the game was smthn I've been interested in since I was a kid bc I love point&clicks, watching TADC with my friend motivated me to finally Do That)- and now I feel-

one of my friends and i feel like she's potentially "supposed" to be boring, either bc 1. she is meant to welcome projection from the audience, and/or 2. part of her hangups are that she doesn't know who she is/wants to be, and some are hopeful we'll see her step into herself. but recently i played-