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OOOHHH thank you so much for expanding on the idea!!

Made this for the Solarpunk Aesthetic Week server in a sudden creative fever, so I guess I'll post it here too hh

A relative of mine knows someone who teaches kids, so I'm gonna suggest this as an art project for them! The idea is that students could each make/decorate their own shelf, then put them together to form a hive, which could function as mini lockers in their classrooms. Then, by the end of the school year or something, they could either take their own little shelf home (or exchange them with their peers?), or recycle them into materials for the next class! Hopefully it'll teach them about pollinators too 🐝

Idk how doable this project is really, and its scary to imagine one of my silly designs could actually become something tangible irl. But even so, I'm still excited to try 🥰 (And if anyone else attempts this too, please let me know!!!)

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Made this for the Solarpunk Aesthetic Week server in a sudden creative fever, so I guess I'll post it here too hh

A relative of mine knows someone who teaches kids, so I'm gonna suggest this as an art project for them! The idea is that students could each make/decorate their own shelf, then put them together to form a hive, which could function as mini lockers in their classrooms. Then, by the end of the school year or something, they could either take their own little shelf home (or exchange them with their peers?), or recycle them into materials for the next class! Hopefully it'll teach them about pollinators too 🐝

Idk how doable this project is really, and its scary to imagine one of my silly designs could actually become something tangible irl. But even so, I'm still excited to try 🥰 (And if anyone else attempts this too, please let me know!!!)

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belated birthday/TDOV self portrait that got hijacked by

The Boopening

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Assorted blorbos on my mind (part 1/?)

The theme is uhhhhh... time-loop tortured, erratic/unpredictable personality, no stranger to death, plus a (mostly) monochrome palette... i guess!

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Possible sona design doodle for warm up c:

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♡ Happy very belated Valentines ♡

In my defense, Chinese/Lunar New Year lasted half the damn month so I barely had time to get this out ;;

Here's some more Quarrycurve crew concept art, this time featuring their silly pickup lines! Hopefully you can start to see some of their personalities coming through hehe

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"Can I PLEASE just drink my soup in peace?"

Here's the crew of the Quarrycurve Coach (working title), a visual novel project that I'm currently working on! It's still super early in development, but I wanted to doodle a scene of everyone together to get a feel of their dynamic. Not exactly their most flattering moment, but that's what the story is about! 🤩

It's the first time I'm making a game, but I'm really excited to bring this one to life! I'll try to start posting updates and more concept art here from now on (mostly to keep myself accountable hgfjhds), and hopefully get some people interested too ♡

Bonus immersive version:

"Hey can we retake the group picture again? I think I blinked,"

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A last-minute festive 'Roodolph' avatar for my main blog hehe Happy holidays everyone ♡

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Happy Solarpunk Aesthetic Week and Winter Solstice! ❄️

While we do celebrate here, we don't actually experience winter in my region, or any of the classic four seasons! The weather here is basically a coin toss between searing heat and torrential rain lol. So while I was musing over how to adapt a solarpunk aesthetic to a tropical lifestyle, I came up with this!

Lengthy explanations and chaotic ideas below:

Disclaimer: I am not a science-y person, so I'm not sure how any of these would technically work or what materials would go into making them. Hopefully one day someone could figure it out, but I'm just having fun sharing these ideas for now :)

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What works well both in harsh sunlight and heavy downpours, plus is already something that people here use everyday? Umbrellas! How cool would it be to have an umbrella that absorbs sunlight during the day, and turns it into a personal spotlight at night? Or perhaps it could absorb and store large amounts of rainwater, to be re-used later or released somewhere more useful?

My main inspiration for this is the bamboo. This plant already plays a huge role in our lives here -- culturally, economically, and from what I recently learned, ecologically too! Our region suffers from floods often, and bamboo can help to control the flow of water, for example through their roots providing a barrier against soil erosion, or their ability to store large amounts of water and release it gradually during drier seasons. (And that's just one of the many reasons why bamboos are awesome and solarpunky!) I thought it would be cool to have water stored in the 'bamboo nodes' of the umbrella shaft, which could then be detached and used individually, or as components in other tech!

I chose the Amazonian lily pad as the canopy design because 1) it looks big enough to cover a person, 2) it has a wide surface for solar panels to 'photosynthesize' energy, 3) its container-like shape looks as though it could hold rainwater like a funnel while it trickles into the shaft, and 4) it just looks really pretty! Realistically, this canopy might not be able to do everything at once, so I'm hoping for this tech to be modular and highly customizable -- as in, you could replace this 'lily pad' with something else that serves a different function! I did play around with some other designs, here they are hehe

Hibiscus: Our national flower! Have these bad boys growing in my yard so I thought why not. Not sure what functions it would have yet... perhaps the pistil could be a sensor for gathering weather data? Or maybe the anthers are little lights? Maybe it attracts BEES???

Mushroom: Not familiar with the fungi in my area yet so I went with the classic Amanita. Though now I'm kinda regretting because! Wouldn't it be so cool and lunarpunky to design it based on a bio-luminescent mushroom, so it would make sense for the umbrella to glow in the dark? AGH missed opportunities ;;

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Anyway while I was designing the umbrella I thought about giving the model a cool fit too, so tadaaa! A customizable pair of pants that can be worn as a shorts + half-skirt/sarong combo during hot weather, or extended to become a full pair of jeans during colder/rainy times! I used zippers as the connectors because they seem easy to sew on and I like the punky vibe it adds to the outfit. HOWEVER, I'm realising that might be inconvenient or way too time consuming for some people. Maybe buttons, magnets or hook-and-loop fasteners would be easier?

As for the shirt, idk that was just for fun. Maybe it changes colour/design based on the surrounding temperature?

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So YEAH that was my longer-than-expected idea dump for this week! Thank you for reading <3 If you have any thoughts or ways of expanding on these ideas please please please share them with me I'm just really excited to see what people think waaaaa!!! ok bye stay hydrated

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hm! why did i make this,

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The Monsters of Buttwapolis

a.k.a. no context sketch of the silly creatures who inhabit my friend group's digital town, from our belated Halloween event yesterday.

big lore dump under the cut?

the creeper is my wife (we sleep in a coffin together <3). i bought her that shirt

the PVZ zombie is my roommate (their name was voted on and the result was Mariah Scarey)

ao oni is my ugly pet dog

snoopy is the leader of a demonic cult in the forest behind my house

the cats on bottom left are the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse (from left: famine, death, conquest, war)

happy nov 5th to guy fawkes cat!

'woe Eminem be upon ye' is the quantum entity who helps me give out trick-or-treat 'candies' by throwing them with swag

the rest are our neighbours added by my friends to their respective houses

my headcanons:

the warden and jason are a thing

so are slenderman x hannibaleton and sadako x scream

steve the eldritch horror plays basketball with the bigfeet

there is a pet owners association in this town

they are all good friends :)

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also, here's my house:

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OC-tober: Space

✧ lyrics from Moonlight by EXO ✧

This is Lyka, my werewolf OC who's in love with the moon ♡

They actually started out as a silly Monster Prom self-insert generated from a bunch of personality quizzes I did with my friends hh

As usual I got very attached overnight and sprinkled a healthy amount of angst into their backstory :)

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OC-tober day 1: Wild West

Debuting my yeehaw babygirl Bimbi (she/her), a character concept for my upcoming vn game project!

Here's a close up:

And here's a little animated gif thing, because OF COURSE the best time to experiment with a new program feature is when you have a deadline for an art piece that's already 4 days late. /s

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noooo don't apologize you are SO right and you should say it!!!

don't you love it when a man has a strong moral compass and a vendetta against capitalism? ♡

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Just you and me against the world.

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Apparently its Roadwarden's anniversary! Since I can't play the updated game yet (I would've stayed up all night on a 16-hour-straight playthrough if I did), I decided to celebrate another way!

Here is my roadwarden Cay, and their trusty steed Fangs (headcanon: it tried to bite them when they first met). I love them so much I can't wait to play them again waaaaaaaaa

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don't you love it when a man has a strong moral compass and a vendetta against capitalism? ♡

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Yeehawgust Day 7: Tall Handsome Stranger