iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Citri @ ouch @citrina.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Celeste’s Wish, Cunning Fish, and Lover’s Vow originals are now up here: citrusartbeats.com All are 9 x 12” mixed media on paper

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Citri @ ouch @citrina.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Valeria for @bellebon.bsky.social 💫 Thank you again for commissioning me- it’s always a pleasure!

A portrait of a tall dragon woman with grey skin, long, wavy midnight blue hair tied back in a ponytail, pointed ears, and a dragon tail with green scale patches standing with one foot on a wooden keg. She has a wide, cocky smile showing off her pointed dragon teeth. She holds a pistol on her right hand, using it to tip up her black pirate hat embroidered with a gold dragon mid-flight. Her left hand rests on the hilt of her sword. She wears a white undershirt with dark pants, dark boots, and a dark corset embroidered with constellations. Her pirate coat is black with gold embroidery, speckled with stars both inside and out. The inside of her coat is blue, embroidered with three dogs that look like constellations, as well as stars.

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Citri @ ouch @citrina.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Look at these two cuties 💛💜 Comm for @maruyamayosuga.bsky.social - always a pleasure drawing you and Mina!!

A portrait of two people, both smiling at the viewer and making a hand heart together. The left has shaggy blonde hair covering one eye, wearing a light grey shirt with ear, lip, and tongue piercings. The right has short purple hair with long bangs, black glasses, and a purple sweatshirt with white hood. The background is light purple with flowers.

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Citri @ ouch @citrina.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

HUMAN ARTISTS, use only one piece to convince people to follow you #artshare

An image of a person with long, wavy orange hair with their Pokemon, Dragonair, Maushold, and Piplup. The person smiling at the viewer, holding a dive ball, and is wearing a two piece outfit set made of a light blue cropped sleeveless turtleneck and light blue skirt with white clouds.

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Citri @ ouch @citrina.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Happy Pokemon Day, everyone 💙 In celebration, I'm doing a small batch of Chibi PokePal comms at $25/character + $5/Pokemon friend. Please check out the form below to request a piece!

An illustration of a chibi character kneeling and holding a Piplup. The person has long, wavy orange hair with a blue hair bow and star-shaped hairpins. They have star earrings and two ear cuffs on pointed elf-like ears, and are wearing a two-piece tank top and skirt set. Their clothes are blue, and the skirt has white clouds on it. The background is light blue. Both are smiling.

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Citri @ ouch @citrina.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I’m still not 100% physically so I’m catching up on comm work buuuuut it’s Pokémon day and I wanna draw some friends in between bigger pieces- Anyone interested in some quick n cheap Pokemon chibis? Might make a form real quick :3c

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Citri @ ouch @citrina.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Haha real quick lemme just- /anthros your oc Lowkey forgot how much fun I have drawing variety every once in a while

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Citri @ ouch @citrina.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

If you see this, QRP with a character with long hair 🎀🌟 Older test outfit on my VTuber/sona! I still really love the concept- I should redraw this one at some point tbh

A feminine character floating upright in a sitting position, holding a beam of light in one hand and a star in the other. They have elf ears, pale skin, and long, wavy orange hair that graduates to pink at the ends, with two additional braids coming from the base of their skull. Their outfit is a two piece cropped top and skirt, pale blue and light indigo with white cloud fluff and pink ribbon details. The background is purple clouds with little four-point stars.

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Citri @ ouch @citrina.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Oh? What's this?? Longform content from.. me? I haven't done anything longer than a few minutes in a very long time, so please bear with me, BUT I do have a new speedpaint + some commentary out now! Please take a look if you like that sort of thing! youtu.be/twYTNSWcjfY

A Youtube thumbnail with the Paint Tool Sai v2 interface and a drawing of a portrait. The text says "speedpaint" in white lettering with a pink outline.

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Citri @ ouch @citrina.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I don't draw real people as often as I used to, but I love it when couples come to me for drawings like these!! <3

A portrait of two people. The left has pale skin and is masculine with short blond hair and a beard wearing black cubic earrings and a dark grey t-shirt. The right also has pale skin and is feminine with shoulder-length straight brown hair with bangs, wearing large black glasses and a pink t-shirt. The right has a small neck scar. The right is hugging the left from behind, making a hand heart together. Both people are smiling at the viewer. The background is light pink with pink and white scattered flowers.

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Citri @ ouch @citrina.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Specialty Valentine's YCH is here 💌💕 I'm trying something new with this set, so please fill out this form if interested: forms.gle/qiFDrxm2g7rG... Pricing and additional info can be found in the form above! These are 25%+ off my standard rates :D ❤️💬🔁 Always appreciated!

The background is a set of blurry images separated into 6 boxes, one for each different art base pose in varying shades of pink. The text "Valentine's YCH Selection" is in a pink box in the center.

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Citri @ ouch @citrina.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

YCH batch 1 is done! :D I had so much fun with these, thank you for your support!! Want one for yourself or a friend? YCH form here with 6 total posing options (and single options too!): forms.gle/CEa4F1B7TXDS...

A portrait of two characters making a heart with their hands. The left has pale skin, teal hair pulled back with bangs, teal eyes with black sclera, dark blue lipstick and undereye makeup, and scales on their skin. The right has dark skin with fluffy purple hair and green lowlights with small hair beads. Both are smiling happily, with the right character hugging the left from behind.

A portrait of two feminine characters making a heart with their hands. The left has pale skin, pink glasses, a pink sweater vest over a white shirt, dusty grey hair with cat ears, and blue-purple eyes. The right has long, black and blue split dyed hair with straight bangs and cat ears, green eyes, a septum piercing, black half-frame glasses, and a dark gothic-style top. Both are smiling happily, with the right character hugging the left from behind.

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Citri @ ouch @citrina.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Castform Friends Every Pokemon is made to be someone's friend- who's yours?

An illustration of four Castform Pokemon in their different weather forms: rain, sun, and snow, along with a normal Castform playing in a pastel-colored sky.

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Citri @ ouch @citrina.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

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Citri @ ouch @citrina.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

How we feeling about these, chat? Open to suggestions! I really like the hugging one especially ;v; I think this year I'm gonna make a form to make everything a little more streamlined, so stay tuned o7

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Citri @ ouch @citrina.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I want to be a fairy of ambiguous gender

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Citri @ ouch @citrina.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

This one’s older but I still love it 💚 🩵 💙 Quote this teal/blue-green art with some orange art!

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Citri @ ouch @citrina.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Trans rights are human rights. Trans men are men. Trans women are women. Nonbinary people don’t owe anyone androgyny. You are valid, you are needed, you are loved 🩷 🩵 🤍

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Citri @ ouch @citrina.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Took about 10 minutes, 15 if you’re counting the thumbnails. My sketches tend to be pretty quick and messy, haha. I usually start out with thumbnailing like the below to help get things where I want them before committing to something more refined

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Citri @ ouch @citrina.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I’ve had this happen exactly once and it was so, so much fun. Pick an OC and let’s go 👀

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Citri @ ouch @citrina.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I guess it’s official now. If anyone has any open illustration or teaching positions let me know. Looks like I’ll have to go back to office work.

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Citri @ ouch @citrina.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

As the era of TikTok presumably comes to a close, I want to thank all of you that have found me over here. I don’t know if I’ll be able to continue with my career in illustration, as TikTok was my biggest income source by far, but if it wasn’t for you all, I wouldn’t have been able to even start.

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Citri @ ouch @citrina.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I should go back to the mushroom fairies. I never finished them all, but they were a fun series to work on

An illustration done in black and peach-colored ink of a feminine fairy with long, wavy, light hair sitting inside a star-shaped mushroom cluster holding a long pipe. They have their head resting on their arms nonchalantly, winking at the viewer. Smoke billows out from the pipe, swirling around the piece.

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Citri @ ouch @citrina.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Tea Witch lino prints are being discontinued in 3 days, so get one while you can ♡ TLDR, I can’t keep up with the physical demand of hand printing them, as a disabled artist whose flare-ups have been getting worse. I may bring them back in the distant future, but not soon unfortunately. ⛓️‍💥⬇️

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Citri @ ouch @citrina.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

As we go into 2025, here’s my annual Cherri piece from two years ago: Moonbun 🌙

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Citri @ ouch @citrina.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Finished a Pokemon-themed secret Santa gift just in time to mail it out this week! Their favorite Pokemon listed were Poliwhirl, Politoed, and Heracross, and I had a fun time creating a scene with all of them. This one is on shikishi, which I really should use more often

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Citri @ ouch @citrina.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Kindaaaa scared about the tiktok ban going through since that’s like. My biggest source of income and where my work has gotten the most traction by far. Thinking about auctioning off some originals to try to stabilize a bit for the coming months. Anyone have experience with Shopify auctions?

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Citri @ ouch @citrina.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Aa thank you!! :D They’re part of a throuple that I have with one of my friends! She owns the priest and I own the two “angels” From left to right, Xephyr (they/he), Nyx (he/him), Xion (he/they) We’ve got so much lore for these three- we love em

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Citri @ ouch @citrina.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

"They're watching everything, you know." "Yes, isn't it fun?" Have some Xephyr art- my baby, I love them

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Citri @ ouch @citrina.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Pls look at how cool these prints and stickers came out (they’re holographic!!) They’re both discounted (as well as everything else in my store at citrusartbeats.com) if you want one for yourself! :D

The artist holding a 5 by 7 print and 3 inch sticker of their artwork titled “Inkcap” - a black and white ink piece of an androgynous figure with long hair and an inkcap mushroom on their head. The mushroom, their hands, hair, and body drip black ink. The print and sticker have holographic specks of foil.

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Citri @ ouch @citrina.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

It’s my birthday today!!! :D To celebrate, I’ll be streaming tonight over on Twitch later tonight! Consider joining us around 10 pm EST for some shenanigans 🎉

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Citri @ ouch @citrina.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Love’s Express Miracle Messenger 💌💘

A halfbody shot of the Vocaloid Megpoid Gumi holding a letter with a heart seal up to her face and winking. There is a heart speech bubble off to the side. She wears her original outfit with heart sunglasses and a heart gem for her cravat instead. The ends of her hair are pink. The background is pink, purple, and blue with tiny polka dots.

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Citri @ ouch @citrina.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

🍪 Cinnamon 🍪 She/her A bakery witch that specializes in pastry, her shop is right across the street from a savory bakery witch, Pepper (belongs to @asamichiiart.bsky.social). Their rivalry turns to a friendship, and before long, Cinnamon realizes she's falling for the cute witch across the street.

A reference sheet of a female witch with tan skin, short pink hair, and pink eyes. She also has a small braid on her right side tied with a red bow. Her witch hat is pink with a gold and white ribbon, and has chocolate chip cookies resting on the brim. She wears a pink ruffled dress with a white underskirt and a white apron over top of it tied in a bow in the back. She also has knee high white socks and pink shoes, a cross between Mary Janes and sneakers. She holds a whisk with chocolate chip cookie batter on it.

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Citri @ ouch @citrina.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

💎 Yuurei 💎 She/her A restless spirit, Yuurei has forgotten how she passed. Yuurei is quite shy, but she loves drama and prefers watching humans while keeping herself hidden. She sees humans as her own personal reality shows. She can be rather airheaded at times.

A reference sheet of a ghost girl with short, floating, glowing teal hair, teal eyes, and blue-grey skin. She has no legs past her knees, only three floating discs that appear to bisect where each calf should be. She has dark teal and red hair ornaments, and dark oval-shaped gems that float around her. The sleeves of her light teal outer garment are long and billowing, going down to where her feet would be is she had them. The insides of the sleeves are red. Her mini dress is tied with a dark teal obi and white and red rope.

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Citri @ ouch @citrina.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Post your most popular art from Twitter Four years ago, I slapped a badly-cut jpeg of a carp onto a Miku I drew a few days prior. I’ve never been able to surpass it. This is my legacy, I guess orz

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Citri @ ouch @citrina.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Seafoaming 🌊 💖 An older piece, but I still love it

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Citri @ ouch @citrina.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

🍁 Maika 🍁 She/her Maika is an outcast in her society, harnessing both sides of Circe (magic system). She's a little stubborn and a little headstrong, but boasts outward calm. There's a lot of inner screaming, until she's provoked, then there's a lot of outer screaming.

A front and back ref sheet of a girl with pale skin, short, wavy, white hair, pointed elflike ears, and small horns. The girl has red swirling tattoos on her left shoulder and right thigh. She wears white bandages for a top and black shorts underneath a short, white open kimono-style outer layer with red lining. The outer layer only has her right sleeve, and is tied with a red obi and black and white rope. Her left arm is covered in a black skintight detached sleeve. She wears black and white bracelets. The girl also wears white, mid-calf length socks with red scalloped trim and black okobo geta with red straps.

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Citri @ ouch @citrina.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

🌟 Celeste Étoile 🌟 She/they Quiet and reclusive, Celeste prefers to spend time in her nest of stars and clouds among her music box collection. As their species is a line of empaths, strong emotions (hers and others') drain her energy quickly. Celeste is also my shop mascot, somewhat by accident

A ref sheet of a wolf girl with white, knee-length, very wavy hair. They have bangs that nearly cover their eyes, and a matching white wolf tail. There are stars her ears in place of fluff and a star tie on the end of her tail. They wear a lace choker with a star pendant. Their outfit is a three-piece set that graduates from dark blue to a glowing teal: a tube top with matching fluffy, mid-thigh length transparent skirt with short shorts underneath. She also has detached sleeves that have a transparent gradient toward her hands. She wears deep purple fingerless gloves and toeless foot coverings.

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Citri @ ouch @citrina.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

🍒 Cherri Miyu ("pr. Sherry") 🍒 She/they Part of a series of botched (now illegal) genetic modification experiments against her will, Cherri's wounds will never heal properly. She's peppy and agile, but can also be quite clumsy if not paying enough attention. Cherri is the oc I draw the most!

A front and back ref sheet of a catgirl kemonomimi with purple cat ears, pink eyes, and short, reddish pink hair. Her hair is tied into two low pigtails with purple ribbons. Her necklace is a purple cravat-style collar with a red gem in the center. She wears a dark pink tube top under a dark purple sleeveless half-jacket. She also wears a light purple pleated skirt with a dark purple tie ribbon on the side. She has three wrap bandages, one on her left upper arm, one on her left knee, and one on her right ankle. She wears dark purple heels and dark purple cutoff sleeves.

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Citri @ ouch @citrina.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

OC thread time ✨ Now’s a good a time as any to reintroduce my children over here! I’ll be slowly adding their ref sheets in the thread, but feel free to ask me about any of them :D

Nine original characters’ portraits are arranged in a 3x3 grid. Starting from the top left, the first character is androgynous and has pale skin, a short white mullet, angel wings instead of ears, and a white halo. They are sticking out their tongue impishly. The second character is androgynous with pale skin and has short, curly pink hair, and is smugly smiling at the viewer. The third is a cat girl kemonomimi with pale skin, purple cat ears, and short, reddish pink hair tied in two low pigtails with purple ribbons. She has a wide, happy smile. The fourth character is a wolf girl kemonomini with very pale skin, yellow stars in her ears in place of fluff, long white wavy hair with bangs nearly covering her eyes, and a calm, neutral expression. The fifth character is a female witch with tan skin, short dusty pink hair cut in a bob with a mini braid to one side, and a wide happy smile. Her hat is pink and gold with chocolate chip cookies on it. The sixth character is a female with dark skin and medium length curly dark brown hair tied into two low pigtails with purple ribbons. She smiles confidently at the viewer. The seventh character is a ghost girl with medium blue-grey skin and short, glowing teal hair that seems to float. She has red and black hair ornaments in her hair, and has a bored expression. The eighth character is a female with very pale skin, a short, curly white mullet with bangs, and short horns above her eyes. She has a red barrette and red earrings, and has a neutral expression. The last character is a female with pale skin, short brown hair with two longer tails in the front that fade to pink on the ends. She has a leaf hair clip to one side, and has a neutral expression.

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Citri @ ouch @citrina.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Drew myself a little badge buddy for the Neopets birthday bash this weekend! There’s a slot for a toploader in the back, since I’ve seen some people making name/pronoun cards with qrs that lead to their profile and thought it was a great idea! Anyone else going to a bash this weekend?

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