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coby

@cobalt-ex.bsky.social
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artist but i mostly sketch, writer but i mostly plan. i made too many characters and now i have to make visual novels about it

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coby @cobalt-ex.bsky.social · 4h
listening to nostalgic music and thinking about how i want to create things that make people feel something like that, really connect to some kind of space even if i don't really know the point anymore. but it's so hard alone and even harder to form a team...argh i wanna make real things though!!
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🌸Petal Crash 2 is OUT NOW!!🌸 @petalcrash.com · 29/09/2026
🌸Petal Crash 2 is OUT NOW!!🎉🌸 The freshest in arcade puzzle action blossoms again! The Early Access release has lots to enjoy, including a single-player Arcade Mode, local multiplayer, and a built-in puzzle editor! Check out the game on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/2697670/...
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coby @cobalt-ex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
it's been a while since i've posted any groupdraws, my energy's been sapped and i've had to fight to get any sketches done at all even if they aren't great. redraws are fun even if they turn out a little off since i'm just not at the same level of ability. maybe on rest days i'll study theory idk
rio without jacket, completely exhaustedextremely quick azure head, apparently drawing fast is possiblesable drawn like angela from lobotomy corporationwhitney and rio over the sailor frame with the brooms looking really, apprehensive?
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coby @cobalt-ex.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
once again conflicted about what mediums i should be working in, whether i want to commit to an rpg or if it's better as a comic or vn or something...i've been in the thick of chipping away at vn 1st draft for so long it's reminding me that small projects are never small, so i worry about the future
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alex! @isoplod.itch.io · 26/09/2026
Hey! Everyone! Hour 2 of WEJbA: We Exist Just to be Alive is launching October 13th! 🎉🐕🎶🦧🎉 Itch: isoplod.itch.io/wejba-we-exi... Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/4674030/...
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🌸Petal Crash 2 is OUT NOW!!🌸 @petalcrash.com · 17/09/2026
Petal Crash 2 is releasing in Early Access on 🌸 September 29th! 🌸 With an arcade versus mode, local multiplayer, and puzzle editor, Petal Crash 2 will launch with about as much content as the first game, with more to come! Wishlist on Steam to get notified! store.steampowered.com/app/2697670/...
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coby @cobalt-ex.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
i’m the most hopeless i’ve ever been, it’s all been over long before it ever could have began and i’m just running out the clock, i should give up all my creative work … oh some of the lines in this spiral are good material for my projects (this loop will continue forever)
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coby @cobalt-ex.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
i keep saying it but idk how i can keep creating, nobody's got time for games, the only way my stuff could get out there as a career is comics but, i can't do that. i dunno what's after this vn stuff, especially when every program has a little bit of poison in it. i'll keep trying, but jeez
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coby @cobalt-ex.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
i still think that if i could remove the metal spike in my brain that short circuits the whole thing if i see a boob i would, but i'm slowly learning to draw a bump without getting weird catholic level guilt over it and it's a lot of fun so i think a balance can happen. that's my boob day post
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coby @cobalt-ex.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
there’s still 8 hours left of the touhou vote so i’m not too late posting this one. there’s still time to vote for the funny tanuki
mamizou with a mayor sash and hat, getting the key to the city from some tanuki
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coby @cobalt-ex.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
the rare completed fanart, since i was reminded recently these two have a lot in common. i sort of lost what was going on while doing the background, but the concept was fun to think about. the unstoppable barrage of circles vs the unstoppable clearing of circles
reimu (touhou) sending a bunch of puyos at arle (puyo puyo) who is stacking them all up. carbuncle is also hanging out
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coby @cobalt-ex.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
some groupdraws from the last couple of weeks. i'm a bit dissatisfied with my doodles lately and how i just can't get the head proportions right, but i think i'm getting a bit faster at it by being a little looser? maybe? my hands are less sore so i'm getting more done at least
azure and purpure in swimwear, azure is unsure and wasn't prepared for a beach episode, purpure is leaning on azure's shoulder and much more confident. sable in a tomodachi life outfit with electricity arcing from her finger. a redraw of a sailor moon screenshot where usagi and chibiusa are surprised at something, she's not supposed to be doing middle fingers but...rio in the uniform from we know the devil trying to break a radio in her hand. whitney is behind her saying no transformation sequencesi need a name for this ghost mascot already but it's that sitting on a log with two many-branched sticks with marshmallows at the end of each twigthe union trio, tracksuit one is sort of annoyed at mailman one who's holding his hands up in defeat, bandana one looks on glumly (i'm reviewing names and not sure anymore)
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coby @cobalt-ex.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
for a second i thought my picks for the touhou vote coming up would fit in one of those color wheel meme things and i’d have to draw all of them, but it’s a bit of a stretch, and that wheel has 8 colors anyway…
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coby @cobalt-ex.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
it's been a while since i've drawn any of my characters in a complete illustration. it's sort of a step back from the string of ones where i was studying something specific but really i'm just de-rusting. appropriate for silver here
silver (biker guy with robot hands) on a sort of purple-ish beach
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coby @cobalt-ex.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
oh my god i have *got* to stop updating things on my phone. time to just open 16 tabs for all my projects at once i guess
the search bar at the bottom of obsidian opens up a transparent menu now, making it completely unreadable
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fiz @fizzelpons.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
show prep
Drawing of three people sitting together. A girl is prepping for a show with the help of a magician by getting hearts drawn on her cheeks to match his diamond cheeks. A third person is simply sitting and watching.

The girl, frustratingly asks them: “Do you have to sit there and stare the entire time…?”

They respond coyly: “I’m here to boost morale!”

“Riiiight…”, the girl says annoyed.

The magician painting the hearts feels a little awkward seeing them bicker but is not sure what to say.
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Neb @riderneb.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Some assorted Ediths from groupdraws
Drawing of a goth woman with stitches over her body and a strange look on her face, staring with a smirk. She is kneeling as if starting to stand up. Her right arm is a mass of tendrils in the shape of an arm, connected to a long scythe-blade object.Drawing of a goth woman with heavy makeup and stitches over her body. She is leaning with one arm against short brick wall, with an exasperated expression. Her other hand is holding a bottle of lemonade and pointing as if gesturing at someone she is talking to (not pictured).Drawing of a goth woman with stitches over her body in a loose-fitting summer outfit and big shades on her forehead. She is slapping some papers taped up to the wall with a sort of manic anger in her face. The papers are plans for various ways to stop the sun with dark powers such as "New Age Of Darkness", Chaining the sun down in hell, and summoning a real big ice demon to freeze everything.Drawing of a goth woman with stitches and heavy makeup. She is leaning forward and looks somewhat tired.
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coby @cobalt-ex.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
“it’s the end of winter now so it’ll be real hot in a couple of weeks” is maybe the worst sentence i could have heard while the whole northern hemisphere still seems to be under a magnifying glass sun laser and half of america is on fire
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coby @cobalt-ex.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
in the worst mental state i’ve been in for a long time, but i’ve started to recover just after 9pm which is when i’m not supposed to trust how i feel about my life…this is a difficult situation
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coby @cobalt-ex.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
with respect to tears for fears the dreams in which i’m dying completely suck actually. “uhoh i don’t want to fall unconscious i have to be awake” no you don’t!! it’s 3am out here stay in there!!! ah damn it
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fiz @fizzelpons.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
robot doodles
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Neb @riderneb.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
A little bit of fanart for the Mermaid Mask from a drawpile. Go play The Mermaid Mask
Drawings of two characters from "The Mermaid Mask", Symmetry Silkmoth and Sinthia Seafoam. Symmetry is thinking about something while gesturing around the room, and Sinthia is listening intently in a one-leg up "captain" pose.
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coby @cobalt-ex.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
the last couple of weeks of drawpile, i became slightly more brave. i wanted to color some of these and also get around to doing the touhou 1draw finally but, hand sore...
some monster of the week villains loosely themed around a shark and penguin, still figuring out the designscomic of trying to draw boobs but the paper electrically repels the pen and explodes"my warmups are done now to take a break" but the break is forever. also rio in a bunnygirl outfit to fight against azure, whitney refuses outrightmocha and chamomile in more outfits, because it has a belt chamomile claims it looks like she hasn't overslept
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coby @cobalt-ex.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
it's unfortunate the era of localized names is fully gone because if i ever had the popularity for it i would be so fascinated to see what other countries arbitrarily decide my characters are called
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coby @cobalt-ex.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
i have no idea what brushes to use anymore, i’ve just stuck with rough texture line for so long that everything else feels weird and wrong. kinda want to play around a bit and find something more suited to messy sketching/doodling
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coby @cobalt-ex.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
a full month of artfight should really lower my barriers to drawing but it seems like so much more work than ever actually. wish i could post more little drawings of my characters regularly but projects and rest take up so much time...maybe a weekend off will help
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T. Ashley 🌸 Jenkins @fluttersprite.itch.io · 29/07/2026
UFO 50 has so many weird little secrets in it... it's been almost 2 years and we're still discovering more!
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coby @cobalt-ex.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
after all why not? why shouldn’t i draw the boobs lineart on the outside edge of the sketch?
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landsharkrawr.bsky.social @landsharkrawr.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The Unlife of Gorlak is part of Nonbinary Coded Games! If you missed the sale last week, no you didn't! Check out the fest here: store.steampowered.com/curator/4610... And Gorlak Here: store.steampowered.com/app/2643830/...
Text on the left side reads: "Nonbinary Coded Games" "LandsharkRAWR" "2026"
Text on the right reads: "The Unlife of Gorlak" it is underlined followed by "A Tale of souls bound by love and fear. When it comes time to face yourself will you accept your fate?"

in the center are three characters from The Unlife of Gorlak sitting close together in nice clothes. The Necromancer, Gorlak, and White.
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Rei, Monster Maker 🐙 @pandemoniumparty.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
This is what posting about my ocs these days feels like
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alex! @isoplod.itch.io · 13/07/2026
HEY. The Nonbinary Coded Games Event is live on Steam. This is noteworthy because. WEJbA is part of this. But. I forgot to prepare anything. PLEASE GO CHECK IT OUT IM SORRY #NonbinaryCodedGames ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ store.steampowered.com/curator/4610...
MS paint drawing of Di in the dying pose of Spore from Ragnarok Online with the words I FORGOT above her I'm so sorry
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coby @cobalt-ex.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
“someday i’m going to need an actual desktop computer” (my internet blows up with an orbital strike and i have to upload attacks with the free wifi about a block away) “never mind i’m a genius and unpunished”
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coby @cobalt-ex.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
thesis: yukari “this all sucks let’s make fiction instead” yakumo antithesis: sumireko “blow up all fiction and touch grass” usami synthesis: women can make out in reality just like merry and renko in those music cds
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coby @cobalt-ex.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
just one groupdraw sketch this time. i have to zoom in pretty far on these canvases so i don't quite get the amount of detail i'd like, kinda feels like a whiteboard marker a lot of the time. but i've had enough energy to do Anything so that's a good sign
yuuka kazami holding a bundle of potted flowers, with a sort of grumpy expression
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coby @cobalt-ex.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
filing the paperwork for a full body and also brain transplant so i can go back to being a “posts a drawing every week or so and sketches whenever” account instead of a “fuuuuck the machine is Yelling at me again!!” account
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coby @cobalt-ex.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
for how much i don’t want to participate in the waking world anymore i sure get all my sleep in 90 minute chunks…
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coby @cobalt-ex.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
ough...i don't know how anybody draws anything anymore...even when i take breaks i can feel the damage numbers...my eyes and hands are burning
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coby @cobalt-ex.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
it finally happened: school dream where i’m late for a test (half the test is bullet hell)
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coby @cobalt-ex.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
everything being on fire makes it very difficult to recover the mental energy to deal with or even fix the things that are on fire. ah jeez
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coby @cobalt-ex.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
ok i’ve been in a depressive funk long enough i think i can finally start building the energy to get out of it “you have to move out of a trash heap into a worse trash heap” can i catch a single fucking break
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coby @cobalt-ex.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
downside to doing things episodically is all my info is scattered across hundreds of files in different programs and books. where the hell are my act 3 notes????
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coby @cobalt-ex.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
i think at this point in my life i would absolutely press a zodiart switch or eat a dark candy(?) or get my dream eaten by a phantom which may have already happened or eat a gaia memory (incorrect use). if there's any hope for me it's after i explode in the quarry
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Neb @riderneb.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
What if Edith had a Friend #makeaterriblecomicday2026
Comic of a goth woman with stitches talking to a friend.
Panel one, she is saying "It's just a struggle, y'know! Balancing it all... keeping my life going with my undeath, all while I'm running on fumes..."
Panel two, she continues "Like don't get me wrong, I'm not quitting, but it gets old, always Never Giving Up your whole life, yeah?"
Panel three reveals her friend: A tiny little alien sitting on a throw pillow and drinking from a soft drink cup labelled "BIG SIP" which is as big as she is.
Panel four the alien makes a lot of angry noises: "BWOO GNOP!! oowowiiwii ouu... PISKUN CAPITALISM! wawiwi"
Panel five, the alien resumes sipping and the undead woman says "Girl you always know just what to say!"
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coby @cobalt-ex.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
more groupdraws, i don’t think any of this is going to be relevant to chapter 5 at all but it’s fun to think about before it’s out. plus generally being sleepy and trying to get a handle on my own characters again
mockup of a smt-like stat distribution screen with a threshold all the stats have to pass to be able to draw today, none of them are even halfway to the line. ghost character playing is put off and says this game sucksah jeez the touhou themed chapter 5 boss (speculative) is just undodgeable with this hitbox
(kris crushes the soul in a giant fist with the cartoon splat sound effect)
thanks pal (the soul is now a small dot in the middle of a dense bullet pattern)elly from touhou scraping a wall with her scythe and looking back at kris: secret boss? no, i just clean the wall tiles. 
various oc sketches: whitney with a pained expression since she’s forced to take a break from vengeance quest and remember what fun is. tuna executive is also hereghost character sleeping against a totem pole from green hill zone
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coby @cobalt-ex.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
core exercises are so difficult but they feel more effective than anything else. arm stuff makes me tired and doesn’t alleviate much soreness but i do a plank for a minute and it’s like i’m ready for the saiyans to land
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coby @cobalt-ex.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
more groupdraw sketches! it’s been hit and miss the last few weeks but sometimes i can draw shapes i’m familiar with. hoping i can practice more soon
rio, visibly frustrated and upset: two days since she started a fightazure taking a photo in a tulip field, noticing something offscreen behind herrio pulling whitney up, ostensibly. both are exhausted. second sketch depicting the chaos of tomodachi life but a mii has leveled up and wants a treat so i can’t help any of itazure making very strong eye contact, reflecting a line in the tomodachi life wedding song where it says this about her
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coby @cobalt-ex.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
i much prefer being asleep to this stupid world so naturally every force on earth combines to wake me up at 11:30 and 12 and 1:30 and 2 and 4 and 6 so i can start my day at 11am and spend the rest of it on one action
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coby @cobalt-ex.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
i keep thinking about career stuff and what i’m going to focus on for the next few years and i don’t know. i wanna get better at drawing but i don’t think i can be an Illustrator, but then is spending 10-20 years on one rpgmaker game viable? making things is a strange dilemma in this world…
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coby @cobalt-ex.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
i keep wanting to make a typical pc98 dating sim type of vn with a handful of routes and all that but i don’t want to write sex scenes at all, which is where half of the interesting character writing would go, so i think it goes on the dead idea shelf with the rest
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coby @cobalt-ex.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
unsure if the news ends my deeply bitter and cynical “i haven’t been interested in a new official touhou announcement since i got into the series” take or not. i don’t have an immediate desire to play eosd but the fact it’s so readily available with official translations is seriously amazing
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