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Coda @codablue.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

(God, I was gonna crosspost what I threw up on Tumblr here too some weeks ago, but I was literally like "What if I just save time and take a screenshot so I can get back to writing" lmfao. I was genuinely going to do THIS like a LUNATIC, instead of just idk linking the damn post or uploading here:)

Screenshot of a post from my coda-blue Tumblr blog (https://www.tumblr.com/coda-blue/821044454669582336/to-all-my-fans).

Post is titled "VGen Soft Launch" in spaced out, all capital letters typewriter font, and the following text reads:

"I'm soft launching my VGen for character art. [hyperlink: https://vgen.co/CodaBlue] I've got an upcoming cost to pay, so anybody who wants to comm me for some (1) $$-$$$ fully-custom digital character art, (2) weirdness and freedom with a Surprise Me/Skeb-style piece, or (3) just or tip me $5 for a silly doodle, head on over and take a look.

"I will be adding new services soon-ish as well, (YCH, ref sheets, short story writing commissions, etc...) so be sure to follow my VGen if you have an account and want to be notified."

Below is a thumbnail grid of commissioned and original illustrations done by me in the past 3 years, presented here in unfortunately shrunken size and low resolution, and surely crunched further by Bluesky compression, lol

From left to right, top to bottom: A witch in a hat (fan art of @foleso.bsky.social's OC); A man in white with an albino peacock; A badly-cropped art of a daimyo (fan art of @wolfborg.bsky.social); Two men in pjs and love (fan art of "Of Sense and Soul" for @forsythiaprod.bsky.social); A woman and man watch something while eating Christmas treats (birthday gift for @mikeyoungvo.bsky.social); A ghoulish Pokemon Trainer cooks curry for an Eiscue (for @baiyu.tofu.rocks); Gekko from Valorant commission; Man in pansexual pride colors with his cat (promo art of "Something's Wrong with Sunny Day Jack" for @snaccpopstudios.bsky.social); Doodle of a guy in a t-shirt that reads in all caps "I'm a performative male and you can see me perform at the Booty Bar Dec 16-18 @ 8:40"

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Coda @codablue.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

(Testing if pasting a video directly from screen capture works, volume and all.)

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Coda @codablue.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Giving this Invincible plague meme away to all fandoms and group chats for free

Screenshots of scenes from season 4, episode 3 of the animated series Invincible.

Panel 1: Inside a space ship, Nolan/Omni-Man says with arms crossed and a frustrated expression, "I understand we're a plague"

Panel 2: But Nolan continues, stating resolutely, "To us, it was our duty." Standing beside him, his friend Allen the Alien stares in bewilderment.

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Coda @codablue.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The way clowns and clown subtypes have invaded my year lmao #shitpost

Screenshots of scenes from season 4, episode 3 of the animated series Invincible.

Panel 1: Poorly painted over to look like he is cosplaying Pierrot from the 18+ horror yandere visual novel The Freak Circus (https://garula.itch.io/the-freak-circus), Nolan/Omni-Man says with arms crossed and a frustrated expression, "I understand we're a plague"

Panel 2: But Nolan-as-Pierrot continues, stating resolutely, "To us, it was our duty." Standing beside him, his friend Allen the Alien stares in bewilderment.

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Coda @codablue.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Me: ... and I thought I was gonna run out of words, but I finally squeezed in some waterboarding. Them:

Screenshot of a reply that says:

Girl
This better be a reasonable draft lmfao

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Coda @codablue.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

🎨 I spent some time on this non-commission piece using one of @foleso.bsky.social's OCs to test the coloring greyscale method out. I'm gonna be trying a few different things with my art on the side as I work it out. But what do you think? #art

A boyish blonde witch poses from behind, looking over his shoulder with a smile at the viewer while his left leg kicks back. His left arm extends out as his hand makes a peace/V-for-victory sign, and his right hand grips his waist. He wears a floppy black and purple witch hat with a purple and yellow tassel, a cropped light grey jacket, an even shorter purple shirt with a long banner-like front, a light grey belt over his ripped denim shorts, a black garter-like ribbon on his thigh and black thigh-high stockings, with light grey legwarmers over similarly-colored platform shoes with purple soles. A shooting star design in gradient yellow swoops behind him on the warm, peach-colored background.

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Coda @codablue.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

No one who knows me should be surprised by my ranked trope results. Ok, maybe the romantic immolation one. But more so... metaphorically. ❤️‍🔥 nulienna.tumblr.com/sorter

An image of my top 10 fiction trope rankings from nulienna.tumblr.com/sorter:

1: cradling a loved one's remains
2: hurt/comfort
3: doomed relationships
4: their love language is murder
5: corruption arc
6: abuse of power
7: romantic immolation
8: psychological horror
9: generational trauma
10: unhappy ending

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Coda @codablue.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

EGGsperimental Rap by JPEGGMafia #shitpost

A parody of the cover of JPEGMafia's 2026 album EXPERIMENTAL RAP, where Peggy's head is replaced with Jim Carrey's as Eggman from the movie Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (2022).

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Coda @codablue.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Whoa bud, you dropped your glasses:

Version of the image prior to post-processing. Drawn and signed by @codablue.bsky.social.

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Coda @codablue.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

When you draw primo fan art but its suppressed by the Evil Indie Creator (Despot) and they won't tell you why because you are, in fact, innocent of all charges

Parodying the "Putting On Clown Makeup" meme, four images show off the process for an original pierrot character as designed by @arimiadev.com: The first image is the clown putting white grease paint on his face while wearing a neck ruffle, in the second he lines a blacker undereye, in the third a dark-skinned pair of hands (the artist's) fits a conical hat on the clown's head, and in the final image the incredibly sad clown--rendered in a more comical style--looks at the viewer in his full costume. As the strip progresses, the chromatic aberration, tone scraping, and sepia-colored light leak visual effects intensify. Drawn and signed by @codablue.bsky.social.

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Coda @codablue.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

This month my priority is writing as much as possible for the 3rd draft of the fashion fantasy romance vn, and I've been trucking along with renewed vigor, but my alliances with these characters have instantly changed. You cannot take this thing away from me.

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Coda @codablue.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Why am I his first (fan artist)?

Ari will describe this as a "pierrot". And perhaps that is technically correct, because it is literally her character. But my truth prevails.

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Coda @codablue.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Listening to "Melt My Tearz See Your Fears (GOLD TEARS)" by Dr. Don #shitpost

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Coda @codablue.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Was watching @wolfborg.bsky.social play Nobunaga's Ambition for the SNES, and the box art for it went kinda hard? So I got an idea... and ended up making some fan art! Meet... Borgunaga, destined unifier of 16th century Japan. #drawBorg ❄️☕ | #myart

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Coda @codablue.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Another daily #pixelart warmup prompt w/ @theartofgaming.bsky.social! She picked a much more limited palette for my sake lmao and I decided to try going for a pattern detail today, as inspired by her past few warmups! I was watching freestyle dance battles last night, so... that's why this pose 😌✌🏾

An extremely pale man with hair and shoes of the same milky, low-contrast color strikes a pose on his tip topes with his arms outstretched. He wears blue wrap-around shades, grey low-rise ripped jean pants, and bares his exposed chest in an opened grey baggy top with an irregular green and red pattern. The art is outlined in a dark grey against a goldenrod background. In the bottom right corner is Coda Blue's signature and the date 04/26 (April 2026).

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Coda @codablue.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

And here's my #pixelart warmup! Exported it to a proper size this time for your un-crunched viewing pleasure. And I forgot I already had a template for my siggy in low pixel art res, so I'm slapping it on the rest of these from now on. I'm no pattern queen like @theartofgaming.bsky.social tho 🥲🌼

On a cream-colored background, a tall woman with dark blue skin runs, looking back over her shoulder at the viewer with light purple eyes. Her chopped brown ponytail bounces behind her. She sports red pump shoes, a matching red halter-neck tube top whose neck ribbons flutter behind, and greige wide-leg pants. The pant leg on the viewer's left has a horizontal stripe of high-gloss orange, while the other leg's stripe is vertical. In the top left corner is Coda Blue's signature and the date 04/26 (April 2026) in red.

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Coda @codablue.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

(Ok, here's the version that /doesn't/ look destroyed by compression and has a flat background color since transparency isn't supported here 🥰) Next time @theartofgaming.bsky.social, we gotta export at 8x the size lol

(8x original resolution for a cleaner look.) A fat woman with reddish-orange skin, blue eye makeup, long lashes, pale orange eyes, and berry-colored hair styled in a very short crop. She holds her high-collared, floor-length, billowing yellow coat close to her chest over her midriff-cutout blue jumper. She stands firmly in heeled boots of the same blue hue. The art has a black outline.

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Coda @codablue.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Sometimes I jump on call to harass @theartofgaming.bsky.social and call it coworking, but today we realized we both haven't touched pixel art in a while. So for fun we rolled a character prompt, picked the canvas size and color palette, and got to drawing! This was my shot at it. It was so fun!

A fat woman with reddish-orange skin, blue eye makeup, long lashes, pale orange eyes, and berry-colored hair styled in a very short crop. She holds her high-collared, floor-length, billowing yellow coat close to her chest over her midriff-cutout blue jumper. She stands firmly in heeled boots of the same blue hue. The art has a black outline.

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Coda @codablue.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Awful low effort Powerplex meme I just threw together. #Invincible Season 3 spoilers.

In the meme format of "Who Shot Hannibal" from the Eric Andre Show, Powerplex, a blonde man in a red and black supervillain bodysuit is in the first frame, zapping his wife and child with his electric powers. In the second and final frame below, his family is smoldering as Powerplex turns to the camera and says intensely: "You killed my family."

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Coda @codablue.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

🎨 ICYMI: Drew a comm for @miseri.bsky.social of Josephine, aka Poise, from her visual novel Hello Counsel 💋: miseri-accordion.itch.io/hello-counsel Super fun to revisit this saucy character. She's actually wearing an alt fit I had concepted for her back in '23! 🥹 #visualnovel #commission #chibi

Chibi (a.k.a. cutesy big-headed cartoon version) of a pink-haired, roller-skating Black woman. Sporting pink nails, one hand is on her hip as the other gestures to her chin in a precious pose. Her sparkling pink eyes, which stare back at the viewer, are drawn without white sclera, reminiscent of an older cartoon style. Her sharp eyebrows are raised, and her lashes are long and pointed, save for the teardrop-shaped lower lashes that stylistically float off her cheeks. She pouts with glossy aubergine and pink lips and a subtle blush. She accessorizes with heart-shaped glasses that sit atop her hair, a dangling earring, and a metallic collar necklace. She wears a sleeveless mesh bodysuit under her one-sleeve graphic crop top, and matching frayed denim shorts. The shorts have patches of different patterns sewn on. Her right leg is kicked back as she skates on her left prosthetic leg.

She is backed by a rectangular purple and pink frame, and bright pink hearts with purple shadows float from her roller skate. Some of the pink hearts are shattered.

Based off of the character Josephine "Poise" Diallo from the visual novel "Hello Counsel" on Itch.io: https://miseri-accordion.itch.io/hello-counsel

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Coda @codablue.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Four games I've worked on 💋

Shrouded in darkness, a dark-skinned cloaked man with an eye patch peers at the viewer with a dimly glowing stare. His hand is raised to his chin, the thumb pressed against his slightly smirking lips as he contemplates what he sees. The title reads "This Life Escapes Me" with a ghostly, offset shadow.

"This Life Escapes Me" is a very short tragic fantasy visual novel on Itch.io: https://coda-blue.itch.io/this-life-escapes-me

A young man with white-ish hair, bright eyes, and blue, semi-translucent skin smiles eerily at the viewer. In the whites of his eyes and in his neck, shapes like the organelles of cells swim through. He is seen through a circular iris shot with unfocused black borders, similar to how one might view something looking through a microscope. The text reads "Parasite in Love" in wavy font.

"Parasite in Love" is a short biological horror visual novel on Itch.io: https://night-asobu.itch.io/parasite-in-love

A fair-skinned, blonde-haired girl and boy with matching pink-and-blue eyes smile at the viewer. Behind them is a stylized cutout of skyscrapers with a low-flying helicopter and search lights. To the left are menu buttons for the title screen. The title reads "Teisatsu" with the English translation "Recon" in a smaller font underneath.

"Teisatsu" is a short comedy romance visual novel on Itch.io: https://pacchistudio.itch.io/teisatsu

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Coda @codablue.bsky.social · 07/03/2024

🎨 Drew Seamus and Hugo from one of my favorite indie visual novels by @forsythiaprod.bsky.social, Of Sense and Soul. These two are so precious, but I had to draw them getting a little closer! Physically! Follow their queer Victorian romance here: linktr.ee/forsythiapro... #visualnovel #fanart #gay

Two men in pajamas lovingly embrace each other. A heart overlay with a faint flower pattern frames the men's faces.

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Coda @codablue.bsky.social · 24/02/2024

🎨 Just finished a very special commission for a client and friend! Enjoy their male Love and Deepspace MC, painstakingly drawn by yours truly (me), PLUS my favorite parts of the comm: rendering that face and that leather vest, good lord. 👀

Full-body 2D render of a man in strapped-up leather and denim standing with his space pistol in the air. And he's got his eyes on you.

Detail: Spiky and loose brunette hair, slate grey eyes, and glossy lips, and a tight zip-up leather vest over his linen button-up. Space pistol looks like it's got an extra blaster under its square barrel.

Detail: Leather vest with leather cross-straps on the chest, leather bracers on the arms, leather straps practically everywhere, and he's not afraid to show off his midriff either.

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Coda @codablue.bsky.social · 04/02/2024

My drive and energy to make personal artwork is back this year, and boy I've missed it! I'll be posting my works here. Enjoy my boy Bellarmino with one of his possessions: a designer albino peacock. This was mainly an attempt to try a few things rendering-wise and to push myself on minute detail.

A man with crimped hair dressed in all white with ruffle and floral trim looks at the viewer while holding an albino peacock. On the flat, wine-red background is repeatedly printed his name, "BELLARMINO".

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