iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Kind of yeah, and this will continue to grow as I work on the piece and need to find more things to make the work even more fleshed out. Though it is useful to have if I ever need to go back to past boards for inspo!

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

thank ye!! slowly manifesting >:3ccc

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

commissions I completed the past while!

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

the thing I spent the past few months on is finally live yaaayyy Grian's twitch/second yt channel banner -w-b

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

god every time I see your work it just gets better the ticket postcards are so FIRE ALL OF THEM AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

rn I’m just tryharding making the draping fabric look better

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I'm making my design interpretation of Pearlescentmoon's character from the PantheonSMP minecraft series XD

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

like the ones I get locally are 1/3 of that price 😭 what in the economy

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Ough the build on the bottom right is so good

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

/converts/ what in the....... That's a ripoff the heck

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

tbh I think I did actually somewhat break out of my burnout this year it's just that a lot of the art I'm working on isn't postable yet because they're not done and I got locked into a bunch of client work XD it's been very relaxing in its own way tbh, no social media pressure

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I needed that today hope you're doing well, stef!!

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Jagal @jagalart.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Form > docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Examples for each style > jagal.weebly.com/huevember-20... As promised, here's the only occassion this year to get a regular commission from me!

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

surviving as always XD hope you're doing well too!!

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

So I uh, started a thing and made a website for it idk where this is going but I hope it will be cool deckedout3.carrd.co artbook based on hermitcraft decked out 3 game woooo

deckedout3.carrd.co

Decked Out 3 Artbook

An artbook project in the making dedicated to Decked Out 3

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Athanaca @athanaca.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Who let the night heron online✨💿 #illustration #digitalart #nightheron #weirdart #oldinternet

Night heron art with 2000s internet core

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

been working on my version of pantheonsmp pearl lately

roughly coloured sketch mockup of pantheon pearl

work in progress linework for pantheon pearl illustration

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

side note while doing these I hit study no. 300 over my 8 different drawing files for colour based studies so yay personal milestone XD I'm still not good at incorporating random colours but I try my best I suppose

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

this one was wild though I'm kind of impressed with myself how accurate I got the soft light

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

some still life studies I did recently to get back into it a lil and it went better than expected

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

the real drawing for self would be bgs tbh but this will do for now~

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

was reminded I hadn’t drawn for myself in months so I finished an abandoned sketch

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

artfight attacks I completed today that were pretty dope

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

then there’s these ones in the works cuz he requested a fail backflip version and I pitched two more

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

first batch of animated emotes for grian mostly complete! want to adjust the timing a bit still as someone who doesn’t really animate I’m pretty happy how these turned out XD

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

brain died and uterus impalement started but the banner draft is mostly complete and the mans likes it

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

never thought I would ever be commissioned to draw a roblox character but here we are

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

iterating the animated emote and it’s going I am not an animator by any means but I’m pretty proud of it XD

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

we shall see! can't say I didn't try to add in a few more versatile emotes XD

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

the emote concept art bonanza for grian’s twitch channel second batch was when I started making them based off his favourite gifs

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I'm being hired to draw grian's twitch & second channel stuff soooo wish me luck 💥 (I'm also gonna stream the process so come hang out on twitch sometimes I guess XD)

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I did also draw that one yep 😌✨ Glad you enjoy XD

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

squints natural landscape is not my forte...

work in progress illustration of hermitcraft pearlescentmoon fanart - a fire boat coasting down a river

big reference image board of forested rivers, eucalyptus trees, minecraft screenshots, and NSW fire boats

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I haven't played in a bit but I've collected at least 20 of them so far XD

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