iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Medik @eyeshandsteeth.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Backgrounds are still hard but I'm learning new techniques that make them significantly less painful x.x

mountain landscape with a bunch of clouds in the sky and butterflies going into the distance

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Medik @eyeshandsteeth.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Second batch of teeny-tinies

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Medik @eyeshandsteeth.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Some teeny-tinies from...jesus, ten years ago 💀

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Medik @eyeshandsteeth.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Random icons. Second two are my characters (Noctum and Winrey respectively)

icon of a woman with pink and black feathers and a little top hat with cards

icon of a monster that's all black save for light shining from his five eyes and mouth

icon of Noctum looking very menacing, like he's actually cool or something

icon of a blonde elf woman sneering at the camera with broken concrete and rebar as her backdrop

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Medik @eyeshandsteeth.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

The actual worst and so *fucking* stupid. Fourteen-year-old me would argue the whole point of learning to draw is to make edgy shitheads like this, which is the correct take

demonic guy with two tails, bat wings, horns, and a third eye on his forehead. also casting black magic

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Medik @eyeshandsteeth.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

The Motherlight, the beginning and end of everything

space-themed woman with a bunch of silver jewelry and a silver mask, holding a cracked staff and a planet

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Medik @eyeshandsteeth.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Ugh, shit, thought I dodged the paranoia downswing prowling around the back of my brain, but apparently not 💀 Gonna keep the queue filled but uninstall the phone app to stop the dreaded doomscroll until the Mood(TM) passes. See you on the other side~

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Medik @eyeshandsteeth.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Moon witch prompt - didn't draw much in the year this was done, so she got me back into the swing of things

A moon-themed witch with semi-transparent hands in a ring of light

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Medik @eyeshandsteeth.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Oh good, I started worrying after the fact that I came across weird when all I meant was there were good reasons to not feel conflicted about sticking with short alt text if you want to 😆 glad we got there lmao

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Medik @eyeshandsteeth.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

way to communicate "visual art, safe to scroll on." Sorry, it's weird to fuss over but my ex was legally blind and his screen reader friends would've haaated using this site. They liked music and written works, not long alt text describing a painting to people who may have never experienced color 😅

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Medik @eyeshandsteeth.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

No one's art is, really, but people visually impaired enough to use a screen reader don't really engage that much with something you just have to be able to see to understand. In our case, the most useful alt text is short and starts with an art term, like "painting" or "drawing." It's the fastest--

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Medik @eyeshandsteeth.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Anyway "painting of a wolf" is 1000% fine and don't let people who seem to have forgotten/never known why alt text exists stress you out or, more importantly, become a mental barrier to posting your work!

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Medik @eyeshandsteeth.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I'm fascinated (derogatory) by the alt text culture here. Not because alt text isn't important but because making it a visible caption to sighted people has turned it into a stage for tumblr-tag-style jokes and essay descriptions of visual media to ppl who specifically don't navigate life visually 😂

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Medik @eyeshandsteeth.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Definitely wishing you luck with getting it all organized! Thanks for entertaining my questions :)

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Medik @eyeshandsteeth.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I was kinda curious if you could direct ship the whole run and conveniently get around the international barriers in the process, but I guess I'd be surprised if it was cost effective for small runs like that. A rabbit hole to go down when I can't sleep at 2 AM 😅

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Medik @eyeshandsteeth.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Huh, cool, never thought about small-run merch sales without a storefront. Are there manufacturers who would do direct ship without being prohibitively expensive, or would you need to fuss with shipping yourself?

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Medik @eyeshandsteeth.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

A Mermay long past. Might do that again this year, she was fun

blue mermaid with barnacles on a long tail and orange frilly fins

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Medik @eyeshandsteeth.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I imagine text-only drafts would make them impractical for most visual artists until media is supported. That said, if it's a big enough pain in the ass to implement, text-only on release would at least make the core feature available to everyone else while you guys work on expanding functionality

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 23/01/2025

ballare con il diavolo

digital sketch of a woman straddling a demon who tightly embraces her

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Medik @eyeshandsteeth.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I love doing freebies, but it takes me so long to draw anything that I developed a quick(er) full-color style a couple years back. Featuring my favorite test subject (sorry Fai, mother loves you) and one of the first freebies I experimented with

full-color thigh-up sketch of Fai playing with lightning and looking smug about it

full-color waist-up sketch of a woman made of lava and lava rock falling apart

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Medik @eyeshandsteeth.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Is this comment section how it was in the early years? Never used twit so by the time I stumbled on dril, he was already an internet darling 🤔

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Medik @eyeshandsteeth.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Seconding this. I draw big so I can scale things down after, but I almost never zoom in more than 50%

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Medik @eyeshandsteeth.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

shit all the time anyway, but reworking a whole ass comic that probably won't even be done by the time I change my mind again is admittedly kinda daunting...

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Medik @eyeshandsteeth.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I'm so conflicted about how to tell this story. Chronological and lore-dumping don't spark joy (both are easy to work around), but every time I think a scene or even a longer arc is nailed down, I overhaul it three months later to something I like way better. Housemate teases me about redoing--

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Medik @eyeshandsteeth.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Whoops, gotta refill the queue Sometimes I get on one about drapery and build skills that never translate to my imagined work 😅 I guess it's good to know that I *can* do it, at least HA, adding alt text and forgot about that eye in the third one. Cute little beast, whatever he is

neoclassical drapery study with an eye on one section because it looked kinda like a dragon head when I drew it

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Medik @eyeshandsteeth.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

"No" is probably an understatement, I'm afraid 😞

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Medik @eyeshandsteeth.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Nothing makes me feel old like learning dril's been doing this shit (complimentary) for 17 years

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Medik @eyeshandsteeth.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Getting very normal about this guy with every new post...

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Medik @eyeshandsteeth.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Awww but she said the magic word and everything 😭

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S ∆ R E N ✦ 杰敏 ✦ KICKSTARTER!!! @sarenstone.com · 18/01/2025

What's trapped inside the armor :'> #oc

A character sheet depicting a voidsent Criticality from before he made a deal with Mhach - his true form, and his form in the 13th. A tall, dark entity with faint glittering stars in its myriad tendrils and strikiing red accents. A closeup of the 'hood' revealing fangs is in the top right, and an Adra silhouette for scale in the bottom right.

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Medik @eyeshandsteeth.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

omfg, I'm so sorry you have to deal with that shit in *inpatient* of all places. It's not exactly a place where I've ever done my best thinking and I probably would've made that everyone's problem whether I wanted to or not 😣 So glad you found a support system who hears you and empathizes

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MÆTERS | U̞̓́Ţ̖̒Rͤ҉̪O̧̺̚B̡̥ͧĄ̩̓ @maeters.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

temptation 🌹 [utroba // oc // Grigora & Temir]

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Medik @eyeshandsteeth.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Fai Stormwright is the oldest of my OCs and has the great misfortune of embodying the best and worst parts of myself at any given time. Kinda wild how many directions his character/story took over fifteen years, but no matter how far we travel from where we started, he'll always be my favorite <3

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Medik @eyeshandsteeth.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I'm still annoyed on the scale wrap but I have no idea where the working file is to fix it T.T But I'm glad you love it regardless! This reply brought to you by waiting at the gym lollll

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Medik @eyeshandsteeth.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

No, thankfully, as we decided against giving him a phone at his age due to lack of opposable thumbs and being dumber than a post 😔

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Medik @eyeshandsteeth.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I thought about that right after I posted it and was very proud of my subconsience for helping entertain on the internet

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Medik @eyeshandsteeth.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

My mom gifted us a fancy litter box that, I shit you not, *required* an app and 2-factor auth to operate. Unfortunately, the actually-required mechanical pieces broke within a week and we returned to our dumb-but-functional litter box 😂

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Medik @eyeshandsteeth.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

More parkour princess, whose actual name is Nottie. It was supposed to be her nickname when the title of this project was still "The Girl Named Nothing," but that whole concept eventually transferred to the antagonist. Seemed weird to change her name, though, so Nottie she remains

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Medik @eyeshandsteeth.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I try not to dwell on any of my childhood idiocy that happened on horseback. Spikes my blood pressure 😂

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Medik @eyeshandsteeth.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

See? What a nice boy. Stars for freckles and everything. Also featuring the other insufferable bastard and a broken parkour princess who's pretty okay with laying claim to both

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Medik @eyeshandsteeth.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Behold, the most good and perfect boy and the insufferable bastard he has to babysit. Well, one of them. The other one has the decency to be funny sometimes and flaunt his admittedly nice ass all over the place

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Medik @eyeshandsteeth.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

As a Pokemon Old (TM), it's only right that I have extensive gen 1 headcanons (the Lapras looks suspiciously like a rock for a reason) and also the very best trainer, like no one ever was

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Medik @eyeshandsteeth.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

This man has had e-fucking-nough of this shit

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Medik @eyeshandsteeth.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Secret Santa piece that turned out better than most drawings of my own characters lmao

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Medik @eyeshandsteeth.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Birthday gift for @whitewingedcrow.bsky.social I'm gonna butcher her name...Ah'krisse? Alternatively, Hot Naga Queen. Player's choice, really

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Medik @eyeshandsteeth.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Seems like a service called Roboposts is another popular scheduler, if you want options. Googling "bluesky post scheduler" might get even more :)

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Medik @eyeshandsteeth.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I'm the tech-savvy friend in question and yes, Buffer is a post scheduler/thread composer/etc 3rd party service I've been playing with so I can explain how it works to Crow later, haha

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Medik @eyeshandsteeth.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Oh, that's awesome! Looks like the dev team made a lot of headway against the bot wave, too. Hopefully you can enjoy some peace and quiet now 😄

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