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Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The heat wave in France has been beyond terrible: 41°C (106°F) for two days, then 39°C (102°F) for another couple of days. It's been so hot I can still feel my brain working in slow motion. Temperatures are starting to come down, but indoor temperatures take a while longer to follow suit, too.

Trying to get some coolness with multiple fans, water and just being down to minimal underwear.

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Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I like the way of the pun. It's all in good fun. These quick jokes have a good run. Shine like a small sun. Till someone pulls out a gun.

A general representation of me telling a pun.

A gesture of "I see what you did there".

A gesture of genuine appreciation for the joke.

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Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Small PSA: if, like me, you've been struggling to find new artists on Bluesky because the Discover page is... kind of garbage, I can recommend this For You feed : bsky.app/profile/did:... Your mileage may vary, but as far as I'm concerned, it's been feeding me mostly art within my preferences !

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Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I decided to make a comic strip out of an anecdote from some time ago that left a bit of an impression on me. I've become more socially aware over the last few years, more able to decipher red flags and dogwhistles, and it's been surprising to see just how close bigots can be, hidden in plain sight.

Me: Here's a new piece, hope you'll enjoy.
Discord Person 1: Why does Bluesky only provide WebP?
Me: Huh, I didn't notice. I guess I should send JPEGs directly.
Discord Person 2: Good idea, Bluesky is so cringe anyway.

Me, thinking: ...cringe? That's oddly specific and unprompted. It has its quirks but I much prefer being here than at the proverbial Nazi dinner table... Speaking of which, that person doesn't happen to have an account on...

Me reacting to the most vile social media feed I have seen in a while, courtesy of Twitter (see next post for details).

Me: ...my apologies, I was mistaken. I mean about the "proverbial" part, specifically. To my dismay, I appear to have found the Nazi at the table.

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Mako Hayashi @makohayashi.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Maid Day may have passed but I still had more to share.

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Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Here's another remaster, right on time for Easter. Valina gave Dana some chocolate eggs (and then they had seggs). I haven't been posting much lately cause I've been working on some 3D modeling and coding stuff. Hopefully I'll be able to share some of that at some point sooner than later.

My OC Dana wearing a bunny suit and bemoaning how her chest fails to fill the top part of it.

Her girlfriend Valina comes in to "fill" the suit with chocolate eggs, to Dana's annoyance.

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Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Post a meme made by you (credit goes to @horomotosuwa.bsky.social for the idea)

A rendition of the Timmy Turner Praying meme but with an Adeptus Mechanicus from Warhammer 40K praying to the machine god: "Please Omnissiah let this happen because it would be so fucking funny"

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Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Thought I'd remaster that Valina cosplay of Faye Valentine for Valentine's Day.

Drawing of my catgirl OC Valina cosplaying as Faye Valentine from Cowboy Bebop.

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Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

See a butt. Post a butt. Had that one on my backlog of stuff to remaster.

Drawing of my catgirl OC Dana standing at a balcony railing in front of a full moon, bare bottom with her privates covered by her tail.

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Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

A picture from 2022 that I had never posted as I wasn't satisfied with it, until I retouched it now. This portrays my characters (Catherine, Cassandre, Camille) the first time they split up into three bodies instead of just being confined to one. They had a lot to talk about.

Drawing of my OCs (left to right: Catherine, Cassandre, Camille) sitting on a couch and having a casual talk.

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Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Back to art, and now finally going into OC territory, here's a repurposed drawing from 2021. Valina loves carrying her loved ones. Cassandre loves having her feet on the ground. A true love story.

Drawing of my OCs, Valina (orange catgirl) proudly carrying in her arms her girlfriend Cassandre (purple-haired), who's lovingly annoyed.

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Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

So I noticed that a few people started following this account due to my moderation list... Thing is, I would rather this remained mostly an account for art and other endeavors of mine, so what I did instead was set up a separate account for moderation-related stuff: bsky.app/profile/kana...

bsky.app

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Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

So my analysis of the troll situation... it likely all started from an infamous "anti-woke" Twitter account that spread misinformation about Bluesky, leading to a brigading campaign, likely by that account's followers, against this site. Easily recognizable by repeated, low effort calling cards.

A post by "End Wokeness" on the other platform on November 17, claiming to have been banned from Bluesky "within the first 30 seconds for posting a biological fact." This is outright impossible given that Bluesky moderation is extremely strained at the moment, with the Safety team mentioning about 3,000 moderation reports/hour as of November 15.

An example of one of the troll accounts, simply called "X is better" with a couple of lazy attempts at transphobic rhetoric as only posts.

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Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I've been monitoring the situation with trolls coming in here from the other place over the past few days, and I've noticed a sudden influx of dozens of accounts created over the last hour spamming very similar messages. Someone or a group of people must be botting big time.

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Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Reaching the end of non-OC personal art to remaster, with this 2023 piece. When I first drew that Reisen pic for the year of the rabbit, I tried mixing my style with a bit of signature Touhou... "ZUN style", but it was a pretty bad idea looking back, so I went fully my own style this time.

Digital artwork of Reisen Udongein Inaba in her Imperishable Night suit, shooting down in front of the moon.

Same artwork, but in a white bunny suit.

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Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

I didn't think I would revisit this as I haven't cared for MLP in a long time, but art is art and it's not like I hate it or anything. Looking back, it's wild to me how that show took the world by storm and became a cultural phenomenon, when it was just... fine ? Was it the Lauren Faust effect ?

A human version of Twilight Sparkle from My Little Pony casting magic from a book.

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Horo Motosuwa @horomotosuwa.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

now for today's piece, this is a piece I made -around- 2011, and later on, after I met my good friend @kanadark.bsky.social she helped me with colors and some details ( I have a bad habit of leaving pieces unfinished ) #oc #catgirl

a brown haired catgirl, with a long braid in a campgirl type dress, pink with black trims, and chinese inspired shoes

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Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

That one came spontaneously from a conversation back in 2019 and I still kinda love the concept of Splatoon-Gorgons. Thinking about it just now, I could imagine stealth missions where you have to stay hidden in ink while in their field of vision.

A design for a Splatoon version of a gorgon.

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Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

There is a lot I could say right now, but I'd rather wait for my emotions to cool down before doing so. What I will say is that current events have accelerated my departure from the other place, so I'll probably dump a lot of older stuff in here in batches. Sorry if that's an inconvenience.

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Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

I have redone this picture so many times over the years... I thought I was done with it in 2021, but there was still more I could do to improve it. That said, I think I'm done with it at this point... If I do fanart again anytime soon, it would still probably be FF7-related. I loved Rebirth to bits.

Digital fanart of Yuffie Kisaragi from Final Fantasy VII holding up a materia.

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Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

That one was a bit more involved... didn't have that little moon bunny in the original 2018 version, but I felt it was a fun little touch to add. I made the original picture back when the whole "Earth-chan" thing was all the rage, but I didn't want to use the same tired old design so I made my own.

Digital artwork of an anthropomorphized Earth, with a moon bunny hopping in orbit.

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Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

There's the other piece I wanted to remaster for Halloween, though there was very little to remaster in the first place ; it's one of those few pictures I feel I got basically just right the first time around. I kinda wish the Metal Gear series kept going with memorable bosses after 4, that said...

Digital fanart of Laughing Octopus from Metal Gear Solid 4 bursting out of a painting.

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Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

I thought this was a good picture to remaster with Halloween coming up, as it was heavily influenced by Alien: Isolation when I drew it back in 2021. It was particularly tough to work again on this though, as it was more painted than drawn, which I don't have quite as much experience with.

Digital illustration of Samus Aran without her Power Suit hiding from Ridley in an Alien-style spaceship.

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Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

Jumping back to 2021... another picture I couldn't look back at without cringing, that I feel looks a lot better with a redrawn face. I really didn't pay as much attention as I should have to paler skin colors ; which is kind of necessary for some characters like Terra. Well, you live and learn.

Digital drawing of Terra Branford from Final Fantasy VI on her knees under the influence of a slave crown.

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Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

Another rework (from 2019 this time) where I feel like redrawing the face entirely (and the hair to some extent) really brought it together. Going more anime-ish just makes characters more endearing to me, I don't know why I took so long to go back to... where I started artistically, looking back.

Digital fanart of Shovel Knight: Plague of Shadows, of Mona receiving a potion gift from Plague Knight.

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Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

Looking back, I did mostly fanart back in 2018... and sadly quite a bit of it was from a series that has since fully disappointed me and that I do not want to look back to. Still, Kingdom Hearts remains one of my favorites to this day ; in fact, I replayed 2 recently. So, here's a revised Anti-Aqua.

Anti-Aqua from Kingdom Hearts 3 stabbing towards the viewer with a Keyblade.

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Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

Back to 2017 art, a lot of it was related to a game project I was working on that didn't pan out in the end. Drew quite a few assets for it between concept arts, model references, UI elements and other artwork, so I decided to clean them all up a bit and drop them here.

Portrait of the game project's main character, Stella, that was to be used as part of the health bar UI.

A frontal reference for the main character, that was used for the modeling of her ingame model.

An experimental piece of artwork of Stella, with purely black and white colors.

Concept art for a boss that actually made it into a playable state, who was to use mostly magic-style attacks.

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Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

Bit of a detour through my 2021 art as I'm just done remastering this piece. Back then I was leaving too much to a custom shader in Blender, so I decided to reshade the skin manually for more consistency, and also a closer look to the original art style. Can't believe Ace Attorney 6 was 2016...

Maya Fey from Ace Attorney undergoing spirit medium training by sitting on a block of ice.

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Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

I follow a lot of non-English speaking artists and I know quite a few other people who do, so I'm spreading this information just in case !

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Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Another sketch from 2017... I'm almost done with those, I swear ! It just happens to be the year from which I started getting closer to where I wanted to be artistically, so it's easier to fix them up real quick. Anything before that would more likely need a full redraw if I were to retouch them...

Digital thigh-up drawing of a catgirl crossing arms with a mischievous smile.

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Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

Another practice sketch from 2017 that I had decided to color. Mostly reworked the hair volume, though I decided after all these years to mostly give up on trying to draw more realistic noses because I feel it just mostly didn't work out for me.

Digital portrait of a girl with glasses in a blouse and suit.

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Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

I'm not sure what was up with 2017 but I drew so many sketches in a relatively short amount of time... of course, looking back they had a bunch of small mistakes left and right (which I've been working to fix with these reuploads) but I do kinda miss that speed and spontaneity, looking back...

A dark-skinned catgirl in a blue yukata with white flower patterns.

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Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

That was a gift for my mom, who asked me for something like that to use as a profile picture... honestly, I barely had to update it at all as I find it to remain one of my better works, somehow.

Digital portrait of a dryad with dark skin and green-brown hair, wooden horns with leaf ears, amber eyes and lips, white flowers in the hair and a plant necklace with an amber jewel.

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Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

Also from 2017, it was a practice sketch that I decided to color and turn into a warm summer picture. In recent times I've been trying to improve on the expressiveness of my characters, so I updated it mostly on that front, hopefully to good effect. (Reupload as I found the head to be too small)

Portrait digital artwork of a blue-haired, amber-eyed girl in a yellow-orange bikini at the beach.

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Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

This was a piece from 2017, itself a remake of a much older piece from 2009. I still think it's one of the more striking pieces I've done to this day, composition-wise, and I took the time to fix up the anatomy a bit and make outlines more consistent. Pretty happy with it overall, i would say.

Drawing of a horned, dark grey-skinned woman with white angelic wings, floating in space in front of an eclipse.

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Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

Well, hello to the many, many new refugees from the other side ! I've been updating some of my older pics in the last few days so I might as well start reposting them here for the occasion (half a million new people, my goodness).

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Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · 01/02/2024

I was listening earlier to a live from the Tokyo Active NEETs and one of their renditions (youtu.be/0svDo7oj8QE?... ) made me think "Cuphead Suwako" so hard that I had to draw it real quick.

Suwako Moriya (Touhou Project) in the style of Cuphead.

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Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

My honest, unironic reaction to this statement: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Article by The Guardian: ‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says

"If you're nothing without the copyrighted material, then you shouldn't have it."

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Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · 23/12/2023

Kicking things off with a holiday picture I've been working on for a while, trying new things with style, lines and shading. Hope everyone has a nice holiday season !

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Kana Dark @kanadark.bsky.social · 23/12/2023

I've had this account for a while, getting a feel for the atmosphere here, and it's undeniably better than the other place at the moment. Hopefully, it stays that way. Anyway, I got my hands on Clip Studio Paint and a new pen tablet, so I'm hoping to improve on my art with all that.

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