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Eli (opalescenteel / itsonlythee) @opalescenteel.art · 29/03/2026

I'm at Crow's Nest Comics til 6 today with @kamidog.bsky.social and @romecartoons.bsky.social! Come support trans rights, trans arts, and trains!

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Eli (opalescenteel / itsonlythee) @opalescenteel.art · 28/03/2026

Remembered HEAVYPAINT existed and wanted to give it a try while I didn't have my glasses on and was supposed to be taking meds. #heavypaint

a digital painting of a fat light brown bear laying flat in the grass, the reference image is to the left of the painting

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Eli (opalescenteel / itsonlythee) @opalescenteel.art · 24/03/2026

I saw these penguin plushes and had a terrible idea, I'm sorry OP

a quickly photoshopped image of the penguin toys I quoted as the Soldier Protecting Sleeping Child meme. I placed the baby penguin in place of the child, the parent penguin is wearing fatigues and a hat and is protecting the baby penguin from an onslaught of fish-missiles while also emitting a fish from its own mouth. I've also sloppily recolored the blood blue.

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Eli (opalescenteel / itsonlythee) @opalescenteel.art · 23/03/2026

Next Sunday (3/29, 12-6pm) I'll be tabling at Crow's Nest Comics (formerly Outsider Comics) in Seattle at a mini-market with kamiupdog and @romecartoons.bsky.social. Come support queer arts, independent comic stores, local queer orgs, and the light rail expansion next week. Masking required.

Promo graphic for Trans/it Joy, a small art market held at Crow's Nest Comics on Sunday March 29 from noon to 6pm. Masks will be required and provided if you don't have one. The graphic features a small map showing the new lightrail station spot as well as the logos for the 3 featured artists.

schedule graphic for my upcoming events. First up is Trans(it) Joy, the event described in the main post, followed by Pridefest in Capitol Hill on June 27th. I have also applied for Smol Art Mart and GeekGirlCon.

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Eli (opalescenteel / itsonlythee) @opalescenteel.art · 02/03/2026

I wanna ride the Ditto train! (or any of the themed trains in Japan, honestly)

colorful generated text in the style of the Pokopia font that reads: I wanna ride the Ditto train

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Eli (opalescenteel / itsonlythee) @opalescenteel.art · 01/01/2026

Happy New Year! Here's my lemon pig I made in blender from 2 years ago (somehow) #b3d #blender

a 3d render of a lemon pig illuminated by pink and blue fireworks exploding above it against a black void

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Eli (opalescenteel / itsonlythee) @opalescenteel.art · 12/11/2025

If you see this, share your bird art! (finally, something I can participate in!) #birds #owls #animalart

a digital illustration of a group of 7 owls of different species facing the viewer, eyes wide with an almost inquisitive expression on their faces. the original piece was drawn traditionally with ink but painted with digital watercolor brushes and finished with a pale yellow to pinkish purple gradient map

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Eli (opalescenteel / itsonlythee) @opalescenteel.art · 08/11/2025

Here at the Seattle Convention Center for GeekGirlCon 2025! #artistalley #geekgirlcon

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Eli (opalescenteel / itsonlythee) @opalescenteel.art · 04/11/2025

Time blazed by and it's November already. I'll be at #GeekGirlCon in Seattle this coming weekend (November 8-9)! It might (probably) be my last show for the year, so please come out and say hi if you're in the area! Find me at Table 48 with some new stickers in tow. #artistalley

An illustrated map of the Geek Girl Con show floor styled to look like a fantasy tabletop game map. I've edited it to indicate the route to my table and placed my eel mascot next to my table, number 48. I've also added simple illustrated coins atop the map to coordinate the image with the previous slide.

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Eli (opalescenteel / itsonlythee) @opalescenteel.art · 10/09/2025

It's my birthday today! I made this shitpost in Blender because it was finally cool enough to hang out in my office without dying of heat. #b3d #blender #nonepizzawithleftbeef

a 3d render of a naked pizza with no toppings in the style of none pizza with left beef. in place of left beef, there are left birthday candles, unlit. on the box scrawled in marker is 'none pizza with left birthday'

blender viewport of the above model - an untextured 3d model of a pizza with birthday candles on the left quadrant

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Eli (opalescenteel / itsonlythee) @opalescenteel.art · 08/08/2025

Set up at Zulu's game cafe in Lynnwood for their one year anniversary event ZTX! Come out this weekend and support small artists and tabletop creators! #artistalley

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Eli (opalescenteel / itsonlythee) @opalescenteel.art · 07/06/2025

I'm out in Spokane for Lilac City Comicon this weekend at table D7! Come stop by if you're in the area! #lilaccitycomicon #spokane #queerartists

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Eli (opalescenteel / itsonlythee) @opalescenteel.art · 14/04/2025

Happy Neil day to those who observe it, here's a Neil I painted last year in CSP. #neilbangingoutthetunes

a digital painting of a happy rat with a little purple keyboard with rainbow colored keys

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Eli (opalescenteel / itsonlythee) @opalescenteel.art · 01/02/2025

Set up at Husky Expo! Come say hi, I'll be here for a while! #artistalley

a photo of my artist alley table at Husky Expo at the UW campus

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Eli (opalescenteel / itsonlythee) @opalescenteel.art · 01/02/2025

I'll be at Husky Expo tomorrow for my first show of 2025! Come say hi if you're in the Seattle area and support independent artists!

Event flyer for Husky Expo, a free gaming event on the UW campus.

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Eli (opalescenteel / itsonlythee) @opalescenteel.art · 12/12/2024

I have Aux Input as my output device and then within Voicemeeter I have my headphones as device 1, speakers as device 2, and I keep A2 muted most of the time and use my headphones

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Eli (opalescenteel / itsonlythee) @opalescenteel.art · 30/11/2024

Bumping this at a normal time. 15% off everything in my shop. I added listings for the same bundle deals I offer when I table at conventions! shop.opalescenteel.com #BSNM #nightmarket #shopsmall #cyberweek #blackfriday #stockingstuffers

screenshot of Opalescent Eel Shop page. There are listings for bundle deals for pinback buttons, acrylic charms, washi tapes, stickers, and keycaps. The thumbnails are compilation images of each product type with text describing the combo deals within

Taiyakey Novelty Key Covers - pvc house key covers in the shape of the Japanese dessert food taiyaki. Fits most house keys and makes them easier to find and much cuter! 6 'flavors' available - matcha green, original brown, red velvet, ube purple, strawberry pink, and charcoal black.

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Eli (opalescenteel / itsonlythee) @opalescenteel.art · 29/11/2024

I added a bunch of new things including new vinyl stickers and my Oh Whale enamel pins. Most of my things are small and inexpensive, perfect as stocking stuffer type gifts. shop.opalescenteel.com #art #artsky #artshop

a grid of product photos demonstrating my different vinyl stickers with original and fanart designs including food, animals, and game characters

a grid of product photos with a mix of my enamel pins and my original Taiyakey fish shaped key covers in 6 'flavors'

photograph of my "oh whale" enamel pins. one is blue-gray with black metal, the other is white with gold metal. the whale looks resigned to its fate.

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Eli (opalescenteel / itsonlythee) @opalescenteel.art · 29/11/2024

Holiday sale, last one for the year! Take 15% off everything, no minimum order needed by using the code BFCM2024 in my shop. Orders over $45 get some bonus goodies. shop.opalescenteel.com shares appreciated!! #BSNM #nightmarket #shopsmall #cyberweek #blackfriday

holiday sale graphic for my shop. the image has my eel mascot with letters spelling out SALE in their stripes. Text is the same as in the post, take 15 percent off everything, no minimum with code BFCM2024 until Friday December 6. Free bonus goodies for orders over $45. shop.opalescenteel.com

text is set on a slightly transparent white rounded rectangle against a backdrop collage of some of my products described in clockwise order: 2 enamel pins shaped like whales with text reading "oh whale" on them, a shiny sticker shaped like a trash can with text reading "home sweet home", an illustrated sticker of some "cool beans" - a variety of beans and legumes wearing sunglasses of different sorts, a sticker that looks like a bowl of ramen, a print of a shiba inu in a shop window, a close up of an illustration of several colorful frogs, a photo of my fish shaped keycaps aranged in a circle, a photo of my ghost Pokemon washi tape

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Eli (opalescenteel / itsonlythee) @opalescenteel.art · 26/11/2024

Here's a shitpost that was relatively successful on one of my birdsite alts. It's a redraw of a meme. I only watched 2 seasons of The Boys, not sure if it's a show I'm gonna finish or not. The text on the original was "Don't let this man have his milkies". #theboys #shitposting

a redraw of a meme - digital paintsketch of Homelander from The Boys sitting with his chin in his hand, eyes downcast. The text overlaid on the image reads: "Alcohol is more socially acceptable to drink in public than milk." He appears upset about this due to his unique relationship to drinking milk in the series.

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Eli (opalescenteel / itsonlythee) @opalescenteel.art · 26/11/2024

I painted the bones directly onto the model in Blender to figure out placement and distortion and then finished up the texture in Photoshop. I tried to find a compromise between simple halloween decoration and realistic bird anatomy and I think I did pretty well in that regard.

progress screenshot of a 2d texture for a skeletal flamingo

3/4 view of the skeletal flamingo in Sims 4 Studio against a gray void. Transparency preview doesn't work in this program so the shadow planes beneath the flamingo aren't blended

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Eli (opalescenteel / itsonlythee) @opalescenteel.art · 26/11/2024

I guess I should share something I made here, so here's my Spooky Mingos recolors I did for Halloween 2022. I'm a big fan of tacky lawn deco like flamingoes and gnomes so this was a fun thing to make, and I learned a bit more about texture paint in Blender through it. shorturl.at/KQTja #sims4cc

preview image for my Spooky Mingos lawn deco for the Sims 4 - there is a skeleton textured flamingo statue in the foreground with some halloween ottomans in the background. Text in the image reads: Spooky Mingos, BGC lawn deco by itsonlythee-sims

preview image for my Spooky Mingos lawn deco for the Sims 4 showing the other available colorways - skeleton, black & gray, green, orange, and a white albino version

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Eli (opalescenteel / itsonlythee) @opalescenteel.art · 18/11/2024

I also make custom content for The Sims 4 which I post about over on itsonlythee-sims.tumblr.com (and a bit on my website as well). As a longtime Sims player, I've always wanted to do more than just basic recolors and the pandemic gave me the time to finally start learning Blender.

a web banner promoting my Sims tumblr page. the text reads ITSONLYTHEE'S SIMS STUFF with Follow me @ itsonlythee-sims.tumblr.com underneath. the text is overlaid on a screenshot of my self-sim sitting at a bondi blue computer outdoors

promo for my Holiday Decoration cc, a torn hangtag from a generic holiday decoration that's been hastily pinned to a wall with a thumbtack. The one in the image is Christmas themed but I made variants for different holidays represented in the Sims 4. This was inspired by a tumblr meme of the same content.

a promo screenshot for my Happy New Year 2024 glasses, my first original and working CAS mesh. there's a black female sim with a silver bob modeling the 2024 glasses in yellow glitter. I'm very proud of the UV mapping for these since the glasses texture space is very small.

a very zoomed out screenshot overview of my Sims 4 WIPS sorted into groups of "original mesh & texture", "mesh edit of official or other mesh", "stuff that hasn't left the blender stage", "new CAS meshes", ad "recolors or edits of existing CAS meshes"

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Eli (opalescenteel / itsonlythee) @opalescenteel.art · 18/11/2024

here's both! I need to work more on the lightmap for the shell, it's way too strong, and the llama needs a lot more sculpting and a retexture

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Eli (opalescenteel / itsonlythee) @opalescenteel.art · 18/11/2024

Here's some compilation images of what I have in my shop! I've got a large selection of vinyl stickers, acrylic keychains, pins, stationery, and my original Taiyakey keycaps. Shares super appreciated! 🌟 shop.opalescenteel.com 🌟 #bsnm #nightmarket #smallbusiness #artshop #artistalley #cuteart

a grid of product photos demonstrating my different washi tape and notepad offerings in my shop

as before, a grid of product photos demonstrating my different acrylic keychain designs with original and fanart designs including food, animals, and game characters

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Eli (opalescenteel / itsonlythee) @opalescenteel.art · 18/11/2024

I'm a queer, nonbinary, neurodivergent illustrator & designer in the PNW and I'm teaching myself Blender and trying to bring 3d into my regular art as well. I have an online shop and typically do a few artist alleys a year. Any support is greatly appreciated! #art #blender3d #illustration

my most recent self portrait - a white person with dark blonde hair and plastic glasses looks to the side with their chin on their hand. the style is loose and expressive with a lot of texture worked into it

a monochrome illustration of a shiba inu staffing a Japanese convenience store window. digital halftones were added to a traditional ink drawing.

a digital illustration of a variety of frogs and toads of all kinds of species stacked together halfhazardly against a purple background

a surreal 3d scene in Blender of a cutaway view of a bathroom with several chocolate frosted donuts hovering around the scene

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Eli (opalescenteel / itsonlythee) @opalescenteel.art · 12/11/2024

Repost from Instagram so I don't have to retype this, but I had a great weekend at GGC and feel quite a bit more hope for the world again after a rough week.

a screenshot of an Instagram post where I reflected positively about Geek Girl Con this past weekend

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Eli (opalescenteel / itsonlythee) @opalescenteel.art · 10/11/2024

Few more hours left for today and then back at it again til 6pm tomorrow at GeekGirlCon in Seattle!

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Eli (opalescenteel / itsonlythee) @opalescenteel.art · 08/11/2024

I took a break from con prep to join the Drawing Hive stream on zoom and paint some Muppets! I hope I get the chance to revisit these because it was a lot of fun. #clipstudiopaint #digitalpainting #themuppets

a digital painting of the Muppet Fozzie Bear with his hat and tie against a velvet drapes background

an unfinished digital painting of Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy, Miss Piggy is only partially rendered

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Eli (opalescenteel / itsonlythee) @opalescenteel.art · 02/10/2024

when you're a mouse and you have astigmatism

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Eli (opalescenteel / itsonlythee) @opalescenteel.art · 02/10/2024

Office Space if they had very large scissors

an emoji mash up of a large pair of scissors cutting a printer emoji into two parts

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