iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

I did a thing I think I found my art style, will practice with it further #art #digitalart #fanart #tadc #tadcfanart #jax #lilly

Closeted Jax and transitioned Jax stand side by side, closeted Jax holds a ribbon and is terrified of coming out, while transitioned Jax is fully accepting who she is and looks smug

Transitioned Jax from The Amazing Digital Circus, she wears white top with a pink heart print, pink skirt, white leg warmers and the iconic pink ribbon
She has a smug expression

Closeted Jax stands and holds pink ribbon in hands, wrestling with accepting herself and terrified of coming out

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please share some tracks you find relaxing and/or use to unwind #music #musicsky

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or maybe I'm just a coward, I know people do something about it here, but I just don't want to live on the run and viewed as a criminal why the government sees us like terrorists when we just want to be ourselves

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why don't we get character selection screen in real life I would've taken it even if it had like 5 random options with different bodies and different places of origin bcs right now I'm basically stuck in a limbo:I know who I am, but can't do anything about it publicly or drastically in this country

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Laura Mellin @lauramellinatelier.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I did a thing I think I found my art style, will practice with it further #art #digitalart #fanart #tadc #tadcfanart #jax #lilly

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Reposted by Nova 🏳️‍⚧️

I unpinned my previous top post, b/c now I want to feature my fave pieces from my #sketchaday 2025 self-imposed challenge! I’m Laura, this is my art account, and this thread will be pinned to become my about me piece. I do illustration and cartoons, often riffing on a joke for multiple drawings.

A marker, ink, paint pen and paper collage drawing of my OC, Bela Lugosquid, a common squid, pale pink-grey with red and grey spots, facing left slightly, asleep. They are smiling (yes, I know, that’s not where their mouths are), and are wearing a pair of fake fangs, a black cloak with a red lining, white bow tie and vest, white shirt, and a red ribbon with a spiny Black Sea urchin attached to the ribbon by holding onto a gold ring. Basically, dressed like Bella Lugosi’s famous outfit* in Dracula (1931). Their tentacles and arms are drifting gently, with an arm on the right touching the edge of the cloak. Dream bubbles coming from their head feature an image of Bella Lugosi as Dracula from the movie poster (image sourced from IMDb.com).
Bela Lugosquid is non-binary. They are fascinated by vampire squid, but too shy to actually talk to any actual vampire squid (and afraid of negative reactions). They are a very happy squid. They have dreams of stardom. I don’t know about the sea urchin; they usually don’t go that deep.

“Dryad of the Vines”: An ink line drawing of a female-appearing figure wrapped in vines, which are supporting them as they sleep. Their face is mostly hidden by their left arm (on the right), which is raised, with vines loosely wrapped around it. Their legs are bent up in a seated position, and their fingers and toes (six on each appendage) stretch out into vines. Their hair is made of vines, and drapes down behind them, and over their torso. Some of the vines have leaves and flowers along them, curling around in spirals and loops. They are nude, but have no visible gendered body parts, just the curves of their body giving an overall female appearance.

A marker, ink, and paint pen drawing of a toy mechanical mouse, facing left. The mouse is grey metal, with brass screws, and a brass key in the middle of its back. It is sitting upright on segmented articulated legs and feet (and toes) that are joined to the body with a round dome with brass screws. The head has large round eyes and ears edged with brass screws, with red lights in the center. The front legs and paws are also articulated/segmented, and are curled around to the nose, like the mouse is eating. The tail is long and articulated/segmented, bending as it reaches the ground, and goes to the left, behind the body. Background is blank.
It’s a little toy mouse made of metal, with a key to wind it up. It’s cute, but I am not mechanically inclined, so I have no idea how it would actually move.

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Nova 🏳️‍⚧️ @stratnova.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

also thank you for the repost! it means a lot <3

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Nova 🏳️‍⚧️ @stratnova.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

yes! it's like the older you get the faster time flies, less significant some interactions with the world get do you sometimes feel like you're doing things on autopilot too? like sometimes you say or do things just do get through interaction instead of what you actually wanted to say or do?

I think I'm cooking something idk yet, probably will take a few days I'm sorry I'm slow, I'm working this Saturday and maybe even Sunday :( and I'm not sure my ability to draw is good enough to truly cook but I will try

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just had two cups of 3 in 1 coffee I kinda hate it, but it's cheaper than energy drinks too bad my actual proper coffee machine broke :(

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can we get "working on construction site core" aesthetic next, please?

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lyssa ✨ @lyssahh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I always adored artists who have "simple" art style cuz it's not that simple, duh to properly draw "simple" you need to be extremely good

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Reposted by Nova 🏳️‍⚧️

#jax comm!

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Nova 🏳️‍⚧️ @stratnova.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ok but mostly it's Homestuck however problematic it was and is, it's still Homestuck there was a whole pipeline back in 2017 which got you into Undertale and then into Homestuck, I fell into this trap, I can't get outtttt

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Nova 🏳️‍⚧️ @stratnova.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I did the thing! honestly, my memory isn't that great, but these game I remember clearly 9 games that shaped who I am

9 games that shaped who I am:
1. Undertale
2. Cyberpunk 2077
3. Night In The Woods
4. XCOM: Enemy Within
5. Space Engineers
6. Rimworld
7. The Walking Dead: Season Two
8. Life is Strange
9. Minecraft

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but at least I finally realized who I am and have a goal at least I think so it's all still so confusing

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and the saddest part is the answer I've been nowhere, just working and doing nothing

like, genuinely, two months can pass without me registering it in my mind, then when I speak with my friends again they ask me where have I been so long and it hits me "oh shit, it really has been two months"

genuinely, passage of time is a terrifying concept for me what do you mean I'm growing older what do you mean my parents aren't permanently in their 30s and the scariest thing is that it happens SO FAST

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and I kinda relate to the lyrics, this year passed for me in an instant, like, just yesterday it was early spring, right? right??

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in the meantime go listen to Sounds of Life by Pendulum (ft. Jasmine Yee) I remember listening to them when I was a kid and recently I rediscovered then, listened to every album that was available and decided that they're great and the Sounds of Life is my favorite, it's just so... idk, fluid?

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Nova 🏳️‍⚧️ @stratnova.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

honestly, I have a physically demanding job and get home pretty late in the evening, that's why I'll try to continue drawing tomorrow and I want to draw something more refined than my usual sketches on the weekend, but no promises:)

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experimented a little :) I think I like to draw like this the most #art #digitalart #sketch #oc

messy coloured sketch of a blonde girl in pink dress dancing and having a good time :)

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if anyone is interested, I use One by Wacom (the medium one) the same one I've had since 2019 I think?

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anyway, treated myself to some chocolate pudding for picking up the stylus again yum yum

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you've got this! looking forward to it :)

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I think tomorrow I will try to practice drawing legs tbh, I never REALLY finished my works most of my drawings I consider finished are coloured sketches I never learned lineart, proper colouring or shading so I guess I'll just pick up from where I've left

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btw, I always used Paint Tool Sai before, but nowadays I run Linux, so it isn't available picked up Krita instead and honestly I like it even more

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I sketched something! apparently even after 3-4 years I still got it and to my disappointment I didn't magically learn to draw lower legs lol always struggled with those I don't know if I will ever finish this one, but we'll see #art #digitalart #sketch #drawingpractice

a rough sketch of a person with a huge sword behind their back

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sadly, TADC fandom attracts those types of "fans" because it's popular and has lots of queer people in it and people like the ones in this subreddit can disguise their bigotry as criticism and go after people

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don't interact with that cesspool of a subreddit it's not about criticism and never was, it's a bunch of people who base their personalities on hate and when there's nothing more to hate in the show itself they come up with posts like this every fandom has a percentage of people like this

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I am bad at tags lol, I forgot another one #fanart

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ok so I found my old art (I think those are from somewhere around 2020-2022??) here are some I still kinda like

homestuck fantroll I don't remember (looks like indigo blood? probably a tinkerer?)

Ciri from Witcher series in her Falka arc as a furry, probably the most fleshed out work that I have

this one is a visualisation of idea I had of a borderlands character having their arm replaced with a part of a loader robot

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Please post more of your art, it looks amazing! 🫪