This Is Nove By Apokalypsa On Toyhouse! My Third Attack! Thank You For Letting Me Draw Your Badass OC!

Ohhhhh my goodness. I started playing Skyrim again and it’s about time I brought my little thief man back from the depths of my mind lmao. Anyways here’s Evander during Skyrim. He was originally my character from Oblivion but with a little vampirism this guy lives forever wooooo! 💖

Welp.

There are caveats to being a digital artist. When you create traditional artwork, you have a tangible copy of your work unless you give it away or discard it. However, with digital art it is not that simple. What happens when cloud service fails? What happens when something goes wrong, you lose your device, your device dies, or your files get corrupted? You are left with nothing. That's what's so frustrating about this wonderful medium.

I love digital art. I could not go back to traditional because I simply do not enjoy it as much as digital. Digital, once you get used to it, is infinitely more convenient than traditional in terms of workflow (unless you really hate using tech.). But man.. when shit hits the fan it HITS the fan. I almost lost all of this year's work and my comic, and the only thing that saved it was transferring files by airdrop between my devices. If I were not invested in the apple ecosystem the way I am (except for my windows laptop) I would have lost it all today.

Anyways. That sucked. I typically don't make updates on this account since its supposed to be my art showcase, but I felt a need to talk about this. 😅

On the bright side, I didn't lose any brushes or any work, and the only thing I have to do is restore my character models/ remake some of them. But man that was close.

I'm working on your artfight attack but I gotta go to bed lol (it won't be super special compared to other artists' skill but it will be mine and I will be happy with it)

Aaaaaa I will love it no matter what! I love and cherish every piece of art of my ocs I’ve ever gotten from ppl! It just means a lot to me that people like my characters enough to want to draw them at all! 🥹✨

I keep posting to the wrong page 😭

Anyways I love Hayden so much 👉👈

It's officially Xoinu's 12th birthday!

I hope someday if my comic blows up people will love him and enjoy him, but nobody will ever love him like I love him.

It's funny, he's always just.. been there.

He's one of my characters yeah, and he isn't real.. but he's kind of like a long time friend of mine.

We grew up together in a way.

I remember when I made him, he was 16 in my imagination and I was 14 irl. Now he is perpetually 23, and I continue to get older.

I have so many feelings about him and how much he means to me. He will always have so much space in my heart.

A friend, a reflection of me and my growth, and the reason why l've become a comic artist. He is all of these things and more, and I love him dearly.

Thank you, Xoinu. And happy birthday

A gift for my best friend because we both have lovely space ladies for OCs ✨⭐️💫🌌

Oh and btw if you like my animated pfp go follow my friend! The original image is a cool collab I did with them, I linked their blog on this post:

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Awesome collab I got to do with my friend @ consumes_many_sweetrolls on instagram! And if you want to follow them on here, here's the link t

Check it out if you haven’t already! It came out really good 🏳️‍⚧️

This is my bro's account! Give him a follow his stuff is awesome ;)

Also check out Tales of Dikyu on WebToon! :3

Very impromptu artcollab with @squidvetica . I sketched their oc cosmia in the bus otw to work with a felt tip pen and told them to color it if they were to print my art out. It's a miracle i didnt throw up, the bus road was windy asf lmao.

Anyways I'm gonna be more active again on tumblr cuz instagram is harvesting images for genAI so yea more OC art coming

A cloud study I just finished, I really like how it came out. Wanted to prove to myself I can actually draw clouds instead of always relying on premade assets haha 😅

"Art regression" this. "Art regression" that. Progress is not linear and your style will continue to ebb and flow, expand and contract. Not every piece of art will be a masterpiece and that is alright.

What IS important is that you don't listen to negative people and you keep drawing. It utterly breaks my heart to see young artists give up on their passions because of stupid bullies on social media making fun of their style.

Never stop creating. You're doing great! ✨💖