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Drew🖨️

@drewprints.bsky.social

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Midwest retro artist. 36 he/him ☀️ crt/oled/sbc gaming, hardware, emulation, modding, etc art comms ➡️ vgen.co/drewprints

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Drew🖨️ @drewprints.bsky.social · Aug 19

comm prices 📌
vgen ➡️ vgen.co/drewprints

Screenshot of my vgen comm prices
Magazine ad illustration from $120
Character illustration from $75
Spicy illustration from $60

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Drew🖨️ @drewprints.bsky.social · 18h

you’re good thanks for the rec! honestly I never really have explored much of hacks/randomizers etc. im replaying more older games lately and I’m up for things like that that will “refresh” the experience (when they’re done well and not heavily altering the core experience)

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Sick Combos @sickcombos.bsky.social · 2d

#crt #photography #squaresoft

a gunblade stored in a case, disassembled next to some ammunition. the whole image is in greyscale and the light is heavier on the reflective metal // Final Fantasy 8 for Playstation, photography on CRT TV

a series of overlapping belts adorn the waist of our unseen hero, his unzipped jacket shows a necklace dangling over his chest

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PC-98 Bot @pc98bot.gang-fight.com · 1d

Virgin Angel // Crystal Soft // PC-98

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jenna @rainynebula.bsky.social · 22h

⭐

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Drew🖨️ @drewprints.bsky.social · 22h

I love this tv

Closeup component crt photo of Samus standing on top of the gunship in super Metroid and glorious canines

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Drew🖨️ @drewprints.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah it reclines on both sides! my oled is on a swivel mount too so I like to switch sides every other game i play and can always have a perfect viewing angle

Drew🖨️ @drewprints.bsky.social · 2d

Oh yeah! I’ve had it for 10 years and it’s still the best 🎵

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Drew🖨️ @drewprints.bsky.social · 2d

My ever-evolving comfy space. Un-zoom on my phone makes it look a lot bigger than it is. It’s your typical 1st-floor front corner office you see in cookie cutter development homes. At some point I’ll do the full tour of all my treasures

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Drew🖨️ @drewprints.bsky.social · 2d

Well technically it’s a funai shelled as sylvania. Mid 2000s cheapie set. Model 6420ff. They distributed the same set under Emerson and some other names as well

Drew🖨️ @drewprints.bsky.social · 2d

40 and worth every bit. Major upgrade over the flat tube sylvania I was using!

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Drew🖨️ @drewprints.bsky.social · 3d

getting back into it ✍️
Drawing some of my fellow retro art club friends’ OC starting with @lidavis.bsky.social’s yoyo girl Jennie! 💚💙🪀

LiDavis’ OC Jennie, sitting on the ground with her weight on her left hand and holding her yo-yo in her right. She is smiling with her tongue sticking out under her teeth and looking back toward her left. She has a green long sleeve sweater with baggy sleeves, blue shorts, shoes and backwards cap and blonde twintails with a few spikes of hair sticking out the opening of her cap

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Sick Combos @sickcombos.bsky.social · 3d

#crt #photography #sega

Sonic absolutely flattens knuckles with a flurry of blows, as rings spill out onto the arena floor // Sonic the Fighters for Playstation 3, photography on CRT TV

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Drew🖨️ @drewprints.bsky.social · 2d

I picked up this beautiful beast yesterday for dirt cheap. Toshiba 27a43 curved tube and it looks stellar. There’s a tiny chip in the display that wasn’t mentioned or visible in the listing 😭 tho I’ve found while playing it’s easily ignored or completely forgotten about depending on what’s on screen

Closeup scanline photo of blue yoshi and baby Mario in the crystal caves of yoshis island, displayed on Toshiba 27a43 crt tv

Photo of my crt tv setup. Toshiba 27a42 crt is on a black stand. The shelf below has a ps2 and a Wii. On screen is displayed the title screen for super Metroid

Photo of a nice monoscope pattern from 240p suite displayed on crt in a darkened room

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Drew🖨️ @drewprints.bsky.social · 3d

getting back into it ✍️
Drawing some of my fellow retro art club friends’ OC starting with @lidavis.bsky.social’s yoyo girl Jennie! 💚💙🪀

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Drew🖨️ @drewprints.bsky.social · 3d

Little man is super into Pokémon journeys all of a sudden which is cool but he is obsessed with the opening theme song which in turn reminds me that this one from ultra moon is stupidly good m.youtube.com/watch?v=82wZ...

Pokémon The series: Sun and Moon - Ultra Adventures - Opening With lyrics [English]

YouTube video by Pokémon Random

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Drew🖨️ @drewprints.bsky.social · 4d

hbd khan 💪

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Origihelm (Commissions Open) @origihelm.bsky.social · 5d

Nova in her pre-cyborg days. She loves getting a group of friends over to watch those cut-and-paste ninja movies with her.
#oc #originalcharacter #art #anime #retro #1980s #vaporwave #80s #retroanime #80sanime #scifi #animeart #retroart #digitalart

Digital vector art of a blonde woman in 1980s-styled clothing and makeup. She is in a leaping pose over a Memphis-styled background.

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Drew🖨️ @drewprints.bsky.social · 4d

didn’t expect big procreate update with a new pen that I am in love with

sketch of a big haired girl winking and waving with one hand. She is wearing a shirt decorated to look like a game boy and a skirt patterned with mario powerups

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Edwin Huang @ironpinky.bsky.social · 12d

I eventually want to draw Nami and Boa. Just gotta find time #edwinhuang #nicorobin This is part of my latest anime girl sticker collection. You can snag the set at ironpinky.com

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Edwin Huang @ironpinky.bsky.social · 6d

Chun would definitely be a New York transplant. Getting ready for NYCC! I’ll be doing a sports themed sticker stamp rally with some friends at the con. More info coming soon! #edwinhuang #streetfighter #chunli #newyorkcomiccon

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SHIN•BEE @shinbeedabest.bsky.social · 6d

Lilith Night...🌙🦇

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Drew🖨️ @drewprints.bsky.social · 6d

She was one of those crazy amazing artists who drew on a phone. After my third commission she had saved enough to get a drawing tablet. I think the 4th piece (bottom right) was the first thing she drew on it. It blew me away being so higher resolution and way more fine-detailed than the others

Drew🖨️ @drewprints.bsky.social · 7d

some art origin story thread for today, just because. I’ll add to this over the course of the day.

this is my first OC, Yuzu. I didn’t draw these, I commed an artist named Ami. she went dark a long time ago and I haven’t heard from her. 😔 But she was a huge influence on me getting started drawing.

My first OC Yuzu, drawn by Ami. She is standing, smiling and giving a peace sign. She has a black athletic sweater with the text “YUZUKOI EST 2022” and a green plaid skirt, green and yellow camo socks and black sneakers. Her hair is koi colored orange, black and white, pushed back in the center and long in the back

Another drawing of Yuzu by Ami, a bust portrait where she is staring into the distance with a puzzled expression and pushing her cheek ip on one side with her finger. Based on a panel from One Piece of Vivi Nefertari during the reverie arc

Another drawing of Yuzu by Ami. She is mid-bow, looking up lovingly at the viewer

Another drawing of Yuzu by Ami, she is running, panicked as all of her belongings are being dropped and scattered, including a bag of gummy bears, a can of coffee and a wrist strapped cell phone

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Drew🖨️ @drewprints.bsky.social · 7d

I have many many other drawings of her as well, some of them are very early and a little embarrassing. But all this time she has rarely ever been shown publicly.

Drew🖨️ @drewprints.bsky.social · 7d

I’ve tried to draw her at least once a year or so, I guess as a measure of my improvement. I’m probably due for a 2025 update. I’ve never really kept totally faithful to the original design, for whatever reason I’ve always drawn her a little heavier. Maybe this time I will try to do a classic take

A drawing of yuzu by me from sometime 2022-2023. She has much wider hips and is taller, is blowing a bubble and wearing dark green overall skirt with a lighter green long sleeve shirt underneath.

2023 drawing of yuzu by me, in a green and black magical girl outfit with wings and a bow and arrow made of light. Her hand is poorly foreshortened in the foreground and she has an angry expression

2024 ink sketch of yuzu by me, she is a little shorter this time, again blowing a bubble with her hands on her hips. She has overall shorts and a T-shirt underneath with “EST 2022 YUZUKOI” partially obscured by her overalls

2025 drawing of yuzu by me, she is in bra and panties and standing in front of a foggy mirror that she has wiped with her hands. She is doing her hair in the mirror, using one hand to pull her hair back, a hair tie in the other, and a bobby pin hanging from her mouth.

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Drew🖨️ @drewprints.bsky.social · 7d

this was my original mouse-drawn reference image that I sent to her in 2021. And it is probably the best and earliest measure of my own growth. Ami drew the first commission in November 2021. Seeing the vision come to life lit my flame so to speak and a month later I got my first drawing tablet

My original mouse drawn reference of Yuzu from 2021