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Viv @ Otakon B303 @sketchbeetleart.bsky.social · Oct 18

Hello everyone - it’s a #pindrop for Pa/estine via @projectlovebrocade

I’ve matched with Ayman in Gaza through Project Love Brocade to support and raise awareness of his fundraising campaign to evacuate him, his parents, and sister and help him continue graduate education.

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Viv @ Otakon B303 @sketchbeetleart.bsky.social · 3d

5hrs!

This is such a complex sculpture with many complex poses… I think it would realistically take 2 days at the Met museum to even get a good likeness of.

Viv @ Otakon B303 @sketchbeetleart.bsky.social · 5d

ANOTHER BLACKWING MET MUSEUM PIECE (3hrs)

Viv @ Otakon B303 @sketchbeetleart.bsky.social · 5d

BLACKWING MET MUSEUM DAY

Viv @ Otakon B303 @sketchbeetleart.bsky.social · 14d

Artwork: Premonitions of an End (I Awoke to Find It True), 2023
14x11
Ink on Paper on panel

Viv @ Otakon B303 @sketchbeetleart.bsky.social · 14d

I’m excited to be part of the Imaginative Realism Evening Showcase in Reading Pennsylvania Oct 22-26! Evening showcase is 8pm - 12am on Friday 10/24 and Saturday 10/25.

I’ll be attending the workshops and programming across the main show as well so I hope to see you and draw with you there ✨

Image: Black and white ink drawing of a fire pit in a field. The ground undulates in waves. A woman in a long white dress stands in the distance. There is a firefly where her head should be. A woman lays supine in the grass-ground in the foreground. She looks away from the viewer and her hands are clasped in front of her. A daisy-chain halo hovers above her head.

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Viv @ Otakon B303 @sketchbeetleart.bsky.social · 15d

Also today cleaning Asawa fountainnnn

Viv @ Otakon B303 @sketchbeetleart.bsky.social · 15d

My heart continues to ache and rage 💔 FREE PALESTINE

ALL EMPIRES MUST FALL

Viv @ Otakon B303 @sketchbeetleart.bsky.social · 28d

Oct 24-25 - IlluXcon Showcase, Reading, PA
Nov 20 - Pancakes & Booze, Public Works, San Francisco, CA
Nov 22 - Welcome Winter Night, CalAcademy, San Francisco, CA
Nov 28-30 - FanExpo, San Francisco, CA
Dec 18-21 - Anime Weekend Atlanta, Atlanta, GA

Viv @ Otakon B303 @sketchbeetleart.bsky.social · 28d

Hoping to see y’all at some events this year! Here’s my events list so far 😷🪲✨
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Let me know if you want to see specific work as art prints or other products ❤️ And let me know if there are events you’d like to see me at!
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#smallbusiness #animeconvention #artistalley #artfair

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Viv @ Otakon B303 @sketchbeetleart.bsky.social · Sep 23

I chose a smaller paper to give me less space to obsess over details…

And yet…

Viv @ Otakon B303 @sketchbeetleart.bsky.social · Sep 19

AB 57 (McKinnor) — Reserves 10% of state-supported homeownership opportunities for descendants of enslaved people.

SB 437 (Bradford) — Funds CSU research to build scalable, genealogy-based eligibility systems.

Viv @ Otakon B303 @sketchbeetleart.bsky.social · Sep 19

SB 518 (Weber-Pierson) — Establishes a Reparations Bureau within California’s Civil Rights Department to verify eligibility and administer future programs.

AB 62 (McKinnor) — Creates a statewide claims process for land taken from Black families through racist policies or practices.

Viv @ Otakon B303 @sketchbeetleart.bsky.social · Sep 19

Ask Governor Gavin Newsom to sign pivotal reparations legislation in law!

It takes literally 3 mins to add your name!

secure.ngpvan.com/EXSKhBjb9kWp...

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Viv @ Otakon B303 @sketchbeetleart.bsky.social · Sep 17

Thank you so much to [redacted]!!!!

Reposted by Viv @ Otakon B303

AdorkaStock - Pose Reference for Artists @adorkastock.com · Sep 15

Just a BUCK! 💸

AdorkaStock - Pose Reference for Artists @adorkastock.com · Sep 13

Diversify your offerings by using these BIPOC hands by pal @pupcakescupcats.bsky.social for using in mocking up product photos... Or for general reference. Only $1+! ko-fi.com/s/4fb6ca08c2

#Pose #PoseRef

Majority aqua graphic. Two images of various Black hands holding invisible products. Text over top reads "pack alert! BIPOC hands for product mockups. 35 images, $1+. Ko-fi.com/adorkastock"

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Viv @ Otakon B303 @sketchbeetleart.bsky.social · Sep 16

I want to create in ways that are not just life affirming - but humanity affirming. Imperfectly but all the more humanly for it.

Viv @ Otakon B303 @sketchbeetleart.bsky.social · Sep 16

I have stickers for giveaway at cons/events or if you ever see me during my rare (so rare) ventures outside!

Art, spectacle, and culture are such powerful tools, weapons even -
I am terrified of my art and self being used to serve colonialism and oppression no matter in how small a way

Image: hand holding two vinyl stickers. The top sticker is of a flying dove with red poppies. On the dove is text: LAND BACK!!! FREE PALESTINE CONGO SUDAN FREE TIGRAY HAITI YEMEN US ALL!! The bottom sticker is of wire cutters snipping barbed wire with text: NO HUMAN IS ILLEGAL

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Viv @ Otakon B303 @sketchbeetleart.bsky.social · Sep 4

Event Horizon (cradle), 2025
7 x 5 inches
Ink on paper

The futility of holding void

I have been so smitten by the art for the MTG Edge of Eternities - as a child I was obsessed with space and art. I suppose some things will never change ✨

Image: monochromatic blue and black portrait of a young woman with black hair and white dress cradling a black hole in her arms. Her hair and dress billow away from her and blend into the darkness around her. She stands in shin-deep dark water.

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Viv @ Otakon B303 @sketchbeetleart.bsky.social · Sep 1

We all raised $500 this weekend for Ayman and the families he supports in Gaza!

Thank u Sacramento! 😭✨❤️ I am so tired but my heart is full

www.gofundme.com/f/support-ay...

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Viv @ Otakon B303 @sketchbeetleart.bsky.social · Aug 29

Image: photograph of artist table at Anime convention with monochrome art prints, enamel pins, and zines with a banner reading VIVIAN T. SKETCHBEETLEART

Viv @ Otakon B303 @sketchbeetleart.bsky.social · Aug 29

I’m all set up at Sacanime Summer Sacramento California! Dealer’s booth G36-37

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Viv @ Otakon B303 @sketchbeetleart.bsky.social · Aug 20

L’appel du Vide
Ink on paper
11 x 8.5 inches

Do not mourn for me
I am already there
Too often

Image: Black and white ink drawing in portrait orientation of an upside-down landscape with a deep dark sky and fluffy clouds. Two women with long black hair and long black dresses emerge from the upside-down clouds. One stands with her head bowed and her hands clasped together before her. The other woman lays supine in the clouds, her head turned to look towards the viewer. From the upside-down hills in the background grow strange elongated houses and cypress trees. These unnaturally long trees and buildings pierce into the clouds across the dark expanse of sky. Small plants grow from the clouds

Viv @ Otakon B303 @sketchbeetleart.bsky.social · Aug 10

gofund.me/ce8d5c7c

Thank u 😭❤️

Viv @ Otakon B303 @sketchbeetleart.bsky.social · Aug 9

Viv @ Otakon B303 @sketchbeetleart.bsky.social · Aug 8

Hello hello! I’m all set up at artist alley table B303 at Otakon in Washington, D.C. this weekend!!!

Hope to see you there!

Image: photograph of artist table at Anime convention with monochrome art prints, enamel pins, and zines with a banner reading VIVIAN T. SKETCHBEETLEART

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