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Ari Ganahl- Commissions Open!

@arithetonberry.bsky.social

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Multi-media artist and squid enthusiast. Occasionally NSFW. Check my art feed 🖌️ to see the stuff I make 💼: ariganahl.com ✉️: [email protected] Open for work- especially in comics or book design

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Ari Ganahl- Commissions Open! @arithetonberry.bsky.social · Jul 17

Hello! I'm Ari, a multi-media artist from Chicago.
I make:

🦈Comics and zines, including trans smut
🐠Ocean-inspired illustrations
🐡Laser cut jewelry and puzzles
🦑Hand-bound sketchbooks and notebooks
🐙Whatever YOU want to pay me to draw! (ex in 🧵)

ariganahl.com/shop
ko-fi.com/ariganahl/co...

Papercraft illustration of a nautilus catching a shrimp

Laser cut wooden earrings of goldfish in a fishbowl

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Anti_dev @antidev.bsky.social · 20d

The thing they don’t understand about drawing NSFW is that it’s a roleplay with yourself. It’s an expression of your ideas and fantasies, made entirely by you, in a way that can’t hurt anybody. Needing the characters to consent is ludicrous: I’m the artist and *I* consent. I’m the only participant.

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Ari Ganahl- Commissions Open! @arithetonberry.bsky.social · 22h

I wanted to do kinktober but between starting my new job, getting covid, and watching my city get overrun with ❄️ this really just isn't the month for me to lock in on art 😭

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Ari Ganahl- Commissions Open! @arithetonberry.bsky.social · 16d

Mourning Dove in a park

#🪶 🐡 🖌

Digital illustration drawn with swirly lines and halftones of a mourning dove on grass. Trees and a path are visible in the background

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Ari Ganahl- Commissions Open! @arithetonberry.bsky.social · 8d

Coconut octopus commission for fasterthanthelevator on tumblr!

I take commissions on ko-fi ko-fi.com/ariganahl

Digital illustration of a coconut octopus inside a scallop shell. A snail shell and glass mug are in the sandscape behind the octopus. Beneath the octopus are various stages of a coconut being split open and hollowed out to just the shell.

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Ari Ganahl- Commissions Open! @arithetonberry.bsky.social · 6d

#kinktober Day 01: Frogtie 🔞
(I will not be doing this daily, nor using a prompt list)

Trans man frogtied and crying, lily pads and a single frog surround him

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Ari Ganahl- Commissions Open! @arithetonberry.bsky.social · 1d

Local man is TIRED of BEING SICK

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Michaela ✨ Wicked Wire Crafts @wickedwirecrafts.bsky.social · 1d

Picking flowers for his ghoulfriend 👻🌸 This thulite & moonstone pendant will be part of tomorrow’s shop update. Tag your boo 🥰

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 1d

feds have been all over chicagoland today.

reports of people abducted from back of the yards, cicero, rogers park, hermosa, barrington, batavia, and bridgeview.

feds are out in force in aurora. not sharing video, but residents have likewise turned out in force—and they aren't happy.

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SAHASA 🐙 @sculptedreef.com · 2d

🩵 Everybody's favorite and uniquely colorful Octopus species 🐙 O. briareus 😌 (Caribbean Reef Octopus)

🐙 Hand sculpted from clay
🪸 Patiently made from tiny glass beads

#ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #Sculpture #Octopus #MarineLife #CoralReef #ArtSale #BSNM #Invertebrates 🦑🐡

A close up of a fairly large sculpture depicting the species Caribbean Reef Octopus, a bluish teal octopus with a maroon webbed pattern.

A small sculpture depicting the species Caribbean Reef Octopus. A bluish teal octopus with warm bronze patches. It is holding a genuine pearl.

A mixed media artwork featuring a hand sculpted octopus depicting the species Caribbean Reef Octopus. With many colorful hand crafted corals made from tiny glass beads.

A close up of a Caribbean Reef Octopus sculpture with some beaded corals.

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Isaiah D. Colbert @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social · 3d

Makoto Yukimura was worried that Vinland Saga's farming arc and "I have no enemies" moment was a gamble that readers wouldn't like. I told him about the J. Cole meme from the Kendrick Lamar and Drake rap beef. This is how he reacted.

If “I have no enemies” has become a meme and people remember it, then maybe people will understand what I’m really trying to say through the story, which is that humans are immature, but we can mature. To become mature is to become kind. This is the foundation of what I’m trying to say, but it really has to be much shorter for people to remember. But it does give me hope that people remember these short phrases as memes. Then, one day, it will click in their mind what I was trying to really say in the first place.

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 4d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 3d

That one soundtrack you put on when your batteries need a recharge...

The cover of the Spiritfarer video game soundtrack by Max LL

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G.C. Houle 🔞 @gchoule.bsky.social · 3d

The format is shit post but the advice is so real.

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Meredith McClaren at ROMICS Oct '25 @iniquitousfish.bsky.social · 3d

So. There's a line in MUSSOLINI: SON OF THE CENTURY where he says:

(paraphrasing)

'It doesn't matter if what I said is impossible. I have said it. Now you are talking about it. And that will make the impossible, possible.'

Saying these things. Makes us talk about them like they CAN be real.

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Lauren Ibañez @libanezink.bsky.social · 3d

Day 7: Frame ⌘

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Ari Ganahl- Commissions Open! @arithetonberry.bsky.social · 3d

I know! I don't have riso access atm and I have been daydreaming about it constantly. The only shop I know of is just a bit too far and too expensive to be worth it for me at the moment.

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Ben Mehlos @benmehlos.bsky.social · 4d

Kinktober Day 4: Natural 🦦

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Ari Ganahl- Commissions Open! @arithetonberry.bsky.social · 6d

I want to riso print with fluorescent ink so baaaaaaadly 😔

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Ari Ganahl- Commissions Open! @arithetonberry.bsky.social · Jun 6

Redrew this flapjack octopus from 5 years ago 🥞🐙
🦑🐡

Stylized drawing of a yellow incirrate octopus with a ring of yellow and pink doodles around it

Digital drawing of an orange and pink octopus on blue-purple background

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Ari Ganahl- Commissions Open! @arithetonberry.bsky.social · Jun 17

Fruit bat 🍑🦇

🐡🖌

Digital illustration of a bat hanging ipside down from a tree branch. There is a pink sky, a hanging moon, and decorative side panels featuring moth, grasshopper, and pitted fruit

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Ari Ganahl- Commissions Open! @arithetonberry.bsky.social · Jul 18

Dinner For Two 🔞 Preview 😳🫣

A short comic about a trans man in his early twenties hosting an older trans woman. Has been described as kinky but surprisingly sweet by pretty much everyone who's read it so far

The pdf is now up on my itch store ariganahl.itch.io/dinner-for-two

Dinner For Two comic cover in blues, greens, and yellows. An apartment door is open, revealing a mess.

Comic page in blues, greens, and yellows

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Ari Ganahl- Commissions Open! @arithetonberry.bsky.social · Sep 6

House sparrows

Been paying more attention to local birds in the past year 🐡🖌 #🪶

Drawing of three house sparrows hopping on a simple background with light foliage.

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Ari Ganahl- Commissions Open! @arithetonberry.bsky.social · 25d

Details

Close up of heart suspended among millepede body

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Ari Ganahl- Commissions Open! @arithetonberry.bsky.social · 5d

Alt versions!
I can't print in fluorescents and i'm sad about it

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Catherine🌻 @himawari-illust.bsky.social · 4d

#octillerink2025
Day 6 - Waterfall💧
Mandatory Oshawott agenda🫡

@petiteechorizon.bsky.social #pokemon #art #illustration #pokemonart #pokemonfanart #cuteart

A digital illustration of the pokemon oshawott floating down a shallow river on its back. Lily pads are framing its path.

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