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Bob Acorn

@circusballoon.bsky.social

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🍉 AuDHD chronically ill queer nerd Primarily an OC artist! ...Hyperfixating on In Stars and Time though so block #isatSpoilers if you need to~ https://circusballoon.carrd.co

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Bob Acorn @circusballoon.bsky.social · Feb 6

Hey there, I'm Bob! Your local non-binary trans man here to enthuse about art, video games, and OCs~

I love cute, cozy, whimsical fantasy and sci-fi characters paired with a large spoonful of utter silly nonsense and tragedy

#art

A "Meet the Artist" page. Has a cartoon drawing of a light skinned trans guy with short brown hair, smiling eyes, and a flamingo-patterned shirt with a tiny anthro creature with pink, brown, and light beigey fur using a balloon to float next to the person.
There are a variety of stickers with things like rainbows, hearts, celestial things, acorns, unicycles, a moth, crystals, and things.
There's a trans flag, an aro/ace flag, and a polyamorous flag. Information says Bob - 30 - He/They/Ey - White - USA

Likes:
Cats, silly sci-fi/fantasy, monsters, whimsy

Hobbies:
Drawing, roleplaying, rambling, video games esp. ISAT

And there are the faces of five cats who are labelled Nemo, Dory, Teddy, Boston, and Abby. Everyone but Boston is a black shorthair, and Boston is a fluffy colorpoint.

Bob Acorn @circusballoon.bsky.social · Aug 20

hi bsky I love you still even if I'm absent at the moment

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CrystalV500 @crystalv500.bsky.social · Dec 18

-- COMMISSION OPEN --
Since I have more time, I can accept as many commissions as I can.
(also, I need to make more money because there is some problems in my work...)

PM me if you wanted to buy my commission. Thank you~

#commission #paypal #wise

Bob Acorn @circusballoon.bsky.social · Apr 13

calling that good for now

Bob Acorn @circusballoon.bsky.social · Apr 13

Blanka and the Prince of Pirates/Poppy, two robot sky pirates belonging to the delightful @erradox.bsky.social

#art #OCArt

Purple drawing with green accents of two humanoid robot characters smiling and leaning on each other. One of them has green electricity they’re controlling

Bob Acorn @circusballoon.bsky.social · Apr 13

oh. right. transparency doesn't work here.

Bob Acorn @circusballoon.bsky.social · Apr 13

Emoji of fellas from my ISaT AU, Astral Bodies, for the gift exchange crew but other people are welcome to use or reference them~

their names are :gimme: :daww: :precious:

Loop's hat stars should technically be lighter than the brim but I don't caaare to fix it

#isatAU #isatSpoilers #fanart

Siffrin of CircusBalloon’s AU for the game In Stars and Time. They have a starburst-like black hole for a head and are looking towards the viewer with a hand dramatically reached towards the screen, palm open and up, as if asking to be handed something

Loop from the same AU. They’re human with long, wavy hair, scarring around their mouth, freckles, dark cloak, and star patterns on their clothes. They are grinning toothily with their eye closed and hands together at their face in a mocking sort of adoration.

Astral Bodies Loop with big, sparkly eye and a pout, hands in fists near their face in a gushy sort of expression.

Bob Acorn @circusballoon.bsky.social · Apr 13

@erradox.bsky.social 's and my OCs: Psavine, Miyanscinma, and River!
Psavine and Miyanscinma are flirty friends and shapeshifters, and Miyanscinma and River are chosen family/in a magical pact.

These three extremely theatrical gremlins deserved some love

#OCArt #art

A page of digital drawings mostly in muted purples and greens. Featuring River, a tiefling-adjacent character, with Psavine and Miyanscinma, two shapeshifters.

In one, River looks scared while Psavine—humanoid with four wings—and Miyanscinma—fluffy orb-headed creature with arms and a snake-like body—surround her in sassy poses with ominous lighting.

Miyanscinma--an eyeless fluffy monster with horns—grins with an open mouth while holding a mask with an angry eye.

Miyanscinma and Psavine dance with River in humanoid forms.

River holds knives with an angry expression and fire in her eyes.

River grins with fire in her eyes and coming from her palms.

Bob Acorn @circusballoon.bsky.social · Apr 13

THEM!!
Drawn to Meteor Shower by Cave Town~

#art #fanart #isat

A nearly grayscale with subtle color drawing of Siffrin and Loop from the game In Stars and Time, floating and spinning in a starry sky while holding onto each other’s hands. Comets spin around them. Siffrin looks at Loop with a big, sparkly eye as his hat falls off while Loop looks uncomfortably to the side.

Bob Acorn @circusballoon.bsky.social · Apr 13

OCs!! Mostly mine (and mostly River), but also features @erradox.bsky.social 's character Goose (the one with light fur and dark-tipped ears) and @poltergeistclown.bsky.social 's nameless shapeshifter working on mimicking River's form~

#art #OCArt

A pink page of digital drawings featuring cat-like creatures, a tiefling-like woman in different poses a person with white hair and pointed ears looking uncomfortably to the side, and the tiefling-like character looking at another character imperfectly mimicking her form.

Bob Acorn @circusballoon.bsky.social · Apr 13

Gift art for my friend @nattravn-art.bsky.social of his cool stardust bun!! 💜

#OCArt #rabbits

A digital cartoon drawing of a dark either rabbit or hare with light star specks along its body and around its feet and a four-pointed star on its forehead. There’s ink-like, starry darkness framing the image in blobs

Bob Acorn @circusballoon.bsky.social · Apr 13

sick and half asleep but might see what I haven't uploaded here yet and maybe upload some art .. we'll see

Bob Acorn @circusballoon.bsky.social · Apr 12

CONGRAT!! best of luck with the move!

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Faunwood ✦⁺◦ @faunwood.bsky.social · Apr 12

I’m kinda bad at posting shop related things but I’m doing a preorder for some screenprinted apparel and this awesome blanket (or tapestry)! :’>

A photo of a blanket tapestry! It is 100% woven with a blend of cotton and recycled cotton, made in the US. The design is black and white with three woolly deer creatures. The middle creature is covered in stars, and there are some stars in the background too. The text on the bottom says “Faunwood”.

A promotional image of a t-shirt design. The tee shirt is Forest green in color, with a three-color screenprint (a lighter blue-green, pale pink, and light yellow). Sizing is unisex. The design is of a woolly forest creature with giant pink drippy mushrooms growing out of it. The drips form a puddle at the bottom, and a smaller creature made of the slime stands nearby. There are birds perched and flying along the mushrooms.

A promotional image showing a hoodie and sweatpants for sale. The hoodie is a teal color, with a Loon design screenprinted on the back (there is also a design on the front, but it’s not shown here). The screenprint colors are ivory, black, and red. The design depicts a loon, facing left, with some stars and water droplets. It’s standing in a puddle with some pond fish and wildlife. The pond has legs (I don’t know how else to describe that lol).

Next to the hoodie is a pair of black sweatpants with screenprinted design on each leg. The colors used are dark purple-blue, bright blue, and white. On the left leg is a large salamander creature swimming among coral fungus. It has stars inside its body. On the right leg, the bottom of the design has some amphibian eggs and hatchlings. As the design goes up, the creatures depicted are “growing”, developing legs and gills.

Both designs use water-based inks!

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Bob Acorn @circusballoon.bsky.social · Oct 27

My girl River! A demi-gay aro/ace genderqueer traveling bard living in a sci-fi/fantasy world recovering from apocalyptic events.
River once, in a panic, made a magical pact with the spirit of a fiery space rock in order to get stronger magic and also survive-

#art #ocs #ocart #fantasyoc

A digital cartoon drawing of my character River, a pink humanoid character with horns, pointy ears, and a tail with a spade sitting on a grassy ledge. River is mostly facing the viewer and staring into the distance. Her pet Pearl, a draconic-looking creature, is curled around behind River and looking up at her with a big round eye visible. The background has a line of pine trees and spiky mountains, and a moon glowing behind River like a halo.

A screenshot of an instagram story. There's a box on the top that says "BADLY EXPLAIN your OC's story in one sentence" and below reads "A hot bard makes a pact in order to become even hotter. River (she/her)"
There's a digital cartoon drawing of River winking and holding up a palm while green flame floats above it.

A lineless-style digital cartoon reference page of outfits for River, also showing her markings. The outfits mostly consist of poofy-sleeved shirts, loose pants, boots, and fingerless gloves, though one has a halter top and shows that the gloves are elbow-length. She also has a cape with a moth-shaped clasp, and in one image, her eyes are glowing green and a green flame floats above her hand.
River has white tiger-like stripes along her body with solid spots of white on her palms and feet, along with white speckles and a big scar across her chest. She has a tuft of fluff at the top of her back between her shoulders.

A page of assorted drawings of River. She's smiling in most of them, sometimes smugly or enthusiastically. In one, she's in a dark scene with pine trees and a moon behind her while green flames come from a hand, and in another, she's frowning and holding a fiddle with green flames around it as lizard-like monsters surround her.

Bob Acorn @circusballoon.bsky.social · Apr 12

Actually I should tag this

#OCArt

Bob Acorn @circusballoon.bsky.social · Apr 12

OC lore train 🦇 explain your OC's lore in the worst way possible

A hot woman becomes a bard 'cause she only has one moon. She then meets a big fluffy moth and becomes even hotter because of this. Befriends a dead book while being paid to be feisty

Mostly pink and yellow cartoon drawing of a pink humanoid character with horns, a tail, and white stripes. She's got short curly hair with long sections that are braided and is smiling and posing enthusiastically, like she's jumping or dancing

Bob Acorn @circusballoon.bsky.social · Apr 12

OC lore train 🦇 explain your OC's lore in the worst way possible

A hot woman becomes a bard 'cause she only has one moon. She then meets a big fluffy moth and becomes even hotter because of this. Befriends a dead book while being paid to be feisty

Mostly pink and yellow cartoon drawing of a pink humanoid character with horns, a tail, and white stripes. She's got short curly hair with long sections that are braided and is smiling and posing enthusiastically, like she's jumping or dancing

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Skelesse 💀✿ @celesse.bsky.social · Apr 11

Gettin' REAL tired of services locking basic functionality behind an app. I don't want your app. I'm SO tired of all the apps.

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Faunwood ✦⁺◦ @faunwood.bsky.social · Apr 12

✶ basket stinkhorn ✶ #aprilcolors2025 day 9 ~

A scanned illustration depicting a creature inside of a fungus called the “Basket Stinkhorn”. This fungus is known for its alien-like appearance; a lattice-like structure resembling a hollow spherical cage with hole openings. In real life, they are bright red and orange, but for this illustration I used mostly purple and pink. The illustration uses ink pens, watercolors, and a white gel pen. There are planets resembling lavender in the background and stars in the sky.

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bay 🌙 @ dragonposting @baydews.com · Apr 12

the fact that blocking doesnt remove someone as your follower is kinda 💀

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snake-wing @snake-wing.bsky.social · Apr 6

PWYW artistic liberty commission for the fab @spiritcrowart.bsky.social 🪶

#art

A stylised crow wearing a corvid skull like mask, sat atop a human skull surrounded by glowing wisps

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Kido/Jey どっちでもいい (≧∇≦)b spreading the concept of 喜怒哀楽 @kidokaproject.bsky.social · Apr 11

Legit proud of this bg study I did on stream yesterday.

It started out as a #pleinairpril study but then I decided to add my #vtuber #oc #jey_vt here as well. The reference I found is the one on the top left. I drew it in grayscale and then I used a gradient map to do the colors!

Hope you like!!

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Deoxy_Diamond ⭐ @deoxy-diamond.bsky.social · Apr 11

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Rowan Kingsbury 🌸 @rowansugar.bsky.social · Mar 20

Seattle friends!! Come to my book release event for "Avery and the Fairy Circle" at the Third Place books in Lake Forest Park on Tuesday, April 22nd at 6pm! I will have some cute little freebies to give out to attendees :) www.thirdplacebooks.com/event/rowan-... #kidlit #authorevent

Poster for author event, with a picture of the book cover titled "Avery and the Fairy Circle" and an author photo. Text reads: Third Place Books - Third Place Books Presents at Lake Forest Park - Rowan Kingsbury - Tue 4/22 at 6pm

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Jessica Elena @byjessicaelena.bsky.social · Apr 12

Rainbow pencil!

#art #sketchbook

A photo of an open sketchbook held in front of a wall. Inside the sketchbook are doodles made with a colour changing rainbow pencil, and features flowers, animals and silly little guys.

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John Ramsey @jramseyi.bsky.social · Apr 12

A Helping Hand 🐁

Digial illustration of an ornate clock. Two white mice are on each of the clocks hands. They are reaching out for each other as the hands tick away.