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Deb 🌺

@drpcreates.bsky.social

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Your local black redhead. Animator. Flower Wearer. OC artist. she/her. Illustrator of the book Grandma, I Told You, I'm a Big Boy 🌺 http://deborahpinkney.com

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Deb 🌺 @drpcreates.bsky.social · Nov 22

Hey there, I've finally got with the program and moved to Bluesky. I'm Deborah, an animator and OC artist. I've done some freelancing but a lot of what I post is personal art. I post regularly on Fridays and I may try double posting to backlog my old art.

Deb 🌺 @drpcreates.bsky.social · 12d

Did some doodling this week and updated Maura and Khiara's designs a bit. I may continue to update Khiara's design a bit further. I have changed this girl's hair several times but I like how I updated her hair to have some similarities to her sister's. #ocs

An illustration of two young ladies. They both have a hand on their hip.

Deb 🌺 @drpcreates.bsky.social · 19d

It's been minute since I drew my OC Alisa. I was debating what to draw and really wanted to draw one of my OCs so I went through a file I have dedicated to them and finished an old sketch. The og sketch was made before I updated Alisa's design so it was nice adapting it. #ocart

Illustration of an elf girl wearing a hoodie with her hands in the pocket. She is wearing goggles. Her hair is braided at the top and goes into an afro in the back.

Deb 🌺 @drpcreates.bsky.social · 26d

I decided to look into an older sketchbook to do another redraw and really expanded on it. I need to share the original sketch later. I think this is a sketchbook I had back in high school. It was also a great opportunity to play around with color which I haven't let myself do in a minute.

An illustration of a young woman sitting on the edge of a bricked column. Her hair flows to the right and holds a scythe next to her. There are specks flying around her.

The same illustration as the first but its in black and white. There are pops of yellow in her collar, bottoms of her boots, and the bands of her shirts.

Deb 🌺 @drpcreates.bsky.social · Sep 5

Completely forgot to schedule this post so it's a little later than usual! Another sketch redraw, where Fidele and Heather are gushing about how much they love their partners while Naomi and Vance just look at them blankly.

An illustration of a young man and young woman expressing happiness. There are hearts floating in the center of the page. The colors of the bisexual and pansexual flags are in the background.

An illustration of a young woman and young man looking blankly towards the viewer. The girl holds a bag of popcorn up as the young man reaches into the bag. The background is a mixture of the aromantic flag.

Deb 🌺 @drpcreates.bsky.social · Aug 30

Finally had the chance to draw something new! This is a redraw of an old sketch of my OCs Rena and Luca. Luca got really excited and Rena is not a touchy feely friend.

An illustration of two young adult friends. The tall friend on the right is excitedly hugging the other. The friend on the left is pushing away the other and looking the other slightly annoyed and slightly embarrassed.

Deb 🌺 @drpcreates.bsky.social · Aug 27

Yet another late post: I haven't sat down at my cintiq all month so time for some pics from one of my sketchbooks for today. I'm really hoping I can do some new art over the weekend so we'll see what happens.

Deb 🌺 @drpcreates.bsky.social · Aug 15

Now that artfight is over, it’s time to share this fun commission I got to do for one of my oldest friends! She’s been getting back into collecting pokemon cards and started a tiktok channel (pocketnemi). I had the honor of doing her profile picture. Go check her out!!

An illustration of a young adult with one hand on her hip and the other in a peace sign on head. The pokemon rotom and wobbuffet flank her. There top of a loveball and dreamball are in front of the trio.

Deb 🌺 @drpcreates.bsky.social · Aug 7

Last week was incredibly hectic so I'm showing up almost a week late to post this. It is what it is though.

Deb 🌺 @drpcreates.bsky.social · Aug 7

Final batch of attacks! I really wish I was able to lock in more for this year but had too much going on this month. Proud of what I could do #artfight

DeuxCentimes belongs to Octavia1helary

Atlas belongs to -Hubris-

Spinel Lavoie belongs to lutebearer

Anele belongs to @mehdialikhan.bsky.social

An illustration of a person leaping to the right holding a giant glowing mace. They have glowing energy coming from their closed eyes.

An illustration of a money spirit sitting on a pile of money. They look humanoid with bear ears and bat wings. Their tongue is sticking out and there's a dollar sign on it.

An illustration of an anthropomorphic dog holding a skull up. He has his other hand on his hip.

An illustration of a tiefling running towards the viewer while looking over their shoulder triumphantly. Their two long braids are trailing behind them along with their tail and a trail of magic.

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Deb 🌺 @drpcreates.bsky.social · Jul 25

Artfight Week 4! Started with a revenge and then did a couple attacks.

Prince Pelagios belongs to HummingOaks

Paisley belongs to Jagged

Riff Raff belongs to sl0anart

An illustration of a mermaid prince waving with his left arm.

An illustration of a cat girl spinning in a dress.

An illustration of a goblin with bags of gems behind their back. There's an explosion in the background.

Deb 🌺 @drpcreates.bsky.social · Jul 25

Week 3 Attacks! Went a little hard on the first drawing but I had a blast doing all of the drawings. Incredibly busy this month so I'm only doing a few attacks

Ant & Avy belongs to @nightraidertea.bsky.social

Lurking Depths belongs to cosmegic

Watson belongs to @lattedraws.bsky.social

An illustration of a young man. His hair is like plants and he's covered in flowers. He's surrounded by images of another young man. The words "Go For It, Antirrhinum!" are behind the young man.

An illustration of a robot underwater. He is sitting on the sea floor speaking to a slugcat.

An illustration of a young adult pointing to the left. They have two shadowy cats emerging from the person's jacket.

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Deb 🌺 @drpcreates.bsky.social · Jul 12

I'm on #teamcrystals this year and be found at artfight.net/~drpcreates. I've already done an attack for this week and can't wait to share it (hopefully on time this Friday). If I could schedule my posts I swear I would post more consistently.

Art Fight

An art gifting game

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Deb 🌺 @drpcreates.bsky.social · Jul 12

Doing Art Fight again this year. I had a commission at the start of the month so had a slow start. I hope I can pick up the pace from now. Here are my attacks from week 1 & 2.

IdolFan85 belongs to sigmaeichi
Sunz belongs to Claiborne
Forget-Me-Not belongs to marinscos
Cherry belongs to Breadstore

An illustration of a young man holding glowsticks, cheering on an unseen idol group. He's wearing a school uniform with shorts. He also wears a beret with a big bow.

An illustration of a woman with long twin ponytails dual wielding swords. She's leaping forward.

An illustration of a short haired, muscular woman covered in scars crouching on the ground. She is surrounded by foliage.

An illustration of a young woman. She appears to be leaning against something not in the image. She winks and holds up her right hand in greeting.

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Deb 🌺 @drpcreates.bsky.social · Jun 14

Started playing a new #dnd campaign last week so it's time to share my new character! Meet Tempest Stormclaw, a bronze dragonborn paladin with a fatal flaw of just really wanting to help folks. She has some intense scarring and people feel the presence of death if they hang out with her too long.

An illustration of a humanoid dragon holding a sword. She has scarring on the right side of her body.

Deb 🌺 @drpcreates.bsky.social · Jun 6

I'm always avoiding drawing my OCs in profile so this was a way to push myself. Can't improve if you don't practice, right? Heather's enjoying a rainy day. I actually drew this a month ago and delayed posting because of mermay. I almost forgot I never posted this. #oc #ocart

An illustration of a young woman standing in the rain holding an umbrella. She has the umbrella tilted behind her with her face towards the sky and a hand out.

Deb 🌺 @drpcreates.bsky.social · May 31

To end mermay, I thought it would be nice to do a little animation. Here's my boy Jaheem swimming. #mermay #animation #2danimation #mermaid #merman

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Deb 🌺 @drpcreates.bsky.social · May 26

I was struck with the desire to do a jellyfish mermaid. This was the second version of this drawing and like how it turned out. #mermay #mermay2025

An illustration of a mermaid with jellyfish in the background. Instead of the typical fish tail, this mermaid is like a jellyfish with the cap and ruffled tail.

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Deb 🌺 @drpcreates.bsky.social · May 26

This week is the shadow twins Khiara and Maura. Maybe I should've used a more contrasting duo for this overlapping pose but it was fun drawing them. I really like how the sketch came together in the end. #mermay #mermay2025

An illustration of two mermaids. One is swimming slightly in front of the other as they face the sides of the drawing.

Deb 🌺 @drpcreates.bsky.social · May 26

Time for some catch up again:

This week we have a mer zombie with Mas. He's also has his skelekitty. One of these days I'll draw these two's anatomy accurately. #mermay #mermay2025

An illustration of a zombie merman and with a skeleton cat with a fish tail. The mer has hair covering the left eye. His skin and tail are tattered exposing some bone.

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Deb 🌺 @drpcreates.bsky.social · May 7

It's time for some OC Mermay art! I'm looking forward to having a theme for this month. Starting off this year, I have the friend duo Parivash and Cherry. I want to explore more interactions with OCs that have connections that I don't draw together consistently.

An illustration of two young mermaids sitting on the ground underwater. There is a crab and starfish next to them.

Deb 🌺 @drpcreates.bsky.social · Apr 25

I had a post for last week that I accidentally didn't schedule and that's going to be another week now. Instead, I'm running late to an art trend but that's what happens when you ghost social media like I have. I could not pass up an opportunity for an anti ai trend. This was fun! #starterpacknoai

An illustration of what looks like an action figure with accessories on the side. On the left is a young woman with an afro and flower in her hair, holding a drawing pen. There are 5 sections on the right filled with two flower clips, a book, a mug of hot chocolate, snacks (chips & gummi worms) and 4 cd album covers.

Deb 🌺 @drpcreates.bsky.social · Apr 25

I drew this awhile ago as one of those drawing trends to make a demon or angel OC based. I don't even know how to find the audio because I barely remember it. I ended up not sharing it for some reason and now he finally gets to see the light of day. Not sure if I'll add him to the official line up.

An illustration of a demon man holding a giant mallet over his far shoulder. His back is towards the camera but he's turned so he's seen from the side. He's wearing a sleeveless vest and pants that's short on one leg.

Deb 🌺 @drpcreates.bsky.social · Apr 25

Whoops I'm a couple posts behind again, let me fix that real quick.

Deb 🌺 @drpcreates.bsky.social · Apr 5

I was looking at an old lineart drawing of an OC where I used a color from the character as the background color and wanted to try it again. Ember was a nice character for this little exercise.

Version 1. A drawing of a fire imp sitting with her legs crossed. She's grinning and has flames in both hands. Her dress is the same color as the background so it blends in.

Version 2. A drawing of a fire imp sitting with her legs crossed. She's grinning and has flames in both hands. Her skin is the same color of the background so it blends in.

Version 3. A drawing of a fire imp sitting with her legs crossed. She's grinning and has flames in both hands. The edge of her hair blends into the background.

Version 4. A drawing of a fire imp sitting with her legs crossed. She's grinning and has flames in both hands.

Deb 🌺 @drpcreates.bsky.social · Apr 5

A simple OC drawing for last week. Its been awhile since I drew Liz so she made the perfect focus.

A drawing of a girl standing. She has bandages over her right eye and has bandages wrapped around both forearms.