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Adam

@katoncomics.com

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He/Him 🇵🇷🏳️‍⚧️ NJ • Latino Artist! Storyboard artist • Character designer • Comic Artist for BlackSands Entertainment • Art teacher • #Castlevania #artist #art Hello Portfolio day artist Links https://linktr.ee/katon4525

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Adam @katoncomics.com · Oct 19

Hello! I'm Adam. I am a character designer and storyboard artist! I am currently doing a personal project called "Lament of Innocence" Where I am recreating Castlevania characters from that game into the powerhouse style!
#Castlevania #Characterdesign

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Adam @katoncomics.com · 5h

Item crash activated 😆

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🎃 DEVAUNBEAST 🎃 @devaunbeats.art · 4d

New starter pack has been created!

Contains a bunch of SFW and NSFW artists under 7k followers

Repost to boost and get some eyes on these artists (follow at your own discretion)

go.bsky.app/GRPWEbE

#artistsupport #starterpack

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Adam @katoncomics.com · 11h

Wishlisted! Can't wait 😁

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Mike | Kero Kero Cowboy OUT NOW! 🐸🤠 @metagamemike.bsky.social · 22h

Kero Kero Cowboy is releasing on Steam NOVEMBER 17th! 🐸🤠

Wishlist here: store.steampowered.com/app/3884910/...

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Thomas N. Perkins IV @tnperkins4.bsky.social · 19h

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cryling.art 🌘💜 Comms Open @cryling.bsky.social · 1d

Hi!!! #PortfolioDay 🌸
I’m Karissa, a character designer & illustrator from Philadelphia. I'm currently looking for work and have commissions open! I love art surrounding myths, fantasy, and books!✨

💼 : crylingart.carrd.co
💌: cryling.arts @ gmail .com
☕️: ko-fi.com/crylingart

Sun Blessed mermaid sitting in a pool of golden water under a yellow bright sky

A siren’s luring in a woman underwater with charming pink eyes

A character sheet for a personal project of a sorceress named Raia

Character sheet of Madeline, a redesign project based on Jack and The Cuckoo Clock Heart

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Adam @katoncomics.com · 1d

Hello #PortfolioDay I'm Adam and I am a character designer and storyboard artist. Take a look at this character I've been working on for a bit. Open to freelance and contract work, hire me for your projects 😊

🌐https://katonstudio.com/
✉️ [email protected]

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Teeg @teeketch.art · 1d

If you're a solo dev/small indie team looking for art or logos please don't turn to genAI. I would honestly rather folks reach out to a designer and offer like rev share alongside a smaller up front cost to get something made by a person.

Hell email me and we'll chat. Don't turn to the slop machine

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OverClocked ReMix (We ♥ video game music!) 🎮🎵 @ocremix.org · 3d

25 years in, we are NOT allowing genAI music onto OC ReMix, full stop.

We're 100% against genAI music and are a community geared toward authentic creativity and artistic development. You don't get that by doing text prompts.

ocremix.org/remix/OCR04918
youtube.com/watch?v=fUsg...

Recent comment: "This A.I. music is as fake as 🏈 🦇."

In this case, this is human-made. (3 of our judges panel are also involved as collaborators on it: jnWake, pixelseph, and paradiddlesjosh.)

We explicitly do NOT accept any music made with generative A.I. There are tools out there that help identify genAI music. If music involving genAI is ever unknowingly let on, it will be removed if it's discovered.

We're 100% against genAI music and are a community geared toward authentic creativity and artistic development. You don't get that by doing text prompts.

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Adam @katoncomics.com · 2d

The world isn't conditioned to allow people to say they are many different things. We are either A, B or C. I refuse to play into the culture war games, I love my culture and where I come from. And I think all of us sharing that with each other serves to bring us closer as one human race.

Adam @katoncomics.com · 2d

I come from the people who were concurred and people who were on a conquest. Overtime, I learned to accept that I don't need to feel bad for just saying, I am Latino. That's it. Our cultures are what bring us together and it goes beyond categorizing ourselves based on outward appearances.

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Adam @katoncomics.com · 2d

My grandparents were Taino, and for some reason I always get the "You don't like -" So what do people like me look like? I'm mixed with so many things that I never felt like I belonged in any specific category. Yet people want to make you feel bad for not claiming you are A, B or C.

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Adam @katoncomics.com · 2d

I learned that I was also part Navajo, yet I cannot claim that I am on any documents because my family was not officially part of the tribe and because I don't meet a certain percentage requirement to state as such. Imaging living in a world where you have to constantly prove you exist.

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Adam @katoncomics.com · 2d

I am Puerto Rican but throughout my life, I often find myself needed to "prove" that I am who I am. There are people who, for whatever reason, want to "claim" you based on outward appearance rather than the culture you grew up in. We are put in categories that are made up to divide us.

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Adam @katoncomics.com · 2d

Today is #IndigenousPeoplesDay! Thought I'd talk about my experience navigating societal constructs and the disillusion of a tribalistic nature that has evolved in the most negative way.

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#PortfolioDay @portfolioday.bsky.social · 2d

TOMORROW Tuesday, October 14th IS #PORTFOLIODAY!
yout.be/09cs_chctNk

Want to combat AI scraping? Try this:
🔸Nightshade and Glaze your images
🔸Images should be web-sized and watermarked
🔸Crop images shared to social media
🔸Keep your portfolio behind a password or paywall

Good luck!💛

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Taylor Joan Carlson @teejcarlson.bsky.social · 2d

Today is Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

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Adam @katoncomics.com · 3d

Ahhh!!! Thank you so much 🥹🙏
Trying to improve the traditional skills, hopefully I can catch up soon to my digital skill!

Adam @katoncomics.com · 3d

Sketchbook Sunday!

The pages in my sketchbook are getting heavier due to all the ink 😅 Anyways finally going back and coloring some of these, I do need more in between colors for dynamic shading!

#LamentOfInnocence #Castlevania #Traditionalart #Sketchbook #Inktober

Sketchbook drawing of Walter Bernhard and Joachim Armster (bottom) Walter is in color at the top left.

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Adam @katoncomics.com · 5d

'Tis very difficult 😭

.⊹.₊⟡🌟 Mitsene CV 🌟⊹₊⟡ . @mitsene.bsky.social · 5d

kudos to anyone who can work on their comic in complete secrecy for a year or more before it gets published or posted online. i can't even wait a full day to post art that i just finished :T

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Mariavania 🕊️ Misaki is our queen! @maria-renard-cv.bsky.social · 5d

[ #Castlevania ]

#Alumaria (Alucard x Maria Renard) 🧚‍♀️

by tumblr.com/vrmarie
for tumblr.com/nelmyriel
(An approved repost)

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Alex Segura @alexsegura.bsky.social · 5d

Just announced at NYCC: I’m writing a KNOW YOUR RIGHTS comic with artist @davidhahn.bsky.social in partnership with @nycschools.bsky.social #civicsforall comics program, covering and explaining student rights when it comes to immigration enforcement.

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Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 6d

Good time to share this again. You can make these yourself BUT I also just make them too. It's a label sheet with 72 little tiny 100% human made labels on it. They're $2 a sheet and I'll make you as many sheets as you want: shop.aimeecozza.com/product/100-...

A hand with a tiny black and white sticker on the finger that says "100% human made, no AI used" with a sheet of them behind it.

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💥 @dynamoe.bsky.social · 7d

I actually have FIVE #stickers for sale, but I don't plug all of them

-Stop Forcing AI Into Every Fucking Thing
-ICE Go Home
-Monetize Your Depression
-Billy Quizboy & Pete White (Venture Bros) Tarot Cards

It'd be easier if I had, like, a store or something, but nah... DM me if you want one

Billy Quizboy & Pete White (Venture Bros) Tarot Cards

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Skylar Patridge @skyepatridge.bsky.social · 8d

Dropped today! My cover for the new SMILE series from @idwpublishing.com

So excited to be a small part of this & to see the franchise take on new life from the amazing @hannahrosemay.bsky.social, Miriana Puglia, @dearbhlala.bsky.social & @heatherantos.bsky.social 🩸

Look for it FEBRUARY 2026

Cover for “SMILE: For the Camera” featuring a woman’s face on a black background. Her eyes are wide, mascara running down her cheeks. And in her hand, a pair of bloodied sewing scissors. Within their reflection, the unsettling SMILE.

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