Kris Smith
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Kris Smith
@ksmithdw.bsky.social
Artist from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada! I focus on robots/Transformers, & other 80's, 90's & 00's pop culture/nostalgia stuff!

Email: [email protected]

Other socials:
https://linktr.ee/krissmithdw
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Re-introduction for new peeps!

Hi! I'm Kris, from Hamilton, Ontario! I make art of of pop culture stuff I grew up on through the 80's, 90's & 00's (heavy focus on Transformers, lol)

(also I used to make the Transformers: Igniton fancomic back in the day if anyone remembers it.)
#maccadam #art
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Okay, i suck at being prepared for this but I'm gonna open up some Feb commission slots.
A4, headshots, £20 each.

uh... 3 to claim, lets see how this goes!
February 9, 2026 at 6:52 PM
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Mobile Suit Kampfer!

Print should be ready by #Katsucon this weekend!

#mobilesuit #kampfer #illustration
#commission
February 9, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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I just put my remaining watercolors up for sale in my shop. They're are the ones made on fancy paper. Go check them out!

#Maccadam

ko-fi.com/sidvenblu/shop
Visit Sid VenBlu's Shop!
I've opened a shop. Come take a look!
ko-fi.com
February 8, 2026 at 4:12 AM
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Art is my only source on income right now so casual reminder commissions are currently open! DM me or I have VGen! Open to anything physical, digital, any characters etc

(If anyone wants artwork for London Comic Con I can do pick-ups for the show!)

vgen.co/LLicorish
February 5, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Just the best :D I still got a pic of when I got one when I was little :D
February 4, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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So yeah, if, uh, anyone wants to buy a sketch or stuff off me, I'm open to that at this particular moment in time.

kriscarter.sumupstore.com

#car
#oof
#skint
February 4, 2026 at 9:53 AM
Totally!
February 4, 2026 at 3:31 AM
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Here's the first 2 things I ever posted online on DeviantArt waaaaay back in the ass-end of 2004, made 3D model mockups as a base in 3D studio Max and then did all the actual lines and colours in MACROMEDIA (lol) Flash.

I'm so old, lol.

#transformers
February 3, 2026 at 12:19 AM
Its pretty messed up flick, probably better to have watched it now and not, like, as a little kid lol

I love it but, yknow, its messed up lol
February 3, 2026 at 10:51 AM
Thankya! Its been so long, i dont even think I still have the files for that anywhere
February 3, 2026 at 8:18 AM
Yeah, i remember there were people i knew that SWORE by it and I tried to learn it several times and was always confused and overwhelmed and like "nope, Hellraiser puzzle box-ass program, never using it again" lol

Flash is just like second nature I've been using it for so long lol
February 3, 2026 at 8:17 AM
definitely got greedy. i remember that they used to be a decent company way back in the day but wow how they have fallen. Very sad.

(I remember trying to use Illustrator and it was so complicated I felt like if I managed to figure it out Pinhead from Hellraiser would show up lol)
February 3, 2026 at 12:48 AM
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35 years of id Software games and I'm so grateful to have been able to play so many of their games since I was a wee child and my mom tried to stop me from playing pew pew demon shooty games 😆 Speaking of, let's celebrate by going back to DOOM 2016!

www.twitch.tv/highbeamtf
February 3, 2026 at 12:28 AM
I would go crazy without adblockers, like wtf
February 3, 2026 at 12:31 AM
i think it was Macromedia Flash MX(?) back in the early 2000s that I first learned how to use Flash.
February 3, 2026 at 12:28 AM
Yeah, its super frustrating for sure, I have all the stuff I know on Flash just baked into my brain, I have no idea what I would do art-wise without it, Id have to learn something completely from scratch again and it probably wouldnt look the same either.

Adobe SUCKKKKS
February 3, 2026 at 12:26 AM
Oh i totally agree with ya, not like I'm not guilty of it over the years, i remember ftp servers and Napster, lol
February 3, 2026 at 12:24 AM
Here's the first 2 things I ever posted online on DeviantArt waaaaay back in the ass-end of 2004, made 3D model mockups as a base in 3D studio Max and then did all the actual lines and colours in MACROMEDIA (lol) Flash.

I'm so old, lol.

#transformers
February 3, 2026 at 12:19 AM
so yeah, all my artwork files are .fla files since, like, over 20 years now?

So yeah, I'll run an old OS somewhere if i have to in order to still use my old-ass Adobe Flash copy, and people wonder why pirating is making a huge comeback.
February 3, 2026 at 12:11 AM
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yikes good thing I didn't use Adobe Animate to create the entire body of work spanning my whole career as a cartoonist- oh wait that is exactly what i did
February 2, 2026 at 11:14 PM
Guy from Cyanide and Happiness is in the same boat as well, says he's done literally everything for the entirety of its existence in Adobe Flash/Animate
February 2, 2026 at 11:38 PM
Just saw that David Firth, the guy that makes Salad Fingers, says Adobe Animate is what he makes Salad Fingers animations with so he's none too happy cuz he's been making them with it since it was still Flash.
February 2, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Still got mine, such a killer toy
February 2, 2026 at 9:01 PM
And I will continue to use it and if Adobe somehow wants to force me to stop using it they will have to pry it out of my cold, dead hands.

There's a reason I never upgraded and I guess this is it, you giant Ass Holes.

(started using Flash when back when it was still Macromedia Flash)
February 2, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Since the news of Adobe ganking Adobe Animate (formerly Adobe Flash) I want to state for the record that I've been using an old-ass copy of Adobe Flash CS3 for my art since it came out (cont.)
February 2, 2026 at 9:01 PM