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MC

@emceehere.bsky.social

This is #Chartreuse and three guesses why!! I drew her in oil pastels and I hope you enjoy!!
Currently I am +30,000 into my project and can't believe I waited this long to share her here with you!!

#characterart #characterconcept #author #oilpastel #oilpastelportrait #conceptart #midersternartist

A Chartreuse (greenish yellowish) person sitting behind a laptop with various adornments like bracelets, necklaces, and a bandana made in oil pastel

September 30, 2025 at 9:41 PM

MC

@emceehere.bsky.social

An abstracted sketch of one of my views at work, muddled in reflections

#midwesternart #workdoodles #midwesternartist #art #sketch #drawing #abstractsketch #pencildrawing #graphitesketch

September 30, 2025 at 9:33 PM

MC

@emceehere.bsky.social

I haven't posted on here in what feels like three years, hi again!! I promise I'm still making work, here's a #sketch I made yesterday!!

#pencil #graphitesketch #quicksketch #art #drawing #midwesternartist

A sketched drawing on a post-it of a person and a phone as reflections of multiple surfaces blurs the subject

September 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM

MC

@emceehere.bsky.social

www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6GWrDFD/
Fellas, did I forget to mention I'm writing a book? Crazy that I haven't said anything about that here!!

#authorsofbluesky #author #writingmyfirstbooo

ohh the haters would hate this #writingabook #writingtok #writingtiktok #authortok #notmyproblem #targetaudience #midwestqueer

TikTok video by macey

www.tiktok.com

September 1, 2025 at 2:36 AM

MC

@emceehere.bsky.social

Galataea is prepared for #artfight this year, the #characterconcept and design wouldn't have been possible without @jessievangart.bsky.social who made my favorite reference 💚

#origionalcharacter #halforc #characterart #coloredpencil #graphite #alcoholmarkers #art #rougeranger #dndcharacter #dndart

A refined colored pencil portrait of Galataea Rockwell

My first attempted a full body sketch of galatea using pen and acrylic markers

A full body sketch of Galatea using graphite

The original sketch and colored pencil portrait of galatea

July 1, 2025 at 5:51 PM

MC

@emceehere.bsky.social

My first session with Foley was a year ago and I'm so incredibly excited for #artfight2025!!!

#origionalcharacterart #characterconcept #wildmagicsorcerer #ranger #astralelf #sketches #graphite #art #teamcrystals
#artfightprep #artfightreferences

My most recent full body sketch of my dear Foley, they are wearing A drapey shirt/ cardigan moment with very well to do pants. What else can I say they are an icon

A fully colored sketch using alcohol markers of a astral elf Wild Magic sorcerer with iridescent hair and the name Foley O'Buhdie-O'Pal (but the original spelling as it's changed a couple of times through the campaign)

A 3/4 colored portrait of Foley with floral pants, a male corset, and the same shirt and a little less detail in the jewelry made with alcohol markers

The original sketch for Foley with emphasis on some of the jewelry made with graphite

July 1, 2025 at 5:41 PM

MC

@emceehere.bsky.social

Anyone hyped for #artfight2025 here??

#artfight #originalcharacters #todayistheday #art #artist #teamcrystals

Artfight card displaying my user and pictures of some of the characters I highlighted for this year!!

July 1, 2025 at 3:54 PM

MC

@emceehere.bsky.social

Unhinged wild things my dad has said lately

Upon seeing the #wickedforgood trailer he genuinely joked that Elphaba was "the colored one" and seemed shocked no one laughed

"Flaggots" DURING PRIDE MONTH 😭😭😭

June 5, 2025 at 6:28 PM

MC

@emceehere.bsky.social

quick 30 minute study of my love @aidansanf.bsky.social while he's studying

#study #artstudy #muse #musing #portrait #graphiteportrait #midwesternartist #sketch #graphitesketch

Half a view of a head from the back in a bust style in graphite

May 6, 2025 at 12:07 AM

MC

@emceehere.bsky.social

Guys look!! My sibling is so cool!!!!!
#artist #supportingartists #comic #illustration #illustrator #midwesternartist

mm illustrates @mm1llustrates.bsky.social · Apr 21

my patreon is now live! no base subscription about it yet, but my comic #neckofthewoods is now available for 3 dollars!

April 22, 2025 at 12:48 AM

MC

@emceehere.bsky.social

Another post for #eastersunday
Nothing feels as representative as #theascention for being recalled to life and beyond
#easter #art #pastelart #happyeaster #midwesternartist #ascention

A figure bathing in golden light leading another figure out from the dark depths with a golden thread

April 20, 2025 at 7:47 PM

MC

@emceehere.bsky.social

I almost posted this on Instagram but was worried about folks I knew getting up in arms about it, #friendlyreminder that #jesus was a #heretic and that's why he's represented what he does to the people
#goodfriday #eastersunday #happyeaster #jesuswasaheretic
#easter

A chalk pastel drawing of a yellow figure wearing a flower crown in a pose that references the crucifixion of Christ

April 20, 2025 at 7:43 PM

MC

@emceehere.bsky.social

Watching #thechosen with my family with my family #Judas appears and my sister goes
"It's Juda!!"
And I point and go "haha #ladygagafan !!!"
#ladygaga

April 19, 2025 at 1:14 AM

MC

@emceehere.bsky.social

Hopping onto the #starterpack #trend with a #roughsketch so I hope you enjoy!!

#wip #midwesternartist #starterpacktrend #artist

A rough sketch following the "starter pack" trend with the game clue, a rough estimation of a closet, a bunch of art supplies including pallets, brushes, pastels, a laptop, a sketchbook, and makeup, a plant category, caffeinated drinks category, d&d dice, different sunglasses, and headphones and Spotify for music

A rougher more vague layout of the previous one as I was establishing the layout

A slightly more rendered than the last, but still middling rendering of the initial sketch for the starter pack, there's a little worse lighting

April 16, 2025 at 9:10 PM

MC

@emceehere.bsky.social

So I guess I'm #experimenting with #texturedpaper and #watercolor now!! Honestly looks kinda sick, I will send an update later!!

#wip #art #painting #abstractart #midweaternartist #workinprogress

April 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM

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KasualTTV

@kasualttv.bsky.social

As much as I love Epic the musical…. they can never make me like Eurylochus 🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️ I will be his #1 hater til the day I die.

April 4, 2025 at 6:47 AM

MC

@emceehere.bsky.social

Omg guys, I cannot believe that I got this definite grade on a project that was 100% the actual final grade that this was given!!!😉🤣

#art #artschoolthings #grades #feedback #artschool

A screenshot from when a professor accidentally set an assignment at 82 points out of 50 instead of 82% overall on the project

Text reading outside project number two. Dealing with multiple figures in space with a falsely graded 82 out of 50 as opposed to 82%

A graphite sketch of a guy biting another guy's hand, another person sitting on presumably nothing, a guy with a guitar TM sitting on. Also nothing and another ghostly figure looming above. Also sitting on presumably nothing. There is a couch that is not there. That is what the two guys not on the floor are sitting on, a stool behind the couch that the person in the middle is sitting on, and the other person is sitting on a ladder. None of the images that any of the figures are sitting on are in the picture

April 1, 2025 at 5:54 PM

MC

@emceehere.bsky.social

I couldn't pick one so I had to pick two!!
A watercolor of the eyes of the fantastic @aidansanf.bsky.social 💚🥰
And in 2nd place, @jessievangart.bsky.social eye featured in the ink study "Eye Guess"

#art #eyepainting #eye #eyeguess #eyesee #watercolor #ink

A watercolor painting of the most beautiful green eyes that I've ever seen, yes, they're my partners, yes, they're beautiful, no, I'm not taking any other questions 💚

A study with liquid ink of the eye of one of my best friends in the entire world, entitled "Eye Guess"

March 31, 2025 at 7:14 PM

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gadzooksbazooka.bsky.social

@gadzooksbazooka.bsky.social

Here is a small painting I did, acrylic on a little piece of cardboard. Don’t support artists who fuck with AI. There ya go.

Here is a small little painting I did, it is a painting of a bear standing in the grass looking at a flower, above the bear are the words “Don’t support artists who fuck with AI”. Acrylic on a little piece of cardboard.

March 30, 2025 at 12:13 AM

MC

@emceehere.bsky.social

The painting is finished!!!
Now I just need a title and if folks are interested.

Any suggestions??

#muskhate #cybertruck #watercolorpainting #watercolor #art #painting #titlethis #midwesternartist #americanartist

A watercolor painting of a hand flipping off a cyber truck

March 31, 2025 at 6:11 PM

MC

@emceehere.bsky.social

an illegal protest in progress

When showing this to my Friends, one obviously shared their hatred for " those ugly road, pimples"

So I had to share!

#watercolor #watercolorpainting #art #americanartist #midwesternartist #painting #progressphotos #wip #cybertrucksarelame

An about halfway rendered watercolor painting of someone flipping off a cybertruck

A watercolor painting that has minimal blocking of a cruise shape of a hand giving the bird to a fascist "car"

A simple sketch, and a sketch of a hand that's really trying hard to be a hand giving the bird to What one of my pals refers to as " those ugly road pimples"

March 29, 2025 at 12:45 AM

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Lisa Buckley

@lisavipes.bsky.social

Listening to Rich give his class lecture on ichnology, interpreting animal behavior, then pack behavior, and folding in how people incorrectly co-opt the idea of "alpha male" to excuse their own behavior:
I cackled at: "If someone defines themselves as an 'alpha male,' they're likely a jerk."

March 28, 2025 at 2:32 AM