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Maru/ 28 /she/her | Illustrator/designer based in the US | BA of Science in Design | I draw pieces of wonder. looking for work. inquiries: [email protected] Website: maruillo.com Other socials can be found at : linktr.ee/maru_illo

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Maru🍉 @maru-illo.bsky.social · Jul 27

Hi everyone! I’m Maru, a Nicaraguan-Egyptian Illustrator/designer based in the US. I have a Ba of S in Industrial Design and love to draw vibrant characters! I’m available for full time design & illustration work
🌟 [email protected]
💫 maruillo.com

3 circus performer dogs doing circus tricks with a starry swirly background

A mushroom adventurer and his apple friend traverse green foliage with a purple and blue hued starry sky

A seal in fancy wear stands before a celestial
hate with a radiating sun

3 Flamingoes intertwined in the shape of a heart

Maru🍉 @maru-illo.bsky.social · 1d

WE HAVE SEEN IT RISE AND WE WILL SEE IT FALL AND WE WILLS STILL BE HERE CREATING JOY AND HAPPINESS

Maru🍉 @maru-illo.bsky.social · 1d

AI IS A MERE PROCESSOR WE ARE THE VISIONARIES MY IMAGINATION IS WORTH MORE THAN ALL THE GOLD AND GEMS IN THE WORLD

Maru🍉 @maru-illo.bsky.social · 1d

YOU KNOW WHAT I REFUSE TO GIVE INTO DESPAIR I HAVE AN INDOMITABLE HUMAN SPIRIT THAT CAN CREATE AND INNOVATE

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بلبل يوسف @chipperdoodles.bsky.social · 1d

What is batman if not just trick or treating? join us for some arkham asylum! it counts as a seasonal game don't at me bro www.twitch.tv/chipperdoodles

chipperdoodles - Twitch

Arkham Autumn, what is batman if not just trick or treating?

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Sygnin / DTIYS pinned! @sygnin.com · 1d

Again, since PortfolioDay is coming, if you have Carrd and want to make a simple PORTFOLIO website, I made a template you can easily adjust.

There is a video for instructs on my Ko-Fi; it's free. Pls turn up to volume though coz it's pretty soft!

Sygnin / DTIYS pinned! @sygnin.com · 7d

Since #PortfolioDay is coming again, I just wanna mention I made a free Carrd template you can use to make a basic portfolio website.

There's also a video with instructs on how to use the template. You can get it for free or pay-what-you-want on my Ko-Fi:

Video instructs for Carrd simple portfolio template - Sygnin's Ko-fi Shop

I made a simple portfolio template in Carrd that artists can customize to make a very basic website. The point of this is to have a place to showcase ...

Maru🍉 @maru-illo.bsky.social · 1d

this sora ai shit is depressing the hell out of me …. they hate us so bad

Maru🍉 @maru-illo.bsky.social · 8d

oh it will immaculately painted and the bottom half will be comically illustrated but in the most wild way

Maru🍉 @maru-illo.bsky.social · 8d

i want to make it known i love the furry community i know a couple of yall follow me so know my jokes aren’t made with malice at all! in fact it’s more like i don’t have the skill yall deserve but i will draw a perfectly illustrated serpent head on a stick figure body for u if u guys want

Maru🍉 @maru-illo.bsky.social · 8d

i thought there would be ! like i love the furry community and i know that they usually want sfw stuff and honestly id definitely do so. the reason im a coward is cause my human anatomy needs work haha its be an amazingly rendered image of like a jackal head on a chibi body, but if any 1 wants tht 👀

Maru🍉 @maru-illo.bsky.social · 8d

also hades 2 is absolutely incredible . i should repost catgreus ….

Maru🍉 @maru-illo.bsky.social · 8d

i could rule the damn world with my abilities but why do i have no lust for that type of power

Maru🍉 @maru-illo.bsky.social · 8d

it’s in my damn ancestry too … ancient egyptians my ancestors are telling me yes but my brain is telling me NO

Maru🍉 @maru-illo.bsky.social · 8d

my power of drawing animals would make me perfect for a certain genre of art … one that would make me a bunch of money because said patrons are the backbone of society … but i am a coward

Maru🍉 @maru-illo.bsky.social · 14d

god forbid a girl love a yellow overlay layer with a yellow soft light layer with opacity set to 33 !!!!

Maru🍉 @maru-illo.bsky.social · 14d

ESPECIALLY FOR MY RECENT BIRD ART!!!! i FREAKING RENDERED EVERY FEATHER PAID ATTENTION TO EVERY DETAIL DREW BIRDS FOR HOURS FOR TEN DAYS STRAIGHT EVEN WHEN I HAD HEATSTROKE!!! LIKE ILL PUNCH YOU IF YOU ERASE MY HARD WORK

Maru🍉 @maru-illo.bsky.social · 14d

it’s just a a small anxiety of mine , i might lean on cooler toned drawings in the future 😔. i just hate ai so much that if someone ever claimed i had used it would be an insult to all the damn work i put in to get this far in my art

Maru🍉 @maru-illo.bsky.social · 14d

had people claim it’s ai just because of the way they had photographed it was being MIMICKED by photos of other things generated by ai , so that style of photography, previously unassociated , now is HEAVILY SO.

Maru🍉 @maru-illo.bsky.social · 14d

someone might accuse me of ai on the basis of the warmth in my photos. i looked at mistakes in my art and as i get better i fear that my art will get accused of being ai and i know im not the only one cause i saw this post where this person made beautiful polymer clay sculptures and they +

Maru🍉 @maru-illo.bsky.social · 14d

one of the things i’m pissed about ai doing is that now if it’s warmer toned and leans slightly yellow it can be mistaken for ai because of the piss filter it adds …. a lot of my work is warmer in tone and even though a lot of my art was made BEFORE CHATGPT EXISTED, i still get paranoid +

Maru🍉 @maru-illo.bsky.social · 15d

like learn about what they did to korea and china and it will undo a lot of the work that cool japan did. and it’s literally the same thing that superhero movies did for the US

Maru🍉 @maru-illo.bsky.social · 15d

people who think all anime isn’t political if it’s just a harem show or slice of life clearly don’t know about the Cool Japan project and its use of soft power

Maru🍉 @maru-illo.bsky.social · 15d

SUPPORT BULBUL !!!!

بلبل يوسف @chipperdoodles.bsky.social · 16d

first habibi keychains!

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بلبل يوسف @chipperdoodles.bsky.social · 15d

i also made keychain versions of the khamsa design! (these are all art only pcbs, no electronics)

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بلبل يوسف @chipperdoodles.bsky.social · 16d

first habibi keychains!

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Souha Al-Samkari @sousourocket.bsky.social · 17d

Also great advice for creatives. Always think your shit is cool!!! It’ll come across if you do!! And also if you don’t

Ultima @ultimashadow.bsky.social · 17d

Genuinely powerful words to live by.