Retro Heart
LightNews LightNews
banner
retroheart.net
Retro Heart
@retroheart.net
660 followers 74 following 1.8K posts
Your friendly California Bay Area artist and VTuber coming at you from the sleek, ultramodern future of 19XX.
Biracial. Est’d 1985. He/Him.
Pleasing taste, some monsterism. Spread love, punch fascists.
🌐 links.retroheart.net
🔴 live.retroheart.net
Posts Replies Media Videos
retroheart.net
Finding like 90 minutes to work on some sketches in the eye of the Thanksgiving > Friendsgiving vortex (art featured is an unrelated editing error)
Starting shortly:
live.retroheart.net
November 28, 2025 at 4:33 PM
retroheart.net
I'll just warn you now, I still don't know how to make an emote.

Working on doodles and drawings and sort-of-rewatching Metal Gear Solid 4 Was a Mistake for a couple hours
live.retroheart.net
Bun-E03 and The Monitor at a tablet with a sketch in the background.
November 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
retroheart.net
Instead of doing the elf at the funny angle everyone's doing that I'm bad at, I did a slightly different funny angle that I'm bad at
#Art #DigitalArt #RetroHeartArt
Frieren looking down at the viewer and saying "Pathetic" in reference to the Asuka Langley meme.
November 24, 2025 at 1:47 PM
retroheart.net
It's my birthday so I'm going to treat myself to RARE and MYSTERIOUS video games, like small indie gem Gunstar Heroes
Starting soon:
live.retroheart.net
The title screen of Gunstar Heroes with The Monitor and Bun-E03 off to the side. Red text and arrows suggests that they are NOT GAMING.
November 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
retroheart.net
I lack the skills for it, but I gotta believe others will be able to pick up the pieces of SAMMI and make something better in time.
It's been my tool kit and playground for a long time. As much as I've optimized and refined and compacted things, I'm nowhere close to the heights others have reached.
November 19, 2025 at 12:10 AM
retroheart.net
It's been a while. Let's make some art. Starting in a few:
live.retroheart.net
A screenshot of a sketch with Bun-E03 and The Monitor sitting at a tablet.
November 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
retroheart.net
Bun-E03 Halloween costumes, just in time for Halloween 2. Not to be confused with Halloween 3: Season of the Witch.
blog.retroheart.net/blog/bun-e03...

#Art #DigitalArt #RetroHeartArt
Bun-E03 striking her iconic idol pose with a big smile. Bun-E03 dressed as a Witch. Bun-E03 dressed as Morrigan from Darkstalkers with her own spin on the design.
November 2, 2025 at 8:57 PM
retroheart.net
Ween
blog.retroheart.net/blog/happy-h...

#Art #DigitalArt #RetroHeartArt
Bun-E03 dressed up as Morrigan from Darkstalkers, NEK-01 as Lilith, and CAT-SS as Felicia. Bun-E03 is bringing in a surprised and blushing NEK-01 with her arm, while CAT-SS looks over her shoulder in the background.
October 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
retroheart.net
October 3, 2025 at 10:48 PM
retroheart.net
The final scene of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air with Will Smith looking over an empty room. Eggbug is also there. I'll always miss you, Cohost. Thanks for everything.
October 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
retroheart.net
System reboot in progress.
Please wait. . .
September 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
retroheart.net
Okay, closing out this flurry of posts with some cleanup on something that never got done previously

Won't be able to get it done today but I think it could make a good "end of Summer" piece
#Art #DigitalArt #WIP #RetroHeartArt
Mostly done lineart (with some glowing bits) of Bun-E03 holding a pair of themed popsicles and winking at the viewer, dressed in a tied t-shirt and bikini bottoms. The happy-looking rabbit-themed one in her right hand has a chunk bitten out of it, while the sour-looking cat-themed one is being held out towards the viewer.
August 31, 2025 at 5:15 PM
retroheart.net
We regret to inform you: It is Blue Stinger
Gonna run some tests on the Retro Achievement set I've been working on, starting soon:
live.retroheart.net
August 27, 2025 at 3:50 PM
retroheart.net
Quick, slightly off-model Millenia sketch to start off the morning. Mostly focusing on the hands and forced perspective.
August 25, 2025 at 1:29 PM
retroheart.net
I'm so tired of these. They get through filters and show up now and again

Aside from assuming my personal email is out there from personal error or a WHOIS leak, it sucks that the baseline assumption is that every website exists to sell you a thing. It's a gallery. It has art in it. That's it.
A spam email offering to "bring your website to the first page on Google".
August 25, 2025 at 11:44 AM
retroheart.net
Nova doodle to end the night on, practicing a few things, seeing where I can improve
#Art #DigitalArt #Sketch #RetroHeartArt
Digital art sketch of Nova, a woman with dog ears and tail, dressed in a sailor-style uniform. She's in mid-stride, turning her upper body and head to look at something out of frame while brushing some hair from the side of her head.
August 25, 2025 at 3:40 AM
retroheart.net
Me: I should refocus on things that are a little more slice of life and less over the top for a while
Also me: What if a demon and oni were friends. And also squishy
#Art #DigitalArt #Sketch #RetroHeartArt
Quick(-ish) sketch of a demon and oni pressed together, with the demon posing like they're taking a selfie and drawing the oni in, who looks flustered.
August 24, 2025 at 9:29 PM
retroheart.net
If I try to keep applying little fixes to this it'll never get done, but I'm good with where it's at. I learned a lot in the process that I can apply in the future.
#Art #DigitalArt #RetroHeartArt
Sera Penta (or Serpent A), a lamia, laying on her stomach while looking over her shoulder, her head rested in one hand. Her body and tail wrap around behind her, and a sword is stuck in the ground near her left arm. The environment is sunny, dry, flat, and cracked.
August 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
retroheart.net
Spent too much time reworking the sketch into a Very Polished Sketch in a way that adding color makes it feel "off" somehow, so have both arts of Trella
#Art #DigitalArt #RetroHeartArt
Trella, a half-orc, posing with a cleaver held in her left hand and her right hand on her hip as she looks off to the side. Her clothes are mostly torn, including a shredded nearly black t-shirt with an HP/MP logo on it, cut-off jean shorts, and yellow leggings. Essentially the same image, but without the color. The t-shirt is still blocked out in black.
August 23, 2025 at 9:02 PM
retroheart.net
Sent the full version of this to a close friend to show her what I was working on and she texted back "cleaver mommy" so I think I'm on track.

What track, I'm not sure, but I'm on it
#Art #DigitalArt #WIP #RetroHeartArt
Close-up of lineart of the head and shoulders of Trella, a half-orc, looking to her side with a smug expression. She's holding a cleaver in her left hand.
August 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
retroheart.net
For fun and a bit of world building, I made a custom wallpaper for my MiSTer to match the theme of the no signal image I swapped out a while back
A neon-colored set of grids behind a MiSTer FPGA launcher with a border labeled "SYS-A's Totally Radical Turbolauncher". The copyright is for Superfuture Technolabs, 19XX. A more muted background with a window that says "No Signal. If problem persists, notify SYS-A."
August 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
retroheart.net
It's a million degrees out and I haven't been able to focus on art lately, so have a Millenia beach selfie from last year
#Art #DigitalArt #RetroHeartArt
Millenia, a demon woman with orange hair, green eyes, and freckles, in a red and black bikini and t-shirt standing beachside while taking a selfie. The Toonami edit. A similar image with Millenia in a bikini without the t-shirt.
August 22, 2025 at 12:55 AM
retroheart.net
I can't decompress or exhale exactly but I guess my nervous energy from today is now just energy energy

So have some extra dialogue I've been working on for the Tech Support redeem for streams
Bun-E03 and The Monitor in an office setting. A small pop-up window is in front with SYS-A saying "Did you know? Anime is real!" The same scene with SYS-A saying "... and it CAN hurt you."
August 21, 2025 at 10:42 PM
retroheart.net
Decided to spend some time this morning cleaning up an idea from yesterday's stream for an emote. Trying to balance the right amount of detail with being readable, the color of her glove and hair blur together at small scale, but I think it works
Snip of an emote labeled "Ohoho" featuring CAT-SS doing an oshoujo-style laugh.
August 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
retroheart.net
Revisiting the countdown idea I had a while back now that I've rebuilt SHOWTIME MODE Bun-E03 in Godot.

Her speaking animations are effectively tied to the length of an audio file but I'm looking into if I can tie it to a volume level instead
(The heel bounce timing was a fun coincidence)
#OBSCrimes
August 19, 2025 at 12:41 AM