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RubyRouge (Emma) - 📝 HIATUS
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🇨🇦 MSc. expat in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | HSP introvert & hobbyist artist ✏️
Lvl. 28. 🔞 | Horticulturalist/Ecology enthusiast 🌱
Mainly SFW, but still adult! | No NFT / AI zone ❌

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Form 3: The Troll
#ocsky #inspirationmeme #monstergirl #troll
Filled inspiration template of Lulu’s “Troll” form based on the following from left to right: Row 1 (a cave-out view of a forest landscape with water streaming over the entrance, Radagast the Brown from ’The Hobbit’ trilogy, a view from inside a thriving, warmly lit DIY greenhouse), Row 2 (Zeniba fondly looking down at the critters knitting with No Face looking at her behind her from ‘Spirited Away’, a headshot of the braided, blue-eyed, orange-red-nosed Troll, the Witch from ‘Brave’ looking fondly at one of her bear carvings), and Row 3 (a background illustration of Beast’s expansive library from Disney’s ‘Beauty and the Beast', a bust of the creature Ludo from ‘Labyrinth', and a landscape shot of Shrek’s tree-based house lit by streaming sunlight).
November 8, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Form 2: The Ogress
#ocsky #inspirationmeme #monstergirl #orc #ogre
Filled inspiration template of Lulu’s “Ogress” form based on the following from left to right: Row 1 (a cloudy mountainous landscape, the 'Eye of the Needle' 'Slay the Princess' form, the backside of a transforming muscular bodybuilder from 'Love Lies Bleeding'), Row 2 (the bust of an armoured Brienne of Tarth from 'Game of Thrones', a headshot of the red-furred, blue-eyed, tusked Ogress, the AU warrior version of Princess Fiona from 'Shrek Forever After'), and Row 3 (a human-Predator depicted from one of the movie posters of 'Prey', a close up of a symbolic, yet bluntly designed axe-hammer weapon, and a close-up of wet, shiny brown-gray elemental rocks).
November 1, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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As part of the burst of creativity I’m experiencing during the spooky season, I’ve started brainstorming the distinctions I want to make for my Lulu’s possible futures as an “adult". ✏️

Form 1: The Beastess
#ocsky #inspirationmeme #monstergirl #beastess
Filled inspiration template of Lulu’s “Beastess” form based on the following from left to right: Row 1 (an leaf-littered path in the forest during autumn, an illustration of the Moomins, and Sulley holding a disguised Boo from ‘Monsters Inc.) / Row 2 (a image of one of the ‘good endings’ from ‘Slay the Princess’, a headshot of the red-furred, blue-eyed, tooth-grinned Beastess, and Totoro playing his instrument on top of a tree with his smaller allies from ‘My Neighbour Totoro’) / Row 3 (a segmented photograph depicting the different stages of metamorphosis depicting a multi-coloured butterfly emerging out of a cocoon, Disney’s Snow White laying and singing to a crowd of woodland animals in the daytime, and a stylistic bust depicting the Greek goddess Hestia looking down at warm, yellow flames emerging out of her hands).
October 26, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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If I do not have the time or space to dress up in a costume this Halloween, then I can always recreate a scenario to amuse myself for the spooky season instead. 🤭

(Is this is a sign I should get a monster-themed costume or onesie for myself someday? ❤️)
#ocsky #monstergirl #digitalart #halloween
As the sky turns to night in the woods, Lulu the Creature of Redwood and the blonde, woman artist are walking hand-in-hand to begin trick or treating. Lulu is dressed up in a pumpkin costume looking up excitedly at the costumed artist while holding her right hand and carrying a purple, spider-designed bucket in her right hand. The artist is dressed up in a red and tan monster costume inspired by Lulu’s design, having the hood pulled up for her to smile down excitedly at Lulu (while holding a circular Mike Wazowski-themed bucket in the crook of her left arm).
October 16, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Inspiration can sometimes strike from some pretty random places! I credit the posing of this piece from a ‘Call of Duty’ cosplayer holding an adorable My Melody plushie in a similar fashion.

My mind clearly went to fun places from that contrast. 🤭
Screenshot from a TikTok of a tall cosplayer dressed up as Ghost from the ‘Call of Duty’ franchise filming a reflection of themselves on their phone. In a room with an abstract black, red, and white poster on the wall behind them, they are holding their phone in their left hand while clutching a My Melody plushie close to their neck and chest in their right hand.
October 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Only felt appropriate to submit this now that I’ve started watching the ‘My Melody & Kuromi’ NetFlix series this week. 💖

Been meaning to try drawing a creature like an orc for some time now to continue with my musculature practice. 💪
#orctober #sanrio #mymelody #digitalart #fanart
Against a left-tilted background of a purple-outlined pink-highlighted squares, a large orc warrior is staring hard at the viewer while clutching in his right hand a dressed up My Melody close to his muscular chest protectively (holding a long battle axe behind his head in the other hand). He has long, flowing dark brown hair put up mainly in a “ponytail” save for one thick braid draping over his left shoulder. Outside of his “bracelets”, orange loin cloth covering his brown undergarments, and a band holding a jagged knife over his left thigh, his pierced face and torso are decorated in white paint streaks mimicking a skeleton (save for streaks of bright red lines tipping his pointed ears, and lining down from his forehead and eyes). My Melody is dressed up in a red, ruffled dress and forehead bow, and is blushing heavily in surprise to be held so close to his warm, hairy muscles.
October 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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A little mole is luckily shielded by a surprising forest traveller… 🍁

I enjoyed completing this #DTIYS piece in this period of continuously rainy and gray weather. 🌧️❤️

#digitalart #ocsky #rain
A DTIYS art piece based on Pauline’s mole traveller OC, who is sitting on a small hill of mud (in a landscape of sparse, tall green grass, and worms crawling around) with their star-studded staff propped up as it begins to rain. Attempting to cover their face with their left hand, they are looking up to see brown oak leaf draping over them like an umbrella. A larger clawed hand is holding this leaf, attached to a crouched red, furry OC creature with muddy feat and tan legs.
September 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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📢 Artists! Please quote-post your:

🔺 The first piece you did in 2025
🔺 Your favourite piece of 2025
🔺 Your most popular piece of 2025 (On BlueSky)
🔺 Your most recent piece of 2025
Surrounding the entrance of a shadowy cave is Nega!Shantae and her pose of monster girl enemies that you can encounter in the 'Shantae' franchise. From left to right is: Ikki, ScorGal, SlimeGal, BatGal, Bonelegs, Circus Squid, Naga, Mermaid, and WetGal. An AU scenario for the spring update of the ARG project "Welcome Home". In a grassy field, Julie Joyful sings and looks on happily at the mysterious dark flower finally opening up to her rainbow notes of fondness to reveal my OC Lulu sleeping peacefully wrapped in pink inner petals. In the background, Julie Joyful's siblings all react to this situation under the shade of the rainbow-coloured trees lining the border of the forest. Mermaid OC Serina smiling softly against a sparkly blue background on top of a layered oceanic rock. She has long, wavy auburn hair with a sea shell bra with mesh against her finned and tailed blue body outside of her humanoid features. She has pearls and star fish decorated in her hair and shoulders. Under a full moon in the middle of the night (shielded by dark tree outlines), a pair is staring at the viewer in a brick-fenced playground swing set. A snarling, blonde, blue-eyed werewolf woman is crouched and protectively holding a child close to her chest with her large, clawed hands. The little, pale, blonde girl is clutching her magenta and pink felted teddy bear in fear in her light blue pyjamas (holding the left thumb of her monstrous protector in her left hand).
September 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Another fellow water-type joining in. 💧
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September 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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For anybody wanting to, here is a template of my version that I made for this challenge. 👍
September 9, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Already entering the last third of the year, so I figured it would be fun to make my own contribution to this Bluesky trend. 💙
#the_colour_wheel #digitalart #meme
September 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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🎀⊹ Comfort OC Meme ⊹🍓
♡ Name: Lulu
♡ Species: Monstrous Critter Child (tbd)
♡ Fav Trait of OC: Her teal ringed horns that contrast her reddish fur
♡ How OC was Made: A doodle session for an in-person art club event
♡ Extra: She adores nature, but has a soft spot for undergrowth of ecosystems (🌼)
September 9, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Lulu is a creature of the wilderness, so she hates being forced to conform to artificial “girlhood”. 😒

Certain opinions and practices of what is expected of your appearance as a woman has brought me a lot of discomfort and pain (even into adulthood sadly). 😔
#ocsky #vent #digitalart #monstergirl
Dramatic art piece symbolically depicting the image-based scrutiny that many girls go through during their adolescence and/or once opinions and expectations are placed upon you to conform to a rigid view of feminine beauty. The beastly, turquoise-ringed horned critter child Lulu is snarling in anger making direct eye contact with the viewer as she struggles on a lit stage with turquoise pillars. Multiple dark gloved hands are forced her to “dress up” by roughly pulling on a tight, uncomfortable blue dress with a gray-tinted ribbon forced around her “waist”. Below combs roughly “brushing” her reddish hair is bloodshot eyes streaming tears as her face reacts poorly to the chemicals in the eye shadow, concealer, blush, and lipstick smeared on her face.
September 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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QRP with your woman art ✏️ 👘 🧹
#traditionalart #figuredrawing #women
Traditional life drawing of a female model in a finely crafted dress. There are 3 separate poses: first is crouching with a fan and stuffed animal, second is turned around to raise up her left leg, and third is twirling in the background with her arms out. Life drawing exercise of a female model dressed up in a witch's outfit. The front pose is her laying on the floor to tenderly look at a tabby cat on the chair to her right and the second pose has her back turned with her right hand on her hip and her left hand holding up a large broom.
September 7, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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A personal piece (to start exploring my relationship to anger and power) finished right in time for #WerewolfWednesday! 🐺

"Our beauty and our beast both arise from one and the same tenderness. When we harden against it, the beast is born."
— John Welwood (2007)
#vent #digitalart #monsterart
Under a full moon in the middle of the night (shielded by dark tree outlines), a pair is staring at the viewer in a brick-fenced playground swing set. A snarling, blonde, blue-eyed werewolf woman is crouched and protectively holding a child close to her chest with her large, clawed hands. The little, pale, blonde girl is clutching her magenta and pink felted teddy bear in fear in her light blue pyjamas (holding the left thumb of her monstrous protector in her left hand).
September 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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This is typically not what my loved ones mean when they joke about me being "my father's daughter" haha 😆

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September 3, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Thank you for hosting! I will be sharing some of my favourite recent pieces to celebrate. 😁
#digitalart #fanart #artfight #ocsky #poco #welcomehome
Bordered by a yellow square, Moon the silkie chicken girl, is happily smiling and swinging on a pink couch dangled by flowered vines against a swirling light-blue green background (with faint circles of “lights” in light green, blue, and purple). She is wearing her feathers up around her head with a pink bow with two pairs of blue beads curling her side parts. With faintly blue-tinted, small wings flared out behind her, she is sitting with a turquoise dress (with a yellow ribbon and pink and white striped ruffles around her waist) decorated in white, yellow, and pink polka dots (with two pink ruffled yellow pockets on either side) draped across the seat and her two legs dangling over the edge (which are decorated in pink and white-striped stockings). Tribute to the "good ending" of the free Steam game named 'Poco', where the titular clown protagonist is happily embraced by the homunculi residents of the Below World (all representing the human senses in their designs and personalities). The friendship group is set against a faintly striped dark green and turquoise background overlapped with teal and green leaves. An AU scenario for the spring update of the ARG project "Welcome Home". In a grassy field, Julie Joyful sings and looks on happily at the mysterious dark flower finally opening up to her rainbow notes of fondness to reveal my OC Lulu sleeping peacefully wrapped in pink inner petals. In the background, Julie Joyful's siblings all react to this situation under the shade of the rainbow-coloured trees lining the border of the forest. Seasonal breakdown of Lulu's monstrous possibilities, divided by different elements. Lulu the Critter is sitting on a patch of meadow grass and flowers while she smiles softly with flowers in her fur. From left to right: Beastess (purple background, crowned by flowers), Orc/Ogre (brown-red cave background, slate division), Troll (flower braids, tree branch divider), Wendigo (snowy background, emphasis on skeletal face), and Were (close-up of orange-furred bear/wolf-like creature snarling with drooling mouth and sharp teeth).
September 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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It has been heartwarming to explore my budding relationship to my beastly OC... and I did not anticipate the warm reception Lulu would receive. ❤️

With the difficulties I faced meaningfully concluding this project, I do want to thank everyone for your kind comments and support for this project! 😄
August 29, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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‘My Beloved Monster and Me’ - Finale
#ocsky #comicstrip #comics #webcomic
Finale for a short webcomic based on The Eels' song "My Beloved Monster" (in red, highlighted lettering) to depict my musings on my beastly OC icon "Lulu". First, large panel is the backs of Lulu and the blonde, female artist looking down a gray road weaving through a neighbourhood park with layers of green foliage creating a "tunnel" before the entrance. Below this is the following three panels: close-up of blue eyes exchanging glances (against a yellow-patterned background), a blue shoe and a beastly foot stepping forward (against a turquoise-patterned background), and a human hand interlocking fingers with a beastly hand (against a pink spotted background).
August 29, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Good day everyone! 👋 I'm Emma (RubyRouge online) and I'm a #CANartist hobbyist who likes to draw fantastical creatures, practice figure drawing, and complete other fanart and physical pieces for pleasure. ❤️
#fanart #cartoon #figuredrawing #ocsky
A tribute to the cartoon series of 'Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa' set in the desert plains. The blue, beefy cowboy Dakota Dude is angrily holding the con artist Jacques Le Beef to the left and the feisty cowgirl Cowlamity Kate has the henchmen Saddle Sore Scorpion and Boot Hill Buzzard wrapped up in her rope. Above them in a sunset is a vision of them in a "Gone With the Wind' style of romantic situation with dapper dressed Dakota loving holding up Kate in his arms, who is looking at with him with affection in an uncharacteristically girly and pink dress and ribbons in her auburn hair. Sketch compilation from a lined journal page. Depicted is a traditional character study of Erik from 'Phantom of the Opera' (1990): top left to bottom right is the following: Erik holding a piece of Christine's wig as he cries under a jester mask, an upper body of disfigured Erik as a child, a side profile of Erik facing the left in his classic opera uniform, Erik clutching his mask in his right knees as he despairs on his knees, a caped Erik based on the miniseries cover, and an attempt at creating his black, textured mask. Tribute to the "good ending" of the free Steam game named 'Poco', where the titular clown protagonist is happily embraced by the homunculi residents of the Below World (all representing the human senses in their designs and personalities). The friendship group is set against a faintly striped dark green and turquoise background overlapped with teal and green leaves. Seasonal breakdown of Lulu's monstrous possibilities, divided by different elements. Lulu the Critter is sitting on a patch of meadow grass and flowers while she smiles softly with flowers in her fur. From left to right: Beastess (purple background, crowned by flowers), Orc/Ogre (brown-red cave background, slate division), Troll (flower braids, tree branch divider), Wendigo (snowy background, emphasis on skeletal face), and Were (close-up of orange-furred bear/wolf-like creature snarling with drooling mouth and sharp teeth).
August 28, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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While I wasn’t part of the winning team for this year’s #artfight, it was fun to participate in a close race with so many newcomers joining in for their first time! 😁

I hope to take what I learned from this year to make more fun pieces next time. ❤️
Against a sparkly, layered pink splotchy background is a dark-skinned, curly haired magical girl smiling at the viewer. She has a orange theme to her outfit, including an orange striped, green-leafed summery top and bottoms with poofy sleeves, sparkling boots, and white thigh-high socks with green stripes. She is holding a giant orange in her arms like it's a beach ball. A young, red-skinned demon boy is smiling happily at the viewer while he chews on a cheekful of some of the gummy worms clutched in his left fist (while he holds a swirled magenta and cream-striped lollipop in his right hand). He is wearing a turquoise hat with a white and blue star, blue overalls, and a whimsically green/yellow/blue/purple striped and star sweater and sneakers. There are two golden bracelets on his wrists, golden ring on his heart-shaped tail, and earrings on his sharp ears. Behind him is a cloudy midday skyline with a lineless, turquoise ferris wheel as part of a carnival setting. Laid on top of a pink-splotched gray branch against a grassy meadow background is a femboy cicada OC named Carlos with brown curly hair and "fishnet" netting over his abdomen and "arms". He is mimicking a "blowing kiss" gesture with his right "hand", with a half-lidded expression over his red eyes. Against his gray body and orange-and-black segmented legs are golden lined wings with shiny, translucent cells. Bordered by a yellow square, Moon the silkie chicken girl, is happily smiling and swinging on a pink couch dangled by flowered vines against a swirling light-blue green background (with faint circles of “lights” in light green, blue, and purple). She is wearing her feathers up around her head with a pink bow with two pairs of blue beads curling her side parts. With faintly blue-tinted, small wings flared out behind her, she is sitting with a turquoise dress (with a yellow ribbon and pink and white striped ruffles around her waist) decorated in white, yellow, and pink polka dots (with two pink ruffled yellow pockets on either side) draped across the seat and her two legs dangling over the edge (which are decorated in pink and white-striped stockings).
August 27, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Post an old illustration you still like: ❄️
My tribute to the bittersweet ending of ‘Leafie: A Hen into the Wild’ that became surprisingly popular on DeviantArt (in spite of being a relatively unknown animated film). 💔
#fanart #digitalart #animation #leafieaheanintothewild
Fanart tribute to 'Leafie: A Hen into the Wild'; against a snowy circular border and a wintery background, Leafie on the left is smiling sadly and One-Eye the weasel is angrily crying on the right. Predator and prey, they are two characters touching hands bound by the determined protectiveness of motherhood.
August 22, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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A monstrously-themed personal piece #wip for a stormy #WerewolfWednesday today! 🐺

I've worked through multiple attempts I would later scrap, but I'm happy to be on my way with this version~
Icon screenshot of a digital WIP of a monstrously-themed personal piece, focusing on a scared blonde little girl in her blue pyjamas holding a pink knitted teddy bear in her arms. She is held close to the muscular chest of a crouched, snarling werewolf with her jaws barred and her large right hand covering the little girl's shoulders.
August 20, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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‘My Beloved Monster and Me’ - 11
#ocsky #comicstrip #comics #webcomic
Eleventh panel for a short webcomic based on The Eels' song "My Beloved Monster" (in red, highlighted lettering) to depict my musings on my beastly OC icon "Lulu". A side profile of a humanoid figure is sitting with their knees up looking downward pensively and positioned to the right. Inside their gray lineart is a light to dark blue gradient with white splotches as a “sky” with a fainter Lulu on her knees leaning forward (on what looks to be decaying dark ground with wilting orange flowers) and covering her face as if she’s sobbing into her hands. The background depicts a forest fire burning intensely to symbolically and literally represent ecological disaster and emotional damage that devastates both the character and the artist. With golden bordering and in a pink text box below is the red lyrics: “THAT’S SO DAMN MEAN".
August 19, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Anyone looking for a well-made bit of sweetness to have a (much needed!) break from the stress and negativity going on right now should check out a playthrough of or play the FREE 'Poco' game on Steam. 🥰📯

#poco #homunculus #fanart #digitalart
Tribute to the "good ending" of the free Steam game named 'Poco', where the titular clown protagonist is happily embraced by the homunculi residents of the Below World (all representing the human senses in their designs and personalities). The friendship group is set against a faintly striped dark green and turquoise background overlapped with teal and green leaves.
August 17, 2025 at 8:20 PM