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wooooow being on a classic forum like this brings me BACK. this is crazy.

anyways, hi! you can call me riley, r, or honestly whatever you want, idc. i'm 22,genderqueer, use they/it, and i'm from the northeastern us. i recently graduated with a degree in illustration!

i've been drawing since i was an elementary schooler who became enamored with character design. i hit all the cringe online interests as i grew up, from warrior cats to homestuck to steven universe to pokemon (and now i'm back to warrior cats LMFAO). i also love star wars, weird 90s sci-fi, and horror musicals.

currently, my main artistic inspirations are classical mythology, art nouveau, and psychedelic art. i'd do unspeakable things to be able to draw like alphonse mucha.

my degree concentrated on children's media, and for my thesis project i actually made a pitch deck for an educational kids' show. my current big artistic projects are portraits of lesser-known aspects of the greek gods and a zine of illustrations of aesop's fables.

great to meet y'all, and happy to be here! <33

omg star wars hiiiiiiiiii

i'd LOOOOOVE to see your art!
also hello welcome art-college-degree-haver

and welcome.... HOMESTUCK FAAAN. you can really escape homestuck but homestuck can never escape you. ))

who's your fav char? what's your classpect (EYES EMOJI)

hello!! so nice to meet you, love how many people who love character design are on here. also glad to see another alphonse mucha lover! are you familiar with the slav epic series? your work seems lovely from what i've seen in your links!

oh also super curious about your projects! especially the zine! will they be available anywhere online once you are finished with them?

hello, riley!! i LOVE your icon speaking of hitting all the cringe interests, i gotta ask: did you ever have an edgy sonic OC phase? it's always the first thing that comes to mind when i think about internet cringe

(i'm speaking from experience, i was knee deep in the trenches on dA back then)

Ohhh I’m really excited to see your work! That combo of interests and passion history combined with schooling sounds like itd create some REALLY cool stuff. Nice to meet you!