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thousandwrecks · 4 months

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I almost didn't bother buttttttttt it would make me cranky to have a year missing bc NEXT YEAR WILL BE GODDAMN BETTER. IT WILL.

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#year end retrospective #cloven art

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thousandwrecks · 4 months

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2023 was the year I accidentally fell in love with Stray Kids, which I didn't have on my bingo card but they are truly just so hard to resist. So I made a sticker. :)

[it's on storenvy if you need it in your life]

#stray kids #skz #skzoo #cloven art #I also finally reopened my shop if anyone was hankering

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thousandwrecks · 5 months

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I set out to do huevember and stalled out real hard after the first week. idk if I'll circle back to it BUT UHHHH HERE'S THE FIRST HANDFUL

#cloven art #huevember #blaaaah blaghalf asdklfajsd #I am frustrated

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thousandwrecks · 7 months

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Reworking old art is such a funny thing. It's sort of like trying to clean a sketch layer and managing to destroy the part of the piece that gave it life. Something something the lack of refinement/life experience is the thing that makes it work and reeling it in wrings the spark out.

But anyway. I was invited to show some art at a favorite local haunt and I knew I didn't have the spoons to whip out new pieces that I'd be happy with, so I took these old faves and tried to do something with them.

I highly recommend adding rhinestones to literally anything in your life, because it is soooo good.

#cloven art #still finding rhinestones in my bed

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thousandwrecks · 7 months

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Many years ago I made a skull mold to mess around with and this summer I decided to just use up the rest of my plaster and make weird things no one asked for with it. MISSION SUCCESS but it also wore out the mold so now I wanna make a new one so I can keep making these strange little treasures. are they blessed are they cursed no one knows

#cloven art #sculpture #I keep finding rhinestones in my bed which is a new experience

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thousandwrecks · 9 months

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2023 has been such a deeply awful and weird year. I stopped drawing for a very long time and I quit my job and now I'm just treading water, trying to remember how to find joy in art. we'll get there in the end.

#cloven art #tw blood

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thousandwrecks · 1 year

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My coping mechanisms have broadened to include random runs of experimental stickers. Makes the brain go brrrrrrr

#first three are still available #the rest had their brief time in the sun #cloven art #cw insects

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thousandwrecks · 1 year

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Hello!

I ended up going through two years worth of your art and decided I needed to have some prints of yours. However when I went clink the link to store envy, it just goes to the main page. And when I entered your info into store envy it says you don't exist. :( Any chance you still have a store going? If not, no stress! I just wanted to show some appreciation for your gorgeous work. :)

Hello! Thank you so, so much. This is the latest reply in the world and I am so sorry; life has been kicking my ass for a while and I knew I needed to actually take note of what my stock actually is before reopening my store.

But now I have my Storenvy completely up to date and and open for business! A lot of things are marked as pre-order, but that's just because a shipment is on its way. I expect I'll have everything in hand by next week, at which point things will get shipped really quickly. There are some brand new things and some old classics and I'm happy to get things moving. :)

thousandwrecks.storenvy.com

#cloven qanda #executive disfunction is no joke #but it's nice to feel like I can take a breath #finally

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thousandwrecks · 1 year

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I don't have a pithy shiny wrap-up for 2022 and I'm okay with that. It's not that I didn't draw anything this year....keeping track just doesn't feel like it matters the way it used to. Also I don't have access to some of the stuff from earlier this year because my external hard drive that holds all the things died and I haven't gotten it fixed yet because it is so expensive.

So, a recap:

I made a lot of things I'm proud of. I started teaching. I knitted a LOT. I got covid and proceeded to draw nsfw stuff like it was the end of the world. I struggled with work-life balance because that's how I'm built and also my workplace is basically on fire all the time now. I went to SPX and found so much joy and inspiration. I forged some of the strongest friendships I've ever had. I had to do a lot of stupidly expensive adult things. I found strength in my boundaries and voice.

Basically, I'm spending the end of this year practicing kindness with myself. I'm still here and I'm still making things. I hope you can also approach the end of the year with kindness for yourself. Do what makes you happy. Strive for better things but forgive yourself if you aren't there yet.

We're all just doing our best. ❤️

#year end retrospective #everyone go back up your stuff #do it for me

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thousandwrecks · 2 years

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I'm gonna be at my first SPX with @nanelsonart next week!! I've been wanting to go for literally years and I'm so excited to finally get the chance to be there. Also now I get to try to remember what it's like to vend at a con, whew. Come see us at W75 for cute and weird art or just a nice high five.

#con stuff #small press expo #spx

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thousandwrecks · 2 years

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My piece for Sparkle and Sea, a charity merbook from earlier this spring.

#cloven art #original

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thousandwrecks · 2 years

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𝒹𝒶𝓃𝓍𝒾𝒶 His Highness Who Pleased the Gods

For The Dawn of Spring, a flower symbolism-themed anthology. There are seconds on sale here if you missed pre-orders. :)

#tian guan ci fu #tgcf #xie lian #mxtx #mo xiang tong xiu #fanart #cloven art #feeling wonky and sad and I wish to post #and this is one of my favorite things I've drawn in the last year or so

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thousandwrecks · 2 years

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Aaaand a final @mxtxfanworkbook piece; this is to accompany a fic by @sansatully!

#mxtx #mo xiang tong xiu #mo dao zu shi #mdzs #nie mingjue #lan xichen #jin guangyao #3zun #blood/#cloven art #fanart

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thousandwrecks · 2 years

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More @mxtxfanworkbook! I have a deep love of Song Lan and Xiao Xingchen and what a powerhouse they could have been before things went wrong.

#song lan #xiao xingchen #mxtx #mo xiang tong xiu #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #cloven art #fanart

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thousandwrecks · 2 years

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I had the great pleasure of being a part of @mxtxfanworkbook last year and got to draw some of my faves. This was a bonus print! I wanted to post detail shots of this but I have a dead hard drive on my hands and the original is locked away on it.

#mxtx #mo xiang tong xiu #tian guan ci fu #tgcf #hua cheng #xie lian #cloven art #fanart

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thousandwrecks · 2 years

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Another redraw for @shousetsubangbang's Coming Around Again issue, this time of the very first piece I ever created for the zine in 2014 [removed from Tumblr bc offfff everyone's favorite TOS].

In this redux I actually backed up some lore by digging around into research of the huldra, Scandinavian forest guardians who present as seductively beautiful women but possess cow or fox tails and/or their backs resemble hollowed-out trees. Huldra can be kind if treated with respect but can also control natural forces to wreak havoc if humans are troublesome.

#s2b2 #original #cloven art

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thousandwrecks · 2 years

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A new issue of @shousetsubangbang is out and the theme is Coming Around Again, aka remixes, aka a chance for me to redo some of my old art!!

This is a redraw of this piece from six years ago, which I have always been a bit dissatisfied with. I liked the concept but the execution felt so lackluster and I could never quite put my finger on why. I'm much, much happier with this version and drawing it worked out a lot of rust from my brain.

#s2b2 #original #cloven art #when I tell you how much I had to fiddle with manikin and sketchup to wrap my brain around this pose

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