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3 of spades white bunny

[cosplay] Sakizo Alice’s World – Three of Spades

The last of my ultimate cosplay goals, a Sakizo cosplay, let’s talk about it! For those of you who don’t know, Sakizo is an illustrator from Japan (website: http://sakizo.jp/) who has collaborated with lolita fashion designers to make dresses and other accessories, but also creates their own artbooks and calendars and stationery with gorgeously detailed …

sketch of a young woman with big wavy hair and a cottage core dress with a leafy frame

[artwork] June 2023 artwork (failed lol)

I didn’t get around to finishing a monthly piece of art for June this year. I want to make the excuse of working on two costumes for summer cons but honestly, I couldn’t muster the focus to draw anything after work. Here is the usual midnight sketch this time in a moleskin mini sketchbook I …

back view of Xinyan cosplay with homemade drum backpack

[cosplay] Xinyan from Genshin Impact

I wanted to start posting long-form content on this blog for archival purposes rather than social media, and which better than my latest cosplay from the game Genshin Impact, Xinyan! Xinyan is a punk rock musician from Liyue and her costume is relatively simple compared to other Liyue characters, but still has a lot of …

10 months of art lol

[artwork] 2020 in review – art survey

Here is my yearly art survey, 1 piece of artwork from each month. Obviously, due to the pandemic and ensuing depression, there were a few months in which I managed zero or only one piece of art. I don’t expect this year to be too much better, but at least the government will only be …

[music] new techno track clip

Here is my first foray into producing techno music with my own vocal (lol) and samples from electronic music free tracks, 30 seconds. It’s laughably simple, but I have never made a song before, so hopefully I will produce newer and better songs in the future, if we even have a future anymore.

[shop] ko-fi.com shop and commissions are open

Just spent some time cleaning up my ko-fi site https://ko-fi.com/insomniel Please feel free to shop for mini prints and button badges from anime and games, as well as acrylic charms, enamel pins and icon or badge commissions. I will only have 5 commission slots available so if you want to get them before the holidays, …