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Ari Ganahl- Commissions Open!

@arithetonberry.bsky.social

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Multi-media artist and squid enthusiast. Occasionally NSFW. Check my art feed 🖌️ to see the stuff I make 💼: ariganahl.com ✉️: [email protected] Open for work- especially in comics or book design

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Ari Ganahl- Commissions Open! @arithetonberry.bsky.social · Jul 17

Hello! I'm Ari, a multi-media artist from Chicago.
I make:

🦈Comics and zines, including trans smut
🐠Ocean-inspired illustrations
🐡Laser cut jewelry and puzzles
🦑Hand-bound sketchbooks and notebooks
🐙Whatever YOU want to pay me to draw! (ex in 🧵)

ariganahl.com/shop
ko-fi.com/ariganahl/co...

Papercraft illustration of a nautilus catching a shrimp

Laser cut wooden earrings of goldfish in a fishbowl

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Ari Ganahl- Commissions Open! @arithetonberry.bsky.social · 7h

Alas, despite hearing references to that movie for my whole life I've never actually been inclined to watch it

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Ari Ganahl- Commissions Open! @arithetonberry.bsky.social · 7h

Creator of Frogsong is making a new game!!!!

Bee! @brodnork.bsky.social · 13h

My exploration-focused metroidvania, STOMP AND THE SWORD OF MIRACLES, is now LIVE on Kickstarter!

Explore a world full of lost secrets, meet a cast of charming characters, and use the creatures around you to your advantage to reach new heights.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/bee...

DEMO LINKS BELOW

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Ari Ganahl- Commissions Open! @arithetonberry.bsky.social · 10h

chicago is not perfect but rn evil is being done TO it and the land and the people who live here deserve better

Ari Ganahl- Commissions Open! @arithetonberry.bsky.social · 10h

someone asked what it would take for me to leave and I don't know man what would it take for you to want to stay and fight for a place that raised you and housed you and made you what you are. what would it take for you to put roots in the soil.

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Ari Ganahl- Commissions Open! @arithetonberry.bsky.social · 10h

i don't know how to be on social media rn. all i want to talk about is how much i love chicago and what it's like being here rn but i also don't post about my irl actions so I don't know what to say

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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 11h

A few messages seen today in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood

A poster on a pole next to a street says:
“ICE YOU ARE NOT INVISIBLE
!RECORD!
!RECORD!
!RECORD!
NAZI RATS LEAVE OUR CITY”

A stack of posters featuring a hammer-wielding figure with the stars of the Chicago wrapped around his torso. It says:
“I PREFER MY ICE CRUSHED. END IMMIGRATION ARRESTS, DEFEND OUR SANCTUARY”

A sign in a store window says: “WE DON’T [SERVE is crossed out] FEED ICE OR PIGS! even if you steal this sign”

The words “ICE OUT” are written in chalk on a sidewalk.

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Melissa Sue Stanley 🌿✨🍄 IX Showcase, October @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 17h

A good recipe and excellent notes on what's happening in Chicago today. 💖

Sarah Becan @sarahbecan.bsky.social · 17h

New Sauceome comic this week, because it's winter squash season!

(also, a little rumination about what's up in Chicago these days)

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Roasting Winter Squash

It’s winter squash season! I drew this using butternut squash, but this method works for pretty much any winter squash: acorn, autumn frost, delicata,...

buttondown.com

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Ari Ganahl- Commissions Open! @arithetonberry.bsky.social · 1d

I love how this cicada came out- will definitely be making more :) 🐡🧩

painted cicada magnet in green, yellow, and orange

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Ari Ganahl- Commissions Open! @arithetonberry.bsky.social · 1d

Dusky nembrotha, sea bunny, and chromodoris elizabethina 🐡🧩

Hand-painted laser cut wooden magnets that look like sea slugs

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Ari Ganahl- Commissions Open! @arithetonberry.bsky.social · 1d

Made some very Ari-coded magnets this week. This is only some of them, I'll take more photos of whatever doesn't sell today 🧩🐠

Hand painted laser-cut magnets: egg with bear yolk, radish, sea slugs, ghost, cicada

Hand painted laser-cut magnets: bee, beetles, worm, fish, sea star, pigeon

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Ari Ganahl- Commissions Open! @arithetonberry.bsky.social · 1d

I love how this cicada came out- will definitely be making more :) 🐡🧩

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Ari Ganahl- Commissions Open! @arithetonberry.bsky.social · 1d

Dusky nembrotha, sea bunny, and chromodoris elizabethina 🐡🧩

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Ari Ganahl- Commissions Open! @arithetonberry.bsky.social · 1d

Made some very Ari-coded magnets this week. This is only some of them, I'll take more photos of whatever doesn't sell today 🧩🐠

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 1d

Living between the abject horror of state violence and the sweetness of the solidarity we are all building to face said violence—canvassing our neighborhoods with KYR literature, migra watch shifts, signal chats full of love and outrage. Thank God for everyone stepping up to meet this moment.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

I'm so proud of everyone from my old neighborhood of Rogers Park in Chicago. I see what you have been and are doing. I am so proud of how organized the community is and how much more so everyone is becoming. It is inspiring. Just one example... And this is something EVERYONE can do. Everyone.

Informational flyer about Rogers Park Whistle Protocols, explaining how to use whistles to alert neighbors of emergencies, with color-coded alerts, steps for use, and encouragement to form a crowd and stay loud for safety.

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Anti_dev @antidev.bsky.social · 23d

The thing they don’t understand about drawing NSFW is that it’s a roleplay with yourself. It’s an expression of your ideas and fantasies, made entirely by you, in a way that can’t hurt anybody. Needing the characters to consent is ludicrous: I’m the artist and *I* consent. I’m the only participant.

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Ari Ganahl- Commissions Open! @arithetonberry.bsky.social · 3d

I wanted to do kinktober but between starting my new job, getting covid, and watching my city get overrun with ❄️ this really just isn't the month for me to lock in on art 😭

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Ari Ganahl- Commissions Open! @arithetonberry.bsky.social · 19d

Mourning Dove in a park

#🪶 🐡 🖌

Digital illustration drawn with swirly lines and halftones of a mourning dove on grass. Trees and a path are visible in the background

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Ari Ganahl- Commissions Open! @arithetonberry.bsky.social · 11d

Coconut octopus commission for fasterthanthelevator on tumblr!

I take commissions on ko-fi ko-fi.com/ariganahl

Digital illustration of a coconut octopus inside a scallop shell. A snail shell and glass mug are in the sandscape behind the octopus. Beneath the octopus are various stages of a coconut being split open and hollowed out to just the shell.

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Ari Ganahl- Commissions Open! @arithetonberry.bsky.social · 9d

#kinktober Day 01: Frogtie 🔞
(I will not be doing this daily, nor using a prompt list)

Trans man frogtied and crying, lily pads and a single frog surround him

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Ari Ganahl- Commissions Open! @arithetonberry.bsky.social · 4d

Local man is TIRED of BEING SICK

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Michaela ✨ Wicked Wire Crafts @wickedwirecrafts.bsky.social · 4d

Picking flowers for his ghoulfriend 👻🌸 This thulite & moonstone pendant will be part of tomorrow’s shop update. Tag your boo 🥰

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 4d

feds have been all over chicagoland today.

reports of people abducted from back of the yards, cicero, rogers park, hermosa, barrington, batavia, and bridgeview.

feds are out in force in aurora. not sharing video, but residents have likewise turned out in force—and they aren't happy.

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SAHASA 🐙 @sculptedreef.com · 5d

🩵 Everybody's favorite and uniquely colorful Octopus species 🐙 O. briareus 😌 (Caribbean Reef Octopus)

🐙 Hand sculpted from clay
🪸 Patiently made from tiny glass beads

#ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #Sculpture #Octopus #MarineLife #CoralReef #ArtSale #BSNM #Invertebrates 🦑🐡

A close up of a fairly large sculpture depicting the species Caribbean Reef Octopus, a bluish teal octopus with a maroon webbed pattern.

A small sculpture depicting the species Caribbean Reef Octopus. A bluish teal octopus with warm bronze patches. It is holding a genuine pearl.

A mixed media artwork featuring a hand sculpted octopus depicting the species Caribbean Reef Octopus. With many colorful hand crafted corals made from tiny glass beads.

A close up of a Caribbean Reef Octopus sculpture with some beaded corals.

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Isaiah D. Colbert @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social · 6d

Makoto Yukimura was worried that Vinland Saga's farming arc and "I have no enemies" moment was a gamble that readers wouldn't like. I told him about the J. Cole meme from the Kendrick Lamar and Drake rap beef. This is how he reacted.

If “I have no enemies” has become a meme and people remember it, then maybe people will understand what I’m really trying to say through the story, which is that humans are immature, but we can mature. To become mature is to become kind. This is the foundation of what I’m trying to say, but it really has to be much shorter for people to remember. But it does give me hope that people remember these short phrases as memes. Then, one day, it will click in their mind what I was trying to really say in the first place.

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