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Starite 🌟
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erik ⭑ he/him ⭑ queer ⭑ twenty-something ⭑ 🇳🇴🇺🇸 retro artist & life enjoyer 👍 portfolio: starite.neocities.org icon by @geoledgy.bsky.social!
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Starite 🌟 @starite.bsky.social · Nov 12
hi, i’m starite 🎨✌️
i make midcentury/retro-inspired art of my OCs (and sometimes fanart too!)

🔹 tumblr: stariteart.tumblr.com
🔸 artfight: artfight.net/~starite

{ #art • #cartoon • #retro • #originalcharacter }
tor, soleil, fritz, and basil (listed from left to right) sitting around a table in a colorful midcentury living room and chatting happily karl-peter in a run-down urban environment with smog and abandoned buildings, having just hopped out of his tiny blue car, wearing a shocked expression as if alarmed by a strange noise lena sitting in front of a red stage curtain, gazing coolly towards the viewer as she rests her hand upon a cheetah’s back
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Starite 🌟 @starite.bsky.social · 56m
obligatory plug for robert sakhayants “wow, a talking fish!”
Sahakyants R. Wow, a talking fish! (Armenfilm, 1983)
YouTube video by Евгений Пустошкин. Психолог [Eugene Pustoshkin]
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splendidland🌱 @splendid.land · 8h
the animation in the zelda cdi games is good, gamers just weren't ready for their eastern european swag
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Starite 🌟 @starite.bsky.social · 1d
hello #PortfolioDay! my name is erik and i'm an illustrator in new york enamored with midcentury print media and aesthetics.

my portfolio is at starite.neocities.org! 🖼️🎨
a young woman with red hair in long pigtails sitting on her bed, surrounded by posters on the walls a young man wearing a sailor shirt and shorts looking up in fear, surrounded by glowing eyes in different shapes and colors comic-style illustration of two pokemon, ludicolo and milotic, engaged in battle. ludicolo is scattering seeds onto milotic, beaten up and lying on the ground
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🔞🪅 jasper pantomime 🎠🎟️ (comms open) @clownhospital.bsky.social · 19h
#portfolioday #illustration
hi im jasper
linktr.ee/clownhospital
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Aieek!!! 🎃✨ @aikaikaik.bsky.social · 1d
It's #PortfolioDay! I'm an illustrator, 2D Animator and Compositor that loves spooky and silly toons with a early 2000s flair ✨ Currently looking for remote or in-house positions.

🎨 kiajensen.wixsite.com/portfolio
✉️ aikaikaik.carrd.co
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Starite 🌟 @starite.bsky.social · 1d
i want to make oc playlists so bad but i never know whether they should be music they would listen to or music that just fits their personality/story/overall vibe
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Beren's Reverie @berensreverie.bsky.social · 1d
Baby Griffin to brighten your day :D

#dragonage #berensart2025
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Starite 🌟 @starite.bsky.social · 1d
forgot to add this but i’m also on tumblr at stariteart.tumblr.com!
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Starite 🌟 @starite.bsky.social · 14d
oc-tober day 1: new oc
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renate michaelis in her bedroom, mid-1960s

#bweirdoctober2025 #art #artsky #originalcharacter #ocart #ocsky #illustration #retro #vintage #cartoon
a vintage-style illustration of renate, a young light-skinned woman with long red pigtails wearing a plaid shirt and jeans(!) sitting on her bed. she is looking to her left with a slight smile. next to her are some magazines and a small pile of clothes. the shelf in the bed’s headboard holds a pile of books, some beverages, and an exa 500 camera. a soccer ball and a cardboard box are on the floor. the walls are decorated with album covers, posters, and postcards. the whole illustration is rendered in orange, dark green, and brown.
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Starite 🌟 @starite.bsky.social · 5d
oc-tober day 10: symbolism/themes
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beneath the unrelenting stare

#bweirdoctober2025 #art #artsky #originalcharacter #ocart #ocsky #illustration #retro #vintage #cartoon
fritz, a young man wearing a sailor shirt and shorts, standing with his hands behind his back and looking up. he is drawn without a mouth. surrounding him are many eyes in different shapes, sizes, and colors, all staring in his direction.
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Starite 🌟 @starite.bsky.social · 2d
oc-tober day 13: animal
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comrade schmidt photographed with his dog, tasso - the third dachshund he’s owned with the same name, color, and disagreeable personality

#bweirdoctober2025 #art #artsky #originalcharacter #ocart #ocsky #illustration #retro #vintage #cartoon
a portrait of karl-peter schmidt, a blond man with a tan suit and square glasses, holding a brown dachshund in his arms and standing in front of a yellow-green wallpapered backdrop. both of the portrait’s subjects are glowering at the camera.
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Starite 🌟 @starite.bsky.social · 1d
hello #PortfolioDay! my name is erik and i'm an illustrator in new york enamored with midcentury print media and aesthetics.

my portfolio is at starite.neocities.org! 🖼️🎨
a young woman with red hair in long pigtails sitting on her bed, surrounded by posters on the walls a young man wearing a sailor shirt and shorts looking up in fear, surrounded by glowing eyes in different shapes and colors comic-style illustration of two pokemon, ludicolo and milotic, engaged in battle. ludicolo is scattering seeds onto milotic, beaten up and lying on the ground
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Starite 🌟 @starite.bsky.social · 1d
IT’S SO GOOD
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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 1d
"You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you."

- Miss Major, 2023 💔
One of the things I hear with some younger trans people I know is they feel, "I'm gonna get this surgery, and I'm gonna learn that way of speaking, and I'm gonna be done." You're never done. If you're a straight, cisgender person, you're never done. Things are always happening that have the potential to change you. So all I am today is not who I'm gonna be tomorrow, because of the things that happened to me today and later tonight. People forget that. "Oh, after I transition, I'm gonna be through." Well, good luck with that. 'Cause if you're through, then it's time to leave, you know, and I don't wanna go anywhere yet. I'm in my seventies. Why didn't I stop? Number one is community. My gurls. I've had moments of thinking about stopping, but I didn't. I made sure I would step back, reju- venate myself, and then got back out there, and that's how you make a way. Our stories are not all the same, but the destination is: to get some place where we have some peace and harmony, and we can be at ease with ourselves and the people around us. You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you.
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Mavis 👑🌊🌙 [FINAL BOSS] @mavisdeluna.art · 1d
Happy Indigenous People’s Day! Did you know I have a starter pack for Black and Indigenous artists? ✨

If you’re looking for Indigenous artists to support, this pack is full of them!
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Mavis 👑🌊🌙 [FINAL BOSS] @mavisdeluna.art · 21d
My starter pack for Black and Indigenous artists is now FULL!

Thank you to everyone who contributed, tagged their friends, and submitted!

Please share this starter pack and support Black and Indigenous artists 💖

(NOTE: There are NSFW artists in this pack, myself included.)
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Starite 🌟 @starite.bsky.social · 1d
(you might remember him from this piece!)
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Starite 🌟 @starite.bsky.social · Dec 10
karl-peter and lena discuss pet ownership 🐶🐱

#art #originalcharacter #ocsky #ocart #retro #vintage #cartoon
lena (a blonde woman in a green military uniform) and karl-peter (a blond man in a tan suit) standing next to each other in an office set up as a listening post. karl-peter holds a brown dachshund as lena looks on and tells him: "my precious little girl could eat your stupid pooch for dinner!" two thought bubbles show that karl-peter imagines this "precious little girl" to be an intimidating gray dog with a spiked collar, while lena thinks of her actual pet: a cheetah with a content expression and a heart-shaped tag on its collar.
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Sennamatic @sennamatic.bsky.social · 2d
Hey if you guys can spare literally three minutes can you click to send a letter demanding they don't build a data center by my house? It would mean so much to me 💕
actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
Stop the Hydro Park Data Center
We need to be loud about out opposition to the data center! There is so much not to like: the impact to the water, air, and land, the health effects to surrounding communities, the tax money, the war ...
actionnetwork.org
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Sammy 🧪⚡ @redrumrose.bsky.social · 2d
OCtober Day 13 - Choose Your Own Adventure - Pallette Challenge 🎶🕺

"Don't be square, head on over!"
#bweirdoctober #bweirdoctober2025 #OC-tober #retro #vintage #cartoon #art #redrumrose
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Starite 🌟 @starite.bsky.social · 2d
oc-tober day 13: animal
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comrade schmidt photographed with his dog, tasso - the third dachshund he’s owned with the same name, color, and disagreeable personality

#bweirdoctober2025 #art #artsky #originalcharacter #ocart #ocsky #illustration #retro #vintage #cartoon
a portrait of karl-peter schmidt, a blond man with a tan suit and square glasses, holding a brown dachshund in his arms and standing in front of a yellow-green wallpapered backdrop. both of the portrait’s subjects are glowering at the camera.
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Sahar ⟀ @cathlynsa.bsky.social · 3d
'ANYMALS' puzzle game by Galt Toys ∘ Designed by Ken Garland ∘ Artwork by Daria Gan, 1960s.
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Paratonia @paratonia.bsky.social · 2d
13 – train

#OC-tober #OC-tober2025
Ink sketch of a man in a dark overcoat running in front of an armoured train. He is holding a pair of signal flags.
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Pepe Reyes @suscipepe.bsky.social · 4d
Two toned tiger #art #illustration
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merritt @merrittk.com · 3d
s/o to everyone from working class backgrounds in the arts and entertainment who clawed their way to where they are without the benefit of family wealth, career experience, or connections
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Starite 🌟 @starite.bsky.social · 3d
thank you! eyes are so fun to draw 👁️👁️
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Starite 🌟 @starite.bsky.social · 3d
they do sell some color catalogs (in the form of pdfs including the colors/values, pics of their sources, and some context for each one)! colorlab also comes with this huge chart showing every color you can make using its brushes
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