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Monique Valaquen 🐲

@therandomgirlxd.bsky.social

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🎨🐲 Artist and Animator from 🇨🇦 🌌 Current interests: 80s Music, Heavy Metal, French Music, Eurodance, Disco Polo, Animation, Art, Dragons, Fortnite, Gex, Starbarians, Hellaverse, etc ✨ All my socials can be found here: linktr.ee/TheRandomgirlXD

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Monique Valaquen 🐲 @therandomgirlxd.bsky.social · Oct 31

#promosky ( #MeetTheArtist Edition! ) @bsky.art #Art

Name: Monika
Tools of Trade: Pencil, Paper, XP Pen Tablet, Clip Studio Paint, etc
Fav Artists: Atsuko Shima, Ralph Bakshi, Chris Achilleos, etc
Fav things to draw: Music Fan Art, Concept Art Stuff, Dragons, etc

And here's 4 of my art pieces!:

Me and Pete Burns from Dead or Alive (Specifically a look of his from 1987)!

A gift that I drew for a friend on Instagram of one of his OCs!

Billy Ze Kick (But if she was a character from -M-'s Rêvalité album)!

Muriel Moreno from the Niagara - Flammes de l'enfer music video!

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Retro Game Art 🎮🖼️🎃🦇 @retrogameart.bsky.social · 10d

Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko ad (1999)

#retro #art #gaming #Gex

Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko ad (1999)
Eidos
PlayStation
1999

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Monique Valaquen 🐲 @therandomgirlxd.bsky.social · 20d

Recent art banner commission I did for Tofucookie88 on Twitch!

This was a huge art commission that took around 4 - 5 days to complete. Probably the most time I've ever spent on a commission so far.

#artcommission #commission #art #fanart #digitalart #promosky #bannerart #videogames #artsky

Monique Valaquen 🐲 @therandomgirlxd.bsky.social · Sep 8

Been obsessed with this song and video recently!

I just love all the practical effects here. Costumes are great for what they are and the background sets are pretty cool. It kind of looks like a jumble of different fantasy ideas, but hey, it was the 90s. youtu.be/7IOyPtboJSA?...

#Pharao #eurodance

PHARAO - World Of Magic

YouTube video by VJBixMix

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Monique Valaquen 🐲 @therandomgirlxd.bsky.social · Sep 5

That cancelled TV show you'll never stop thinking about.

I'm probably the only one, but I really loved Loonatics Unleashed both back when I was watching it as a kid and now. Was the show perfect? Of course not, but I thought the concept was really fun.

- #LoonaticsUnleashed #promosky #TVshow

OG promo art of the first season of Loonatics Unleashed (2005)

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Yandere Hatchet-Lynx @animatronikki.bsky.social · Sep 3

In honor of the tragic shutting down of Nelvana studios, here's a bit of fan art of some of my favorite characters: Jan, Dan, and Weez Weezel from The Devil And Daniel Mouse! Nelvana may be gone, but don't you be depressed - Just look where the music can take you, if you let it go!

#Nelvana

Color drawing of characters from The Devil And Daniel Mouse, showing Dan with his guitar, and Jan swinging on Weez Weezel's arm with text reading: "Music can save your soul! And a song from the heart beats the Devil every time!"

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Monique Valaquen 🐲 @therandomgirlxd.bsky.social · Sep 4

That's a good one!

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Monique Valaquen 🐲 @therandomgirlxd.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thanks!

Monique Valaquen 🐲 @therandomgirlxd.bsky.social · Sep 3

Making another #promosky and #musicsky since I've been bumping to a lot of old and new stuff lately. If you like any of the artists mentioned, feel free to say hi!

~ Katseye
~ Sabrina Carpenter
~ Play & Mix
~ Rush
~ Niagara (🇫🇷)
~ Dead or Alive
~ Karolina (🇵🇱)
~ Artillery
~ Armory
~ Liege Lord

Monique Valaquen 🐲 @therandomgirlxd.bsky.social · Sep 3

Note to self: Gifs don't 100% work on Bluesky but MP4 files seem to do just fine.

Monique Valaquen 🐲 @therandomgirlxd.bsky.social · Sep 3

If you see this, QTP with a title screen that's iconic to you!

Too much nostalgia for Gex. I wanna reanimate this title screen someday!

#Gaming #Promosky #Retro #Gex #GexTheGecko #PS1 #3DO #SegaSaturn #Videogames #Videogame #Gamingsky #90s #1990s #90snostalgia #Platformer

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Monique Valaquen 🐲 @therandomgirlxd.bsky.social · Sep 2

Probably the worst news I've heard in a while. 💔 I grew up with so many of the shows and movies by this company. Any Canadian my age or older can tell you just how important and a power house Nelvana was for Canadian art and animation.

Thank you for all the memories Nelvana 💔

- #Nelvana #Canada

ToonHive @toonhive.bsky.social · Sep 2

Nelvana, one of Canada’s most biggest animation studios has reportedly shut down after 54 years. (1974-2025).

Workers are saying the studio has closed down its doors last Friday.

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Fran Barra (G to PG-13) @gfurriends.bsky.social · Sep 2

1987 Nelvana logo, animated by Darlie Brewster.

Godspeed, #Nelvana 🇨🇦 .
(1971-2025)

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dims @hapbajl.bsky.social · Jul 27

last week was my birthday lol

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Monique Valaquen 🐲 @therandomgirlxd.bsky.social · Sep 1

Did a little birthday present for my awesome friend @hapbajl.bsky.social since it was his birthday a while ago! I drew his cat persona as a slug cat from the video game Rain World since he's a huge fan of that game right now. Hope you had an awesome birthday Dims!

#Rainworld #art #gift #promosky

Monique Valaquen 🐲 @therandomgirlxd.bsky.social · Aug 29

POV: My tastes in music struggling to co-exist

--- #meme #memes #musicmeme #videogames #frenchmusic #Synthpop #NewWave #Polishmusic #French #Polish #metalmusic #heavymetal #TheOffice #80smusic #90smusic #promosky

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Monique Valaquen 🐲 @therandomgirlxd.bsky.social · Aug 29

Overall, 'Man's Best Friend' by Sabrina Carpenter is definitely already getting a favorable score from me!

Fav / stand out tracks for me: 'Tears' and 'Nobody's Son'.

Monique Valaquen 🐲 @therandomgirlxd.bsky.social · Aug 29

I'll definitely take a look at this album again when I have more time and look up the lyrics to all the songs because I'm sure I've missed something more shocking. I was just too lost in the vibes rn because this album is chill when it comes to the vibes.

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Monique Valaquen 🐲 @therandomgirlxd.bsky.social · Aug 29

Idk, maybe it's because I've become desensitized right now due to listening to a lot of spicy Disco Polo songs recently, but idk I didn't really experience any shocking moments while listening to this album for the first time.

Monique Valaquen 🐲 @therandomgirlxd.bsky.social · Aug 29

Also I was kind of expecting more crazy lyrics here from how much controversy the album cover got when it was first revealed, but honestly, nothing she said in the new album surprised me.

Monique Valaquen 🐲 @therandomgirlxd.bsky.social · Aug 29

I'm usually not a fan of slower songs, but I thought a lot of the slower songs felt really nice and smooth here.

Only compliant I have with her new album is that the album felt really short?

Monique Valaquen 🐲 @therandomgirlxd.bsky.social · Aug 29

Honestly, it was a pretty good bop from start to finish! I loved the instrumentations and Sabrina's spicy lyrics. Sabrina's writing kind of reminds me of the earlier songs from the 80s band Rough Trade if anyone is Canadian and remembers them.

Monique Valaquen 🐲 @therandomgirlxd.bsky.social · Aug 29

Ight I just finished it! Gonna leave my first thoughts / impressions in the replies of this post. If you wanna listen to Sabrina's new album, you can do so on both Spotify and YouTube rn! open.spotify.com/album/1aqg30...

Monique Valaquen 🐲 @therandomgirlxd.bsky.social · Aug 29

New Sabrina Carpenter album just dropped! Gonna listen to it rn! 😍

Monique Valaquen 🐲 @therandomgirlxd.bsky.social · Aug 29

New Sabrina Carpenter album just dropped! Gonna listen to it rn! 😍

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🍉 Chibi 😋 @chibiyakkokin.bsky.social · Aug 2

Made sum' more soup; can't forget the Fizzy Juice, here's my fanart of the new series called Bullet Time!

#bullettime #bullettimefanart #chibigatadraws #youngartist #blackartist #furryartist #cartoonist #traditionalart #artsky

Drawing includes: Bullet (bottom right), Todd (bottom left) and Kat (top middle).

These characters belong to Eddie - my condolences to his dog, Bullet. I highly recommend watching this pilot! 🩵

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Monique Valaquen 🐲 @therandomgirlxd.bsky.social · Aug 19

I'm gonna say it rn guys, this character from the new Kirby Air Riders Trailer is either gonna be a lost relative to King Dedede or it's gonna be like a Meta Dedede. The crown, mouth area, and his gloves are throwing me off to that conclusion.

--- #KirbyAirRiders #Kirby #KirbyAirRide