🍊✨ r. a. menace | (they/he)
banner
artistic-menace.com
🍊✨ r. a. menace | (they/he)
@artistic-menace.com
do you like magic? sci-fi fantasy? original comics and illustration featuring SUPER gay original characters? then you're in the right place!

✨ they/he, 23 | 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🎨

🚫 AI, CRYPTO, NFTs 🚫

Links: https://artistic-menace.carrd.co
Pinned
pinned intro thread!

#art #intro
hello out there, I'm Ripley, and I'm a queer digital illustrator and fiction writer!

- I primarily draw/write abt my own projects (limited fan art)
- this page DOES contain NSFW 🔞 but it's not a focus
- I am NOT currently open for comms
- this is not my job it is my passion - I LOVE stortelling!!
Reposted by 🍊✨ r. a. menace | (they/he)
You don't necessarily want to use the exact same alt text each time a specific image is used. Alt text must consider the context of the image and why it's being included on a site, post, article, etc. In other words, alt text depends on where you're including the image and why.
November 20, 2025 at 9:40 PM
something I haven’t been doing much lately in my work (that doesn’t really mean much because I’m not working on or finishing anything truly polished) is focusing on the composition of a given piece
November 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Reposted by 🍊✨ r. a. menace | (they/he)
I finished another thing! I haven’t properly drawn Nathan in a long time, so this was good to do.

(also I was focused on him, not the bg okay)

#art #illustration #oc
November 9, 2025 at 8:46 PM
haven’t drawn any of the Eagriss siblings in a long while, so here’s a sketch of Ciar I did some color experimentation on

#oc #brokendimensions #art #digitalart
November 19, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Reposted by 🍊✨ r. a. menace | (they/he)
the internet has decided that em-dashes are a hallmark of llm writing, which is *extremely* annoying to me, as someone who uses em-dashes all the time.

dear internet please consider the possibility that LLMs use em-dashes a lot because they're, like, good
November 14, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Reposted by 🍊✨ r. a. menace | (they/he)
Thank you everybody! We’ve been backing several efforts to halt data center developments in different communities, and it turns out you’re making a huge impact. A new analysis shows that, in just a three-month period earlier this year, the
November 14, 2025 at 7:39 PM
oh and here’s the full sketch from last night

#ocs #sketch #brokendimensions
November 13, 2025 at 1:48 AM
a small Catie sketch for the evening

#sketch #oc
November 13, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Reposted by 🍊✨ r. a. menace | (they/he)
Going serious.

Homeland 🇵🇭 was devastated by back-to-back typhoon which destroyed a lot of homes and displaced families.

I am offering $10+ sketches. All profits will be donated to ChildHope Philippines, a local org providing basic needs to street children, the most vulnerable population rn
1/2
November 12, 2025 at 11:42 PM
hey I remembered I can just. sit down and draw stuff I dream up while listening to music. huh, who would’ve thought I could do that (/s)

#art #sketch #ocs
November 12, 2025 at 2:16 AM
reminder that I have a Redbubble shop with all kinds of cool stickers to choose from!!
🎇REDBUBBLE UPDATE!🎇

Pronoun stickers are fully uploaded to the store, and there's also the pride flag designs from June, cat stickers, "attention" reminder stickers, and more! :D

#art #stickers #redbubble
November 10, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Reposted by 🍊✨ r. a. menace | (they/he)
Our feature artist/tutorial for today is this great set of thoughts on HAND SHAPES by the talented @littlez13! Great to see those LANDMARK SHAPES sketched on the hand - really useful reference! #illustration #DRAWING #anime #manga #art #comicart
November 10, 2025 at 10:53 AM
I finished another thing! I haven’t properly drawn Nathan in a long time, so this was good to do.

(also I was focused on him, not the bg okay)

#art #illustration #oc
November 9, 2025 at 8:46 PM
finished coloring the crop of this particular Ev and Talis doodle! Messy shading, but it’s all good. I made a thing.

#ocs #art
November 8, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Reposted by 🍊✨ r. a. menace | (they/he)
Several states (including California, Michigan, Oregon, and Wisconsin) have announced that they’ve begun processing full food stamp payments. Thank you to those states for stepping up to support families in need!
November 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Reposted by 🍊✨ r. a. menace | (they/he)
🦀 Sally lightfoot crab
November 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Reposted by 🍊✨ r. a. menace | (they/he)
November 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I was you guys to know that the original FA finale draft I finished in 2022, WAY before a lot of the changes I made the the story was only 120,884 words and 430 pages (double spaced).

The current draft is like, 60% don’t and is 40k past the word could and 30 pages over that page count.
November 3, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Reposted by 🍊✨ r. a. menace | (they/he)
This is from Autocracy, Inc, about how modern autocratic propaganda works.

I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.
November 2, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Reposted by 🍊✨ r. a. menace | (they/he)
“Mr. Waltz, this is the United Nations General Assembly,” the Cuban Foreign Minister said, cutting off Mike Waltz. “It is not a Signal chat. Nor is it the House of Representatives,” he added, also calling Waltz’s remarks “uncivilized, crude and gross.”
trib.al/taTTJTx
November 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Hahaaaaa… just updated my LinkedIn for the first time in months. Not to say I’m looking for work, but rather to a rift the opposite lol.

I keep meaning to put art updates there now, but I haven’t in months. And I haven’t made anything in a month lol
November 1, 2025 at 3:07 AM
I’m?? Working on something?? ME???

(It feels SO good to work on one of my WIPs after a month of not even touching my iPad or my digital programs.)

#art
October 30, 2025 at 4:10 PM
have I done anything productive today? no. but I did write over 10.4K words (more, because I added to another doc as well this morning) so there’s that.

#writing
October 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Reposted by 🍊✨ r. a. menace | (they/he)
Also.
October 23, 2025 at 7:30 AM