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Cryptid Shadows
@cryptidshadows.bsky.social
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Shapeshifting cryptid {he/him} 🍂 Comic artist living in Massachusetts 🍂 Monsterlover

18+, may contain trace spices 🍂 https://cryptidshadows.carrd.co
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Commission for @zharn.bsky.social of his brother's robot OC~
A small humanoid robot with one large blue eye, wearing a black cloak with a sword in one hand and glowing blue magic in the other, poses for adventure on a watercolor sepia-toned background.
November 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Rise with the Sun ☀️ Design for @styxtheheretek.bsky.social
A black dragon with red and yellow highlights flies upward in front of a stylized red and yellow sun with the words Rise with the Sun surrounding it.
November 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Hey all, I know it's been a lot of radio silence - I did update ko-fi with priced-to-sell spooky friends! 👻 Very limited quantities and once they're gone, they're gone! Help my little guys find new homes 🙏 ko-fi.com/cryptidshado...

#plushart #halloween #kofi #supportartists
Handmade patchwork bat plushies. Handmade bottled ghost charms. Handmade patchwork ghost pillows wearing different bows. Handmade ghost charms hanging in a white tree.
October 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Jace and Nemesis, art for @unstablearcane.bsky.social 🔥
A marker drawing of Jace, a blue-haired anime character with a metal arm, orange goggles, and a blue coat with fur fringe, poses looking up at the viewer, hand outstretched, with Nemesis, a dark mucky shadowy mass with blue eyes, lurks over his shoulder.
August 12, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Badge commission for @styxtheheretek.bsky.social 🐺🧡✨
Furry con badge of a male eurasian wolf. He is facing the viewer with a toothy mischievous grin and his clawed paws are framing a banner with the name Styx.
June 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Snug as a bug in a rug 🦋 💕 🦌
Myth, a purple anthro moth, is bundled up inside a shared hoodie with their boyfriend Beck, an anthro deer.
April 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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The first pages of Wanderlust Chapter III are up on my page~
readwanderlust.carrd.co
A comic page, done in watercolor style. The first 3 panels show several potted plants taking up space on a variety of surfaces in Sophie's apartment. In the last panel, Sophie sits on her couch, hands tented, a look of deep thought on her face, as a wilting plant sits on the coffee table in front of her.
April 23, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Just a normal deer 🦌
A digital painting of a not-deer. The monster cryptid buck stands on a green-yellow background, it's face obscured in shadow, multiple eyes shining through the dark.
April 18, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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🦌 ✨ 🦋
Beck, an anthro stag, nuzzles and licks the neck of his blushing partner, Myth, a dusky purple moth.
April 2, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Updated Beck ref! Need to work on feral monster not-deer form 🦌
Reference sheet for Becket, an anthro not-deer, which displays his markings and clothing, including a green jacket with punk patches and pins and a worn out hoodie and hi-top sneakers.
March 16, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Monster.

#wanderlustcomic #monsters #comics
A page from a trans shapeshifting monster romance comic, Wanderlust. The silhouette of a tall, antlered monster with branchlike limbs and sharp teeth lays on its side, one hand on its neck,the other above its head. It looks distressed and lost.
November 21, 2024 at 2:27 PM
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🔞 Artistic nudity, monster, dysphoria

#bodyhorror #dysphoria #trans #transgender #wanderlust #wanderlustcomic #monsterlover #teratophilia #monster
Black and white drawing of a partially shapeshifted trans man with a cat skull face, tears coming from his empty eye sockets, his human chest exposed. He has one clawed hand over his chest, and one over his nether regions, which is concealed by thick fur. He is wearing a bracelet that reads 'temet nosce'.
November 13, 2024 at 11:27 PM
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I'd kill to see Ace (my punk shapeshifting monster boy) or his girlfriend Sophie in your style, whichever you'd most like to tackle! Feel free to take artistic liberties with outfits and such, thanks a ton!
October 30, 2024 at 1:08 AM
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Get out there and discover that cryptid lover you're hunting for! (Disclaimer: not responsible for attacks, bites or abductions that may occur.)

#monsterlover #webcomic #wanderlustcomic
A poster that reads Love at First Sighting at the bottom, with orange leaves imprinted around the lettering. Above it is a red-haired woman with glassed dressed in orange flannel and holding a flashlight, pointing the beam to her right. Behind her looms the shadow of a monster with spindly limbs and antlers and glowing red eyes. Framing them is a spread of trees.
October 24, 2024 at 11:42 PM
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Monster Boyfriend 🤘 Ace from my comic Wanderlust (half-shifted into monster catboy form)

#OCSky #OC #monsterboy #monsterfucker #teratophilia #exophilia
A thin lithe man dressed in a tight punk button down shirt and ripped pants with zippers and jackets holds up his shapeshifted hands in the devil sign, both with long branchlike clawed fingers. A thick tongue lols from his mouth of sharp teeth as he grins at the viewer.
October 23, 2024 at 12:26 PM
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Transgendeer~ 🦌 #furry #furryart #transgender #ftm #trans
A two panel comic. In the first panel, a cat catcalls a deer buck, commenting on his "nice rack" of antlers. In the second panel, the buck removes the antlers, saying, "Thanks! It's a new model." (It is implied that the buck is a trans man whose hormones haven't gotten his antlers to grow in naturally yet.)
October 22, 2024 at 4:16 PM
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My dumb monsterboy and his hot girlfriend from my comic Wanderlust~
A red headed woman in a witch outfit with glasses clings to the back of a 10 foot spindly-legged monster cloaked in a sheet like a ghost, holding a bag of candy in his jaws as he runs on all fours, scattering the contents of the bag. A large full moon illuminates them from behind. A short skinny blonde and brown haired man in a green hoodie lays on his back, while his girlfriend, a chubby red haired woman with glasses wearing red plaid flannel and ripped jeans, leans over him, looking down at him seductively. A thin lithe man dressed in a tight punk button down shirt and ripped pants with zippers and jackets holds up his shapeshifted hands in the devil sign, both with long branchlike clawed fingers. A thick tongue lols from his mouth of sharp teeth as he grins at the viewer.
October 22, 2024 at 12:41 AM
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My comic takes a bit to get monstrous (and more is coming soon, I promise!) but if you like a shapeshifting skeletal catboy lead character, may I suggest Wanderlust (readwanderlust.carrd.co)?
October 22, 2024 at 12:11 AM
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Hey I'm Jay! 👋 I write and illustrate Wanderlust, a paranormal romance comic with a trans man lead! You can read the first two chapters on readwanderlust.carrd.co and on Webtoon/Tapas (links on carrd)!

#comics #webcomics #OC #OCSky #comicart #comicartist #trans #queer #queerart #queerartist
Watercolor style comic page. Panel 1 depicts a red haired woman with glasses and a blonde and brown haired man in a brown hoodie. Both are wearing backpacks for hiking and a row of trees are behind them at sunrise. The woman's dialogue reads, "I know this group socializin' stuff ain't really your thing." The man, with a sarcastic expression, responds, "How'd you guess?" Panel 2 fills the rest of the page, showing the two characters from behind, walking into an autumn forest behind the silhouettes of their two friends. The woman's dialogue reads, "Just a hunch. But I think you're gonna like this place." 3 panel comic page without dialogue depicting a scene at sunset. The first panel is a closeup of a woman's face, her hands clasped over her mouth, her eyes filled with shock and horror. The second panel shows her drop to her knees, her face cropped from the image. The final panel shows her bent over, face in her cupped hands in sorrow. 5 panel comic page. The first 3 panels show a man's hand, dripping in thick black substance, as the fingers twist and shift into long, gnarled claws. The fourth panel shows a man's face as he screams out the word "FUCKaugh..." with the black substance overtaking his face, strands entering his eyes and mouth. The final panel shows his face stretching, the skin pulling and tearing away as his skull elongates, revealing dripping teeth and fur. A full page illustration of the head of a bobcat, half of its face revealing the skull within. An upside down night scene is depicted growing beneath the head, with barren trees and a full moon glowing from behind them. The whole image is enshrouded in shades of green.
October 21, 2024 at 2:08 AM
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Art of @dave-w.bsky.social 's fursona! This lil lemur-monkey fella really captured my heart 💙

#furry #furryart #lemur #fursona
A watercolor style drawing of a red-tinged lemur with a black tail, gray face and gray hands, icy gray eyes, a green sleeveless vest and khaki cargo pants. He has 4 colorful bands wrapped near the end of his tail and is looking over his shoulder, arms crossed, with a toothy, wide open-mouthed grin.
October 19, 2024 at 10:30 PM
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Was so excited to do this DTIYS for The Farmer and the Wolf by KastiaKBC! And now that I managed to finish it I'm gonna get caught up on the latest pages that just came out 👀 Check out the comic on Webtoon!
A nervous young woman stands in a field of corn at night, holding her disgruntled looking chicken in her arms. Behind her looms a werewolf in the shadows, red eyes glowing, clawed hands reaching out of the darkness towards her. The image is lit in a red glow. It was drawn by the poster, Cryptid Shadows. A nervous young woman stands in a field of corn at night, holding her disgruntled looking chicken in her arms. Behind her looms a werewolf in the shadows, yellow eyes glowing, clawed hands reaching out of the darkness towards her. This image was drawn by KastiaKBC.
October 3, 2024 at 12:23 AM
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🌻 Blooming & Withering 🍂

Wanderlust has been fully recolored and remastered.

#wanderlust #wanderlustcomic #comics #webcomics #monster #monsterlover #cryptids #OCs
Full page illustration for the graphic novel Wanderlust. The main character, Ace, a thin white trans man, lays upside down, arms crossed over his chest in a death stance, eyes closed, frowning slightly. He is flanked by clusters of black roses and dead tree limbs. Sophie, a white woman with fiery red wavy hair, is laying with her arms tucked behind her head, eyes closed, smiling warmly. She is surrounded by blooming sakura blossoms and sunflowers.
September 10, 2024 at 1:26 AM
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We will rise again with the moon 🌕

#comic #comicart #wanderlust #monster #transformation #monsterlover #cryptid
Painted comic panel of a tall thin antlered monster silhouette against a yellow full moon above blue mountains.
August 27, 2024 at 3:34 PM
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Tea hour 🍵 Commission for OneAntlerBoy on Fur Affinity 🦌

#furry #furryart #furrycommissions #elk #deer #anthro
An orange and brown elk with one antler reclines slightly on a striped yellow picnic blanket, holding a cup of steaming tea and blushing slightly while looking towards the viewer. On the blanket is a black and gold teapot, a bamboo reed filled with looseleaf tea, and assorted flowers. The scene is set in the forest at golden hour.
August 16, 2024 at 12:06 AM
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Chapter 1 is recolored and typesetting is complete. On to chapter 2. I'm so proud of the work I've put into this comic and I am going to finish bringing this story to fruition.
February 17, 2024 at 2:15 PM