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[matchasartcha]

Finished kitty commission :) I have a few more to share as well, slow year but I'm glad I was able to output something. I will formally open for commissions in 2024 with an actual price list and etc, so stay tuned.

#artists on tumblr #digital illustration #cute art #digital art #digital artist #cats #cat art #pet art #pet commission #pet artist #pet portrait #cute cats #cat commissions #commissions #art commission

[matchasartcha]

I've been gone for a while due to health issues and an overwhelming number of personal emergencies that caused said health issues 😵‍💫 But I am back working on commissions again. I'll post a formal price list soon. Currently working on a British shorthair! They have the BEST cheeks

#art #cats #british shorthair #digital artist #illustration #queer artist #nonbinary artist #cat artist #cat art #cute #cute art #pet commission #pet portrait #squishy

[matchasartcha]

I have just recently learned I've been suffering from gender dysphoria my whole life and it makes so many things make way too much sense. I am seeing a new and utterly fantastic LGBTQ affirming therapist who specializes in ADHD/autism/neurodiversity as well as gender identity therapy and I am feeling so optimistic about my future °˖✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧˖°

I struggled for almost two years to try and make a fursona back in 2020 and eventually gave up because I just could never get it right. Something about all my ideas just felt so fundamentally WRONG and I could never pinpoint why, even with my best friend, an amazing professional furry artist, helping me! Eventually I gave up.

I am trying again but this time without the feeling that my fursona has to match the body I was born in, because it's the wrong body for me. And I am enthralled, and more than that, I actually love this sketch and feel really proud of it, something I haven't been able to say about any of my art for over a decade. While of course I am sure that design school, untreated ADHD/autism, bullying, unstable childhood etc have also contributed to my drawing anxiety, it has been really interesting to think about how gender dysphoria might very well be the underpinnings of all of this, affecting even my ability to create art.

I will be buying a chest binder soon, and once I have been in therapy for at least six months I am seriously considering seeing if I am eligible for top surgery & hip/glute liposuction to achieve the androgynous look that I have always envied in video game and anime characters.

I do think the art content on my page will change a lot as I begin to draw things that happily affirm my gender identity and aren't me trying to force myself to draw it because I feel that's what an AFAB like me should draw. If you no longer find it your cup of tea, I promise I won't be offended if you unfollow. I totally understand!

I still love cute things, I love cats, sanrio etc, but I need to think about how to draw cute things in the way that I like to instead of constantly trying to mimic styles of what I perceived as successful cis women artists.

#coming out #lgbt artist #lgbtq issues #nonbinary artist #nonbinary #gender dysphoria #queer artist #fursona #anthro #personal #life update #i think i might be trans #lgbt furry #digital artist #art #illustration

[matchasartcha]

Personal update --

I was out of town and currently I'm extremely debilitated by COVID induced POTS. It turns out I had mild POTS since a teenager and now it's become very difficult to deal with.

I was hoping this would be my year after a year out of endometriosis surgery but it appears my youth is to be wasted on shit like this.

I do need to reopen for commissions soon, meds bills ain't cheap in the great olde US of A. Hopefully I can get it up by the end of this month. And maybe reopen my Etsy shop in the summer/fall.

#personal #pots #so apparently i'm almost disabled now

[matchasartcha]

Hey I was wondering if you do commissions ? If so how much do you charge 🙂🌺❤️

I do! I've been unable to make a new commission sheet due to personal life occupying my entire January but prices start at $45

#ask #commissions #commissions are open #i need to make a sheet #oops #just dm me if you are interested

[matchasartcha]

I heard kitten was trending so here is my son

#Growlithe #hisuian growlithe #pokemon legends arceus #digital illustration #artists on tumblr #cute art #digital art #digital artist #pokemon #hisui #illustration

[matchasartcha]

Re-re-re-reeeeeeepost!

Still one of my old favorites!

I am out of town will be back soon 🔜

#coffee #cats #cute art #cute #artists on tumblr #digital illustration #digital art #digital artist #cats of tumblr #illustration #cute cats #art

[matchasartcha]

Doing my bit! Everyone please if you have time at least block!!! 90% of my new followers last two weeks were bots which is really disheartening to have to block them all I know our reptile brains like to see but numbers but if we all ignore them then we can continue to have the engagement we want here ❤️❤️❤️❤️

What happens when you don't report pornbots

What you can see here are among the most popular posts of the last month for the convin (Connor/Gavin Detroit Become Human) tag for the last month. And presumably popular in lollipop, cityscape, rick day, eva long, dostoyevsky, and all the other random, unrelated tags added to these posts.

You can see two identical posts made by separate bots that feature a bit.ly (so, disguised, you don't know whether the address is safe/where you're going) link to a website that contains an image of a pretty young women (but who knows what else).

Each post is liked by about a dozen other bots, and only bots. (I reported them all, so can confirm their profiles were obviously those of bots/porn bots.) Some of them even use the same image in the pfp. Some are developed blogs full of porn images, some are clearly newer and don't even have a pfp yet. They are all gaining legitimacy from each other by the likes which act as links to their Tumblrs, and adding legitimacy to the post they have liked, which links to their ultimate goal: the site where they make money in undoubtedly dodgy ways.

They are doing this to legitimise their websites for search engines like Google, but if you don't care about that, it has the same effect in your Tumblr tags.

If we don't stop them, ALL your favourite hashtags are going to be full of meaningless posts like this, and probably porn you don't want to see (very different from porn you DO want to see).

This is why we report and block, lads. Not just because they are annoying and irrelevant to us, but because if we don't stop them they will take over this hellsite, and they very clearly do not understand the nature of the hell in which we live.

[matchasartcha]

So many spam scam bot accounts following me like I'm glad you're a hottie with hot private pics to share but leave me alone lmao

#seriously where did they come from #do not fall for this #the profile pics all look like pornstars

[matchasartcha]

pet commission for a client on discord! i love when people tell me the little quirks about their pets because it lets me really customize the illustration to something funny and personal :3

#art #digital art #cat art #pet art #pet artist #cats #funny cats #munchkin cat #british shorthair #pet commission #art commission #digital illustration #illustration #cute art #cute illustration #cute art style #original art

[matchasartcha]

wishing good fortune for the new year :3

#lunar new year #new year #cute art #artists on tumblr #art #digital art #cat #cute cats #chinese new year #fortune cat #manekineko #doodle #illustration #cute design #cute artist #cute art style #tabby

[matchasartcha]

I really enjoy Tumblr especially because of the first point ☝️

THESIS: the real reason that people stay on this hellsite is not “chronological order” or “the drama” or whatever (per se), but is instead linked to how tumblr, unlike most social media, is not optimised to give content as short of a half-life as possible, but instead is optimised to let content continue to cycle for months, years, even decades. this has in turn led to a more consistent centralised site “culture” in which there is more coherent linkage among different areas of the site, thus also explaining why its content permeates so thoroughly throughout the internet.

[matchasartcha]

it's almost lunar new year!

art done in 2021

#lunar new year #lny #cny #chinese new year #lion dance #cat #cat art #cute art #cute design #digital art #digital artist #art #illustration #cute cats #cats of tumblr #pet artist #digital illustration #digital drawing

[matchasartcha]

pet commission for zeldurz! cute kitty enjoying a cozy warm cuppa. fun fact about me is i actually never got on the coffee train but since i have crippling adhd, based on the experiences of other adhders online it would probably just put me to sleep

#art #illustration #digital art #commission #art commission #pet art #pet artist #pet portrait #cat art #cats of tumblr #coffee #cuppa #cuppa joe #cozy art #cute art #cute illustration #cottagecore #cozy #cute #cats

[matchasartcha]

Happy holidays & merry Christmas from Matcha! Don't let your kitties ruin the night heeheehee

#happy holidays #merry christmas #long cat #silly cats #cat art #candy cane #christmas tree #cute art #cute design #cute illustration #digital art #art #illustration #artist on tumblr #cats of tumblr #cat #pet artist

[matchasartcha]

It's last minute but I'm opening cute silly kitty Christmas commissions for charity. ALL proceeds will go to a very dear friend of mine. I would love nothing more than to gift her enough money to repair her car and help her get back on her feet. it has been such a difficult year. There will be a screenshot at a later date of the money raised & donated. You can DM me on Tumblr as well :)

#christmas #happy holidays #cute cat #silly cat #christmas lights #commissions #commissions open #art commissions #commission me #charity #charity commission #cat art #cat artist #pet artist #pet art #digital artist #artist #digital illustration #artist on tumblr #cats #draw me like one of your french girls

[matchasartcha]

There’s a protest going on against AI art over on artstation, so I feel like now is the time for me to make a statement on this issue! 

I wholeheartedly support the ongoing protest against AI art. Why? Because my artwork is included in the datasets used to train these image generators without my consent. I get zero compensation for the use of my art, even though these image generators cost money to use, and are a commercial product. 

Musicians are not being treated the same way. Stability has a music generator that only uses royalty free music in their dataset. Their words: “Because diffusion models are prone to memorization and overfitting, releasing a model trained on copyrighted data could potentially result in legal issues.” Why is the work of visual artists being treated differently?

Many have compared image generators to human artists seeking out inspiration. Those two are not the same. My art is literally being fed into these generators through the datasets, and spat back out of a program that has no inherent sense of what is respectful to artists. As long as my art is literally integrated into the system used to create the images, it is commercial use of my art without my consent.

Until there is an ethically sourced database that compensates artists for the use of their images, I am against AI art. I also think platforms should do everything they can to prevent scraping of their content for these databases. 

Artists, speak out against this predatory practice! Our art should not be exploited without our consent, and we deserve to be compensated when our art is exploited for commercial use.