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Art blog of Ari Coester. He/him. Mid 20s. I post comic concept art, cute animal watercolor, and surrealist illustration. My favorite things to draw are animals and monsters.

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All Eyes On You.

In a dark room, a blue wall of photographs of human eyes from people of all different ages and races looms. The eyes are all focused on a teenage girl, visible from the knees up. She's lit from the right side by moonlight from a window, off screen. She's looking over her right shoulder, crushing a flashlight in her right hand. Stylized glass pops out. Left hand hangs by her side. She's wearing a red hoodie and blue jeans. Her spiky, black hair is pulled back into a ponytail. Black claws sprout from her fingers and gray fur from the backs of her hand. Gray wolf's ears with fluffy white insides twitch towards the viewer. She frowns and her white, sharp teeth are visible. Her yellow eye with a red iris looks directly at the viewer.

All eyes on you.

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A teenage girl with her back to the camera walks forward across a blue-gray sandy ocean floor criss crossed with rippling light reflections. She leaves a trail of three footprints behind her. Her white polo and fluffy knee length blue skirt with a black belt and petticoat ripple in the water. Her hair is a blue bob above which floats a crown of water droplets. She looks up and to her left, where a parade of sea slugs comes from. They travel down the canvas and start circling the girl just below her left shoulder. They make three loops before continuing down on a diagonal just below her right knee and continue their trek off the right side of the page. They are a rainbow of blues, yellows, and greens with fluffy antennae. Some have spots and spikes. In the blue gradient background, silhouettes of sea creatures can be seen. From top to bottom, they are a flock of three spotted eagle rays (top left), a hawksbill turtle (top right), a school of herring (top right behind the hawksbill to middle right), a black tipped reef shark (middle left), and a smaller black tipped reef shark (bottom right).

The slugs have chosen a princess.

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A young girl stands in a green field holding up a lantern. Her brown cat ears are pinned back against her spiky, shoulder length brown hair. A purple cloak wraps her shoulders and its end billows just above her knees. Her brown pants are rolled up above brown boots with black soles. Her long-sleeved shirt is green with gold x's embroidered at the wrists. Rising above the pines in front of her is a large dark blue cat with black ear tufts and white fur in her ears. Her eyes are two yellow moons. Her nose is black. A large star marks her forehead, and smaller stars stud her whole coat. The moon hangs between her ears in the dusk sky. Two dark green pines in the foreground frame the scene.

This is the story of a little girl looking for the mother she has never known. The story of a world of gods and a world of men, and the child caught between them. Zine coming soon.

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A woman lies on her stomach on a bed with lavender sheets and pillows facing towards the camera. Her tank top and sweatpants are sage green. Her long black hair falls over her left shoulder. A speckling of black ink dots both shoulders, and her one visible hand is stained with ink. She looks serene as she eats a page that hangs from her mouth and stains her lips with ink. A sage green book, open and with half its pages missing, lies before her. Three books( sage green, light green, and gray brown) lie in the bottom right corner, all their pages torn out. On the left side of the image is a bookcase with books in the same colors as the ones on their bed, all their pages torn out. The wall behind the woman is light blue.

She's having a good time, learning a lot, and trying to satisfy the endless hunger.

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A tea shop in the early morning light with pinkish tile floors and aquamarine walls. Along the left wall, there's a small wood table with two brass samovars and a few paper sample cups. Next to it, a bookshelf filled with brass tea containers. A set of three wooden counters arranged in a square with an open side on the left. Behind it, A purple curtain shuts off the back from the front of the shop. The furthest counter from the viewer has three old-fashioned style candy jars brimming with scones and a pastry case filled with tarts, cookies, cinnamon rolls and lemon bars. The two shelves inside the counter are filled with white cups and tea pots and black trays. Behind the cash register, a blond man in his early twenties stands wearing a white collared long-sleeve shirt, a green apron, and black pants. He pours a cup of tea into a pot. He looks over his shoulder smiling as the steam coalesces into a translucent humpback whale.

No whales were hurt in in the making of this tea.

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A black teenage girl stands sideways pointing a Wild West pistol at the camera. A round lilac sigil glows around the muzzle. The sigil's outer ring is filled with triangles. The inner circle is filled with five circles with dots in the middle arranged in a pentagon. The circles are connected by lines. A black poncho billows out behind her. Two violet straps studded with bullet holders cross over her chest. She wears a white long sleeved shirt and brown pants. A black cowboy hat with a violet ribbon shades her stern eyes and sterner expression. Her black dreads wave in the breeze. Behind her, the red desert sand stretches to the horizon which ripples in the fading heat of sunset.

Introducing Violet Death, the most terrifying teenage gunwitch in the whole West. Her truth bullet will make you spill your guts-- in both senses of the phrase.

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