[ anxiodine ]
Your local nerd with an affinity for colour
About me
Hello Hello! My name's anxiodine, and I am (unsurprisingly) a traditional artist and a writer [in the background]!
I like to make a lot of cool, action-y art and weird, pointy stuff too-- but I also like to make some sweet stuff, especially with my OCs, sometimes too! I tend to also make a lot of random fanart from stuff that I like, but I'm not much into any fandoms O7.
I'm really inspired by and am going for a shounen manga type vibe with my art, but so far I'm just trying to get to that point in my style, so I'm constantly doing studies. I also like to use a lot of vibrant colours and cool lighting, and I really like to put in a lot of detail when I can!As for just me... I guess I'm Salvadoran and in Canada, I'm INTJ-A, I'm gay, aro, and ace, ND, and I tend to like a lot of typically nerdy stuff; i.e. Math and a lot of science (yes chemistry lol), love mythology, I like a bunch of musicals and drama stuff, I especially like voice acting (and I actually do it myself sometimes as a hobby :)), DnD is super fun if only I could play it again lol, and I like a big variety of video games and anime/manga!
I don't talk about myself much- and I am just a voiceless/ faceless/ sona-only artist after all- but I do try, I just suck lmao. I am trying lately to talk more casually/ be more friendly (?) online. I'm lame and quite serious, but I am sweet I swear lol
But I do hope you guys want to and get to know me if you decide to stick around :D
And if you're looking for a little more:
Also, the name's made up of anxiety and iodine, and like a chemical compound- so no capital (just ignore the part about needing an ide end lmao). And my sona's name is AnxIety which is basically just the same thing if I could put it into a chemical formula lol.
I pronounce it like [ang-ZAI-uh-dine] btw.
Materials
Mostly use my sketchbook which is a Stillman & Birn Epsilon series (highly suggest, love their paper), but I also use loose sheets of Strathmore Marker paperI use Dr. PH. Martin's Bombay india ink, but wrong ( purposefully add white when mixing colours for thick consistency). Also a grey ink wash for stuff in B&W.
Also my Speedball Hunt 102 Crow Quill dip pen is my favorite thing to use, ever, but I also use Pigma Microns in 0.35mm for marker stuff.I use tubes of Liquitex acrylic paint.
Mostly use Quinacridone Magenta, Fluorescent Pink + Blue + Green, Ultramarine Blue, Dioxazine Purple, Pyrrole Red, and Primary Yellow. And B&W ofc.
in case you were wondering.For alcohol markers I use a variety of random off brands, but mostly the Arrtx alp 80 set and a few Copic sketch markers. I also add on Prismacolor Premiere coloured pencils all the time.
Now some useful extras: Posca paint markers are useful for most things (especially white with a separate paint brush), Tombow water based brush markers sometimes, various paint brushes but I really like Royal & Langnickel's Zen series, and I have an old model of Wacom Intuos Draw and Fire Alpaca (free) for when I do mockups.
OCs/Story
Useless™/ Mayhem's
The most common OCs you'll hear me talk about are these guys. Everyone in this little universe works at a place called Mayhem's and the most notable ones are the Useless™ Trio (Fitz, Maizie, and Callum). There are/will be others later on elsewhere at Mayhem's, they don't all know each other but who knows, it's not so big of a place where they might never interact lol.Why Useless™?
Originally to teach me to have fun and not need everything to have a purpose or make sense when working with characters. They're useless because I'll never give them a proper story. Might make a mini comic or two maybe if I feel like it, but otherwise it defeats the purpose so they continue without a reason to exist other than to vibe.
Mayhem's?
It's basically just my escapism lol.
It's a big building built like a mall but instead of shopping there's just a bunch of fun stuff to do; Inside and out, high energy or chill, stuff to do with people or alone, you name it! For example, there's laser tag, a free range gymnasium, a performance café, food court, et cetera. It's meant to be a place where you can go to have fun without needing anything, no money required, and where you can come out with more company than you came in with!
It also promotes giving everyone an opportunity to do fun stuff and including people in- whether it's asking to join people or letting people join you. It's just all really cool O7 :)
Also, all the Useless™ OCs have the logo for Mayhem's somewhere on their design, but the most prominent will only be Fitz (it's in full on his T-shirt) because he was the first one. If you want more on specific characters check out my TH, stories on ig, or sometimes my bsky/twitter. But also absolutely feel free to dm me directly if you're interested!
Quality Kale Time :D
QKT is a mod for the game Monster Prom I made :]
The main game is a dating sim and one character I really liked, Kale, is a secret ending character. The main point of his original ending was to show the player character trying to flirt with him to take him to prom (cough, they just wanna fuck him), not listening to/caring about him, making him uncomfortable and not getting it until directly being told that-- and that he's aroace.
And, even though I love Kale, I could never really get through his ending because I didn't need the message of it- I'm aro and ace myself- so it was just an ending to make him viscerally uncomfortable, with very little else. It's like 90-10 being shit to him vs. being a decent friend.And I really wanted to just hang out with him normally, and also give the player character a chance to show they actually learned from the experience and could put their lessons into practice.
So I just wrote it in myself! lmaoIt's in mostly my normal slice-of-lifey writing style, just a bit less with the different medium. It's got 4 events (8 outcomes), set a few months ish after his ending and they're all just various situations of you two hanging out at lunch and doing normal stuff together. I tried to put in a lot of little bits to show the player character's and their relationship's progression-- and I wanted to make them a mix of playfully teasing eachother and being very genuine!
I also added in a bunch of references to other stuff I love just because lol, but I doubt people will notice or get most any of them ahe. ...And some references to stuff in game that you probably won't get unless you've played too much like I have lmaoI'm genuinely immeasurably proud of it, I love it so much! And it has actually helped how I feel about Kale's original ending so much too. And even if just for one person, it means the absolute world to me that I might be able to do the same for someone else, or just give people something fun and sweet to experience!So uh, If you have the game and want to check it out, here's a link :]
Other writing stuff?
I do plan on writing a bunch of other stuff-- some of which I'm working on rn, actually!
But with the way that write (well, work in general lol) it takes me a long time. I don't start writing writing until I'm 100% about my planning, and I like to put a lot of thought and purpose into my work O7 :)But I will say, whatever I do write and post online I'll be doing so on my AO3. Currently I have an idea for an anthology series of little scenes or short stories in my Useless™ universe, and I have a main story thing I'm working on slowly in the background. ...Which I've talked a bit about before but it's changed a lot and is still going through it lol, so I won't say much for now.And hey, if you did read this far for whatever reason, you can know about my AO3 lol: it's AC_anxiodine :]
Hope you like my stuff and found reading all this worth your time lol