ziphi renata @ziphi@vulpine.club

Heya!
If you like my art and want to show some support (or even if you like my ramblings), I have a Ko-fi!

https://ko-fi.com/ziphiren

Any contributions are greatly appreciated!
And if you want to show support in other ways, boosts, likes, and comments are always welcome!

Thanks,
Ren

#Introductions !
Hey! I'm Ren.

I'm a grey fox, an artist (primarily with watercolor, ink, and acrylics), a nonbinary trans girl, and I dabble in just about everything creative. I also struggle with severe depression and use platforms like this to discuss and process it.

I have a terrible tendency to avoid initiating social interactions, but please, feel free to talk with me! I'll open up rather quickly.

That thing where the hero fights a villain who seems normal, then the villain does something clearly inhuman, so the hero says, "What kind of monster *are* you?!"

Except it's followed by the song "What kind of Pokemon are you?"

Is what I would like to do, but I don't have the energy right now.

Basically: I think shutting out conversations because "no politics here" reduces important things with real effects to only competing opinions without realizing the actual repercussions.

It's important to have spaces where people don't have to worry about constant argumentation, but that needs to be balanced with allowing people to vent about the things that affect them.

Also (goshdarnit, Nintendo for removing trans pride custom stages from Smash Bros.), I hate that my existence is a political statement. And that I have to worry about people feeling like that gives them the right to engage me in an argument when I talk about the things that affect me.

Okay, out of energy.

If you have a mandatory question on a job application form, please leave an option for "none of the above."

This form is unable to be completed.

Gotta figure out cover letters. Heck, this is hard.

Tiny fox drawing! Having to fit whole scenes in tiny panels means I can't have astounding detail on every single thing. It's an interesting challenge trying to make things discernible while working at a small size.

For this comic, I'm working with 9 by 12 inches, at 300 pixels per inch. And I want it to be readable at a minimum of a fourth of the scale and resolution I'm using to draw it.

Just misread a line of dialogue in Okami:

"[This room] is far too small for me to unleash my true furry 0w0!"

New evil plan:
Be non-binary, thereby ensuring that gender remains a non-binary system. This means that both male and female exist on several different spectra and therefore are also non-binary.

Congrats, everyone's enby now.

Nothing quite like feeling bad because an aloof cartoon rabbit in a dress makes a better girl than you.

You know damn well what's up, doc.

Package tracking is a terrible addiction.

By the way, did anyone steal my rock? It's been in Rochester for a day now...

For real though, this is how the characters in this panel are *actually* going to be.

I have a lot of respect for artists who can draw eyes consistently and make them expressive.

And the depression is here.

I hate that I can't even get a job in the one thing I have experience in.

I feel like half the jobs out there won't hire me because I'm overqualified and the other half won't because I'm under-qualified. And there's nothing in between.

And it's a bust. The positions have been filled. At least they told me.

On the bright side, the hold music was totally appropriate: "Under Pressure."

Got a follow-up message about my last job interview! I need to call back.

Which is good, because I have $14.

I finally beat Darkrai in Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky! Which means it's time to recruit my favorite Pokemon: Latias.

Which means fulfilling a bunch of weird requirements just at the chance of a spawn. Then hoping a party member doesn't steal the K.O. Then having roughly a one in eight chance of actually recruiting her. Heck, why do I hate this.

I am the video game protagonist who only really speaks in cutscenes.

The mail came!
And I got a package from the wonderful @anaisfae !

Thanks a ton, the art is incredible and the pin is beautiful.

I was kind of good at acrylic painting in high school, but I just stopped the last year of it and all throughout college due to severe depression. I wonder where I'd be now if I kept up with it?