zirio

I have not been on this website in a long time due to not enjoying the changes they made to the place over a decade ago. However, I cannot in good conscience even leave my work on this site as a gallery of older works due to their choices to use an AI generator. For anyone who wishes to follow my work, I can be found on Twitch or Twitter. I don't expect anyone to see this but for all my old friends, I hope you're all doing well wherever you go. https://twitter.com/ZiriO https://www.twitch.tv/ziri_o If you wish to support me, please follow me to my other social media. My art is currently taking a backseat to my caring for my family, one of whom we are losing to Alzheimer's. Any funds sent to me will help us pay for the astronomical medical fees. Take care, and stay safe, starshines.

I really need to get back to updating this place more! It's a little embarrassing to realize I have journals that've been collecting dust for a year on my front page. Or the fact that I completely forgot that this is the one place I didn't post my button collection. Oops... Thank you to everyone who stopped by our table! I was with A Case of Random at table B32-33 in the alley! I really enjoyed talking to everyone and since we did so well, we were able to sign up for Artist Alley next year as well! I was afraid we wouldn't be able to, but I was wrong. I wish I could say more about the convention itself, and while I didn't get to see much, I

It turns out that nothing ever quite goes according to plan for me. Which admittedly, is a little expected, but never quite to this extent. In a few hours it will be a year since we lost my brother-in-law, and it's been about six months since we started babysitting my youngest nephew regularly. I have learned that working on traditional media commissions is a rather complicated task when you have a three-year-old in the house. I haven't forgotten about the commissions I do have, I've just found that when I'm not helping with the nephew I am, quite frankly, usually too exhausted to draw. But work is getting done, in bits and pieces. The mos