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Artist // Hobbyist // Digital Art
  • June 15, 1990
  • United States
  • Deviant for 14 years
  • He / Him
My Bio

I was born and raised in Northern Virginia. I went to college at James Madison University and graduated in 2012 with my Bachelor of Arts degree. I'm happy to say that I finally found work where I can put my degree to good use and I enjoy what I do.


I've been creating pixel art as a hobby since around 2008-ish and got into the medium while looking for pictures of Super Sentai when I learned that was the base footage for Power Rangers. From there, I became a fan of other tokusatsu programs as well.


Favourite Visual Artist
M.C. Escher.
Favourite Movies
Marvel Cinematic Universe, Dark Knight Trilogy, LOTR, POTC: Curse of the Black Pearl, V for Vendetta, Inception, Daniel Craig as Bond Movies, The Prestige, How to Train Your Dragon Triolgy, Tron Legacy, Knives Out, Disney/Pixar movies
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
Arctic Monkeys, The Black Keys, Block Party, Foo Fighters, Foster the People, Grace Potter, Innerpartysystem, The Killers, Lord Huron, Muse, Passion Pit, Phoenix, The Temper Trap, Two Door Cinema Club
Favourite Writers
P. Djèlí Clark, Neil Gaiman, N.K. Jemisin, Ann Leckie, China Miéville, Naomi Novik, Phillip Pullman, Rick Riordan
Favourite Games
Crash Team Racing
Favourite Gaming Platform
Playstation 1...and now 4 b/c of the CTR remaster.
The last three years I've been challenging myself to read more. I've got a bunch on my bookshelves now, which is really fun to look at. And for the second year running, I've eclipsed the previous year's total: in 2022 I read 45 books; in 2023, I've read 50. Just shy of one per week! Taking a few longer vacations surely helped carve out more time for relaxing and reading. I've started branching out from the previous M.O. of looking to award winners, looking more at authors I've enjoyed the last few years and taking recommendations from friends. Like last year's summary, I'm not a literary analyst so I'm binning these books in four categories: two recommends and two not recommends. A few entries get an additional lil blurb. Loved and Recommend: Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman The Dresden Files (1-15) by Jim Butcher (will finish the series as-is in 2024) Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke Jade City, Jade War, Jade Legacy by Fonda Lee (possibly my new favorite
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Sooo, you know when you block somebody (or multiple somebodies) for stealing your artwork, or being abusive/rude about getting caught, or saying shitty things in general... Then a looong while later somebody else is like "Hey man, seems this person hates you for blocking them, what's the deal?" You explain. Then that person shares some of the blocked persons' recent comments and it's like: 1) adults role playing with minors (or people they believe to be minors) 2) or role playing as cartoon minors 3) or role playing sexual (or even suggestive) content 4) or posting images of cartoon minors in limited clothing and commenting about it 5) or ironically calling a company selfish for...not producing exactly what they want And you're just like...."Holy shit". Yes, this is referencing multiple users. Yes, it's completely fucked up of them on a variety of fronts. Yes, these are adults. Yes, they are very inappropriate and very shitty. Yes, I am happy to have blocked them and
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K so. On this gigantic all sentai/ranger infographic AKA the one with broader inclusions, I had an idea based on some comments. You can find it here: Is there merit in adding another row at the bottom, separated and below the ally/support characters...for transforming villains. Now, when I say 'transforming villains' I mean a very specific category, not meant to be wholly inclusive of everysingledamnvillain in the franchise. It would be URRRT-Villains: UnRedeemed, Recurring, Regularly-Transforming Villains (I know, I know, I need to work on coming up with better acronyms!). This would be for villains which have a human and a fully face-covered transformed form, both of which have at least three appearances in their respective show/crossovers, which the character regularly transforms between. It would not include villainous/evil armors which have multiple human-faced users; it would not include human disguises; it would not include villains permanently transformed from
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Hey, Taiko.


Sorry to be a bother, but I...I seem to recall a comment you made on one of your artworks, about potential Sentai-like teams who you said you were interested in possibly doing versions of, like Gransazer. It was in a discussion with somebody; I don't know who, or which piece it was on.


I'm not trying to be an idiot, but did you make such a comment? If so, which other teams did you mention? I would just like to know. Thanks for your time.

Not idiotic at all. Probably on the gigantic 'all sentai/ranger'-adjacent infographic. I've also made a couple journal entries about what else could be added but I think most discussion is in the comments of the inforgraphic itself.

Gigantic All 'Sentai/Ranger'+ Color Infographic

Hey Taiko. Someone used your picture without your permission.


Evil King-Ohger in Real

あなたのアートギャラリーが好きです