Nov. 1, 2021, 11:47 a.m.

september + october 2021

what is formyths doing

happy autumn/spring! here's what's going on:

art ✎

an illustration: a white tiger, smoke curling from its jaws, prowls through stone ruins, the moss-covered ground where it steps crumbling into a pit. a blue sky above, narrow clouds floating across.

what do you have to fear?

a tiger piece to mark the start of me drawing 1000 different tiger things.


an illustration of a figure perched on a kite string in a dusty yellow sky, another kite blocking their face. a black wing sweeps over most of their patterned robes & their strangely-armored arm reaches up to receive a gift from a crow.

a god from friends at the table's current season, sangfielle, possibly known as kite-and-crow.


an illustration of the goddess chang'e floating to the moon, facing away, snapping her husband's arrow in her hand. a border of rabbits, osmanthus, toads, & moon phases surrounds the scene.

a redraw of an older chang'e piece for mid-autumn. yes i am into centered portraits with obscured faces.


a ghost hovers in an overgrown bus stop, surrounding water almost making it an island. a tree in the foreground frames in the image

one last stop

another ghost piece that's mostly plants.


a ghostly figure in sweeping hanfu cries into her sleeve at the edge of a balcony, curtains fluttering around her.

hotarujaejae and i fused to form the ultimate artist and did a ghostly collab! hotaru did the character design + coloring, and i did the background + lineart. here's some process:

a sketch of a ghostly woman in hanfu on the edge of a balcony a more finalized lineart and grayscale version of the previous piece

other stuff ✷

a gold foil tiger design red envelope, on a metallic gold background a sticker sheet with tiger designs on a metallic gold background two tiger stickers on a metallic gold background
  • red envelopes & stickers are on sale for few more days, until ~11pm est nov 5 - depending on how i feel about dealing with shipping again i may do another round of sales with leftovers in january but it'll most likely be us/canada only
  • did a knife sleeve shirt design, up on my fukumono collab storefront + a version on threadless
  • the shortbox comic fair is over! thanks to everyone who bought + read viscera - i'll eventually have it up on my own storefront when i get that set up

thanks for reading! here's my new child, acquired in the midst of my pre-year of the tiger haze.

a chinese folk tiger doll stands on a table

— allissa / formyths.com

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