Sakeozo 🍵

Heya! I’m Destiny, a gecko-obsessed Deaf artist in Pittsburgh working toward Portland. I draw, make comics, and animate original characters, ASL icons, and visual clarity for Deaf characters in media. More work, socials, and commissions: www.sakeozo.com/links (ꈍ ꒳ ꈍ✿)

Nightshade, Glaze, & Foxglove doesn't do anything to protect your art. Test it.

Here's a little snippet of a cute gek waving that I animated for my new website, you'll see it soon!! - Visual description: A screen recording showing a looping animation of the gek waving, with the program window being Clip Studio Paint.

remember to draw to remember 🖼️🧠🔁🧠🖼️

Some splash arts of a thank-you cards from last year, if you've ordered anything of physical item from my online store within now to last year, you probably have one! Have you collected them all yet?

Which adoptable gek would you adopt? Selfie included to show the size (and that I am real) :V

Once again for any creative; use whatever site best fits your needs for your livelihood. No socmed site big enough to hold a audience is going to be free of genAI; be realistic with your expectations and pick the lesser evil. Your value as an artist isn't tied to numbers or a particular site (+)

QUICK, WHAT LETTER DID I JUST FINGERSPELL IN ASL?

So yeah... That's me, yo!

Did you know that most of *How Lovely!~* takes place in Pittsburgh? The story's visual style is inspired by Andy Warhol's approach to Pop Art. Warhol was born and raised in Pittsburgh, too! Enjoy an old art repost of the trio!

Scooter is a very good watchdog... watchgecko. I adore her.

Duh.... Yes, what??

HOW LOVELY!~ MAIN CHARACTER HIGHLIGHT: TAIYA VASILEV Taiya Vasilev, Kuro’s childhood best friend, is known for getting into mischief together, like pranking people. His biggest flaw is indecisiveness. More story-filled doodles coming soon. ^w^ Please bear with me as I work things out.

You will never take Deaf Art voice away.

HOW LOVELY!~ CHARACTER: KURO HEBITO Kuro Hebito, the protagonist, embodies pessimism with a feminine Medusa-like energy from his longer hair. He grapples with societal BS, insecurity, & principles while rebelling against a powerful biotech corp to uncover Thailand’s truth. Stay tuned!

HOW LOVELY!~ TRIO CHARACTER HIGHLIGHT: HOPE FOX Hope Fox, formerly 07, is a Deaf girl with scarfhands. She is a manifestation & embodiment of an optimist, both the beautiful and the challenging sides of "happy" More story-filled doodles are on their way. Stay tuned for tomorrow next character! ^w^

ANNOUCEMENT: As promised, this is first of a few announcements. We're getting into Webcomics! We've been asked quite a few times about this. Webcomics is a huge and we're really sad to see Tapas go. We want to create a home for all kinds of amazing comics including webcomics.

The Gek adoption battle begins??? Anyways, if any one of them interested ya, then please contact me!

Sips

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The face of Atom... Do you think she's still innocent?!

I draw! :D (Experimental drawing of a possible redesign of my original character, Taiya, one of the main trio characters from my work-in-progress comic, How Lovely!~)

It is so cool to see how much I've changed over the last 4 years. I definitely aged a little, but I've become more pretty, happy, and confident!

Lava waits patiently as he is pooping in his personal bathroom. Bonus: potty house next to it. Lava is a very polite and private pooper while my other 2 female leopard geckos poop openly and shamelessly at a corner for everyone to see. What a good clean boy.

In few months from now, we are nearing our third years into our relationship, and I am extra infatuated with him tonight so I'm going to share my sketch dump of my boyfriend for you to see and enjoy!!

I am begging people to understand that not every comic you see online is a “meme” 😭 Just because a comic gets mislabeled as "meme" doesn’t mean you should remove/cover an artist’s watermark. I know it can be done out of ignorance, but please respect artists’ work and give credit!

Hi! Sometimes my old trans comic from 4 years ago resurfaces, often with reposts that had more engagement than my original. Sadly, it went viral again without my 2 watermarks, showing watermarks don’t fully protect creatives from theft. Thankfully, the reposter credited me with link, they're da MVP!

[REPOST FROM 2022] One of my geckos, Scooter, during the feeding time, she decided to randomly jump off of her tank about 5 ft high like it's a jailbreak. That scared me so much! She's okay, she only licked her eye and walked off like nothing happened... That girl never stop scaring me.

THANK YOU FOR 8K, BLUESKY!!!!!!! To celebrate, we are giving away a Smolotov zine and 3 Smolotov stickers!!! …and something else that’s even cooler!!! But it’s a secret for now 👀❤️ Rules: share this and be following me! I will choose a random person on August 8th at 8:00 PM central 🍾🔥

Hi, I'm letting you know that I'm pivoting my art around what I offer in my Ko-Fi shop. I took down sticker, given shipping now over $6, it no longer makes sense to mail items costing less. Instead, stickers will be used as Patreon & Ko-Fi membership rewards. I'll be updating them soon, stay tuned!

This old bad drawing I did forever will be one of my favorites xD

Art Fight attack at mattmaple! I went harder on this piece than I originally intended to. Please enjoy! Thank you for drawing my IceCream the Sugar Glider character!