Shadeorade

Shadeorade

@shadeorade.bsky.social

Just your average 24 year old with a ton of ocs! Art Trades: Mutuals Only! Requests: No Comms: https://vgen.co/Shadeorade SFW #oc #ocart Ask: https://shadeorade.straw.page/ https://linktr.ee/Shadeorade 🇿🇼 Zimbabwean/Black Artist🇿🇼 🚫AI "Art"🚫

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I woke up today and decided to play in Emily's face. She's trapped in a corn maze with her ex, her first crush, and 2 guys who've been fawning over her since middle school. She genuinely hates it here. #oc #originalcharacter #digitalart #smallartist #ocsky #artsky #artshare #art

I woke up today and decided to play in Emily's face. She's trapped in a corn maze with her ex, her first crush, and 2 guys who've been fawning over her since middle school. She genuinely hates it here. #oc #originalcharacter #digitalart #smallartist #ocsky #artsky #artshare #art

Some closeups and lore! Jeremy & Jacob both began crushing on Emily in middle school, & are still crushing on her in college. Unfortunately for them Emily thinks they're both pathetic. Cobalt & Emily were in a relationship for 3 years. Blossom & Emily had mutual feelings & used to be best friends

Went on a corn maze for the first time a few days ago. I had a ton of fun, & now I've been thinking of which combination of my ocs would be dysfunctional in a maze bc I really want to draw them struggling to get out. (Lowkey open to suggestions bc I wanna draw a group that doesn't interact often)

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It's the day of Annual Norremester's Cultural Festival, a staple of Norremester's unremarkable and freezing autumn season, So Adam decided to Tyler out on a date for the fun of it. #originalcharacter #digitalart #smallartist #ocsky #artsky #artshare #art

Loving worldbuilding but hating drawing backgrounds is an interesting combination to say the least. I've been itching to draw concept art for my setting for ages, but I get intimidated by the idea of drawing buildings.

As I draft more of my plotlines the actual setting of the Escot Archipelago generally has gotten more important, As well as the rest of the world outside of it. But I've only actually done renders for 2 of the 4 islands that recieve focus, namely Norremester and Lamour & I kinda want to redo them.

I really should render for the main island of my story, Scotsdale. But out of all of them it's a hard location to envision since it's so mundane. Norremester is a mountain civilization, Lamour has rural small town energy, and Eastridge is a metropolis, & Scotsdale is kinda just where everyone lives.

It's the day of Annual Norremester's Cultural Festival, a staple of Norremester's unremarkable and freezing autumn season, So Adam decided to Tyler out on a date for the fun of it. #originalcharacter #digitalart #smallartist #ocsky #artsky #artshare #art

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It's October 3rd✨️ I've been wanting to draw something for Mean Girls day for years it's one of my favorite movies and an inspiration for me, and so I decided to a redraw of this iconic scene! #oc #originalcharacter #digitalart #smallartist #ocsky #artsky #artshare #art #meangirls

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I've been doodling them a lot, and the more I do, the more confused I get on how much they actually hate eachother. Coco might think Cobalt is horrible, ugly, & stupid but he's 𝘩𝘦𝘳 shopping buddy! Even if he's scared of her #originalcharacter #digitalart #smallartist #ocsky #artsky #artshare #art

It's October 3rd✨️ I've been wanting to draw something for Mean Girls day for years it's one of my favorite movies and an inspiration for me, and so I decided to a redraw of this iconic scene! #oc #originalcharacter #digitalart #smallartist #ocsky #artsky #artshare #art #meangirls

Went with these two characters because I made Ashley right after I watched the original as a kid, and her and Tyler have the most doomed relationship ever lol.

I've been doodling them a lot, and the more I do, the more confused I get on how much they actually hate eachother. Coco might think Cobalt is horrible, ugly, & stupid but he's 𝘩𝘦𝘳 shopping buddy! Even if he's scared of her #originalcharacter #digitalart #smallartist #ocsky #artsky #artshare #art

Once again going through the "lovely" process of trying to give alternate outfits to my male characters that aren't just tank tops, hoodies, or hooded tank tops 😭 I want to do some fall themed pieces but a lot of the fits I see for men are ugly, boring, or just don't fit my characters very well.

Sometimes I love to look back at the old ocs that I've scrapped. They're all really gross and ugly, but it's still funny to see which ones had impact on my current story and which ones were made to be shipped with someone (which was deadass half of them)

I genuinely had like 70+ different characters, and three stories (plus 1 danganronpa fanfic) in high school. Now it's just my current story and characters which I've had since I was like 8? And the only character outside of that story that wasn't scrapped was Coco for some reason lol.

Part of me really wants to do something with them since they all had dramatic ass stories of their own back in the day, but probably in a background capacity. I was also thinking about redrawing a few of them and maybe selling them as adopts, because I cannot be trusted with them myself lol.

I hate that conflicting feeling of wanting to do more to interact with other artists but then also being too shy or self-conscious to do so. it's gotten a little easier over time since I've been posting for almost 9 years now, but I still find myself getting into my head over simple interactions 😭

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Emmet and Fawn's relationship is still going horrifically slow. Emmet has said a total of ten words during this tractor ride, and Blossom is having a miserable time third wheeling their awkward date. #oc #originalcharacter #digitalart #smallartist #ocsky #artsky #artshare #art

Emmet and Fawn's relationship is still going horrifically slow. Emmet has said a total of ten words during this tractor ride, and Blossom is having a miserable time third wheeling their awkward date. #oc #originalcharacter #digitalart #smallartist #ocsky #artsky #artshare #art

Did this on a whim last night to see if I still got it. I haven't made or edited pokemon sprites since early 2020, right before I graduated high school. I have so many assets that are just unused now bc I was so serious about making a pokemon fangame when I was younger, like I had fakemon for days.

Because I let the intrusive thoughts win I decided to shiny hunt Cobalt's team. Especially since I've been wanting to do an all shiny run of ZA. I'm trying to think of who his last two pokemon should be, it was a chikorita and a drilbur in my og playthrough, but idk how well they fit him lol.

Ngl part of why I've been enjoying Cobalt so much is because I missed having pokemon ocs. Back in the day I actually used to have quite a lot of them. I had my own little fan region, fakemon, and rivals, and I used to love making sprites on MS-Paint lol, so it's kind of nostalgic for me.

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Despite not coming from an established family Blossom has singlehandedly wormed her way into the Scotsdale elite. Sometimes she wishes Honza had a bit more decorum, since he prioritizes getting attention over class. #oc #originalcharacter #digitalart #smallartist #ocsky #artsky #artshare #art

Despite not coming from an established family Blossom has singlehandedly wormed her way into the Scotsdale elite. Sometimes she wishes Honza had a bit more decorum, since he prioritizes getting attention over class. #oc #originalcharacter #digitalart #smallartist #ocsky #artsky #artshare #art

Joined my first collab on instagram a few months ago! And I've always wanted to draw Tyler with a pokemon team! I always imagined him with a very affectionate Flareon, but Milcery and Gligar fit him too! #oc #originalcharacter #digitalart #smallartist #ocsky #artsky #artshare #art #pokemon

I hate those moments where no matter how hard you try you're physically incapable of drawing. I've been sketching but it just ain't coming out the way I want. Which is probably an indicator that I should shift focus towards my "professional" work for a bit bc its way different than my stuff here 😭

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I know I draw this man entirely too much. It's the new toy syndrome I swear 😭. I've just been replaying Legends Z-A, and I wanted to draw him with his beloved Meowstic. #oc #originalcharacter #digitalart #smallartist #ocsky #artsky #artshare #art #pokemon

I know I draw this man entirely too much. It's the new toy syndrome I swear 😭. I've just been replaying Legends Z-A, and I wanted to draw him with his beloved Meowstic. #oc #originalcharacter #digitalart #smallartist #ocsky #artsky #artshare #art #pokemon

Trying to figure out the best way to structure a lore post. Mostly because I know the worldbuilding is on the denser side, and I have a habit of overexplaining (bsky's character limit is both my best friend and worst enemy)

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Ashley Madison is going to the nation's capital for a conference. Unfortunately she forgot that her ex, Adam, would be there. Thankfully Courtney is there to keep her belligerent bestie distracted before things get nasty. #oc #originalcharacter #digitalart #smallartist #ocsky #artsky #artshare #art

AI bros will act like they're so bullied by society, when they'll scrape terabytes worth of art without a single person's consent & gloat about it. Some idiot scraped Cara yesterday, allegedly they've decided not to release the dataset because even the AI bros thought it was a dick move.

Ashley Madison is going to the nation's capital for a conference. Unfortunately she forgot that her ex, Adam, would be there. Thankfully Courtney is there to keep her belligerent bestie distracted before things get nasty. #oc #originalcharacter #digitalart #smallartist #ocsky #artsky #artshare #art

A few close ups of my antagonist trio. I imagine Courtney regularly has to explain the Escot Archipelago's public transportation system to Adam since he doesn't have public transportation systems where he's from, and his ass is throughly confused.

I love how she looks and her little deerling!!! 💞✨️💞

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Thinking about doodling a few character families this weekend. I've been slowly developing them but have always been a lil intimidating since there's a lot I want to explore, but I wanna show em off a lil.

Art Fight stats!! And honestly this has been by far my favorite year! (I say that every year though.) But even with the delay caused by my PC's technical difficulties, this was still my most productive year. My previous attack record was 51 in 2025!

This was also the year I recieved the most attacks, & y'all hit me so hard this year! I'm still beaming at every attack I got, they're all perfect, & I can only hope everyone liked the art they recieved from me this year in return! Y'all made me feel so special and I hope I could share the feeling 💞

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Emily & Emmet were raised by their paternal grandfather who died shortly after they turned 17. Emmet doesn't have a lot of people he trusts so he visits his grandfather's grave often, as opposed to Emily who rarely visits. #oc #originalcharacter #digitalart #smallartist #ocsky #artsky #artshare #art