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Illustrator talking about art, but casually.

Email me at garfriendyay@gmail.com if you have any questions or comments. Business inquiries will be redirected to my business email.

fish feed

1/25/26 - miscellaneous things

I am debuting my new idea to quell my strange desire to post on instagram AND yap about it. However, we all know that instagram sucks. I just want to yap and have a chronological feed. So I made it for myself, and I have called it Fish Feed.

Official Fish Feed logo.

When I first learned CSS, I had been wanting to make a windows-esc theme on a page. It is over done, but I don't care. It makes me happy. I think it's fitting for this page. I'll be posting more casual things here because I am creating more these days. For now, I have a backlog of art and abandoned projects.

Here's an abandoned illo (illo = illustration) with freshwater fish in tamagotchis. Specifically, the tamagotchi connection V2 because those are the ones I grew up having. I have about three imported from Japan. They were for parts, and I was only able to restore one. Tamagotchis are actually pretty easy to fix. It's just replacing batteries and cleaning the connections.

Another abandoned piece of me (with a bob at the time) in my dream baja. The love for the subie baja goes really deep.

I'm really not sure what I was trying to do with this piece. I do have it stuck in my head that my portfolio needs to appeal to just children's book publishers, so I think I was trying to make an illo of a room to show that I can do interior spaces.

I do pressure myself a lot to make my portfolio exactly how all of my art teachers told me I needed to have it. While I think there was truth in what they said, I don't think it's applicable in the current illo industry. They are experienced in it, but the industry changes so much especially in economic turmoil.

Anyways, I got really bored of this illo, and I stopped.

Here's some sketchbook pages that I put on photos I took. The actual scans of the sketchbooks are defo somewhere in my sketchbook page.

Here's a few iterations of my instagram profile pics. I'm not sure if I wanna link my instagram quite yet on this site. I keep it somewhat professional with my business name attached to it.

Anyways, I think this format is fun to talk about just my art. I get a little lost in my website goofs and forget to make or show my art. I hope people find it fun also :]