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Vital Laįnlětal

@vital.monster

My part of an art trade with @linodraw.bsky.social!
I think he's winning.

#furryart

Painting of Lino, a green lion with a pink mane, lying on the floor while playing on a 3DS. A Poochyena stands next to him, staring at the console screen. A bright light emanates from the device, painting both characters' faces yellow, in stark contrast with the dim ambient lighting.

There are three speech bubbles pointing towards the console with Pokémon themed items: a Poké radar, a Pokéball, and an Oran berry.

May 3, 2026 at 8:04 PM

Reposted by Vital Laįnlětal

Patro The Stupid

@patrothestupid.bsky.social

lovers at dawn Uuw
work for @sublimelime.bsky.social and @abelcharlye.bsky.social thanksies !

April 23, 2026 at 4:54 PM

Vital Laįnlětal

@vital.monster

#furryart commission for @hukilyanderg.bsky.social, made at... er... after #Fauntastic6!

I'm hungry now.

A close-up portrait of Huki, a dragoness. She has a thousand-yard stare, her mouth slightly open, aghast. The background is also a close-up on a shawarma, a Lebanese wrap, with a generous smear of toum leaking suggestively on the filling.

A text covers the bottom half of the painting and reads "I got a serious lust for SHAWARMA" (the word "shawarma" is twice as large as the rest of the text for emphasis).

April 17, 2026 at 11:02 PM

Vital Laįnlětal

@vital.monster

Commissions done at #Fauntastic6!
In order:
1. SheenaKitsune (I keep drawing sushis for her! ò0ó)
2. Lisa, for @tsmurt.bsky.social (why does she have so many cool OCs???)
3. Aelix Schneefloke (so many handsome details to draw aaaaaa ♥)

Watercolor painting for SheenaKitsune. It depicts her character, Sheena, an anthropomorphic fox holding a salmon nigiri with chopsticks. The nigiri appears in the foreground, while Sheena looks at it intensely, tongue out and drooling.

Watercolor painting for Tsmurt. It depicts a portrait of her character Lisa, an anthropomorphic fluffy dragon. Lisa is smiling while winking at the viewer. Her hand strikes a V sign in the foreground. The background represents the transgender pride flag.

Watercolor and pencils drawing for Aelix Schneefloke. It depicts her character Aelix facing the viewer while floating mid-air, wings and arms spread, legs aligned in such a way that the foremost one hides the other one. Her torso features a large moon crescent with three horizontal stripes inside. Other notable markings include a smaller moon crescent on her forehead, a heart below her left eye, constellations on her arms and legs, and stars sll over her body.

April 7, 2026 at 8:13 AM

Reposted by Vital Laįnlětal

P.kulkan

@patkul.bsky.social

ร้านเฮมลอค ถนนพระอาทิตย์

ร้านอาหารที่เป็นทั้งแกลลอรีศิลปะ และพื้นที่พูดคุยของนักเขียนมากว่ายี่สิบปี ส่วนตัวชอบมานั่งกับเพื่อนๆอาจารย์จากท่าพระจันทร์
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ภาพประกอบหนังสือ Genius loci vol.1 :หนังสือ กาแฟ & เหล้ายาปลาปิ้ง

April 6, 2026 at 7:01 AM

Vital Laįnlětal

@vital.monster

Finally some portraits made at #Gdakon. (5/5)

I like working on small formats for portraits as it's an excellent excuse to hide details that I don't want to spend time on.

First: my part of a trade with @aqweno.bsky.social (his part in thread)
Second: Commission for @alcatraz.bsky.c

#furryart

Painted portrait of Everest, Aqweno's OC!
Everest, an anthroponorphic snow leopard, smiling and winking at the viewer.

Painted portrait of Galen, Alcatraz' OC!
Galen looks intensely at the viewer while pointing an ornamented katana through the frame.

April 5, 2026 at 4:31 PM

Vital Laįnlětal

@vital.monster

Shape-y paintings made for/at #Gdakon (4/5)

Those are sooo fun to make but it takes sooo long to do. Check the thread for process pictures!

The first two are me experimenting; the third is a commission for @keyne.bsky.social and the fourth for @aurabirb.bsky.social

#furryart

A stylized painting of a corvid. It is seen from a side view, its wing obscuring most of its body. Its neck extends downwards, lowering its head as it seems to be looking behind itself.

A stylized painting of a fox-like creature. It is constrained within the square frame of the canvas, its body curling all around the shape: its forepaws extend along the bottom edge, partially hiding its head, the chest and belly lay flat against the left edge, the hindlegs and butt rest on the top left corner, and the tail fills the top right corner and part of the right edge.

The creature is slightly frowning, as evident by the semicircle representing the eye.

Stylized painting commission for Keyne!
The canvas frames the upper body, which is dramatically bent forward to lean on the bottom edge; the background is almost entirely filled by Keyne's bright mane.

The character looks slightly menacing (he is a menace after all), but he's a sweet bean.

A stylized painting commission for Aura!
The painting depicts a quadrupedal creature with bird-like features: feathers, beak, sharp talons, etc.
The creature is assuming a pose not unlike that of a cat sneaking upon an unsuspecting prey... which here is the viewer. In fact, while the body is seen slightly sideways and partially cut off by the frame, the head is decisevely facing the viewer straight on and slightlt breaking out of frame.

March 30, 2026 at 11:57 PM

Vital Laįnlětal

@vital.monster

Yet another batch of #Gdakon paintings~ (3/5)

This time I fell in love with a palette: some dark, desaturated green, and the brightest orange/yellow I could muster.
And a blue pointy crit that didn't quite fit in the other batches :3

#furryart

A painting of an unspecified creature with a pointy snout. It's sitting in a corner of the painting with a neutral expression, looking besides tve viewer.
The background is made of oblique stripes: dark green, then pink, then orange, then yellow, and are reflected in the creature's lighting/shadowing.

Painting of a similarly ambiguous species-wise creature, and just as pointy. It is laying on its belly, head propped up to look at a small foldable device it holds in its hands (it's honestly just a chonky DS).
Its face basks in the small screen's light, that emanates a stylized cone of warm orange and yellow light, covering the almost completely covered green background.

A painting where you can see Vital's head emerging from a dark green background, as if hiding in a shadow. Viral is pulling a corner of the painting with its teeth and munching on it, revealing a bright orange and yellow underlayer that irradiates its face. The creature exhibits a blank, diverging stare as it comsumes the scrumptious paper.

A few words next to its head echo the action: "Munch munch munch"

Another ambiguous pointy-snouted creature. This one is blue and has visible cyan geometrics on its body.
It's lying flat on the ground, arms extended forward, and harbors an angry stare. It might look like it would have just tripped and is thus expressing discontentment towards this predicament.

March 27, 2026 at 11:15 PM

Vital Laįnlětal

@vital.monster

More paintings made for #Gdakon! (2/5)

These correspond to me trying different styles/techniques/approaches than what I'm used to, with mixed results.

#furryart

A watercolor painting of a maned wolf with a thousand yards stare, bags under its eyes, sitting aloof. A text above it reads "What a week..."

A drawing of an unspecified creature, lying on its belly and staring at the viewer with stars in its eyes but frowning very intensely. The whole critter is pink and in front of an abstract yellow and white background.

A mixed media painting (watercolor, ink, pens and pencils) of a small black creature of an unclear species, mouth and eyes wide open, as if in the middle of screaming its lungs out. The lower part of its body is indistinguishible from the floor, while its upper body is clearly detached from the abstract pink and red sky. A large pale yellow moon further highlights the creature's head.
It doesn't howl. It SCREAMS.

A drawing of a black cat, represent with a mix of sharp and round geometric shapes. Its mouth is wide open and tail straight up.
It's apparently meowing, but the text representing the sound is instead "HONK", written in large letters above the cat.
A small speech bubble points out of frame, with the text "wat" in small caps.

March 26, 2026 at 11:59 PM

Vital Laįnlětal

@vital.monster

Some small paintings (74x74mm) made for #Gdakon (1/5)

Mostly they were excuses to test my new carbazole violet watercolor (whatever "carbazole" means!)

#furryart

Watercolor painting of small round green cat with antennae (a "Glorp") floating in empty space (depicted as a warm purple gradient)

A watercolor painting of a black cat, seemingly in front or as the center of a stylized black hole. The backgrouns is a dark purple sprinkled with stars that gets heavily distorted the closer it gets to the black how shape, as if the cat itself was the source of the spatial distortion.

Commission for Alcatraz; watercolor painting depicting a dragon breathing a stylized red and pink fire.

Watercolor painting of an owlbear-like creature, eyes closed in contentment as it holds a cup of hot beverage. The background depicts a warm purple night sky.

March 26, 2026 at 12:45 AM

Vital Laįnlětal

@vital.monster

Wow! I'm at #Gdakon, look at that!
I'll be selling stuff for three days, come say hi~

March 19, 2026 at 1:45 PM

Reposted by Vital Laįnlětal

Elevator1337

@elevator1337.bsky.social

Noodle Dragon
Сommission for @\safircards project (inst)

March 7, 2026 at 9:47 PM

Vital Laįnlětal

@vital.monster

@deuvir.gay's gremlin, Angstrom ⚡, striking a wicked pose for a wicked custom t-shirt!

What? You want your own custom t-shirt too? And you'd like to pick it up at #Fauntastic??
How lucky! There is still ONE (1) week left to apply! See you at vital.monster/cmyshirts ❤

#furryart #ych #commission

Angstrom, a gremlin (as in the species from Spiral Knight, not the general idea of a gremlin, which actually does apply to him too). He is striking an "evil laugh" pose: slightly leaning backwards, hands raised at waist height, chin up.

Notable features he harbors are: an oversized long jacket floating in the wind (even though there is none), a robotic glove (it is probably evil), and a wide grin showing all his pointy teeth (he got lots of 'em).

The original colors of the character are not observed, and are instead replaced with a cyan camaïeu, with contrasting touches of electric yellow, reminiscing of Angstrom's electricity affinity.
The background is a flat, deep magenta, with a white halftone pattern contouring the character.

February 23, 2026 at 8:21 PM

Vital Laįnlětal

@vital.monster

Brainstorming here. What would be a good gender-neutral term to differentiate between "men"/"women" for t-shirt cuts?

I'd say "straight" for the former, but the latter... "tapered"? "contoured"? "shaped"?
Manufacturer calls them unisex and ladywear euuuuuugh... =_=

February 18, 2026 at 8:08 PM

Vital Laįnlětal

@vital.monster

Actually the goobers invited themselves to a ✮STAMP RALLYE✮ at #Fauntastic 6th Edition! (3rd - 7th April)
I'll have a ton of them, and I really hope y'all will show up to get them or else! ò-ó

A card featuring three Vital Gremlins, floating against a purply starry background (aka Space).

The top of the card reads "FAUN 6" (the convention the card will be found at).
An insert fisplays the artist's name: "Vital monster"
The bottom of the card links their socials:
- "Telegram: t.me/vitalmonster"
- "Bsky: vital.monster"

The illustration depicts a pink gremlin on the foreground, floating horizontally with its hands reaching through the card frame. Its mouth is open in a wide, mischievous grin, the size of which is only rivaled by its massive brows.

Behind it is a yellow gremlin that gnaws at the card frame, making several dents in it, the rest of its body limping downwards, its back turned to the viewer. Despite that, iIts facial expression is visible as it's hanging and is remarkable by the extreme lack of intelligence that it conveys.

The last gremlin, which by the way is blue, lies just a little further behind, in a terrible predicament as it appears to have rammed through a glowing star, and in so doing got its head through and solidly stuck. It's fully upside down, and expanding great efforts to liberate itself, pushing with all its hands, paws and might against the celestial body, comically deforming its head but alas! to no avail.

February 11, 2026 at 11:45 PM

Vital Laįnlětal

@vital.monster

Poof, three goobers to decorate my future booth at #Gdakon and #Fauntastic.

You wouldn't believe how long it takes to cut out 1mm carboard while following precise shapes.

My fingies hurt.

#furryart

Three printed cutouts of gremlin Vital hanged to a metal grid; they are meant as decorations.

The first gremlin is pink, floating horizontally with its hands reaching forwards; mouth open in a wide mischievous grin, the size of which is only rivaled by the massive brows.

The second gremlin is yellow, and gnaws at a bar of the grid, the rest of its body limping downwards, its back turned to the viewer. Despite that, iIts facial expression is visible as it's hanging and is remarkable by the extreme lack of intelligence that it conveys.

The third gremlin is blue, and in a terrible predicament as it appears to have rammed through a glowing star, and in so doing got irs head through and solidly stuck. It's fully upside down, and expanding great efforts to unstuck itself, pushing with all its might, hands and paws against the celestial body, comically deforming its head but alas! to no avail.

January 31, 2026 at 12:18 PM

Reposted by Vital Laįnlětal

⚡ 𝐒𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐄𝐃𝐆𝐄 🐊✨

@squeedge.bsky.social

✨doodle adopts✨
whipped up some lil guys I am affectionately calling Kreagles
$45 ea - comment to claim :3

January 28, 2026 at 11:13 PM

Vital Laįnlětal

@vital.monster

I didn't mention it, I'm new to advertising and all, but there is an option for anyone going to #Gdakon or #Fauntastic to get their t-shirts delivered directly at the con! 👀

Vital Laįnlětal @vital.monster · Jan 24

Here is a proposition for y'all.

I get: Your OC and the pose it should strike (and munie)
You get: Flashy tee(s) with your grembo on it.

Want some? Go fill the form here ✧*. vital.monster/cmyshirts .*✧
(And pray the page doesn't explode, it's homemade because I'm a madman)

#furry #furryart #ych

A promotional image for customized t-shirts, sold as YCH ("Your Character Here") commissions, named "CMY + YCH t-shirts", for a price of 60€ for the base design, and 20€ per t-shirt ordered.

The picture contains an illustration and a photo showcasing the different variants available: Cyan t-shirt with a yellow character, Yellow t-shirt with a magenta character, and magenta t-shirt with a cyan character.

The rest of the communication contains a fit/size guide for the t-shirt, the instruction "Strike a pose!" and a prompt to "Go to https://vital.monster/cmyshirts to apply!".
(The fit/size guide is available at the linked address, hence why I'm not transcribing it here)

January 28, 2026 at 8:24 PM

Vital Laįnlětal

@vital.monster

Here is a proposition for y'all.

I get: Your OC and the pose it should strike (and munie)
You get: Flashy tee(s) with your grembo on it.

Want some? Go fill the form here ✧*. vital.monster/cmyshirts .*✧
(And pray the page doesn't explode, it's homemade because I'm a madman)

#furry #furryart #ych

January 24, 2026 at 11:21 PM

Vital Laįnlětal

@vital.monster

It's still January so I'm not late to share the results of my 2025 bingo. I didn't get one, but I did cool stuff trying, so in my book I failed successfully! 💃

And technically I can draw two lines that cross five filled cells, so maybe it's a double bingo actually??

Stay tuned for 2026's #bingo!