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One of my oldest friends, @pinkdodecahedron.bsky.social, turned a year older today, so I quickly drew this silly comic for him before I went to work today. Happy birthday!

#ANSIArt #TextmodeArt #PixelArt #Art #Comic
A short three-panel ANSI art comic mimicking the colors, style and format of a comic strip chronicling the Forces of the Canonical Jealous, which is normally drawn in MS Paint and depicts crude blobs with appendages and shapes inside of them. Upper panel: Blue triangle blob says, "My fellow dweller of canon, I must report we have been rendered by a different hand!" Gold circle blob says, "Whose!?" Blue triangle blob answers, "An artist who normally draws animal people of mythical proportions! And has drawn us entirely in MS-DOS text mode!" Gold circle blob responds, "Gadzooks! What an unusual addition to our fanon!" Middle panel: Gold circle blob continues, "But for what purpose!? Why would such an artist, possessed of such strange and unusual interests in artistic mediums and subject matter, be concerned with us?" The original comic's author avatar blob, a circle with a pink dodecahedron inside of it and visible stick-figure arms and legs, steps in and says, "You're not going to believe this..." Bottom left: The signature "TGH! 2026" rendered in green in freehand as in the original strip, with the text "thegreenherring.art for pinkdodecahedron.bsky" in green, white and pink text respectively, and dated "Sep. 3rd 2026" in green text beneath. Right of signature: A bright green cartoon Pacific herring with long green hair falling over the side, red glasses and a gigantic red bow around her neck swims through the ocean, rendered in a manner more resembling proper ANSI art and with bubbles trailing behind her, and says, "Happy birthday!"
September 3, 2026 at 8:31 PM
xenias98.bsky.social
the roba from deltarune yellow take

#deltarune #deltaruneyellow #undertale #undertaleyellow #uty #ceroba #pixelart #pixel_art #textmodeart #textmode_art #nsfw
August 12, 2026 at 5:09 PM
thegreenherring.art
If you've been wondering what I've been up to, here's a short teaser for my next #chiptune song, "Pleasant Day", including a slight peek at the cover art I'm drawing for it! ;3 See you tomorrow!

#FurryArt #Music #PixelArt #ANSIArt #TextmodeArt #Art #OPL2 #YM3812 #AdLib #Furnace #Video
July 30, 2026 at 5:26 PM
thegreenherring.art
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The #timelapse of the #ANSIArt star of the show! Here's the full 6-hour stream in ~2 minutes, plus new music! I did post-stream edits as well to fix stuff that was bothering me.

#FurryArt #SciFiArt #TextmodeArt #PixelArt #Art #Furry #Chiptune #OPL2 #YM3812 #AdLib
July 7, 2026 at 5:02 PM
thegreenherring.art
From last night's Twitch #ANSIArt stream, a round of applause and a shower of coin for a man whose majesty can only be contained in a scrolling video!

#FurryArt #SciFiArt #TextmodeArt #PixelArt #Art #Furry
July 5, 2026 at 7:52 PM
thegreenherring.art
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Here's the #timelapse of the #ANSIArt prismatic serpent of deep space from my June 28, 2026 Twitch art stream... Now with bespoke #chiptune music!

#SciFiArt #TextmodeArt #Pride #PixelArt #Art #OPL2 #YM3812 #AdLib #FMSynth #VGM
July 1, 2026 at 5:58 PM
thegreenherring.art
This #ANSIArt serpent and several more recent pieces are included in @mistfunk.bsky.social's MIST0526, available now!

16colo.rs/pack/mist0526

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(Sorry for the repost; the embed was busted!)

#SciFiArt #TextmodeArt #PixelArt #Art
16colo.rs - mist0526 by mistigris
mistigris - mist0526
16colo.rs
June 30, 2026 at 1:13 AM
thegreenherring.art
I did another Twitch #ANSIArt stream last night, and 5.5 hours of streaming produced this mammoth of a prismatic space serpent! When you're too long to be contained in a static image, the rest of the star system has no choice but to behold you. [1/2]

#SciFiArt #TextmodeArt #Pride #PixelArt #Art
June 30, 2026 at 12:52 AM
firegraphics.bsky.social
Happy 60th Birthday to Mary Stuart Masterson.

Portrait by nail

#ansi #ansiart #textmode #textmodeart #fanart #digitalart #demoscene #bbs #retrocomputing #retrographics #portrait #watts #somekindofwonderful #johnhughesmovies
June 28, 2026 at 12:45 PM
firegraphics.bsky.social
Carlo Pedersoli, better known as Bud Spencer, passed away 10 years ago today. Rest in peace, legend.

ANSI art portrait by nail.

#ansi #ansiart #textmode #textmodeart #fanart #digitalart #demoscene #bbs #retrocomputing #retrographics #portrait
June 27, 2026 at 6:20 AM
thegreenherring.art
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Here's the #timelapse of my June 8, 2026 #ANSIArt Twitch stream aliens! The stream ran for 6.5 hours, and this is the artistic process condensed into 2.5 minutes!

#TextmodeArt #PixelArt #SciFiArt #FurryArt #Art
June 10, 2026 at 5:30 PM
thegreenherring.art
Yesterday, I went on Twitch to draw a long piece of #ANSIArt, and this is the result! A whole bunch of ETs with psychic hands would like to talk, and you better not try anything funny!

#TextmodeArt #PixelArt #SciFiArt #FurryArt #Art
In this long piece of ANSI art, using only shades of cyan, magenta, black and white, a massive cat-eared spaceship has landed in a clearing with dead trees, and its riders have gathered in front of the viewer. Some have climbed trees, some are still leaving the ship, but all of them are quadrupeds with long ears, psychic energy hands and clothes tailored for their bodies. The one in front, a smirking feline with spiky hair, is wearing a leather jacket, silver earrings, and anklets; he has sent one of his hands right in front of the viewer to beckon them over. He is flanked by his bodyguards: a serious fellow with a mohawk and a turtleneck, flashing his psychic claws and indicating he's present and ready to use them; and a big one with short parted hair and a hooded jacket bearing his claws and fangs and poised to pounce at the slightest move. Both of them are prepared to tear the viewer apart if they do anything other than what the leader is asking for.
June 9, 2026 at 4:26 PM
thegreenherring.art
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Here is the #timelapse for my #ANSIArt aliens from last weekend's Twitch stream, courtesy of my VOD!

#TextmodeArt #PixelArt #SciFiArt #Art #NoAI
June 2, 2026 at 4:49 PM
thegreenherring.art
Hi everybody! Here are the four sci-fi #ANSIArt screens I drew in my Twitch stream last night. All four were completed within four hours and ten minutes (including a five-minute break). Trust me, you don't need genAI to get art made this quickly!

#TextmodeArt #PixelArt #SciFiArt #Art #NoAI
A yellow alien resembling a brontosaurus with blue leaf-like flaps on its head and back stands on purple grass at night surrounded by giant grey alien plants, looking over its back with its tail lifted. Various smaller creatures watch on, with only their eyes visible. A gigantic cyan alien resembling a sea slug swims through the depths of space, its blue mantle flowing like a dress, with particles trailing behind it. It is surrounded by the stars, blue nebulae, and a moon, all of which look like playthings in comparison. Deep in the ocean, a massive green alien resembling a swordfish swoops above the ocean floor, its white hair and fins flowing with it, and finds itself staring at a glass dome housing a deep-sea colony. Schools of fish swim by in the background, revealing the colony, despite its vast size, to be exponentially dwarfed by the alien. In a dark cupboard, a little red alien creature with fangs, a horn on its head, and arms for legs stands poised to defend its prize, a Granny Smith apple, from anyone who dares to reach for it.
June 1, 2026 at 8:36 PM
thegreenherring.art
With #Bubsy4D finally released, here's the original #Bubsy3D #FanArt I drew months before the announcement of Bubsy 4D spurred me to update it! After all, what could paw-sibly go wrong?

#FurryArt #ANSIArt #TextmodeArt #PixelArt #Art #Furry #Bubsy
In this piece of 16-color textmode art, Bubsy, an orange, slender, cyan-eyed cartoon bobcat man wearing only a long-sleeved white shirt with a red exclamation point on the front, sits in an alien world on his hip, his legs sprawled to the side, smirking at the viewer. A collection of red, cyan and black yarn balls sits behind him, and cyan yarn wrapped around his arms and his chest, which he grips with both hands, with one hand raised and the other on the ground. He sits on a red and cyan checkerboard with a wobbly appearance as if rendered by the original Sony PlayStation, and in the background is a range of red mountains with a polygonal appearance. The sky is a flat cyan and completely bare except for a few lonely, floating platforms.
May 22, 2026 at 5:37 PM
migmoog.bsky.social
My friend @chasehunter.dev has been developing a new textmode art software called Text Machine. It has awesome features like being able to export timelapses of your drawings!

This piece itself is late for the #modular pixel daily. Meaty!

#textmode #pixelart #textmodeart
May 19, 2026 at 3:59 PM
nail7.bsky.social
Happy 70th Birthday to the late Bob Saget – thank you for the laughter and countless hours of wholesome entertainment.

#ansi #ansiart #textmode #textmodeart #fanart #digitalart #demoscene #bbs #retrocomputing #retrographics #portrait #fullhouse #dannytanner
ANSI textmode portrait of Bob Saget
May 17, 2026 at 8:19 PM
velikani.bsky.social
One of the artscene/ascii groups i'm in published a new artpack! Impure #92, you're welcome #ascii #artscene #demoscene #textmodeart #ansi 16colo.rs/pack/impure92/
16colo.rs - impure92 by impure
impure - impure92
16colo.rs
April 27, 2026 at 6:05 AM
polyducks.co.uk
Fishé

#textmode #textmodeart #lowspec
April 15, 2026 at 10:27 AM
polyducks.co.uk
Sometimes I will start my art with a list of nice words and by the time it's finished you won't even remember there's a list at all.

#textmode #textmodeart #timelapse
April 14, 2026 at 7:33 PM
thegreenherring.art
Featured at Revision 2026 (@revision-party.bsky.social): "Greetings, Earthlings!", my PC ANSI entry to the ASCII/ANSI/PETSCII Compo!

#ANSIArt #SciFiArt #RevisionParty #TextmodeArt #PixelArt #FurryArt #Art #Demoscene #Demoparty
A long strip of ANSI art depicting aliens beaming down from a UFO over a grassy field at night, with mountains in the distance, and walking down a path to greet us, the people of Earth. They are various flavors of animalistic, with pointed ears, long tails, and digitigrade legs; and have only three fingers on each hand. The most visible of these creatures are various bright colors and clad in bodysuits. A pink alien in white and a white alien in black walk together, a yellow alien in blue with a blue-tufted tail strides on after them, and a cyan alien in red with a red-tufted tail waves to Earthlings off-screen, close enough to us that we can see their black beady eyes. In the front, closest to us, is a green fish-like alien in red wearing red-rimmed glasses, smiling and waving to us while their fish tail swishes behind them.
April 4, 2026 at 4:58 PM
thegreenherring.art
Happy World Autism Acceptance Day from "Cyber Purge" v2.21, the final content update, released on February 21, 2026!

thegreenherring.itch.io/cyber-purge-...

#FurryArt #ANSIArt #IndieGame #ZZT #AutismAcceptanceDay #TextmodeArt #PixelArt #Furry #Art
A screenshot of Cyber Purge v2.21, running in ClassicZoo, taken during a cutscene. TAKAMIMI, the VR avatar of the hero Takami Bluesky, a big floating fennec fox head with detached arms and legs, is standing with a defiant expression on their face over the abstract background of a blazing aura in the shape and colors of the rainbow infinity symbol. Along the bottom of the screen is a single line of dialog: "I'm one of them."
April 2, 2026 at 6:15 PM
thegreenherring.art
The workstages of Kaoru fighting a robot! It started as a narrow strip, some stages were done on my Steam Deck at work, and the robot was drawn in a separate file before I merged it into the main one.

#Timelapse #FurryArt #ANSIArt #TextmodeArt #PixelArt #FantasyArt #Nonbinary #Furry #Art
March 25, 2026 at 7:15 PM
thegreenherring.art
Most mages need their feet on solid ground to cast magic, but Kaoru Morimoto (they/them) is not most mages.

#FurryArt #ANSIArt #TextmodeArt #PixelArt #FantasyArt #Nonbinary #Furry #Art
In this massive piece of ANSI art, at night, with the stars shining above, a long-necked Japanese marten person, a warrior mage standing on one leg on a wooden post in the middle of a lake, is casting a mystic fireball and aiming it a killer robot flying towards them. The mage is wearing a sleeveless robe with their hood up, their ponytail pushing it back, and a side slit that leaves their leg visible beneath their skirt. They are pointing at the giant orb in the middle of a robot flying with hover jets trying to attack them with four clawed tentacles. Its downwards jet is causing the lake water to ripple and splash with its force, reflections can be seen in the lake's surface, and the mountains surrounding the lake in the distance fade into the night sky.
March 25, 2026 at 4:45 PM
thegreenherring.art
Here are the workstages of Kaoru Morimoto's (they/them) #ANSIArt portrait!

#Timelapse #FurryArt #Nonbinary #FantasyArt #TextmodeArt #PixelArt #Art #Furry
March 15, 2026 at 6:37 PM