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Smallscale ANSI art depicting an athletic raccoon man with long hair from an upcoming indie game jam game in two images. One shows him in green marathon running clothes with a long headband and running shoes with open soles, crouched with his hands on the ground and ready to start a race with determination in his eyes. The other is a portrait of him in a green polo shirt with a surprised, cartoony expression on his face, as if reacting to someone suddenly whipping out a smartphone camera right in front of him. Between them is the text "Eddy the Cleaner" in the classic IBM serif font.
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Happy International Raccoon Day! Here's some art from a new project coming soon! Eddy the Cleaner about to take on the challenge of his life vs. the awkward pho…

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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 belie

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. Happ…

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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 dr…

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A snapshot from an upcoming YouTube video upload of The Green Herring's "Snake Eyes". One side shows the cover art, an ANSI art portrait of a planet-dwarfing rainbow snake with the artist's name in a green-white gradient and the title surrounding an image of the snake's eyes over a rainbow banner, with text above and below reading, "Chiptune for the AdLib Music Synthesizer Card (Yamaha OPL2 / YM3812). Written June 30-July 1, 2026, released July 1, 2026." The other side shows oscilloscopes for all nine individual FM channels of the YM3812, which animate as the music plays. Overlaid over the art and the scopes is a spectrum visualizer in a white-green gradient. Behind the scopes is the artist herself, a buxom green fishwoman with glasses in an oversized red shirt, a pleated black skirt and fishnet, smiling with arms akimbo as she looks at the person listening to her music and wags her tail.

Hi everyone! Owing to the limits on video posts on other platforms, I've been working on finally setting up a YouTube channel for my music! Here's a preview of …

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A masc-bodied but buxom fishperson with parted hair and a choker in an oversized red shirt and pleated black skirt stands in the lower corner of the screen looking at the viewer in front of a blank canvas in the ANSI art program MoebiusXBIN. The canvas is black, the color palette and tools are to the left, the characters assigned to function keys are on the top, and the character map and thumbnail preview are to the right. The view of the canvas is zoomed out to show how tall it is, and the font is stretched to simulate how it would look on an contemporary 4:3 PC monitor from the DOS era.

Today, I'm in the mood to draw long #ANSIArt... and more specifically long ANSI furry art, the rarest species of #FurryArt! Not only that, I'll be drawing it fo…

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Meanwhile, for absolutely no reason whatsoever, a clip from my June 8, 2026 Twitch art stream:#ANSIArt #Twitch #Pride #TransRights #FurryArt #TextmodeArt #Art #…

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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.

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…

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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.

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…

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A masculine but buxom fishperson with parted hair and a choker in an oversized red shirt and pleated black skirt stands in the lower corner of the screen looking at the viewer in front of a blank canvas in the ANSI art program MoebiusXBIN. The canvas is black, the color palette and tools are to the left, the characters assigned to function keys are on the top, and the character map and thumbnail preview are to the right. The view of the canvas is zoomed out to show how tall it is.

So I made a bunch of #ANSIArt screens the last time I streamed at the end of May, but what if I drew something taller than them? I've had a hankering to draw so…

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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.
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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 (includ…

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A masculine but lean green fishperson with long parted hair wearing red glasses, earrings, a choker with a red medal, and a dark-red V-neck t-shirt over a heavy bosom, along with fishnet gloves and a black waist-high pleated skirt with pockets pushed slightly forward by their package, greets the visitor to their website with a smile and a wave of their hand, their other hand resting on their hip and their tail lifted. The text says: "The Green Herring: Art, Games and More! This site is intended for users 18 or over! Welcome to my domain, where you can find my artwork, games, music and more. What would you like to see today?" Below is a selection of buttons leading to "Updates", "Games", "Art", "Music" and "Links", the date of the last update, an "About Me" button, colored buttons for RSS and Atom feeds, a selection of external social media site and gallery links, a "Random Site" link for the "Creative Retrocomputing" webring, and copyright information forbidding its use with crypto or

Now that I'm on Wafrn, it's time for a proper re-introduction… Greetings! The name's Tavi Grace Hightower, or T.G. Hightower for short, but you can call me The …

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A bunch of vague blocky blobs scribbled right before I went to work, contrasted with what they became: On an alien world, in a patch of blue ground surrounded by tall blades of blue grass, two magenta prism-shaped creatures with one eye each amble toward a white serpentine creature with a cyan underbelly and pointed ears folded against its head. Behind the snake is a giant, golden egg surrounded by shorter blades of grass. Beside the creatures, a line of red soil borders a natural, bubbling acid bath.
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Last year, with OpenAI openly ripping off Studio Ghibli, I did the "Alien Shapes" trilogy to show you don't need genAI to make something from nothing.In light o…

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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.
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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 …

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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.
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Featured at Revision 2026 (@revisionparty): "Greetings, Earthlings!", my PC ANSI entry to the ASCII/ANSI/PETSCII Compo!(If you are only seeing the UFO, click to…

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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."
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Happy World Autism Acceptance Day from "Cyber Purge" v2.21, the final content update, released on February 21, 2026!https://thegreenherring.itch.io/cyber-purge-…

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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 fi…

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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.
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Most mages need their feet on solid ground to cast magic, but Kaoru Morimoto (they/them) is not most mages.#FurryArt #ANSIArt #FantasyArt #Nonbinary #TextmodeAr…

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Here is the workstage #timelapse of Kaoru Morimoto's (they/them) #ANSIArt portrait!#FurryArt #Nonbinary #FantasyArt #TextmodeArt #PixelArt #Art #Furry

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A bust of a Japanese marten person, seen from the front and the side, wearing a robe with its hood up. It is huge to account for their long thick marten neck, has holes for their ears to go through, and extends far back from the head with a round tip. An additional side shot shows a section cut out of the hood to reveal their ponytail, which begins with a bun secured with a long tube, is pushing back the hood to create this shape. Each portrait is surrounded by an abstract flame effect curving around them. Next to these portraits is the name "Kaoru Morimoto" written in Japanese with the Romanization underneath, and the pronouns "they/them".
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After posting my #ANSIArt marten mage, I wondered, "How do they wear that hood with that ponytail?" And so I drew it. And then I gave them a name! #FurryArt #No…

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Here are the workstages of my #ANSIArt marten mage!#Timelapse #FurryArt #FantasyArt #TextmodeArt #PixelArt #Nonbinary #Furry #Art #FediArt #MastoArt

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In this piece of ANSI art, a Japanese marten person with spiky black hair in a ponytail stands poised to fight in a dark forest, narrowing their eyes. They are dressed in a sleeveless red robe with a huge hood and a side slit, a set of gauntlets and a pair of ankle protectors. Next them is an inset box containing the same marten in the same pose, but in a tenth of the size, drawn entirely with blocks, shade characters and punctuation.
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For #MartenDay, here's an #ANSIArt sprite of mine from 2023 redrawn at ten times the size! This marten's ready to rumble! #FurryArt #TextmodeArt #PixelArt #Fant…

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A snapshot of a gallery page from my website circa 2023 for a piece of ANSI art titled "Machine World" dated to March 11, 2023. In it, a featureless humanoid figure floats in a fetal position while surrounded by a green and dark gray bubble made of ones and zeroes, and with particles made of dots, ones and zeroes floating away from it. The ones and zeroes floating away are colored from white to green to dark gray. Around this figure, split across several lines, is a message reading, "In a machine world, / created by machine minds, / built by machine men, / can one truly call themselves free?" The picture is bordered on the top and bottom by a single line with gradient coloring from white to green to dark gray, with the artist signature "TGH!" on one side and the date 2023 on the other. Below the image, most of the text has been grayed out to highlight the following passage: "I imagined what would happen if the blowhards proposing generative AI as a replacement for humans got their way.
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Happy anniversary to this conceptual art piece from 2023, in which I predicted genAI as a tool of fascism. #SciFiArt #ANSIArt #TextmodeArt #PixelArt #Art #NoGen…

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The workstage timelapse of Cynthia on the beach! The entire picture was thumbnailed prior to it being drawn at full res.#Timelapse #ANSIArt #FurryArt #FebROOary…

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The timelapse of Archantael (https://twitch.tv/pangolinfox) in techwear! I drew it after I learned she'd waited almost *three years* for paid techwear art from …

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