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Not sure if you're the same person who commented (no need to be shy!!) but now I am back at my computer and can rattle off a couple brushes that I remember using for this piece.

Unfortunately, I download a lot of brushes from the Clip Studio Paint cloud store, and sometimes my computer replaces certain characters with a blank unicode box. I do wish there was a way to look at an archive of materials I've downloaded, or that downloaded brushes would have some kind of built-in link to the original creator.

The water texture, background patterns, and foreground plant life are definitely Japanese. The grainy airbrush is one of my faves, so I tried my best to copy the name down, but I don't know how helpful it is.

I have been quietly plugging away at this little personal project, cleaning and editing scans from a vintage Ukrainian children's book.

I am happy to simply preserve the book (Yes! I have uploaded a scan of the full book on archive.org!) but I recently had a limited batch of vinyl stickers printed featuring a small assortment of these very fine illustrations:

Now, I only had 20 sheets printed (by my favorite queer-run local print shop, Shaky Hands Union Printing) but I plan to do several different configurations! Pages with just plants, just bugs, just foxes, plus single stickers of some larger illustrations throughout the book.

If you wanted to buy a sheet, I'm selling them through my Ko-Fi for eight smacks plus postage.

sporting a bit of facial scruff, lost track of the days. pretends to like it, doesnt really.