art!

Hi hi! We are the patchworked system, collectively we go by patches and they/he pronouns!

We are self taught in all of the art form we do, from traditional drawing to our textile art.

And we'd like to also take this post to talk about our drawing journey!:

Since we were a kid, we have always been an artist, and textiles always came easy to us but other artforms haven't. We've always doodled but gave up on drawing when we were a young teenager. We have aphantasia and that can make drawing really frustrating. In 2020, after learning about our aphantasia and what that is, we decided to just. Try. Work on it. Practice drawing, to just feel better about our art. We finished our first ever sketchbook in August 2023, and have filled another over halfway since then. And even participated in Linktober for the first time!

Posts here will probably be sporadic, as this is not our main blog or a side blog. We also want to post more than just drawings we do, as textiles really are a huge passion of ours and have been all our life.

Anyways thank you for reading and following and reblogging our art. 💕 It is a labor of love.

"Shay pulled a hoverboard from under a bush. "You've got a board, right? What'd you do, swim over?"

"No, I... hey, wait. How'd you get a hoverboard to take you across the river?" Anything that flew had minders all over it.

Shay laughed. "That's the oldest trick in the book. I figured you'd know all about it."

Tally shrugged. "I don't board much."

"Well, this one'll take both of us.""

Uglies, Ch 3, Shay

"Tally reached the edge of the roof, vaulted up onto the rail, and teetered for a moment. Below her, pretties were starting to spill out of Garbo Mansion onto the lawn and down the hill. They were looking back up, searching for smoke or flames. All they saw was her.

It was a long way down, and Tally's stomach already seemed to be in free fall. But she was thrilled, too. The shrieking siren, the crowd gazing at her, the Lights of New Pretty Town all spread out below like a million candles."

Uglies, Ch 2, Best Friends Forever

"Why didn't you write me?"

"I tried. But it just felt bogus. I'm so different now."

"But we're..." She pointed at her scar.

"Take a look, Tally." He held out his own hand.

The skin was smooth and unblemished. It was a hand that said: I don't have to work very hard, and I'm too clever to have accidents.

The scar that they had made together was gone.

"Tally pushed her way through the drunken dancers, out the other side of the procession, and ran down the side street toward Garbo Mansion, wearing the face of a pig."

Uglies, Ch. 1 New Pretty Town

I've been keeping watch over you all this time...

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Every cat has nine lives, how will you live yours?

This is our first ever game, inspired by systems like Powered By the Apocalypse, TrashKin by gshowitt on itch.io, and the Warriors Series RPG.

CatScratch explores the lives of your cat, through Going on Journeys and Resting. The main focus of the game is storytelling, encouraging you to explore your cat's lives. Live your lives to the fullest, and pass something on to the next generation of cats. Die rolls are not meant to dictate the story, just to help guide it.

CatScratch is a love letter to those who role-played cats on the playground, on forums, in servers.

Thank you so much for checking it out!

"That throne would chafe you until you bleed. It is the highest compliment I can give you, Isadora, that you can't do what I do." -Sybilla Eirik

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Whenever I start a new sketchbook, I like to do a podcast related drawing. #3 is inspired by my favorite arc of my favorite podcast, Unprepared Casters: The King Is Dead.

I've still been working on some linktober prompts but late, here's day 21: Link!