Nullself

slaps a sticker onto your dash

Sat, 20 Sep 2025 18:06:52 -0400

*slaps a sticker onto your dash*

Want a hit? 🍃

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 16:21:19 -0400

Want a hit? 🍃

When I first started designing this piece I was trying to get an entire duo of star chart…

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 17:53:55 -0400

When I first started designing this piece I was trying to get an entire duo of star chart information in the background, but I decided to go a lot more minimal for the final piece. It may not be fully readable now, but the vibe is still there ✨

I love how people tend to enjoy my ecosystem animal pieces at shows, like yes nature is great and…

Mon, 15 Sep 2025 17:46:42 -0400

I love how people tend to enjoy my ecosystem animal pieces at shows, like yes nature is great and thank you for liking my little guy about it

Skulls & Triangles

Sun, 14 Sep 2025 19:03:55 -0400

Skulls & Triangles

Some little guys that match the energy rn ✨

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 13:59:07 -0400

Some little guys that match the energy rn ✨

Brain squiggles are sooo fun to draw

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 10:12:30 -0400

Brain squiggles are sooo fun to draw

Just look at those fun wiggly shapes, all curvy and windy and interconnected

Sometimes I worry I’m drawing brains too much but then I feel the Flow of the Curves

And everything is good 🧠✨

I am once again trying to actually post on this account more 😅 oops!

Mon, 08 Sep 2025 16:15:04 -0400

I am once again trying to actually post on this account more 😅 oops!

These two meditation inkworks are also some of the designs on my stickers, and it’s so fun to see people pick them both because “they match” or “they look cute together” (my favorite comment about it). I look at these pieces and feel very different sensation memories from the different sits they’re inspired by, but I love how they’ve been paired together by so many people ✨

Hello Tumblr (again)! I’m back at the “try to be more present online” stage of my perpetual social…

Wed, 13 Aug 2025 12:23:30 -0400

Hello Tumblr (again)! I’m back at the “try to be more present online” stage of my perpetual social cycle, and I think that trying to return to Tumblr would be a fun way to do that.

Maybe it’ll also motivate me to make more art? We’ll see! Speaking of more art, here are some of the inkworks I’ve made recently.

(It feels strange to post my inkworks without doing the editing process to make them fully black and white images, but Google Photos changed their editor and now it’s a pain in the ass to do on my phone, so I guess I’ll just have to get over it and post them raw 😂)

A few days ago I hit a major life milestone - I’m officially 30! To celebrate, I decided to do a…

Sat, 14 Oct 2023 16:56:33 -0400

A few days ago I hit a major life milestone - I’m officially 30! To celebrate, I decided to do a redraw of the first inkwork I ever did as Nullself back in Inktober 2018. It’s wild to see how much my style has both changed and stayed the same over the years. Honestly, the same could be said for my entire self; for my birthday I looked through my old sketchbooks and time capsules, and while a lot about me is different now, the foundations are still very much the same. Life’s fun like that I suppose ✨

I have a new artist sketchbook that’s way larger than what I normally work with, and it gives me so…

Thu, 24 Aug 2023 14:34:09 -0400

I have a new artist sketchbook that’s way larger than what I normally work with, and it gives me so much more room for activities!

New inkwork! I’ve suddenly been getting watery eyes while smoking so here’s a trippy bong pic about…

Wed, 19 Jul 2023 13:49:00 -0400

New inkwork! I’ve suddenly been getting watery eyes while smoking so here’s a trippy bong pic about it 🤷

Is Tumblr the place to post poetry? I can’t get the hang of all these different app cultures 😵‍💫

Sun, 09 Jul 2023 11:34:06 -0400

Is Tumblr the place to post poetry? I can’t get the hang of all these different app cultures 😵‍💫

Meditation Self Portrait Inkworks! I love drawing the sensations I feel during my practice, and when…

Sun, 09 Jul 2023 11:24:38 -0400

Meditation Self Portrait Inkworks! I love drawing the sensations I feel during my practice, and when I look at these pieces I can almost feel the experience happening again. The human mind is a fascinating thing ✨

Alien Foods Inkwork series! It’s amusing to me that one silly doodle of an alien head in a frying…

Thu, 06 Jul 2023 11:06:28 -0400

Alien Foods Inkwork series! It’s amusing to me that one silly doodle of an alien head in a frying pan would spawn a years-long series that’s always fun to come back to. (Disclaimer: I would never actually eat an alien, this is just for fun!! 😛)

Whoops

Wed, 05 Jul 2023 12:24:38 -0400

I completely forgot that I had planned to post here with art commentary, and only remembered today while setting up my LinkTree. I’ll be fixing that very soon, don’t worry!

Let’s start actually talking about some art! This piece was done in February 2022.

Tue, 06 Dec 2022 12:52:37 -0500

Let’s start actually talking about some art! This piece was done in February 2022.

I’m going to take advantage of having basically no followers or attention yet to talk about this one, since it’s one of the very few I have about NSFW content and I’m not very good at talking about such things. The concept originated from one of my periods of what I call “active sexuality;” I’m on the asexual spectrum and usually don’t think of sex or feel sexual attraction to others unless sexual events are actively happening, but there are brief periods sometimes where the idea of sex starts coming up in my brain actively rather than responsively. (That’s a lot of words to say that I’m either not into sex at all or VERY horny and there’s absolutely no in-between.) Because of this, getting myself to feel sexual desire when it’s not happening can feel like getting water from a stone, so when I do feel the desires happening, I tend to try and capitalize on it.

Sex is an experience with a lot of hands, mouths, and juices, so these elements are the focus of the piece. In the drawing, the hands and tongue are one in the same, squeezing juices out of the “blob” and the mouth beneath feeds on these juices. This interaction is intended to be a surrealist reimagining of a sexual experience without showing the actual sex taking place - the hand and tongue interact with the sexual part of another being (the “blob,” which here is a visual replacement for showing private parts more explicitly), that interaction creates a liquid (cum, sweat, whatever) from that part, and that liquid is then consumed (literally or figuratively) and enjoyed by the one who caused it to come out.

The circle theming is a very specific reference to my own experiences - in sexting, a past partner and I would use the emoji ❣️ to indicate an orgasm (the reasoning being that the heart looks like it’s “dripping after cumming”). The art has a circle on the bottom in the same way as the emoji, and that shape is repeated around the piece to make it all cohesive.

That’s enough about the concepts, let’s talk about the execution. Looking back at this piece, I really like how the bottom of the background circle becomes the mouth in the foreground; prior to that addition the mouth was just floating in space, and this change brought the whole piece together. The tongue turning into the hand also worked very well, and the curves the tongue has while reaching up is satisfying to follow with the eye. I do wonder if I should have added any extra detail to either the blob or the liquid coming from it, such as light shine spots or texture, but I don’t think the piece suffers from a lack of those elements. Overall I’m still pretty happy with this one, even if it does feel weird to show people knowing its very sexual theming.

I’ve been putting some minor thought into how I want to use this blog and make it different from my…

Sun, 13 Nov 2022 01:14:27 -0500

I’ve been putting some minor thought into how I want to use this blog and make it different from my Instagram feed. I think here I’ll be more open about my process and thoughts and all of that “behind the scenes” type of commentary. I’m not one to talk so openly about my inner art commentary, so this is gonna be different!

Also, since I’ll be posting art as I come up with things to say, these inkworks won’t be in chronological order. I’ll add Drawn Dates to give some context, and if you want to see a chronological list, check my Instagram.

Hey Tumblr! I’m Rowan, a 29yo disabled trans guy making art in Boston. Up until now I’ve only been…

Sat, 12 Nov 2022 16:50:02 -0500