discount commissions are closed!

• slot 1: zefkon

• slot 2: blazingpelt

• slot 3: berryfrost

• slot 4: milly

congratulations to the winners! if you are a wealthy loser you can still get an expensive commission for a million billion dollars. or you can try your luck in the next raffle in a few months!

2023 was a big year for me! In hindsight a whole ton of stuff happened and it's sort of hard to absorb it all.

Furry Cruise: In March I went on a week-long Caribbean cruise with three of my closest furry friends. Gorgeous beaches, fancy restaurants, relaxing hot tubs, sunbathing, games and just an entire week with zero responsibilities. I'd been on a few cruises like this with school friends but it's really different when it's close friends from the internet, it was a really chill time and I can't wait to repeat it.

Gallery changes: A few galleries closed, changed management or lost their marbles! The most notable of these is FurAffinity and Twitter which imploded in 2023, and Bluesky and Itaku which exploded in 2023. I'm glad I had the foresight to set up PostyBirb or this would have been a tough year.

Porting Monster Mind: Wow! I'm really proud I accomplished this. Monster Mind was written in HaxeFlixel, and HaxeFlixel is "cross platform" in the same way that a fetus is multilingual. Y-yeah I... I guess the potential is there, SOMEDAY... if spend a lot of time and do a lot of work yourself. Porting Monster Mind to Windows and HTML5 was very hard, and it made me appreciate Godot more.

I completed 141 commissions this year and drew about 200 non-commission pieces as well. I have two video games in active development, one of which should be done in 2024 (phew!) so 2024 should be a big year too! Thank you for keeping me company.

It has been a long 22 years but it looks like http://us.vclart.net/ is no more!

I joined VCL around 2001. Back then furries would upload their art to their own personal websites, or to a shared web host like FurNation if they didn't want to operate their own server. But they still had to write their own HTML code, and forget about keywords or searching or anything like that! So VCL was pretty unique at the time. It was easy to upload your art, and it would show up on a front page where people could randomly find it. And you could even search and stuff!

VCL had a strict "No Fanart" policy, so because it was my only gallery I ended up drawing tons of furry stuff. But around 2005, other less restrictive gallery sites opened up which let me draw anything I wanted. Over time I had fewer and fewer things I could post to VCL -- but surprisingly, I kept my VCL gallery up to date as of 2023! I drew about a half dozen furry commissions this year which I was able to post there. Thank you VCL! You were an awesome website~

I have opened a gallery at Furtastic! Furtastic is trying to fill in as "The Furry Community Website" where all the furries go. Their content policies seem lenient enough that I can upload all my art there! It is supported by PostyBirb as well.

Let me know if you join Furtastic, and I'll give you a follow!

I've closed commissions until 2024 so that I can dedicate more time to a big cool personal art project! I hope you'll like it when it is finished. ...I will still stream at Picarto on Saturdays, so you will have more Argon Vile art than you could ever want! But you can no longer pay me for it. I'm sorry! I love money. I'm sure you love money too! This way you can have more money~ 🌲 It is a birthday present!

https://bsky.app/profile/argonvile.bsky.social

I've created a Bluesky account to host my art! Why should you use Bluesky? Well...

  * If you miss how Twitter used to be before it stopped being Twitter
  * If you wish I posted to Twitter more frequently
  * If you want a new Twitter
  * If you it is Twitter
  * If Twitter
  * Twitter

Thanks for your kind comments, especially your clever guesses to my Pokemon guessing game from last week! Did anybody guess the Pokemon? Hmm I wonder! Let's be patient and see~

I'm visiting a friend for a week! We're going to hit up a water park, and play lots of video games and board games and stuff but I won't be doing any drawing while I'm gone. Most notably, this means I will miss this Saturday's stream (the 19th).

I'll return on August 24th, and stream again on the 26th though!

PostyBirb should do its job keeping my daily uploads running but if you notice that I'm not active on Discord and not replying to as many comments or something like that, then that's why. See you soon!

I'm going to the Bahamas for a week! I'll be hanging out on the beach, paragliding, snorkling with sea turtles. ...or browsing sea turtle lewds on my phone while we play Agricola in the ship's lounge! Either way I definitely WON'T be streaming for the next two Saturdays i'm sorry! My next cool Saturday stream will be April 1st.

I have PostyBirb wobbling back and forth over my computer's "Y" key, so you should still see a little bit of new art while I'm gone. See you all in a week!

https://twitter.com/argonvile/status/1634296248093089794?s=20

Who's down for more Rule34 Gartic Phone tomorrow?? I'll run a game at 5:30 pm EST (2230 UTC) after my usual Saturday Stream! ...Come play with us!

https://picarto.tv/argonvile hello! i'm going to host some Gartic Phone this Saturday, February 18th at 5:30p EST (2230 UTC). All are welcome to join! ...See you there!

ALSO it is maybe my birthday on Monday! I don't remember... There are so many birthdays! How does anyone keep track?

I'll be at Magfest Thursday-Sunday! It is a HUGE (21,000+ person) video game convention.

I may be entering some puzzle game tournaments! I may be playing their 200 free arcade games, pinball games, or their indie arcade! But I definitely will not be streaming. Sorry! I will see you lovely people next Saturday 💜 Much love. Magfest rules!

https://picarto.tv/argonvile hello! i'm going to host some Gartic Phone this Thursday, December 29th at 5:30p EST (2230 UTC). All are welcome to join! ...See you there!