About Me
Hi I'm Sullivan but I go by Ghast online. I'm a 26 year old hobbyist artist specializing in digital illustration and an irl zombie from Illinois. I've been drawing for most of my life, I was 8 when I went online and discovered sites like deviantart that art became something I dedicated myself to. I'm pretty much entirely self taught via stuff I find online and observe.
I'm a gay man and use he/it pronouns, think like Frankenstein's monster. ENFP 7w8.
This website mostly exists for posting my art to and keeping information about all of my OCs which are my biggest interest!
I currently use a XP-Pen Star 06 Tablet and the program I use is Clip Studio Paint, as well as MSPaint cause I like drawing in it.
Now (August 17th, 2025)
Currently |
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| Reading: | Dracula and Yi Sang Collected Works |
| Watching: | Hannibal S2 |
| Playing: | Gnosia and Beyond Citadel |
| Listening: | Soundgarden |
So I finally got a job! I now work at a factory job on 3rd shift, I kinda figured I'd always end up a factory worker given the majority of jobs around this area are factory jobs and most of my family are factory workers or have been at some point. Having a source of income is nice but oh boy work is tiring and I now have a lot less free time. I still want to continue my art practice of course I've just been tired from getting used to standing on my feet and working all night.
I'm still following along with the Proko videos for anatomy, though I'm planning on in October also doing some various object studies, stuff like gas masks, metal pipes and rebar, internal organs of course, etc stuff that's relevant to the art I want to make. I wanted to do something as a break from "practice" while still being practice and I couldn't think of a better challenge for October so drawing objects I think are cool or will be relevant to art seemed good. I also still need to do more style experimenting cause I started reading Gachiakuta and oh my god it rewired my brain and gave me so many thoughts about art and stuff it's so cool so you may see it's influence on my work in the future lol.
My goals are of course to make art thats cool and thats porn and thats gore.
I stil wanna work on learning coding for video game making and continue on this website it's just been a bit harder cause of work and like I said less free time means I have to think even more about how I want to spend my time. It's hard haha.
Interests
| Games: | OFF, The World Ends With You, Silent Hill 1-4, Yuppie Psycho, Disco Elysium My Backloggd |
| Movies: | Scream (1996), Saw (2004), Frankenstein (1931), Lisa Frankenstein, MAD GOD, Return of the Living Dead, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. My Letterboxd |
| TV: | Hannibal, ODDTAXI, Kekkai Sensen, Over the Garden Wall |
| Music: | Nine Inch Nails, System of a Down, The Kominas, John/TOOBOE, Limp Wrist, G.L.O.S.S., Lauren Bousfield, The Paper Chase, Husker Du, Nirvana, The Suicide Machines, Bad Brains, I listen to way more bands but these are the ones I can think to add here right now |
| Books: | Chainsaw Man, Dungeon Meshi, Shinozaki-kun no Mente Jijou, The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't A Guy At All, Gachiakuta I know this is all manga I'm trying to get better at actually reading again |
| Misc: | Shuuen no Shiori Project, Black Rock Shooter, Kagerou Project |
Manifesto
I guess this is a thing I've seen on other sites so maybe I should write one as well. I started this site back in 2017 originally as basically a wiki for all of my original characters, Toyhouse is nice for what it is but leaves a lot to be desired and all the alternatives suck worse, so making my own site seemed like the best option even if when I started it I didn't know how to code for the longest time. Originally the intention was to keep this site fairly minimalist focusing entirely on getting shit filled out and worrying about making it look good later and I created a second site for where I could be indulgent and put whatever, but as I was looking at that second site I went "actually no I want my art website to look cool too" and as I've made my art website cooler I realized trying to code two seperate sites is too much for me, one larger site is better, so here we are.
Some of my desire is fueled by having been on the internet since 2008, I miss the customizability that's degraded over time, a site with code is very customizable. I consider art to be an extension of my self-expression like the clothes I wear and so my website is also like that, a sorta virtual house where you can see my Ghostface figurines and coffin shaped coaster. It also means no matter what happens on other sites I've still got here and honestly these days I prefer here than going on other sites, the bluesky link on the side is honestly just there to put something there, I hate using bluesky. Though I don't put my whole stock in neocities after all something could possibly happen to it and then I'd have to find a new place always be ready for possibilities like that yknow? Basically the only social you'll really see me active on is a fediverse instance run by one of my friends.
I think the biggest push to having my own site is simply that there is no good art posting website, don't try to recommend me one I've tried several, deviantart, artfol, inkblot, cara, fucking buzzly, unvale, characterhub, refsheet, instagram (gags), you get the idea. Closest that I've liked is sheezy and I think sheezy has potential but it's still not quite there you know? It really seemed like the only way I could post my art in a way I truly like is on my own website. Another thing too is that many of these sites don't allow adult content or have restrictions on them and I am a normal adult man who likes gore and porn so that immediately detracts for me. I hope over time more artists make good personal sites, with RSS feeds that I can follow, please get an RSS feed.