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 an XP-Pen Star 06 Tablet and the program I use is Clip Studio Paint, as well as MSPaint cause I like drawing in it.

Ok well plans fell through, without my grandpa I don't have a reliable means of transportation to and from work right now and so wasn't able to get to work last night and I already was near the max of how many penalty points I could have since I had called off work twice (both times when my grandpa got hospitalized) and so. I'm officially jobless again now. I figured fuck it I was gonna quit anyways so I'll be calling them soon to tell them I'm not coming in anymore. It's very conflicted feelings inside me right now but mostly depression I'll be better with time but yeah things are going real rough for me right now

I'll keep some of what I wrote before down below since that all still applies just the bit about quitting my job no longer is accurate to my now.

I'm still planning on getting commissions set up, I've never really done them before so I'm a bit awkward trying to figure out things like pricing and dividing up my art but I'm gonna trial run them among my friends and stuff first and then go from there, but I'm thinking $50 as a starting price for my normal artstyle (tho since im quitting soon i may lower that price a bit) and $15-20 (also will probably lower) for my stickman style. Will still be a while probably late November at the soonest I get them set up.

As before I'm still working on improving my art via following along with anatomy lessons and doing the objectober (though it'll probably go into november lol) and I'm still working on learning code for learning video games though it's all slowed down because of work leaving me fatigued. I've also started looking into learning graphic design as a means of furthering my art as well. I also started a forum for sharing art resources and stuff you do need an account to see things in the forums but if you want you can join and share what you got still figuring everything out. I might make signups have to be approved by me first but currently theyre completely open. Also the forum name is just a friend suggestion cause it was funny.

My only other thing of note is I recently read a quote from Kid Congo Powers of The Cramps, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and currently The Pink Monkey Birds. In it he is talking about the art of being in a band which is much different than what I do and still it's one that I've been thinking about a lot lately and rotating in my mind for a while now:

For me, the whole art of being a band—and I do think it's an art—is to create a whole world, a whole language, that is every aspect. The Gun Club, we kind of made it up as we went along, but what I learned from The Cramps and Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds is that they created a whole uncompromising world, and it's all kind of sprung out of that. You want to communicate with people, and I think through all aesthetics—artwork, the look, and music—you get to keep your world, and you get to let people enter your world and live in your world with you.

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.