https://www.mastafran.com/october-2025-sketchbook/

Dropping my new monthly blog about the art and writing I've made regardless of if I posted it here or not.

Here's a bit of development news of what we've been up to with my game, Blackmask.

https://www.mastafran.com/art/sketches/

Did a little bit of work editing my website. I compiled my archive of pencils sketches to a single page as I don't remember post these sketches everywhere I am on the socials. This will update periodically with old and new work as well as alt text, come by and take a look.

https://www.mastafran.com/my-time-a.....showcase-2025/

Over the weekend, I went to the Chicago Indie Game Showcase and played a fine collection of upcoming games developed in Chicago, Illinois!

The show is run by Indie City Games, a local Chicago scene of indie game developers. I applied for a table in the summer to show off a playable build of Blackmask, but it's for the best as there were killer games out on the floor that Saturday!

https://www.mastafran.com/august-2025-sketchbook/

Nearing the end of summer but not the end of my sketching! I'm fiddling about with new coloring techniques and progress on pixel animation!

https://www.mastafran.com/dragon-kn.....prite-process/

In the past four weeks, I created this large fighting game sprite commission! Here's the process creating it all from the start.

https://www.mastafran.com/july-2025-sketchbook/

It's a hot July and my art is going hot too! I'm building up more digital art and making strides with pixel animation too!

https://www.mastafran.com/june-2025-sketchbook/
A little late but I'm showing a new sketchbook post from June.

https://www.mastafran.com/what-ive-.....-since-spring/

Halfway through the year, I'm dropping off an update of life stuff I've been up to and talk about future plans for art projects.

https://www.mastafran.com/may-2025-sketchbook/

Dropping a new blog post on my website with scanned art I've doodled over May.

I have 4 slots open for Pixel Art Commissions. SFW only. All prices per each character. DM Me to ask me more or fill out the Google form when you're ready to go!

Other Commission Examples:

Icon Example
Half Body Example
Full Body Example
Background Example

There's four of these mats left in my stock and once they're finished, I'm making a new mat design. Come and get my table mats from my online store! There's great for card games and desk decor!

https://www.mastafran.com/product/p.....11x24-playmat/

This Friday at 2pm CST, I'm celebrating 100 consecutive streams with a traditional art stream drawing comic pages for a new short story.

You can visit and chat about my retvrn to tradition.

m.twitch.tv/mastafran

There's a new 4 pack of large pastry cat stickers in my store today! You can get a pack of 3 large stickers with a bonus extra sticker!

https://www.mastafran.com/giant-sticker-packs/

For this VOD, I'm working on Balatro custom face card pixel art commissions, then playing actual Balatro video game runs.

https://www.mastafran.com/one-day-a.....aming-classic/

Over the weekend, I went to Midwest Gaming Classic and had a blast. I enjoyed finding my old favorite retro games and discovering new ones!

Here's the stream where I go from being completely ignorant of GB Studio to being able to make a controllable art gallery with button presses!

I dropped another VOD on my archive channel on YouTube if you want to catch my spring break stream marathon!

https://www.mastafran.com/march-sketchbook-2025/

Here's a huge collections of sketches and art I drew over the last month!

If you need something to listen to while doing boring tasks, why not play my incoherent ramblings that I made last week. You might get some insight on my pixel art process!

Making up for missing the regular stream by pixel arting Blackmask environment stuff then procrastinating again with more video games.

Added last week's stream to my archive channel on YouTube! Catch my next stream tomorrow at 7pm CST!

I stream on the Wednesday nights on the regular. If you miss my streams, I archive them with light editing and timestamps on YouTube!

Here's an archive VOD of last week's art stream, where I make the last touches and figure out the particle animations of my final commission.

With that last pixel art, I'm done with all my commissions from last September. Now if you'll excuse me, I'll be going to bed, celebrating my birthday tomorrow, and taking the rest of the week off.

1) NBD-Dog
2) TideMistory
3) Kyowai
4) ScarletRose
5) ABananaMan
6) Jonathangee