Hi, y'all! I've been a digital artist for 13 years, but am deciding to expand my galleries to FA. I wanted to start by sharing my old work on here, then slowly expand into trying furry art a bit more.

About me: I'm a trans-woman erotic artist, sex worker and activist working on a self-published book about sex-positive sex work and the Gothic (see: below)

Book details: My name is Persephone van der Waard and I am currently writing and illustrating a non-profit book series on sex positivity and the Gothic. Made in collaboration with other sex workers, the project is a five-volume set called Sex Positivity versus Sex Coercion, or Gothic Communism: Liberating Sex Workers under Capitalism through Iconoclastic Art. As of 2/14/2024, my thesis volume and manifesto volume are available online (the other volumes shall release over the remainder of 2024). To access my live volumes, simply go to my website's 1-page promo and pick up your own copies for free (https://vanderwaardart.com/book_gothic_communism). While you're there, you can also learn about the yet-unreleased volumes, project history and logo design/promo posters!

Support My Travel Fund: If you want to support my work, I accept illustrated and written commissions (my full rates for both services and various commission examples: https://vanderwaardart.com/commissions). Any commission money I make is being saved to fly out to see my partner, Bay, who lives in New Zealand (https://twitter.com/barkingonmain). Tickets from where I live (America) range from $1600-2000, so every bit helps. If you want to help by purchasing a commission, you can contact me on DA, FA, Facebook, Twitter, Bluesky and Discord; my username is the same on all of them: vanderWaardart. You can also use my website's contact form, which puts you in touch with my business e-mail.