About The Artist

Name: Kit // kittybot // Peze

Gender: transgender // nonbinary // maverique

Pronouns: it/its // co/yo/te // any nonbinary or neopronoun other than they/their/them

Age: 38

Profession: freelance artist

Weapons of Choice: Wacom Cintiq 16 tablet and Clip Studio Paint

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Hiya! I'm kittybot. I draw stuff for a living! Maybe I even draw stuff... FOR YOU!

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I live in the Tacoma, Washington, USA area with my wife CassioBunny and our cats Socrates and Pigeon. I also spend quite a bit of time, energy, and love on Hale, my girlfriend we live near, as well as frequently and enthusiastically interacting with the other members of my polycule. Friendship is very important to me; relationships in general are, and I strive to take no one for granted.

Art is my job; I work on it almost every day, and sometimes on my days off, too! I love to create beautiful, emotional, inspiring artwork; I've also been known to be partial to extremely weird pervy stuff, for the novelty factor of course. I love art, I love making art, I love watching others make art, I love critiquing art, I love having my art critiqued - anything to do with art, you name it, I probably love it! I believe that colors should look good enough to eat; using reference is essential; art should invoke emotional response; artists should not set their drinks next to their paint water. Above all, art should be enjoyed, thoroughly and enthusiastically.

I've been drawing since I was a wee thing, but I started focusing on my art around 2002 or so, and my first foray into doing art for a living, as well as my current schedule of drawing every day (and with regular work hours on work days), began in spring 2006. Practice really is essential! I dabble in any media I can get my hands on, but tend to be most comfortable with digital art, markers, watercolors (tube, brush pen, pencil, or palette, whichever), graphite, colored pencil, and acrylic. These days I mostly do digital art, though I'm trying to cultivate a traditional art practice again.

I am autistic and live with anxiety, C-PTSD, schizoaffective disorder, OCD, chronic pain, and diabetes, among other things. As a result of this, I am often dissociated, lost in my head, or just plain manic or psychotic, as well as startling easily and going from 0 'just fine' to 60 'oh god the world is ending' in 10 seconds flat... so if I seem strange or not-quite-lucid at times, that's probably why. I've been seeing psychiatrists and therapists for years, and I keep improving my inner life every day! In the meantime, however, I really, really don't like being touched by people I'm not super-close to, and I greatly prefer handshakes to hugs. I don't handle crowds, shouting, or angry people very well. Keeping these things in mind will help me to be a happy, friendly and productive kittybot, should you run into me at conventions or meet-ups!

I attended Biggest Little FurCon (for which I did the social media artwork in 2020) 2014 - 2019 and Midwest Furfest every year from 2006 (except for 2017 when I went to Japan instead) to 2019, I attended Further Confusion (where I ran the Art Track programming in 2016, was Marketing Second in 2017, and worked as a staff artist from 2015 - 2017), I used to attend Furry Connection North when it was runnning, I attended Anthrocon from 2007 - 2012, and I was Guest of Honor at Rainfurrest 2009 (I did nearly all of their art assets in that year) as well as an attendee in 2011. I also attended Vancoufur 2020, 2024, & 2025 in person and 2023 virtually (where I have been a staff artist and now also Discord moderator from 2019 - 2025). I try to do Dealers or Artist Alley at every con I attend. Cons for 2025 are still up in the air, but the next guaranteed con will be Vancoufur 2026.

So, that's me in a nutshell! A nutshell that has an essay inside it. About me. Er, go click to some other page now, okay?

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