About Me
Hi, I'm Aeg!
I'm a 26 year old self-taught artist and ecologist from Texas. I'm also queer as hell (sex-favorable demisexual + agender man)
Art & Commissions
I've been drawing since I was young, starting out with prehistoric animals and dragons and working my way through drawing anthros and eventually more human-like characters. My art can be found here, as well as on the external websites linked in my sidebar.
I draw using a hand-me-down 12.9" iPad Pro, 2nd Gen Apple Pen, and Clip Studio Paint. The pixel art on my website is made using a mouse and Photoshop CS6 and Asperite.
I plan on taking commissions for the forseeable future, even while I am otherwise employed. If you are interested, my commission info is here.
Nature & Ecology
My focus in ecology is on freshwater systems and on both aquatic and terrestrial invertebrates. I also have a soft spot for both endo- and exo- parasites, though specializing in those ecologically is a challenge to say the least.
Some of my favorite taxa include Hymenoptera (Vespidae, Ichneumonidae, Braconidae, Sphecidae, etc.), Diptera (Tachinidae, Oesteridae, Syprhidae, Culicidae, Chironomidae, etc.), Strepsiptera, Neuroptera, Trematoda, Hirudinea, and Amblypygi.
In my free time, I like to hike and try to observe as many taxa as possible using iNaturalist. If you are interested in nature at all, or want to help real reasearch through participating in citizen science, I highly recommend making and account there.
Ecology has also gotten me to dip my toes into photography, especially photographing birds and insects. I currently use an old beater Nikon D3400 with a 70-300mm zoom lens. Combined, they cost me about $400 USD from KEH. Oh yeah, and of course I still photograph stuff with my phone using a clip-on macro lens.
(I will eventually make some webpages dedicated to all this)
You don't need a big fancy camera
for
nature photography! (Mecaphesa sp.)
Internet & Fandom
In terms of internet presence, I've never been very interested in online fandom other than watching from afar... mostly because it usually dealt with shipping which I have not been interested in, besides a few exceptions.
However, as a teenager, I got my first crush ever. On a fictional character (I won't say who... lmao) which made me feel confused. Through this I realized that I really like to create fictional relationships with my favorite characters, wether it be through selfshipping or shipping them with an OC unrelated to me.
This isn't to say that I don't still really enjoy meta analysis of stuff that I read or watch! It's just hard to find other like-minded fandom people who want to talk about that stuff... maybe when I have a blog here I will post more meta stuff.
I oftentimes refer to my selfships as OC x canon as well; this isn't because my self-inserts aren't me, but I have developed them to the point that they do have their own character that is recognizable even to someone who doesn't know me personally! I just really like to rotate my self-inserts in my head until they burst out from my forehead fully formed like Athena.
I made a page dedicated to my own selfships here! Also very much a work in progress. Until it's done, more of my selfship works can once again be found on Bluesky (@charophyte) or on Tumblr (@charophyte).