//BIOGRAPHY 
//Hi! I'm Kowboat - just 'Kow' for short is fine - and I've been going by that name online for at least the last ten years. I'm a digital character artist, an aspiring writer (emphasis on 'aspiring'), and occasional streamsman, having recently returned after a two year hiatus. I am deliberately taking it easy this time so as not to burn out, which seems like the right move.
//ARTIST
//I've been drawing since at least elementary school, and I started putting my art online throughout high school and a little after. I've been working exclusively in digital art since I got my first Wacom tablet, and I intended to pursue a career in illustration until I fell afoul of The Horrors and burned out hardcore for almost a decade.
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//Around 2019, I started making vector art for my tabletop games using at first Google Drawings, then Inkscape, entirely with mouse & keyboard. In 2022 I dug out my old Wacom Intuos 4 completely on a whim and got back to drawing by hand, and today I think I'm putting out some of the best work I've ever done! That said, I'm sick to death of begging for engagement, so if you think my OCs are cute you're legally required to tell me directly and you can pay me to draw yours as well if the spirit moves you.
//WRITER
//Writing is something I've dabbled in a bit more infrequently; I've finished NaNoWriMo twice (neither result of which is fit to show to anyone), written and lost a handful of short stories, and filled a folder or two with dozens of discarded drafts. One day, though... one day I'm finally gonna get around to writing that sci-fi doorstopper...
//STREAMER
//I don't quite remember when I started streaming, but it was around June 2021 that I started doing it regularly - started with some gimmick runs of Skyrim and Fallout 4 and eventually branching out into other games. For a while I focused on speedrunning The Thing, eventually achieving a PB of 45:26! Between 2023 and 2025 I took a hiatus from streaming, but I intend to keep it up for the foreseeable future.
//CONTACT ME
//I can be reached most readily on Discord via @kowboat, or from one of my social accounts linked on the site map. If I don't know you, please open with a concise explanation of what you're contacting me about so I don't assume you're a bot or something. If I have you blocked on social media, I probably did it without much thought (I regularly block people for having boring opinions, let alone actual bad ones) so don't take it personally. Or do, I'm not your dad.
//for information about commissions, click here to go to my Ko-Fi store.
//for other business inquiries, email me at: SATIS /dot/ VERBORUM /at/ GMAIL /dot/ COM