MustyYew is an amatuer artist, designer and video editor based in the Unlimited Kool (UK). Otherwise, I'm just a dude who browses the internet a lot. You might recognise me as "that one guy I see in a concerning amount of YouTube comments" or from one of my meme drawings from Reddit (unless you have no idea who I am and I just look like a pretentious cunt). I mostly started this website as a cool little novelty of sorts for anyone who comes across it, as well as a concise platform for everything I've worked on that isn't tied to one platform.
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MustyYew (ˈmʌsti-ju'), also known as 'Musty', 'Mustyy' or 'かび臭いイチイ' ('kabikusai-ichī'). Kinda wish I had some super cool backstory to tell, but it was just randomly generated from my brother's XBOX account when we were young (full username being 'MustyYew011937', I eventually omitted the numbers for obvious reasons). I basically just stole the name for myself and started using it as an alias, mainly because it just sounded cool and I couldn't think of anything better myself lol. Funnily enough me and my brother had this whole back-and-forth battle over who actually owns the "MustyYew" name, but he eventually gave in and let me have it for myself anyway.
A lot of people have pointed out the weird (and pretty gross) connotations of "Musty Yew" as a name when you actually disect its meaning, but that's sorta the reason why I like it so much. Plus it's objectively simpler and more memorable than a lot of usernames out there.
Basically as long as I can remember. I'd start coming up with my own characters and ideas since I was around 6-7 years old, but only began taking my artistic potential seriously around the tail end of 2019 ("taking art seriously" doesn't necessarily mean I got good at it though, keep that in mind) - even then I'd just grab some paper and doodle stuff based around whatever 3-4 interests I had at the time (Minecraft YouTubers, BFDI, memes, look I was 13 okay).
It wouldn't be around mid 2020 when I'd actually share my art online for people to see. Quarantine in genral obviously gave me a lot more free time to expand upon my artistic technicalities, as well as my taste in media and arts overall (see the "Interests" tab below). If you want a display of what I'm best capable of then I would view any art I've made from 2023 onwards.
My artwork is carefully constructive through the contemporarily complex digital art sortware known as Microsoft Paint (circa Windows 10), with such revolutionary equipment as a singular computer and optical mouse. But seriously, that's it. I've never used a drawing tablet and I don't have some super advanced desktop setup in order to make my art, just a basic mouse paired with my nearly 10-year-old Windows PC.
A lot of it is just drawn (haha) from media I look up to or grew up with; TV shows, web series, adverts, books, games etc. I couldn't pinpoint one specific thing or person for the way I draw. I'm also self-taught for the most part, so a lot of my abilities were formed from looking at others' work and critiques.
I'm currently working on a giant portfolio with all the “professional” works I've published online. But at the moment, I'm mainly active on Reddit, Twitter and somewhat Newgrounds (featured below via Linktree). Don't expect any consistency with the rate I put stuff out though. I don't have set commissions or anything right now, but if anyone reaches out to me I'll gladly draw something for them in exchange for cash.
I just get bored easily of browsing the exact same website every single day and progressively branched out into a multitude of other sites. No real backstory here I just got bored lmao. I've had a surprising amount of people point it out in the past so I thought I might as well explain the "lore" behind it here.
