" }, { "path": "/art/demo-2021.mp4", "date": "December 2021", "width": "6", "height": "2", "fit": "cover", "title": "Demo Reel 2021", "desc": "This reel highlights animated coursework circa 2018-2021!", "tags": [ "animation", "demo reel", "demo reel 2021" ], "hidden": false }, { "date": "2024-01-29", "path": "/art/Laughter! .mp4", "width": "2", "height": "1", "fit": "cover", "title": "Laughter", "desc": "A woman tries to contain her laughter before laughing a lot, and then regain her composure; this animation loops! Part of a skill test for a job application.", "tags": [ ], "hidden": true } ] }, { "name": "*:･ﾟIllustration ･ﾟ:･*", "content": [ { "date": "2025-5-27", "path": "/art/Kitty.webp", "width": "2", "height": "1", "fit": "cover", "title": "Kitty, the Seamstress", "desc": "A commission from author Melissa Kendall for her character Kitty from The Vampire's Guide to Wooing a Dressmaker", "tags": [ "Commission", "Historical Romance Commission" ], "thumbnail": "thumbnail/art/Kitty.webp" }, { "date": "2025-3-9", "path": "/art/buggachat inspired s6 scene redraw both with pg.webp", "width": "2", "height": "1", "fit": "cover", "title": "", "desc": "", "tags": [ "Miraculous", "fan art" ], "thumbnail": "thumbnail/art/buggachat inspired s6 scene redraw both with pg.webp" }, { "date": "2024-8-06", "path": "/art/The Cat at Fresh Pond Road.webp", "width": "2", "height": "1", "fit": "cover", "title": "The Cat at Fresh Pond Road", "desc": "This is losely based on a scene in A Means to an End, a short story in Girlfriends by Emily Zhou. This is the first in a series on stories that take place in New York and was made during a summer Residency at SVA with guidance from Anna Raff.", "tags": [ "SVA Residency" ], "thumbnail": "thumbnail/art/The Cat at Fresh Pond Road.webp" }, { "date": "2024-6-07", "path": "/art/Fiarfli_Final_smallerFile.webp", "width": "2", "height": "1", "fit": "cover", "title": "Summer in Hisui", "desc": "My illustration for a page in Trainersona: Summer Edition", "tags": [ "Pokemon", "Zine", "fan art", "blue" ], "thumbnail": "thumbnail/art/Fiarfli_Final_smallerFile.webp" }, { "date": "2024-09-11", "path": "/art/MOLE INTEREST.webp", "width": "1", "height": "1", "fit": "cover", "title": "Mole Interest", "desc": "Meme Art for Mole Interest Anniversary!", "tags": [ "meme", "mole interest" ], "thumbnail": "thumbnail/art/MOLE INTEREST.webp", "hidden": true }, { "date": "2024-7-13", "path": "/art/riddelz2solve_Linx2.webp", "width": "2", "height": "1", "fit": "cover", "title": "", "desc": "", "tags": [ "Art Fight 2024" ], "thumbnail": "thumbnail/art/riddelz2solve_Linx2.webp" }, { "date": "2022-3-5", "path": "/art/vegalia dtiys mo.webp", "thumbnail": "thumbnail/art/vegalia dtiys mo.webp", "width": "2", "height": "1", "fit": "cover", "title": "Mochi and Leo DTIYS", "desc": "A \"draw this in your style\" (dtiys) challenge I participated in on Instagram for Vegalia's character Mochi", "tags": [ "dtiys" ] }, { "date": "2022-3-28", "path": "/art/Thibault commission smol.webp", "thumbnail": "thumbnail/art/Thibault commission smol.webp", "width": "2", "height": "1", "fit": "cover", "title": "Tybalt Brooding", "desc": "A commission for Rhys Allison's upcoming book \"Tybalt Under Siege\"", "tags": [ "commission" ], "hidden": false }, { "date": "2023", "path": "/art/peachy_biker.webp", "width": "1", "height": "1", "fit": "cover", "title": "Peachy Biker", "desc": "A sketch of a girl and her bike with a warm pink analogous color palette.", "thumbnail": "thumbnail/art/peachy_biker.webp", "tags": [ "pink", "experimenting" ], "hidden": true }, { "date": "2024-07", "path": "/art/Welcome Home - less hatching.webp", "width": "6", "height": "1", "fit": "cover", "title": "Welcome Home Editorial Illustration", "desc": "An editorial illustration based on an article about Millennials and the limited housing resources in the US (by Jeeana Smialek) during a summer Residency at SVA with guidance from Deena So'Oteh.", "tags": [ "SVA Residency", "Editorial" ], "thumbnail": "thumbnail/art/Welcome Home - less hatching.webp", "hidden": true }, { "date": "May 2020", "path": "/art/Drawing FINAL straightened.webp", "thumbnail": "thumbnail/art/Drawing FINAL straightened.webp", "width": "2", "height": "1", "fit": "cover", "title": "Drowning in Emotions: A Double Self Portrait", "desc": "My final for my Drawing II class; Copic markers, water color, and colored pencil.", "tags": [ "traditional", "colored pencil", "water color", "copic markers" ], "hidden": true }, { "date": "2023-11-27", "path": "/art/dj_flame_and_fern.webp", "width": "2", "height": "1", "fit": "cover", "title": "DJ Flame & Fern", "desc": "Fanart of two background characters (DJ Flame and Fern) from Fionna & Cake", "thumbnail": "thumbnail/art/dj_flame_and_fern.webp", "tags": [ "fan art", "cartoony" ] }, { "date": "2024-7-29", "path": "/art/awk0kittens dulce.webp", "width": "2", "height": "1", "fit": "cover", "title": "awk0kittens dulce", "desc": "", "tags": [ "Art Fight 2024" ], "thumbnail": "thumbnail/art/awk0kittens dulce.webp" }, { "date": "2022-4-9", "path": "/art/042922 The window.webp", "width": "2", "height": "1", "fit": "cover", "title": "Gazing out the window", "desc": "Bean, the cat from my senior project, sitting by a window in autumn. Digital", "thumbnail": "thumbnail/art/042922 The window.webp", "tags": [ "cartoony", "bean the cat", "cat", "Original Character" ] }, { "date": "2021", "path": "/art/Starryclouds.webp", "thumbnail": "thumbnail/art/Starryclouds.webp", "width": "2", "height": "1", "fit": "cover", "title": "Girl in Starry Clouds", "desc": "I was testing out star cloud brushes I downloaded and suddenly I had a drawing ><'", "tags": [ "experimenting" ], "hidden": true }, { "date": "2019-02-12", "path": "/art/snowboardin' smol.webp", "width": "2", "height": "1", "fit": "cover", "title": "Snowboardin'", "desc": "", "tags": [ "poster", "print", "Original Character" ], "hidden": true, "thumbnail": "thumbnail/art/snowboardin' smol.webp" }, { "date": "2023-2-17", "path": "/art/test.webp", "width": "1", "height": "1", "fit": "cover", "title": "Stars and Screentones Sketch", "desc": "A sketch I made in Clip Studio Paint with digital water color and starry screentones.", "thumbnail": "thumbnail/art/test.webp", "hidden": true, "tags": [ ] }, { "date": "2023-12-30", "path": "/art/gone_bananas.webp", "width": "2", "height": "1", "fit": "cover", "title": "", "desc": "", "thumbnail": "thumbnail/art/gone_bananas.webp", "tags": [ "space boy", "fan art", "food" ] }, { "date": "2021", "path": "/art/Illustration4.webp", "thumbnail": "thumbnail/art/Illustration4.webp", "width": "2", "height": "1", "fit": "cover", "title": "Crepe Myrtle in the Parking Lot", "desc": "Study of a parking lot in Chantilly, VA.", "tags": [ "study", "parking lot" ], "hidden": true }, { "date": "Fall 2019", "path": "/art/Hangin original.webp", "thumbnail": "thumbnail/art/Hangin original.webp", "width": "2", "height": "1", "fit": "cover", "title": "Hangin'", "desc": "My first commission; pencil on paper.", "tags": [ "steven universe", "commission" ], "hidden": true }, { "path": "/art/Hangin.webp", "thumbnail": "thumbnail/art/Hangin.webp", "width": "2", "height": "1", "fit": "cover", "title": "Hangin' (full color)", "desc": "Steven, Connie, and Lion from Steven Universe hanging out at Steven's house. \nThis is a colored version of one of my first commissioned works!", "date": "2021", "tags": [ "commission", "steven universe", "cartoony" ], "hidden": true }, { "date": "2022-11-03", "path": "/art/amity.webp", "width": "2", "height": "1", "fit": "cover", "title": "Thanks to Them Amity", "desc": "A doodle I did of Amity based on her appearance (and the wallpaper in the Old house) in Season 3 Episode 1 of The Owl House", "thumbnail": "thumbnail/art/amity.webp", "hidden": true, "tags": [ "owl house", "fan art" ] }, { "path": "/art/Illustration flip.webp", "thumbnail": "thumbnail/art/Illustration flip.webp", "width": "1", "height": "1", "fit": "cover", "title": "Pokeboba", "desc": "My half of a spread from class zine May 2021. Full zine can be viewed here: https://www.blurb.com/books/10701078-show-and-tell", "date": "2021-05", "tags": [ ], "hidden": true }, { "path": "/art/blue_peony.webp", "thumbnail": "thumbnail/art/blue_peony.webp", "width": "2", "height": "1", "fit": "contain", "title": "Blue Peony", "desc": "A blue peony glowing against a white backdrop with purple light", "date": "2021", "tags": [ ], "hidden": true }, { "date": "2023-10-06", "path": "/art/cloudsplashhouse.webp", "width": "2", "height": "1", "fit": "cover", "title": "House on the Cliff", "desc": "", "tags": [ "background art" ], "thumbnail": "thumbnail/art/cloudsplashhouse.webp", "hidden": false }, { "date": "2021-11", "path": "/art/bg3 nofig.webp", "thumbnail": "thumbnail/art/bg3 nofig.webp", "width": "3", "height": "1", "fit": "cover", "title": "The Unburnt Woods", "desc": "Background art from the later scenes of my senior project.", "type": "link", "html": "https://fiarfliart.tumblr.com/post/676088365078167552", "tags": [ "background art" ], "hidden": true }, { "date": "2023-12-30", "path": "/art/withches_entrance.webp", "width": "2", "height": "1", "fit": "cover", "title": "Entrance to the Cottage", "desc": "The second background from my senior project.", "thumbnail": "thumbnail/art/withches_entrance.webp", "tags": [ "background art" ], "hidden": true }, { "date": "2021-11", "path": "/art/witches_abode.webp", "width": "6", "height": "1", "fit": "cover", "title": "Cottage front", "desc": "A variant/ larger shot of background art from the first scene of my senior project.", "thumbnail": "thumbnail/art/witches_abode.webp", "tags": [ "background art" ] }, { "date": "April 5, 2022", "path": "", "width": "2", "height": "1", "fit": "cover", "title": "Eclipse Redraw/Redesign", "desc": "A revisiting of an old character I used to write about in 2013, drawn in my current style.", "type": "iframe", "html": "Finally got around to that one meme, then decided it was time to practice animating; first animation of 2026!!! 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— Raquel :3 (@fiarfli.art) January 21, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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", "tags": [ "Lightbox 2021" ], "hidden": true } ] }, { "name": ":･ﾟComics & Stuff ･ﾟ.", "content": [ { "date": "2025-7-2", "path": "", "width": "6", "height": "1", "fit": "cover", "title": "chocolate.", "desc": "", "tags": [ ], "type": "contained", "html": "" }, { "date": "2024-01-31", "path": "/art/lap dragon.webp", "width": "6", "height": "1", "fit": "cover", "title": "Lap Dragon", "desc": "", "thumbnail": "thumbnail/art/lap dragon.webp", "tags": [ "comic", "Eirlys", "Aeronwyn", "dragon" ] }, { "date": "2021-9-16", "path": "/art/20210916_101531.webp", "width": "6", "height": "1", "fit": "cover", "title": "This is not about me losing my iPod", "desc": "We all have things that burn us up from this inside that are very hard to talk about, but once we can open up more about our hardships it's easier to heal.", "thumbnail": "thumbnail/art/20210916_101531.webp", "tags": [ "comic", "this deserves like more than four panels to be real", "autobio", "illness", "trauma" ] }, { "date": "2021-9-16", "path": "/art/20210916_101452.webp", "width": "1", "height": "1", "fit": "cover", "title": "", "desc": "Four Panel comic about adopting my cat :3", "thumbnail": "thumbnail/art/20210916_101452.webp", "tags": [ "cat", "comic", "Skitty-Monina", "autobio" ] }, { "date": "2021-9-23", "path": "/art/TakingCareOfMyself.webp", "width": "3", "height": "1", "fit": "cover", "title": "Taking Care of Myself (when I'm SICK)", "desc": "In my comic class we would always have a 10 minute warm up comic based on a prompt we would do at the start of class- this particular week, we did class virtually cause our professor was sick and thus the prompt we responded to was what do we do while we are sick.", "thumbnail": "thumbnail/art/TakingCareOfMyself.webp", "tags": [ "comic", "covid-19", "sick", "games", "autobio" ] }, { "date": "2021-9-9", "path": "/art/20210909_100221.webp", "width": "2", "height": "1", "fit": "cover", "title": "Imitation is the highest form of flattery ♡", "desc": "A one-panel comic where I tried to stuff as much story into a square as I could! I really liked the visual pun of this cockroach \"copying\" the habits of this person whose own appearance resembles the cockroach's exoskeleton. There is also a redundant amount of coffee, to exaggerate the mimicry.", "thumbnail": "thumbnail/art/20210909_100221.webp", "tags": [ "bug", "comic", "one panel", "cockroach", "Imitation is the highest form of flattery ♡", "coffee", "tea" ] }, { "date": "April 20 2021", "path": "", "width": "3", "height": "1", "fit": "cover", "title": "Surroundings", "desc": "I made this zine, printed it bound it as a set of three prints, two of which I sent to my professor and a classmate. I wrote on the back that it is \"A Zine about the way we are impacted/can impact our surroundings and environments through art and our experiences.\"", "type": "contained", "html": " ", "tags": [ "zine", "surroundings", "mixed media", "vellum", "book art" ] }, { "date": "April 19 2021", "path": "", "width": "3", "height": "1", "fit": "cover", "title": "Oh Snap!", "desc": "This two-color Risogrpah print on paper documents the very short version of an incident my boyfriend and I encountered very early on in the pandemic, before we knew how long “spring break” of 2020 was going to be. This was part of the Sancutary Exhibition in the Fenwick Gallery: https://fenwickgallery.gmu.edu/exhibitions/sanctuary-zines/sanctuary-artists/raquel-bumgarner/", "type": "contained", "html": " ", "tags": [ "risograph print", "riso", "comic", "zine", "snapping turtle", "autobio" ] }, { "date": "October 2021", "path": "/art/bean_color.webp", "width": "2", "height": "1", "fit": "cover", "title": "The Egg - Inktober 2021", "desc": "My Inktober project for my Comics class, in which we made 25 panels over the 31 days of October that were all related to each other. I chose to tell a loose story about a girl and her dragon. Ink on Paper.", "type": "contained", "html": " ", "thumbnail": "thumbnail/art/bean_color.webp", "tags": [ "inktober", "inktober 2021", "comic", "Eirlys", "Aeronwyn" ] }, { "date": "2022-10-01", "path": "/art/inktober 2022_01.webp", "width": "1", "height": "1", "fit": "cover", "title": "Inktober 01 2022", "desc": "A witch loosely based on Winifred Sanderson in Hocus Pocus, which I was watching when I drew this.", "thumbnail": "thumbnail/art/inktober 2022_01.webp", "tags": [ "inktober", "inktober 2022", "witch" ] }, { "date": "2022-10-02", "path": "/art/inktober 2022_02.webp", "width": "1", "height": "1", "fit": "cover", "title": "Inktober 02 2022", "desc": "A cat sits on a garden wall overlooking a pond... Ballpoint pen on paper... This was the year I tried to do full 8 x 11 illustrations every day for inktober, and I burnt out fast! I applied that lesson to a more manageable work flow the following inktober 2023...", "thumbnail": "thumbnail/art/inktober 2022_02.webp", "tags": [ "inktober", "cat", "ink", "inktober 2022" ] }, { "date": "2023-10-31", "path": "", "width": "2", "height": "1", "fit": "cover", "title": "Inktober 2023", "desc": "My Inktober for 2023- I made these while I was travelling, and to keep drawing for each day of the month manageable I decided to delegate it to post-its in my sketchbook. I used two different prompt lists- Booapple and Adventuretober 2023", "type": "contained", "html": " ", "tags": [ "inktober", "ink", "marker", "traditional", "post-its", "inktober 2023" ] } ] }, { "name": "[◉\"]･ﾟPhotomanips ･ﾟ:･", "content": [ { "date": "2022", "path": "/art/Flora.webp", "width": "1", "height": "1", "fit": "cover", "title": "Flora", "desc": "Recolorized image found on the internet archive, masked over a photo I took in the woods by my parent's home.", "thumbnail": "thumbnail/art/Flora.webp", "tags": [ "digital collage", "fairy" ] }, { "date": "2021", "path": "/art/cinemacat2-slow-small.gif", "width": "4", "height": "1", "fit": "cover", "title": "CinemaCat", "desc": "A Cinemagraph I made from my New Media class; I used a video of my cat and pictures of wildlife I took around Northern Virginia and compiled them in Photoshop.", "tags": [ "cinemagraph", "Skitty-Monina", "cat", "digital collage" ] }, { "date": "2021", "path": "/art/Summit ave ensmbl final 2.webp", "width": "1", "height": "1", "fit": "cover", "title": "Summit Avenue Ensemble and the Record Portal", "desc": "I found a picture of these guys on the internet archive, recolored them, found some other images on Unsplash, and collaged them in photoshop over a picture I had taken of trains in Denver, Colorado.", "thumbnail": "thumbnail/art/Summit ave ensmbl final 2.webp", "tags": [ "digital collage", "men", "instruments", "colorado", "vinyl", "mushrooms" ] }, { "date": "2021", "path": "", "width": "6", "height": "3", "fit": "cover", "title": "Absence: light, muted, blue, and dark", "desc": "Four photomanips of my cat in her cat tree, differing only in the amount of contrast and color correction around the negative space of said cat.", "type": "contained", "html": " ", "tags": [ "Skitty-Monina", "cat" ], "hidden": true } ] }, { "name": "*:･ﾟ✧Murals ✧･ﾟ:･*", "content": [ { "date": "March 2021", "path": "/art/Physics Mural.webp", "thumbnail": "thumbnail/art/Physics Mural.webp", "width": "6", "height": "2", "fit": "cover", "title": "Physics and Astronomy Mural", "desc": "A Mural depicting stylized planetary and electromagnetic designs, commissioned by the Physics and Astronomy Department.", "tags": [ "mural" ] }, { "date": "Summer 2019", "path": "/art/MCHMCROPPED.webp", "width": "6", "height": "1", "fit": "cover", "title": "School of Art and Design Mural", "desc": "This mural represents each of the different schools within the GMU College of Visual and Performing Arts. Dean Rick Davis commissioned this mural for a hallway in college hall, and requested the topographical features referencing the dean's 10th meridian project. What you see here is a mash up of several pictures I took as it is in a long narrow hallway. This took several months to complete with my fellow Mural Brigade members.", "tags": [ "mural" ] }, { "date": "August 2018", "path": "/art/Liza's mural higher res.webp", "thumbnail": "thumbnail/art/Liza's mural higher res.webp", "width": "6", "height": "2", "fit": "cover", "title": "Liza's Mural", "desc": "The first mural I designed; it was for the School of Art Marketing and Communications Manager. The black speech bubble was done with chalk paint so she could write current events on it.", "tags": [ "mural" ] }, { "date": "2020", "path": "/art/tarp.webp", "width": "2", "height": "1", "fit": "cover", "title": "Defund the Police Mural Design", "desc": "This was the original design I made for Sunrise Movement Richmond- as you can see with the image on the right some details such as shading of the statue and the activist were not implemented in the finished mural. Names of Black Virginian victims of police violence (Olajuwon Murphy, Marcus-David Peters, Natasha McKenna, Nat Turner, Terry Smith, Frankie Pitt, and Taft Sellers) frame the central image of a young Black activist holding a camera standing on top of a fallen confederate statue.", "tags": [ "blm", "mural" ], "thumbnail": "thumbnail/art/tarp.webp" }, { "date": "2020-06-19", "path": "", "width": "4", "height": "1", "fit": "cover", "title": "Defund the Police", "desc": "This mural was commissioned by Sunrise Movement Richmond in 2020; it was painted by myself and volunteers from Sunrise Virginia with acrylic paints on a 30 x 50 foot blue tarp and hung off the side of the Lee Bridge in Richmond, VA on Juneteenth 2020. It is a reinterpretation of Virginia's state flag with a young activist toppling a paint-splotched confederate statue; names of Black Virginian victims of police violence (Olajuwon Murphy, Marcus-David Peters, Natasha McKenna, Nat Turner, Terry Smith, Frankie Pitt, and Taft Sellers) are written in red around the central image. Photo by Vijay Iyre.", "tags": [ "blm", "mural" ], "type": "iframe", "html": "
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