"We still hope that love will prevail. We still believe in love’s promise.”
- bell hooks ('All About Love')

Notable Project Participation:

- Sundown RPG (fiend illustrator)
- The Fat Folks Tarot (8 of Wands)
- The Children of the Forest Zine (Page Artist)
- Character Design Zine 2021 (Roxie the Gorgon Biker Pages + Print)
- Wrestling With Gender Volume 2 Zine (backburnered project)
- The Super Posh Club animated series pitch (postponed indefinitely)
​- The Fox Who Became A Girl (Chloe and I's 44 page all ages trans & queer fairy tale comic, self-published and released 8/17/24! Printed with the support of the Greater Denton Arts Council's microgrant award in Summer of 2023.)

'Queer Solidarity on the Square'
part of square-d Community Art Exhibit
(July 2023)
now owned by Nova Martin!
50% of proceeds benefited the UNT Food Pantry.

Ovaettr AKA Orion Fern is an award-winning illustrator and motion graphic designer who uses his art to create prints, zines, comics and more!
Their colourful work is inspired by monsters and nature. Often, xyr work celebrates the queer community through educational zines and emotional stories.

'Ovaettr' means 'MONSTER' in Old Norse!
Pronounced oh-VAY-tur (hear below)

Pronouns for public use are he/him or they/them.
Within trans or trans friendly spaces, xe/xyr/xem neopronouns are his favorite.

• For a guide on how to use xe/xem or they/them pronouns, check out this [well made guide on neopronouns] and use this [pronoun practice website.]
  
  

   Graduate as of July 2022 from The Art Institute of Dallas with a
Bachelor's of the Fine Arts degree in Media Arts and Animation.
His focus in Motion Graphic Design & Character Design.

   Freelancing with his business Ovaettr Art (est. 2017) - they work with a varied and vibrant clientele from streamers to personal art collectors.
Xe is seeking out new illustration, motion graphics, graphic design, and zine-making art career opportunities as of January 2025.

From 2021-2023 taught as an arts educator part time online, teaching comics, cartooning, and hand-drawn 2D animation to mixed groups from grades 4th - 8th on the weekends via Zoom.

He is now developing educational art classes that will be available in Spring quarter of 2025 through this website. They will be covering comics, character design and more!

Orion is an advocate and activist for LGBTQ+ rights because Orion is trans & queer. Helps in multiple places including donating to and volunteering with Equality Texas. In 2021-2022 completed the Equality Fellows Program to become a more well-equipped leader in their community.

Zinester and incredibly enthusiastic about small press media. Loves helping people learn how to make their own zines!

Donor of educational books or zines in local little free libraries in Denton, TX.

Supporter of local arts in #DentonTX and beyond! Find his feature articles about local art shows at ovaettr.blog.

Fund-raises via streaming on Twitch.tv and by offering Art For Donation specials. Has successfully helped multiple organizations and individual LGBTQ+ community members directly with The Hachikrew. Supports their community in any way he can via mutual aid, especially via BlueSky.

Participated in the The Dallas Way: Faces of LGBTQ+ History, Art & Archive Exhibit with a self-portrait seen below. The event was hosted at the H. Paxton Moore Fine Art Gallery - El Centro Dallas College location between 9/20/2022 and 10/7/2022.

As of June 26th 2023, is one of the 2023 Greater Denton Arts Council Micro-Grant grantees. The grant will go towards printing costs for the first 100 copies of their debut comic titled "The Fox Who Became A Girl" which has digitally released as of June 29th 2024. The physical print comic released a little later on August 17th, 2024, printed by KENESS. It debuted at Grand Rapids Zine Fest 2024. It will be available in Denton independent bookstores by Spring of 2025.

Participated in the square-d community art exhibit benefiting the UNT Food Pantry at the UNT CoLab with their piece entitled 'Queer Solidarity on the Square' in July of 2023 and again in August of 2024 with 'We Laugh, They Cry, We Live They Die, Parallel Love, Her and I'

Volunteers with The DFW Mask Bloc and The Denton Water Project, which keeps the homeless community alive locally through free water coolers around Downtown. Accepting new volunteers ASAP!

Available for speaking and workshop opportunities throughout 2025,
simply contact through his form to get in touch!

STAY SAFE - MASK UP - TOMORROW NEEDS YOU

^ Captain Barbosa my cat,
nicknamed "Barby" for short

Hobbies Outside Art:

- Photography
- Playing Ukulele / Singing / Songwriting
- DMing or playing TTRPGs
- Gardening
​- Making zines!!
- Crafting & upcycling
- Video games (Nintendo & PC)
- Making really specific music playlists
-  Raising/Caring for Animals
- Witchcraft for 15 yrs+
- Tarot Divination
- Reading & Book Collecting
​- Donating books to Little Free Libraries
- Reading & Writing Poetry