My name’s Tyler Florence; I’m an artist from Kelowna, Canada, who primarily specializes in realistic science-fantasy artwork, while also dabbling into anime art styled after art deco posters and early 20th century French magazine covers / plates . most of my artwork is heavily inspired by the aesthetics of the 1910s-40s, the art deco movement, early-mid 20th century colour photographs, and various pieces of Japanese / chinese / korean media. Once upon a time, I used to draw a lot of cyberpunk-genre art, and am a big fan of the genre, so i still take a lot of inspiration from that. My original art (Aytheran Miria) can be classified as “dieselpunk”, a retrofuturistic 1910s-40s (aesthetically). basically, cyberpunk but in the early 20th century.

It is not steampunk; that’s the 1800s. it’s very different from dieselpunk.

as of 2025, I’ve been selling my artwork at shows, events, and conventions for about 10 years! if you ever see me at a show, feel free to say hi to me (and maybe buy some of my art. I’d appreciate that a lot~).

You can also find me elsewhere online at:
Twitter: https://x.com/MetaDragonArt
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/metadragonart
Deviantart: https://www.deviantart.com/metadragonart
Pixiv: https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/13877040

And you can always Email me at tylerflorence@yahoo.ca


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This is the part where I gush over things I like
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I’m a huge anime nerd, and I play way too many video games. so if I’m taking forever to make new art, you can probably blame those. some anime I particularly like are: Madoka Magica, Black Lagoon, Gangsta, Ghost in The Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Psycho Pass, Toradora, Jose The Tiger and the Fish, Redline, Monogatari series, Dorohedoro (also the manga), Fullmetal Alchemist (OG and Brotherhood), spy x family, and Killing Bites.

While not anime, I also love Thunderbolt Fantasy, and Garo: the one who shines in the darkness.

Meanwhile, some games That I love are: the Yakuza series (especially Zero and 7), Silent Hill 2 and 3, Rule of Rose, Final Fantasy XIV, Nier Automata, Luigi’s Mansion 1, Ace Attorney series, Bloodborne, LA Noire, Blazblue series (THE BEST FIGHTING GAME STORY TO EVER EXIST), Fallout 3, Bioshock 1, 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim, Metal Gear Rising, Tales of Berseria, 999, 428 Shibuya Scramble, Honkai Star Rail, and Blue Archive.

for non-anime Movies, some of them that I love are the ‘Battles without honour and humanity’ series (1973 – 74), While the City Sleeps (1956), Singing in the Rain (1952), Touch of Evil (1958), High and Low (1963), RRR (2022), Cloverfield (2008), and The Lighthouse (2019).

I also love making model kits, particularly Chinese mechamusume kits. Sometimes I make my own custom figures via kit-bashing / scratch-bashing.

And lastly, I am a huge Japan-fanboy. I love so many things about that country, and I get a lot of artistic inspiration from there.