I Have Finally Drawn A Spider! (:

I have finally drawn a spider! (:

For someone who has themed their biased a large portion of their online presence around spiders/bugs, I sure don't draw spiders a lot.

Spiders are my favorite animals, and this one is a depiction of the Goldenrod Crab Spider, my favorite species.

I can't stand drawing the segmented legs on members of the phylum Arthropoda (includes but not limited to spiders, insects, centipedes, shrimp, etc), so I don't tend to draw spiders. This time I just improvised the legs and hoped they turned out okay.

I had a poll up on my Instagram to determine the color palette, choosing between a sun themed design, and this moon design.

I've finished some more fan art!

I completed the Legend of Vox Machina, and this portrait was heavily inspired by Percy's portion of the title sequence. The glare on the glasses was fun to render. (:

Unfortunately, I had to download Clip Studio to a new computer, and as I did, got the 10th anniversary edition somehow. Over the next few days, I'll have to experiment with the program to set it up again in the way I'd like it.

Critique is welcome!

Now that Ren has died I may have the motivation to finish that piece I started brainstorming a couple months ago. I was waiting for the Dracula Daily readers to get to that point before continuing, so I could post it in those tags. It’s just a matter of finding the time to do so…

About Me:

Hi! (:

My name is Vincent or Haley, but I also answer to pretty much any variation on my username; I am me, I don't care what my name is to you, as long as it's not offensive. (:

My pronouns are he/him, and unlike my name, I do actually kinda care about those.

This is primarily an art blog, but I play a lot of D&D and really love Curse of Strahd, so a lot of what I make and reblog revolves around those interests. And bugs. Lots of bugs.

As long as you're not making money off my work, please feel free to use my D&D art in your games! I just want to hear what happens in them.

I've also got an Instagram! My username there is @/terrifiedspider! I've got a Kofi as well, and offer commissions!

Fun(?) facts about me:

Strahd? That's my old man, that's my babygirl, I love him, I want to make his life worse, I want him to get worse, I want him dead, I want him to get therapy.

I used to have a fear of spiders and centipedes, but decided that was stupid so I pulled an uno reverse on myself and got super into them.

Jack Seward apologist

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I relate an uncomfortable amount with Victor Frankenstein and I haven't even gotten to the point in the book where the Creature is animated yet.

Furry in denial.

Basil's confession to Dorian is one of the most romantic things I've ever read and I will never forgive Dorian for his response.

Still emotional about a moth I held in elementary school.

Important Tags:

#cw: XXX, used for any sensitive content, typically blood. I like drawing blood and scar tissue.

#spider chatter, for anything that isn't my art, be it reblogs, D&D stuff, or elder scrolls headcanons

#oc: XXX, my oc tags, usually my D&D characters, but also some Elder Scrolls and Fallout stuff. I most commonly post art of Devleik, my reborn ranger PC from a friend's homebrew campaign.

#Calamity Campaign, for the previously mentioned campaign. Its set in a gritty, low magic fantasy world, which takes heavy inspiration from medieval Europe, to the point of having a realistic economy based off the setting.

#art envy, art I reblog from others (:

#caught in the web, the asks I send other people, and posts I get tagged in

#spider's dming tag, for my DM notes, usually for Curse of Strahd, but sometimes other stuff. I currently am running a Ravenloft campaign and Underdark one, but I love planning these things, so I'm working on my second run of CoS, and fleshing out Lamordia for a campaign of its own.

#spider posting, originally just for spiders, but now also covering any member of Arthropoda I may post or reblog stuff about.

#promo tag, self explanatory, recently I've been sharing a lot of the advertising posts for Memento Mori, a CoS fanzine I'm contributing to (:

Songs I like, no explanation as to why:

Werewolf's Eyes - Birch Book

I had gay sex with god (it could have gone better) - Juno Lev

I Love You Like An Alcoholic - the Taxpayers

Dearest Sarah - Goodnight, Texas

Not Dead Yet - Lord Huron

Goodnight Demonslayer - Aurelio Voltaire

Jesus Christ 2005 God Bless America - The 1975

The Lovecats - The Cure

Tales of Goapan - Dabo

Bloody! Bloody! - Junie & TheHutFriends

I'm exhausted, but I finished this, and episode 4 with it!!

The pose was heavily inspired by Karina's art in the Dark Souls/Hollow Knight Episode of Drawfee; I wanted to capture a similar sense of movement, and challenge myself a bit.

Critique is very much welcome!

So I finally watched Reanimator, and it turns out that it and its sequels have burrowed into my brain like a parasitic worm.

Unfortunately, this is happening at a time in which drawing faces is more difficult than my Calculus homework, and despite several attempts over the past week at drawing Herbert, Dan, and the Bride, nothing is coming out well.

If something doesn’t change soon, I’m just going to draw some bugs and slap some movie quotes on them.