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new art! i made of a speedpaint of this here, please feel free to watch! i’d appreciate any support!
eye of stormy judgement
Character Concepts - Soulynx and Logicat!
A ... first attempt at everyone’s favorite CEO, Handsome Jack. If I ever draw him again I’ll probably improve but that’s up for debate anyway.
Recent c0mmissi0n ヾ(❀╹◡╹)ﾉﾞ
And guys I don't have real job, so I'll be really happy if you order something from me _(:3 」∠)_
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Ciocana is so cool!!!
☂︎ Deity of Misfortune ˚⸙͎۪۫⋆☽
The knowledge of their existence is rot to your brain, a parasite in your gut. Your father speaks of them as one would a mythical creature: a phantom who comes to you like a dream, and haunts you forever like a sickness in your heart. Beneath the mask, however, their face melts into something innocent and ceaselessly untrustworthy.
Thanks to @princepol on Twitter for the art!
✧Intro post
THEY'RE SO PRETTY AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
I gotta say-- the description seems interesting for someone who hates the gods o-o
☉ The Champion ˚⸙͎۪۫⋆☽
They stand straight, shoulders taut and chin forward. It makes them appear like royalty in chains, a savior disgraced ... the fire in their eyes, burning so fiercely within their irises, could make you lose all conviction. It is the look of someone who belives so deeply, they could build religions from that visage. A transcendent faith, an undying loyalty steadfast to their truth, that it is nothing short of divine.
Thanks to @/princepol on Twitter for the art!
✧Intro post
Trying out portraits for some characters, though I messed up the layers so gonna re do these
i dont know how tumblr works
old...old...art
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I need to play as a gnoll at some point...
Image ID under the cut.
[Image Description: The image shows the profile of a gnoll, in-front of a large gold circle, that is painted to have the silhouette of a flail on it. The gnoll has tan fur, with dark stripes on the underside of the chin, around the eye socket, and on the neck. The ear closest the the camera is torn, and has several piercings. The gnoll’s mane is long and dark, sticking up, and running down their neck. Blood drips from their muzzle, and covers some of their pale yellow face paint. The visible eye is bright blue and blind, with a scar running over it. End ID]
Thank you to my lovely significant other, for their suggestions and thoughts as I was working. (:
They’ve been finished!! (:
I only got a comment for the gender, so I just decided to (mostly) wing it from there. Thank you to @void-star for the comment! (:
Image ID under the cut!
[ID: A portrait of a vampire character, with the character wearing rose tinted glasses, some golden jewelry, and a frilly shirt. Their eyes are gold, and they have several light streaks in their dark red hair. End ID]
Let’s make a Vampire!
I’m bored, lets see what happens (:
ID above the cut this time! I took up a good amount of space talking about the inspiration and process for this one, and wanted to make the ID easier to get to, so no one needs to scroll through it if they don't want to.
[ID: A portrait of a moon elf, from Dungeons and Dragons, shown from the shoulders up, facing forward. Instead of having hair, five mushrooms of various sizes have sprouted from their skin, and a couple on their neck. They wear silver earrings, and their left ear has a small notch carved into it. Small beads of a dark, red liquid are scattered across their cheeks and right shoulder, and are concentrated on areas where red blotches have started to darken the pale skin. Their eyes are completely red, with the left eye containing a thin webbing that is also starting to form on the right. End ID]
CW for a discussion focused around mushrooms, fungal infections, death to said fungal infection, and undeath. There's also mention of tree parasites, starvation (after death), and colonization.
Really, anything under the cut is extra; you don't need to read it if you're not comfortable. Please stay safe! (:
Hi! Get ready for an essay, because while I was taking a break from drawing, I wasn't taking a break from thinking about drawing, and I have a lot of unorganized thoughts about this piece, not just about the design, but the fictional fugal infection that its depicting.
I got my Spotify wrapped playlist, and wasn't surprised when Lord Huron's "Not Dead Yet" was my most played song. After all, it's one of my favorites, often getting me in the mood to create, and the inspiration behind a concept I have for another new OC, an undead-ish ranch hand. (It's a work-in-progress.) So over the past few days I've been listening to that song on loop even more than usual, and it put me in the mood to look into some different zombie video games that I have no intention of ever playing. I noticed that the zombie apocalypses I was looking at were all focused on humans turning, and I couldn't remember anything about a zombie plague for any fantasy races. Thus, I decided to create a concept for one that effects the moon elves from Dungeons and Dragons.
I decided that the condition would be caused by a fungal infection. Partially inspired by how European colonizers brought illnesses to the Americas, I decided moon elves would first encounter it when trying to colonize land originally inhabited by wood elves. I know that is the opposite of how it happened with the colonizers, but I wanted to change it up a bit. The fungus wouldn't be a concern to the wood elves, as they already had time to adapt and build up a resistance. However, once brought back to moon elf settlements it would be able to run rampant.
As many already know, elves live for a long time. In this universe that I am apparently creating now, part of the reason for that is that all of them, not just wood elves, are similar to trees, slow growing, and able to survive even when most of its body has been damaged. In the case of trees, it means that when a parasite such as Dwarf Mistletoe* decides to use a tree as its host, a slow race begins. The tree needs to keep growing in order to have enough branches to obtain enough oxygen, while the mistletoe tries to use that oxygen for itself as it tries to take over the entire tree. In some cases, the parasite remains inside the host for a long stretch of time before sprouting to release seeds.
Something similar occurred with the infected moon elves.
After the moon elves' failure to take the land from the wood elves, they returned home, not knowing they were carrying the fungus. It took around fifty years before anyone noticed something was amiss. Infected elves began to die from an illness that weakened them over time and reddened their skin and clouded their eyes. From there, it becomes a standard zombie story: they start to rise from their graves, mindless and seeking out living targets.
The zombies themselves are fairly passive, only attacking if one around them is attacked first. In most cases, they simply wandered around they areas they had risen from, then following living elves. They did not go out of their way to feed, so many would eventually collapse once their bodies finally gave out, either due to starvation or decay.
The main threat comes from the mushrooms that sprout from their bodies. As the mushrooms matured, they released their spores, which then in turn infected the living around them.
The main design inspiration for this was the Bleeding Tooth Fungus, a type of mushroom that, as its name suggests, looks like a tooth with drops of blood on it. I decided that moon elves, with their pale, blue skin, would match the fungus the most after the infection sets in and red blotches start to form. The mushrooms sprouting from the body are not based on any particular species, just slightly inspired by the mushrooms on my Animate Dead sticker. The disk shapes are fun to shade and detail.
A large portion of the line art on the face and neck were done with the symmetry tool. To hopefully keep the piece from looking too balanced, and to distract from the mirrored lines, I purposefully shifted the mushrooms and details in the coloring to different heights on the face.
For the red markings, I experimented with a different combination of brushes that usual. In most cases, I use a simple opaque brush and add details with the flat marker, thin gouache, and g-pen brushes, but I decided to use one of the airbrushes to add some finer speckling.
The eyebrows are only there because I liked the shape I had made them, and I thought the cool color would add some contrast to the area around the eyes.
Thank you for reading this far! I normally don't post lots of writing like this, but if you're interested in reading some more of my world building ideas, check out my side blog, @tired-spider. I'm more active on this blog, but I a lot of my art and world building ideas there, along side some DnD stuff and headcannons for different media I'm invested in.
Critique is always welcome, and I hope you have a nice day!
* It should be noted that I first learned about this on a hike a few months ago. So while I think that this is the type of mistletoe I was told about originally, I'm not entirely sure.
Aww, yeah! Time for a new traditional piece for school! (:
Normally I’d just post the finished painting, but I figured I could try to get some feedback on the sketch before I start painting tomorrow. At this point, I’m not sure if I will put something over the eyes or not.
Critique is requested!
[ID: A picture of a grey pencil sketch on a canvas. The sketch is a portrait of a person showing the right side of their face. They have a large mohawk, and wear a heavy looking mask that is made of segments plastic and metal. Their neck is mostly hidden by a sweater and the collar of their jacket, which stands upright. End ID]
Day two!
At this point, I can only work on this in school, so I can’t get as much done as I’d like, but I like how it’s going so far. Clip studio paint has spoiled me however, it took me half an hour today to get the mask right, while I could have done it digitally in a couple minutes. The color palette is going to be pretty warm, with a lot of yellows and neutral tans.
[ID: The same canvas as before, but on the right, the sketch is covered completely by dark blue masking tape. On the left, the mask has been removed, showing the sketch again. Around it, the canvas has been painted with acrylic paints to be an uneven shade of blue and cyan. End ID]
Aww, yeah! Time for a new traditional piece for school! (:
Normally I’d just post the finished painting, but I figured I could try to get some feedback on the sketch before I start painting tomorrow. At this point, I’m not sure if I will put something over the eyes or not.
Critique is requested!
[ID: A picture of a grey pencil sketch on a canvas. The sketch is a portrait of a person showing the right side of their face. They have a large mohawk, and wear a heavy looking mask that is made of segments plastic and metal. Their neck is mostly hidden by a sweater and the collar of their jacket, which stands upright. End ID]
Happy new year! (:
I’m revisiting an old concept again, this time the skull patterns on the face, combined with the cool purple color palette. Sure, this character could have been human, like the original, but pointed ears are neat. (:
Critique is always welcome, and the ID is under the cut!
[ID: A portrait of an elf, facing the camera. Their eyes are closed, and their expression is neutral. They have long, dull purple hair that falls to their shoulders, that gets lighter as it gets towards the ends. A pattern on the skin depicts bones along the visible part of the chest, and the sockets of a skull and teeth on the face. End ID]
I got a chance to draw my friend's DnD character!
Compared to the other characters I've drawn that belongs to my friends, this is the one I know the least about. However, I do know that they are a wood elf, despite having tusks. I also know that before the character was teleported into the fantasy world of the game, they were a satanist. In the fantasy world, they adopted at least two children.
The ID is in the alt text, and critique is always welcome!
Here's some friendly fire for @catbatart, and their OC Däzzler! I really like colorful undead characters, and glowing eyes, so I drew this guy.
Critique is very much welcome!
I think this took about 3 and a half hours, but I'm not entirely sure.
The plan was that his head would be tilted up, but I didn't nail the perspective in the right spots.
Somehow I accidentally made him look like Dr. Frank-n-Furter, but I'm not too mad.
Finished up the portrait! (:
Might need to spend some time next year working on my anatomy, but I like how this turned out overall! (:
Critique is always welcome! (:
Anyway, illithids should be based off more aquatic wildlife, cuttlefish in particular (: