Alex

not much of a social media guy. he/him, sometimes I do art

[alex-the-drunk]

hes done. now to fix the horrid topology. hopefully i can clean it up well enough for my slicer to fix anything else off and print him tomorrow. aint confident in digitally texturing him yet but paint him irl i can do. should be a cool wall ornament

[alex-the-drunk]

im blearning lender

goober (and what it looked like before subdividing and sculpting. the modelling took like 4 times longer than the sculpting but contributed like 10% to the looks, im learning blender is very "let yourself cook"-heavy)

[alex-the-drunk]

so i got this creature design idea for the king in yellow/ john and i don't know if im going a wee bit overboard, but ive been considering running a game of call of cthulhu so i was flipping through the monsters in the keepers guide and just really wanted to make something truly eldritch bc im real bored of all the basic ass flesh and tentacles.

essentially the king (or john, id mostly imagine him smaller than the full king but very similar otherwise) is this fractally symmetrical being (like plants are, as opposed to radially or bilaterally like animals usually are) made of what looks to be humanoid arms, but made of a felt looking but smooth material and with only three fingers.

where on a human arm the shoulder would begin, a layer of cloth looking skin grows, very ornate with tassles and embroidered or embezzled patterns, but the patterns are inconsistent and seem to shift when you're not looking, mimicking something human made rather than directly depicting it. the cloth is obscuring anything that would be above the "shoulder" but there'd just be more arm there anyway.

he moves similar to how spiders and centipedes look to us like their movement is confusing with so many legs, but is to them all very coordinated.

getting closer to the front of the body the shape becomes thinner but the arms longer, and at about one third of the body length left (with two thirds on the ground) the body begins hunching up to assume a shape trying to resemble a humanoid torso with two arms a good bit longer than than any of the rest as the final arms before a hood like shape of cloth, these arms would be his primary ones, especially for gestures and other humanoid behaviour (for john, one of these would also have five fingers one of which withered and wooden as opposed to the usual 3).

From that hood a venetian-mask-looking skull emerges, bony white with gold decorations, but almost as if made for a horse or a deer rather than a human, and a two part golden lower jaw made of thin blades that is not connected in the middle.

upon closer inspection the upper jaw is made of two arms fused into the skull as if holding it, with two more hands pressed into the underside where the eye-holes are in the "mask" as the eyes are actually in the center of these two inner hands (which is why it looks so masklike, since the eyes really aren't directly connected to the skull). a third set of hands "hold" the sharp golden lower jaw blades again fused into the palms of these hands.

id also imagine below, in the "throat" thered be two more hands that could drag anything unfortunate enough to be deemed worthy sustenance for the king into the abyss behind the mask.

in combat the king would use his lower jaws almost like cleavers, creating a moster that leaves behind very violent but also clean and surgical looking cuts, like a butcher gone mad. none of his hands have nails or claws either so any victims of the king would be pulled apart and sliced but with an attack style distinctly not looking animal like at all, neat cuts and pulled apart limbs with no damage aside from the tear.

essentially i wanted a monster design thats truly eldritch, not just fleshy or squidlike. hes basically made of theatre "stage hands" lol, going with the theming of a play driving you mad.

im wondering wether going for something so difficult to explain is too wordy to be interesting in any actual application tho. i probably wouldnt immediately describe all elements of the design if i was running this in a campaign, but it would still probably be a bit wordy to describe this thing moving or biting or fighting.

i did originally get the inspiration to design the king from listening to malevolent (most of this design headcannon escalated over the course of listening to it tbh, really wanted to hc john as incredibly inhuman looking, i think it makes the kindness and empathy in him so much more fun) so if anyone could give me feedback on the design before i throw it at any ttrpg players its probably malevolent fans, so even tho i think tagging this as malev is a bit of a reach yall all have a taste for eldritch horror so i think it fits.

[alex-the-drunk]

so, the eagles name us altradler which is definitely a play on alt=old and adler=eagle but he thew an r in there to change it up a bit and makes it sound like its based on radler which is a drink made of half lager and half lemon soda

[alex-the-drunk]

in coming out of a depressive episode and have more energy which is great but also im becoming more impulsive again and i cant stop thinking about buying a kiln. i dont really have the space for one nor could i currently afford it (tho it would not be completely outside my means to buy one if i saved up for a bit which is only strengthening the demon on my shoulder insisting i need to get into making earthenware). i just keep thinking of how expensive flower pots are and of the cool hides i could make for my snakes and of making cool like historic looking pottery for the home. microwaving my lunch on an ancient greek fish plate. man i want a kiln. and a loom. but i might get myself a loom thats so much more realistic.

[ohcaptains]

[lastvalyrian]

normal: using a fictional character's canon last name (ash ketchum)

funny: using the name of the show as the character's last name because they don't have a canon last name (adora she-ra)

very funny: using the name of the show as the character's last name even though they have a canon last name (finn adventuretime)

extremely funny: using the name of the show as the character's last name even though the name of the show already contains the character's name (steven stevenuniverse)

[alex-the-drunk]

absolute ridicule: using the name of the show as the characters last name even though the name of the show contains both the characters first and last name (spongebob spongebobsquarepants)

[alex-the-drunk]

happy Halloween behold my pumpkins

i was supposed to have 4 done by now but i got too ambitious

[alex-the-drunk]

current WIP, making a bunch of moss and lichen variations for the embroidery mashine to patch up old pants and make them look all overgrown. might work on some tree fungi and a few other species of lychen too eventually

should all layer well too, made sure that the patches aren't too thick, so hopefully i can really puzzle these together to cover a lot of fabric

[nataliehall]

[alleesaur]

angel of the hunt

[alex-the-drunk]

did also print a few minis and managed to paint one. its a heroforge model of the sheep werewolf dude i sketched a while back, really happy with his design even tho i have like no story ideas for him

[ishowdespair-deactivated2026012]

[alex-the-drunk]

dragon from the pub

[alex-the-drunk]

why is posting online so anxiety inducing to me. im an extrovert irl but for some reason posting online makes me freak out and delete like 90% of my posts right before posting what is my problem for real. keep trying to make this more of almost a public diary thing to help with that but boy im evidently quite shit at this so far.

[alex-the-drunk]

yk, cant find the post this was a response to anymore but like, my family rents apartments and the best way to see that landlords are full of shit is to be one. we charge less than half of the going rate in the area and replace shit when it breaks and its not even fucking hard. we only got 6 apartments so its a bit hard to really life off on its own (mind you, for a full family, not alone) but like, it wouldn't be hard to do it as a full "career" ethically too of you already had more. seeing people who own full ass huge buildings pull all the shit they do is actually even more shocking if you've done it yourself dont let people say shit like, "well, you dont know what its like to actually be a landlord, theres actually so much more to it" like no there fucking isnt mate. our house is literally medieval and requires so much more fucking upkeep (comparatively, its really not so bad tho tbh) and we still rent it out for half the price than the other far more modern buildings in our fucking street. the building next to where im typing this rant rents a fucking prison cell sized room with a shared kitchen and bath for 500 fucking euro, i pay only a little more for my three rooms this industry is a fucking disgrace and the more you understand about the actual job the worse it gets.

[prokopetz]

Maintaining a diversity of ongoing personal projects is important because it enables you to procrastinate on one by aimlessly tinkering with another, thereby creating the possibility that you'll finish one of them by accident.