Obsidian and Moonlight

"Never trust the moonlight and the patterns it can weave, for moonlight leaves a shadow and shadows can decieve..."

[amandashepard]

Mass Effect 2 is truly a work of art and if anyone tries to tell you otherwise show them this clip

[argentwolfdesigns]

OHHH BOY IT’s been a while, Tumblr! Please accept these doodles and other random drawings from recent times as an apology!

My husband and I, a half orc named Dal, from our D&D campaign, and my Dalish elf, Avryl Lavellan meeting one of my IG follower’s lavellan!

[argentwolfdesigns]

Massive post of recent works! I’m not quite as active here on Tumblr as I am Facebook and Twitter. I’m sorry! T_T

Please don’t steal, trace, recreate, reblog or otherwise tamper with my art! Reblog from me and please don’t remove the original post or any credits! Thank you!

All art is by Kegan Hurley (Argent Wolf/Dimitrix)

You can follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Argent_wolf_Art

and on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ArgentWolfDesigns/

You can watch me live stream here (When I’m streaming): https://picarto.tv/ArgentWolf

[mikisugiaikuro-deactivated20200]

IF YOUR ART GETS STOLEN

https://www.tumblr.com/dmca Go there, and do as the instructions say. When my art was stolen, I got the post reported, and it was taken down. Don’t worry, it doesn’t just take down the sources post, but it takes down all the reblogged posts too. Please give this a reblog, many artists out there may not know this is here. And remember, ask permission before sharing, or don’t post it.

[harrypopsz]

THIS IS BLOODY FANTASTIC

LET ME SMOOCH YOU

GOODBYE RE-POSTERS

[parseltonquinq]

For squad members who’ve had their art stolen xx

[argentwolfdesigns]

Another WIP before I head off to bed!

[argentwolfdesigns]

Live streamed working on this earlier. I’ll live stream again later perhaps!

[slow-riot-deactivated20200720]

Weirdly anti-millennial articles have scraped the bottom of the barrel so hard that they are now two feet down into the topsoil

[tramampoline]

its so wild like “this generation with no fucking money is learning to prioritize essentials” and all these chucklefucks can write is advertisements for these companies

[catparazzi]

at least our jeans won’t tear at the seams after two washes

[awfullydull-deactivated20170619]

FUCK FABRIC SOFTENER IT’S UTTERLY POINTLESS

AND FUCK DRYER SHEETS LITERALLY NOBODY EVER HAS ENOUGH OF A PROBLEM WITH STATIC TO WARRANT PAYING OUT THE ASS FOR THAT SHIT

DO YOU WANT CLEAN CLOTHES? YOU DON’T EVEN NEED TO BUY FUCKING DETERGENT JUST MAKE YOUR OWN* IT’S SO GODDAMN EASY AND 80X CHEAPER

FUCK THE ENTIRE LAUNDRY INDUSTRY *Fuck The Entire Laundry Industry Recipe

1 cup Washing Soda (not Baking Soda. Different things.)

1 cup Borax (not Boric Acid. Also a different thing.)

½ cup - 1 cup grated bar soap (you can use literally anything. I often use Ivory because it’s easy to get and I find it works well, a lot of people like Fels-Naptha, which is an actual laundry bar. Some people use Dr. Bronner’s. Really does not fucking matter.) After grating your soap, combine all ingredients. That’s it. That’s the whole thing. Use maybe a ¼ cup per load.

[madsciences]

^^^ I’ve done this for years now and it works as well as any store bought detergent

[ghostoftwentysomethingspast]

WHAT Thank you, tumblr user awfullydull! Your URL does no justice to the good advice you give!

[legallynonbinary]

Also you can MAKE your own washing soda very VERY cheaply.

Step one: acquire $5 bag of baking soda from Costco.

Step two: lay that motherfucking baking soda out on a baking tray.

Step three: bake the baking soda on a tray in an oven at 400° for 1 hour (to make the moisture evaporate, leaving washing soda)

Step four: revel in how easy and cheap it is to make your own washing soda, and maybe take a moment to be angry that the industry upcharges the fuck out of something that is so easy to make.

[legallynonbinary]

I see some of y'all complaining about static and/or wanting nice smelling laundry. Go to a craft store, find 100% wool yarn balls. If it doesn’t come in a ball, ask an employee to make it into a tight ball for you. Wash in the washing machine to make it felted. Remove from washer, add a few drops of essential oil to the ball, allow to seep in. Dry with clothing. Doesn’t need to be rewashed ever, and if it stops smelling, add few more drops of essential oil. Bam, reusable dryer sheets.

[polar-academia-deactivated20230]

I love this post so much it’s filled with helpful advice, hatred, saving money, and fucking the system all in one

[hidingmonster]

For Sale~:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/493982562/triple-stone-crystal-coyote-skull

Amethyst Crystal and stone pyrite Coyote skull! Wire wrapped with silver wire, and three different types of crystal and stone! Including pyrite and quarts! 

Follow me on other sites!:

https://twitter.com/HidingMonsterr

http://hidingmonster.deviantart.com/

https://www.etsy.com/shop/Hidingmonsterr

http://www.furaffinity.net/user/hidingmonster/

http://www.redbubble.com/people/hidingmonster

[hidingmonster]

Bump for new followers (: New shop you can also buy at!

http://hidingmonster.shop/

[argentwolfdesigns]

Thought I’d show the commissions I’ve gotten so far! First is a Qunari warrior from Dragon Age Inquisition, named Katrah, for a girl over on Instagram! Still a work in progress.

The second is Frigidivia, a big baddie in a D&D Campaign, for a guy (Heath) over on Facebook and BOY did I learn a lot from drawing that one. O_o

Third is a Draconic Barbarian from a D&D campaign, with a Sylvan from Guild Wars for a girl on Facebook, Chiara.

Please leave my original post in it’s entirety, thank you! <3

You can find more of my work here:

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ArgentWolfDesigns/

Deviantart: http://silverwolfdimitrix.deviantart.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/argentwolfdesigns/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Argent_wolf_Art

[artemis-entreri]

Rations for various RPG Races

[[ Source. Original creator: wats6831. Additional information and images linked under each one. ]]

Universal:

Homemade artisan herb bread, home grown and dried apples and prunes, uncured beef sausage, munster cheese. Made a small bag from cheesecloth and tied it closed.

Discussion thread here.

Dwarf:

Garlic chicken livers, smoked and peppered cheese, spiced pork sausages, hard tack, dried vegetables, dried wild mushrooms.

Discussion thread here.

Elf:

Top left to right: Evereskan Honey Comb, Elven Travel Bread (Amaretto Liquer Cake with custom swirls), Lurien Spring Cheese (goat cheese with garlic, salt, spices and shallots), Delimbyr Vale Smoked Silverfin (Salmon), Honey Spiced Lichen (Kale Chips), and Silverwood Pine Nuts.

Discussion thread here.

Halfling:

From upper left: “Honeytack” Hard tack honey cakes, beef sausage, pork sausage mini links, mini whole wheat toast, cranberry cheddar cheese mini wedge, mini pickles, pumpkin and sunflower seeds, lower right is my homemade “travel cake” muesli with raisins, golden prunes, honey, eggs and cream.

Discussion thread here.

Half-Orc:

Wrapped in cheesecloth and tied in burlap package. Forest strider drumsticks, molasses sweet wheat bread “black strap”, aged Munster, hard boiled eggs, mixed wild nuts.

Discussion thread here.

Orc:

Orcs aren’t known for their great cuisine. Orcs prefer foods that are readily available (whatever can be had by raiding), and portable with little preparation, though they have a few racial delicacies. Toughs strips of lean meat, bones scavenged from recent kills, and dark coarse bread make up the bulk of common orc rations.Fire roasted rothe femur (marrow is a rare treat) [beef femur], Strips of dried meat (of unknown origin) [homemade goose jerky], foraged nuts, only edible by orcs….nut cracker tusks [brazil nuts], coarse black bread, made with whatever grains can be pillaged [black sesame bread], Pungent peppers [Habanero peppers stuffed with smoked fish and olives].

More images here. Discussion thread here.

Gnome:

Pan fried Delimbyr smelt, spiced goat cheese (paprika crusted hand pressed Fontina), Gnome shortbread (savory pistachio), glass travel jar filled with Secomber Red (wine), hard boiled quail eggs packed in rolled oats (to keep safe), dried figs from Calimshan, and Southwood smoked goat sausage (blood sausage).

More images here. Discussion thread here.

Lizardfolk:

Lizardfolk are known to be omnivores, forage for a surprising variety of foods found within the confines of their marshy environs, in this case the Lizard Marsh near Daggerford. Fresh caught boiled Delimbyr Crayfish on wild chives, coastal carrageen moss entrapping estuary brine shrimp (irish moss, dried brine shrimp), Brackish-Berries (blackberries), Blackened Dart-Frog legs (frog legs) on spring sprouts (clover sprouts), roasted bog bugs on a stick!

More images here. Discussion thread here.

Drow:

From top left: Menzoberranzan black truffle rothe cheese (Black Knight Tilsit), Donigarten Moss Snails (Escargot in shallot butter sauce), Blind cave fish caviar in mushroom caps (Lumpfish caviar), faerzress infused duck egg imported from the surface Realms (Century egg), Black velvet ear fungus (Auricularia Black Fungus Mushroom).

More images here. Discussion thread here.

[weareoccultist]

@weareadventurers

[gangrelstory]

@negromanticshade

[califaro]

@msmoon

[argentwolfdesigns]

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K1rL7UOx-E)

[inkskinned]

Every day I handle more money than I will ever make. Every day.

At the start of my employment, my boss showed me videos of people stealing, and we both had a chuckle about it. How silly they were! There was a camera overhead, and it’s not to watch the shoppers. See, we can’t actually stop shoplifters. They get away with it maybe nine out of ten times. But we, who are watched and tallied and witnessed? We are always caught.

At first it was hard to hold one hundred dollars bills. An amount I had never seen before. An amount that didn’t exist in my household. It’s normal now. Here is something that is not for me.

“What the hell, I’ll take another,” says the man, pondering our 200 dollar watches. What the hell. Total comes to 580 and not even a flinch in his face. I have been working for 11 hours today and made only 110 dollars. It will go to my rent. Today I work for free, it feels. When I get my check, I will have 35 dollars left for food and saving.

The six hundreds he hands me go into the cash register. For a moment, I imagine having money. Then I put it away, counting out his change.

I know for a fact we sell our products for double what they are worth. That I could be making commission. That they could hand me those 580 dollars and change my life and not even mark the difference in their checkbooks. He’s not the only sale they make today, but I am the reason they made it. He’s not the only one spending 600 dollars, but if I hadn’t spent two hours with him telling me about his life, he wouldn’t have spent any. I go home. I don’t own a watch.

I have watched and rewatched a video on how to make salmon four ways. My shopping list is always the same. Pasta. Rice. Tuna. If I can afford butter it was a good week. I dream of the world I will never walk in, where I can throw the best fish fillet in the cart with a shrug. I hold hundreds in my hand and look up at the camera. I put them under the cash drawer.

I go to work. I scrap together my savings. I eat my bowl of rice slowly. My manager takes a paid week off from work just for his birthday. He owns a yacht. 

I’m not worth the cost of a watch.

[singingwithoutwords]

I see a lot of positivity posts about 12-year-olds just learning to draw.  Posts cautioning us to be mindful of 11-year-olds with no grasp of anatomy and 13-year-olds whose characters are all the same person with different hair and clothes, and I love those posts.  Those are great posts.  Keep those posts coming, tumblr.

But can I ask, what about the 25-year-old who just bought their first ever sketchbook?  What about the 32-year-old who’s been drawing for a month and has just about got the hang of a human-looking face?  What about the 67-year-old who finally has time to sit down and learn how to paint like they’ve always wanted?

Not everyone starts drawing as a child.  Not everyone learned as a preteen.  Some people start in college.  Some people start when their career is going well and they feel like it’s time for a new hobby.  Some people start after they’ve retired.

Not all beginner artists are kids, and I just think the adults ones deserve some encouragement, too.

[dirtycorzaharkness]

As an adult beginning artist, I just wanna say: this message is POWERFUL.

Having friends who encourage you, who get excited to see what you’ve drawn is HUGE.

As a beginning artist, I think of all my stuff as “not that great”. I doubt myself sometimes, whether it’s worth putting the time and effort into it that I do. But because of the incredible support from friends and other artists, I ordered my first drawing tablet so I can try my hand at doing this digitally, which had always been a goal in the back of my mind when I decided to sit down and do nearly a month of character sketches.

To my fellow beginning artists, I believe in you! It can be hard and frustrating, and you will have things you hide away because you hate how it looks. But when you keep drawing, you keep getting better. And the fact you are learning a new skill, even though you’re a grown up? That’s awesome!

[waspkit]

your creature name

first letter of your first name

last two letters of your last name

last 2 letters of your first name

[smeasel]

[starsintheskysandsontheshore]

oloyia… kinda star wars-y

[fernacular]

aanna

It’s my first name if you draw out the first letter a bit.

astounding.

[meliciousintent-deactivated2022]

Omg.

I’m Mewsa.

[argentwolfdesigns]

Mine would be Kehuan. I wonder what type of creature I’d be....hmmm...

[argentwolfdesigns]

Some gift art for a dear friend of mine, Kat, who is the one who got me so into the Dragon Age series. Her Lavellan, perhaps on a stroll after a celebration, contemplating her life and how she’s come to where she is now..... Please don’t remove the original post with credits! Thank you! <3

Art by Kegan Hurley/Argent Wolf Designs/Dimitrix Lykaios

[ageofdragon]

Visit Original Link

As with every group of whispers, they often are thrown in as background noise and reversed. So I took the liberty to reverse the Well of Sorrows whispers and clean up the audio. A mantra of whispers going in circles, sung by a Well.

Some of the Whispers Heard:

Go to the Dirth Mythal speaks for the elves Travel Far She speaks for the elves She’s abelas Mythal She speaks for them both

Also, as a pleasant add on to this oh, so not creepy audio. The Dirth is another name for The Exalted Plains, as a Dalish elf there will tell you. The Exalted Plains/The Dirthavaren (The Promise) was were the last of elven nation fell.

[spiritofsolace]

I’m hearing “he is bound to the same” a long with all the other whispers. I assume it is talking about Abelas.

Spooky stuff anyway.

[argentwolfdesigns]

"A true warrior is not immune to fear. She fights in spite of it." These past couple of years have been trying. My family just keeps facing difficulties at every turn. I find myself trying to help everyone else. Constantly. And while it's exhausting, I don't know that anyone else could handle it.  I've fought my whole life, for one thing or another. stability, love, food, my marriage, to keep my family together after so many deaths and arguments because the people we lost were fundamental to how our family stayed together. I've experienced a lot of different aspects of life in my (almost) 27 years on this Earth. I'll be damned if the bad ones prevent me from experiencing the good ones. And I'll be damned if the bad moments now will overshadow what good my family can have. And so, I'll keep fighting. I'll keep helping. I'll keep strong in the face of the unknown, in the looming death, and chaos, and mental breaks and I'll be the rock in the storm for my family. Because someone has to pick up that sword. It may as well be me.

Photography and “model” and editing: myself

Art by Kegan Hurley (DimitrixLykaios)