Where Artsy Brainslush Stuff Goes To Die

I frequently draw body horror, and occasionally gore. This is your final warning. Asks should be sent to my main blog (godslush) rather than this one. But I keep anons off. In order to keep things neat and trim, I shall be keeping my art stuff here instead of merely tagging it over at my main godslush account, which will be for personal stuff and silly reblogs and whatnot. Miscellaneous art will still be posted over there, but this is for people who are interested in ONLY that and not all the other random garbage, for purposes of dashboard cleanliness.

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Re-opened to the public.

This blog has a lot of stuff from my passlocked headworld blog, which was why I closed it; don’t make me regret opening it up again because I don’t feel like hunting down and deleting everything.

If I see any theft-coded tags or responses on personal/headworld pieces (things like “#story idea” “#campaign idea” “#kin” “#me” “#stealing this” (yes, I have gotten that), people tagging my characters with their character names, etc.), or reblogs of headworld stuff to ‘inspo’ or ‘resource’ collections that lead to my headworld work being treated and distributed like public domain again, I’m locking it up permanently.

I will block collection blogs on sight if I see them reblogging headworld pieces.

Also, don’t delete my text off my posts. If you do, you are certified garbage.

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Weirdo.

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Working on overworld-sized animation during the stream using the palette that Frankie said was going to be the main one for the jam, and I don't know what I'm doing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He makes it look so easy!!!!

Anyway, I don't know who this is, I legit just started blobbing in colors and pushed the pixels around until a person happened and worked from there.

*flails*

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...You’re... You’re making a... a mistake...

If anything, this was my mistake. It took so long to finish because I wanted to use the larger surface area to try and get more out of Psalm's dark-iridescent/oil sheen.

And the obligatory 'solid light background for silhouette' inclusion, plus all of them together for contrast.

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I tried to fix my Namiki again, and did what I know I wasn't supposed to do with a 14k nib and used pliers (with padding, at least!!!), and nearly ruined it permanently. However, it was either nigh-unusable and would need replacement if I did nothing, or I'd try and fix it and have a 50/50 chance to either fix it or still need to replace it.

I was able to semi-salvage it, it's just scratchy now. This was my test page as I worked on it.

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I'm trying to fix the tines on my Namiki and it's not workingggg but anyway here's a goober

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Slithery spiky old friend

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Wanted to try something different while inking and immediately regretted coloring this. While the lines didn't bleed, they also got completely eaten by the darker colors rather than there being a multiplicative effect.

Oh well, live and fail and learn.

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I decided that if I want to get a fancy fountain pen that needs to be manually refilled, I should first start with a cheaper/simpler one, so I went to my old stationery store haunt and picked up a Pilot Metropolitan and some Monteverde Moonstone ink and decided to blob around a bit.

There's a bunch of Obvious Mistakes, but, w/e, that's the price I pay for not sketching first.

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Psalm continues to be the absolute worst character design of all time when it comes to spriting (as well as in general).

Additional light solid bg for silhouette

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Something more fandom focused.

Not super exciting given I just followed the sprite, but as with other stuff in this book I used no sketch, just went straight with ink. I still made mistakes because I got distracted by the stream, lol.

[godslush]

Winding down by doodling in my book.

[godslush]

“I’ve been meaning to ask you something, Sam... It’s a bit strange, so I held off before, but I feel like I can trust you more than anyone now. Do you... believe that some of the monsters here are... invisible? And that some of them have been around before this even started? ... Oh, really? I... don’t know if that’s a relief. You see, a few days before this disaster, I began to hear... things. A cruel voice, whispering hateful words in my ear. Telling me everything was my fault. Telling me I could do nothing to avert any of the catastrophes I would face. Telling me I wouldn't be able to protect Sophie... I can hear it now, telling me I can’t trust you, louder than ever. I thought at first it might just be my mind playing tricks on me... the voice, it sounds very much like my ex-husband... and I thought perhaps the stress of everything was making me imagine the ways he’d try to tear me down before I kicked him out and put that restraining order on him. It’s very much not in my head. It’s a very real voice that only I can hear, somehow. Could you, perhaps, do me a favor? Seeing as you know where these creatures are from... the next time you go there, could you bring me with you so I could silence that voice for myself once and for all?”

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And now, Minute! Who was a lot easier after spending SOOO much time on Levi. I picked whichever combination of backgrounds in the battlebacks folders that would contrast best with her blues and with using solid black for shading (similar to the other clothed Conscripts).

I love it when the perspective Just Works.

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Levi is done! I mean, short of tweaking with it forever and never moving on, and right now I'd rather move on. I've been staring at this one so long. X_x

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I think this was a mistake....

And here's a version against a lighter solid background since the dark (custom) hallway really really messes with the silhouette (though perhaps by design, this is not something you want to see in a dark hallway).

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Some pixel WIPs compiled together for Archive View here.