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Howdy! I’m Bee, a 32 year old queer artist from the East Coast of the USA! I work as a costume designer, adjunct professor, and costume illustrator, and post my own personal doodles here and there as well as run a small sticker and print shop.

You can find me out elsewhere on the web too!

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Behemoth under the Waves

God-Spirit of the Sea.

Sailors and travelers will leave mandalas and patterns in sand, rock, and shells to appease the beast. While many have seen the effect of their disfavor, few have seen its face.

#the sanktis project #fantasy worldbuilding #worldbuilding #creature #whale #well mostly #gods of the land

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High Devotee of the Mad Goddess

She’s over the top but when your goddess is a wild three-headed bird woman you gotta have style.

Included the old version from a couple years ago because wow! Drawing really does improve if you just do it all the time lol.

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The other ranks— Aspirant, Postulant, Novitiate, and Priest. Clothes aren’t strictly gendered but there’s a skirts and pants option.

A note on Headdresses: they aren’t a strictly rank based, more connected to activity, a novice officiating a wedding might wear the more full half circle, while a busy high priestess might wear the little bun cap (seen on the postulant) if she’s not overseeing rights.

The yellow cloth and trims are rarely this plain—patterns vary wildly and can be damask, batik, block printed and the cloth itself is made of silk, linen, or wool depending on climate and priest activity.

#next day reblog

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High Devotee of the Mad Goddess

She’s over the top but when your goddess is a wild three-headed bird woman you gotta have style.

Included the old version from a couple years ago because wow! Drawing really does improve if you just do it all the time lol.

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The other ranks— Aspirant, Postulant, Novitiate, and Priest. Clothes aren’t strictly gendered but there’s a skirts and pants option.

A note on Headdresses: they aren’t a strictly rank based, more connected to activity, a novice officiating a wedding might wear the more full half circle, while a busy high priestess might wear the little bun cap (seen on the postulant) if she’s not overseeing rights.

The yellow cloth and trims are rarely this plain—patterns vary wildly and can be damask, batik, block printed and the cloth itself is made of silk, linen, or wool depending on climate and priest activity.

#the sanktis project #priesthoods #fantasy worldbuilding #priest habits #the mad goddess #priests #fantasy design #goddess of love

High Devotee of the Mad Goddess

She’s over the top but when your goddess is a wild three-headed bird woman you gotta have style.

Included the old version from a couple years ago because wow! Drawing really does improve if you just do it all the time lol.

#the sanktis project #the mad goddess #she’s a love goddess #in a horrors of love kind of way #fantasy worldbuilding #worldbuilding #priestess

Made this for the title page of the PowerPoint I store all of my Santkis info in. Couldn’t resist jumping on that video game menu screen trend.

Roen the Bonedancer Heretic, leftover champion of the Long Silence (through the process of elimination). Necromancer, reluctant priestess.

They’re one of my oldest OCs that’s still kicking (sorry half dragon girl from middle school).

#my people drawing skills are better than my place drawing skills lol #roen #the sanktis project #writing #oc #bonedancer #worldbuilding #fantasy worldbuilding #my oc art #necromancy #i never post about my ocs #so if you want more lmk

The Gods of Man

I am invited to an infodump/powerpoint party next month and I figured I’d use it as a chance to talk about my longterm obsessive worldbuilding project since I have a ton of info already and who else is going to listen to it otherwise, and I drew this because I needed some more cohesive visuals.

The individual stained glass panes were drawn about 5+ years ago or so (the last time I was able to sit down and draw a lot) Even though I feel like I can really tell they’re old and not at the same level I could draw them at today, I just didn’t want to redraw them atm.

It’s the surroundings that are new. I’m not really confident drawing locations/places but y‘know practice makes you better or something. I want to focus on getting better at it for sure!

#the sanktis project #fantasy worldbuilding #worldbuilding #sanktis #fantasy gods #stained glass #the mad goddess #lord of the long silence #fantasy world #writing

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Is this not how Nona ended?

(And yes I ripped Kiriona’s sleeves off because I Couldn’t stand to draw sleeves that cover up her biceps)

Thanks to the Nona’s Birthday Party discord for the idea <3

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I’ve been reading Dungeon Crawler Carl

#morning reblog

I’ve been reading Dungeon Crawler Carl

#sketchbook #sketch page #dcc #zev DCc #donut dcc #Princess Donut

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Melf’s Mirko’s Acid Arrow

Professor Mirko Kusnetsov, variant tiefling artificer/Order of Scribes wizard. He’s on (not-so-voluntary) research leave from the University Blackstaff and handling it super well.

#dnd #wizard #melf’s acid arrow

Hey, I’ve got a weird question. My teen has two stickers that we think are your work from a few years ago? Star shaped, one has a devil lady sticking out her tongue, and the other has an angel with wings around her face.

My teen was keeping the stickers to put them on something special, and unfortunately it didn’t go well, and the devil sticker was damaged. It’s only a sticker, in the grand scheme of things, but they’re pretty upset, so I wanted to ask whether you might still have some? Or maybe a site where we can order them?

Howdy! Those were me from like a long time ago but I might have some kicking around! I don’t currently have my shop open but if you’re in the US I will send you new ones. Pm me!