my kingdom for a horse

Art and Elder Scrolls stuff. Interacts from @downontheupside. Tags, asks, and replies are all welcome and loved. 18+ only, occasional NSFW. Banner by mukuuji!

[choilacanth]

New year, new pinned post (art here)

Hi all, Choi here, after all this time my brain is still harboring Elder Scrolls shenanigans and tomfoolery.

Directory:

Gallery (a highlights reel, if you will)

Carrd (Links and commission info)

@downontheupside : reblog and others blog

Social media: Also choilacanth on assorted places

Support my art: ko-fi.com/choilacanth, or commission me :]

racists, lgbtphobes, radfems/terfs, and right-wingers, begone. 18+ content present on this blog means it is also not for minors, sorry. I block accounts that have rancid vibes or look like bots (I check for a profile picture/header/description combination that isn’t suspicious) (when I have the energy).

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kaiman looks like he gives great hugs. nikaido too.

I just want them to be happy and eat gyoza

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Diorghh of the Blackthroat nomads; once unemployed, now still unemployed (but shredding her guitar every day)

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When asked what happened I told people this was my duel disk for yu gi oh

... that said, if you've had TFCC injuries or other sorts of ulnar wrist pain, i'd like to hear about them. how was diagnosis. how was recovery.

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My love letter to Dorohedoro: two friends zooming around Hole at night, like I assume they often do. 
Probably the best work I’ve done, and the best work I might do for a while. (Last post for now) 2020/10

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reposting this now that we're halfway through S2 after 6 years

after 6 years, i still keep coming back to Hole :)

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if anyone is wondering where i am, i may be

trying to finish graduate studies as usual (one out of n papers to be published soon :') )

at the bouldering gym or gym gym

hiding from the cold

doodling pathfinder things

CATCH Y'ALL AROUND whee

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take me back to Fukui

(went to Fukui prefecture over the holidays and saw so many dinosaurs. take me baaaack)

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Working on Diorghh refs but I might just redraw it ahahaha we'll see

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Skyrim should have a sauna culture. That is all.

I was figuring out lights and darks before continuing this, and forgot if I put it here or not. This is WIP from 2024/3 that still hasn't been finished! ty @orfeoarte for helping me with it, one day i will complete it

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making this real: 2026 is the year i draw again

(but we can start a few days early)

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Sword redesign for Teldryn

Looking more towards a long-hilted, upswept, gently curving sword that can be wielded with one or two hands meant for slashing, but he would also keep a knife and a second, differently built sword. Also a few more types in his home that he looks at from time to time.

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we had our session 1 a couple of weeks ago :) Diorghh managed to

Unsettle a nice and helpful scribe

Lose her old guitar

Attempt evading arrest by pretending to be heavily pregnant (the baby was a 4' tall dwarf)

Kick some guy through saloon doors

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my partner's impressively round frog

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Sketch dump Q3 2025

I missed drawing the guy. no ref we ball 10 minute lines

Drawn during Pathfinder session 1 in mid-November

Tried the free ren looking up face

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Skyrim: Darra Salvi and Teldryn Sero celebrate the discovery of stalhrim on Solstheim. Tavern "Retching Netch". Raven Rock. Morrowind. Early 4E200s.

Darra Salvi is an original character created by @choilacanth.

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when you know you're getting paid very well very soon, so you get an extra bottle of the good sujamma from geldis sadri's back room and a whole new wardrobe from the raven rock market.

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Thank you, @igorlevchenko-blog!!! What a lovely story you've painted out of the notes I sent. Thank you, thank you, thank you! Love their faces, the sassy little grins and elbows and pinky, the hues of Morrowind and of course, the fun chats while getting the updates. I could look at that impasto all day.

[choilacanth]

I looked into this, and while I would like to be made aware of anyone feeding my sketches into AI, don't just go around saying things that aren't true.

What you must be referring to is not my sketch anymore at that point, it was an excellent drawing by a different artist. The sources took some time to tell me about the process of making the art and clarify that mentioning AI was a joke. So no, I am not aware.

If you'd like to bring something like this to my attention, send specific details. Also, if you're in contact with my work, I'd hate it if you fed my sketches into AI, don't do that.