Aught Naut

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[ID: Digital painting. Cave scene, stalagmites poking up from dark water. Two-headed lindwyrm on a stone island, back half still in the water. They're looking up at a trickle of daylight. One head and the body are amethyst, other head is citrine. /End ID]

Reviving my "gem dragons" series of paintings from a few years ago. If you see them elsewhere under a different name, that's either my old Tumblr or my Insta that I barely use.

These are available as prints in My INPRNT Shop.

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[ID: digital cel-shaded fanart. Tokoyami in a hospital bed with bandaged eyes, a nasal cannula held by a strap, an iv in his hand, and a bandage on his left arm. Chest bandage visible under his blue hospital robe. Multiple scrapes on his skin. He sits up slightly and holds the iv hand over Dark Shadow, who is emerging tiny and wide-eyed from his chest. The lights are dim and the curtain to his right is drawn. /End ID]

Tokoyami in the hospital after the fight with AFO. Medical equipment is confusing.

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[ID: Digital cel shaded fanart of Nine and Mangey at a picnic table. BG is a beach. Nine is trying to keep Mangey away from his fries the way people usually do with their cats (hand on head, stretching Mangey's face). He's holding a burger in his other hand. There's an unopened can of soda with a green and yellow chao logo, and an empty plate with crumbs near Mangey. /End ID]

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[ID: Digital art of Flick reclining on a green carpet with three Hercules beetles, two horned males, one female. A male is on the back of his free hand. He's propped up on his elbow and drawing a beetle on a tablet. Bg has two blurry, curtained windows. /End ID]

Based on that one shot from GDT's Frankenstein.

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[ID: Meme redraw with simplified "of the Devil" characters. Morgan, nervous: "Guys I have something to confess." "I sometimes gamble illegally." London, Reyes (drunk), Emma and Serra under a "MURDER IS OKAY!" banner, looking distraught. Reyes's bottle has a little flag with a gun on it. Serra's holding a cake decorated with a knife and blood splatters. Serra, angry: Adonai I am disappoint /End ID]

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

My readers can have little a breather chapter, as a treat.

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[ID: Digital fanart based on the bus stop scene from My Neighbor Totoro. Bus stop sign is a chocobo stop sign from FFVII remake. Tokoyami in a dark cloak and crystal necklace holds a sleeping Eri on his back under a red umbrella. Next to them is a chocobo version of Fat Gum. They stare ahead awkwardly against a dark, rainy farmland bg. /End ID]

The working title for this chapter was My Neighbor Chocobo, but I'm trying to avoid direct Ghibli references lol.

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[ID: Digital inks, gray bg, white highlights. Overcast day at agriculture fair. Livestock barns on left, vendor tents and electrical poles on right. Puddles and dropped items on cracked ground. Right of center, a huge bull with three horns and spikes down his back and sides. Spiky tail like a mace. White eyes stare straight at the viewer. /End ID]

Another touch-up from 2023.

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[ID: Photo of an ink drawing on paper under yellow light, drawn over with digital ink. A wand with a wrapped grip and three skull faces coming out of the twisted wood like fungal growths. /End ID]

Lightly refined drawing from a 2023 "Frightfall" contest over on Instagram (which I don't really use anymore).

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[ID: Digital art, heavy black lines on black bg. Lich!Emmrich, unsteady after being created, supported by two older Liches as the oldest places the crown on his head. The three elders have faded grayish-yellow bones while Emmrich's are bright white with tea-stained teeth. The elders have teeth missing and the eldest is missing their entire mandible. They also wear a cape and a plainer robe instead of the gear the others have. Their grave gold is tarnished. /End ID]

Crowning of a Lich

I like the idea of their appearances differing based on when they took the plunge, so to speak. I have a lot of thoughts on Emmrich's conversion that I might make a separate post about, but for now I'll say they probably used magic to leech the remaining blood from his bones, giving them that bleached appearance. The others may be yellowed by a number of things.

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[ID: Digital screenshot redraw of All Might in the hospital right after his fatal fight with OFA. Details in post body. /End ID]

I drew this back in 2024 but didn't post it. This is to say that I uhhh lost the original screenshot lol but I'm guessing most of you remember it.

The animators were working with limited information at the time: this image did not appear in the manga, and All Might's un-flexed form hadn't been shown in Vigilantes yet. You can tell they re-created the tubes and hoses that were stuck in Nighteye since that's what they had to go on. Also, deadlines.

List of changes:

Put his hair down and lightened the intense shadows of what would become his "strong form" (his eyes are shadowed but you can see them).

Moved the tubes and hoses down to where his scar ends up being.

Can't quite recall this because, again, I lost the original, but I think the bandage on his forehead was missing in the original, though it appears in the scene where he tries to leave the hospital.

Gave him nipples lmaooo

Pushed the perspective on Nighteye a bit, so he looks closer to the camera.

I almost put electrodes on him, but figured their near-future technology was monitoring him another way? Or they were getting readings though one of the MANY tubes they jammed into him.

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[ID: Digital colored fan art of Tokoyami dressed as Shadow the Hedgehog for a convention meetup, posing in front of a beige wall. The costume includes a leather jacket, black pants, and white fluff under the shirt. He's wearing a lanyard and badge. /End ID]

[ID: Black and white digital sketch, Tokoyami now posing on one knee with Dark Shadow's arms coming from his back and holding prop Doom Wings. /End ID]

Cosplay.

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[Digital colored fanart. Sonic pulls his bottom eyelid down and sticks his tongue out at Knuckles. Knuckles, arms crossed, sticks out his own very long tongue. BG is a faded horizon with the tops of a few grassy plateaus in sight. /End ID]

Ever seen an echidna's tongue?

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[ID: Digital comic set during Sonic Generations. Knuckles waves to a retreating Sonic from his spot by Sky Sanctuary. He notices something stage right. In the distance is a bleached fragment of the Angel Island ruins with a few echidna figures out front (two warriors, one mother with a child). Closeup of his wide eyes. /End ID]

...but we don't have time to unpack all that!

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[ID: Digital fanart. Goat!Might's face head-on and unimpressed as usual, over a solid blue circle with an upside-down white, red, and gold star, ringed gold. Text is white outlined blue: Wouldst thou like to Live Mightily? /End ID]

Eat His Hair

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[ID: Digital art of Fai smiling and holding a black Flemish giant rabbit that resembles Kurogane, even missing his left arm. Fai wears a white kimono with a blue sakura design on the shoulder. Kurobunny is chewing on the end of Fai's blue headband, which has a gold bauble at the end. Bg is pink and white, resembling a sakura tree. /End ID]

There was a point in the manga where Mokona compares Kurogane's eye color to that of a bunny. The statement has lived with me ever since.

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[ID: Digital black and white ink drawing with double black and white border. Two faces resembling comedy/tragedy masks. Tragedy is gaping wide in angst and agony, showing Comedy grinning out of their mouth with big teeth and partially visible horns. Facial features are semi-realistic but with large black eyes. /End ID]

Saw this in a dream, which means it's probably been done before but whatever? It was an art print on the ceiling above the bed I was lying in. Focusing on it made me levitate. Spun around like a clock hand for fun. It was weird and kinda silly.

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[ID: Half a character lineup, gray bg, red floor line. Three kobolds, one flying above other two. Left to right: red with huge backpack, black and green with moth wings, beige dog hybrid with sword and shield. /End ID]

[ID: Same as above. Left to right: white with gold jewelry and purple drapes, jet black and tall with silver horns, copper with a blacksmith's apron. /End ID]

FULL CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS UNDER THE CUT.

I recently had the pleasure of drawing the main cast of The Unionization of Kobolds, a novella by Nenekiri Bookwyrm over on Bluesky! I posted one per week for six weeks (on my bsky account) and realized I should post them on my primary art blog as well, haha.

Embyr: Blood red kobold, scowling, bent under an overfull adventuring backpack. Visible green eye aimed at viewer. Short horns and claws the color of volcanic ash. Vest made of volcanic rocks. Brown leather pants.

Oleander: Small, black and green kobold with moth wings and fuzzy antennae, in flight. Black scales, green underbelly, green claws. Hands glowing white, shining in big green eyes. Thick tail. Wings green with brown stems and white streaks. Unreadable expression.

Woof: Dog/kobold hybrid wearing a sword and kite shield on his back, plus a waist belt with pouch. Paws pressed together and pink tongue sticking out of a smile. Floppy ears and nubs of brown horns. Beige fur around face, arms, and top of tail. Cream-colored scales, brown underbelly scales. Scaly feet are paws like the hands. Paw pads are pink. Big, brown, shining eyes. Black dog nose.

Tarot: White kobold with blue underbelly, horns, claws, and eyes. Shiny fabrics draped around his neck and waist in shades of lavender. Gold bracelets around arm, tail, and horns. Gold chains hanging from the horn bracelets. Three gold necklaces with small red gems, two short one long. Two gold waist chains, one blocked by arm, the other with red and blue gems. He serenely draws a card from a tarot deck.

Shade: Six foot tall, dark blue, muscular kobold stands with her arms crossed. Silver horns stick straight up, claws also silver. Black leather chest piece and short pants with pouches and sewn-in pockets. Purple eye cocked down at viewer.

Penny: Kobold with copper scales, duller brown horns that curve back and then point forward. Bright gold eyes. Smiling and looking stage right, over her shoulder, hands on hips. Wearing a dark gray blacksmiths' apron.