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: Fullbody portrait of a mushroom character, white bg with blue stain. He strikes a soaring heroic pose with a butter knife and white napkin cape. Simple cartoon : D smile. Belt of little blue flowers and leaf pouch. Red cap with white spots, blue gill lines. Blue and white spores. /End ID]

Drew the NPC companion for my friend's DnD group! He distributes goodberries from the pouch on his belt to make up for the lack of a dedicated healer.

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[ID: Photo of a sketchbook page. Ink sketch of Tokoyami wearing a long coat with elbow-length sleeves, capris, and thick-soled boots. To the right, revised arm sketch with a glove. Pen lying on the page. /End ID]

ALPHABET SOUP PART 3 UPDATE:

I am still working on it, I swear! ;_;

Seriously though, I've been chipping away at the rough draft in my spare time and I'm about... a quarter of the way through?

Thank you for your patience OTL

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[ID: Digital painting. Small green dragon with a toadlike body and horizontal pupils in a dark forest. Puffing its glowing blue chest out, dark membranes visible. Three winglike flashes like candle flames from its back. Perched on a mossy log with white shelf mushrooms. / End ID]

Another from my Gem Dragons series, Labradorite! Prints available from my INPRNT shop.

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

[ID: Digital art of Emmrich in a dark woods, glancing sidelong at the viewer and holding a white hen. Trees have bare, sloping branches. Red spindleweed leaves reach up toward his waist. The hen has a purple highlight in her eye and blood on her breast, which trickles down his arm. His right eye, in shadow, glints amber. Upper left corner in scratchy script: Desire and Hunger. /End ID]

You've heard of Vampire!Emmrich AUs now get ready for

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[ID: Digital ACNH fanart, white bg. C.J., shades on, with fishing rod in one hand and Flick's ankle in the other, as Flick lies mostly on the ground. Rod has a jewel beetle instead of a bobber. Ground plane is a watery rainbow. Handwriting below: NICE CATCH. /End ID]

Happy "wedding season" to the "monogamous roommates" of all time.

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[ID: Digital cel-shaded fanart with some blending. The Roost coffee counter at a low angle. Back to front: Flick talking excitedly and demonstrating something's size, Jeremiah (back to the viewer) engaged in the conversation, Blathers staring into his untouched coffee with a thousand-yard stare while sweating. /End ID]

Wrong time for a coffee break...

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New version.

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[ID: Digital cel-shaded fanart with some blending. The Roost coffee counter at a low angle. Back to front: Flick talking excitedly and demonstrating something's size, Jeremiah (back to the viewer) engaged in the conversation, Blathers staring into his untouched coffee with a thousand-yard stare while sweating. /End ID]

Wrong time for a coffee break...

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[ID: digital painting of a sea serpent playing in the ocean waves. They're moving away from the camera and looking back at the viewer, mouth open in a playful "smile." Their dorsal fin is shiny purple, and the fins around their jaw are green with purple trim. Their body is green-blue with a purple stripe. A cloud of mist and droplets falls from the blue-purple beard under their neck. /End ID]

Another revamped darg, fluorite this time. This and the rest of the "gem dragon" series 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.