weirdly uncharismatic artist

she/her - 25 - ITA/ENG obsessed with portraits, creatures and the imaginary people in my head

[cryptike]

Hi everyone!

You can call me Pike! I'm a digital artist with a degree in animation, but I mostly work on illustrations and character design. I love blabbering and yapping so feel free to text me and ask me questions, don't be shy (that's my job)!

MY COMMISSIONS ARE TECHNICALLY OPEN! You can check my VGen if you're looking for something simple around 10-30€ or, if you want anything more complex, you can (and absolutely should) DM me so we can figure something out, just give me a budget and I promise I'll try my best to find a way to meet your requests <3

If you're interested in following me anywhere else here are all my other socials, my ko-fi and useful links.

I hope you'll enjoy spending time here with me <3

[blinkscoscave]

Happy Pride Y'all!!!

I think it's time to show a little bit from our recent Flare photoshoot here because!!!

It really was a dream-come-true!!!

And I'm very normal about it!!!

And I have so many pictures to share!!!

RAAAAAH

(all photos taken by Photostegi!)

[t-e-e-n-a]

Hope everyone had a pleasant Devil MAY Cry...

[cryptike]

I wanna draw lyon soooo bad but I have this weird mental adversion to drawing fanart because I get obsessive if it doesn’t look EXACTLY like the source material (which is impossible because I have my own style you know) so yeah????? I??? I’m cutting my own legs off,

[cryptike]

Very low quality pics of the first piece I’m working on SPECIFICALLY with the idea of putting it in my portfolio… I’m going insane. I got another scam text about commissions. Sigh. Yes my commissions are open… Check my VGen or dm me here… no I will not draw your young daughter…

I’m also trying to start actually posting on ig so please look me up! My user is cryptike_

[cryptike]

I started reworking this piece because I came across the file and I had genuinely forgotten how pretty it was. Sadly, I was messy with my layer management and it was impossible to color the hair with the technique I’ve been using lately (see this piece), so I literally had to start over with the coloring process. It allowed me to come up with a bit of a more fun hair disposition for both girl, so I’m not too sad. I also have gotten generally better at coloring so hopefully I will be able to finish the whole thing quickly enough to add this work to my portfolio before the art event i will be at in June………. I’m so scared

[cryptike]

I’m tired and bitter but I need people in fandom spaces to understand that downloading fanarts to use as your phone’s wallpaper and watching fanart music edits does not make you an art expert. Leave the ai accusations to people that understand the craft, maybe?

[cryptike]

I finished la by night. i'm even more normal about beckett.

[cryptike]

no i don't think you guys understand i HAVE TO play vtm with my friends just so i can play boy harsher songs in the background the whole time. i will drive them insane.

[cryptike]

I am normal about Beckett.

[cryptike]

and OF COURSE people are vocally complaining about the new dante skin. god forbid the infected corpse looks a little weird

[cryptike]

for being a person whose favorite color is a sort of shade of green i sure use a lot of this red-blue combo. suspicious.

[cryptike]

The other day I was looking up some like lore regarding body mods and the likes for vampires and I can confidently say that half of the Reddit users that have discussed the relationship between the curse and hair dye have NO CLUE HOW HAIR DYE WORKS (or hair in general actually)

[cryptike]

I want to make friends in the art community so bad but once I tried giving a tip to a younger artist that was asking for how to improve a piece and I got it with the “I already knew but thanks” (no you absolutely did not? I know for a fact you were not at that level yet which is why I said what I said? And nobody else mentioned what I pointed out in the comments? I spent minutes making sure i didn’t sound aggressive, rude or condescending, I made sure to compliment you and point out what you did that was right and- what kind of reaction is that?). Recently instead I tried to approach an artist online because I though it was funny that we had a similar user and I liked their work and yeah I got ghosted as the only comment on the post. Ok. No yeah I get it I’ll go fuck myself, sure.

[theregenie]

Let's launch the next art)

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Запускаем следующий арт)

[cryptike]

When I get better I’m gonna draw my weird ass toreador (of course I was playing a toreador) from vtmb that I modded to have the model of that one black haired female npc with the white outfit. I actually redid her face texture (I love messing around with old game textures it’s just so fun) and changed her eyes too BUT I have NO SCREENSHOTS BECAUSE THE GAME WAS TOO JANKY AND THAT WAS TAKING ALL MY ATTENTION AWAY FROM EVERYTHING ELSE. God I wish I had a pic of her i don’t even remember her name (???). I love you baby I’m sorry for what happened to you

[cryptike]

I wanted to post more art but I got injured!!! Yayyy!!! Just spent a whole week (and more) doing absolutely nothing, I tired drawing and made it WORSE so yaaaayyyy. I did apply for a job to illustrate a book cover tho, I don’t think I’m gonna get hired but I tried (and I did get come compliments so maybe…)

[cryptike]

I have this silly "fantasy" sounding playlist i put together to get myself in the mood for drawing and i feel the deep need of sharing it with everybody... i'm also working on a vtm one for the hell of it (how am i gonna study the ancient texts without my dark and gloomy and weird soundtrack?)