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Hey y'all! I'm an artist operating out of Texas! This is where I like to keep all of my illustrations. I draw some fandom things, as well as my own characters, some fantasy themes, and occasionally a bit of horror. If that sounds like fun to you, stick around! For Commission info, visit dasstanzy.carrd.co Status: OPEN (5/5 slots)

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Just a meme drawing, inspo under the cut.

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Been playing BG3 again

I've been kinda flipping between two BG3 runs lately and I figured I'd *roughly* emulate the style of the battle portraits to draw them.

I've drawn Lyn before, my soundcloud rapper of a bard. I've been rotating him in my head again as I continue his file.

Anyway, meet my Dark Urge: Azure. She's just kinda scared and twitchy all the time, but smooching Karlach helps distract her from The Horrors. I'm still early into her file, but I plan for her to resist the urge, even if it kills her. (Foreshadowing is a literary device--)

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Attacks 9-12 for Artfight 2026!

Xylophone (resqu)

NANO (MomsSpaghoot)

Key Kid (@layalu)

Kassia Mercar (@tepkunset)

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Artfight attacks 5-8!

Bones (Ready_Up)

Gorbie (-DAI-)

X-Spider/Cass Carver (@ninawolv3rina)

Freddie Scarlet (@rosespark2)

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My first four artfight attacks (out of order because aspect ratio)

Mimi (@thedeafprophet) Eggy (GrilledCheez/ferrisfits) Daoloth (@eldrxtch) Ignatius (@nannycanes)

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I've been doing a lot of artfight prep.

1: An updated ref for Eva. Her campaign is sorta winding down to its conclusion, so I'm making a new version of her that's less tied to a single campaign.

2: Lazarus, my Fallout 1 OC! I've had him on the mind a lot lately (and some mutuals posted Fallout characters and influenced me).

3: Abbey, a character from an original setting/story I've been working on

4: Daniel Ortiz, from the same story/setting.

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Inspired by a provoke macro I saw the other day from a kindred soul.

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Character Ref sheet-Mortimer Scarlet

Don't mind me, just doing more artfight prep. Mortimer's going up this year! I had a lot of fun drawing all the details for the props. Bonus points if you find the single intentional anachronism lmao

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First updated character ref for this year's artfight!

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Simon and Anasha from @smallfires-if. Spoilers under the cut.

I've said it before, but I'll say it again. If you like Dragon Age, play Small Fires.

I know Matthieu and Arden technically appeared in the prologue, but I'm going to hold off on drawing them until I have some more vibes. I feel like we really got to know these two in the prologue. And I adored them both dearly. I drew my own Knight-Corporal (again) but I wanted the main attention to be on the companions. Here's Milo:

So far, he's sorta in the middle with Simon, but leaning towards friend. They get along and they definitely bonded over their common enemy: Sardou. Milo's not as strict as Simon would prefer, though. Plus...ultimately Milo chose to blame Baker. IYKYK. I keep comparing them to Tulio and Miguel.

I don't think I would call Milo and Anasha FRIENDS yet, but I think he respects her. At this point in the story, he's pretty in for a penny in for a crown when it comes to stealing off into the night to go help Saga. If he got his way, he'd help raise her. She's family to him as much as Baker was. Is he gonna be Saga's uncle? Cousin? Some sort of vaguely familial but hard to define role that one could say indicates that in adulthood, Milo's turning into Baker? Who knows!

I'll probably do more portraits once chapter one drops. Or sooner. Idk. I'm doing artfight prep, who knows what I'll be drawing.

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Deserter

Yeah I'm not done drawing Small Fires art. I'm gonna draw up whatever Milo is gonna be wearing in Chapter 1 once he ditches or stows his Templar armor.

I also wanted to draw up a more detailed look at Milo's face, even though this is only half of it. He's 34, and I think he's starting to get a few greys, even if the vast majority of his hair is still red. I wonder what Baker thought of the scrappy little kid he took in starting to go grey.

Also the stress of everything going on the last few weeks has made his rosacea flare up. Not the biggest thing on his plate right now, but it sure ain't helping.

As things stands at the end of the prologue, I don't think Milo thinks he's ever going to return to the Circle. He deserted, I don't think there's really any coming back after that. Also I think he's got a lot of resentment for Knight-Commander Rolan building in his gut and wants to get the fuck away from there. Plus, Saga needs him. Baker was family, and he's starting to feel like Saga is too.

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[Simon: +5 Rivalry] (Small Fires Spoilers under the cut)

Small Fires is back and I had a lot of fun with the prologue! I'm very much enjoying the dynamic between Milo and Simon. He's still kind of in the middle as far as friendship and I'm still deciding how much I want to press my thumb on that side of the scale.

Milo still sorta thinks of Simon as a kid in his head, though he would *never* call him that. He's been doing his best to guide him and support him without being too overly overbearing.

I'm really looking forward to seeing how their relationship builds after...all that. They don't always see eye to eye (in fact they OFTEN don't) but there's still mutual respect. Anyway I was getting Tulio and Miguel vibes from them, and so I referenced this frame from The Road to El Dorado, but with some rivalry I got during that scene in the barn when you're learning about Simon's grandpa.

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I'm still rotating my Scarlet Hollow OC in my head.

100% inspired by this post, I've been working on drawing all of Mortimer's outfits during their week in Scarlet Hollow. I'll probably re-draw their Monday and Friday outfits and make a whole lineup eventually. Tuesday they just kinda threw a different shirt on the same jeans and sneakers that they were wearing the day before. Wednesday, they were feeling kinda cute and wanted to put together a fun lil outfit to ghostbust in (aaaand they'd already slid into Kaneeka's DMs so they were feeling good.) This would be the last outfit that they actually put thought into for the whole week though.

I used a pose reference for Wednesday and I really like how the proportions turned out.

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Scarlet Hollow Ch. 5 Spoilers under the cut.

So like...unless Wayne actually undressed and re-dressed them, Mortimer was just exploring the closed wing of the Scarlet mansion in their pajamas. And if that's the case, they DEFINITELY didn't have the wherewithal to get changed before running off to find the seal on the farm. So chapter 5 (including the whole thing with Sybil and Kaneeka) was in those same pajamas.

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So Scarlet Hollow, huh? (Spoilers through Ch 5 under the cut)

Just finished Chapter 5 and I figured I'd draw the OC I've had brewing. I'm planning to replay with them soon now that I have a more solid idea of who they are as a person. I think once they started talking to animals as a child, Vivian started homeschooling them to prevent anyone from finding out about the bit of Scarlet Hollow weirdness that followed them down to Florida. I feel like there was some sort of Incident(tm) but I haven't decided what yet.

Mortimer was always a bit of a troublemaker with an unlucky streak. They ran into some legal trouble in their teens/early 20s (things like drug possession and a bit of other criminal mischief). This means they already had a record when the cops started getting suspicious.

I had a lot of fun playing with the sorta desaturated palette from the game when designing them!

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Did a pose challenge, it turned into playing with lighting.

Wow I haven't drawn Pat in forever. But this pose prompt had such "Job gone sideways in the Citadel" energy, so I rolled with that energy.

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Artblock conquered with post-exile Lazarus (spoilers for a 30 year old game under the cut)

I have a general idea of what happens between that actual end of Fallout and Lazarus eventually ending up in Arroyo. If we go with the canon timeline, there's a couple months in between "You're a hero, and you have to leave" and reuniting with the folks that left Vault 13 to join him in the wasteland. I've gotten attached to the idea of him and dogmeat crashing in Shady Sands while he tries to get his shit together once everything kinda fell apart around him. I think the whole group came together a bit after Lazarus' seventeenth birthday.

At some point I'll draw his family, but I know his mama was the one that actually pulled the trigger at Jacoren's execution and left to reunite with her son, his pops wanted to go, but had to stay in the vault due to health/disability reasons, and his older brother stayed in 13 with their father. Lazarus gets why his brother and his pops didn't go out into the wasteland, but he does miss them a lot.