The Treasure Hoard

Hey, I'm Draco. I play games and draw and stuff. Author of PMD: Smoke & Mirrors Stick around if you want.

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@heropartnerweek Day 4: Warmth and Cold

The Cold of being stuck in a new world. The Cold of becoming something you didn't ask for. The Cold of not knowing who you are. The Cold of longing for your past life. The Cold of believing you're alone.

And the Warmth of realizing you're not.

(Behold, what is probably the biggest art piece I've ever made yet.)

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Peak Oli art as always.

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Hero Partner Week 2026 Day 4: Hope & Desperation. Wasn't sure I'd be making stuff for this one, but here I am.

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Whatever, go my Slugcats

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Quick art piece I threw together for my friend @highinfructose.

First time I've drawn Tsareena, hope I didn't do a terrible job.

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ABSOL LOAF

A buddy of mine, @sirocco745, asked me to draw his Absol, Iana.

Check out his fic, PMD: Echos of the Past!

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Was organizing my old Pokémon cards. (these things haven't seen the light in years.)

Found these and thought of @azurityarts.

Apologies for the condition of the Haxorus. Seriously, these are old.

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I was cleaning up my closet and found peak.

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Always bet on nothing.

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Some Pokémon doodles from the other day.

First time drawing Milotic, it kinda sucks lol.

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A goofy little emote thing I doodled for a friend last night.

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Got bored away from home yesterday and doodled Rue and Proto from Oneshot in my journal. Tried finishing the trio with Cedric this afternoon. I'm finding out that the more human-looking a character is, the harder it is for me to draw them.

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Is this thing still on?

Figured I'd break my artblock, and make a piece of fanart for @teshadraws' PMD story Seekers of Soul. Give it a read, if you haven't already. Spoilers below.

He's the Puppeteer. Or so he desperately wants you to think.

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Status... Update... Thing... (August 2025)

God, I really should be more active on here. ...I say, for the 5th time. Probably. I am not going to go check.

I dunno, just haven't really had much to say, it feels.

Doesn't help that I'm still kinda new to this platform, and have never used the "reblog" button before.

Maybe it's time for a status update on how I've been doing as of late? (Warning, it's a bit long.)

I'll be moving in to college shortly, and that means this is probably gonna be the last post I get to make from my nice desktop in my comfy room for the next couple months. Annoying laptop in a dorm room, here I come! (In a few days. I think.)

A couple of friends and I have been taking a break from YouTube use for the past few days. One of them's aiming to not use the platform for the entire rest of August. As for me, I will see how I feel at the end of one week. 2/7 days and I haven't felt any urge to doomscroll the home page, which is nice.

When it comes to art and stuff, I don't really have much to comment on. As of late I haven't been terribly motivated to do much. Not necessarily artblock, or burnout, but it's hard to place. Maybe I'll feel inspired to make something great when I'm up at college? Regardless, y'all will get to see it if it happens.

Writing-wise, I'm slowly chipping away at the third chapter of Smoke & Mirrors, my own PMD fic. It isn't much so far, but I'd like to think I'm improving bit by bit. I'll have to cross-post it here on Tumblr eventually. Some of my friends have been doing that with theirs. (Chasing Storms and Seekers of Soul) I was even thinking about adding some art to the chapters at some point, when I find the time.

I forgot to post about it, but the first session of that Dungeons & Dragons game I mentioned in a post a while back happened last sunday, and it was a blast! Unfortunately one of my players couldn't make it, but the rest of the group is getting along great. I'll have to write up/record some Campaign Diaries when I get the chance.

This blog itself could probably use some touching up. Don't really have any cool images to use as a banner at the moment, but at least I managed to fix the black title font on black background! Alas, whatever else needs changing will have to wait for another time.

I think that's about it for right now. I'll make some new tags to try and organize future posts, and will see y'all around.

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Having an Artificer in the party has its benefits...

I'm gonna admit; I'm burned out as hell art-wise from work I've been trying to force myself to do. Doubt I'll finish up any of that ArtFight stuff this month, but that's fine. Anyway, it seems I'm still capable of stuff I WANT to do, so here's a goofy little sketch I made of Team Vanguard somewhere down the line. Haven't put too much thought into their evolved designs, so these are kinda placeholder. Audio can be found here, from AndyBonkerson on YouTube.

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Art block is STILL kicking my ass, but here's sketches of the two of them that I made, at least. I oughta put them on Krita soon so I can finally finish this. Maybe tonight.

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Here, have some goofy pencil-sketch comics of Ember the human-turned-Fennekin and Zoe the Zorua I made while procrastinating on ArtFight stuff for another day...

From when times were simpler for Zoe...

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We're still working on finishing up everyone's characters, but I'll be running a D&D game for some friends, all about exploring the dangerous Wildlands that lay beyond the edge of the known world. Hoping and praying that the Dracohydra known as scheduling conflicts doesn't demolish our plans, I think it might be starting somewhat soon! I'm pretty excited.

Anyway, what I came here to say was; I want to be a bit more active online (ArtFight's kicking my ass.), so I think it might be fun to try and make a series of Campaign Diaries on YouTube, going over how sessions went as they happen and whatnot.

I'll work on the first one after everyone's done with their characters. I've got some groundwork to lay, some predictions to share, and some comments to make on things that have... already not exactly gone to plan. They're not, like, campaign-ending problems, though.

I will keep y'all posted.