Learning how to art

Hi, I'm an aspiring digital artist/game maker. Just using this to catalog the stuff I work on so don't expect quality, quantity, or consistency. I'll be sharing art for the game I'm working on but will mostly just post fan art for games I like.

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I made a Slugcat race for D&D!

A few months back I joined a D&D group that was going to start in a month or two. I asked if I could play as a slugcat so I could bring my hyper fixation into D&D and the DM said yes. And so after about a month and a half of constant work and an additional two months of playtesting, my take on a playable slugcat within D&D is finally done (at least until I find another mistake and spend several hours fixing it or something like that). It's about as lore accurate as I could make it without making them too overpowered or something like that and it's flexible enough for you to be able to insert them into whatever campaign you have going on. I've also consulted with several much more knowledgeable people to make sure everything is as balanced as possible. Please let me know if you find any mistakes or issues within it as I tried but I may not have fixed everything. Any criticism is welcome.

(I added the link to it and images for those who can't open it)

Slugcat Race 5e - DylRatner

Slugcats are small, nimble creatures known for their curiosity, resilience, and mysterious connection to a cycle of rebirth. Often mistaken

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Reposting this here because I might not have drawn much for this but it's definitely still an art project I made.

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A thing I made.

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Another animation I recently made. It's supposed to be a car crash with a bird flying away but it's not exactly detailed.

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In case you haven't noticed this is one of my favorite images and I love editing it with weird crap.

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Haven't done animation in a bit. Here's a walk cycle I made to get back into it.

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Made this shitpost with some freetime I had in class.

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I made and then proceeded to laugh at this for a solid 5 minutes.

Also holy shit I haven't been doing anything I wanted to post here for a good bit. I'm back now and hopefully will be posting more regularly.

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A flyer I made to commemorate some of the victims of last September. Remember the rules everyone and stay safe this September.

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Spent some time making some early concepts for some characters in my game.

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Take Care by _ Boisvert was and still is a video I consider top tier in terms of quality. Both the messaging and the animation style are things that will likely stick around in my head forever. About 2 months ago I drew this and I only just today remembered I hadn't uploaded it yet. Also I apologize for not having a better way of showing this other than taking a picture of it with my phone.

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This art of Shoreline is the first thing I've completed in like half a year. Every single thing I've drawn has kind of just been stuck as a work in progress however because of downpours eminent release I've been excited enough to do new Rain World art. I finished this like 2 days ago. So I am officially no longer playing catch up with art I've uploaded in other places.

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Over the next few months I spent a majority of my time working on these animations. I think m idle animation needs a few in between frames to look as smooth as the rest of them but other than that I'm really proud of what I did.

Edit: I'm starting to think I might have accidentally uploaded the unfinished versions. I'll upload the better versions eventually.

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After finishing version 9 I made all the final edits to make it easier to animate and more in line with what I want stylistically. This is the final version and where my icon comes from.

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These are all the past iterations of my new player character (that will hence before known as The Scavenger), starting in January and ending in July my main project was figuring out what they were going to look like. In between almost every version I tried stuff that just didn't work but I eventually settled on a design inspired by the iterators from Rain World.

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For my 2021 beginners animation final I had to make a short rotoscope project this is the result.

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Fun fact making art was only one of the reasons I ended up getting Photoshop, the other reason was specifically to edit to edit a gun into this picture of two red pandas.

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In December of 2021 I got a drawing tablet this is the shameful first result.