Sort of an Art Blog

I draw way too much horses.

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Yes, I am alive was just away a bit. But I brought a peace offer! :D

I really freaking love to draw these cartoony pieces - this one is about Ingrid, who is a very cheeky and proud girl, having a military career (in charge of Supply and Logistics) and takes no BS from anyone. One very smart lady.

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I drew other things than horses!!! :D

Lil personal stuff: i do have feline characters that I want to draw in the cartoonized style, bc they are cats and their forms are fun. But I didn't draw a lots of cats beforehand and even that was a very long time ago, so i am more than rusty.

These are rather focusing on forms and mood than details, obvi. I really love how Jade (the dark one) turned out - I never planned to stop at two Nature Spirit cats, I really want to introduce Fire Cats soon to this world and Jade is very heavily pissed at them xD Just imagine you do A+ job to grow vegetation - Jade is a Plant Spirit - only to dry season hit and an annoying little Fire Spirit set the whole thing to fire. Dude, whhhhyyyy….

Ivory is just being silly, bc I really wanted to push the forms and mood of a sprinting cat. But she can never outrace her droplets :D There is a lot of room to grow, but these were fun!

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"Til we find our plaaaace On the path unwindinnnngggggggg In the circle.... The circle... of liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiifffffffffffffee................!"

(if you did not read that in a sing-song voice, you are doing it wrong tho xD)

Some days ago sihir showed her newest Kuda stallion on the server and he is a stunner! Fell in love instantly. So much I actually send Damsa in and asked "Can they be King and Queen together???"

And this one little question led to a massive brainstorming and here we are :D I really wanted to draw a Pride Rock kind of scene with them, nothing too difficult, but very epic. White horses are really super hard for me, but these two arek inda okay-ish I think. We are currently working on their backstory and politics and everything :D

Also: putting white horses in sunshine and on a fucking orange rock in front of a huge block of white clouds is not really the smartest idea ever xD Because that stupid orange piece of rock will totally grab attention, no matter what, and your horses will blend into the clouds... how clever xD

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still fond of this old design

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I had to animate the moon behind him, because why not :D

And now I am motivated enough to revisit my animation projects. What's this? Sorcery? (Well, I am putting together my wild magic sorcerer character for the party, so yeah, it is definitely sorcery xD)

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"Oh, darling, sentimentality has never suited you."

I just love smug OCs....

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Deja Vu

Last year, the Global Comic Awards contest collaborated with Artfol, and I've felt like, why not. So, I entered and drew my ever second comic for this contest, presenting my two feline OCs, Ivory and Jade. They are both nature spirits roaming the world, doing their jobs. Not actual, real cats, they just have this form in the current world, but they had different forms in different eras. Ivory is a water spirit, responsible for the water cycle going smoothly. Jade is a plant spirit, responsible for the vegetation's life cycle.

The theme was Deja Vu, and I really loved pairing this concept with a topic that is very close to my heart - nature.

Fun facts:

- Since Ivory's power is water, she is usually can be seen - well, if humans could see her - with water droplets flying and following her around. But ever since the water is being polluted close to the cities, she, as the representation of clean, healthy water loosing her droplets

- What Jade refers to as "we saw this 4 times already" are the 4 mass extinction events from Earth's past. Currently, we are living the 5th one and humanity is the reason it is happening. The climate change we triggered and are fueling the deforestation, overpopulation, losing biodiversity and basically kicking up the planet's sensitive balance high up in the sky is resulting in losing species more rapidly than ever before.

- If you noticed the text colour changes - good catch! That's not an accident - the text goes full black as they get into a more heavy topic, and goes back to white as Ivory is accepting how the only way to continue on is accepting that she cannot change things outside of her reach and just move on, not worry about things she cannot change or avoid.

Spoiler: no, it did not get a placement sadly, but I am still super proud of this work, and actually the city panel with Ivory is my fav thing I've ever made :D Took me 3 days to line and shade it. Worth it.

PS.: originally this is one long strip, bc I am an idiot and misread the instructions, but so yeah... painful to post it on PC anywhere. So I cut it up. Had to :(

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I freakling love to draw these super stylised pieces, they are all about the vibesss :D And somehow I just resonate with the "foreverresting bitch face" XD :D

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The first time I have painted a deer. Ofc she is part of the Space Deities. Thinking what animal I should pick next - leaning toward a lion.

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I'd run if I were you.

Pls welcome Céleste, she is my OC and is an angry bitch. :D

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Sometimes I just love to draw silly, stylised horses :3

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Oh my God, the bots here are freaking annoying! I thought Deviantart was the worst, but no, Tumblr is more infected if that is even possible.

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I shall return to my Space Deities series sometime...

When I am not burned out and dead inside.

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Damsa needed a card too. But who is Damsa, you'd ask. Well, short answer, she is a sassy queen. I admit, Tulip is my absolute favourite one among my feathered ponies, therefore I draw him the most, but I try to do right for the others too. And ever since the card event got extended by a week, she got her piece too.

She took me less time than Tulip - but I rendered Tulip in details, Damsa wasn't that lucky. Sad, bc I didn't really want significantly different styles for the cards, but she was such a sudden idea, she is lucky to have a card xD Also pls enjoy my absolutely not making sense rock. (Yeah, that's me not giving a fuck about forms and physics.)

The sad part: I was wondering why it got blurrier than usual when I zoomed in 200%, and the font sizes were also funky, but I was like, okay, maybe I am seeing things. I finished the piece, about to resize the png for the actual card size and surprise: I managed to draw this in the card size (I prefer to draw big, bc who knows, I can always downsize, but upscale is problematic.) I am dying inside. Oh well. This piece only has a card-sized format. This is a fun piece anyway, and Damsa can totally judge you in small too.

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This was made for a HARPG event, which is based on the Bella Sara equine cards - I never had those as a kid, so I didn't know what they were in the first place. It was a collectable card series with different themes.

It was all fun and games when I figured out the pose I wanna draw. And once I did the render and turned to the frame, everything became a nightmare. I spent days with the stupid frame. DAYS! I am not a designer ppl, I am an artist! I paint a full illustration, no problem. Lighting, colours, no problem! Give me a simple task such as deciding on the colour of a card frame, and I am dead. And not only the days it took me, but also a mental breakdown that happened to be a whole performance for Leo, whom I simply forced to sit through the whole scene. With Act I and Act II included, just without a pee break.

With her help - she basically held my hand and picked the colour of the frame and then helped with the fonts too - this piece is finally done. Tulip, being an idiot as he is, doesn't run like a horse. No, he is SpEcIAl. He runs like a dog.

I enjoyed this pose so much, I giggled about it for 3 days straight. because I worked on it 3 days straight, figuring out what goes where. But I did it :D

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Sometimes my most stupid ideas are the best ones.

Kuda-PArisos have a Bella Sara card event and I never had a Bella Sara card, because it was never thing in my country. But now drawing a card of it :D I still have no idea for the quote yet, but thinking hard. My boi is pure idiotism and I really want that to come through the quote. And my mind is blank ofc. But the pose I love :D I am very proud of this idea xD