Babes! Mutuals! People who stumble on this page by accident!
To me, this space feels like a sort of digital sketchbook. Here I’d like to express myself and give priority to my original characters, so I'm sorry if you want to follow me just for fanart. But the fanart pieces I’ll post will always be about things I really like and enjoy; I don’t chase trends, nor I’d like to do it in the future
Just so you know, I do blog about other content. I’ll give you a list of tumblrs where I’m equally active:
mmmvsevm > other people’s art
nobueno > random content, often fandom-related
kolossvs > blog for pretty pictures. Occasionally NSFW, but nothing too explicit
thearchiiive > art resources, references, tutorials
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Anyone can interact with this blog (I don't mind), and anyone can drop a message in my inbox or write a comment under my posts. I only block p0rn bots, suspicious blogs, empty blogs, creeps or weirdos as a general rule.
Finally, a new W.I.P. day! It feels like it's been ages since I last did one of these, so thank you for tagging me @refinedstorage 💙
Something cute this time because these two live rent free in my head (smooching)
Btw I don't know who to tag on this one, so I'll take the opportunity and thank all the new followers and those who liked my stuff. Your support means the world to me 🌼
"...You know, the usual? Turning into a gross spider, brooding in the shadows, doing your mother's dirty work, crawling back to the swamps so you can finally leave us alone???"
"And why, pray tell, should I do something else when I can watch you make a spectacle of yourself instead?"
"What do you mean?"
"I'm talking about this new embarrassing habit of yours. You've been spending an awful lot of time hiding behind the trees to ogle poor unsuspecting lasses."
"I'm-I'm NOT! First off, how long have you been spying on me, exactly? No, wait- I don't really want to know that. And second, I'm not doing anything, and I'm definitely NOT ogling. I'm just standing guard."
"(Scoffs) Oh, are you really? I didn't know standing guard involved all this blushing and heavy sighing. We might have done it wrong all this time, I see."
"(Sighs)...Listen, believe what you will. The Commander asked us to keep watch, so I suggest you do the same, preferably twenty or eighty feet away from me, alright? Thanks."
"As your dear Commander wishes. But I suggest you close your mouth while on...duty. We already have a dog, we don't need another slobbery creature in our fun little party."
I took a break from posting here cause I’ve been dealing with major life setbacks for the 538357th time in the last couple of years.
I’ll post some new art pretty soon, previous WIP included. And OH BOY, if the WIP looks different now. I changed my mind waaay too many times while working on it, but I finally think it looks decent after all these changes, so...Yay? I guess??
I have a new pinned tweet with links where to find and contact me up on Twitter.
If you are on twitter I would love if you could check it out and share ❤️❤️
Thank you!
Half body - 50 USD
Full Body - 70 USD
Additional character +40 USD
Background (instead of default simple color) +30 USD
New option: black&white (lineart only) - 20 USD
Commission examples
✔ OC’s
✔ fanart (FarCry5, RDR2, The Outer Worlds, VTMB, Fallout and other fandoms)
✔ NSFW|
✔ light gore
✘ incest, pedophilia and other nasty stuff (I can say no to some ships)
✘ furries and mecha
If you are interested:
contact me at [email protected] with details (poses, references, face claims, photos, aesthetics, clothes, colors, links, etc)
visual references for your OC are required!
I send you first sketch for approval > payment > you get your final sketch
Is Clip Studio Paint worth buying, or are they as annoying as Ad*be? I’d love to get a solid PS alternative, but I’m worried about subscriptions. Ideally, I’d like to pay once for an unlimited license without hidden fees or monthly plans 🥲 And the license should work both on Windows and Mac 🥲
Also, I’m skeptical about the tools. I love all the features of PS (filters, adjustments...) and no art program has ever come close to it, not even my beloved Sai. Is CSP any good on that front? 🥲
3/? character of my 2017 OC lineup. He’s different from the sketch I posted two weeks ago, but this was supposed to be his face all along. I’m unreliable, sorry lol
Anyway, he’s also bilingual and totally acts like the firstborn child. He’s almost 30 but gets mistaken for a short teen from behind, and, to add insult to injury, his name is often mispronounced. No wonder he looks annoyed 24/7, it’s a cold, cold world out there
As a person who has studied art for many years and whose primary job is being an artist and designer, seeing other people put generated AI images on the same level as regular art makes me fucking angry.
Especially if said AI “““““art””””” is nothing but an algorithm-based collage of artworks made by real people.
One thing is using AI images as inspiration; another is pretending to be an Artist just because you play around with sliders and prompts and other people’s copyrighted work.
It’s just...It’s bullshit, ok? It’s wrong. It’s a slap in the face to those who spend their entire lives perfecting the human form, mastering a painting technique, or creating the best game-ready hyper-realistic textures.
So watching people treat a bunch of nerds as if they’re in the same league as pros, let alone concept artists????
I decided to post a different type of WIP sketch, just for kicks. It’s a visual representation of the mess you would find under my final lineart layer. Well, sort of!
When I draw, I start way more polished than I should, but then it’s all downhill from there. I get the messiest when I play paper dolls with my characters and decide what they need to wear 🙃
Tagging: @grayrover (I mean, you’re a regular at this point), @desperish (I want to see if you have any sketches about your worldbuilding project! So cool!), and @amalasdraws (if you don’t mind me tagging you!). I'd also tag YOU, @silverjackdaw, but I bet many people have tagged you already!
Memorable Quotes: “Can I get you a ladder, so you can get off my back?!”
(Details under the cut)
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Three styles, three different life stages.
First one: The Warrior Traveller’s ‘Fit
Key Words: practical, medium weight, no-fuss, dark tones
This is what I imagine Brosca looking like after the Joining ritual and for a good part of the game. The beginning of her journey is all slashing, crippling, and traveling on foot, so I needed to get her a look that is functional (allegedly) and with no frills. I needed to make a mishmash of in-game armor parts to get something I could picture her wearing for real.
It could have been worse, 3/5 stars.
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Second one: The Fereldian Court Jester
Key Words: cheap elegance, military influences, brighter colors, poofy
The special occasions look. You can see her wearing this on a diplomatic encounter with the Arl or during a war council with her allies on a cold winter day in Ferelden. I needed to elevate a basic tunic + pants + boots combo by adding more details and faking a more refined fabric for the blouse. I wanted to play on the contrast between modest and expensive, but it was my greatest goal to make her look a bit on the gaudy and tacky side. Being classy is not her forte.
2/5 stars, but bonus points for trying to look the part. A generous 3/5 stars score.
She’s a grown-up now. She’s a Commander, she’s a Paragon, she’s an Icon, she’s a Legend, she’s the Moment (not really, but still). Instead of letting her go full-blown diva, I let her crawl back to her roots. The tunic + pants + boots combo is her uniform, and you won’t catch her wearing anything else, but this time you can find new and old elements added to it. I picture her collecting and looting trinkets, materials, fabrics, and pieces of armor around Thedas, and combining them with what she already owns. She doesn’t fight that much at this point compared to her Blight days, so she skips on the medium armor.
It’s nice, it’s cute, but it could have been better. 3/5 stars.
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I wrote a post narrating in detail why I chose to dress her like this, but it’s so long it’s basically an essay. I’m not bothering you with that, you have a life to care about lol All you need to know is that I needed to recreate the Grey Warden Armour/Uniform color scheme to be consistent with the lore and display her unhealthy obsession for the color blue
