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[arcane-outlaw]

A little something for Mermay before it ends! Done for the Misthoppers server 'Misty Tides' gift exchange, here's my piece for @lemonsdaily-artdump of their CoS character Kasia, as a mermaid, with sailor Karl Wachter, about to share an underwater kiss~

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No matter how long you scrub you'll never be clean

Misthopper secret strahd exchange! This time with nautical themes. The prompt i recieved from @inkycapomen was for rahadin washing blood from his hands/hair and looking at his reflection with slight guilt.

My original take on the prompt was more contemplative but I was struggling with the rendering of the water/background in a cohesive way. Ultimately chose to restart and am very happy I did! This new one, while reading more aggressive with rahadin facing the viewer has a much more striking response. The guilt he feels now more like the curse it is.

[cutecipher]

there's art inside me trying to get out

[biocrafthero]

perceived skill

[and-fishing-equipment]

in 2026 DO NOT ask yourself whether your art is GOOD

instead ask:

is it SINCERE

was it CATHARTIC

was it FUN TO MAKE

is it MADE BY ME

and don't forget to stay silly

[battleguitar]

affirmations

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it's hard unlearning shame around myself, how i look, and how i interact with the concept of attraction/desireability.

So tried to doodle my recallations of what i looked like in the mirror trying on a swimsuit for the first time in like 7 years. To not try and minimize the shapes, cartoonize the form to be "pallatable". If this were someone else's body would I love it? What would I love about it on another?

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Was looking back at older art and found one of my first doodles of Kasia from July 23, so I decided to give it a quick try.

[hattersarts]

evening counsel.

[ohcaptains]

[enyter]

[sproutrage]

what it's like every time I open procreate

[alwayswasalwayswillbeourland]

I was today years old when I learnt about what those symbols in Aboriginal art represented I honestly can't believe we never got taught that, even when I was studying art. I always assumed they had meaning but no one [no white person] had ever bothered to mention it. I'm glad I learnt something new today.

Yeah, I think a lot of people tend to look down on Aboriginal art because they think it's a form of abstract art that is just lines and shapes but almost all of them tell a story. Sometimes it's a very obvious story, such as the emu dreaming where the waterhole flooded, and sometimes it's more symbolic.

the circle in the middle is a waterhole/dam or billabong. The squiggly lines coming out of it are small rivers. the dots represent the earth but because they are in neat lines, it almost feels as if they have been flattened by the flooded water, especially as the vector lines draw out from the waterhole in the middle. the emu tracks are heading toward the waterhole, and the three lines in the middle are marks left by their tail, implying that they are wading through the mud to get there.

It's a birdseye view of a moment just after the waterhole floods and afterwards the emus go looking for food.

It's Interesting, because the original artist D. J. Ross was from Yuendumu which is in central australia, so this would have been a rare time that there was enough rain to flood the waterhole.

Dreaming stories, kinship links, sacred rites, keeping track of biodiversity and songlines are some other topics covered by Aboriginal art.

In the same way monet painted the middle class and the local landscape in the late 1800's/early 1900's Aboriginal people also paint the average lifestyle of our people. It just looks different.

For example, this picture shows a LOT of activity. The men at the top left of the picture are doing a cultural burn near and around a sacred site, the women at the bottom left are digging for food. across the river, on the right the people are preparing food and in the center, two people (presumably elders) are preparing for a ceremony.

I wouldn't say these all happened at the same time, more that this was a common undertaking over a set of time.

it takes time to understand and not all symbols are the same in all areas, but once you do understand them it becomes easier to see the story being told.

So yeah, I hope this gives you the chance to look at Aboriginal art with new eyes

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Flirting with drunk rich boys finally paid off. I can't believe of all the joke pairings I've thrown at kasia in my head/in convos with friends, it is Karl Wachter who she actually hooked up with in game.

And he rolled a 19 for how well he performed too. Canonically amazing time.

I have a bluesky if you wanna see the spicier doodles I've done since this happened in game.

[stonelionhearts]

sometimes i wonder if we have forgotten that sharing creative work is, fundamentally, a bid for human connection. like I'm not posting art or fic for 'engagement' i'm posting it looking for other sickos to play with! i'd be making it anyway for my own gratification because there's something wrong with me, i'm sharing it hoping we can have something wrong with us together <3

[theamiableanachronism]

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Commissioned @emp-roar to draw my cos party

First is our fated ally Ezmerelda

Then is our ranger Jaron

Then my girl Kasia

Then the last 2 are two different options for our wizard rynn. Rynn has been accumulating many cursed objects the most recent one being a soul stealing dagger. We joke around she's getting turned from normal barn owl appearance into a darker variant.

Emp as always did an amazing job! She is amazing to work with and I highly recommend her work!

[squeakitties]

[inquisitorgrand]