Bees Within

Art blog of mantisgodsdomain. May contain bugs.

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Nine of Clubs | Eight of Clubs | The Moon

Third batch of Art Fight attacks - Dei(jon)ychus from @thetroupemaster, Mary-Go-Round from @dentistrydragon, and Weir from @roblockian.

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The Emperor | Knight of Hearts | Two of Spades

Second batch of Art Fight attacks. Kennyrian Veryn from TheLazyShrub, Maria Faye McLaren or Sailor Amalthea from DanieFaye, and Veneze and Yuriys Ashen-Scales from @partycule.

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Knight of Diamonds | Three of Spades | Two of Diamonds

First batch of Art Fight attacks. Lupa Lyall Sinclair from Endoart, a combo of Topol from @themooskyfish, Miya from LordBob, and Crumble from @circularbubblegumball (plus The House's Vi from Us), and Siren from @valdevia.

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Hello, once again! Trying to focus on more stylized art this year - going to be giving a hack at making a deck of tarot card attacks, if we can keep the stamina up. Hope to have some fun!

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ZB-856 (or Vi) | ZBT-159 (perhaps better known as Kabbu) | ZM-28 (he prefers Leif)

The House's characters are now on Art Fight - as we are, once again, participating! It may, admittedly, take us a bit to finish our card - but we are here!

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Sneak peek of someone you'll be seeing around this coming Art Fight... once he's a bit more defined, shapes-wise.

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A glorious homunculus, recently created to accompany the latest batch of grubs. Kitten season has come again, and so our spare time is currently dedicated to handsewing them plushes. These go with them when they are eventually adopted out - we brush their mother for a sample of her fur and add it to the stuffing so they have a familiar smell in their new home.

We did not use a pattern for this because our printer is busted and we don't want to hunt down a pattern for a mountain goat plushie and then have to, like, walk to the library and back and then a bit to obtain a printout, so we just sort of eyeballed it. The extra panels on the sides are where we had to extend the torso because we accidentally forgot to add an attachment point big enough to fit the head and had to either make it taller or have the neck attach where the legs were supposed to go. Overall, turned out great! Materials list below cut.

Materials:

-Random bronze fabric from our scraps stash -$5 fleece blanket that we got from the Dollar Store (had to cauterize the edges so it would stop falling apart while we were sewing with it but worked out after that) -Entire spool of gray thread from a sewing kit we got from someone trying to get rid of their old sewing supplies a while ago -Buttons from thrift store -White embroidery floss, also from thrift store (theoretically was for detailing but it turned out too thin to do any significant detailing so we just started using it instead of thread when we ran out of thread with like three things left to sew, which you can see most easily in the right front leg and the shaping of the chest panel) -The yarn that the thrift store used to tie off some of their fabric that we reused for fur after realizing the embroidery floss was too thin to stand out against the fleece -Like 12 hours of time because this was all hand sewn and a considerable amount of it was handsewn while we were actively grubsitting

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Some Levi stuff

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The humble two-spotted ladybird (Adalia bipunctata)

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The humble two-spotted ladybird (Adalia bipunctata)

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hello! Here to drop off some promised recs, we're still looking around and trying to find stuff we think you'd enjoy but we hope you like these in the meantime :) (these are rather soft on the whump scale sadly, I'll look for some more intense stuff. Do let me know if there's any specific tropes you'd like for me to keep an eye out for)

(some of) my own fic stash

https://archiveofourown.org/works/38332081

https://archiveofourown.org/works/29374692

https://archiveofourown.org/works/63400513

Bonus: conlang wildcard

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30982970

as for the pencil sketch: we'd love something with Aurelia!, either regular or Familiar Vessel AU, or whatever you wish really, feel free to go crazy I trust you with her :]

…the young vessel, unlike its mature counterparts, has little in the way of natural defense. For these first stages of life, its body plan must carefully mirror the mold into which it was born - the chitin of the host's original body protects their void from the outside world until they can maintain a shape of their own, the protective, malleable "skin" that allows a Vessel's body to behave like a body, rather than just the glob of void it technically is. While Void is known as a horrifically caustic solvent to us, residents of the Above, to a creature of Void, much the same can be said about the Voidless air we breathe…

...while an elder vessel may quite happily persist outside of the Abyss, those whose skins have not yet toughened must seek out any coverage that they can to keep themselves safe from the caustic atmosphere of the world outside...

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Criminal. Mage. Cannibal.

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References made for an RP server we've been around on. Team Mothiva, now including Absence from- christ it's been like two years since we posted that. Goddamn. Don't worry about how they acquired that guy it's fine

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Unedited photos of watercolor we did as a christmas gift for an exchange. Also the most quality photos of this painting we have as we gave it away ~30 minutes after it dried and most of the intervening time was spent driving to the venue. Hope you all have a fun rest of year!

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The first of many, the geef of capriunicorn from Discord Dot Com requested Klonoa which we banged out while trying to figure out how to put a pirate hat on a dinosaur with a neck frill (which we have since decided to use another outfit for because traditional hats are really hard to make look good on a centrosaurus and they would serve very little utility save for aesthetics, which is an issue when our backup is generally "modifying for utility".

This particular outfit required relatively little modification, and was mostly a "thing to chip away at when more complicated outfits are giving us grief" thing (thank you for giving us so many quadrupedal body plans, btw, we are genuinely enjoying modifying things it's just time-consuming to design & paint). The main thing was the earrings, as more traditional piercings with these clunky earrings feel like they would put a lot of very uncomfortable stress on rabbit ears. As such, these are functionally clip-ons (which would include a few more dangly bits for aesthetic purposes, but we accidentally painted over that with the black for the ear and there was no way in hell we were gonna make yellow stand out over that).

We stole this outfit from Vaishali from Empires & Puzzles (pictured below with the request message).

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Only [AGE REDACTED]? He should have been at the club!

An Art Fight attack and the process of painting it, ft. our cat because using him as a backdrop for our WIP shots was more convenient than trying to get him out of the way for any of them. TBN belongs to @strawberr1m1lkshake and is merely being appropriated by us for Cool Art purposes. Like half of the paints in this are metallic.