assorted works by the worlds most wretched critter
@mostwretchedcritter
I'm a mixed media artist & I like to make a lot of stuff. This is where I post it (most of the time lol) You can visit https://mostwretchedcritter.itch.io/ or https://wretchedcrittercommittee.threadless.com/ if you want my art in your house. (also ur local library probably has a printer u can borrow)
The Wretched Critter R&D department has had some critical breakthroughs in toy technology! Visit my itch page & partake in some "original" cartography!
Ok... so like this collage has been done for like a year. Finished it maybe a week after first posting my Most Stealable Oc. Felt too soon to post them again this format & i sorta just never got around to it... at least until now!
Eagle eyed collage connoisseurs might spot pieces of this one in my physical mixed media shenanigans.
It's Miss The Apprentice! This plush kitty has been helping me with a big project that's done enough to allude to, but not done enough to show more than i have here. Also pictured is my New Most Snuggleable Tome!
This deck & post are dedicated to the public domain
If you find the zines folding guide parsable you can thank my editor for bullying me into adding more instructions.
If you're confused, searching up something to the effect of "how to fold a zine" will yield a plethora of tutorials for which clarity is their primary goal & of course you can blame my editor, for not bullying me enough.
Most of these pages have been hibernating on my hard drive for around a year now, waiting in the wings for some sort of instruction adjacent companion. Realizing that the whole project was another one my artifacts of dubious diagesis was the muse I needed to get everything together in a sharable state. (funny it took so long considering the business card has always been Elizabeth's)
The oracle spreads are based off ones my friend & I made for gaming. A few of these cards have also been incorporated into one of the decks we regularly game with. In my solo play I've also found strong synergy between this & the game I posted back in november.
Once again I simply must shout out the makers of OpenDyslexic for making such a lovely type face (the font choice was Elizabeth's other concession aside from the folding guide clarifications. I'm positive she would've preferred a mix of Wingdings, Impact, & Blackletter styles, if not embracing the ransom note energy for the whole thing.)
Some revamped portraits of Elizabeth Bridewell. She, the art, & the writing in this post are all dedicated to the public domain.
Back in the day, she ran away to join the circus (mostly contortion, dabbling in trapeze, & of course making/maintaining costumes & props. Variety is the spice of life after all). Ended up briefly dying in a circus accident as one does, to be then transformed into the vampiric nuisance she is now.
Enough of the dusty old past! These nights she's concerned with keeping her finger on the pulse of mundane life, getting odd jobs bar tending, as a night stocker, or production assistant/ghost haunting a low budget horror flick. Immersing herself in the lives of her coworkers for a few months, maybe even years before whipping up some excuse to disappear, scampering off to another city.
In regards to her vam-peers, she tries to balance staying on good enough terms with local powers to come & go freely, with pushing everyone's buttons in all the ways etiquette permits. She has of course been banned from a few cities for justifiable reasons (though she would never admit that)
Elizabeth is the sort who simply cannot abide being bored & to prevent this keeps at least a couple small art projects to nibble on lurking in her purse. If you'd like to try one such project there's a companion post to this one with a printable oracle deck.
I was already pondering posting about the characters I come up with in a manner less obtuse than usual when @titleknown 's public domain challenge came up on my dash. Admittedly I'm not quite meeting the letter of the brief.
First, she's not a new character, I've been making art of her since 2021 (& she has of course been undead since the natural form era) Though, in the spirit of the challenge, all of the art in this post was brought to it's current state in the past week using said old work as collage fodder.
Second, is the fiction. Aside from the details in this post I'm offering the aforementioned companion post which doubles as an example of Elizabeth's art/writing & as well as the means to come up with more stories (whether about her or anyone else)
Her debut to the public domain was only a matter of time considering my many schemes & plots that concern her. A good holiday seemed like the perfect excuse for sooner rather than later. Any way happy public domain day!
I use clip studio paint for my digital collages. The layer selecting mode? (not sure what the sanctioned vocab is) works really nice for smoothy adjusting the placement all the things on different layers (click on the thing i want to move, drag it where i want it style).
If printed for any physical collage shenanigans from then on it's all tearing, scissors, & one of those flat things for cutting straight lines in paper.
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