Null Myriad

29, she/her | I draw stuff to fill the void from a 9-5 and dump my fixations 🌿 plant mom, tea lover, member of many fandoms

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And its live! $14 for a 9"x12" watercolor print

https://www.myriad-arts.com/product-page/hollow-knight-greenpath

If you liked this illustration, consider supporting me as a small artist. If not, thats OK, your support has still been great to see the last few days.

I'm also working on a Hollow Knight sticker sheet to finish out my artistic urge for HK at this time lol. I'll post more on that once I start laying colors.

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God, the Internet is such a fascinating invention. All the new cultures (lost, living, AND reincarnated), new ways of socializing and sharing information of all varieties and EXPRESSION 💙💙💙

Its very easy to think its a hellhole dimension nowadays with very little redeeming qualities - its nice to have a reminder that it is, over all, a beautiful network of humans and what makes them THEM. The large parts that are hellish are corporately or politically leveraged to divide and sell us.

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YO DID I ACTUALLY JUST GET A HYI VINYL RECORD NO WAY

I CANT BELIEVE IT WAS UNDER $400 the rich furries have been insane lately with the bidding wars on Halley Labs/Lapfox merch. Thank goodness that at least went back down to roughly expected prices

I love the album artwork on this cover omg

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I somehow stumbled head first into teaching a Procreate class?

There's like no other digital artists in my small town's art community and Ive used it for 6 years sooooooo

Wish me luck on teaching a group how to bang out a digital painting in less than two hours while trying to cover all the most useful tools 🫠

I'm such a perfectionist with digital nowadays its so HARD to be rough on an iPad compared to traditional sketching but here's the angry cat we'll be making 🤣

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Why have vampires been living in my head recently 🤔

Anyways, here's a self-indulgent vampiress I whipped up over the weekend 🫀

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A still life value study in color, using objects around my friend's paint-and-sip shop 😂

Second use of oil pastels, I had a lot more fun with them once I got to the scratchy-scratchy phase

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A complete landscape! Although definitely not the clearest in some areas, I'm definitely proud of it as my first attempted landscape 😄

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Wanna see my *thirst-trap* Mothman sketchbook page?

I bought a Mothman romance novel at a local Bigfoot festival and it ended up spicier than I expected

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Backlog art! Here's some old sketches from 2024 Inktober and a gouache painting I was using to get acclimated to the medium, but I ended up just going with it because I loved the flow

Ive really enjoyed Inktober every year ive done it. Sadly I had to miss 2025 as I was dealing with very bad back pain that was not going away. I'd like to try this year, and actually PREP in September. I never do lmao

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WIP Landscape study in charcoal, specifically studying use of value

AAAAAHHHHH landscapes are so hard for me 🥲

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Having one of those days that I don't think is the depression coming back? But my brain took the first train to the Bahamas yesterday afternoon and I don't think its coming back for another day at least and I've already binged the first season of Euphoria and I have zero drive for anything but hey I'm chillin

This week was tough, I think my brain is just noping out for a sec

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I was reminded of one of my special interests back in college and now I want to share the most insane album art I found while digging and searching for Japanese gabber and hardcore DJs back then

Most J-CORE albums feature the typical busty anime lady album art but moro was just something different. From what I can tell from credits, moro did a lot of the album artwork himself, although Kinzok Anthem is credited to Miyako Miyahara.

These covers have lived rent free in my head for years, great folk-inspired gabber in the later albums. Just noisy enough but melodic.

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I know you've answered this before but I can't remembr-- how do you design the character's wardrobes? I'm not really sure how to do that with my own characters and they all end up wearing similar things rather than having their own styles and I'm not sure how to go about fixing that T.T

I actually use quite a bit from the original comic! Especially for Kore. I have an entire section in my Scrivener doc that's allocated to saving images of Kore's various outfits throughout the series (big thanks to the folks in ULO who have compiled these in the first place)

So if I'm ever 'stuck' on what kind of outfit to give Kore for any particular sequence, I start by going through those outfit refs to see if any of them would be appropriate for the scene / episode. If they are, I reuse them, and if they're not, I either adapt a pre-existing outfit that's "close enough" into something new that would fit, or I go online in search of fashion magazines, Pinterest boards, etc. where I can find inspiration :>

When it comes to figuring out what kind of style of clothing a character would wear, remember that fashion is a form of expression that doesn't need words! You can show how a character views themselves or the world around them through their clothing.

Is your character shy and introverted? Show that in the way they hide their body parts underneath baggy clothing.

Do they care a lot about how other people see them, or are they fine just throwing on any old thing? If the former, show that in how they select designer brands (or whatever's fancy for the world they're in) or how they wear their make-up and hair; if the latter, show it by putting them in uncoordinated sets of sweatpants and dirty t-shirts.

Do they buy their clothing new, or secondhand, or do they make their own clothing? If it's the former, make the outfits look clean and coordinated and sterile; if it's the latter, give them stitches, random patches of color, etc.

Do they value function over form? Show that in how they prioritize clothing with lots of pockets and other built-in utilities; or how they deliberately choose not to wear additional accessories that are purely for form.

Did they grow up poor or rich? Show it in how they regularly swap entire outfits, or through how they scrimp and reuse the same clothing even after it's started to develop holes and stains.

Is the town they were raised in based on a specific culture or time period? Show it in what's borrowed from that culture and time, whether it be a Greek peplos or a Japanese yukata or European chemise.

Familiarize yourself with all the different genres and aspects and materials of an outfit, as many as you can. Cotton, polyester, wool, linen, satin; v-necks, crew necks, turtlenecks; sweaters, blouses, leotards; shawls, scarves, ponchos; denim jeans, corduroy, sweatpants, leggings; hats, headphones, goggles, earmuffs; lipstick, eyeliner, blush; earrings, face piercings, tattoos, scarification; jackets, blazers, coats, hoodies; belts, bracelets, hairbands, keychains; ponytails, buns, bobs, buzzcuts; sneakers, dress shoes, clogs; corporate casual, goth, punk, cottage core; the list goes on! Every material and aspect and genre of an outfit is a character trait in and of itself, that informs the viewer as to what the person wearing them prefers and values. The more you build your mental reference library of these aspects, the easier it'll be to find references as you need them and put together outfits on the fly, while keeping them consistent with your character's style and personality.

Most of all, understand your character! Take everything that they value, what they want to show, what they want to hide, what they fear, what they keep to themselves, what they want to be - and then show us all those things through how they dress themselves.

(I hope that helps!! <3)

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For someone who constantly struggles with "wtf do I dress my character in I wear the same sleeveless turtleneck every week AAAHHHHH" this was really helpful!

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a-WOO

WIP, but I'm loving the texture so far

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Ive been doing more studies than anything recently as I'm working through the projects assigned in A Guide to Drawing. I've already begun to notice a difference in how I approach observation and its getting easier to study simple objects that would have bored me before. Currently on value studies! Graphite sticks have been pretty fun, ive enjoyed them more than charcoal for covering large areas and making loose shapes.

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My Hornet WIP. Silksong is HARD but ive been enjoying it

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Oh my God

I HAVE to leave this job

I'm so tired of being drained like I was attacked by a vampire at the end of the day and now I'm not even getting paid on time.

Time to get some new certs and pray that I can find a flexible remote IT job in this capitalist hellscape