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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My 3rd attack in this years Art Fight, on @saintchevre 's OC Dominion! I thought both of their designs were really cool, and wanted to play around with some dramatic lighting 🥰

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WIP on a compositional study! Slowly getting more comfortable with charcoal. I did another sketch of a hand using charcoal and the values were BUTTERY so I wanted to try it again

I'm now realizing that it was likely the less textured sketchbook paper that helped me achieve that. But we'll see what happens with this one!

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I swear I'm doing so much art, everything is just a WIP right now 🥲 working on my next attack for Art Fight and am really proud of my lighting for it. I wanted to practice a more dramatic cast light for a more monstrous OC

"The Starkeeper" is on pause until post-Art Fight. But I'm also juggling two pieces I think I'll make into small prints to sell next year. I took off this year in regards to selling/marketing to build up my art portfolio to sell at local farmers and art markets since I did pretty well last year. However, that meant I also got pretty picked clean of originals and prints and I'd like to make newer stuff instead of just reprinting my old works 😬

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I live in the same town as the main store and office of a decently prolific tea company, and thats always been a benefit of moving here after college. The owner was doing a small little class for a high school program I was in as a junior and through that I got to taste the velvety smokiness of Lapsang Souchang. That was when my love for tea began.

I stayed very close in touch with that company and the staff through college and drank so much tea. It became a running joke within my friend group that I drank it and offered it as a fix for anything. As I began my full time job after graduation though, I drank less and less in lieu of the practicality and effectiveness of coffee. I also just... Stopped making time to slow down.

This January I caught COVID and went without coffee for about a week (coffee when sick is SO gross feeling and tasting to me). And on a nice positive spin, I began and continued substituting tea instead. And I'm still doing so. It's been great for a variety of reasons, and I've noticed some abdominal PMOS pain that I chronicly carried doesn't really happen anymore due to decreasing my caffeine intake.

Since I'm drinking tea again daily, I actually go to the local tea shop again and meet with old familiar faces. This last time I picked up a really intriguing bag that was grown IN THE USA on a small farm in Mississippi. Since that's rather unheard of, I had to try it. And for the first time in a very long time, I'm sat at my table with a pot of tea with no other goals but to just taste it. And thats really nice. I wanted to share it out to the void.

The tea is Great Mississippi "Black Magnolia". Its a black tea, Camellia sinensis, just grown within US soil so it takes on a very different flavor profile from Indian, Sri Lankan, or Chinese black teas. I immediately thought both the dried leaves and the tea have a dried apple slice smell to it? Slightly sweet and earthy, definitely with molasses notes. Its very mellow, I like it a lot.

Thank you for coming to my tea ramblings 🍵

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Had fun with this planner sketch this week, re-listening to TMA for the upteenth time and love to imagine Daisy's Hunt form

Heavy inspo and reference from wolfskulljack_art on Insta.

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I only ever paint watercolors when I'm not at home.

Weird, huh? It's a travel-only medium for me it seems

Took a weekend trip with my partner and played Wanderstop during my downtime. I empathize a lot with the themes of burnout and finding yourself and your worth outside of your goals and drives, it's been a lovely cozy game.

Here's my spread of Zenith! I thought their design was so cool immediately, and I appreciated their storyline of needed self-transformation, even if those around them did not understand why they must change. It was fun to play with all the bright colors for this page

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My 2nd attack, on Valkyrie_ 's character, Lia Cho!

Best nose Ive EVER drawn,

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Being a part of many fandoms is very fun but very scattering

About every 2-3 weeks I get reminded of a piece of art or media that moved me very deeply or was extremely memorable and it becomes my focus and uproots my prior one. Sucks when I have so many fanart desires and ideas on top of my original ideas T_T I never get enough time nor focus

In other words, oh my God do I love ENA and cannot wait for the next chapter of Dream BBQ or the next animation, Dating Oblivion, and I want to draw them again so bad. The announcement trailer for Dream BBQ lives rent free in my head and I revisit it regularly (bet you can guess how I ended up here today)

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Attack for ashvoidd's adorable bigender glowbat, Splat !

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"The Starkeeper" - WIP #1

They're coming aloooooong 😍

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Was having a bit of a fucky mental day, but I somehow ended up breaking my block on creating my own original work. Got a sketch finally that I think will make a lovely and fun illustration

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Been wanting to draw canines recently, and acrylic markers have been LOVELY for this

Ive now tried Arrtx and Ohuhu's take on acrylic markers. And I can honestly say that I love Ohuhu's direct acrylic markers. Arrtx's have been streaky and dried in the marker very quickly, Ohuhu's coverage has been better and I like that I can see the level of the ink in the barrel.

Here's a smiley toothy puppy!

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God, Obsession is going to stick in my brain for a long while

I'm a sucker for horror movies, and have been hearing good things, so my partner and I decided to go and see it in theaters on our serendipitously mutual day off.

I cannot remember ever being that on edge for the entirety of a horror movie. The lighting and great use of shadows, Inde Navarette's acting, and how subtlely Bear's monstrous decisions build to be outright rage-inducing and gut twisting. I dont think a movie left an impact on me that heavily since I saw Hereditary for the first time. My partner and I were both very amped and wired walking out of the theater, and he doesn't even really LIKE horror.

Is the concept fresh? Not really. A wish gone wrong is pretty predictable at this point. But the way this concept was shown in Obsession was amazingly heartbreaking. 10/10, definitely recommend, its now easily in my top 5 horror films I've seen for me.

Just a warning though, I typically don't get too scared with horror anymore. But the implications of the story and the outright UNCANNY scenes really did have me anxious the entire fucking time.

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Hussie artfight is the last thing i expected but this is funny as fuck

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Of course, the first year I decide to do Art Fight

This will be interesting

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Also, through sheer force of body doubling, I managed to do my texture study over a straight 3 HOURS ☠️

I was impressed I managed to keep my focus, but I think it primarily had to do with me and Victor yapping the entire time so my brain couldn't get bored

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So about a year ago, me and a couple other local artists created a group that meets once a month to create around each other and build relationships in the community. Although some sessions I'm not very motivated, its been a lovely addition to my life and has seemingly been a lifeline of community for some attendees that I never would have anticipated

This month, one of my dear local artist friends brought some prints to augment with blacklight paint and jklnfnlgnfnfmfjfofnrb IT HAS TOO MANY EYES AND I LOVE IT I had to buy one from him

Progonoskei Flower

Artist is Victor Vecere