art hobo

Ro | 18 | they/them | oil painter and digital artist

[ro-arthobo]

"Nyctophobia" gouache and acrylic paint marker on watercolor paper

The embodiment of night, eldest child of Khaos

Bore aether from her eternal

bond with Darkness.

Once so eldritch and powerful

she struck fear within the King

of Gods himself.

Now all her power is diluted

to the obscure name of

a fear restricted to childish

imagination.

[ro-arthobo]

i've been playing with gouache :)

[ro-arthobo]

what if i just went off the rails and started making a lot of art

[librarysilverfish]

this blog is a friendly space for twitter and tiktok refugees

but I am literally begging y'all to switch your icons and write literally anything human-like in your bios, we have been at WAR with the spam bots and you're dressed like the enemy

[retquits]

picking up the stardew valley beta vs final portraits again!!! 🎸⚡

[ro-arthobo]

We progressin'

[retquits]

blood and darkness 🖤

[ro-arthobo]

omg he's doing

[unfairfistfighting-deactivated2]

Pushing the agenda

[ashtwinproject22]

I know Bethesda has the (well deserved) reputation of creating their games out of hacked together duct-tape-laden spaghetti code on an ancient quirky engine but I feel like FromSoft deserves their fair mention too. Bonfires aren't objects, they're a visual mesh with an invisible NPC standing on top of it that you "talk to" when you want to sit. Tons of enemies are just two NPCs glued on top of one another because they didn't know how to make an enemy have more than one attack that can fire off at a time. Winter lanterns' frenzy buildup attack comes from an invisible guy sitting on their heads shooting you with an invisible gun. Djura doesn't shoot you with his gatling gun, he just sits there doing nothing (with his cape sitting right around his ears due to how the game renders cloth physics from far away) because the actual NPC shooting you is the gun itself. Lothric and Lorian aren't two separate NPCs holding onto each other, they're one NPC with a second, invisible NPC glued to its back that takes damage on behalf of Lothric. Why? Because they couldn't figure out how to make one NPC ride on another one. They straight up went "We couldn't figure out how to make one NPC ride another, so we combined two NPCs into one and then glued another one to its back, simple." Really it's amazing how much of FromSoft's game design is just "we put an invisible guy here to do things because we couldn't figure out how to make the visible guy do it"

Even Elden Ring for all its advancements in mounts and whatnot has hilarious behind the scenes quirks. When Radahn does his meteor attack he doesn't track you, he teleports his horse underneath you and then aims at the horse

[jettkuso]

Did they stop texting cause they’re ghosting you, or did you defeat a boss too early, accidentally locking off the rest of their quest-line?

[ro-arthobo]

i began playing dark souls again. this time I plan on 100%-ing it. i'll draw my little melvin after every outfit change

this is just a little goal for myself

[dream-roth]

"It Will Never Be a Lamb Again" is a piece about queerness, growing up, and conformity.

As I've gotten older, I've felt the expectation that I remain pure and recognizable, that anything new or different about me at this point must be something corrupt, something bad that doesn't belong. But growth and change cannot be separated, and who I am cannot be cut up into what's acceptable and what isn't.

[andythelemon]

Chainsaw Man art compilation from the last year! You can get prints here.

[rylandsgrace]

#I think I have seen this film before… (insp)

[foollime-00]

did the thing karina mentioned

[julialepetit]

A phantasmal friend stopping by for breakfast