RU-HX's OC Trash Pit

33 / ISTJ / NB / PAN ARO / UK OC Artist • Writer • Daydreamer I navigate passenger ships for work. I draw historical fiction and ice hockey. I draw in Clip Studio Paint. Do not repost without permission. Flight Rising • Toyhouse • ArtFight • Pillowfort Resources - Art & Writing Research Reference Lists

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RU-HX Intro!

Who Am I? 

33 • UK • NB (They/Them) • PanAro • Passenger Ship Navigator

Other Socials: Flight Rising • Toyhouse • ArtFight • Pillowfort • Cara (wip) • Bluesky (wip) • Ao3 • Neocities (heavy wip)

My Masterlists: art & writing resources • research reference lists

Digital OC artist. I draw historical fiction and hockey and I write queer romances based on what I like to draw. I occasionally dip into other genres if it fits my story better. I like to play with coding (Bootstrap 5 is my primary language) on the side. Art prior to September 2025 was drawn in Paint Tool Sai, I currently draw in Clip Studio Paint with a screenless Huion Insproy tablet.

Historical interests include: Cold War/Space Race • WW2 • WW1 • Age of Sail • Viking Era • Ancient Greece • Ancient Rome

I enjoy reading fanfic and looking at fanart but after a brief toe dipping in creating fan content, I found I prefer to be a spectator to the fanart/fanfic communities so I can focus on original works. I'm actively reading for Hollanov, I also read for 1917 and Dunkirk (2017).

Feel free to ask me questions about my OC's, art and settings, anon is permanently disabled. If DM'ing please be specific with intention, I don't respond to hi DM's.

Minors DNI. My content handles adult topics and is intended for mature audiences.

Commissions & Art Trades

I take art trades, feel free to ask! I cannot take irl currency commissions but I can be bribed to take comms via Flight Rising currency. I close art trades and comms when I'm on a work rotation due to heavily restricted time to draw.

Other Notes & Disclaimers

I am dyslexic and I have ADHD, this can reflect in my typing.

I do not condone the thoughts and actions of my OC's and they do not reflect my own beliefs. 

I do not support the Soviet Union or Russia, I'm just interested in the history of it.

I block freely and liberally, I am not obligated to provide an explanation. Bigots, Reichblrs and pro-AI users and suspected bot accounts are blocked on sight.

I do not tag swearing, healed scars, alcohol, smoking, minor blood or gun/other weapon use. 

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AF attack no 2 for ghxstshark!

This one made me realise how much I overthink BG's when it's my own OC's and I pretty much had an approach to BG's down but I hadn't realised it yet so it was a really good confidence boost. Just used the bong pen in CSP and a noise brush for the rust on the goalposts and it was very easy to throw shapes together. Gonna try to build on that some more after AF so I can work up to my goal of illustrating my stories.

I also treated this attack as a bit of practice for drawing my own goalie OC Mateo and discovered guys in hockey gear get considerably easier to draw when you rough sketch of the protective gear then draw the fabric over the top of that.

This OC likes hardstyle which I thought was neat because I listen to hardstyle when drawing and writing because it helps me focus!

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A play on Iraklii Toidze's 1959 poster 'In the Name of Peace' for an attack on @ru-hx 's Iya!

7.13.2026

Find me on ArtFight!

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Technically my 3rd attack but I'm only posting those I know have been seen for now. This attack is for rokketeer. I needed a brush for details that don't need lines because my render brushes still manage to have some opacity even at 100% opacity on all settings so I often have to draw over details twice which slows me down considerably. I think I got a brush that works. I also had fun playing with his body language.

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Behind on posting these but ArtFight attack no 1 for Renna. Technically a revenge from last year but because I was on a simulator course over AF season so I didn't have time to get to it during last year's event.

Used a cloud brush for the bg, also experimented a little more with texturing because there's something very liberating about experimenting on OC's that aren't yours with art that doesn't need to be be up to a set standard.

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Finally made one of these!

My artfight: here

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Some half bodies I got done as temporary refs just in time for ArtFight. Felt fair to upload the married pair together. I'm gonna be blunt and say I was rushing Artyom's half expecting to get it done during first few days of the event so I might come back and make it nicer later.

Iya's one of my unexpected current favourites. Artyom's actually the OG hyperfixation OC of this storyline. Even though Alexey became the main POV character because he was better fit as a MC than Artyom was, if I hadn't started daydreaming about an Artyom and Alexey friendship and Artyom/Iya romance, I would not be 87k words into an Orbital first draft that I have a very good chance of getting done in August this year.

I've been more interested in a low render textured style so I'll be using ArtFight to practice this more.

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unfortunately i have free will so im about to make art that is going to appeal to basically 4 people. let us hope those 4 people follow me.

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Using artfight to motivate myself to get some design sheets done.

Alexey is way overdue a proper design sheet, especially since he's my current hyperfixation character and i sketch him obsessively. I'm currently 84,000 words into his story, not far from the end now.

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Designs for some OC's in a sci-fi project because I like to branch out sometimes. I love historical fiction and it remains my primary niche but there's some stories I can't tell in a historical setting and this is one of them.

I've been referring to these characters as disaster space lesbians and so far the base idea for them is that they're cargo pilots that fuck up a gravity assist adjacent manoeuvre and end up drifting too close to the sun.

Right now they're unnamed however I'm open to ideas! Also working towards a minimal render style because tbh I enjoy doing textures more than I enjoy rendering.

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This was meant to be a flat coloured texture render it wasn't meant to get out of hand but I felt bad leaving Maskwa floating in white space.

I've been going to NIHL hockey games in person and I'm loving it so the brainworms for this story and characters are wiggling real bad right now but I must focus on writing my cosmonaut story, Orbital which recently hit 22k words for the first story.

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Part of an art trade with @ru-hx of their oc Cooper

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Art trade with @smalldeerofmine of their OC Belle!

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I was having trouble with the point where the shoulder connects to the torso but I hate doing anatomy studies so a fun way to make me do them is OC thirstposting. Most of what I draw is textured flat colour renders, I don't normally do a half render or full render unless I wanna be extra but I also needed to practice rendering the torso so full render it is.

Those marks Cooper has are Blaschko lines, he has Cutaneous mosaicism.

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OC's from a fictional NHL ice hockey team with their player numbers (admittedly I rng'd these) and their full names. It will ofc be a queer romance.

I'll make a full team eventually but for now I've had a load of fun drawing these guys fucking about.

Mateo is the goalie and yes he fits the all goalies are weird hockey stereotype. Cooper and Maskwa play on a forward line with Nines centring them. Both Cooper and Maskwa are the ones that are known for rough checks and Cooper spends the most time of the whole team in the penalty box for fighting lol.

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Full rendered works from July 2025 and November 2025 respectively. Top featuring my Soviet submariner oc Seva I did over Artfight 2025, that's the one that taught me how to do a full render.

Second featuring my cosmonaut oc Alexey was me testing to see what I could do if I really pushed myself. I don't wanna talk about how many times I had to redraw the Soyuz control panel.

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Some newer OC designs. I start with the general design then add details later as I draw them more because I find it a bit less pressure to do.

Maude is Jasper's sister, she's an older OC of mine though I pinned her design down mid-2025. Sveta I made recently when an ArtFight attack I made sent me down a Battle of Stalingrad rabbit hole.