Claire Hummel

Art Director in games. Recently did stuff for Riven, Half-Life: Alyx, Westworld VR, Mondo. I draw a lot of rocks and historical fashion | Personal blog: @hummeltelescope | Linktree | Print Shop

[shoomlah]

80’s Muscle Man life drawing session from last night with Ready/Sketch/Go, featuring the lovely Brandon Ryan!

Gettin’ in some real good practice drawing impressive deltoids and Nike high tops 💪🏼✏️

[shoomlah]

Surprise surprise: I'm starting up at Netflix Animation as a character designer this week!

I've been doing freelance for Netflix on the side since September, so I'm really looking forward to joining the team full-time. Games industry I still love you, I just need a little bit of a break. 😑♥️

[quasimaddi]

thought about the army

[shoomlah]

The Riven half of the new trophy icons for the Classic PS1 re-release! My favourite world to draw, and super fun getting to draw some alternate universe Gehns for a couple of the bad endings.

(The Myst trophy icons)

(Also you can get a blanket with all of these on it at the Cyan store! It rules)

[shoomlah]

The re-release of the Classic PS1 versions of Myst and Riven required new trophies, which required new trophy icons, and so I got permission to get a little weird and illustrative with it—super fun getting to revisit this world with a little bit of Mignola mixed in.

(The Riven trophy icons)

(Also you can get a blanket with all of these on it at the Cyan store and, speaking from experience, it is extremely cozy)

[shoomlah]

HEY I'm gonna be back at Lightbox Expo this year with a table in artist alley! Always a good excuse to make some new art, some new art books, some new friends—gotta figure out what I wanna make over the next few months 👀👀👀

[shoomlah]

Just got back from a week-long art intensive studying horse anatomy with Terryl Whitlatch out at New Masters Village in Mancos, CO! I've followed Terryl's work for over 20 years, and her passion and expertise is unmatched—feeling challenged, refreshed, and like I want to draw a bajillion horses.

The week was made up of a whole lot of classroom time, balanced with hands-on horse sessions and some fun creature/character exploration on the last day—my brain is completely fried, but I have ZERO regrets. Can't recommend the lovely team out at NMV enough. ♥️

[happymeals27]

[shoomlah]

Fun fact: I drew this Lunchables ad during my first summer working at Neopets

[shoomlah]

dumb little Klapollo idea I've had in the back of my head for forever, based off of that one scene at the end of School of Rock

(also omigod HAPPY TURNABOUT TRUMP DAY it is by complete coincidence that I posted this on the in-universe day of Apollo's first day in court)

[shoomlah]

I just beat the Riven Remake and I loved its feel and artistry. You and the crew did a great job on it! One thing I've never understood, though: how did you learn D'ni back in the 90's? I've never known how that conlang was shared in those days, and even after reading the novels I still have no idea how to use the language. I'd love to learn more about the setting beyond the books and games!

Aw gosh, thanks so much for the kind words! ♥️

SO there were some fan-made online resources (Kh'reestrehfah's D'ni Dictionary has been around since the year 2000, amazingly), and most importantly for me there was a D'ni language & grammar primer in the From Myst to Riven art book:

Along with that there were scattered online resources from Cyan themselves, or RAWA (Richard Watson, game designer at Cyan back in the day) would discuss the language and release new materials in CyanChat or the Riven Lyst, the ancient chatrooms/mailing lists for the fandom at the time.

If you want to learn the D'ni conlang nowadays, there are tons of resources out there: a good starting point would be the Guild of Archivists' pages on D'ni language and grammar, and there's a linguistics channel in the official Cyan Discord where you can ask pretty much anything and everything and someone'll point you in the right direction.

Hope that's helpful! 😄📖✒️

[shoomlah]

Made a custom Decker vs. Dracula VHS cover for the On Cinema show in LA—started as a quick screenshot paintover for a goof and then it RAPIDLY got away from me! super fun trying to ape classic movie posters for this one 😅

[shoomlah]

And here are the original screenshots vs. the final, for any interested parties! Really tried to amp up the Struzan vibes:

Sometimes it is fun to just make a dumb little thing 😌🙏

[shoomlah]

Made a custom Decker vs. Dracula VHS cover for the On Cinema show in LA—started as a quick screenshot paintover for a goof and then it RAPIDLY got away from me! super fun trying to ape classic movie posters for this one 😅

[shoomlah]

Made myself a Gregghead shirt for the LA On Cinema at the Cinema show next week 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿

[szczypawice]

follower count this subscribers count that but we all know what the real number that matters is: how many people have you managed to get into a thing by posting about it on tumblr dot com

[shoomlah]

Truly the greatest joy in life is seeing someone in your Activity notifications go from

#I don’t even go here but this is cool

to

#asshjdfgkasgfkjhsak this finally convinced me to watch all ten seasons over the weekend #ffffffuuuckkkkkk #gnawing on the bars of my enclosure #I will die and/or kill for them #desperately need a 50K fic of this

over the course of a couple months

[shoomlah]

Matt Johnson Plays Himself: a piece dedicated to Matt Johnson, director, and his troika of fictional Matt Johnsons from The Dirties (2013), Operation Avalanche (2016), and Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie.

[shoomlah]

Working on a troika of Matt Johnsons (soon to be a quartet)

[shoomlah]

a bunch of stream of consciousness sketching while manning the Con Rangers booth at Wondercon this weekend—the booth across from us was blasting one single Marvel Rivals song for six hours straight so I was going slightly insane at the time