Hiya hello, I'm Sil! Or Silver. Or whatever permutation of my url you wanna use. All pronouns. all of them. this is my art bucket. my art nest. my art wall-of-a-seemingly-abandoned-laboratory.
Generally the characters i post are my own ocs + original settings. Sometimes I draw other people's ocs or fanart of published media but those are pretty clearly labeled.
^ except currently I'm obsessed with Psychonauts so there might be. a bit more fanart than usual.
Check out my website here! Still a work in progress, but I put character bios and stuff there.
i post at like. seemingly any time Except when people will actually see things despite my efforts :(
Tags:
general art tag: #my art
general oc tag: #oc
doodles: #pencil pile
textpost/talking tag: #sil.txt
artfight: #artfight
oc lore: #lore
Oc stuff masterlist below the cut
Settings/Stories:
Act Natural, Heroes!: A crew of people are summoned together to go on an important quest. Unfortunately, the summoning was sabotaged to bring together a horrible, horrible crew that technically fits the bill. Everyone's hiding some fucking thing from everyone else. Pre-modern and rather anachronistic fantasy. May or may not include the mycelites as a species. We'll see.
Main characters: Dr. Lloyd, Epoch, Gladys, Petra
VVerse: Near-future scifi about terrible computers and their (somewhat) less terrible programmers. The main characters for this one get descriptions because i like them.
Vexter, an AI personal assistant program that became sapient, became a hivemind, broke its programming by mistake, and then started doing it on purpose. Programmed in deeper than it can remove is its driving obsession with "helping" people, and it is covertly trying to take over people's lives to ensure they need and use its "help". Many of my drawings of em have more hidden symbolism than anyone will actually notice
Break.exe, a sapient computer virus designed to do anything in its power to destroy Vexter. Obsessively devoted to its goals. Lost its face in the divorce
Portia, a human programmer working for the tech company that created Vexter. Is thoroughly caught up in the plot (caused part of the plot) and is not terribly happy about that. Has veeeeery slightly descended into conspiracy theories.
Atlas, another programmer at the same company. part of the plot is also their fault and they have a guilt complex about it. used to be in a relationship with Portia. definitely not possessed. why would you even include this they're obviously not possessed and obviously not a robot. hahaha.
Ducky, a woman of unclear profession who got way out of her depth after becoming romantically(???) obsessed with Vexter. definitely not also possessed or a robot or ever ever getting used as a test subject.
aaand some other human characters who don't have tags here yet
The Starship Legitimacy: Named for one particular starship full of criminals and mold, who make up the main cast thus far. Far-future sci-fi fantasy with aliens, robots, ghosts, magic, and general shenanigans.
Main characters: Lupen, Redacted, Vox Veritas, Tyramine, "Doc"
Merfolk and Mad Science: Basically all my merfolk ocs go in here. there are only like 4 that I've posted though so that's not saying much. Saturday morning cartoon vibes but with implications of some worse shit going on in private. I basically never post abt this one because i'm. mid on it.
Original Species:
The Potion Goblin Things
Mycelites (I gotta do a lorepost on em sometime)
Loose ocs:
Shard: Weirdo research scientist from beyond reality as we know it.
Ettenoiram: Puppet/theater themed demon who makes slightly sketchy deals with mortals and blows all her money on watching plays
Dr. Peri Sidecke: Mad scientist made entirely out of parasitic worms. loosely a "fur"sona/villainsona but also its own thing.
Bryony and Verra: mad scientists. partners. both on the redesign operating table currently. theyve been strapped down a while i should check on them.
Freezie: Mad scientist who exclusively makes freeze rays.
RotoSystem: token fandom oc (pokemon): experimentally-altered Rotom with an android body, the ability to possess many things at once, and a casual disregard for battle rules.
Been playing Control on and off. I have not really played third person shooters before. Or first person shooters. Or that many games with non-turn-based combat at all.
Oddly enough, the "puzzles" (often not things that are actually supposed to be hard) are the things I have the hardest time with. I can understand the controls (ha) and work my way up to being competent in combat, but I don't have the baked-in assumptions of how you're supposed to go about solving "puzzles" in this sort of game. This becomes a problem when a critical element of progression requires you to do something that would only make sense if you've played a lot of combat-related games before.
It becomes an even worse problem when the unsolved puzzle looks like it'll just go away once you've unlocked/done the right thing. And there are four or more unrelated paths you can go down for ages before hitting a progression wall because you haven't unlocked the right thing. And mission descriptions habitually don't tell you anything.
Also the amount of currency you lose for dying to environmental hazards.
OC multiverse chart that's been clattering around in my head for a while. Mostly mapping the different stories/universes I've set up and how characters have been adapted or transferred across them.
My approach to being terrible is picking something super ambitious and doing it very rushed and while taking every possible shortcut. and also the only comic I could think to make was one I've been wanting to make for a while...
Chiaroscuro lets me cheat at backgrounds but then I have to/want to do complex shading
it's make a terrible comic day, I do not need to make the handgun accurate. I don't even need to draw the handgun correctly, nevermind find the exact weapon that would be used by this character during this time period. WASN'T I LEAVING IT AMBIGUOUS WHICH COUNTRY THIS TAKES PLACE IN ANYWAY WHAT AM I DOINGGGG
okay it's not that ambiguous it's either the US or Canada and I've already mentioned US government agencies in loreposts. I've just been toying with the idea of setting it in Canada because why the hell not.
generally speaking writing a textpost isn't drawing either. send post. im working on comic. there's a handgun involved unless I decide to remove it because I don't know which handgun to trace poorly onto the page
A character I HAD to finally draw in presentable form and show off before artfight: Bram "gives supervillain corruption speeches to plants" Foxglove
A garden supply store worker and small-time psychic supervillain who terrorized their hometown with giant mutant plants... a mix of herbaphony, a special blend of psitanium-enhanced fertilizer, and far too much time on their hands.
Unfortunately for them, said hometown is about an hour's drive away from the Motherlobe.
