Sophtopus Artness

Art sideblog of Sophtopus. Fanart and original included. For personal, head over to Sophtopus. Author of Crafting the Sun and Undertale's The Golden Quiche: https://archiveofourown.org/users/Sophtopus Redbubble: sophtopolis.redbubble.com Book: https://ko-fi.com/s/ff0b30a8d4

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Smoke

Fanart for @sophtopus

Alchemical magical kr infused smoke stuff Dust uses later good for clearing out/suppressing nuisances on his missions.

Gotta love the new additions to his arsenal based on events in the between the teeth fic. But ye this is the sans from the golden quiche fic by sophtopus.

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Another wonderful image! Thank you very nuch for painting this. It looks so cool.

For those who're wondering, this isea csme from Between the Teeth, where the Nightmare Gang scouted a very strange version of Dust.

Link to the story right here:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/83715076/chapters/220626071

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The Dream Ending

Fanart for The Lone Defender by @sophtopus

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Another surprise fanart from Aster. This is so very beautiful, thank you. This is relevant to the reveals in Lone Defender (Chapter 24 at this moment of writing). The short of it is that Chara and Asriel are trying to preserve their happy ending, but the dream is steadily failing. End the dream or let it destroy the world?

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I tested some new inks on Gaster. His body, to be specific. The outline was done with a different brush pen. The result was oilier than I expected and maybe didn't suit the paper texture. Still, he's a fun little guy.

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Chapter 44: Core end

Fanart for the fanfic The Golden Quiche by @sophtopus

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I thought it was really neat that the British sign language has that gun-like sign as 'die'

[mothinflamesdoodles]

Back to my usual grind

fanart for the fanfic The Golden Quiche and The Lone Defender by @sophtopus

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Gosh he looks so cooooooooool. thank you for making cool art of the darker au! And also the lighter au with the crazier angel man.

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Sans getting wasted on ketchup on a sunny afternoon day, with Papyrus judging his brother's life choices... On The Surface! Poses from PoseMyArt, a site with premade 3d models. I painted above the linework so it looks like it's glowing under the very hot noonday sun. I don't see this technique much anymore. In a way, it a rather old method.

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Art by ThatLD, my friendo. I commissioned him. One of my readers asked for a low angle shot of Mezil and I thought 'why not'? The result came out really cool. This is Mezil Thyme from The Surface, the Supreme Judge of the Magus Association, the time-manipulation hero before Frisk's generation. Often mistaken as a vampire. Or maybe that's the truth. He rides a fine line between that. In a nutshell, his duty is to ensure magic doesn't cause colossal disasters, and to train up the next generation of Red Souls to carry on his job. The Undertale Incident -- where Frisk is inaccessible for the one critical day -- is one of the most dangerous incidents recorded in the Magus Association history. That's not even counting the rest of The Golden Quiche (you can find it on AO3 or Royal Road, whichever floats your boat.) He wears mainly red, black, greys, and whites depending on the situation. The first three pictures are the same with different aspect ratios. The more colourful blueish picture is the version without the extra composition effects were layered on.

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I had extra ink from a previous painting, so I did some freeform surreal things. a lady in a scarf and winter coat, and papyrus' skull on a tree branch

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An ink painting of Teraun Wanderstar. Or at least, the ambiguously-male perception. They practice a special magic called 'Obscura' to hide their true appearances. For The Golden Quiche, this is Frisk's paternal ancestor from the 15th century

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The paper was too big to scan, so I had to snap them with my phone.

Last art of 2025 maybe. It's not Christmas material but have a Princess Kaguya Frisk. Along with scary grandma necromancer Anya Willowherb. This painting is an accurate representation of how a person feels looking at her for the first time, even at the age of 75.

I'll post the scan results anyway for comparison

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Good hunting

Fanart for the fic The Lone Defender by @sophtopus

Yep this is Dust lmao ^^ decided to post it. Nutshell in this plot KR is straight up entropy rot. Stats don't matter if ya just one shot em at a vital point. Dust ends up being the close combat specialist in the plot lmao.

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Delicious surprise fanart for The Lone Defender, fondly nickname Dark Coffee Egg tart.

This scene depicts a moment when Dust exterminated a den of dark magic users and smugglers, due to the effects of a life force (exp) potion.

Thanks again for the scrumptious art!

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I tested another ink I had bought. The silk harp from Silksong was an interesting item to try out. The ink smelled really nice, but I think I haven't worked it enough yet to grind it to its full potential.

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I think Papyrus and Sherma would be good friends.

Meanwhile Hornet has fun with an obstacle course.

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Hornet sitting on the bench of the first town, Bonebottom.

I was one of those folks who completed Hollow Knight and waited 7 long years for Silksong. Here's a little celebratory piece for its release. Painted with chinese ink, coloured digitally.

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An angel dyed red

Fanart for the fanfic The Lone Defender by @sophtopus

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Whoaaa surprise fanart for Lone Defender. Thank you again for making this, he came out super cool. I might want to remember that kind of eclipse colour for possible future applications dun dun dun

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A sleeping Lady Lucidia of House Berendin. Or is she awake? Other than being almost a living mothercomputer, she's well known for her gravity magic and massive black hair. She's from The Golden Quiche which is an Undertale fancition so it's not off topic.

But Skeleton people are never born with hair. They must be intentionally styled in the form of wigs or magical implants. For Lucidia's case, she had implanted a faux-hair generation magic circle into her skull so she can change her hair texture and style at will. Done with with Sumi-e ink on smooth paper, and the finer details touched up or drawn with Micron Sakura pigment pens. Not a conventional choice for sumi-e because they do best with rice paper, but they tend to be super fragile and expensive to handle. Although I labelled it as Sumi-e for ease, they're actually 'Hu Kai Wen' style Chinese inks. For a long time I didn't have the means to learn more about them in English. But thankfully I can do so now.

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Someone asked if I could try to paint the Roaring Knight, and I was in the mood for inks. The Roaring Knight is ink black all the way through so I thought this is a good time to give it a try.

I thought It would be striking to show off the chest-eye-core-thing. In the game, there were two scenes where the chestplate opens up. Some angles show them as ribs. Other angles showed a more flower-like arrangement.

Made on 160gsm paper, sumi-e ink, and then cleaned up digitally.