Arts

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a plane dog appreciating all that has to offer

(wanted to check out your ai slop bores me. chickened out of actually saying something so instead I just doodled)

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Webkinz flower lion plain black lines, no mane

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Crayon dinosaurs

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Ink Witch

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Concept: A civilization with the ability to sense, measure, and perhaps influence values defines personhood as the capacity to have values, with emphasis on valuing things that aren't aligned with maximizing evo-fitness or power.

"Ideology is what separates us from the [their word for animals]."

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Concept: a whole new type of life that uses gold instead of oxygen in its cell metabolism. Gold doesn't have the electronegativity or affinity to match oxygen, but it is surprisingly high in both. This, combined with some other useful properties of gold, could make it a fun alternative on which to build a class of life.

- Magical properties?

- Dragons?

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Luum Red, iteration 1

Made in Procreate

Red art I've been working on since last night. This decidedly isn't his final form, but I like a lot of things that fell out here. Like the style, like how I'm getting a hang of painting and shading. Like the small ears. Love the fiery chest ruff and how it reflects onto his face. Little pumpkin man. Also a big fan of the Jupiter theme that emerged, though his face swirls are a bit busy. A lot of details need to be adjusted, and I haven't even tried to attempt the scar on his hindquarters. But we're on to something here! This is a character I'm excited to spend plenty of time with. I'll keep iterating ^.^

(Here's the sprite for reference. Clearly I took liberties with the stripes. I should probably make him more yellow, too....)

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Luum red, iteration 2

Made in Ibis Paint on my phone

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Last iteration was bugging me. So I took a second whack at Redman.

I like this one a lot better. It is very busy and I'll have to pull that back for comic Red. But I'm reeeaaallllyyyy liking this design. LOVE the organic stumbling into a Jupiter motif. I can do something with that! All his little moons follow him into battle. Maybe I can give future leaders other planets?

Here's the pen sketch I was working off of btw

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Luum Treecko, chosen hero and ghostly guide for the Earth of Foresight

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Group name reveal! Stealing the "earth" group name from foxes. For a setting that isn't necessarily on planet Earth, I think it's really cool.

Treecko's design and personality have been taking shape in my mind over the past week. This is by no means her final form, but I'm really digging this design so far. Very excited to start playing with her. She has a mischievous, playful vibe that intrigues me in a hero type.

Art style was totally improvised. No guarantee I'll ever replicate this, but I do enjoy the look that turned out.

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Have some development images. Final pen sketch is a leggy badass. That doesn't really come through above, but it's another side of her that will definitely come out. Tree was chosen for a reason!

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Old sketch of Chester

Undated, but I would guess 2019-2020

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My friend Rachel likes Peepy by ItemLabel so I made her this birthday card

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Desk assets

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Pet book on its own

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Register assets

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Desk assets

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First carrier

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My friend Koi in LPS style, 5/28/24

Traced from a photo of a littlest pet shop kitten

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Praying mantis, LPS-style, in 2 parts, 5/27/24

Traced from this 3D model by Danderduck

I had a lot of fun painting tonight. Lotta firsts with this one! I'm getting more comfortble with holding the pen farther away, as opposed to the near-tip writing hold. Painted with the tablet up. I've tried that before, but it was really comfortable. Tonight, combining art-hold with up-tablet actually resulted in some of the most comfotable arting I've ever had! We've cracked it, babes.

I tried some lighting stuff here. I like what I accomplished, but we can definitely do better. Would love to take another crack at this later, after I've larned more :)

Also, I am definitely ordering a 3D print of this mantis sometime.