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Liehuva Liekinvarsi

When stuck in art, draw something quick of that one character again which you can always draw.

That was not quick

And now you have fifty years old Finnish murder ballard stuck in your head because suddenly it popped out from the memory while coloring this (here's the song in question for curious people)

Anyway, I wanted to draw one of Pride's face-including iterations, because I wanted to explore his default expression. It is technically a smile, but the kind of without humor and warmth. Not even a smirk even if it could be interpreted as one, just a smile without actually smiling. Genuine smile from this guy is a rare sight, usually smiling is a show of dominance or a threat.

Generally Pride is also very non-reactive to things which don't require immediate action. He doesn't show things like disgust or fear in a way like any normal person should. It's not that he wouldn't care, he just functions a little weird.

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Lovers

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The deep story here's that I got a vision of this before falling asleep one night, and then made it.

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Throwback to 2013 when I drew second ever colored art of this thing and put a funny hat on it, then it revealed its entire personality that wasn't what I expected but am fine with it, as some of you may have noticed.

Some details are a bit unhoned here but in a bigger scale, Pride has not changed much at all.

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Pride but what if mechanical. Surprisingly little changed after all.

Again a random non-canon doodle of this thing.

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Some (useless) info about regarding postcreated creatures and pronouns. Firstly, if somebody doesn't know yet, my own language (Finnish) doesn't even have gendered pronouns, and we got this apparently peculiar spoken language where we call everything and everyone "it" while our actual Human Pronoun is used mostly sarcastically, so this as a starting point has caused some issues while learning literally any other language.

Anyway so, postcreated creatures are non-biological and supernaturally functioning in the first place and it's always morally correct to call any of them just "it". They cannot reproduce and most of them are not even at person-level sapient. While "it" is logical in their case, I've never felt calling sapient things as "it" any issue either, because aforementioned weird language perk.

However, yeah, English (that I use as a worldbuilding language and sometimes to communicate with people) works differently. Sometimes it's just annoying while your normal level of gender in language is none, but in this case I've seen it as a funny nuance that adds something to creatures otherwise outed from gender. So, many sapient ones have preferred pronoun even if only real reason behind them is just that I as a creator made them because English forced me to think nuances. But a vast majority of postcreated creatures are just "it" and they don't have enough concept of gender to even think of it.

"Why is that with this pronoun?" I'd say that I just kinda throw mental darts/"ask" them and then get some result, as creatures themselves are not very gendered. They're skull/shape headed oddities, there's no deep logic.

Eventhough I keep joking that Pride is a he because he's kind of dick and Envy is they because I remember all "gender envy" memes...yeah.

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The Hanged Man

Here's so many layers of symbolism that I'll leave further explanation out, just enjoy the art.

I made this so that I'd make foiled prints out of it. My personal opinion is that holographic foil fits litarally everywhere.

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Quick fullbody of this this thing with shadow antlers.

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The Tower

Here's so many layers of symbolism that I'll leave further explanation out, just enjoy the art.

One reason for making is that I found out where to get red foil on prints. This is so dang cool irl. Original's and print's dimensions both are 42cm x 25cm.

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Hei suomieliöt taas kerran. Jos satutte olemaan Tampereella nyt viikonloppuna 28.-29.3. tulossa Tampere Kuplii -tapahtumaan, niin mä löydyn valitettavasti sieltä myös. Tosin se on todella hyvä mahdollisuus hankkia rajatun erän hyväntekeväisyysprintti mun Chervona Kalyna -kirinistä vaivaisella kympillä, kaikki tuotot menee Ukrainalle. Myös alkuperäinen teos on myynnissä.

Lahjoituksen kohde tulee olemaan se, mille on tarve. Voi olla osana esim. ajoneuvokeräystä tai muita tarvikkeita. Aion ensin konsultoida ukrainalaisia itse, että mikä on akuutein keräyskohde, kun nykyään mulla on ensikäden kontakti paikallisiin ukrainalaisiin. Huudan täällä sitten joskus myöhemmin että mihin meni. (Ja oletus on että kaikki ei tod myy nyt heti, mutta aina kun tulevaisuudessakin nämä löytyy jostain, se raha lahjoitetaan eteenpäin.)

Ei ole todellakaan mikään virallinen keräys tai silleen, te ostatte multa hienoo taidetta ja mä yksityishenkilönä lahjotan rahaa. Pitää vaan luottaa että rahat menee sinne minne on suunniteltu. Voin puhuu halukkaille myös ukrainaa tälleen reilu vuoden taitotasolla. Painokustannukset printeistä menee omaan takkiin.

Löydyn tuoltapäin Tampere-talosta. Jaan paikan kaverin kanssa. Mun piti tehä meiän mainos, kattokaa siitä tuli hieno.

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Ja pakollinen päivitys: Tästä tulleet rahat lahjoitettu virta-asemakeräykseen. 🇺🇦💡

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I'm so tired of worrying

I'm so tired of crying

I'm so tired of being afraid

I'm so tired...

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Fatigue (2019). For a surreal metal raptor unicorn thing, Lust has a good chunk of mental issues. Apparently I never put this art piece here but here you go.

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because i never lived through obligatory dog art phase ever, i've decided to switch Pride's main iteration from creature to almost normal dog. here's the ahmazing reference sheet. changes are permanent until the end of a day.

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Fullbody of Analemma, I don't think I ever threw this here (or tags are not working). Her thing is that her antlers are like glitching light and she talks with flickering light triangles. She cannot hear and only way to properly communicate with her is to learn her own language which is like a morse code only one speaks fluently.

Also she's not made of metal, her mane and tail are like carbon fiber. (Likely they ARE carbon fiber.)

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Hei suomieliöt taas kerran. Jos satutte olemaan Tampereella nyt viikonloppuna 28.-29.3. tulossa Tampere Kuplii -tapahtumaan, niin mä löydyn valitettavasti sieltä myös. Tosin se on todella hyvä mahdollisuus hankkia rajatun erän hyväntekeväisyysprintti mun Chervona Kalyna -kirinistä vaivaisella kympillä, kaikki tuotot menee Ukrainalle. Myös alkuperäinen teos on myynnissä.

Lahjoituksen kohde tulee olemaan se, mille on tarve. Voi olla osana esim. ajoneuvokeräystä tai muita tarvikkeita. Aion ensin konsultoida ukrainalaisia itse, että mikä on akuutein keräyskohde, kun nykyään mulla on ensikäden kontakti paikallisiin ukrainalaisiin. Huudan täällä sitten joskus myöhemmin että mihin meni. (Ja oletus on että kaikki ei tod myy nyt heti, mutta aina kun tulevaisuudessakin nämä löytyy jostain, se raha lahjoitetaan eteenpäin.)

Ei ole todellakaan mikään virallinen keräys tai silleen, te ostatte multa hienoo taidetta ja mä yksityishenkilönä lahjotan rahaa. Pitää vaan luottaa että rahat menee sinne minne on suunniteltu. Voin puhuu halukkaille myös ukrainaa tälleen reilu vuoden taitotasolla. Painokustannukset printeistä menee omaan takkiin.

Löydyn tuoltapäin Tampere-talosta. Jaan paikan kaverin kanssa. Mun piti tehä meiän mainos, kattokaa siitä tuli hieno.

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New postcreated thing that became to be just because I wanted to make something with antlers that are just solid shadow.

Their characteristics are work in progress but antlers are indeed see-through like if smoke or shadow had solid shape, neck is kinda translucent if you squint, otherwise skull and other body parts are solid. Their name is Penumbra.

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Random bumblebee dragon thing. Small, can fly just well (or, like, bumblebee-level well), has more braincells than it looks like.

Also yes it does the leg thing before stinging if you try pet it.

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Bleeding Sun

Absolutely cool commission for @grimae of character Zenobia; dragon but also the sun. I had great time to work with this, it's something that cannot be scanned well as I used gold leaf (not real gold sadly but actual metal) for the face and claws, other shiny golden parts are golden Coliro Pearlcolors, the rest is a mix of ink, liner pens, colored pencils, copic markes, Posca markers, some happy accidents and hard work. Gold leaf gives a nice surreal effect for the face that is there but kinda hard to see sometimes, as it was the sun as well.

Some photos to give an idea that this thing is the best viewed in person:

Bonus freehand no ref -doodle of Zenobia, the only thing that is better than the final art:

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Some relatively normal arts of Pride from last year. I had a moment when I went "yeah time to draw my guy like this".