#badgerthethirteenth

[badgerthethirteenth]

Did some fanart for @tredlocity's comic series Val and Isaac. Also used the opportunity to experiment with lighting effects.

Full res here if you're interested.

[asktheraggededges]

How vitriolic, violent, petty, or just plain bad has the rivalry between the Mordians and the Praetorians gotten on board? What's the worst thing one has done to another?

In terms of events that involved all of them, the worst of it was a bloody scuffle between the four of them in in the cafetarium during one of Tornic’s archive recordings. Even Wesk had been pushed to the boiling point from all the insults and little exchanges. Had to get the commissar to break it up.

Stopping Branz was the hard part. Dudes so low to the ground and dense it was like trying to tackle a hockey puck.

It didn’t actually solve the problems between the Prats and us, but it did stop us fighting in public. Good throne, I never want to see the commissar running towards me with that look on her face again as long as I live.

Me and Wesk were forced to bunk together, which didn’t work for either of us, obviously.

Not at first, anyways. We eventually figured things out.

Not proud to admit, though we ceased fighting in public, things stayed tense between me and PFC Branz for several months.

Things came to a head during a routine surveillance mission wherein we exchanged insults and eventually came to blows.

Fact is, you can learn a lot about a dude by getting into a dust up. We’re not that different! The Praetorians may looks and talk stuffy, and have a genuine sense of one upmanship, but they’re not all talk!

Daneel’s not a close combat guy, but he knows some great holds! Dude can wrassle.

I learned that PFC Branz can literally pick up an adult male and throw them seven feet.

We sorted things out and exchanged smokes. Good times!

I mean, we’re still gonna compete, but we’re done beating on eachother.

It took a little longer for me and Sergeant Minhelm to clear things up..but we got there.

Ah, but that..

That’s another story.

[badgerthethirteenth]

Drew one of @misterculexus' characters, Alice Boone (featured on @asktheraggededges and in the appropriately-named Boonequest), in a warmup sketch that I liked so much it kind of got away from me.

Also a bit of a style test and a way of getting myself to remember how I actually draw things again. I think I'm starting to get a sense of individual style, but we'll see.

[badgerthethirteenth]

When I say "I wanna make something", I don't mean "I wanna make something and hope it does well in terms of some kind of metric". It means "I wanna make something because I am driven by a creative desire to do something."

Like, for example, I have the urge to create some kind of analogue horror series, or at least a horror series in the same kind of vein as that genre.

Someone might say "but the analogue horror market is so saturated! It might not do well! It's really difficult to make good horror content."

To which I say: so what? It's something I want to make for the sake of creation itself. Sure, it'd be nice if it got a lot of views and/or I could make a little bit of money off of it, but I just want to make it to see if I can.

Similar deal with writing fantasy novels or making games. I just wanna make them. The only reason I'd be charging (a fairly small amount of) money for them is because it'd be a nice bonus, and to help keep me financially afloat.

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Lancer - Moira Dante-Lehrmann (2022)

A character and her mech I made for Massif Press' Lancer RPG (available here massif-press.itch.io/), specifically a campaign my brother is running. She's been loads of fun so far, only one session in but hoping for more soon.

This drawing took me far too long to do, and is a little scuffed in some places, but hell, I reckon it came out alright. At least the bits that matter.

[badgerthethirteenth]

Of all the phrases that the Lancer RPG books and the community has somehow brought into my lexicon, the phrase "Don't worry about it." in response to something unexpected or unsettling is probably my favourite.

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A collection of truly bizarre ads I've stumbled across on the mobile app

I can't possibly fathom how these came my way, but there they are.

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Tearing my hair out trying to figure out a semi-concrete timeline for Age of Sigmar so I can write the lore for my various factions with at least a degree of accuracy without having to worry about mortal characters dying of old age but also leaving a lot of wiggle-room for there to be plenty of time for various big wars to happen