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What better place to share my fan art for a niche interest with no (artist) fandom than Tumblr? Lately I've really been obsessed with a Romanian folk metal band that I learned about from my dad 🥹 called E-an-na. If E-an-na has no fans it means we are dead. it's genuinely so peak but I can't share my joy with anyone else because they sing in Romanian 😭😭😭

So have some silly doodles of Solomonar, the vocalist & woodwind player, because why not. To y'all this may not make any sense, but they're still just quick doodles, appreciate them for the artistic value 🙂‍↕️

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I've been enjoying a lot of HK/Silksong & MIO fanart here so I decided to share my contribution as well: mostly little doodles on various mediums (they helped me a lot when I had an art block)

However I haven't drawn fanart since, so this is all I got for now.

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Resharing some recent OC art because why not ✌️

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Desmond, dwarf rogue barbarian, is my character in my second campaign (same universe as Simone but hundreds of years ago on a different continent). He's a war veteran turned mercenary, now hired to help a resistance movement within an elven empire that conquered his home and now oppressed his kind.

Me playing Simone: *loves using Disguise Self, Dissonant Whispers, Shatter & Aid, loves magical items, has backstory about her and her band playing magical music*

Me playing Desmond: *rage & slash people with daggers yayy sneak attack yayy reckless attack yayy frenzy, no need to worry about spellcasting and shit*

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Here's another NPC from Simone's backstory, and part of the polycule (Simone x Hector x Vivian), together with some very summarized lore:

Hector Sterling, half elf musician and instrument maker, was known for his innovations in magical music and audio recording technology. He formed a band with his best friends & lovers Simone and Vivian, planning to travel the whole world. But the anti-magic empire in their path ruined everything.. One day after a shocking twist, Hector and Vivian were arrested for rebellion against the empire, only Simone managed to escape. Now his fate is unknown, but it seems the inquisition has acquired some of his skills.. how could this be?

And some more art of him:

Finally, the inspiration behind his face / hair was my older design interpretation of The Historian from Ayreon The Source (concept album), and by extension his singer James LaBrie. But I diverged quite a bit from that.

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With the occasion of Mermay I recently dug up some old artwork from 2021 featuring alien fish people, it was basically fanart for Ayreon's concept albums The Source and 01011001. Thought I'd share them here because why not. I'm no longer into Ayreon but it has a special place in my heart, I really loved these concept albums and made fanart of my own interpretations / designs of the characters 🥹♥️

Might share more old Ayreon fanart that I actually still like later if I feel like it, even if mermay is over.

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Art Fight team card, don't mind me

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Yes they were in fact made to be matchy !!! Both of these were for a DTIYS challenge on BlueSky because I loved the pose, and I mean why not draw the enemies in the same pose? 👀