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I made one of these ^^

You’re free to ask me OC questions, general questions, or even send drawings!

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Am I just imagining it, or does Vassago's hair seem to get longer with each iteration of her design? Makes me wonder if she'd ever grow it out from before she ever cursed herself.

Yes!! She actually used to wear her hair VERY long!! Some of my first art had her with hair down to her back. She cut it after she was taken into the abbey!

Old drawing from 2020 of her and beleth:

I wanted her hair to slowly grow out as a sign of time passing too!

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you have an excellent eye for stylish and fashionable designs. you make really good use of bold, limited palettes. you're able to set mood effectively in a way that conveys gravity of character! i think there are specific strengths you could bolster, but your personal style also has a lot of ways you could expand on elements you don't do as often - detail shots or landscape, playing with zoom, exploring more diversity of anatomy, or exaggerated action and foreshortening and stuff. you make some really cool art, and i like it for what it is, and there's nothing wrong with sticking to what you like of course, i just you've got the skills to make a broad array of expression shine!

Hello anon! I really wanted to thank you so much for your kind message. I think the biggest thing I appreciated is the helpful direction you also gave me. It makes me happy that people can see I can push the strengths of my style more and it’s definitely something I want to work on! I did want to share that I actually… used to do a lot more background work. A lot of the pieces are from 2020 and I experimented a /lot/ to really push myself. I lost the drive after I started my full time job so I never had the same energy or time like I used to back at the end of 2020 but I wanted to keep trying.

This is old work but I thought it would be fun to share, just to show that I really do want to revisit this stuff and even redraw some of them too!

Diversity in anatomy is another thing I’m working towards slowly improving! Did you know I actually couldn’t draw aged characters or even cis male characters well? Bloodborne really helped me out with that and I want to return back to playing around with it. I did actually buy the dungeon meshi daydream hour that was recently released to study and see how the mangaka approached diverse body types. It’s extremely inspirational to me. The design I’m working on for Agares is me pushing to draw a cis female body type differently as well as in age! Caesnig is the other character I wanted to push with working on in terms of body type and face since his was a goal of mine to reach that I want to continue developing as well!

I hope to return back to experimenting when I can because I know I can do it! It comes down to finding the inspiration that kickstarts it and the energy as well. I really do appreciate what you told me today and even the ways I can further push my work and what would really make it shine. It made me so motivated to try again and work at it ❤️

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Could you tell us more about Samiel, plus how you started playing PF2e?

Of course!!

The PF2e is a homebrew campaign so everything will be from that :D He's of a winged (cherub/angelic) race called the Saeid. When they are born, they are brought immediately into the service of the church. He doesn't remember much of his original family, sadly. One special thing that makes Samiel stand out is that he has a pair of black wings. Saeid are typically born with white but for him it's see as an ill omen. The village he grew up in was more accepting to him thankfully but there were some who wanted him killed due to those superstitions. The upper right side of his face around his eye was burned in an attempt to try and harm him but he made it out safely. He's blind out of that eye though due to the damage. The priest that raised him was very kindly but when he passed he was put into the care of another. That priest took him to the city and the Cathedral to continue his service to the church. Those in the church did not take well to him and avoided him because of his apperance with the black wings. He kept to himself and remained rather isolated. The campaign takes place within a magic academy and Father Hyram (his caretaker) was offered a position in regards to investigating an incident that is taking place. Samiel was offered the chance to join the school and he took it seeing as he didn't have much elsewhere to go... So now, he's a part of the Sapphire class and is friends with the students. Claire and Andrea who are ratfolk, Freydis an ice dragon, Juniper an owl person, and Adara a human. They are all girls which is so funny but he feels very safe and trusts them deeply. I should note that this is my first time ever taking part in PF2e. The reason I got into it is because I was invited to the campaign. The group is my friends and FC from excalibur that I've known for a few years. They're actually all veterans at playing d&d and tabletop!! A lot of them already knew one another through the campaigns they played. So this is my first time into it and I really love it a lot!! ^^

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Hello! I wanted to give a general update post for commissioners to see. I’m hopefully getting back in track now with catching up with the work. I had to get some medication increased and start seeing my therapist due to how badly my depression had spiraled and debilitated me.

It’s a slow process at the moment but I’m pushing through so I can get work done. I’ve been feeling much better each day but I want to say thank you for the patience in regards to that. I got really screwed over since the end of May when I had Covid and it just spiraled down from there.

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Not even just demons, but monster designs in general. What draws you to them?

Before I never really thought heavily into it but I when my best friend got me into Bloodborne it just really clicked. My favorite thing with monsters is when they were previously someone human. Ludwig from Bloodborne is a perfect example. He’s what got me to really fall in love with monsters more and wanting to create my own.

Something about the struggle of human emotions and becoming what shaped their being really drew me to it.

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I am so sorry for the delay in things for some of the chibis I took on for commission. I finally recovered and I’m in the clear after dealing with COVID since the end of May 😭 the nonstop coughing, fatigue, and brain fog was absolutely brutal on me. Whatever strain I had was bad.

If I have forgotten anything PLEASE don’t be afraid to drop a DM and remind me!! I cannot express how bad the brain fog affected me and I feel like I’ve had an even worse lapse in memory coupled with my ADHD. It’s been a bad wombo combo.

I’m making sure to write everything down as needed so I get things finished promptly!

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angels! what draws you to em?

I was raised Catholic by my mom whose Guatemalan. It’s extremely prominent in Latin American culture so I was always taught the importance of the angels growing up. Like since I was little i as always fascinated by them. I didn’t start doing OC stuff with them though until like…2008 ish? Since then I’ve always been draw to them just growing up in that type of culture.

I really love the trend of the biblically accurate angels too!! I wanna design more monstrous ones but I still like being able to give some sort of human form to them depending on who it is I portray