A Nest of Dice

look upon my works, ye mighty, and feel whimsy // (illustrator, designer, and dice collector) (any pronouns) commissions open!

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A little update to commission prices. If you're interested in commissioning me, feel free to shoot me an email at [email protected], or send me a message on here!

If you'd like to support me, you can also always send a tip to request a sketch or dice photo!

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finished running a short ttrpg game last night! It's always amazing when people want to play pretend in your sandbox with you. I love my friends :)

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Hm? What's that out in the garden? It's a friend!

I made a dice palette for my favorite little guy! I briefly considered doing more of the characters and then I realized that I didn't care of any of them nearly as much as my favorite friend Krobus. Well, if anyone does feel strongly about someone else, let me know!

Still photo of the palette and dice names below!

D20: Chessex Borealis Smoke. Just a gorgeous set, especially if you can get some of the old glitter pieces.

D12: "I Can't Believe It's Not Chessex Gemini Purple and Black" I got these so long ago! They look almost identical to the aforementioned Chessex gemini set.

D10s: More Chessex, with Lustrous Shadow and is it a cop out to have another smoke because they're so pretty?

D8: GameScience Gem Smoke. Absolutely unreadable uninked and I'm not inclined to change that. They're really like little gems!

D6: Another GameScience, this time in black. Only slightly more readable.

D4: A single I picked up from one of those huge store fishtanks. Has a similar effect to HDDice's "Dark Cloud" or Chessex's Nebula line.

I would put more effort into ID'ing the exact names but it's just past midnight and I'm tired! If anyone has any questions on any of the dice you know I'm always happy to talk your ear off about them for as long as you'll let me. ^-^

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to be eaten by dogs

A small departure from my usual stuff! This is almost word for word a conversation I had with someone who was close to me. As a tip, if someone is choosing to be vulnerable with you, maybe don't make your immediate point following it a critique on their metaphors!! 😊 It did not endear me to this person!

I don't even remember the rest of the conversation. Just this absolute zinger lol

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basement, circa 2006

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finally getting around to making matching playlist covers for my ten million (read: 13) instrumental playlists. this was intended to be a day project but I spent way too long on the first one and now I feel like all the others have the have the same amount of effort. woe be to the artist who cares about their work

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He's a disrupter!

I wanted to make a drawing for Burt for a while and ta-da! Here it is. I might come back to do some changes or different color versions later but I'm happy with this for now.

If you haven't listened to Bottle Rocket Astronaut by Bug Hunter, you should! It's even adorable animated.

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You're gonna make me search my own name to find this??? Not sent directly into my eyeballs immediately??

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Ah, you're absolutely correct. Let me rectify this:

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There we go! 👍

...and a Burt for good measure.

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He's a disrupter!

I wanted to make a drawing for Burt for a while and ta-da! Here it is. I might come back to do some changes or different color versions later but I'm happy with this for now.

If you haven't listened to Bottle Rocket Astronaut by Bug Hunter, you should! It's even adorable animated.

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A little pastel rainbow for you! Yes, that's right, you!

On another note, I need more pastel dice. I dont have a single good pastel blue set-- which I just realized isn't true, I think? Time to go investigate the collection...

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Dice: Little Dragon Corp's June Birthday Pearl

I broke a tea cup from one of my favorite sets the other day. My grandmother gave it to me when I was kid, so it's honestly pretty amazing that none of the pieces have broken before.

I've been doing my best to treat it as an opportunity to make something new! I haven't decided what to make it into yet, but the pieces are still lovely.

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new cubes new cubes new cubes

Went to our local annual gem and mineral show and picked up a few new cubes for the collection! I also picked up a anxiety riddled crab carving to go with my nervous lobster desk advisor, Wonky.

Sorry I haven't been around! I just didn't feel like it lol

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this week I got to play thunderstruck on the panpipes while blasting necromancers in order to facilitate the de-cursing of a major urban area. life is good

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when one gets new digital tools, one must draw OCs

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Translation of poor handwriting below cut because lord knows my writing isn't the best

Panel 1: "My quality of life has really gone up since becoming a magician."

Panel 2: "I only picked up the book to learn some tricks to make small talk." "I kind of thought it was, like, a joke before."

Panel 3: "I only really got good at one trick," "but that's okay."

Panel 4: "Making things disappear and reappear via hat is super helpful."

Panel 5: "The magic police keep trying to arrest me, but unfortunately for them, my comically large top hat was delivered three days ago."

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this is how I feel when someone I follow suddenly finds a new interest