A Hidden Art Blog That No One Knows About

I'm a German, Dutch, Floridian illustrator & designer with an interest in science and fantasy! This blog will serve as an archive of my creative journey

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Feb 20 2024

Ziphas the party cleric has a dream in which he talks to the moon god Hym about the party. My first attempt at using procreate dreams. The art was done in procreate and edited in dreams

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march 3 2024

A more silly vid of some NPC’s from the current dnd campaign I’m in. Young lady Auralia and her disgruntled babysitter: Dustin, a famous bounty hunter who specializes in slaying dragons. (Auralia got in trouble for ✨charming✨ (magically forcing) an entire tavern to dance and party.) Though we first encountered her during a shopping episode in the city of Pholast during the festival. You know … the city that would soon have an apocalypse in it 😅. We assume they made it out safe due to some devilish powers Auralia possesses but, well who can say for certain.

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may 24 2023 (sold)

Painting I finished on stream today. Inspired by a crow I saw while waiting for the bus/train The other day. I liked the stark contrast of a crow against a soft pastel sky. And just had to capture it.

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may 1 2024

The violet lady. A portrait I finished last stream. Acrylic paint. Did a lot of glazes and washes for this one.

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april 4 2024

Acrylic painting I made on stream a few weeks ago. A limited color paler on a fluorescent yellow background. I wanted to practice portraits and the human face more so I’m starting to paint people a whole lot more! It’s been fun and a cool challenge

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march 2 2024 (sold)

An oil painting of hyacinths I made on my last twitch stream. The background is primed with yellow fluorescent acrylic paint. But the flower itself is just dioxazine purple oil paint with perhaps a little mixing white. The tube of paint was unloved and the art store was going to throw it out because someone had poked a hole in it so I bought it to save it. It’s good paint, id hate to see it wasted.

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feb 16 2024

Character portrait of my dnd character Petra! Trying to practice portraits more using digital art. Used procreate

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jan 21 2024

Going through an old sketchbook. Found some old watercolor works Have some silly leopard geckos.

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jan 11 2024

A quick sketch of a friends dnd character Blue Daze the triton barbarian

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dec 12 2023

An older sketch book page I did a few summers ago on a Dino dig with @carthagecollege paleontology program and @miadcollege in the summer of 2021. Some pencil sketches of fossils we found and a color pencil drawing of the Montana landscape. It was an amazing trip with a wonderful team and fantastic teachers.

(Also thanks to the BLM)

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nov 20 2023

Quick character study of odo from startrek deep space 9.

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nov 10 2023

Got carried away with this one. It was fun doing art of my old dnd character Remus. This is his design during his villain arc. Very dragonish. Normally he’s a sweetheart, but sometimes the plot dictates you be the villain for the greater good.

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oct 11 2023

Gordi. A monster illtration I did for a collaboration with the amazing @cosmic_leon_art_and_games where we made monsters based on some stunning photographs they took! Keep an eye out for the video in the future! Also be sure to check out @cosmic_leon_art_and_games Instagram! Had a blast hanging out and illustrating!

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0ct 9 2023

Some art I did of my current Dnd character Odysseus “Odds” Morriganson. He’s a doppelgänger rogue at this point desperately trying to convince people he’s just a changeling. The first slide is him using the rogue disguise kit aka a ton of makeup/concealer and hair dye, to try and seem normal. The last slide is what he looks like without concealer or makeup. He’s actually very terrible at shapeshifting and is kinda stuck half shifted. He wears bracers to cover that serial number tattoo that makeup just won’t seem to cover. He’s very traumatized. This bad boy can hold so much angst! Quintessential rogue, definitely not breaking any stereotypes here. Also dam that pesky streak of white hair that won’t seem to take any color or dye.

Had fun trying a new rendering style with this one.

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0ct 8 2023

The doppelgänger is revealed to the party! (It’s me. My character is a doppelgänger) Experimented with some new rendering styles and I’m really happy with how this scene turned out. Especially the little creature! True form be spooky

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aug 27 2023

Setting up the art booth at angels only art show! Hope to see you there

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aug 21 2023

The black riders. An dip pen ink piece I did a while back. Still one of my favorite works to date.