themakingsofBirdnest

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My main account, for more refined and completed stuff.

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CCTV (New Zealand) Austerity Blues EP Cover, 2024, Birdnest

Process work showing how we got from tiny thumbnail, to the initial sketch, to the colour mockup to the final painting. Was a wonderful process, and lots of fun to sort for their New Years Announcement!

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Tent, 2022, Birdnest

The second character I played for the campaign. Elf with a mysterious past and no memory. A coward turned self-obsessed coward after the time skip.

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Llyrie, 2022, Birdnest

My first Poison oak character. An orc mother who lost her daughter to the scourge and will never forgive herself for it. A tragic yet almost fitting fate that she died in the first session protecting the younger members of the party against a pack of wolves. Despite being short lived, the players were all very very effected by her death. May she rest in peace with Olive.

Sketches of Llyrie and her Daughter Olive, 2022, Birdnest

Llyrie's Adventuring Gear and expressions, 2022, Birdnest

Llyrie alongside the Party, 2022, Birdnest

Poison oak was riveting, but not for the faint-hearted. Characters are easily lost, don't let this stop you from making them feel real.

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Old Andromeda & Hemara Drawing, 2023, Birdnest

Old drawings I did of @eldritch-rowan-tree's characters, never completed them them do like the look of it overall. I had a much better way with colours back then, hopefully I will return to that level and exceed it. Otherwise the posing is strong, but could've done with a stronger composition. (please ignore the blatant spelling mistake!)

Hemara, 2023, Birdnest

These characters are strongly associated with day and night, Hemara being the day and Andromeda being the night.

The font used is Orchard Song by typefactoryco

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Andromeda and Hemara Sketch, 2024, Birdnest

Had a lot of fun drawing this. Feel like I lost some of the energy of the sketch in the final, but I always feel like that. Digital art with colour always feels like a challenge for me, I feel I always use colour better in traditional art. Oh well, glad to have completed another piece.

oc's belong to @eldritch-rowan-tree

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Pages 1-4 Comic Drafts, 2024, Birdnest A sneak peak of what is to come...

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Sown the Caretaker, 2022, Birdnest

Sown the reflective and friendly salamander. Her Kith is a Fennec Fox named Fern. They grew up with ambitions to become artists together, but Sown found that her ambitions changed over time and the divide between them sent Sown on a journey of solitude to find herself. On this journey, she has taken to the task of being a Caretaker, and helping little lost gods find their way home.

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Delta Green Oneshot, 2022, Birdnest

Awesome and mysterious one shot. I played Cpt. A. Finley. Ended up playing in a Delta Green campaign this year and was NOT disappointed, was really really good stuff! I am not the same person I was before that. Yellow and King hit different now.

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Shunned Nanomancer, 2022, Birdnest

Character I rolled up for fun with my DM from a ttrpg called Cy_Borg. The traits n shit were so cool just had to actualize them. 'You have a nanobot infection' 'You were born infected' 'You have a second mouth where your navel is' 'Any food gives twice sustenance when eating by belly mouth' 'Any drugs are twice as effective' 'Ancient revolver 1d8' 'Cadaver core'

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Erase - Shadowrun Character, 2022, Birdnest

Character I designed for a Shadowrun game our group was intending to play but never ended up getting the chance to. Feel like I captured the gang youth but in the future look I was trying to achieve. Very happy with the colours. Erase was an adopted member of the crime family our group was playing as. Their job is to cleanup the rest of the family's messes.

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The Gaurd Fjord, 2023, Birdnest

Drawing of a character I made for a ttrpg oneshot, it was Hollow I think. Really wanted that sweet sweet crisp scrumptious geometric body language, if you couldn't tell... Our party encountered a rotting, wild and dangerous boar!

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High Noon Concept, 2024, Birdnest

Plan I made for my zine, High Noon. I always love how thumbnails look.

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Concept drawing, 2022, Birdnest

Did this two years ago in that collaborative art app...magma? Really happy with how it turned out, thought I should put out there somewhere. I am still trying to write her story.

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Sketchbook page #2, 2024, Birdnest Exploring, and partially, developing old character designs.

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Sketchbook page #1, 2024, Birdnest

Most keen on the map drawn on the right page. Needed a map reference for a ttrpg I am running.