The Hut in the Bright Woods

She/her. Come in and sit by the fire with me. Don't mind the mess, I just got a new hobby. Yes, another one. Don't give me that look. Banner by me, profile by my friend.

[patronsaintofchemicalwarfare]

so happy to have taken part in this amazing project! i wrote a fun little piece about the Devil's Pack pre-KCD2, before they arrived in Kuttenberg and everything went to shit :P

there are so many incredibly talented writers and artists who contributed, so please read, and go and check everyone out! love this community so much, you are all the best <3

[thepseudowoodo]

The discord server I'm in made this! It's a free digital zine! You can use the QR codes in the image to get a desktop or mobile version for yourself.

We kept things "Tastefully M" so there's no overtly graphic or explicit violent or sexual content, although there is content of those general natures. Also, it's not limited to Hansry content! We have all kinds of fun pieces included. I personally wrote a short fic about Mutt and Pebbles escaping the Den for a day and going off to have an adventure together.

Again, we released it for free so please go check it out and if you see something you love, find the author or artist and give them some love!

[thepseudowoodo]

Last summer, my husband and I were looking at our dog and having the Quality of Life discussion. He was, for his breed (german shepherd mix), quite old at nearly 17. He was relatively healthy for his age, but his body was failing him. He was deaf, going blind, and the joints in his back legs could no longer support him despite the arthritis treatments we were giving him. He could no longer get up from laying down without assistance, and frequently his back legs would simply give out and leave him sprawling on the ground.

It was the last time we would have that discussion.

To deal with my grief, I spent the entire night before the vet came to visit our home sitting on the floor with him, sketching my beautiful old man in a variety of ways, and eventually started sketching him in various historical paintings. I eventually settled on a self portrait by Albrecht Dürer, and over the course of the following week, I worked on the painting.

Well, it's been a little year since then, and I am finally ready to hang his painting in the stairwell of our new house. But he can't be there alone. So I have been painting a portrait of our other dog and his dear companion of 9 years, to hang next to him. The cat, who is new to our family, will be next.

Process photos below the cut

[thepseudowoodo]

Poorly Drawn October, day [indistinct muttering], prompt: jellyfish!

I love jellyfish, I think they're very cool and deserve a wide area of respect around them at all times because I have been stung by jellyfish and it's not fun.

Featuring: Portuguese Man o' War, Black Sea Nettle, Cannonball Jellyfish, Sea Gooseberries

I don't think any of these jellyfish swim in the same waters, let alone at similar depths, so take this image as an act of whimsy on my part.

[thepseudowoodo]

Poorly Drawn October 17: Chickens!

Luckily, an acquaintance in the kcd discord has chickens and shares picture of them from time to time, so I must anonymously thank them for the reference material. Chickens always look one of two ways to me: either they're empty-headed idiots, or they're plotting the downfall of civilization.

[azvhaalk]

before i knew you

[thepseudowoodo]

MORE AMAZING HORSRY!!

Y'all they're so cute, I sighed and cooed out loud. I love them. The sweet faces, the lil mutt, the legwarmers on Hans, I'm dying. They're so good. Gonna be thinking about baby horsry all day now.

[thepseudowoodo]

My child had a dental procedure and there was Drama™️ so I've been really busy BUT I combined three prompts into one to make up for it! Please enjoy my first entire skeleton, a skull, and a background. Because I chose to do a background, and didn't accidentally skip the hand day prompt because I am an illiterate fool.

I'll admit, I may be stretching the definition of "background" a bit.

[thepseudowoodo]

Small bit of brightness in an otherwise tumultuous and really spectacularly shitty couple of days: my print from @azvhaalk came today! I was so excited to find Horsry art that I could buy, I had to get it. I love it, it has made me so happy. I've got to try and find a place on my desk for it so I can stare at it while I write the next Horsry installment.

The original post for the art can be found here!

Post by @azvhaalk · 1 image

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[thepseudowoodo]

Two Poorly Drawn October prompts for you today. Yesterday's was "person lying down" and I was thinking about it the entire time I walked around the art museum with my husband for our anniversary, and when we stopped to look at a tomb effigy I thought, "Yes. The Forever Lying Down." So that's what I sketched when I got home.

Today's was simply "space-fillijg scribbles" and since I've mostly been trying to use this as an excuse to not be quite so precious with my painting, and just "scribbling" with different colors and brushes and playing with shapes is fun and good for me.

[soulwriter-sp]

shoutout to AO3 authors who write 100k fics for free while juggling mental illness, academic burnout, 3 jobs, and a deep-rooted need to fix fictional people.

[hellothisisangle]

[thepseudowoodo]

Quick someone go get Grunt out of the shower

[thepseudowoodo]

For today's Poorly Drawn October prompt, I decided to sketch my idiot cat being woken up from a nap.

[thepseudowoodo]

The Poorly Drawn October prompt for today is "character you were obsessed with when you were 12" and I just wanna preface this with the fact that I attempted to do this piece from memory based on a single particular illustration of the character and I'll drop the original illustration below the cut so y'all can judge how well I did but anyway

Where my fellow old weebs at? Y'all remember Samurai Troopers/Ronin Warriors? Hell yeah that show fucking slapped AND IT IS GETTING A SEQUEL SERIES FUCKING YES MAN

Anyway, here's Cye Mouri / Mouri Shin

This is the original illustration by Mizuki Ken:

Also I just found two of his art books on ebay and fucking of course this only happens to me when I'm too fucking broke to buy them.

[thepseudowoodo]

Poorly Drawn October Day 6: "boat"

Boats sure are a... thing. Or something. But not everybtrainer has a lapras, you know? And not everyone can afford tickets on the S.S. Anne. Sometimes you just gotta get a little motorboat out there.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I know that the reason that young entrepreneurs and young artists are often celebrated is to show kids and young adults that they’re not too young to start following their dreams but I think it often has the unintended side effect of making you go “Man, I haven’t even started an international business yet. I’m a failure.” when you’re like twelve.

[thepseudowoodo]

Poorly Drawn October Day 5: Favorite Flower

I have a lot of favorite flowers, but I'm gonna use this piece for today. I technically started it a few days ago but I finished it today and what are rules anyway?

It's an Evelyn rose, named for the Evelyn & Crabtree company. It was bred for them as a perfume rose

[thepseudowoodo]

Poorly Drawn October day 4: clothing with lots of layers

I was originally imagining jūnihitoe, which is a style of formal dress for court women in the Heian period of Japan. Its name means "twelve layers" although the actual style of dress itself varied in the numbers of layers worn.

But when I sat down to actually think about and draw that my brain went "what the fuck do you think this is, mate, try again" sooooo instead I did a much more normal but definitely stylized version of a woman wearing a kimono. I tried making it look kinda like a woodcut, and it kinda worked.

[melodiousvoid]

Embroidered this on the back of my jacket for Pride a few months ago, promptly forgot. I used lineart direct from Watership Down to make the rabbit. ID under cut.

Image ID: A rabbit embroidered in white on a the back of a black jacket. There are six stripes in gay pride colors on its left, and five stripes in the trans pride colors on its right. Around the rabbit, stitched in jagged embroidery, are the words “Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed.”