Tootkin's Art

Goblin of many crafts, welcome on my art blog! They/Them | early thirties | Queer AF | autistic Buy me a Kofi! My art tag (without the self-reblogs!) : Tootkin Art Main : @Tootkin-Goblin

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Welcome on my art blog!

I'm a freelance artist fan of goblins, this blog is mostly about my art, my gamedev work, and sometimes some art from artists I enjoy.

Where else to find me?

You can find an up-to-date portfolio on my Cara: https://cara.app/tootkin

and all my socials on my Linkstack: https://linkstack.lgbt/@tootkin

I am also the long-haired half of HIDDEN VALE, the artist collective I form with my partner @noxether.

Queer art, tiny games, goblins and caffeine-- find our work on itch: https://hiddenvale.itch.io/ or check out our website https://hiddenvale.neocities.org/

!!MY COMMISSIONS ARE OPEN!!

You can check it out on my blog: https://tootkingoblin.neocities.org/info/comms/Commissions/, you can even download the commission informations in a zine form that looks amazing, made by @queer-of-swords! check it out!

You can also support me directly through Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/Tootkin/ (you can even donate anonymously! you will have my eternal gratitude whether I know your name or not!)

thank you for reading so far, have a pair of goblins being cute together:

And one of the very cool DnD commissions I made for the amazing Rhyz Presser:

Don't hesitate to contact me if you're looking for some cool commission! You get 10% off for commissions about goblins!

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Happy pride month!

Here's my latest work, a linoprint on watercolor, inspired by some of the "discourse" I've seen around.

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I made several, with a few flags! And a few with some paper samples I have. It doesn't show very well in this picture, I need to whip out the actual camera to get better colors, but the ink is actually a dark brown, and the paper is a light green, it's sooooo pretty! Awagami Kitakata Green my beloved, I would buy a whole roll of it if I had the money!

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Happy pride month!

Here's my latest work, a linoprint on watercolor, inspired by some of the "discourse" I've seen around.

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Almost ready to print!

I have a feeling that this one is gonna speak to a lot of people!

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Haven't posted here in a long while, but I'm working on a new linoprint!

There's so much lettering... praised be the gods for transfer paper, it would have been An Ordeal to do it all mirrored.

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A cute little scene inspired by @goblinspicetrader 's art. I loved the decorated tails so much, I just had to draw two goblins grooming each other's tail as a bonding activity!

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Got inspired by @funwalker 's latest linoprint and started my own!

The way it played with light, with the character in the doorframe, looked really cool. I'm gonna try something similar with the light of the lantern! (I didn't darken all the BG in the sketch)

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Do you have a Bujo? Do you want it to be full of punk rats? Of course you do, you're on tumblr!

I've been helping my partner make a cute Bujo full of bujo-rats, so here's a small tuto on how to make a bunch of bujo-rats in your own bujo!

Step one can be done entirely with the ruler, leaving minimal free-handing but a lot of freedom to make plenty of different rats!

Have fun!

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Making progress on my game, I made the "make your own imp" form!

Since the game is about finding the genetic sequence of an individual based on the potential offsprings it can have with various partner, I needed a form for the player to write down that sequence before confirming it. And here it is! it can even be folded to the side. Did you know that there's no horizontal foldable container in Godot? Had to make my own!

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The new goblin/imp have been successfully transferred to Godot! With all genes implemented correctly and all the colors of each trait added, that's a final count of 3 135 283 200 permutations of imps, and they ALL LOOK SO CUTE JPP

It's both a lot more permutations than the previous goblin, and a lot easier because there's almost no epistasis (when the expression of a gene hides the expression of another gene)

I can't wait to make the game now with those new assets, I love them. I could spend hours just clicking the "randomize" button.

I got a fully leucistic one at some point, which is super rare because the hair, skin, and scales each have their own color, and leucism is recessive in all three!

Anyway. I'm having so much fun. Have 3 billions imps.

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Happy Gobirthday @goblinspicetrader !!

I rushed to make this as soon as I heard the news, hope you like it o/

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I am done!!

In Krita at least.

Now, to pay the price of my hubris (export ~180 layers as separate png to reassemble in Godot next).

TW: Math under the line

So, there's in total :

1 base

6 skin colors (will be done in godot)

3 feets

3 hands

5 tails

3 hair texture

6 hair colors (also in godot)

4 ear length

3 ear shapes

2 ear textures

6 horn shapes

2 horn length

2 separate horns

7 pupils

4 mouths

6 scales types

4 scales colors (also in godot)

That means a total of... 1 881 169 920 possible imp combination?????

Almost. 2 billions... I may have gone overboard a little ^^"

Can't wait to see them in game and start crossing them around!

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Getting there! I made 7 pupils, 4 mouths, 24 ears, 12 horns, 3 hands, 3 feets, and 3 types of hair. Still missing 6 skin types and 5 tails length (so 15 tail variants with the 3 different kinds of hair at the tip), then I will assemble it all with color variations in godot!

That's around 18 different genes, but I should be able to go up to 22 easily with the same assets, and to make some interesting lower difficulty variants with less genes of less complexity. Enough to make a lot of content in my game! That's exciting =)

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upgrading the goblin I use for test in my genetics game with this funky little imp!

After a few hours and 5 pages worth of notes, I have identified 17 genes and roughly 65 assets to make... If I don't touch at the tail.

Since some of the genes are "hair texture" (3 variations) and "skin effects" (6 variations) and the tail has both, each variation of the tail will have to be multiplied by the hair types and skin effect, aka 18 assets per variation. That's way too much! Unless I find a way to reduce that, I won't change the tail.

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The goblins are successfully crossing o/ This was much easier to make than I thought it would be, I'm glad I spent so much time implementing and testing a robust and versatile gene system.

Best part: it should work for any species I want to create down the road with minimal custom code for each species!

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I've been working for a few days on a game about genetics, copying the very fun system from @pixelcatsend .

There's a minigame in the winter event about finding the genetic sequence of a pea plant, I had a lot of fun playing it so I'm making something similar to play on my phone when I can't sleep. I've just finished building the genetic system and I can now generate random individuals! Soon I'll be able to generate offsprings from 2 given parents! Exciting!

I also discovered GUT (Godot Unit Test) in this project, and made my very first test a few days ago:

I have since made a battery of tests to develop my Gene class! I'm still far from doing Test Driven Development, but Test Assisted Development is a good first step. Saved me countless of headache while developing the invisible systems.

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Meet Melvin, the Sewing Sprite! He eats thread and fabric scraps (natural fiber only!), and his favorite game is to steal your pins and haberdasheries to hide them in the most random place he can find.

Loved making this, though I think I have hit the limit of what I can print with 15yo gouache and a shitty sponge. I'd love to buy better tools and new lino plates to do a lot more of those, but I can barely afford food. If anyone wants to help me, any amount helps: liberapay.com/Tootkin/