Tragedy Badger Art

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Wow, this is a draft from November 2024? 2025 has been rough for the art brain. I've been pretty overwhelmed by how terrible everything is, lmao. But I logged back in and realized I had 100% forgotten half of the art on here. Woo~ maybe I can get back into it this fall. :')

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Realized - I don’t think I ever posted this gift art I did for a friend of their cyberpunk character Harpe. :)

A lower res shot of the whole portrait + a close up of some lost details in the eyes. 💛

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feb 5 2025, glanced at a news headline.

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Cerys, the last lament of house arslan - my DM's original character, currently an NPC in our D&D campaign. :)

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Sometimes you wake up hungover, sometimes you wake up covered in blood after a night of werewolf or vampire shenanigans, etc. Who can judge anyone else, you know?

Photo reference from @nyxnaiastock! :)

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Mel Medarda, from Arcane, without her mother's mask, her mother, or her brother to help her carry the weight of all of Noxus.

(Image paired with the one in this post of Mel with her mother's mask)

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Mel Medarda from the show Arcane, wearing her mother’s mask :3 (Mask and markings are slightly quite inaccurate due to working off of a very low res ref and then being too tired/lazy/weak to go back and fix things once I got better quality refs…)

Bonus(? bonus for me, at least) versions with slightly different colors - the first of these was just fucking around with different effects on procreate (yay glitch!) and the second is with the original colors (which I liked) but it felt a little chaotic to look at because it was so bright, so muted it down for the final (up above).

Also, because she’s a ridiculously beautifully designed character, I got distracted for a bit painting her face below - this is rough and I may (likely?) go back to actually finish it because - again - *love* the design of her face!!

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Spoiler warning for my commentary

Digital sketch of Isha from Arcane, referenced from a scene in season 2 episode 6.

I cried looking for this frame and then cried staring at the frame. It was (in hindsight) very dramatic and hilarious (me crying and drawing and crying lmao not the scene). anyway, this show is ruining my life. Can’t wait for the last few episodes to drop!

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The last two weeks have been a lot for work reasons, but things are slowing down, and I am going to be back on my read Asunder train for another shift. In the meantime, just some random doodles while I try to land on a style that would work for things that need faster drawings.

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(younger) Ferain from the book Asunder by Kerstin Hall

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Determination.

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I haven’t figured out what I think Haeki looks like yet but had this like - one minute doodle that i proceeded to have too much fun with making a bunch of stupid expressions. These are a handful that I figured look normal enough to post, lmao. (She’s always huffing or scowling or mumbling and I have to admit, I love me a good grumpy character - and this book has two in the main party!)

I kind of feel like I need to find and re-read the descriptions of her before trying to paint her for real, because for some reason I initially thought that her hair was curly - but going back to the first description, it doesn’t say that - just says her hair got longer. Hmmm. More research needed.

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Found a few more interesting scraps, as well as some portraits done for others. I think, from the top left, Lady Maria for a friend that loves her, a portrait for someone on reddit, a scrapped joke painting I was making for friends in Destiny 2, and one tiny panel from a scrapped (there's a pattern here...) comic I was considering based on a cyberpunk campaign from a few years ago (blackwater belongs to my DM, etc etc).

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Karys and Ferain from Asunder by Kerstin Hall, based on Klimt's The Kiss. First: Original colors, Second: Experiment with gradient mapping.

Post-work coffee and some doodling while watching tv - I'm not sure if this is exactly what I wanted it to look like - I like it but may take another run at it at some point in the future, restarting with the sketch phase. I think I had just a little too much fun making all the little marks, lmao.

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Rough color sketch under the cut for Ferain and Karys from Asunder, riffing on Klimt's The Kiss. I know I have a problem. But I love The Kiss, and I wanted to take a stab at it for these two. 🥺 I'm excited to finish it when I get time.

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Trying very hard to figure out what the hounds look like in Asunder.

I had assumed they would look like Irish Wolfhounds, but then there was a description of them being headless AND they - multiply? reproduce? without any kind of human intervention? And the bowl thing is - I mean, is it like a horn that comes out of their back?

So anyway, I'm choosing to believe there's a tiny little corgi shaped hound in the city somewhere that can't actually carry anyone in its tiny little bowl seat thing but everyone loves anyway, right?

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Oh god, wait - does this mean there are puppy versions of these creatures??? Does their seating bowl...grow in like horns???

Also realized the headlessness makes the puppies look...like frozen turkeys in full sploot, lmao.

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Trying very hard to figure out what the hounds look like in Asunder.

I had assumed they would look like Irish Wolfhounds, but then there was a description of them being headless AND they - multiply? reproduce? without any kind of human intervention? And the bowl thing is - I mean, is it like a horn that comes out of their back?

So anyway, I'm choosing to believe there's a tiny little corgi shaped hound in the city somewhere that can't actually carry anyone in its tiny little bowl seat thing but everyone loves anyway, right?

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Environment studies also found in scraps, because I'm bad at backgrounds and very occasionally try to get some practice in. :')