Sketches and Scrawls

he/him | Short and full of hubris, and I draw.

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Back before we were dating, my girlfriend read this book called Pride and Platypus where Mr Darcy turns into a platypus on the full moon, and I drew this for her but I figure yall would like it too

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I drew something for the first time in eight months and it's that scene in the first Shades of Magic book where Kell is keeping Lila from jumping out and fighting Holland bc something about that scene got me

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HE'S SUPPOSED TO BE TWENTY-EIGHT????

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Huh I might have my first imitator. I mean I don't own the idea of doing the character in a specific style, but it's the same character, similar background, similar pose, similar swirly stuff, just less detailed

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I drew something for the first time in eight months and it's that scene in the first Shades of Magic book where Kell is keeping Lila from jumping out and fighting Holland bc something about that scene got me

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I'm just umbershift over on bluesky but I am there

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i think ive said smth to a similar effect before but let it be known that i reread tags on my art like genuinely a Lot

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Let me die, let me drown, lay my bones in the ground, I will still come around when the time for sleep is through

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Something about how we often treat others the way we're accustomed to being treated ourselves

See under the cut for me getting emotional

Look ok look I have to imagine Crokas seeing the tired kids and thinking on some level "oh I know what you're supposed to do here" because FIEDRA DID THAT FOR HIM.

It makes me think of these brothers I had when I was a camp counselor who were both on the older end of the age range for my group, like 11 and 9 or something. The older brother was great and always looking out for the younger brother, and at some point I noticed the young brother basically imitating what his brother did for him towards the younger kids. Checking in, helping them on hikes, sharing toys. So, I don't know, love and care gets paid forward I guess.

I have to wonder how Fiedra felt watching Crokas carry those kids. Was she proud? I hope she was proud. I would have been proud

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I wasn’t even pretending when this happened, Dulee short-circuited so bad she reached out of the game and got me too

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It’s Dulee again 🏔️🪓🃏

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Hands you sketches of Ashton

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Something about how we often treat others the way we're accustomed to being treated ourselves

See under the cut for me getting emotional

Look ok look I have to imagine Crokas seeing the tired kids and thinking on some level "oh I know what you're supposed to do here" because FIEDRA DID THAT FOR HIM.

It makes me think of these brothers I had when I was a camp counselor who were both on the older end of the age range for my group, like 11 and 9 or something. The older brother was great and always looking out for the younger brother, and at some point I noticed the young brother basically imitating what his brother did for him towards the younger kids. Checking in, helping them on hikes, sharing toys. So, I don't know, love and care gets paid forward I guess.

I have to wonder how Fiedra felt watching Crokas carry those kids. Was she proud? I hope she was proud. I would have been proud

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I was rereading Vorkosigan books which made me think about Penric and Desdemona and I realized I never posted this thing of that one moment on the hill from Penric’s Mission

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Also I’m rereading Words of Radiance and it’s making me want to touch up Kaladin and Shallan and finish the illustration of Adolin I have sketched out

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Do you have a "favourite" physical trait to give to your OCs? If so, what is it?

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I finally figured out how to make Elene interesting to me and all I had to do was make the person who got kidnapped a girl instead of a guy. Girl goes unhinged over a guy? Tired. Overdone. Girl goes unhinged over her Close Friend™️? Now we’re getting somewhere