Randa's world

A cozy place for my thoughts and musings ~

[toasty-tealeaf]

Finally got around to putting this little video together of dad showing off Lizzie! Starts out with a clean sound to demonstrate the basics. Then the rest is with that iconic rock n roll vibe.

Read on for my personal insight. <3

This project was extremely close to my heart. Dad and I built it together. And it really feels like a tangible representation of my musical bond with my parents who played in a rock band my whole life.

The three of us are professional singers and I feel blessed to be able to share in their musical legacy. This Lizzie feels like a part of that now, in a way.

One of the main reasons why I was so passionate about making her a fully functioning guitar, besides the obvious "wow this would be really sick" thing, was because of all this. I wanted to create something collaboratively that coupled my visual art abilities with that musical expertise I was raised around.

Lizzie, as a character, means a lot to me too. Everything she could be seen to represent. Her relationship with Flare and all of the incredible character study going on there. The lessons their story teaches about humanity and the self.

Anyway, enjoy this video, and thank y'all for hanging out and watching this whole thing take shape. <3 Eventually I'm going to spruce up her paint job and add her claws but for now I think we all could use a bit of an intermission lol.

[invasivefungus46]

@numbsdoom

[detaylor]

i need y'all to know we had a bracket to vote on the best dumper emote in our work chat (yes we have enough of those for a full bracket) and this nokko dumper won unanimously

you are an icon and this nokko twerks on digital extremes staff regularly

[luckygoblinnn]

i had the absolute pleasure this year of drawing the community display showcasing our lovely verminia and her rats 💖🐀 channeling the cosplay energy we love from this community!! check it out as drop for tennocon live ✨

[detaylor]

oh to be two rats cuddling on verminia dressed as the lotus 😭

[silwarframe]

(⊙.☉)7

[upsidedownsmore]

I've had the immense pleasure to provide illustrations of Vena (proto-Garuda) and Ryoku (proto-Ash) for four Atragraph augment mods!! Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok here's the individual illustrations below smile

Dread Ward

Seeking Shuriken

Blood Forge

Smoke Shadow

Huge huge HUGE thank you to Digital Extremes for letting me put more funny scribbles in their game, especially in this fashion. This has been such an incredibly cool project to work on between this new(-ish) feature and these characters! Can't wait to see them in-game on June 17th <3

Sketch wips and other stuff under the cut!

Carrd | Ko-fi | Inprnt

And huge thanks to the team and community for all the kind words!!! It seriously means so so much after such an incredibly busy two months split between this and an unfortunately-timed new day job (that I left just last week lol lmao). Lots and lots of things I wish I had had more time and energy for and things I would have done differently, so it's an incredible feeling to see such immediate positive reception in spite of those doubts. Love you guys <3

(I'll try to reblog this post with a timelapse vid and in-game implementation whenever that stuff becomes available! In the meantime you can check it out over on ArtStation (which does have timelapses!))

[gojillar]

URIEL

[crowinat0r]

Executor Nitokh as Garuda’s Protoframe

Finally done! Challenging, but super fun thinking of ways to integrate warframe components into flesh

[crowinat0r]

No such thing as too much Garuda

Finished just in time for the next Dev stream! So excited for the year of the Blood Queen 🩸🩸🩸

[blaqkpen]

[muse-kr]

[josh-vader]

[gothredy]

[goth-queen]

[i-am-sako]

Today is the initial release of the chapter 1 demo for Diorama Break! It's a story-driven tactics RPG with an unusual narrative framing and a unique combat system! I'm the lead character artist for it, focusing mainly on the (pixel art) dialogue portraits and CGs, but I also helped with character designs and guided the overall art direction early on!

Check it out here!

There's still more work for us to do on it, so this initial release is also being treated as an open beta. Even so, I think the demo in its current state is something our team is happy to present! We all put a ton of effort into it and we hope people enjoy it! (also, if you end up playing the demo, please give us your honest feedback afterwards via the feedback form!)

On a personal note, this is the most ambitious project I've ever been a part of. I began to pursue working on games 10 years ago(!), and I've done pixel art for longer… finally having something I worked this long on actually get released is a big milestone for me! (a demo counts as something! It's been nearly three years of me being on this project...)

[autistichalsin]

My favorite thing about Halsin is that he unabashedly CARES and refuses to stop caring. No matter what he goes through. No matter how hopeless he feels. He refuses to stop caring, to the point that it causes him pain more often than not.

He refuses to stop caring about refugees. He refuses to accept Baldur's Gate's status quo. He refuses to stop fighting the Shadow Curse that everyone else wrote off as unbreakable. Even when captured by goblins, he tried to cure them of their tadpoles and only gave up on them when they started torturing him and threatening his Grove instead.

He refuses to stop caring about the state of the world, and the struggle between his duties as a Druid and his own desire for a family (because he also refuses to stop caring for the then-hypothetical children he dreamed of). He refuses to stop caring about the balance between humanity and nature. He refuses to stop caring about his devotion to Silvanus and he refuses to stop caring about his friends, even when one of them, as an undead, is the embodiment of everything Druids are supposed to hate as the summation of everything "unnatural."

He refuses to stop caring about the family he lost years ago. He refuses to stop caring about those under his watch, to the point that if the Druids die in the Druid vs Tiefling fight, Halsin blames himself instead of them.

He CARES. In a world that- very similar to ours- tries to punish and beat down people who care, that tries to wear them into a state of numb apathy, Halsin continues to love, and care, and want better for those who need it. He refuses to stop being the voice for the voiceless.

Every world needs a Halsin, or ideally many Halsins.

[iemon-pxl]

"rain"

[yoscamaeda]

Toward Nightfall