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Art blog of a sleepy comic artist from the Netherlands. Lots of animal and fantasy art, occasionally fandom stuff. PM or send an ask if you have any questions or comments ^^

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My part of a prompt + palette exchange collab hosted by @achromant

Welcome to the court of the last surviving stryx ~

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There was a false wolfspider on my stairs yesterday. Very big girl who gave me a bit of a fright, but she was a good model!

Here's photos.

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More museum drawings. Some of the specimens at the museum had been dressed up for carnaval, so you understand I had to draw a few.

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Fossil/fossil reconstruction sketches! Got to see some mosasaurs :3

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Rat king, passenger pigeons. Really cool to see real taxidermy of these guys.

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4 10 24

4: what flower would you like to be given?

Ooh hmm. I rather like foxgloves, sunflowers and the kievitsbloem/fritillaria meleagris (apparently they're called snake's heads in English so that's fun). Those last ones grow at my work each spring. Poppies are also good, they're so vibrant.

If I get to receive a flower, I'm gonna say dandelion though. There's no real harm in plucking them since they grow everywhere here and the sap from their leaves relieves nettle stings. When I'm hiking through nettles I can usually find dandelions to help me out!

10: what’s something you’re excited for?

My parents are moving to my town in a couple of months, which means I can just drop by them for tea in the future :)

24: what’s something you do to de-stress?

I listen to podcasts, watch a comfort show or just sleep. If the weather is nice I'll go for a walk, but ideally I'd get out of the city because I need to be alone to truely relax, plus I need to be in nature. I feel at my best physically when I'm hiking in the mountains.

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soft asks to get to know people

what song makes you feel better?

what’s your feel-good movie?

what’s your favorite candle scent?

what flower would you like to be given?

who do you feel most you around?

say three nice things about yourself (three physical and three non-physical).

what color brings you peace?

tag someone (or multiple people) who make you feel good. 

what calms you down?

what’s something you’re excited for?

what’s your ideal date?

how are you?

what’s your comfort food?

favorite feel-good show?

for every emoji you get, tag someone and describe them in one word.

compliment the person who sent you this number.

fairy lights or LED lights?

do you still love stuffed animals?

most important thing in your life?

what do you want most in the world right now?

if you could tell your past self one thing, what would it be?

what would you say to your future self?

favorite piece of clothing?

what’s something you do to de-stress?

what’s the best personal gift someone could give you (playlist, homemade card, etc.)

what movie would you want to live in?

which character would you want to be?

hugs or hand-holding?

morning, afternoon or night?

what reminds you of home (doesn’t have to mean house… just things that remind you of the feeling of home)?

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OCtober week 4, AU week :)

Prompts were:

22: mermaid

23: cowboy

24: coffeeshop/maid cafe

25: tv-show

26: pirate

27: hero/villain swap

28: monster

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Reminder for any Dutch people following me, don't forget to vote today!

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OC-tober week 2 (that I completed a week late) was crossover themed, every character besides Liam & Remi belongs to their respective owner.

Prompts are:

8: First Contact (ft. Skee-Skee and Sal & Sindri)

9: Friends/Allies (ft. Dagmar & Zero and Sin)

10: World Swap (ft. Bee & Amby and Jasper & his band)

11: Dream/Nightmare (ft. Tenebra and Atti)

12: Fight (ft. Mugi and Lovidicus)

13: Outfit Swap (ft. Morrigan, Greggoregg, Tetra and Taran)

14: Date/Playdate (ft. Heal and Bette)

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I'm doing a drawing challenge this october, following @wilanco 's OC-tober list :)

Prompts are:

Portrait

Morning routine

Favourite object

Having fun

Alternate outfit

Power

Lore

(These are all photos I took with my phone so the image quality is less than my usual. I'm switching back to scans for the next week of prompts)

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Remi's part of the speed date event. He had a good time meeting other scaley folk but a bad time trying to wrap his head around the concept of dating and romance. I still have one more drawing to finish of these.

The characters of Sin, Taran, and Aristeo belong to their respective owners!

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And here's one more of him being the world's worst wingman to @golly-gaggle 's Thaala.

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Remi's part of the speed date event. He had a good time meeting other scaley folk but a bad time trying to wrap his head around the concept of dating and romance. I still have one more drawing to finish of these.

The characters of Sin, Taran, and Aristeo belong to their respective owners!

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My character Liam's adventures during the date night event I mentioned earlier. He met a lot of different people and had some interesting chats before being matched to @boobun 's character Bette and hitting it off :)

All other characters belong to their respective owners!

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I've been DM'ing (sorta) a speed date event for ocs in the Hetherev discord server. These are all the intermezzo comics I made, based on the shenanigans that ensued in everyone's dates!

All characters belong to their respective owners, only the slug host and the little mothman-cryptid guy were made up by me :3

Big thanks to @doodleconner for coming up with the idea for the thread, it's been a ton of fun!

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We're doing assigning neopets & subeta brushes/potions to each other's characters over on Discord. Really fun :)

Riftborn potion & Tyrannian paintbrush respectively :3