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I have not posted on here for so long, but stay tuned for the original art for these characters soon?? Maybe???

Absolutely incredible work here, these have brought me much joy.

Legos!!!

For a friend (@cyanoferret)'s combined Christmas/Birthday gift, I made the iconic characters from the Sailor-Moon-inspired tabletop RPG that they've been designing. Because they're individual minifigures, rather than a full set - and because I come from the 40k miniatures tradition - I ended up painting them / sculpting onto them (Lego is a strange and unfamiliar land - does that make them MOCs?)

The box (it had to be given in a box, for the bit)!

The party!

This next character is a 'punk catgirl' type of character - hard-bitten, a little on the edge, cool and Void-Queen-May-Care. Cloak is a modified Batman cloak, bell is a de-winged Golden Snitch, and the hair/ears are sculpted onto the bandana.

Next up, we have a more 'familiar' Magical Girl type character, in the Sailor Moon model. Due to the mini I used, she's ended up a bit more like a businesswoman? Based on a Hagrid body, with a sculpted mantle, and a staff made out of Loki's helmet's horns (the only suitably crisp 'crescent' I could find). The coat is meant to be 'mother of pearl' coloured - I couldn't do the full opalescence on a flat matt plane, but figured that the glints of white/purple/green do the job OK.

Upsetting robot fairy. I've always been struck by the fact that the character in question is rendered more realistically, so I ended up using a Bellview character for the moulded face and more 'human' proportions - I think it worked?

Horrible/lovely space alien disguised as a traditional Sailor Moon type character. The armour and legs are from Atlantis, the head is a modded Groot (with a spray of Milliput 'eyes'), and the mask is a Toy Story Wendy head that I sawed down to fit (VERY disturbing to do).

Sailor ... Sun, I guess? Carrying a big fusion reactor hammer. This one was the first I did, and the gold is (imitation) gold leaf). It's a bit scratched in places, but it's worth it for how much it glows, more than gold paint could ever do. As the leader, she's also the tallest - since she has the Hagrid 'coat' body, normal legs, and a bit of extra height on her neck where I rebuilt the epaulettes.

In all but a few cases, where I had to sculpt the model together, they remain perfectly 'functional' lego figures, too - hands can grip objects, they can stand on blocks, bend at the legs, rotate heads, etc.

All in all, it was super fun to do (I was shocked at how cheap and more-ish Bricklink is, especially when you're just getting a few common bits and don't care about the colours), and the painting worked really well - separate them up into individual pieces, superglue them onto a wooden stick, prime them, paint them (I used gouache because it was what I had to hand and what I'm used to), but acrylic would work too), and then give them a ton of matt plastikote sprays. It gives a kind of satiny- finish once you're on the third spray, but for everything other than the grips on weapons etc., it's pretty robust.

#did not realise that was imitation gold leaf. incredible. #reblog

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I think I posted this before, but seemed like a good opportunity to repost

the massive power of trains yet confinement to a single path makes them comparable to angels

#train #angel #trangel #traingel?

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I basically never reblog stuff here but I’m making an exception for this. I watched the first ep of Arcane a couple of days ago and it was good - really good. I have no desire to play the game, but I have long admired the character design and the work of other artists associated with it. But I always had a weird nagging feeling about it which I couldn’t quite put into words, and I think this at least partially explains it.

When I watch Arcane, I want the people with money to know it has nothing to do with the branding and absolutely everything to do with the astounding design and animation work. I really hope we get to see more things like it.

The Arcane Question. “Why do they get to decide what we make beautiful.”

Source 1.

Source 2.

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Another redraw/slight redesign of my cyborg catgirl character, Felicity

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#catgirl #cyborg #scifi #scifiart #character art #character illustration #digital art

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Having a no-thoughts-head-empty time just redrawing some old characters right now.

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#skull #witch #skull witch #girls with skulls #girls with horns #digital art

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My tiefling warlock, Maya, from an ongoing D&D campaign.

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#tiefling #warlock #dnd #d&d #d&d art #character art #girls with horns

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Ribbonhead

#object head #surreal #body horror #digital #digital art #illustration #art #artists on tumblr

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A journalist and a vigilante, commissioned for a Discworld tabletop RPG.

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#commission #character portrait #discworld #steampunk #character art #digital illustration #and I know I'm a little late but #gnu terry pratchett

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My Final Fantasy XIV character, Broken Goddess*. She’s a Dragoon-main Roegadyn.

*The naming convention for her cultural background is [adjective] [noun] - this is by far the best name I've ever had from a game's inbuilt random name generator. It also sure is something when stranger NPCs address her as 'Mistress Goddess' while her friends just call her 'Broken'.

#ffxiv #ff14 #final fantasy #roegadyn #dragoon #hellsguard #shadowbringers #character portrait #character art #fanart #digital art

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Candlehares

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#hare #candle #fantasy creature #cryptid #fire #wax #fantasy #fantasy art #artists on tumblr

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It’s Mermay!

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#mermay #mermaid #mermay2021 #fantasy #character design #character art #illustration #art #drawing #artists on tumblr

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Caught a bug.

Sketch trying out some soft shading and digital tools I don’t normally use.

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#insect #bug #body horror #girlswithantennae #fantasy art #fantasy #digital art #digital illustration #artists on tumblr

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Another commission, a character in the style of one from the anime series Hypnosis Mic.

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#hypnosis mic #hypmic #commission #character art #character illustration #digital art

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Kayleigh, my pop idol banshee for a ttrpg.

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#pop idol #pastel #pastel goth #pastel punk #character art #character design #digital illustration

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Commission for a D&D group celebrating the finale of a very long-running campaign.

#dnd #pirates #d&d #character art #character illustration #commission #bard #warlock #paladin #rogue

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Another commission of another ttrpg magical girl - an updated look for this character!

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#magical girl #commission #character art #ttrpg #character illustration #digital illustration

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A recent commission of a magical-girl-turned-vampire. (Update of this character!)

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#magical girl #vampire #commission #ttrpg #character art #character illustration #digital art