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another so far unused D&D character I'm looking forward to playing!

This is Patient Zero (or Patient 0, or Zero, or 0), a human (debatably) cleric of the Trickery domain.

This is another ballpoint sketch (technically two) photographed with my horrible little phone camera and edited digitally.

#my art #dnd character #sketch #ignore the handwriting i thought it was a good idea in the moment. i needed something to fill the space.

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WIP Character concept I gave up on; originally a physical sketch in ballpoint pen, edited and colored digitally in Krita.

I apologize for the weird artifacts and such from the base photo. I didn't feel like taking the time to fix those. My camera sucks, the lighting was bad, and, frankly, the editing process overall is hugely tedious and I just wanted to color. Some of the paper's texture is left in, though, and I like that.

#my art #sketch #digital art #< but only technically. #eh normally i wouldn't post traditional art at all #it isn't my thing. i'm bad at it. #but my tremor has been flaring up super bad lately! #and art block. and general misery anguish etc. #you know. the horrors. #such is art #only the ballpoint pen is immune #a sacred instrument. i highly recommend sketching all the time with a cheap ballpoint pen. #it is freeing

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Not that anyone's wondering, but the reason I haven't been posting is because I haven't been drawing, and the reason I haven't been drawing is because I rediscovered Minecraft

#at this rate i may never leave the mines #i haven't played frequently since like. 1.12-ish #so every time i get into it post-caves and cliffs i'm just blown away i love the new world-gen #and recently i discovered terralith and tectonic #and guys. guys. it's so pretty? #i can never go back. i love stupidly tall mountains and such #anyway. back on the grind. #i have so much i need to be doing that i'm just not doing because i'm doing this instead. sigh.

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I'm trying backgrounds with gradient maps

#hollow knight

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Finally designing and re-designing some characters for Northbound!

#my art #digital art #krita #made in krita #oc #northbound comic #northbound characters #you may be wondering why this one isn't named. #it's because i can't talk about it. at all #name personality backstory. anything #spoilers upon spoilers. i probably shouldn't share its design except that i haven't drawn anything in a week and i'm really proud of her

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People used to comment on web comics.

People used to comment on fanfiction.

People used to comment on fanart.

People used to comment on OCs.

I hate "content" culture.

I hate "consuming content" and scrolling immediately to the next thing.

People used to be excited about the art that other people created.

People used to want to share that excitement with creators.

I hate this future.

#i find that in a lot of places #there isn't even the option to comment anymore #specifically with webcomics i mean #and comment sections on platforms like tapas and such tend to be empty. total ghost towns #as an aspiring comic creator i want to see what i can do to foster that kind of community but #it feels like an uphill battle

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making pongorma a girldad effective immediately

also here's him telling her about how he used to stink so bad it killed people

#hylics

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#my art #old art #i do not remember making this but i enjoy looking at it #what's this kid's story? no clue #not my problem anymore #they do look like the protagonist of like. a 3d platformer #very rayman/kirby coded

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Some more unused D&D characters, while I'm at it- this time, NPCs for a campaign setting.

I won't get too far into their story, at the (admittedly small) risk of spoiling it for the actual players, but... They're sweet, and I love them!

#my art #digital art #dnd #dnd npc

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Here's a glorious sketch of Elren, an air genasi I made for a campaign that never actually got going.

I adore him.

#my art #dnd #dnd character #old art #well. sorta old #january of this year #he's kind of a graceful himbo following a prophecy that isn't actually for him #and stumbles into a completely separate adventure as a result #and he's trying to make signs he sees in the stars (again. meant for another hero) #fit the current campaign. when they just. Do Not. #i love him dearly and i cannot wait to find a place for him

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LYMPHOCYTIC HARVEST-PRIEST (ballpoint pen)

CRYSALID FLUID HARVEST (dip pen and acrylic ink)

#body horror #vaguely reminds me of hylics and that one psychological horror game that was lost for a bit #what was it? bad dream garage simulator or something #its not important i just think these look cool! and sorta trippy i don't know

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Don't you just hate it when you fall out of bounds?

Inspired by and featuring lyrics from, of course, Houses in Motion, by Talking Heads.

(some alts under the read more, I couldn't make up my mind with the text)

#my art #krita #made in krita #digital art #krita art

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this took way longer than it should have, but I tried krita for the first time!!! still getting use to it so this isn't the best, but I adore the lineart I did :DDD

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Oh my god he’s doing it!!

#hylics

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Or Was It Never Mine?

Based on, named for, and featuring lyrics from Bittersweet Timpani by WOOZE!

This is probably the last one I'll be sharing from the portfolio. Of the last three, one is very personal, and two were scrap I pulled together right as I got hit with pretty severe art block.

It's one of my favorites, though- I feel like, of the bunch, it best displays the progress I was making, and exemplifies a bit of a breakthrough for me. I wish I kept going from here, but... what can you do?

#my art #22-23.portfolio #old art #digital art #krita #made in krita #wooze #wooze band #that art block persisted for about a year and a half-ish #i didn't think i was ever going to come out of it #you always do though. one way or another #it feels nice to be back at it again

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Through Days & Doors

Based on, named for, and features lyrics from Vundabar's Deep Water, from their very best album, Devil For The Fire.

it is a little rough around the edges. There are things I did really, really well, followed immediately by things I did really, really badly. eh, that's art, I guess? Of all the pieces to look a little like trash, at least this one is sorta fitting.

It was all going well right up until line art, which is a pretty common theme with most of my pieces, and a process I've ditched relatively recently- from roughlyyy Spell Of Absurdity [this piece here] onward, I just don't do line art! And it's great and I love it and I wish I could say this is where I learned that lesson but any lesson worth learning takes a few tries. or several years!

#my art #22-23.portfolio #old art #digital art #krita #made in krita #vundabar #if you're wondering what those glyphs mean. so am i! #i cannot for the life of me find the ref document #apparently a lot of stuff got lost when i downloaded my google drive and now i don't have access to my school email so. #it's gone now :/

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"It Never Went Away"

Based on, named for, and featuring lyrics from Morning Star, by Fever The Ghost.

A god captured by their own people powers a city at the heart of a frozen planet, keeping the last remnant of civilization alive. Those chains are meaningless, and everyone knows it- but the god stays, unwilling to turn against their creation even after this betrayal.

#my art #22-23.portfolio #old art #digital art #krita #made in krita #fever the ghost #and make no mistake #at no point during this entire process did i know where i was going with this piece #from start to finish i was making it up. i did all of those windows by hand with no idea what the rest of the city was gonna look like and #by about two or three dozen windows i was in too much pain to turn back #quick note on the song itself by the way #if you are not familiar with fever the ghost. post-hiatus fever the ghost is a very different creature than pre-hiatus fever the ghost #both good #but both very different