Tasha's Tales

Ok, I've ended up busier today than I thought I would be, but if you've never seen this page flipped right side up, I keep a copy of it like this in my chapters folder and thought I'd share.

She's right, it should be obvious... It should be in the pocket of Big Peeping.

3d printed start gate

For @madgedothorse

Wait for it...

I'm sorry, Maia, but you willingly chased after him. You chose your fate. (babysmooth)

Every time this painting gets tagged for Astarion I'm just staring at Audric like

SACRIFICIAL LAMB... You will receive our most sacred body. It begins now!

I’ve posted a lot of reposts lately too, so have a preserved sketch screencap for now

Normally textless pages are patreon rewards, but I really like these panels as illustrations…. So, we can cheat a little. Here, clean shots of these goobs.

All 13 full moons of 2023

Every look ICONIC! Our lady can NOT flop!

everyone should attempt an artisan craft at some point in their life because it would cut down the number of comments questioning why handmade goods like ceramics or textile craft or woodworking are so expensive

and this is an unrealistic expectation, but I think the attempt should include seeing through to the end at least one "finished" item, no matter how clumsy or lumpy your first attempts might be. like to me, there's a huge difference in perspective between attempting to learn how to crochet or throw a pot for a few days, acknowledging that it's harder than it looks and giving up, versus committing to finishing that scarf or clay pot you started and working on it for weeks while you painstakingly learn from your mistakes and grow attached to your project while also simultaneously hating it.

once you finish the latter, your perspective changes from "why does this crocheted blanket cost $200" to "holy shit I can't believe they're charging $200 for this crocheted blanket instead of $2000" because you may have known crocheting is hard, you may have easily agreed with the idea that "handmade goods take time and effort" even before attempting a craft, but now you know firsthand the absolute time sink it takes to make things. like yeah dude, that one item took you 2 months to make and probably wasn't even an ultra complex item if it was the first thing you made, now imagine attaching an hourly wage to that time to calculate the cost (and this is ignoring every nuance of the artistic element and master crafters being able to work faster/charge higher because of their years and years of experience)

anyway this rant has been motivated by a comment I saw on someone else's ceramic post asking why a mug was $60 and they understand it's handmade but $60 just seems overpriced, and bro do you know how long ceramics take to make. that mug probably took at minimum 3 weeks between how long it takes to throw the mug, dry partially, trim the mug, dry fully, bisque fire, wait a day for the kiln to cool, sand and paint and glaze, glaze fire, wait a day for the kiln to cool, take product photography of the mug, write description and list the mug online for sale, im not even including the skill needed to complete all these steps without the mug literally exploding or collapsing while also making it an appealing piece of art, aaaaaaaaaaaaa

my fun fact addendum I'm adding to this is that unlike knitting, crocheting quite literally cannot be replicated by machine, so if you see "mass manufactured" crochet items on retail shelves for retail prices lol. they weren't mass manufactured and someone was underpaid for that

Learning to spin thread and yarn from wild plants has really given me an appreciation for how priceless textiles were for the majority of human history.

Like it requires someone to gather the plants, process them to get the fibers out (could involve retting them and beating them) process the fibers even more so they're workable (beat them even more and comb them out and separate out any debris that's left) spin them into a thread, gather more plants to dye the thread, then keep spinning threads until you have a BUNCH of threads, then you have to arrange the threads on your loom the way you want them and weave the threads together passing the weft back and forth back and forth back and forth until you have a cloth, then you have to turn that cloth into clothes someone can wear, and you know i'm pretty sure that by the time you're done with it that thing has a soul.

All I’ve posted lately are thumbnails and rough sketches lol but a nice commenter a while back asked if I could post more of these as I work, so here we are.

After some Brain Think I decided to include the finished color after all.

Visiting brother on the island for his 15th birthday. I like both border versions so you can have both!

Next day bump for these two. The full sized version of this is also now available on the Solivaga Patreon, including a character-free, fully finished version of the background as an asset for use!

Never posted these full bodies for Audric, did I? So here he is, in keeping with tradition.

Those sketches when a character starts to really look like themselves for the first time are always fun to go back again. This one is so old now! Thought Audric deserved at least a nice presentation for his birthsketch.