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I'm always seeing this sentiment of "I have got to make my art weirder" or people begging for weirder art but here's the thing, Weird is not a brand. You cannot rack your brains trying to figure out the "Weird" formula. You don't get weird art by artificially forcing whatever you think is "weird." You get weird art (and I think "weird" is sometimes people groping for a way of saying non-corporatized) by figuring out what you like, deep down, even (especially) if you think it's embarrassing and wallowing in it like a pig
malacandrax reblogged
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young Halsin as Jack 🍃💚 - Legend 1985 screencap redraw!
I got a couple of REALLY nice asks about the emotions in my nsfw stuff but I don't want to answer them on this account- however, I appreciate it a lot!!!
Your blog feels like.... One of those boxes of stuff you find and everything you pull out is something you end up playing with for 15 minutes and rather than end up clearing everything out you end up with a bunch more stuff you want to keep forever that you have to find space for with 0 regrets
oh!!!! this is SO NICE :') thank you for responding... oh my god... printing this out and keeping it forever in a box of stuff I never throw out :') Wah, this is so soft!
I actually deleted the prompt JUST before I saw that someone replied because I got embarrassed for asking for attention sjhfbjkdf but I am so happy to hear this ;;
i am forbidden from making this next comic too nice, putting this here so I hold myself to it, because I keep *colouring* and it takes ages.
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Anonymous asked:
Autistic hc for consideration: Halsin met Thaniel because he ran off into the woods as a kid to calm down after he was overwhelmed. And exploring the woods isn't odd for a wood elf, so nobody questioned it.
Yes! Nature spirits are also VERY shy and reclusive by default, so Thaniel recognized a kindred spirit.
this! this!!
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On a splendid walk!
I finished making this guy, v inspired by @slocotion, old clown dolls, and Vanessa Stockard. I'm not sure what to call him, Timothy, maybe!
I keep forgetting to draw his little cat, aah 🫠
Anonymous asked:
forgive me if this sounds dismissive, but im curious how kid-starion is still... astarion. Like yeah its his name but everything about his childhood and life was kinda erased when he became a spawn. Is there something tragic in kid-starions future that turns him into a facimile of the character, or is he speculative of what astarions life might have been if he was never turned?
I think you have put more thought into this ask than i have into the au haha. I think the only thing making kidstarion astarion is the viewer having a connection to his character. Its nice to draw him getting comfort and love without having all the boundaries and trauma to work through, and a baby is a very easy way to do that. It's more of an au for people that want comfort content than it is for plot.
Ok I was thinking about this ask and forgot to check it before I started drawing, so Halsin is the one with a cold oops! (Astarion gave it to him in the first place)
lots of portrait painting experiments in the most recent sketchbook update (sfw $1 tier) Not all bg3 but a few of 'em!
Anonymous asked:
hi sry this is a lil long but i just felt like giving my own comments about ur post re: feeling left out/regarding more detailed work, and wanted to say that your work singlehandedly has inspired me SO much to the point that because of your more simplistic coloring/shading and focus on movement/body language, i was finally able to find a coloring/rendering style that i actually like aesthecially and enjoy doing! i've struggled w replicating color in a way i like digitally for over 6 years but your work, and especially so your sketchbook scans on patreon have been so useful for inspiration and for my own understanding of anatomy and what not. we're always our own worst critics with comparison and whatnot, but please know that your work and your style are a huge accomplishment and skill in their own right, and your comics inspire me to keep studying so i can one day make my own!!! i'm so thankful you share your work with us and to have come across it and be able to draw inspiration off it! your colors, expressions, and the palpable intimacy and dynamic character interactions are so amazing and specifically unique to your work, never doubt the impact it has just because of other's having a different style or approach or something <3
This is so extremely nice I don't even know what to say!!! I honestly feel so hyped that my style inspired someone else, I feel like it's not something I expected and its SO COOL. I sometimes feel like my style isn't particularly STYLISH you know, I often admire really strong punchy styles, so it's nice to hear my own kind of chiller style is inspiring! And that the things I enjoy come across as strengths, too! Also I am so happy to hear someone enjoys my sketchbooks haha, they're really precious to me but I also try not to be too fussy about my art in them which means it's not 'beautiful'*- they're for studying and/or chilling out, so it's SO nice that it's inspiring nonetheless! Wishing you the best in your art journey and also I think if you want to make comics you should just give it a go! Make teeny tiny comics! [it does not have to be good] [tangent oh my god] I feel very hypocritical because for the longest time comics were something my friends made and I didn't know how to, and I felt like my style didn't work for comics, but honestly when I eventually sat down and started a long comic the style happened out of necessity, I Had to simplify or I wouldn't be able to keep up. And you can see from the links that I just did sketchy comics before and that was fine! I think it was just as valuable as making polished pages. I actually probably ended up making comics For Real because I made a silly fandom ask blog, where I kept wanting to say more than I could do in one image, and that gave me the confidence to try something longer with OC's.
ANYWAY thank you so much!
*I find polished sketchbooks so inspiring, but its so limiting imo to try to make a beautiful sketchbook HAHAHAH
Meet the artist but far away and kind of cryptic