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Whenever I see an Ivan Aivazovski painting the sea monster in me goes absolutely feral

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Girls Make Games Charity Hootenanny - Whispers in the West

Ya like cool charities? Do you like western mysteries? Then do I have the combo for you! TOMORROW My friends and I are doing a charity stream to raise funds for Girls Make Games! Featuring the upcoming co-op murder mystery game Whispers in the West by Team Dissonant!

We'll be going live on twitch at 7:00pm EST, 5:00 MT, tomorrow on Monday June 5th! Don't miss it!

Twitch 🔗 https://www.twitch.tv/harry_monster

And if you wanna get the ball rolling early, you can donate to the charity campaign here!

🔗 https://tiltify.com/@harry-monster/girls-make-games-whispers-in-the-west

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Girls Make Games Charity Hootenanny - Whispers in the West

Ya like cool charities? Do you like western mysteries? Then do I have the combo for you! TOMORROW My friends and I are doing a charity stream to raise funds for Girls Make Games! Featuring the upcoming co-op murder mystery game Whispers in the West by Team Dissonant!

We'll be going live on twitch at 7:00pm EST, 5:00 MT, tomorrow on Monday June 5th! Don't miss it!

Twitch 🔗 https://www.twitch.tv/harry_monster

And if you wanna get the ball rolling early, you can donate to the charity campaign here!

🔗 https://tiltify.com/@harry-monster/girls-make-games-whispers-in-the-west

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Some custom art I made for my Curse of Strahd Campaign! Mostly art for the player characters, and some wild and wacky NPCs. You can watch us play the game live over on my twitch channel!

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Working on revitalizing this art tumblr and getting it back up and running. So hello again!

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Hollywood has no concept of what 5th century Romans looked like. If I'm watching a movie about the final days of the Western Roman Empire, I should be seeing zero togas. It's like if you made a movie about the Trump administration, you wouldn't have people dressed like the founding fathers. That's how wrong it is.

This is what 5th century Romans looked like:

I think the problem is that pop culture has this theme park version of history that treats time periods like distinct worlds with no fluidity between them. In Roman Times, people dressed like this vs Medieval Times when people dressed like that. But that is obviously not how time works. The end of the Western Roman Empire led directly into and overlapped with the Middle Ages, and the aesthetics we associate with medieval Europe were already long established.

On a related note, the "barbarians" didn't dress like you think they did either. Less of this:

More of this:

(Art by Angus McBride)

Again, the end of the Western Roman Empire was the beginning of medieval Europe, and it already looked like it.

The notable exception was the Franks, who apparently really did dress like that:

There really is an exception to everything, and it's usually the French.

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How about a Wizard Staff that is actually a big magical stick bug familiar

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One of my favorite thing I’ve learned about animals studies is that you should avoid using colorful leg bands when you’re banding birds because you can accidentally completely skew the data because female birds prefer males with colorful bands

Apparently if you put a red band on a male red wing blackbird his harem size can double

So like you can completely frick up the natural reproduction of a group of birds by giving a guy a bracelet so stylish that females CANNOT resist him

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One of my favorite thing I’ve learned about animals studies is that you should avoid using colorful leg bands when you’re banding birds because you can accidentally completely skew the data because female birds prefer males with colorful bands

Apparently if you put a red band on a male red wing blackbird his harem size can double

So like you can completely frick up the natural reproduction of a group of birds by giving a guy a bracelet so stylish that females CANNOT resist him

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Drew this as gift for my friends last winter! Last year I started up a DnD group with some of my friends and I made this poster of their characters as a holiday gift. I had a rough year, but having wonderful people in your corner makes a world of difference. Things are gonna get better.❤️

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This was a class project to make a Narrative Map of a place, so I choose to do a “supernatural” map of the town of Binghamton, New York and map out some local landmarks and legends.

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Last Summer I worked at a Renaissance Fair running the Axe-Throwing game! It was quite an experience and I could probably make a few journal comics about it, I just need to settle on a style for these.

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History of Frankenstein!

This is a poster design I did for a class, I’m still pretty happy with it, and it was even featured in the 2017 New York Statewide Lakeside Juried Art Exhibition!

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Spot illustration I did for an illustration class. We had to do an illustration that would match a news article, so I based this on the Graffiti Revolt in  São Paulo which you can read about here. https://news.vice.com/story/sao-paulos-graffiti-artists-revolt-after-mayor-attempts-to-paint-the-city-grey

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Some fanart for the new arc of the Adventure Zone! Super fun podcast by the hilarious McElroy family. http://www.maximumfun.org/shows/adventure-zone

I’m kinda experimenting with my coloring so critique and feedback is more than welcome!

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Doctor Helen Montour! She'll break your arm and then fix it for you afterwards, and “Sharptooth” Szrük the fishy boi, a mean blue-green killing machine, created by my dear friend Snides twitter.com/Mr_JDSnyder

One of these days we’ll figure out a story for them

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A Gang of Badventurers! Little story concept I have about a happy-go-lucky goody-two-shoes Cleric ending up in a party of chaotic necromancers, accursed undead, and forsaken warriors. Shenanigans ensue!