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There need to be a slice of life manga where the protagonist is a big buff half orc who's nervous and sweet and falls for a nice elf boy.

Also her parents are a huge female orc warrior trying to be a housewife the best she can and the father is a normal human male.

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Trying to learn how to draw again after not doing it for a year so this is pretty bad but I’m trying. God knows I’m trying

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Been a while since I’ve been on tumblr!!! Here’s an adult Louise sketch 🩷

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elf who has insane body dysmorphia because they’re like 1/10th dwarf and have been lead to believe by their own culture that they’re noticeably abnormally stocky and hairy but nobody understands what they’re self conscious about because to everyone who isn’t a judgemental dick they look like a gorgeous muscular amazon with eyebrow volume people would murder for

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thinking on him

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sometimes you just gotta draw huge ears braless elf

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Middle-Eastern paladin lady commission

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Also, if you want any of these illustrations as a print, t-shirt, phone case or more, you can find it on my Redbubble! You can also find more art by myself and my sister on there!

After over a year of hard work, my collection of medieval-style Silmarillion illustrations is finally in print! If you’re a fan of my work and/or the Silmarillion and want to get your hands on this thing, you can grab yourself a copy right here on my Etsy!

@ Tolkien Estate please don’t sue me 😅

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After over a year of hard work, my collection of medieval-style Silmarillion illustrations is finally in print! If you’re a fan of my work and/or the Silmarillion and want to get your hands on this thing, you can grab yourself a copy right here on my Etsy!

@ Tolkien Estate please don’t sue me 😅

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After over a year of hard work, my collection of medieval-style Silmarillion illustrations is finally in print! If you’re a fan of my work and/or the Silmarillion and want to get your hands on this thing, you can grab yourself a copy right here on my Etsy!

@ Tolkien Estate please don’t sue me 😅

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Here’s my final piece for Out of the Closet: An LGBT+ Monster Zine, organized by @lizeerdart! Thank you to everyone who supported the project! 💖🐺

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In the orc tongue it’s known by the name “Grumalg’atesh” in the common tongue “our people’s refuge”. Founded 600 years ago when the nomadic orc tribes were pushed east by natural disaster and foreign settlers, for many years it lived up to its namesake. A refuge to the lost, sanctuary to the lost, home of those displaced.

Little did its people know that the ruins Grumalg’atesh was built upon was once Aewthel Tal, “great bastion”, seat of the third elven empire.

Though hundreds of generations of orcs lived peacefully in their “new” home, only one elven generation passed. Many elven nobles remember the glory of Aewthel Tal; and would do anything to see the rise of their next empire.

“orcs are pig-like, tusked savages” they would tell the humans of the southern baronies “their god is a god of war and bloodshed who’d see your religion destroyed” they told the mountain kingdoms of the dwarves. “It’s OUR home not theirs” they told the feyfolk.

And lastly, they spread the literal translation of “our people’s refuge” to those who couldn’t hear the orcs’: “Do you know what they call it? Orc City, as if those barbarians could call it anything else”

Refuge, sanctuary, home, it was nothing now but the city that houses orcs, those cruel bloodthirsty savages.

And as the ash buries the markets and houses, soon it will be Aewthel Tal once more.

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A snake in Thailand spent enough time sitting still in the water to grow moss and turn into a dragon, apparently.

More video at the source account!

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hmmm….

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My 8-page comic for the Faster Than Light sci-fi anthology about how families maintain their bonds in a fast-paced, futuristic world and how they struggle to do so.

My particular comic, "The Ancient One Two", is about an ancient alien creature receiving help from a plucky archaeologist to reunite it with their long-lost spouse.

This is a draft version of my inked pages prior to making digital adjustments to the contrast and removing the blue pencil sketch lines underneath, as well as prior to me deciding to go back and add a bit of physical black crayon directly onto the pages for a bit of texture as well.

You can see the way the final pages look by backing the anthology on kickstarter HERE! Which I would love and appreciate you for forever and ever :)

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I’m starting work on a new mini-comic starting Greta the half-orc, so I decided to do a couple quick warm-up drawings of her to get myself ready…

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@that-gay-jedi requested that i talk some about material conditions and their effect on worldbuilding so here's something I'm thinking about

One area where the conditions of day to day life never seem to be fully considered in their impacts on the worldbuilding: magic systems.

I'd have to do more research to support this theory, but I think that this is one of the major ways that D&D has shaped how we Do Worldbuilding in fantasy. Most magic systems, in the way they are shown to us, have a lot of very combat-focused applications. Even if it's not all fireballs, lightning bolts, and more classic D&D wizard type stuff, physical/elemental type magic is explored from the angle of "how do I hurt/kill people with this" or "how do I destroy things with this"

But. If you're in a roughly pre-industrial fantasy world, and a portion of the population that's at all significant has magic, or can learn magic, that affects the natural world, the oldest and most widespread type of magic or method of using magic likely isn't going to be for warfare, and even when writers question the combat-centered magic, they usually go for like, exploring how magic is incorporated into the arts or something

Which is great. But in most pre-industrial societies, like 90% of the population is rural farmers. What I'm saying is, where is the farm magic.

The first spells to be developed, the oldest and most well-known spells, should really be like this:

banish slug

repel frost

corral

loosen dirt

uproot

magic scythe

separate chaff

repair horse

castrate bull

deworm

summon scarecrow

peel sheep

direct moisture

What farmer even today wouldn't find loads of uses for magic? Charms that keep patches of ground above freezing. Magical explosions that disseminate seeds instantly all over your fields. Shade spells to protect your plants from beating sun.

If magic can summon demons or familiars or make constructs to do stuff for you, you bet your ass that stuff was used by farmers long before it was ever used for fighting. The most culturally important use of necromancers isn't creating soldiers to form undead armies, it's reanimating your dead mule so he can still pull your plow. Farmer warlocks will summon demons from hell to haul manure for them.

If you have wizards in a fancy wizard private school learning how to create a shield of frost, that knowledge had to come from somewhere, and the answer is probably thousands of years of farmer wizards learning how to magically protect their crops from extreme heat and cold.

I want to see side notes in worldbuilding about how every spell used for combat is basically a repurposed farming spell.

This spell for summoning a magical suit of spectral armor that shatters weapons? Yeah, that was originally developed for chickens so foxes would shatter their teeth when they tried to bite them. It was used for centuries before someone thought of trying it on a person.