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Starvetober Day 3, Cross

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Hey folx! I'm taking commissions. Will be taking 3-5 slots at a time. Feel free to message me if you have any questions!

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I’d like to announce my last-ever written DnD project, Austrangia, which is available here. There’s a bit of a story behind this so buckle up.

I first started working on Austrangia in April 2022. I wanted to make something that was distinctly Australian folk horror. Eventually, the project expanded to include a couple of different horror projects. Due to my general desire to move away from DnD and focus on my own projects, I ended up putting it on the backburner.

Then the new OGL was leaked.

Suddenly I had a 15000 word project that I either needed to quickly finish and find art for, redo entirely or scrap. I was determined to retain control of the project, but things seemed hopeless. Then something amazing happened.

In the spirit of “F*ck the new OGL”, several of my friends offered to help me finish the project. Some wrote sections I was struggling with, some provided tech/moral support and one particularly amazing friend is providing illustrations.Without their kindness and hard work on this project, I don’t know what I’d do. While Austrangia is releasing today, because I’m honestly a little paranoid about WoTC, it is by no means a static project.

 Because all of the illustrations aren’t quite done yet and I don’t want my friend’s work and dedication to this project to go to waste, if the new OGL turns out to be backwards-compatible I’ll rework Austrangia to be system-agnostic.

Keeping control of the project that was made because I have amazing friends is important to me, as is supporting said friends. If you want to support the people who allowed me to do so, the illustrator has a blog @artofcjb and you should go follow them.

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So cuuuuuuute! Look at that Beefalo! Thank you so much!

Secret Santa (not the tumblr one) for @artofcjb!

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Working on a DST secret Santa and I think chose hard mode for the pose. Having fun, though!

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How about citric acid?

meet squeaky!

he's one of the many heirs to the ocean throne.

he's not in his royal clothing in this image because this is what he usually wears when going to the city to hang out with his friends.

his parents pay little attention to him due to him being one of 5 siblings and his parents are usually always busy with royal duties

he taught himself english and struggles with words at times

he also has a pet pufferfish!

and his name isn't actually squeaky it's just impossible to pronounce in english so his pals named him squeaky because of his squeaky voice

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Crushed

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ok no more mockingbirds content i've got it all out of my system (<- is lying so badly)

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WIP!

And if you're at all interested in my internal monologue (also just needed to record it somewhere)

Notes to self: Fix hand perspective - flatter and following the pane of the crystal, fingers longer (thank you @inhumanrobot for the advice!!).

Bring back your perspective layer. Compare old knee position to new, see which is better. The right heel pokes too far out, should go left instead. Diamond needs to be adjusted so the crest points further left, too, as well as just a tiny bit up.

The head to body ratio isn't right - bring head up? At least give them a semblance of a neck, even if it's not viewable. Figure out how the head connects to the body. This'll make it read better. Does the head need to be longer? Not sure, the chin is a bit different from the ref.

Solid color palette, stick with that. Per Dero, makes sure final crystal has really sharp planes so it reads as a crystal and not a chrysalis. I'll need some additional reference images for this, current one is a roughly hewn crystal.

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Final piece! 

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Work I did during a group chat tonight! (Although I could not actually stream my screen, had a blast chatting and seeing what everyone was working on!)

In LOVE with Wendy's hair in the new Moonbound skin.

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Traveled this weekend, so have some doodles.

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I read every single tag and it gives me absolute life, thank you all! Having major imposter syndrome so I'm glad y'all like it!

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God those colors look so different on mobile. Where did my purple go? So sad.

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The progress gif is too powerful :sob:

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Uhh, done, I think? I don’t wanna render anymore so I think I’m done. Final process GIF incoming as well.