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@kalivasquezart Here, have a Marble

This is a sculpture of Eight Marbles Cast in Stone, aka The Pioneer. I've wanted to do one of Kali Vasquez' scugs for a while, and finally got around to it this month. So here we are!

This is a base, as with all my other recent sculptures; once it's been fired, I'll give it a proper spear that also has the trademark wrapping near the top (it now has a kitchen skewer), add some details, and paint it.

This is largely done out of imagination, based off just a few references at first and then all the other bits of art I found as I kept sculpting. I do wish I could have made this a bit later given the most recent ArtFight reference (which is Great), and I made the neck too short, but Whatever- it's good enough.

Probably the most fun part of this to do was all the accoutrements, with the sling bag and belt pouches. Pretty self-explanatory why Marbles would want and like lots of pockets and things, but it also just seemed to go along well with her character, based on what I know. The gloves were also great; as I remarked to a friend while sculpting the last stages of this, I think this character has given me a love of heavy large-sleeved gloves.

I also quite enjoyed doing the braids. I in fact nearly did a sculpture of KV's Saint design at first, since Braids, but eventually decided on Marbles for a variety of reasons (including the volume of references). The head shape, though, was very hard to nail down, and I'm still not happy with it. Again, though- Whatever, I'm pleased enough with it for now.

Overall, I consider this a relatively rushed piece, but I'm very glad I was able to at least somewhat finish it. I feel I could do better given more than three weeks, but you know what, that's a good reason to do some of this artist's other designs, because they're Neat and I like them. Plus, again, some of them have Braids. So I make no promises to not do any of those in the future.

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artfight icons done just on time

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I had a thought

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Today I bring celebratory gay slug

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I am back with some Arti art

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Reblog if your art project has not, does not, and never will make use of generative ai at any point in your creative process.

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Cherrybombartmonth Day 22+23!

+bonus

Hope I don’t get cancelled lmao👁️👁️.

Yo chat, is this spicy enough?

Support Artihunter at the semi finals @rainworldpolls!( this is kinda yes and not propaganda) GUYS READ THE POLL. Yall better press properly. ALSO DONT VOTE ARTIHUNTER IN THE SEMI FINALS.

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Not usually a fan of anthro slugcat aus but something I can’t identify about @opashoo’s Undergrowth au makes my brain tingle.

I haven’t really studied it much but i plan too, and I love her designs!! And I wanted to draw my all-time favourite scug.

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Sunlit Port

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i gave my favorite slugcat the spirit treatment; here's Hunter!!

(this one's my favorite)

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saints summer bod is ready

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The Rain World Undergrowth AU cast lineup! (which is basically just everyone)

I tried doing one of these way back in 2024 and never finished, which is probably a good thing because some of these designs have changed a decent bit since then. (Those who've seen the old, incomplete lineup know that my original Rivulet was a cis guy, and Watcher didn't even have a design yet.)

Anyway, Undergrowth synopsis and lore, as well as some alternate outfits under the cut:

Undergrowth is an anthro AU that takes place during the time of the Endless Winter. The blizzards of Saint's timeline have come sooner and deadlier, forcing most slugcats and scavengers to settle in underground geothermal pockets or adopt lifestyles suited adapted to the cold. All the game's events and timelines compressed so that everything happens in quicker succession.

The AU takes place in Moon and Pebbles' retaining wall and centers around Saint after the events of their campaign, who has taken to the teachings of Rhinestones Beneath Shattered Glass and started a garden in Undergrowth. Here they have gathered all the other slugcats to live in the safety. The other slugcats see Saint as a mysterious benefactor who knows more than they should, rescued each of them from certain death for unknown reasons, and has given them shelter from the blizzards, but for Saint, it's all part of a comfortable routine formed from countless lifetimes of repetition.

In their most recent lifetime, however, things have started to change. Things aren't where they should be. People aren't where they should be when they should be. Events that have always fallen on consistent times and dates simply don't. Saint starts getting dream visits from someone they've never met before in all their past lifetimes, one who brings ominous warnings about the future.

The Characters Survivor / ommuy aka omi One who persists most of all cis male - he/him

Monk / sahini mayabi aka maya One of the peaceful way cis female - she/her

Gourmand / makikanae aka maki One who knows food Yongasabi 3rd gender - they/them

Saint / sapinae aka saen One who suffers; saint agender transfem - they/them/any

Spearmaster / masinabi aka nabi Messenger nonbinary trans man - they/he

Hunter / hanitae aka hanta Hunter trans female - she/her

Artificer / sattokubi aka satto Arsonist cis female - she/her

Rivulet / yanginaeja lamlan aka lani Wandering stream afab demigirl - she/they

Watcher / banolnak yopwa aka banno Atop the watchtower unstable genderfluid - she/he

Enot (???) N/A - it/its

Survivor, Monk, and Gourmand are from a colony that has historically lived outside the retaining wall, but got lost and were separated inside the retaining wall before Saint found each of them and brought them back to the shelter.

Saint is from a retaining wall far away, built atop one of the few true mountains in this world. They were born and raised in a monastery, trained for a grand purpose that they have long since abandoned.

Spearmaster and Hunter were in the retaining wall on business before the blizzards outside kicked up and the land outside became impassable while Hunter's supply of medicine dwindled. With Hunter bedridden and cut off from NSH, Spearmaster had no choice but take her underground and follow the stranger who promised treatment in their garden.

Artificer was taken in and trained by a corrupt scavenger clan who saw her grief and rage as a tool to be shaped and used; first, to exact revenge on the scavengers who killed her children, then to demolish the clans who had apparently enabled such a corrupt system. When she overstepped her station and terrorized Metropolis, she was deemed an outlaw and enemy to all scavs. Saint found her buried in the snow on the edge of death.

Rivulet comes from a far off retaining wall, given the mission of delivering Five Pebbles' rarefaction cell to Moon by whatever means necessary. She had no idea that removing it would have accelerated 5P's collapse so immensely. She would have met her end at a toll full of scared and suspicious scavengers had Saint not arrived just in time to diffuse the situation.

Watcher has been plagued since childhood by visions, a sense of lacking identity, and a spiritual burden spanning thousands of generations. After exhausting all other leads, she hears a promising rumor: There is a former member of a religious order, sheltered away in a garden deep underground, who may have the answers he seeks.

Enot (???) kohga ota gimok juhei ha giga naka. shou kolgi cho yoshouja ihoga palakkida. kagihei nakani deila sin pagsada.

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cherrybomb art month day 20: confessing their love!!

hunter on cycle 0 in my cherrybomb hc story :3

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drew a birthday gift for a friend :D

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peak f1

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riv 2 riv communication