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I appreciate the font you used for this edit

Scar didn't know Doc's skin is a creeper. He just discovered this live on stream, today, in 2025. I'm dying

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Walter Molino

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I tried to post the clip but it won't work for whatever reason, so here's the link

https://www.twitch.tv/goodtimeswithscar/clip/PunchyThoughtfulConsoleDatSheffy-T0bKbM0KmYe7yPuL

Scar didn't know Doc's skin is a creeper. He just discovered this live on stream, today, in 2025. I'm dying

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Also a little art request, if you wouldn't mind, I'd love to see your take on Doc's prosthetics! The features they have, the material it's made out of- stuff like that :) I know it's a little outside of your wheelhouse to be designing prosthetics, but I really enjoy seeing people's interpretations!

Of course!! This is fully outside my wheelhouse but I tried my best to design what I thought his arm could look like!

I’m a big fan of combining industrial and organic components in prosthetics (and let’s be honest, so is doc) so I tried to combine some plant-muscle tubing stuff with the prosthetics. I might have gone a little overboard with it because the only actual “mechanical” elements are the elbow and a few details on the hand and wrist. I think it looks cool and would be mostly functional, so I think that’s okay!

As for materials- I think the metal would be a mix of iron and a copper-iron alloy (assuming we’re going off of Minecraft rules) but if we’re being more creative then it would have to be reenforced by some other metal. I also didn’t include any real electronic/redstone elements (Mostly because I could think of any function that they could provide) but that also means that it might be waterproof? You could add some lore here about how he had to replace his arm with some plant parts and has to submerge it is water to feel or or something idk.

The metal parts are also not really screwed onto the plant elements or anything? They’re basically just threaded through the plates and that’s good enough for Doc! At the very least, that would make replacements, updates, and cleaning easy. The metal parts are probably just there to provide structure that the plants couldn’t.

I included both the sketch/lineart and a sort of half-rendered/colored version because I couldn’t decide with one I liked more!

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"High Roller" ♠️

Part 3/4 of my contribution to @mcyt-couture-zine! For the series, I was inspired by Doc's poker den and casino, and each piece is based off of a different card suit.

This piece was inspired by the spades suit, 1940's outwear and men's coats, ermine fur, and Doc's own white lab coat.

See below for design notes and details!

This design was largely inspired by wanting to have a piece of Doc leaning over the roulette wheel with eerie, almost threatening under-lighting. The idea of using a big 1940's coat was perfect to add to his intimidating and powerful aura in this piece, and was the perfect opportunity to incorporate Doc's own white lab coat into the design, too!

When playing with the design I found these wonderful suit jackets with hanging heart charms, and it made me think of how the black spade shapes when hung from the point could be made to look like ermine fur, which was another point to symbolizing his wealth and power, as ermine was typically worn by royalty in medieval England and is still associated with wealth, luxury, and high standing to this day.

Doc in this outfit is representative both of the House, the all-powerful force of the casino, and the high rollers it entices to spend and gamble their money away at the poker and roulette tables. He needed to read powerful and rich but not overly flashy, while also incorporating the spades motif as much as I could. The white coat was an obvious nod to his lab coat, with the spade charms we talked abotu as well as spades motif on the collar inset into the white fur and in buttons along the cuffs. His waistcoat is 1940's style and red pinstriped satin, with diamond-embedded spade buttons and silk cord trim. The silk tie/cravat is meant to look like a spade in the way it's shaped, and the collar's spade details were just too fun to not include.

I ended up adding the leather gloves you see him wearing in the illustration later, but I think it also matches nicely with the idea of him as a detached observer of the game, urging you to play on one more round without actually getting his hands dirty or gambling himself.

Also, a moment of silence for Doc's unseen crocodile skin dress shoes with the spade detail on the toe. RIP king, maybe I'll draw you one day.

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Scar didn't know Doc's skin is a creeper. He just discovered this live on stream, today, in 2025. I'm dying

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Oh my god thank you so much, that means a lot to me. I'm really touched hearing that 🩷🩷 Thank you for doing this event and giving me the opportunity to do this project. Congratulations on the successful fundraiser as well!!

Day 31

EthosLab + Cave painting

For Etho I made a piece of rock art inspired by cave paintings! To find out more about cave paintings, please continue below the cut.

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Cave paintings are a prehistoric painting tradition and one of the oldest forms of human art. These paintings were made on rock surfaces around the world with great variety between cultures. The oldest known figurative cave paintings are 40,000 to 50,000 years old.

Artists in prehistoric times made their paints with pigments found in the environment around then. The most common pigments used were charcoal and ochre, so cave paintings are typically black or orange, red or yellow. Artists would crush these pigments and mix them with animal fat, then paint them on a wall, sometimes over carvings.

I didn't have access to raw ochre for this painting. Instead, I chipped off pieces of my red and orange pastel chalk, ground them into powder, and mixed it with bacon lard.

For this piece, I studied the figurative pieces from Cueva de las Manos in Argentina and the Gwion Gwion rock paintings of Western Australia.

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Day 31

EthosLab + Cave painting

For Etho I made a piece of rock art inspired by cave paintings! To find out more about cave paintings, please continue below the cut.

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Cave paintings are a prehistoric painting tradition and one of the oldest forms of human art. These paintings were made on rock surfaces around the world with great variety between cultures. The oldest known figurative cave paintings are 40,000 to 50,000 years old.

Artists in prehistoric times made their paints with pigments found in the environment around then. The most common pigments used were charcoal and ochre, so cave paintings are typically black or orange, red or yellow. Artists would crush these pigments and mix them with animal fat, then paint them on a wall, sometimes over carvings.

I didn't have access to raw ochre for this painting. Instead, I chipped off pieces of my red and orange pastel chalk, ground them into powder, and mixed it with bacon lard.

For this piece, I studied the figurative pieces from Cueva de las Manos in Argentina and the Gwion Gwion rock paintings of Western Australia.

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Day 30

Docm77 + Pysanky

For Doc I made a pysanka egg! To learn more about pysanky, please continue below the cut.

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Pysanky is an ancient Ukranian egg decorating tradition. The word "pysanky" (or "pysanka" in the singular form) comes from the word for writing, so when decorating eggs in this style it's correct to say that you write them instead of saying that you paint them.

It is not known how old the pysanky tradition is because egg shells don't preserve very well. There is some archeological evidence, however, that the tradition may go all the way back to 5000 to 2000 BCE. While no eggs this ancient have been found, a ceramic pysanka was found from this time period.

Pysanky are created through a wax resist technique. Wax is put into a device called a kistka, which is then heated over a candle flame. You write on the egg with the melted wax, then put the egg in dye. The areas covered in wax will be sealed from the dye. The process is repeated for each color, then all the wax is melted off to reveal the design.

If you'd like to keep up with news from Ukraine or donate, you can find resources through United24 and the European Commission.

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Day 29

Skizzleman + Book of the Dead illustration

For Skizz, I drew him building his pyramid in the style of illustrations found in the Book of the Dead from Ancient Egypt! To learn more about these illustrations please continue below the cut.

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The Book of the Dead is a funerary text written on papyrus scrolls that gives a deceased person instructions to follow on their journey to the afterlife. Many copies of these scrolls were created between 1550 and 50 BCE. Some versions has only a few drawings, while others were lavishly illustrated with colorful scenes and gold leaf.

An interesting feature of Ancient Egyptian illustration is the perspective. Bodies and eyes are drawn from the front, but the heads are drawn in profile. Additionally, the size of figures was not meant to be representational, but instead meant to show their relative importance compared to other figures.

The text surrounding the images was written in Hieroglyphic script. This script could be written horizontally or in columns, going either right to left or left to right. The direction the symbols are facing is the direction you start from. The text in this piece is facing to the right, so this would be read from right to left.

To make this illustration, I studied some of the illustrations in The Papyrus of Ani. I can't read hieroglyphics, so I used this resource to transliterate Lorem ipsum into phonetic symbols.

Here is a cropped version of the piece:

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Day 28

Friends of Hermitcraft + Chinese ink wash painting (shuǐmòhuà)

For today, I made an in painting of Mr. Finney and Katy Bee inspired by traditional Chinese ink wash paintings! To learn more about this style of art, please continue below the cut.

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Chinese ink wash painting, or shuǐmòhuà (中国画; 中國畫), is one of the oldest continuous artistic traditions in human history. The earliest representational art in this style emerged in the Eastern Zhou period in around 700 BCE.

Originally these paintings were done on silk. Then, in the first century CE, a court official named Ts'ai Lun developed a formal method of papermaking. Once paper became available, artists began to use it. Paper interacts with ink differently than silk does, creating the unique and delicate aesthetic of ink wash.

Ink wash painting is closely tied to calligraphy in Chinese tradition. The motions and pressure used to create the brushstrokes are very exact and directional. Painters and calligraphers master their art through years of continuous practice.

Today, many artists continue to paint in the traditional style. Contemporary art made in this style is known as guó huà (国画; 國畫, or national style, to differentiate from Western style painting.

For this piece I studied works from Yi Yuanji, a first century Song Dynasty painter known for his paintings of animals. I also looked at the a copy of a painting by Wu Daozi, a Tang Dynasty master known for his expressive lines.

I looked at the second picture in this post on Scar's instagram as a reference. Here is a cropped version of the piece:

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[dbhc flavored] Hermit A Day May ‘25, Day 27: Wels :]

They got him =w=

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Day 27

Welsknight + Illuminated manuscripts

For Welsknight I illustrated a medieval illuminated manuscript page! To learn more about illuminated manuscripts, please continue below the cut.

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Illuminated manuscripts were formally illustrated books from the middle ages that contained decorative elements and gold leaf. Originally, they were made of parchment, but later luxury manuscripts used animal skin vellum. They were often religious texts, but in the High Middle Ages secular manuscripts were produced as well.

A very interesting element of these manuscripts are drawings called marginalia. Marginalia are little doodles made by the illustrators of manuscripts along the margins of the pages. These drawings were often funny and provided an extremely valuable, though sometimes baffling, window into the lives of people in the Middle Ages.

In this piece, I illustrated the page with a tribute to a bizarre trend in medieval European marginalia: snail battles. From 1290 to 1310, doodles of knights fighting giant snails appeared in the margins of dozens of manuscripts across Europe. Eventually, they even started showing up in carvings on cathedrals.

Scholars have no idea what these drawings mean. There are many interpretations, but my favorite theory is that the snail wars were a medieval meme.

For the design of this illustration, I studied the script and decorations from the Gorleston Psalter and marginalia from the Gorleston Psalter and the Smithfield Decretals. The knight vs snail drawings from these manuscripts were collected on this blog post from the British Library.

Fun fact! I drew this piece in a sketchbook I bound myself over ten years ago, so the yellowing on the paper is genuine. Also, I used a metallic gold gel pen for the text and some of the details. Here is a cropped version of the image:

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This is a really interesting question actually @hermitadaymay and it was something I was originally going to go over in the post but it was starting to get too long.

If you look at drawings from the Renaissance era, you will see a lot of them that appear reddish or yellowish. This is partially the paper aging, but also partially because red chalk was one of the tools they used to make their sketches. Here's an example by Michaelangelo.

Ink, black chalk, and charcoal were also common. Sometimes they would incorporate white chalk or gauche for highlights, such as in this sketch by Raphael.

The most interesting drawing tool they used was something called metalpoint. These were sort of like pencils, but instead of leaving graphite on the paper it leaves microscopic bits of metal. They were a precursor to graphite pencils, which hadn't been invented yet.

Metalpoint is another reason for reddish or yellowish sketches. In order to use a metalpoint stylus, the paper had to first be painted with a substance called a ground, which could have a pigment. This sketch by Da Vinci, for example, is metalpoint on paper with a light ochre ground.

On top of all that, Renaissance artists experimented with drawing on different colored paper. Venetian artists especially were known for drawing on blue paper. Here's an example from Vittore Carpaccio.

As a nod to all this, I sketched my drawing very lightly in 4H pencil, then shaded it with red chalk pastel, blended it out, then went back over it in 4H again to refine detail in the shaded areas. Once that was done, I added white chalk highlights.

Day 26

Zedaph + The Renaissance

For Zed, I made Renaissance drawings! To learn more about drawings during the Renaissance, please continue below the cut.

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The Renaissance was a pivotal era in art history. It began in the 1300s and reached its peak from 1490s to the 1520s during a period known as the High Renaissance. During this era, many factors converged to drive a drastic transformation in European visual arts.

One of these factors was paper. In the Middle Ages, illustrations were done on expensive animal skin vellum. Around the 1000s, papermaking made its way from China to Europe through the Islamic world. By the end of the 1300s, European artists were routinely using paper to plan out their works.

With the availability of paper, exploratory drawing became commonplace. Through this practice, artists dramatically improved their understanding of anatomy, perspective, and light. The ability for artists to easily illustrate what they observed drove advancements in European art, science, and technology simultaneously.

For this piece, I studied drawings from Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, and Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, three of the most influential artists of the High Renaissance.

Here is an cropped version of the image:

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Day 26

Zedaph + The Renaissance

For Zed, I made Renaissance drawings! To learn more about drawings during the Renaissance, please continue below the cut.

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The Renaissance was a pivotal era in art history. It began in the 1300s and reached its peak from 1490s to the 1520s during a period known as the High Renaissance. During this era, many factors converged to drive a drastic transformation in European visual arts.

One of these factors was paper. In the Middle Ages, illustrations were done on expensive animal skin vellum. Around the 1000s, papermaking made its way from China to Europe through the Islamic world. By the end of the 1300s, European artists were routinely using paper to plan out their works.

With the availability of paper, exploratory drawing became commonplace. Through this practice, artists dramatically improved their understanding of anatomy, perspective, and light. The ability for artists to easily illustrate what they observed drove advancements in European art, science, and technology simultaneously.

For this piece, I studied drawings from Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, and Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, three of the most influential artists of the High Renaissance.

Here is an cropped version of the image:

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Aww thank you so much!!! I'm glad someone could recognize my earffort 🩷

Day 25

VintageBeef + The Baroque Era

For Beef I made an oil painting in the style of Baroque era portraits! To learn more about the Baroque era and see some process photos, please continue below the cut.

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The Baroque era was the period of European art following the Renaissance. It lasted from the early 1600s to the mid 1750s.

The Baroque Era emerged in response to the Protestant Reformation in the 1500s. Protestants saw religious art as idolatry so during the Reformation, they destroyed hundreds of paintings. Northwestern Europe saw the most art lost. The Protestant art that then emerged during this time was very reserved and mostly secular.

Meanwhile, in Southern Europe, the Catholic Church promoted art that was almost the opposite of Protestant art. This led to the Baroque era. Baroque paintings were high contrast and dramatic, making heavy use of chiaroscuro shading. Baroque art was often on Biblical themes, but also included secular art such as still life and portraiture.

For my HaDM posts, I've been making all of these pieces the day of or day before they are posted. I did not prepare the art ahead of time. Leading up to the Baroque era, I was worried I wouldn't be able to finish the painting in less than a day, but I did it! I completed this piece yesterday in under ten hours using this photo of Beef for reference. I'm very happy with how it turned out.

For this piece I studied Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio and Artemisia Lomi Gentileschi. Here are some photos of the painting process as well as a cropped version of the final portrait.

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God @moss-sweaterrr you have no idea how much I appreciate you saying that I had SO MUCH TROUBLE WITH HIS FREAKING EAR. People who think hands are hard haven't tried painting a realistic human ear they are the WORST. Why are they like that. What the hell is going on with them. Horrendous.

Day 25

VintageBeef + The Baroque Era

For Beef I made an oil painting in the style of Baroque era portraits! To learn more about the Baroque era and see some process photos, please continue below the cut.

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The Baroque era was the period of European art following the Renaissance. It lasted from the early 1600s to the mid 1750s.

The Baroque Era emerged in response to the Protestant Reformation in the 1500s. Protestants saw religious art as idolatry so during the Reformation, they destroyed hundreds of paintings. Northwestern Europe saw the most art lost. The Protestant art that then emerged during this time was very reserved and mostly secular.

Meanwhile, in Southern Europe, the Catholic Church promoted art that was almost the opposite of Protestant art. This led to the Baroque era. Baroque paintings were high contrast and dramatic, making heavy use of chiaroscuro shading. Baroque art was often on Biblical themes, but also included secular art such as still life and portraiture.

For my HaDM posts, I've been making all of these pieces the day of or day before they are posted. I did not prepare the art ahead of time. Leading up to the Baroque era, I was worried I wouldn't be able to finish the painting in less than a day, but I did it! I completed this piece yesterday in under ten hours using this photo of Beef for reference. I'm very happy with how it turned out.

For this piece I studied Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio and Artemisia Lomi Gentileschi. Here are some photos of the painting process as well as a cropped version of the final portrait.