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hey hello i'm tentatively braving the con scene next weekend after a few years away!!! there's been a minor shuffle of stock to add new exciting things including style-cohesive neopets sticker sheets (and the alien aisha is available as a diecut) and mini packs of deathclaugust prints! :3c

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doin prep work for prints and boy howdy. there's a lot of guys

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she's rich!

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owo ?

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A retouch of an old old piece! Still super proud of it, didn't need all that much work to bring it up to standard. Mizutsune taking a cozy lil nap!

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ooo you play starbound? I want to enjoy it but I always feel. guilty knowing what happened in development :( I wanna play really bad but then my brain is like 'SHOULD u?'

oh yeah the situation surrounding that entire debacle is absolute shitte. they fucked up big time. but also that situation has been and gone (and i hope they face intense scrutiny from there forward and don't repeat it) + the game itself is like... idk, maybe 10-20 hours worth of engagement and then you get bored? so people should nab it on sale if they're tempted, i'm not sure the base game is worth full price

but I play it with the frackin' universe mod set installed, which has skyrocketed my current gameplay up to 1000+ hours, multiple characters, and that as a mod set is run and handled by just a single absolutely insane guy not affiliated with chucklefish and all the mod editors managing all their stuff under its umbrella are (presumably? it's mods. it's voluntary) just doing this for fun. it's basically what Feed The Beast is to minecraft. complex as hell to figure out but they've made it easier for new people to get into lately. you can farm bees for rare resources. you can get bit to death by tiny tiny spiders. you can exploit the power of the universe to make your weird ugly gun you found in a pirate's shipping crate stronger. i went fishing in lava and a massive meteor landed on my head with precision accuracy and exploded my body into a fine mist. the crown my bird character is wearing whispers subliminal messages in my ears

so honestly even if chucklefish themselves have been a bit weird i already HAD the game when all that came out. and now i'm in it more for the fuckin amazing experience of this shitload more work done and available for free (besides the basegame) done by people who do this for fun and really just want people to play what they've done and tear their hair out over it. bc that will happen

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starred bounded

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would you mind sharing what pencil brush you use, particularly in your recent Alduin drawing? :]

sure! it's from Kyle Webster's Real Media Megapack. i use that plus his watercolor pack, but there were oils and impasto packs as well, basically a huge scope of real media imitations - I believe they're no longer available for purchase and download since he partnered with Adobe some years ago, though there might still be something floating around if you can hunt them down The brush in the pack is specifically, Perfect Pencil 1 at 6px, in photoshop CS5. later editions of photoshop (particularly any CC version) deploy the brush how it's meant to be, which is a lot less sharp and crisp. Most of my full illustrative stuff (that isnt directly painted as-is like deathclaugust and character designs) uses the Wet & Wild watercolor for shading!

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bane of kings

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salad

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oatmeal

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true facts

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i think the most bizarre reaction to seeing fanart (other than going "i thought this was [totally unrelated thing that it doesnt even look like]') is to go 'this isn't canon'. like.... yeah it's not supposed to be?

people have headcanons! there are also different interpretations of unclear or hard-to-quantify-exact-meaning canon!

but it doesn't even have to be a headcanon. art is an exploration of thoughts and concepts. it's an expression of creativity. sometimes it's just a fun exercise. for fun. any time i see someone go 'thats not what really happened' i dont think 'aw shit i got it so wrong', i think: wheres your joie de vivre. your whimsy. embrace things that arent real

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wizard time

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it's a very versatile weapon, you wouldn't understand

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find me in my cave going insane over the design potential of a half-formed human-hive godling. the way her mouth moves makes me think she can open the plates and really honestly she deserves a proboscis. and bug wings. and the concept of metamorphosis