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Suddenly remembered about my DMC fan poster series from 2019!

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Pa'u Zotoh Zhaan from Farscape.  I love this show! 

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I am going to switch from "1st payment after we agree on a sketch" to "money first, sketch later", because I've been working on commission sketches for 3 weeks in a row and I'm tired of being ghosted. I'll be removing people who don't answer me for more than a few weeks from my waiting list and all the unused sketches I have accumulated will be reused/sold as YCHs. ____ UPD: the only reason why I wasn't comfortable with taking money before the sketch: I wanted the experience to be equally comfortable for me and my commissioner. Since I do not do refunds, I gave people chance to quit if they are uncomfortable working with me AND at the same time I could painlessly deny a request from a toxic client, if I ever encountered one. Yes, I was at risk of being scammed the entired time (especially witn Аi boom) and yes, I knew it all along.

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Orin the Red and Dark Urge for @dancing--lights! Heavily inspired by the amazing fic she wrote about this two. It was a pleasure to work on this illustration and I feel like it was a huge step out of my comfort zone. Love the BG3 character designs!

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More Guides to Payment Methods

I have already done a few of them before (for example, my Guide to Boosty and my Guide to EasyStart which has unfortunately become irrelevant). Behold! Guide to Hipolink! An alternative for Boosty which belongs to the same company (but allows payments via PayPal).

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ART COMMISSIONS OPEN!

Non-commercial art commissions! TOS | PRICES | COMMISSION INQUIRY FORM | PORTFOLIO Digital/Mixed Media (black ball point pen + digital coloring and effects). Payment via Paypal (Boosty)/Bank card (EasyStart) Pricing listed per character. Simple backgrounds are free, for the detailed backgrounds (painting, photobashing, 3D-modeling) see the COMMISSIONS section on my website.

Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Steampunk/Victorian/Gothic aesthetic mainly. OCs, TTRP characters (DnD, Pathfinger, etc.), RPG characters (Baldurs Gate, Dragon Age, The Elder Scrolls, Pillars of Eternity and etc.), MMO (SWTOR, World of Warcraft, ESO, Final Fantasy, Guild Wars 2 and etc).

Environment art examples:

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I find this one ABSOLUTELY hilarious even if you don't know the context and haven't played the game lmao

Thanks for the translation into English - Erika-xero  

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REPOSTOBER, DAY 24: the deadly foes (2017)

Knight Commander Meredith and Marian Hawke, the champion of Kirkwall.

Fun story: I met my partner because of this Meredith sketch (and he also did Carver cosplay back in 2016).

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The goliath barbarian/monk Zhara and warlock Viviana for @illastrologist! Had tons of fun working on these two (I love doing polyptych commissions)!

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thinking about THEM

anyway, back to important stuff: I took some of my old OC doodles and adjusted them to the new designs my little traumatized necromancer meowmeows

I'm writing a novel about them in Russian and slowly putting it out on AO3.

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I'm a translator now (I've actually been doing this for a while now lmao).

Anyway, follow Adelaiy! She draws funny BG3, TES and PoE comics and her MCs are definitely something

Thanks for the translation into English - Erika-xero  

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The goliath barbarian/monk Zhara and warlock Viviana for @illastrologist! Had tons of fun working on these two (I love doing polyptych commissions)!

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The goliath barbarian/monk Zhara and warlock Viviana for @illastrologist! Had tons of fun working on these two (I love doing polyptych commissions)!

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Nier for @aevalentine! It's always an honor for me to draw my friends' characters. Second (creepier) version is under cut.

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Nier for @aevalentine! It's always an honor for me to draw my friends' characters. Second (creepier) version is under cut.

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REPOSTOBER, day 22: the Champion of Cyrodiil (2015-2017)

TW! this post has some TES-headcanons which might not be everyone's cup of tea, but please, don't judge a woman by her headcanons lmao

Here he is, my weird lil man. His mom worshipped Mephala and almost sacrifised her own newborn child to the Ebony Blade, but his father managed to steal the baby and hide him in Skyrim. Cero was raised in the orphanage (YES, THAT Orphanage) being bullied by the nord children for being, well, an elf. Many years later, Cero became a gladiator in the Imperial City Arena, and this is pretty much where his story begins.

He starts off as a man, who kill people for money at the start of the game, and being an assassin for the Dark Brotherhood doesn't seem any difference, so he joins in.

Lucien, being the one who brought him into the family, fascinates him. Cero soon develops feelings towards the Speaker, which he describes like some sort of a spiritual bond. He can't fully express what exactly he feels (because he is being in denial), so he keeps his feelings to himself, before it is too late.

This was a breaking point for Cero, who was already traumatized by the Purification, so he cut his ties with Dark Brotherhood and excapes, using the chaos of the Oblivion Crisis. After the series of unfortunate events he becomes the one, who carried the Amulet of Kings and the one, who saved Martin in Kvatch. They soon become friends and Martin is the one who actually tries to make Cero a better person. And then Martin dies too.

Being ceverely depressed and traumatized by losing all the people he loved and who were actually nice to him in a quite short period of time, Cero starts drowning himself in alcohol. And at that very moment, the Dark Brotherhood finally show up and capture the man and take him to Bravil for a trial. He manages to excape. And this is when the Shivering Isles storyline begins.

I wrote a bunch of fics (in russian) about Cero in the Shivering Isles, and in my AU he is literally possessed by Sheogorath who takes over his body and desperately try to fight back, and the main antagonist of the story is Haskill, who does everything so that Cero would lose himself and all his memories forever.

Eventually, he manages to take control of his own body for a few times, and one of them happened during the Skyrim timeline:

His body changed over time, he starts looking less than himself and more like Sheogorath: his hair and eyes gone white, his skin became pale and rosy, but he never actually ended up looking the way Haskill wanted him to look. Somewhere after the Skyrim timeline his former self gets in control of his body again and gets in a fight with Haskill. Cero uses the sword of Jyggalag to snap the Staff of Sheogorath in two parts and finally breaks free. He's memory is wague, his feelings are all messed up and he barely understand what is happening, the only thing that keeps him going is his lust for freedom. And this is the point when the events of my Champion/Nerevarine AU begin. Small bonus for everyone, who read it this far: Cero as Jyggalag.

And Cero with his lover - my Nerevarine Raelin, who was the first person he encountered when he finally broke free from the Shivering Isles, and the person who helped him regain all of his memories (she's also probably the only person in the universe who can handle this firce lil man).

And yes, Cero is actually his father's surname. The champion has a name, but the only person who knew his name was Martin.

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I'm currently on a break due to ✨mental health✨ related issues (severe anxiety/panic attacks) so I went to my hometown to hang out with my family for a few weeks.

Have a photo of my cat Simone, who currently lives at my parents' house. She floofy.

I'll get back to work as soon as I am back home. The issues with payment systems still hasn't been resolved, so I'll have to work with what I have: Boosty (via bank cards), EasyStart and Hipolink (same company as Boosty) which allow to pay via PayPal (but I still couldn't test it out yet).