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Redraw of my first drawing of Sam! I learned a new way of doing line art a while back and it's quite painstaking but I love it. I didn't use pen pressure here. I did this in ibis paint x and I don't have pen pressure. What I did was thicken/darken the lines by adding to them wherever they are concave and wherever they converge. After the drawing was colored and rendered, I worked a little filter magic on the line art layer to make it darker and slightly blurry and I really love the result.

Who this character is:

Full name: Samuel Clarence Gabriel

Created for Call Of Cthulhu TTRPG

Really short (5'0"/153cm) disaster bisexual trans man

Born and raised in Brooklyn and has the accent to prove it

Short King Swagger™

His weapons include a pistol (loaded with Elder Sign bullets), a pocket knife, and a monkey wrench

Has as much attitude as any given Chihuahua and can be just as deadly when necessary

Likes to make jokes, including jokes about "throwing a monkey wrench into the bad guys' plans" when he has to smack someone with his monkey wrench (yes, he carries it to use as a bludgeoning weapon)

Studied to be a parapsychologist but over the course of his current campaign (I'm playing him in Masks Of Nyarlathotep) he's gained a lot of medical training and he's decided that when this is all over and he and his group can return to the US he's going to go to medical school. He's learned this much already, might as well go to school and learn everything else he needs to know about medicine, right?

Once singlehandedly got the group away from a horrific situation they couldn't have survived if they didn't escape when the other party members were both incapacitated. Managed to haul his two unconscious friends (one of whom is like twice his size, Sam is stronger than he looks) into the car and drove literally all night to get them to safety in the next town over and then was so shaken by everything that had just happened he didn't want to be alone and insisted on sharing a room with one or both of them at the bed and breakfast he found. Broke down when his friends woke up as they reached the b&b and one of them told him "well done, Samuel ❤️" and this whole thing was only possible because my dice really loved me that night.

After all the horrors he's seen from New York to London to Cairo (and the journey is still far from over), when it IS over he never wants to set foot in a a big city again if he can help it

He's dating a tall kickass clairvoyant knockout witchy mountain gal named Constance who lives in a tiny, isolated town in the mountains of northern Georgia and when he returns to the US he wants to marry her and be a mountain hermit forever after all the shit he's seen in big cities

Never mind that he's been a city slicker all his life, he got a taste of a quiet simple life with Constance and that's all he wants

Oh yeah he started crushing on Constance the moment she teased him about his City Boy Accent

He's definitely Easily Flustered, especially by tall women

Gets blushy and shy when flustered by women or nonbinary people, gets prickly and defensive and tsundere when flustered by men

Has a brother 6 years younger than him named Philip

Mama was a kind, petite woman named Clara who worked as a nurse when Philip was old enough to not need her at home all the time, and she was killed by a shoggoth when Sam was 13 and Philip was 7

Dad is a doctor named William Gabriel but prefers to be called Doc rather than his first name. He's extremely cracked in the head and batshit traumatized from the death of Clara among other horrors but he has a kind heart and cares deeply for his loved ones and will stop at nothing to protect them.

Came out as a boy at 14, Doc and Philip were completely supportive and accepting and dad assures him Clara would be proud of him for being true to himself.

Doc was the most supportive parent any trans kid could ask for, especially in the early 20th century. Got Sam a masculine haircut at a barbershop that was queer friendly in a "iykyk" kind of way, pulled as many strings as necessary to get his name legally changed to Samuel Clarence, even got him vocal training to sound more masculine since there was no hrt at this time. When the Symington side lacer came into fashion, Sam discreetly acquired one to hold his chest flat.

Spitting image of Clara

His teammates know he is trans and are cool with it. One of them has actually known him since before he came out: a Gifted (as in has psychic gifts) and hella eccentric artist named Teddy, whom Doc had commissioned for a portrait of Clara shortly after her tragic death, as well as a family portrait. Sam sees Teddy as an eccentric uncle and felt completely safe to come out to him and he was right to do so. Teddy had been working on the family portrait and had painted Sam as a boy and couldn't figure out why his brain told him that was the Correct way to portray the kid, but then when Sam came out it all made sense and Teddy was happy for him.

I enjoy doing his voice when we play lol

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being a self-taught artist with no formal training is having done art seriously since you were a young teenager and only finding out that you’re supposed to do warm up sketches every time you’re about to work on serious art when you’re fuckin twenty-five

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i wrote down some notes about coloring skin in case people are interested 📝

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Natural Black Hair Tutorial! Usually Black hair is excluded in the hair tutorials which I have seen so I have gone through it in depth because it’s really not enough to tell someone simply, “Black hair is really curly, draw it really curly.” 

The next part of Black Hair In Depth will feature styles and ideas for designing characters and I will release it around February. If you would like to see certain styles, please shoot me a message!

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Drawing from References with deep Foreshortening

And some practice poses:

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This is actually the first drawing I've done of my OC Sam. I originally created him for Call Of Cthulhu but liked him enough to keep him as a character outside the game.

About Sam:

His full name is Samuel Clarence Gabriel. Before coming out at the age of 14, his middle name was Clara after his mother. After coming out, he wanted his middle name to still be in her memory, so he went with Clarence. He's a very short trans man(he's about 5'0"/153 cm), finger guns disaster bisexual, parapsychologist from Brooklyn with the accent to match and some medical experience.

His father is a medical doctor(and I ran him through a Call Of Cthulhu campaign before I actually rolled up Sam), but after an incident with a shoggoth that killed his wife, left him with a number of scars, and depleted some of his sanity, he threw himself into studying the occult and mythos and learning to use firearms so he could defend himself and his two sons if this ever happened again. Sam and his younger brother Philip were 13 and 7 at the time when their mother was killed, and Doc Gabriel thought it wouldn't be right to not tell them the truth about what happened to her, and that was when they learned that monsters are real.

In the game and my own personal main canon, Sam has a girlfriend. Her name is Constance and she's an Appalachian gal from the mountains of northern Georgia who practices the folk magic and medicine that's been passed down in her family for generations. I'll post about how they met when I post the drawing I did of both of them together!

Also he has that Neurodivergent Thing that I also have, where I mimic the accents and speech patterns of other people I'm talking to without realizing it because the thought of him traveling to visit Constance for a few days and ending up talking in a weird mix of Brooklyn accent and Appalachian dialect is very funny to me.

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Lil watercolor thing of my OC Maggie. One of these days I'm going to actually draw in detail what's going on with her teeth. Best way I can describe it is she looks like a vampire with hyperdontia. She has too many teeth, and most of them are sharp. I will also eventually actually draw her curly hair and not half ass it lmao

Maggie is a haint but didn't start off that way. Her story is not a happy one, but she's content with her existence now.

Tw: murder, violence, mentions of bigotry, racism, homophobia, transphobia, stalking (all of the mentions of bigotry are in regards to people she targets, and she was the one doing the stalking in her quest for vengeance after a great crime had been committed against her)

She was born a human girl in the late 19th century to a well off if not rich family, and a man in some position of power(maybe a politician or lawyer or owner of a big company) who was secretly hella crooked and corrupt courted and married her. It wasn't until after they were married that she began to see what kind of person he really was, and at some point her parents died in a "mysterious accident", leaving their money and property to her. She had a strong feeling her husband was responsible for their deaths and after some discreet investigation, she found she was right, but before she could even go to the police, her husband killed her too. However, her ghost stuck around, angry and wanting revenge but unable to do anything about it... Until something much stronger and of a darker nature than herself found her and offered her the power to avenge herself and anyone else who had been harmed by people like her husband(that is, people who can fool others into believing they're decent folks so they can get what they want, but on the inside their soul is rotted through with greed, hate, bigotry, cruelty, machiavellianism etc) in exchange for service. She gained the ability to see into people's minds and souls and judge for herself if they were corrupt enough to deserve death by her hand. She mainly targets corrupt politicians and police, people who seem like the nicest folks you'll ever meet in the daylight but put on a white hood at night, cult leaders, people who claim to love everyone as their god loves them but will abuse and shun and throw out their own children for being gay or trans.

Of course her first victim was her self-widowed husband, and she took a dramatic route with her vengeance. She started by showing up in his peripheral vision, then directly in his line of sight. Every time he saw her, she was dressed in what she'd been wearing when he killed her, but she'd disappear within a few seconds after he saw her, until he started to wonder if he was losing his mind. Then she started standing outside his house at night, knocking and scratching on the doors and windows and occasionally calling his name. She'd stalk him out in public, making sure nobody but him could see her, and when she was ready to strike, she allowed him to shoot her so he would think he was safe when she went down, but then she got back up and said, "You done killed me once, you can't do it again, honey," before tearing him apart. She ate most of his corpse but took his heart back to where she'd met the being that had given her the power to do this and left the heart as an offering, and she would leave the hearts of future victims as offerings as well.

Her power grew over many years, and she eventually grew strong enough to break away from the being that had given her power, and now serves herself and the hunger for vengeance that still boils within her soul. She can be injured and even incapacitated if you know how to do it, but she can't be killed because as long as one person still walks this earth carrying the same kind of corruption that killed her, she will also be walking this earth seeking their blood. She can sleep to recuperate if she gets tired or uses too much energy, but she can never truly rest. Still, she's content with the way she exists now, and she's even made friends with another haint woman with a similar story to her own and the other haint woman's companion, both of whom will be posted in the near future.

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Lil watercolor thing of my OC Renatus.

Renatus is uh... An entity??? Basically a sentient network of shaggy mane mushrooms.

They regularly go through cycles of life, decay, and rebirth. I haven't decided how long it is, maybe for 10 months out of the year they can just go do what they want and live their life, then during the second to last month they start to decay. They get black spots on their skin and in their eyes until they're covered in black and their hair becomes black and drippy like it's been dipped in ink. During the last month, they go into the decay and reformation stage. They find a place to lie down and get comfortable, then their mind goes to sleep while their body rots away. Mushrooms begin springing up where their body was, then the mushrooms begin merging together and forming a new body, and when it's complete Renatus wakes up again.

Their body doesn't always come back the same, sometimes it's more masculine or more feminine or both or neither, and they just roll with whatever they have.

If they happen to get injured seriously enough that they lose part of their body, or if part of their body starts to decay prematurely, mushrooms start growing at the sight of the injury and merging together until whatever was lost is restored. This means that if, for example, they lost an arm, they would have mushrooms growing out of that gaping wound in their shoulder and growing bigger and fusing together until they have a new arm, which can take over a week, and they get extremely exasperated having to explain to people that this is normal for them, it doesn't hurt, it's not contagious, for fucks sake stop fucking screaming it's not like I'm bleeding all over the floor and making a mess like you goddamn fruit gushers

(oh yeah, Renatus is perpetually 500% Done With Everyone's Shit and has a very foul mouth and no filter when they're pissed off lmao)

They have also quoted the "you cannot kill me in a way that matters" speech many times. In fact, I've got a watercolor painting in the works depicting them with a missing arm and mushrooms growing from the wound and the title of the piece will in fact be You Cannot Kill Me In A Way That Matters.

I'm thinking about giving them a boyfriend/girlfriend/gender neutral chibi thing who's a honey mushroom. Honey (stand in name until I come up with a better one) seems cute and sweet until they tell you that one day they want to be just like their fucking massive and ancient older sibling that they split off from, every time they go through their decay cycle they usually do it where there are a lot of trees and leave more networks of mushrooms in their wake, and you notice they're a little too cheerful about sucking the remaining life out of the roots of dying trees. (If you want to learn about their sibling, it's that giant network of honey mushrooms located in Oregon. Biggest living organism in the world, it covers a couple thousand acres and it's never going to run out of food because it's in a forest. That thing has to be an eldritch entity at this point)

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I did this with Quinn because I thought it would look very cute on them lol

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These are two of my OCs, Quinn(they/them) on the left and Sam(he/him) on the right.

Quinn is a nonbinary intersex fae and Sam is a human trans man, and both of them are pretty subby and bottomy except when faced with someone whose more of a submissive bottom than themselves.

Between the two of them Quinn would top(since they're about 90% bottom and Sam is 98% bottom lmao), but this was just too funny to resist doing so here it is and I'm not sorry. I did use the original meme as a ref here because anatomy is still a work in progress lmao but I'm happy with this

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Intro post!

First off, I'm going to start posting a bit of more mature content occasionally so minors please dni.

With that out of the way, hi I'm Hushpad, a millennial aged aspiring artist. I mostly draw for fun and practice but I'm dipping my feet into doing commissions.

I'm learning to draw furry art and will post some of that, but mostly I draw my own OCs or fan art of stuff I like.

Most of my art is digital but I'll post traditional as well when I've got something to post.

I'll also reblog useful stuff, tips, tutorials etc and other art that I like.

If I ever get enough followers and start making art regularly enough to justify it, I might start a Patreon. But not yet.

There is going to be some slightly l00d art here and there but I'll put community labels on it as needed. Nothing outright pr0n-y, just the occasional tiddy and/or suggestive facial expression. If I end up making a Patreon, that's where the full blown pr0nz will be.

I think that's about it, I'll update this if I need to.

Hit that tag under the post to see my art!

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*breaks down door*

HI I'M BACK TO POSTING HERE AND I'VE GOT A BUNCH TO POST SO GET READY FOR A SPAM

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Three things

1. Why have I not seen this joke yet

2. Why did I not make this joke sooner

3. I'm not sorry

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Finally colored this lol

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Know what I’m salty about?

In all my art classes, I was never taught HOW to use the various tools of art.

Like yes, form, and shape and space and color theory and figure drawing is important, but so is KNOWING what different tools do.

I’m 29 and I JUST learned this past month that India Ink is fucking waterproof when it dries. Why is this important? Because I can line something in India Ink and then go over it with watercolors. And that has CHANGED the ENTIRE way I art and the ease I can create with.

tldr: Art Teachers: teach your students what different tools do. PLEASE.

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5 min tutorial for trcelyne, hope it helps! 

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it’s time to trace~!

heads up. the charts in the middle are very rough guides. everything about copying is super grey, you need to use your own judgement…also I have more notes

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