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armor, ink and digital

ever have one of those flash fantasies where you’re embracing and cutting through an emotionally unavailable man on a bed of twisting fiddle heads?  yea, me too.

god my choice in subject is so fucking weird sometimes.

sophia and i talked a lot about the direction of contemporary illustration (mostly editorial) and how it relates to our work.  i decided that i had to start creating art that had more balls.  seriously.  i’ve always felt so conservative with all my aesthetic choices:  anatomy, value, palette, texture, subject, media.  everything is always so bland.  considering the ink work on armor was already finished by the time i spoke with sophia, my attempt at addressing this problem came in the form of an uncharacteristic palette choice:  red.  mother fucking red.  

what i didn’t realize at the time was that i am intellectually incapable of working with red.  my natural inclination is to use it conservatively and offset it with its complement.  the first color sketches of this thing, therefore, came out green.  i stared at it and screamed, “NO, RED!”  then i got up and went to sleep.  my eyes wanted to bleed (but i’m sure it would have come out green instead).

so i finally muscled my way into a red palette, but i can’t shake how much it reminds me of a kurosawa film.  maybe that’s a good thing.  he was a little zany, which i like lol.

another thing about this color sceme that proved troublesome was the heavy use of black.  whenever black plays a dominant role in a piece, it tends to suck out the saturation from the rest of the colors.  i ended up spending a lot of time exporting different versions of this with varying levels of saturation.  some made my brain hurt, some looked depressing.  i think i arrived at a happy, juicy medium.  at least i hope i did.

regarding subject matter, i noticed that a lot of people seem to think my work is about “love.”  it’s come up in descriptions and conversations before, “well he clearly loves her,” “it feels so romantic,” etc.  the strange part is that almost none of my illustrations are actually about love.  it’s quite the opposite.  i explained it to a friend of mine:  the ambiguity or mistaken judgements in tone are due to my identical experiences in the last year.  i just thought i’d clear that up lol.

one more boring note that i’m sure no one noticed or cares about is the issue of the signature.  this is literally the first piece i’ve decided to sign in the last 5 years.  while a freshman in art school, my dear drawing professor, george parrino, berated everyone in my class for turning in signed homework assignments, “what are you showing your paper bag drawing at the Met?  are you having a retrospective at the Guggenheim?  get that signature off there.”  he scared the signature out of me– and i stayed scared for years.

i also realized that my obnoxious john-hancock-sized signature threw off my compositions (i literally used to use it to help balance out bad designs when i was younger and dumber haha).  going back to the signature is experimental.  it still seems arrogant of me to sign something, but that’s due to my art-school-freshman-modesty.  in reality, though, that’s just stupid.  

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[tumblr] sanctioned AI girlfriend anime pussy ads on my dash every minute of every day but god forbid you post a nipple or something.

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[on the verge of defeat and delirious with lust] i could be a wound in your heart that will never heal

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arguing with an elf and she pulls out the "well i had sex with your great great grandmother"

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🕊️ Please Take a Moment to Read Nadin’s Story

My name is Nadin. I never imagined I would write something like this. I’ve always been someone who kept her worries quiet, someone who believed that even the hardest days could be endured with patience and faith. But right now, I am reaching out — not because I want to, but because I need to.

I am a wife, a mother, and one of many women in Gaza trying to survive days that feel like they have no end. There was a short time — a brief ceasefire — where we thought things might start to heal. Where the sound of war faded for just long enough to let us breathe. But that moment is gone now, and the fear has returned louder than before.

My days are filled with uncertainty, and my nights with prayer. We have lost so much. Our home was damaged, our sense of safety taken from us. But through all of this, I try to keep going. I try to hold on to what little peace I can create with my hands, my words, and my love.

I am not asking for much. Just a little help to keep our lives from falling further apart. To fix the small things — a cracked wall, a leaking roof, the pieces of daily life that help us hold on to dignity.

This campaign isn’t just about survival. It’s about holding on to what makes us human in a place that keeps trying to take that away. It’s about showing my daughter — even though I won’t mention her name here — that the world didn’t forget us.

If you’ve ever felt powerless in the face of suffering, please know that even the smallest gesture can carry great meaning. A kind word. A shared post. A quiet donation. These things remind us that we’re not alone.

I am still here. Still holding on. Still believing that people out there — people like you — still care.

Please, if you feel moved, consider supporting or sharing this campaign.

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"What a pair they make.... a monster hunter-turned-devil, and a monster hiding as half elf. How long do they have before they turn on each other?"

Art by @irithyllians

Wyll and my Dark Urge Aurelio (known as Aelar in BG3). I haven't been able to get enough of these two since I started playing the game last year. All I could think about was the dynamic: a monster hunter being in love with the exact kind of monster he should kill.

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dustbringer ✧ skybreaker

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my Reli and her beloved Azandar by my friend @irithyllians 🥺💕

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been slowly getting into the balding gate game

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elwing/maedhros, anyone?

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Hello! Your art is so amazing! I would love to see your process if you have any speed paints you could share :D

hello! gladly, I still feel kind of amateur with my digital art process but I hope these are helpful! it’s all very line reliant, lots of adjusting colours on separate layers until it feel cohesive, lots of gratuitous use of the alpha lock function (I still only use procreate)

it’ll only let me post one video so have this bonus image 🤲

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cypriélle lesage, knight of the burning dusk

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the year is 2024 and the dwarf origins are still the best thing about dragon age

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i'd like to understand loghain better, if possible.

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“I WANT TO LIVE”

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in my heart rook had the chance to do the funniest thing ever and flirt with the inquisitor right in front of solas, and she took it

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is this not them?