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I haven't drawn all this year pretty much so uh, have this meager Bucky doodle from lunch today ;; something fast and loose.

Trying to remind myself I still know how???? ;; hiii

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Gives you a Bucky Barnes in these trying times - I haven't been able to do much work at my desk this past few weeks because Hannibal so I had a warmup today.

Unfortunately it's 2025 and my heart remembers it loves a boy unu

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Crawls up here - okay so job hunting? Not going well. I am persisting though, something has to give. I am also still taking commissions if a donation ain't your thing.

In the mean time uh, Hannibal has a mass on his arm that recently got bigger which was the CALL to get it removed. That's like a $900 surgery.

ON TOP OF THAT; the issue with his hip, now has the issue of his KNEE added to it. So I know like $5k is OBSCENE sounding but it's because all the things are hitting the fan at once.

I hate asking for help, I really do, I'm a suffer through and find a way type but uh, the past year has kind of been a lot apparently. I feel bad I've reached out to the community so much.

This is my little guy though. My little gremlin and resident cheese snob. He's done a lot for me.

So even $1 or something helps, and even if you can't spare that - because I GET IT with the state of the world right now, sharing is just as helpful. Boosting is helpful.

Any assistance means something if it can get some help somewhere, you know? My reach has SIGNIFICANTLY lessened over the years but like - I'm still trying I guess lol. Thanks for your time guys ;;

K thx bai

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Blows kisses to you all, happy Valentine’s Day, enjoy a polished piece I liked enough to keep on!

I’ve been relearning my digital methods lately, and doing some super self indulgent work, and this is the one I kept with to relearn everything, as well as some new methods!

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>> Part Two | Part Three <<

And they say chivalry is dead uwu

With the cold fronts going on I keep thinking of cute little things like this. I think Loki, despite being a frost giant, probably still feels the chill now and then - one adapts to your surroundings afterall.

What better way to flirt with your crush when it's cold out!

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C.mmission for @insufficiently-advanced

OOOOH I love this one so much.

My biggest beast of a commission in this batch, honestly. A lot of intimidating pieces, but I do so love how all the gears came together!

I really loved the amount of learning I got out of this one ;w;

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C.mmissi.n for @nuclearparade

Was trying so hard to wrap this boy up before my surgery but, ya'know how that kinda thing goes.

Really loved working on this one though! Lots of fun surfaces and textures to fiddle with ahhh looking forward to possibly doing the other piece we discussed in the future ;w;!!!

Akash has such a fun and clean design, man. LOVE HIM.

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Aw yeah, 700 followers ;w;

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Feeling some kinda way this afternoon in regards to my art I guess.

I just did this back in 2020, but I find it funny how my opinion on what my favorite piece for a few years SHIFTED really hard actually because of overall colors and composition.

I gotta remind myself if I do at LEAST one or two pieces a year that I'm REALLY excited to still see years later, that means something. Right?

But god damn I gotta say, I really wish I knew how I did Ren's skin so perfect because he's ALWAYS going to be my favorite piece of 2020. Like holy SHIT I love how the washes came out, and the layering and face and eVERYTHIN' IS PERFECT. That's my boy. There he IS!!!

I constantly think of redoing some pieces but like, fart noises. I wanna redo some because I have better understanding of value muddying up and making things indecipherable now :T

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God I've been doing this meme for so long... I think next year I'm gonna change my format/layout. NEW TEMPLATE FOR MYSELF.

2024 was a... rough year in general. I had a lot of self conscious moments about my art, a lot of self loathing about my art, a lot of shyness about my art in general. Actually debating just.... not posting anymore honestly. I'm tired of chasing 'attention'

Rough.

On top of that I just had MONTHS I barely drew more than a handful of sketches. With most of those being "PLEASE, RUDY, JUST DRAW SOMETHIN'" screeching in my head from Chalk Zone.

I did a lot of traditional inking this year, found my pen I like doing it with and just getting myself to loosen up a lot more. I have like five things I was working on before uh surgery, that I don't wanna scan so DECEMBER IS JUST THE DHVARRIS COUPLE. I like how dad came out anyway so whatever.

I have a lot of... not so pleasant thoughts about this year unfortunately. January to April I was really enjoying traditional stuff, I was enjoying a lot of what I was doing for AU jokes and I still have a hell of a lot of Lokius stuff I wanna finish.

April to June I was playing video games and trying to fight depression over art and also chipping away at big stuff I wanna do - but my PC is FIGHTING these days for that. I really adore the piece I did for July, I did a value study for once and really like how the colors came out in the end. Like perfect atmosphere for Nightmare Syndicate finally. August is a BIG WIP I wanna finish god damnit ;;

September I finished a long standing commission and got myself to really finally remember what I love about digital art and coloring, and started to fix some part of my brain there lol

From then on out I'm on a Baldur's Gate kick, and a lot of my shit has been studys on like Astarion's hair or face, my own bb girl Ophira's horms and markings, or just doodles I don't feel are 'amazing' :T

October is making me so annoyed that's like ONE OF TWO DRAWINGS I DID THAT MONTH OUTSIDE DOODLES AND POST ITS I SENT MY GIRLFRIEND... but whatever. Yells.

Idk. When I get recovered I'm gonna be hopefully blazing through commissions, and personal stuff of Ophira and the gang because I just.... wanna do clean sketches of events I've written for unu so

WE'LL SEE. I say it every year but JFC here's hoping next year is BETTER and I can get my anxiety and bad vibes under control ;;

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Taking your drunk girlfriend on a walk because she was getting too loud, and weirdly competitive at her parent's anniversary party. Also kept hitting and petting you with her tail??

Mark had requested Ophira in a dress [because she's not a dress girly] and we got to talking about occasions she'd wear one. Which was originally the spark for the anniversary scene I feel I keep referencing.

Also the joke that she slits all her dresses herself because TACTICAL ADVANTAGE. njkfgh Her girls would smack the shit out of her if they were there...

Bonus outfit doodle unu

Also would be the scene right before this drawing

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Taking your drunk girlfriend on a walk because she was getting too loud, and weirdly competitive at her parent's anniversary party. Also kept hitting and petting you with her tail??

Mark had requested Ophira in a dress [because she's not a dress girly] and we got to talking about occasions she'd wear one. Which was originally the spark for the anniversary scene I feel I keep referencing.

Also the joke that she slits all her dresses herself because TACTICAL ADVANTAGE. njkfgh Her girls would smack the shit out of her if they were there...

Bonus outfit doodle unu

Also would be the scene right before this drawing

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Slides this under the door.

CRAMS THIS UNDER THE DOOR.

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SHARES MY BIG VISUAL TIMELINE HERE WITH Y'ALL.

I wanted to pin down Ophira's life before the events of BG3, and kinda after a bit. And that kinda ties into Zerxie too since they're childhood besties/exes. Kind of a fun visual thing for myself tbh!!

Explanation under the cut :D

Can't just be normal.

They have a 4 year age gap. They meet at Bloomridge park where he's studying his magic but also reading about swarm keeper stuff, and she's studying fungi and flowers because of her mom.

Both are from non adventurer backgrounds, but he's studying magic because he has sorcerer blood. But he tells her about his ambition to be a swarm keeper ranger. She's like THAT'S SO COOL... what if we were rangers together.

By 13, she's taken to archery with a passion and learning how to track things. He's still trying to get in tune with how to take advantage of his sorc gifts.

By 18/19 he starts getting into ranger training - he's more into martial weapons [swords/knives] and by 20 he's bonded to a fae shapeshifter swarm.

By I think 20/24 they've decided to try dating and it goes okay. Mostly. He's over protective at times, and she's bullheaded - so they tend to fight a lot about that. Otherwise they're both nerds and bond over found literature and the like a lot :0

By 27/31 they've both kind of got…what would you call it… factions they work for? ASSOCIATES? She does a lot of tracking/escort work, and he sometimes tags along. There's a mission she gets really hurt on and after it he is like hey, what if we like SETTLE DOWN? Which is not something she wants.

So they end up breaking up there and diving into work for different reasons. Her with zeal, and him with THE SADS™ by 27 she's really leaned into the gloomstalker ranger type, doing a lot of like upper city work in BG for sad wife types lol and he's traveling a lot and doing arcane work.

Which wraps up in the during and post BG3 events, she probably got swooped up while minding her business or on downtime between association work/contracts whatever and he would have been out in Waterdeep I think we decided on business. Haven't seen eachother much since 27/31. BUT YEAH. THERE'S THEM.

Now he has a kid [Nerissa, who is like 2/3 by the time they meet again] and is working from the mansion where people come see him, probably really embracing things like alchemy and his sorc gifts, and she's off hunting treasure and chasing stories from journals and books she finds with Astarion. 👍👍 But they keep in touch after they see eachother again!

Given a whole story thing I have about an abandoned wizard tower she finds I gotta think how her style changes over the years, and decades following too but WE'LL CROSS THAT BRIDGE WHEN I COME TO IT!!!!

BLOWS KISSES IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR.

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Hands you a Shadowheart in these trying times.

[Hands you a second, smaller, Shadowheart for the road]

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Sometimes the girlies judge you for fumbling with your girlfriend njkfgh

fucking njkgh Shadowheart just wants the moping vampire out of her home.... I love that my first doodle of Shadowheart is the GRUMBLIEST GIRL.

CONTEXT:

I think a lot about time when it comes to ships, and that doesn't stop at this one :u

Literally it's like... over a few months that BG3 takes place? The timeline MAKES SENSE, but is also insane by in game time, omg. And I've thought a lot about how like... idk, Ophira had time after Zerxie to kinda just be herself outside anyone else and figure SOME stuff out.

But Astarion kinda makes me sad a lot, because he's never really... just himself. Singular in a way, if you romance him. He's a magistrate and who knows how that life was before Cazador, but past that... he's just kinda an additional piece to people. You can help him kinda get his bearings in the world, and figure out what freedom and all that looks like to him, but he's still never like... on his own.

It's the old wife who never knows life outside marriage thing? Something my mom talked a lot about when I was a teen. Lamenting she never knew life to figure herself out.

So it's kinda a thought to me that at some point maybe they take a break for a year or so, let him figure some shit out, let her figure some shit out. They're both kinda messes in their own ways, and it's like ya'know. IT'S NOT LIKE COUPLES DON'T DO THAT SOMETIMES. But I think it'd do some good. Absence makes the heart grow fonder and all that unu

But the idea of him ending up at Shadowheart's house either in the beginning or towards the end of the period because Ophira was like "She might be a good friend to talk to about this kinda thing, given her own shit, man." [also because like bb boy and bb sparkle girl were my two closest companions and Shads is BB SISTER MATERIAL TO ME] but she's so hilariously mean and blunt to him in the overworld....

I can just see her giving him so much shit. But also him whining about the situation or something, and getting the girls on his case about it jndgkh

Lae'zel only knowing part of the issue and being like "Where is she, did you fuck things up? How could you disgusting idiots fuck this up..." but the also additional mental image of him showing up alone and Shads being like "Alright.... where's the one I like though? Why isn't she with you?" as a joke njfkgh

EVERYTHING TURNS OUT FINE. EVERYONE IS HAPPY, AND IT'S FUNNY HOW MUCH THEY BOTH MISS EACHOTHER THO TO ME.

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I keep forgetting about doodles but not and laughing about them jnfghk

I had this little blurb I wrote about like Ophira's parents having an anniversary celebration and inviting her home for it. And her dragging Astarion with because WHAT'RE YOU GONNA DO WHILE I'M AWAY, LOSER?

It'd be a few years after BG3, and Zerxie would be present since he's getting help from Kestra with raising his daughter. A mom figure is needed, and she's like his other mom.

But also not seeing your ex in ten years, and she's gotten like really hot. AND SHE'S SEEING SOMEONE - devastating. So he's just the wettest little cat about it.

Meanwhile she's going to be drinking and beaming to Zerxie like besties about all the wild adventures she's constantly on these days.