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All of the support and excitement for the Floral Dragons since the Kickstarter launch has been amazing. Over the last few days I've been so overwhelmed, proud, terrified, and ecstatic. It just hit 500k and I can't even believe it. Thank you.⁠ ⁠

There's exciting stuff coming and I can't wait to show you 💚⁠ ⁠ If you haven't had the chance yet, please check out the campaign here:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hitpointpress/the-field-guide-to-floral-dragons?ref=2ug3ly

Thank you so much!!

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It's here! It's here!!!

This is so surreal. Honestly I've been having so much imposter syndrome, seeing all of the comments and excitement as ads have started going out. Getting to work with the publisher that released Humblewood, holding a book of my own art in my hands, all of it--I can hardly believe I've made it here. Thank you so much for all of your support all this time. Every tag yelling about my silly little creatures means the world to me and has honestly kept me going on days when I didn't believe in myself.

Please check out the Field Guide to Floral Dragons campaign here and thank you again!!

[kintheartist]

It's here! It's here!!!

This is so surreal. Honestly I've been having so much imposter syndrome, seeing all of the comments and excitement as ads have started going out. Getting to work with the publisher that released Humblewood, holding a book of my own art in my hands, all of it--I can hardly believe I've made it here. Thank you so much for all of your support all this time. Every tag yelling about my silly little creatures means the world to me and has honestly kept me going on days when I didn't believe in myself.

Please check out the Field Guide to Floral Dragons campaign here and thank you again!!

[kintheartist]

I'm going to make a more coherent post later but AAAAAAA

it's here!!!

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more curse of strahd doodles ♥

Tempest belongs to @hotflamingmess, Gideon belongs to @delicate-and-dendriform, Nips belongs to @kintheartist, Faera belongs to @dinosaorwithwings, Syril belongs to @joyousfey, scratch & magpie belong to @infernal-violinist

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A few people have started to let me know they've been getting e-mails or seen the news in ads or around social media… :3c ⁠

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<3

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To the person who sent me an anon, you're not the first person to let me know about people making money off of my artwork recently. I'm going to try and work it out privately for now because I want to give the benefit of the doubt. Thank you for bringing it to my attention <3

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This is hardly a new revelation I'm sure, but realizing that Tolkien's elvish architecture (as designed by John Howe and Alan Lee) was inspired by art nouveau, and the dwarves' architecture was inspired by art deco, made me geek out because it's so clever

Doubtless there are other posts about this but I'll explain for anybody who doesn't know about this because I'm so happy about it:

Art Nouveau is inspired by organic shapes and the natural world. It emerged also from the Arts and Crafts movement, which was a response pushing back against industrialization.

Makes sense for elves because of their relationship to nature and how old they are, right?

Dwarves, on the other hand--their motifs are inspired by art deco. Art deco, in turn, was the replacement for art nouveau, embracing technology and industry and focusing on geometric shapes.

Example from the Hobbit movies:

It works so well because dwarves have such a heavy focus on industry and technology from their very creation by Aulë, and also their history--sleeping until after the elves were made. I'm just screaming over how smart it was to pull artistic inspiration from these two movements!! Like from a design standpoint they work so well, but they also mirror both the culture and history of these civs and I just think that's so neat!!

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1, 2, or 3? 🤔

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Lizards and Lairs! A piece made for a customer who wanted it to feel like the cover of a movie or novel about their D&D party. A dragonborn, a kobold, and a lizardfolk--they came to me because dragons are my specialty and I had so much fun painting all of them with their different personalities and shapes!⁠

Commission info | Patreon

[kintheartist]

Lizards and Lairs! A piece made for a customer who wanted it to feel like the cover of a movie or novel about their D&D party. A dragonborn, a kobold, and a lizardfolk--they came to me because dragons are my specialty and I had so much fun painting all of them with their different personalities and shapes!⁠

Commission info | Patreon

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Finished painting of Tempest, @birdlimes' bard in our Curse of Strahd who ran off with the villain and then came crawling back to us as a vampire...

Pose inspired by this sculpture of Saint Sebastian because y'know... we love a gay martyr

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so astarion has been getting a little vicious in act 3

azorau definitely doesn't hate it lol

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Sketch comm of @wildewinged-fr's Shisa in gremlin mode :)

sketch shop >>here<<!

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Sketch commission for dragononymous' Queen Margeaux <3

Been doing some quick chill sketch commissions, >>link<<

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i'm getting into my bg3 phase again slowly,, let me explain

i got halfway through act 2. then i found out minthara was a recruitable character. so i reloaded several hours of gameplay, got her, played through to act 2 again.

then got sad about not having the tieflings. so i played that section again with a mod so i could have the tieflings with her, and then. they added the ability to get her and the tiefs legitimately in patch 5. so i did that and replayed that section AGAIN. but it turns out... if she was hostile to you when you knocked her out, the game will think she's dead. i only found that out after i had played the githyanki creche and beginning of act 2 a third time and she wasn't at moonrise.

so you understand why i was a little bit burnt out on it for a while lmao