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i've been enjoying skald: against the black priory

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mourn watch reaper rook!

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your pal, the antipaladin

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I'm going to be asking a lot of artists I follow this question, but how did you develop your style? It SEEMS like most people find their style and stick with it forever, just making improvements and iterations. I tend to work in a lot of different styles because I enjoy doing that, though I know there are things I gravitate towards as well. But I wonder what your journey was and how you got feedback and improved while staying true to what you enjoyed?

that's a great question!

i feel like growing up on the internet - especially in the dark deviantart days - i was exposed to a lot of different art styles and had a lot of favourite artists whose work i admired or really wanted to emulate. so, i think my 'style' developed out of copying bits of other artists whose work i admired. i really loved (and still do) the desaturated, work of hamletmachine and the way that they use hard blacks and flat colours. that was hugely influential, when i first encountered it. other artists i like and who i think are a big influence are @skincube, @ston-henge, and @choodraws.

i think that some of what is characteristic of my 'style' also developed out of necessity. for example, i basically learned how to draw armor from getting really obsessed with world of warcraft, and i think people would say that fancy, baroque armor is pretty typical of my art now. other media has been influential too - d&d, berserk, warhammer 40k, etc.

in terms of feedback, i went to art school. i was fortunate in that nobody ever told me to 'stop' drawing a certain way, but i did get told to try different things, and I always did so, at least once. i don't really worry too much about 'staying true' to what I enjoy. i've been experimenting with a lot more black lately in my illustrations, rather than the clean lines that i think people associate with me, and doing more (bad) digital painting. I might get tired of that and do something else -- i'm not worried about getting 'stuck' in a style i don't like.

just to give you some idea about how much my style has changed, here's the same illustration, first from 2012 and then from 2018.

and then something more recent.

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Some say that you and I were born of chaos Aligned towards order by a loving God, they tell us While others believe it was abiogenesis A disagreement followed by the birth of a nemesis And as my time runs out and I start to go under I do begin to wonder...

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who's excited about dragon age: the veilguard and the return of the inquisitor?

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nex von valancius

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the darkest urge

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valentine for my gf @softcrabs of her very mean drow tav

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i could make you worse

durge x shadowheart

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I think you like it To be told what to do--isn't that true? I think you're better off Stone cold dead-- without your head

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d(ark)urge

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knight commander of the fifth crusade

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I have only ever been special to you. daeran and my knight commander

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REPURPOSE: Level: 5 School: Necromancy Spell Effect: You mark a target with a curse of servitude. For 1 round per two caster levels, the target is dealt 1d6 damage per round. If the target dies during the effect, it is revived after death as an undead creature under your command.

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i’m playing wrath of the righteous and i’m only 10 hrs in! my commander is a sorcerer (going for the lich mythic path)

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And I won’t admit I loved you / And that I will die for you / And auf wiedersehen / adieu 

possession (1981)