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New Coraline design drop

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A very fine fishman

I wonder who's hiding under that comically long hounskull- Oh my gar.

Decided to probably name them Edgar. Need my silly pun names.

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Some thoughts on tieflings.

The alt text for those who use screen readers:

How come you never see tieflings with hairstyles that use their horns. Like, really use their horns? You just know a bored tiefling teen would spend hours with a comb, bobby pins, and a hopeful diagram.

This page shows a couple of different angles of a tiefling woman with rams horns and braids wrapped around the base of her horns. In one picture, she’s wearing a necklace of sorts, but instead of being clipped around her neck, the chains are connected to rings on her horns so the jewelry hangs in front of her neck. Below it is a caption that reads “convenient and stylish jewelry hangers!”

Next page: Of course decorating your horns would be expected at a fancy occasion, but what about decorating your horns with your hair?

This page shows a tiefling woman with large straight horns, like a longhorn cow. Her first look has her long hair in two pony tails that are looped over the ends of her horns and tied off. The ponytails have several gold rings around them, and the hair has been teased into poofy balls between the rings. Her second look has a lot of heavily decorated rings hanging off her horns, with some small pieces of hair strung onto the jewelry, creating some elegant loops.

Next page: Some styles come and go quickly, like the angel wings to the right. This tiefling also has longhorns, and she has hung numerous small pieces of hair off them in a way that resembles wings. It looks goofy.

Some styles are timeless classics, like the hooked buns below. This tiefling has some texture to her hair and small, deeply curved horns. She’s wound her pigtails around the ends of the horns where they’re close to her head and tied them off, so it looks like the horns are sticking through her buns.

The lower right shows a tiefling wearing a veil that covers her nose and mouth, but has hung the ends off the tips of her horns. She has a caption that reads “why tie a veil around your head when there’s comfier options?”

Final page: I, for one, think the most beautiful hair styles would show off both the horns and the hair.

This tiefling has spiraled golden horns like a kudu, and very textured hair. She has used this extra structure to wind her hair in and around her horns. The effect turns her slender horns into two massive, elegant topiaries.

Anyways, that’s my two cents about tieflings.

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Woke up with the phrase “Chandelier parasol” written in my dream journal. Went ahead and drew it.

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New fish, who dis?

Thought it was time to update my fish detective avatar, Liminal Fish. He started life as a joke about three fish wearing a trenchcoat, and has somehow persisted and evolved into a cheerful fish detective man.

I wanted his redesign to be friendly and wise looking, while having some features of a koi and a dragon (and maybe a lil cat in there). But that’s a lot to keep track of and draw consistently!

So I flexed my creaky 3D modeling muscles, fired up Forger, and made a lil face reference.

If there is any lore to be had here, Liminal Fish kind of sits in between the waking world and the dreaming. When I need to recall a vague and confusing dream plot, or sketch out a character that’s starting to fade upon waking, he’s my guy friday, my know-it-all, my dream narrator who helps me piece together the threads into something I can recall and write down.

But really, who needs an excuse to draw a cute lil fish dude?

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I swear, guys! I just wanted to practice drawing wings! I didn't mean to kill Lucifer! It was an accident ._.

WIP

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Practicing anatomy with Tomie today! She’s been a an absolutely delightful model, it’s almost difficult to let her go.

She says that’s too common among artists she works with - getting posessive and jealous of their models. Poor thing, it must be tough out there for such a beauty.

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just how long is forever? // not long enough, with you

pssst. check this out on inprnt :]

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My other ref sheet poster for Monster Hunter World - shilouettes you might see flying overhead. I based this loosely on plane shilouette posters from WWII. I liked the idea of a hunter squinting into the sun wondering whether that was a bazelgeuse or a noivern, and studying wing shapes to learn the difference.

Never got around to labeling the monsters, which throws the usefulness into question. But it was fun to paint something so big IRL and then figure out how to scan it.

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One of my Monster Hunter reference posters - all the tracks of monsters in the new world (minus Iceborne). I spent at least a dozen hours cataloging and screenshotting the various kinds of tracks you uncover in the game - scratches, footprints, fallen feathers and every other kind of evidence left by passing monsters.

I tried to incorporate all of the traces into each little vignette - Paolumu’s fluff frames its footprint, Tzitzi Ya Ku leaves stunned Shamos in its wake, and so on.

The hardest part was probably finding references for the lettering. I wanted it to be as legible but game accurate as possible.

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Sketches and stuff from when I played Monster Hunter World. I loved the lore and worldbuilding of the Monster Hunter franchise, but it took some urging to get me to actually play it. I didn’t play anything more advanced than a N64 until 2018 or so, for reasons I could not adequately explain.

But MHW got me immediately. I spent so many hours in the ghillie suit, studying tracks in the sand and shilouettes in the sky. I was a wildlife biologist on a strange planet, making notes and taking pictures. I kept a vague journal of some of my findings and favorite moments, and ended up turning them into real life reference posters. I’ll post those later this week.

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Just dream journalin’, don’t mind me

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My brain: You really shouldn’t mess up this sketchbook. You’ll want to look back on it fondly.

My hands:

My brain: You have so many tight deadlines. So many things on your weekly schedule. So many important jobs. You have to get important work done!!!

My hands:

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I just do my art for fun, and because it feels… necessary? My art is the bridge between my waking world and dreaming ones - a way for the many unrealities inside me to exist beyond me, and a way for other people to peek into the vast expanses I visit at night.

Anyways - I’m working on comics about some of the stuff I dream about, but I’ll also be sharing some of the sillier stuff and sketches I make. Looking forward to showing you all some beautiful, terrible things!