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Some OC figures. Shout out to TTRPGs for getting my creativity flowing again!

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thoughts on a sweet haunted doll...

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It’s a metaphor.

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New self portrait as I try to learn clip studio paint

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Some extras for Enfys (my rainbow tiefling). I wanted to give her one more outfit (a colorful dress borrowed from a friend), and other familiar options: an almiraj, a wolpertinger, and a clockwork of my own design, fashioned from a library stamp, it’s a swiss army knife of a creature, with a magnifying glass, ink, clock, and more, and it uses a pen as a weapon.

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[Image Description: A digital illustration of a tiefling in a three quarters pose wearing dirty brown adventuring gear and holding three books in her arms. She has black hair, red eyes, opalescent upright horns, and purple skin with pink, orange, yellow, green, and blue patches that make her look rainbow. Next to her is a brown and cream tressym (a winged cat creature) named Papyrus. Words around the figure describe her. Name: Enfys Cyrntywyll. Pronouns: she they. Ancestry: tiefling. Occupation: librarian, adventurer. Hobbies: Collecting books from around the world. Favorite color: brown. Favorite spell: comprehend languages. Weakness: nightmares, stealth, and disguises. Strength: Investigation, sleight of hand. They are labeled wizard/rogue.]

I wanted to give my rainbow tiefling an adventurer’s outfit, familiar, and a name.

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I wanted to give my rainbow tiefling an adventurer’s outfit, familiar, and a name.

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[Image description: Three digital drawings of the same rainbow tiefling in the same 3-quarters pose. She’s standing tall, slightly on tiptoes, one hand free, the other holding three books. Her main color is purple while pink, orange, yellow, green, and blue swirl around her skin. Her long, upright, slightly curved horns are equally rainbow but more pastel and iridescent. The left most figure is naked, with clouds censoring NSFW bits, the middle figure wears a semi-sheer ruffled beige dress with a brown stay and brown low-heel boots. She has a bow around her tail. The third and final figure wears a cream tunic tucked into pleated brown pants. She also wears an embroidered brown vest and the same brown shoes as with the dress. /end image description]

More rainbow tiefling!

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More rainbow tiefling!

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Couldn’t get the idea of a rainbow tiefling out of my head.

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[Image Description: digital illustration looking down at two figures. The left is a tall, skinny, androgynous white person with stark white hair and clothes like a romance novel hero. The figure on the right is a light-skinned Black woman dressed like a plague doctor. The two stand on a mystically glowing green and purple circle.]

I wanted to draw Esper and Sage at a fun angle.

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[Image Description: digital illustration looking down at two figures. The left is a tall, skinny, androgynous white person with stark white hair and clothes like a romance novel hero. The figure on the right is a light-skinned Black woman dressed like a plague doctor. The two stand on a mystically glowing green and purple circle.]

I wanted to draw Esper and Sage at a fun angle.

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It’s been a while since I’ve updated my profile pic, so here’s a self portrait

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[image description: digital art replicating a classic shojo manga cover. The art centers Jeanine, a Black woman with medium length curly hair, sparkly brown eyes, and a red dress. She gives the viewer a look of surprise as two men at her side each hold on of her hands. On the left is Leoh, a white man wearing a shirt, jeans, and an apron. On her right is Michael, a Black man in a blue tie and nice gray suit sans suit jacket. They both smile lovingly at Jeanine. The three are surrounded by pinks, blues, and purples, and a circuit board pattern. The title is Life with Leoh, wirter: Octavia Bray, art by ellory_talent, Atypical Artists’ logo is placed where a manga publisher’s logo would be, and there is a little “vol. 1″ in the bottom right hand corner.]

Life with Leo(h) is like if my favorite mangas from high school grew up and became a podcast so I just had to give it a shojo manga cover!

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Newsflash: hobbies/interests/fashion ≠ gender isn’t exactly a revelation for trans people.

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[Image ID: an illustrated four panel comic. Three children gather around an old computer while one says “Hey guys look at this”. In the next panel the kids are looking at a screen that says Gender: Man, Woman, Other and the kids laugh with ROFL and ROFLcopter sfx as one of them says “LOL what’s an ‘other’ gender?”. In the third panel a new figure appears in a burst of blue sparkles. In the fourth and final panel and adult version of the child holds them by the face and stares with intense red eyes while saying “You. It’s you. It’s been you all along.” /End ID]

I found this deep in some old files. I’m not sure if I met my younger self whether I’d hug them or shake them.

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[Image description: a long comic drawn with colored pencils, each panel occupies the full width of the image. A close up of a pot of soup on a gas range, the colors are under-saturated. A person with ginger hair and pale, ruddy skin lifts a spoon of soup to their mouth. A woman rolls out dough with a pot of soup boiling in the background. She smiles at the viewer with a hand outstretched towards us. Another woman, much older with white hair, looks away from the viewer as she serves a bowl of soup. The person who had been tasting the soup cries, the colors in their face and hair much more vibrantly orange and red and yellow. Text at the very bottom reads: Give it time to digest. /end image description]

Sometimes happy memories bring out grief. I’m learning to nurture myself.