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"Not only Weissenfurt will have problems, but all the cities and kingdoms around the Red Forest." The Hunter shook her head, going down the stairs alongside the man. "Many Vampiric Lords are Aristocrats, be it by birth or by taking the title, but István is different. Currently he is considered an Aristocrat by his Lord status, but he is a Warlord, Balthazar." "Hmmm. I heard the stories..." The tavern owner lowered his voice, stopping with Kathleen a few steps away from the first pool of blood by their feet, between them and the entrance door. "That the blood that stained the leaves of the Forest was spilled by him. That he killed entire armies, by himself, with his own hands. That he used to send the severed heads of enemy messengers back to their camps as a warning." "Yeah. That one I borrowed from him." Kathleen looked away as soon as Balthazar's eyes settled on her, with a fatherly judgement.

A little excerpt of the story I'm working on, placeholder name is Blood Rose, with a decent portrait of the Vampiric Lord István this time. I finally figured out how he looks and now I can work on his art properly!

I've also added him on my Art Fight, you can check him out there! It's my first year and I hope all goes well! ^^

(and first time drawing a decent background \o/)

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So, hey! I'm gonna try Art Fight for the first time this year!!

Can't promise a lot because of health and life issues. But I'll try my best! I've been wanting practice some new stuff, so I thought this was a good opportunity to do so ^^

And I may add more characters/refs along the way, 'cause I hadn't had the time to do so properly T-T

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"Will you look at that. We can already join hands and ride off into the sunset, shooting those bastards along the way." - Alastor, Anthony; being the poet that he is.

So, these are the main characters from a story I've been writing for years now. 137 pages in and only halfway through, but I do love the worldbuilding and the characters, I wanna share them around hahaha

Alastor is the leader of the Shield of Achilles, while Nyx is the most competent assassin in Olympia. They were very close but the infamous "Bergsten Incident" caused them to get estranged, and acquire permanent scars and cyber-prosthesis. Many years later, they meet again - for a job that might be too dangerous to complete.

That's just a little bit about them and their world. A lot of Cyberpunk 2077 vibes, yes, but it is it's own thing. I'll be posting about aaaaall the other thousands of characters too!

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A thing of beauty, will Never Fade Away

Second to my series of portraits to develop my style, the great Alt. There's little contrast on her skin and her hair didn't turn out as I liked, but I do enjoy her eyes.

Also, something I learned by playing with layer modes: setting your watermark on "Divide" and lowering the opacity will make it almost invisible. I've 3 watermarks like that all over her face ;)

Hmmm, and the red "light" is only because I love the whole theme of Johnny's clothes being red/black and Alt's being white/blue, and him singing "I'm your demon, never leaving" suggesting her as an angel. The sneaky duality of those two in their designs, I love it.

(also, Rogue has some white in her clothes as well, kinda being a "Silverhand lover" thing in my humble opinion)

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Another sketch from an OC of mine, that goes with the Vampire Lord István one. This is Kathleen Rose, Hunter from the Vampiric Chapter of the Order of Hunters - also usually neutral, but with a personal grudge with vampires.

I've already used some iterations of her on DnD campaigns and based her appearance on how I created her in Baldur's Gate when I was playing it HAHAHA she's my staple roleplay character since 2012

I actually have a whole design for her sword, will post here someday!

Also, I'm thinking of joining Art Fight this year, so I might work on ref sheets for her and István :)

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Another OC of mine, from my huge Cyberpunk-style world I'm working on, Robin. Non-binary royalty from the Shield of Achilles, has the resting bitch face, can't give a damn about anyone else, doesn't mind being called rude and only smokes from their cigarette holder.

Also, I love the rainbow-black vinyl pants, can't imagine them without it. The make-up is usually 1920's inspired, and they're always wearing a suit jacket of sorts.

Quite glad with the result, thinking about who I'm going to work on next ^^

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The Queen of the Afterlife

I'm trying some new things - style, painting, rendering (mostly) - and decided to work on some portraits. Rogue, the Queen of the Afterlife, is the first one 'cause damn, I love this woman.

(if you can't see her freckles properly, it's because only after I was done I noticed the brush size was too small and decided to just go with it)

There's still a lot I want to improve, but I do like how this one turned out!

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"I'll do my duty, somehow I'll find a way"

This one came to be for two reasons:

1- When I first came across the game, I accidentally made my V looking eerily similar to Alt, Corpo lifepath and a netrunner. Since then, I've always had this little headcanon on my gaming experience that Johnny hated my V right off the bat because she's his personal nightmare of how much she reminded him of Alt

2- I wanted to test some different things regarding my painting style. I'm still not 100% happy with it, but I'm quite glad with how this one turned out! It's very personal to me 'cause this game is my therapy and I'm pleased with the result hahahaha still lots of things I wanna change, though

✨3rd bonus reason✨ after a series of weird things happening throughout my life, me and my mom have this internal joke that my guardian angel is a rockstar-like, corporate-hating guy. When Johnny said the guardian angel line in-game, I wheezed and laughed hysterically for a solid minute

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Emergency Commissions

Hi guys. as some of you know I am currently having an issue with a buyer who wrongfully accused me of not sending their product. They filed a dispute with paypal and now i have a negative balance of almost 400 dollars. commissions are my only form of income and i have called paypal twice and submitted evidence but it can take up to 75 days for them to come to a resolution. I was also charged a 15 dollar dispute fee.

That being said i need to open emergency comms. My queue is a little long right now, but i have no other option. the previous buyer has blocked me on all platforms so i can not reach out to them to close the case. please if you can share this or would like a piece of art visit my kofi so i can get my account out of the negative.

i will also provide evidence of the situation

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Please draw more of your vampires and feel free to @me if you wish. I like when you draw :) It is very nice ❤️

Oh, that's so kind of you!! Really, thank you! It definitely put a smile on my face and made my day, I'm really glad you liked what I do 🖤☺️

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Random OC sketch that didn't turn into a finished thing, this is István. Vampire lord, old as hell, usually neutral, likes to stay in good terms with vampire hunters.

I've been writing a whole story with him since 2012, I think. Haven't finished yet, but someday, who knows *cries in a corner*. I also might've used the vampire hunter from his story as a DnD character for myself a couple of times.

And I was actually gonna sketch a whole different character, but he decided to make an appearance. Oh, well.

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"I can see through the scars inside you"

Finally. FINALLY. Cirice is among us *dramatic Frankenstein thunder and lightning cracking on the background*

I had a previous sketch I wasn't quite convinced with the whole Cirice vibes. Went through an existential crisis, gave up art and then, here it is, what I consider my best artwork so far sometimes existential crisis' work through mysterious ways

There's a L O T of symbolism going on with this one, so I'll let you guys guess. There's horror movies, religious imagery, references to the lyrics... Have fun. As always, I'll eventually make a timelapse video and talk about every reference or this post would be a full novel

(also, alternative color version under the cut, 'cause when I was testing some "color washes" over the finished art, the deep red one was just *chef's kiss*)

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Lokabrenna, or Loki's star

Worked on this one for an old friend of mine. In one of the universes, we believe we have the 10/10 plot of "Loki falls in love with a human after throwing the 'I'm a god, you puny creature' fit and bitching with Thor that Jane is a human and their love is doomed; the perfect poetic punishment/justice for his behavior".

Lokabrenna, as far as I know, is the star Sirius, meaning "Loki's Torch". Well, well, he's got his own little star in his arms now

I wanted to try something like the illustrations I used to see in old fairy tale books I loved as a child. Also, the Celtic knot border is a certified mess 'cause I just learned to do it :')

Learned lots of things on this one that I'll apply to my Mummy Dust illust that's been sitting on the back burner 'cause I currently lack the skills to make it happen

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"From the bottom of my heart I know, I'm satanized!"

I would've been such a sexy nun, breaking all the priests' hearts with the sight of my ankles and piercing eyes HAHAHAHA

This reminded me so much of when I was chosen to be Virgin Mary carrying Baby Jesus in a school mass *sighs in catholic school*

Hahaha this is how yours truly looks like, but my face glitched in the nun version video. The priest version, though? *chef's kiss*

Satanized has been playing non-stop in my head and, lo and behold, I'm wanting to draw again! Ghost works in mysterious ways - plus, love how Perpetua looks already!

We've all been ✨s a t a n i z e d✨

I would've been a goofy priest though

Also yes Kat is one of my nicknames, I forgot to put Polaris when I realized I don't use instagram anymore and would just share here 🫠

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Long time ago, I wanted to get into understanding how to create nice ~appealing~ character sheets, so I took a couple of my characters from an original cyberpunk themed story I'm writing and decided to use them as a way to practice and figure out character sheets.

My boy Alastor, I worked on him almost a year ago and used Photoshop and a bigger file. On Nyx, I got to finish her recently and used a smaller file I didn't remember the dimensions on the original one and worked on Krita. Both results are good, but I personally feel more comfortable working on Krita ^^

Aside from them, I worked on two other character sheets: one for Catarina and another for Elisabeta.

All of them were on Photoshop, the only one on Krita was Nyx

With Catarina I had to make a small ~addition~ because of the detail on her spine. And, a character I didn't make a character sheet but I'm thinking about doing, is the wonderful drag queen late night show host, Lady DeeMonique (also with Photoshop).

I'm working on translating this story (my original ones, I write mostly on my mother tongue, Portuguese) and I remembered how much I liked it and how much I enjoy the characters and worldbuilding so far.

So, I dunno, I decided to share a little bit of all the work I did on it so far and I'm kinda going back to it this year. I'm thinking of finishing writing it this year (it's halfway through, around 120 pages already *cries*), even if it's just for me and I never put it out there in the wild.

I'm kinda very unmotivated and tired this year, so this might be something good to keep me with at least a goal to work on :)

Hope some of you enjoy it! I'm gonna also post a link to a video with the process on Nyx where I explain a ~little~ bit more, but what I usually do is save the character's files in a transparent background and work on the design with Canva, because I'm a black hole with design :D

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A little update

I haven't been posting much and it's been mostly old/random art because of a few things.

The last 4 months have been trying for me, to say the least. I'm going through a lot of personal stuff, my health hasn't been the greatest in the last 5 years and I'm broke, so I have to find a way to go around that.

I've never been too confident with my art, because I've never studied it formally - my mom taught me to draw and I had a great friend mentor me for a while, but that's it. I wanted to do it professionally, but I think I'll never get anywhere without a diploma from a ~high-end art school~ - and those are extremely expensive, so it's out of the question.

I've been down lately and I've been thinking this art thing is not for me - it's just a hobby and I shouldn't expect anything from it. There are a lot of people a lot better and more talented than me out there, so I shouldn't expect ~to be an artist~.

That's why I've stopped for a while, I don't have much energy and I've to think what to do about my health and money, that's a priority for now. Since art isn't gonna work out, I've to think other alternatives (and this isn't a self-pity party, it's more of an objective view of things and practical approach to problem solving) and I haven't been to motivated to work on art, currently.

Except from the silly fanarts here and there, but I'm lacking motivation for everything currently.

I'm gonna keep with the Ghost themed illustrations, but it's probably gonna take a while - again, I need motivation and they are a lot of work. I'm also gonna post some other fanarts from things I like (games, bands, you name it, I've many interests) and some personal characters. I'm also gonna give my webtoon a break 'cause I don't think it's that great and probably no one really cares, honestly xD maybe it'll be better as a written thing rather than a comic and maybe I'll post it somewhere. Who knows?

Anyway, that's the little update. Just thought I'd let you guys know.

Hope you have a great week!