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An illustration vaguely inspired by the shin-hanga of Yoshida Hiroshi.

I tried my best to research what onsen are actually like for this drawing, since I’ve never been. However, I found a million little details I got wrong only after drawing this, so please take this rendition with a grain of salt!

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Just realised I still haven’t posted this piece here yet — this piece was inspired by some fables, a traditional game, and a very specific illustration of Baba Yaga by an artist named Ivan Bililbin.

Someone once told me “I didn’t know you could draw in cursive” after looking at this piece. It still brings a smile to my face!

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Personal Blog: @thefixedpaintbox

Made a different blog for everything non-art related, since this one started getting cluttered real fast. In the future, I’ll do all the reblogging and commenting from there! This one will be pretty much exclusively for art.

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Fanart of Shoot From the Hip, an improv comedy group with a rather bawdy sense of humour!

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Sci-fi reimagining of Morgane Le Fay from Arthurian Legend! In this version, she is a cyborg rather than a fairy, and her talent for magic is instead the ability to interpret vast amounts of information.

I spent an ungodly amount of time trying to settle down on the colours.

I think I’ll try something nature-themed next. Expect lots of plants. I have three different ideas in mind right now – explorers who have stumbled upon an ancient civilisation deep in the wilderness; survivors traversing a post-apocalyptic world where nature has re-claimed everything human; some sort of clearing in a wood with fairies, except they are the original, dangerous, scary, child-stealing kind. Let’s see how this pans out, I don’t draw full scenes very often, let alone ones with dense vegetation!

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A sketchbook page of teeny-tiny studies from Hollow Knight — one of my top favourite videogames of all time. Also, Ari Gibson is one of my many favourite artists.

It’s such a shame that the Andromeda galaxy will collide with the Milky Way long before Silksong is released though.

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Ah, another old fanart retrieved from the depths of my google drive. This one is a polymer clay sculpt of The Rotten Winged Insignia from Elden Ring.

Only the maidenless opt for Millicent’s Prosthesis. Don’t be maidenless.

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I wanted to draw a chaos gremlin, but ended up with a hullabaloo goblin. I’ll draw the chaos gremlin too someday.

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Apparently, I wasn’t the only one who imagined Martin with a slight resemblance to Tintin!

I draw in this style for sketches and rough drafts, but now I’m starting to think it looks too adorable use ONLY for that. I underestimated the power of the button eyes.

Would Jon have dots instead of proper eyes if drawn like this? Either way, I digress.

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This animation took so long to make, but it was so worth it!

I’m calling this one “Sunny Side Up.” The egg-head character was meant to have a sun-face. Its current appearance was a happy accident.

I only recently started using Instagram (same username, @thebrokenpaintbox), and I now wish I’d started using it sooner. It’s so incredibly simple and easy to make a portfolio on there. The only problem is that horrid compression – the slight blurriness, colour shift, and change in aspect ratio drives me up a wall. It’s significantly worse in reels.

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An absolutely ancient study page I dug out of an old sketchbook. I love the goofy faces, it’s hilarious how he alternates between serious and tragic and “IMNOTSHORT.”

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Do you ever come across an old, long-forgotten doodle of yours and pause to think: huh, I wonder what I was thinking while drawing that?

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Second part of the exhibition post.

You are The Product

Big Camera is Watching You

Anyway, that’s everything! Now that it’s online, I’m hoping I won’t lose the files now.

My Exhibition – Panopticon

After I posted a drawing of a bunch of giant CCTV cameras watching over a city, I thought, why not put my whole exhibition online? Tumblr is the site I use to post artwork that I wouldn’t quite put on my portfolio but still want to show to other people, so it’s the perfect place for it really.

Anyway, here it is! (To clarify, although I do post fanart of The Magnus Archives a lot here, all of this was before I knew much about the podcast — even though some of it seems exactly like the kind of references someone who knows about the series would make!)

The flyer I made for my exhibition

Found Footage

Visions of the Future

Privacy Policy

Algorithmic Manipulation

Trojan Horse

Accept All

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Found this absolute gem while looking back at my earliest attempts at animation.

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My scary artwork. I wonder about surveillance a lot and this is a by-product of it.

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NOBODY introduce Anxiety to coffee!!

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Artwork of one of my oldest OCs who I didn’t draw at the time because I thought my art wasn’t “good enough” yet.

I’ve found that “good enough” is always a moving target, so I just go ahead and do things now, and that’s not just for art. I’m a much happier person for it.

Anyway, meet Sir Oragon, a Dragonborn Knight. I got the idea for him while misreading a card while playing a boardgame. It said “Dragon,” but the fancy font made the letter “D” look like “O,” and I thought to myself, huh, that would be a cool name for a knight.