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(This new print will be available at AWU 2024!)

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Check out these amazing oil paintings Max did for Kwillow and I! The other two of Ambroys and Theo are equally impressive. The posts where he detailed his process (frames, name plaques) are also very interesting reads. So much love and care went into these... what an incredibly cool gift! Thank you so much!

Three Nobleman (Pt. I)

Duke Arcturus Aleksander Hyden the IV.

The first of three portraits I did for @kwillow and @chocodile. This is the second painting I ever did in oil on canvas , yet completely different from my first one of Lord Ambroys - oil-on-canvas-painting-of-lord-ambroys -. The project started at the beginning of January and Hyden ( by @chocodile ) happened to be the first one I wanted to work on. It turned out, that it was quite difficult to me, to find out what color his coat is supposed to be. I still think it turned out a little bit darker than it should be and maybe a little bit too much on the "green side". But I also learned a lot about shading and gradients as well as I was reminded of how hard it can be to paint "toon characters" without outlines in this specific style. One can notice it hadn't worked out for the mouth and the eyes.. it just looked wrong so I decided to go with just black lines, what makes them look more toonish again. Speaking of the style, it's hard to overlook that it's completely based on @kwillow 's artwork. This one specifically on the following piece - theo-was-tremblingly-eager-to-help-hyden -. This also means that I don't want to take credit for the artwork itself even in the slightest. In the end I just changed the medium, nothing more. The painting process itself took me about 50-55 hours (yeah, I am that slow) but it brought me a lot of joy and it was a very interesting learning process of how oil colors work.

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Since Fallout is kinda relevant again, I made some Fallout AU ref sheets for Art Fight! One extremely average wastelander and one decidedly not-average wastelander.

(My username there is Skitty, hint, hint)

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So, since I did get asked about it at Furlandia... question.

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So, since I did get asked about it at Furlandia... question.

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Also, the very talented @stelldubs did a reading of this ask response a while ago! They totally nailed Hyden's voice. Give it a listen!

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just wanted to say i bought a tiny dragon calico critter from you at furlandia and im still sobbing over how cute it is. tysm <3

Aw thank you, I'm glad it found such a good home with you!

(I do think those tiny dragons turned out pretty disgustingly adorable!)

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may was so good to me

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Hi! I was curious what method you use to color your sylvanians, they come out so gorgeous!

Regular acrylic paint! The kind you can get from Walmart for a buck or two works just fine.

The trick is that you gotta use a gentle touch. Lightly brush a tiny bit of paint onto the surface of the flocking, then use a damp (not wet/dripping!) brush to blend it in deeper. Use a small brush for this, of course. Keep in mind that too much water will make the paint bleed. Pressure on the flocking (like resting a figure's foot on a table) and gravity can also cause it to bleed, especially if you get too much water in there. Paint the figure in sections so that you can avoid resting wet flocking against the table, use one color at a time, and let it dry fully between coats.

The flocking does end up a little more stiff once it's been painted (not as soft as an unpainted figure) but it's not so bad if you do it this way. If you glop paint on there too much it will end up clumpy and have a more unsightly texture, so I'd recommend aiming for the smallest amount of paint you think you can get away with. You can always add more layers of paint if the color doesn't come out strong enough the first time.

Good luck on your customs! Feel free to ask if you have any other questions, I love sharing the tricks I've learned.

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Customized choco dog and cake pup Sylvanian Families, all ready to be packed and brought to Oregon for Furlandia 2024!

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Customized kitsune and gemstone dragon Sylvanian Families, all ready to be packed and brought to Oregon for Furlandia 2024!

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If self-improvement isn't an option, you might as well enjoy the downward spiral, right?

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Bunny romance meme! Because a couple people asked after seeing the ones @kwillow did.

His younger years were defined by experimentation and testing boundaries. These habits were quite visible in his romantic (mis)adventures. Flings with him tended to be exciting and memorable (for bad reasons as often as for good), but always ended painfully.

By his 50s, Hyden has largely lost interest in romance. He experimented with it in the past, sure, and sometimes he misses having somebody by his side, but he's self-aware enough to realize that he's probably not capable of the kind of connection other people seem to expect. …Also, relationships are a lot of effort and inconvenience, and he's kind of past the whole "putting in effort" era of his life.

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I have this strong feeling that theo would be very happy to live in one of my oc's nations. (Hes a minotaur prince of a country that religiously collects any and ALL forms of knowledge cause they believe knowledge no matter what about or how you got it, is not evil also they do necromancy) Unless theo likes to lie in which case just dont do it infront of the crown prince and he'll be golden. The prince tends to skin people alive for lying to him u.u

Theo's a man of ethics, you know. He's taken a Hypocritic Oath.

Alas, I worry Theo might not be as at home in such a nation as one might think, despite his, erm, hobbies.

His studies into necromancy/blood magic are done out of a sense of filial duty, and as a rather fussy man with a prudish personality, he finds the hands-on application of it quite revolting and something to be endured rather than enjoyed. Additionally, Theo may be a nerd who loves books and dark magic and books about dark magic, but he is also a proud scion and adherent of an archaic aristocratic line. As such, he comes packaged with some rather staid, traditionalist values and the belief that most people are inherently his lesser. His few social experiences haven't dissuaded him from the opinion that the vast majority of people are some combination of brutish, stupid, and dissolute.

All that to say - he believes that he himself has the proper motivations, intellect and capacity for self-control (ha) to practice responsible crimes against nature, but would he say the same of wide swathes of society? Certainly not! A kingdom wherein necromancy is widespread and celebrated would naturally have too many lowly people who should never practice such a gruesome, potent art doing so, and that means the kingdom itself must be corrupt.

He would view the collection of dubiously-attained knowledge similarly. He would certainly like to partake in such knowledge, because he is a noble man of good breeding and fine manners who can understand and apply such knowledge with a gentleman's delicate touch. As a curiosity, and out of an appreciation for historical artifacts, he would like ancient tomes of evil work preserved, but not accessible to the unwashed masses who would sully them or use them for ill. Better to remain in a private library, read only by those who engage in appropriate self-flagellation after. Who decides what to preserve and which people should get access to it? Well, himself, of course! He wouldn't trust any other curator's judgment. Another strike, in his view, against a kingdom with a laissez-faire approach to science.

Also, while he values (often brutal) honesty and is certainly not a consummate confabulator of the caliber of Hyden or Ambroys, Theo will use deception to achieve his own ends. Just... not often very well. He's not exactly rocking a Charisma build. He also tends to chafe against male authority figures, especially if they threaten any consequences of his actions. It might end badly for him on the "skinning alive" front.

Anyway - I wouldn't stamp Theo's visa to the minotaur prince's kingdom, for everyone's sake. Best case scenario, he rudely complains about everyone there being debased reprobates the whole time and everyone is extremely uncomfortable. Worst case scenario, I've got one dead rat-sans-pelt and the city's libraries have been ransacked by a man who feels like common people are too dumb and immoral to read medical textbooks and the Kama Sutra alike.

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I had really hoped that BG3!Hyden and Gale could be wizard buddies, but alas, they just don't quite see eye to eye on things very well. For some reason. The party is essentially that "there's always that one weak bitch in the group that isn't down with murder" meme where Gale is said weak bitch. But it's fun to imagine them kind of hating each other instead.

Also, as many others have noted, Gale absolutely steals the spotlight from a wizard Tav. We keep finding these cool magic things but they're meant for his character only... it's like me and Larian are two children roleplaying on Neopets arguing about whose magic wolf OC is more special and powerful (the answer is obviously mine) (but Larian wins because they made the game).

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Baldur's Gate 3 x Animal Crossing (kinda)

Which villager will you befriend?