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howdy Tumblr, I also made one of these. They're pretty fun distractions to engage with in a group of friends in, say a Discord channel or something similar, just don't make the same mistake I did and underrate the difficulty of how hard it would be to figure out your characters due to the Curse of Knowledge, lol This was my first attempt at creating a round of the game featuring my character Tax, a symbiote ghost maid singlehandedly devoted to helping her surrogate daughter bring about the end of the world. Her powers include being entirely made of fabric that she can control telekinetically, and the ability to taxidermize the dead and puppeteer them to fight on her behalf. Will that be relevant for the guessing game? Possibly! The names of the sets are: -Classic (from a video game) -Bounded (Video game) -Hollow (Video Game) -Super-Ego (Anime) -Catalyst (Anime) Answers for Tax below:

Classic: Mega Banette, a reference to Tax's design origins as a banette cultist.

Bounded: Legion (from Astral Chain), pulled due to how I envision Tax's fighting style when paired with Masei.

Hollow: Omega (Base design, from Megaman Zero 3). Tax is a former incarnation of a primary character from my OC world, whose story involves having to overcome them and re-define themselves in light of the new knowledge they receive regarding their past. Additionally, both Tax and Omega are being used by the overarching antagonists of their stories to enact destruction at scale, albeit with different intentions. On a purely physical line, it can also be implied that this version of Omega is housing the Original Zero's body within it as well, sharing some similarities with Tax's nature as a symbiote.

Super-Ego: Boogiepop (from Boogiepop Phantom, would recommend for anyone looking for an anime with a similar vibe to Serial Experiments Lain albeit in a paranormal murder investigation bent.) Boogiepop was picked due to outfit similarities, being an uncontrollable alter-ego of another character, and for their ability to manipulate threads to kill and maim, an ability that Tax can also utilize on a much more radical scale.

Catalyst: Alexis Kerib (from SSSS.Gridman), pulled for both their aesthetic and their shared trait of being a key part of the primary antagonist's ability to create monsters in their setting. If you participated, thanks for playing and I hope you enjoyed the distraction! Spread it around your friend groups and see what they think as well! Have a blast with it!

The OC Palette Guessing Game!

My friends and I made up a game where we draw our OCs in different palettes and try to deduce which character it is! It's a fun game to play over chat like Discord.

Here are some palettes featuring my foxgirl OC. Can you guess the character reference? (Hint: These characters are all foxgirls.)

Solutions can be found under the cut.

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Solutions

Astute Miko = Yae Miko (Genshin Impact)

Elegant Legend = Ahri (League of Legends)

Crunchy Streamer = Crunchyroll-Hime (Crunchyroll)

Zooey Lycanthrope = Zoologist (Terraria)

Eastern Bullet = Ran Yakumo (Touhou)

Runic Serendipity = Misasagi (Rune Factory 5)

Quantum Merryweather = Mozilla Firefox (Internet Explorer comic)

Graceful Zombie = Dakki, the Graceful Mayakashi (Yu-Gi-Oh)

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ARTIFIGHT STUFF, also how the fuck do you order the images around properly 1: @falgaia 2: @doughster 3: lingondricka

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Cerpin Tax (WIP)

for Maid Day 2024 #メイドの日

OC Bio in Alt Text

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Assorted Tax (OC) for Maid Day.

brief Tax description: Tax is a malicious phantom born from Masei's memories. Her body is entirely comprised of fabric with the exception of her mask, and is freely maleable using fabrikinesis. She acts as a maternal guardian to Masei, and is single-mindedly dedicated to the pursuit of Masei's happiness. The original body of Tax has been lost to time; now she requires a willing host body to manifest herself.

Tax has been a ton of fun to draw over the years and I look forward to eventually getting to tell her story to you all. +)

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have u ever played metroid fusion? ur art reminds me of it a lot!! :O

Thanks! I played both the GBA Metroids growing up, but have always had issues getting into the console offerings. I wouldn't be too surprised if the art in those games had some influence on me, and I can confirm that I used the SA-X art as a reference in my Year of the Rabbit Zodiac Cultist, so there is probably some more art from that game kicking around in my subconscious, lol

Thanks for the ask!

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SAFE SKIN

for Tax Day 2024

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I checked out JuiceFX thanks to that post and impulse-purchased a bundle it was in...

I'm curious, for the gijinka designs and such, do you have a design all planned out beforehand, or do you make it up as you go?

hi, glad to hear I could point someone towards JuiceFX! I'd also really recommend looking into Spritemancer these days, it's made by the same dev and is sortof a collection of a bunch of his animation tools that he's created over the past few years. It has most* of the features that are in Juice FX, albeit in a different presentation format, but the biggest pull of the software is its ability to work with more than 8 layers at once by far lol. My most recent animated piece was juggling ~60 in one project by the time I was done with it, lol. In regards to the gijinka designs, thanks for asking! It really depends on the design, but more often than not I have a few rough elements and forms planned out in advance with the help of some thumbnailing sketches and figure out the rest of the details as I go. Pixelart and nupastels share a similar limitation in that they are both media that doesn't do well with overly finnicky details, so a lot of my early design work tends to leave those out and focus on shapes and volumes that I can block out in a poser app like Magicposer with relative ease. Generally I prefer to do a sketch if working with poser apps after the posing to block out a few of the details prior to rendering, but sometimes I will just skip the step to save time. I was able to find some of the early pose explorations for the Sandslash cultist, so I included those below for reference.

hope this was informative, and thanks for the ask!

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F A U X

idle musings

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your art looks like traced ai

unfortunately for your single brain cell comment I have a video from two years ago showing my entire process. I regret to inform you the only thing about my workflow that has changed in those two years is that I now use a tablet, and I had to move back to the office, which has severely cut into my time for my artistic hobbies. Do some research and save your half-assed accusations for targets that matter next time.

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F A U X

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Apicultist Worker

Totemic Veil of the Honeybee

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You and Me Won't Be Alone No More

My Mew magical girl and reformed Banette cultist, together for Valentine's Day.

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Snapdragon Cultist

for Lunar Year of the Dragon

Zodiac Attunement: Yang Wood

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Brief Rabbit Zodiac Cultist animation test in Spritemancer.

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[Veiled] Year of the Tiger

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Backup Artist piece for @loch-nload as part of the Cafe Dot Secret Santa. I had a lot of fun working with their character, even though it was a short turnaround time.

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Secret Santa for @sodiclo on Instagram, an old chatroom buddy of mine.