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This better be the first scene of Stranger Things Season 5

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#iconic

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The creature who fell in love with the light

[Watercolor and gouache, based on ‘The Fog Horn’ by Ray Bradbury]

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AU where Rey found a strange, grumpy weirdo who got lost.

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Foraging

Cover illustration for the upcoming 2025 calendar✨

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commission for unpolar, his half-sea elf knowledge cleric Mortimer! i got to design the outfit for this lovely guy, and it was tons of fun working with a primarily blue color scheme, which i don't normally do. thank you for commissioning me! 💙

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Indulge 🍒🍑🍇

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A fun fact about EXU Calamity-

Working on these had me stressed and overwrought, mostly because I was worried that I wasn’t gonna pull of the Look, and the aesthetic would be shakier because of me.

To deal with that, I made up a character to be the in-universe mosaicist who was designing and crafting these panels of the Ring of Brass. Every time I messed up or my hand slipped and I had to go back a step, I imagined him dropping a tile, muttering a curse, and trying again. His name was Florent, he was a journeyman artist and craftsperson in Avalir, and he was my coworker for about a month.

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A fun fact about EXU Calamity-

Working on these had me stressed and overwrought, mostly because I was worried that I wasn’t gonna pull of the Look, and the aesthetic would be shakier because of me.

To deal with that, I made up a character to be the in-universe mosaicist who was designing and crafting these panels of the Ring of Brass. Every time I messed up or my hand slipped and I had to go back a step, I imagined him dropping a tile, muttering a curse, and trying again. His name was Florent, he was a journeyman artist and craftsperson in Avalir, and he was my coworker for about a month.

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So, I also got to storyboard the famous "Bath tub/ Hot tube Scene" from Campaign 1 of Critical Role. I just had fun with this one... There's something about drawing naked people embarrassed that is just pure joy =3

Props to the series director - Sung Jin- for suggesting Scalan's face on the moon XD

The episode was directed by Karen Guo (who also storyboarded the spicy scene between Vex and Percy in S03E03).

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For those who like a peek behind the curtains of animation production:

This is a scene I worked on for episode 4 of The Legend of Vox Machina season 3. I did the storyboards, Eugene Lee directed the episode and the editors put together the final animatic you see above (did some re-editing, added music and sound effects). As you can probably tell, the audio is temp track with a mixture of Luis Carazo and Travis Willingham doing the voice of Zerxus . There were some line edits late into the animatic stage, so Travis recorded a temporary track before they brought Luis back to re-record the lines for the final animation edit.

In regards to the Calamity flashback panels: I pitched to Travis and Sam (the show runners) the idea of keeping the stained-glass motif from the original Calamity portraits. They loved the idea! I'm obviously not a stained-glass designer/artist, so the boards are super rough hahaha. The Art department of Titmouse took the core ideas from the boards and made the final images 10000 x prettier!

I'm super glad the fans enjoyed that part of the episode! I hold this scene very close to my heart <3

Here are some other shots of Zerxus that never made it into the final animation:

And some rough boards for reference (which also got cut early on and/or changed by the time I cleaned up the panels):

I'm happy to answer questions about the behind the scene, just drop me a comment!

See you on my next making of post: The bathtube scene! U3U

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hi here’s a cool bird I betcha didn’t know existed, ✨the wallcreeper✨

it literally looks like a monarch butterfly it’s so cute

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them ladieeees

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t-...to-...toasty s'more mushrooms.....