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Wishing you a safe and Merry Christmas and a Happy Birthday to JC!

Branching out a bit and posting my art every now and then to Pillowfort and Newgrounds, but also I'm now on Bluesky! Definitely a better place than twitter and very tumblr-like with how the social environment isn't as hostile or over-reliant on clickbait.

So anyway, about this piece and why he's in there...

This year I neglected to acknowledge my OC's Creation Days (not their canon ages, but how long ago they were created) with Hubie being made 18 years ago back on the 24th of September 2006, and Michelle being made 8 years ago on the 20th of December 2016 respectively. Very important milestones for my goobers!

So I did something I've never done before; Make a three-way birthday giftart to both my OCs and basically, my first attempt at drawing Jesus himself as this year's festive artwork of mine.  

But this isn't just any depiction of Jesus Christ, but the man based on a picture I saw 4 years ago of what he really would've looked like many thousands of years ago!  Makes sense seeing as the son of the Christian God was born in the Palestinian city of Bethlehem. 

Thank you for taking the time to read and Happy Holidays! ;D

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Wee bit late to Pride Month 2024 with this one but hey better late than never (Pride Month should be every month anyway tbh)! Fanart of a couple streamers I like watching alot, Jall and Carl, who are both lover boys! You can check out their twitch channels here and here!

All shilling for two of my favourite goobers aside, no matter what gender or sexual orientation, know that you all deserve to live a life of peace and happiness, free of fear and judgement.

Happy Pride 2024.

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"Be sure to say Hi to Spyro for me..."

I wanted to get this done well before February 10th but like with most things, I have a nasty habit of leaving things until the last minute, but also like with most things, better late than never.

So here is my half-an-hour late contribution to Year of the Rabbit 2023 ft. my goth hare OC, Hubie Moonhare, wishing you all a Happy Lunar New Year of the Dragon, and good night!

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Beatrice "Eris" BUDD

Want to at least see off 2023 with one last art piece; Late-Birthday/Xmas Giftart for my pal @engineerkappa of her silly space goobers from the hit game B.U.D.D. only on itch dot io and SAGE 2023!

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Halloween 2023 art isn't finish yet, BUT in the mean time I do have this from way back in 2019, which I apparently never posted to my art tumblr?

Anyways

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

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"THE DOPAMINE OF ELDER GODS COURSES THROUGH MY MIND"

The Quake II Remaster is miles better than the original release in ways I didn't think of before, and even better than the Quake 1 Remaster in terms of netcode and features.

I was playing multiplayer deathmatch with my goofy ahh pals and I found my shots connecting way more accurately compared to Quake 1, where due to playing with people from across the pond, I had to lead my shots constantly, even with hitscan weapons. Quake II thankfully didn't have this problem. Impressive!

I'm hoping Nightdive will update the Quake 1 Remaster with the same netcode wizardry they implemented into freshly released Q2R, along with that neato navigator function that's really great for new players trying to find the way forward.

All that aside, to celebrate the release, here's my OC Michelle Aquastone under the effects of

Q U A D D A M A G E

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So Tony Grayson of Summitsphere asked the community to redraw this specific shot of Annie from the upcoming hit video game Antonblast! Naturally I, along with several other artists, delivered the goods.

Love this vile little creature.

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TFW you accidently cause an ecological disaster of the wacky variety

On a more serious note, you know how I said last year, starting from my 30th Birthday, I would make it a rule to at least make one doodle every Monday and post a photo of one of my drawings from my school sketchpads every Friday?

Yeah, I kinda fell out with that. OOPS.

But ya know what, screw it! As I’m now more active here than on twitter now more than ever, I’m gonna get back into the groove of things, starting with this doodle (I admittedly got carried away with) of the hapless janitor-turned-hero Ed Boy from the game Tonic Trouble (1999, released months before Rayman 2 that same year)!

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Since I’m not gonna be able to finish this year’s lil’ festive pic before the end of 2022 in half an hour where I am, here’s a small dump of the previous Christmas pieces I did to close things out!

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I’ll have a proper ref sheet with info done later, but for now I want to show off HER.

6 years ago, on the 20th of December 2016, I created a slimegirl OC who would eventually evolve into Michelle Aquastone, Metalhead Claygirl!

Here’s a mini playlist to give a very specific idea of what her taste in rock is.

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No new art prepped for Halloween this year, spent the entirety of October half playing Spooky games and the other half preoccupied with other things. So while I prep something else for Spooky Month Before Christmas (Yes that’s what I’m calling November from now on, since Christmas LOVES to appear as early as September these days), here’s a collection of spooky artwork I’ve done over the years!

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Legacy Lance Thursday #2 is here Ft. the Cyborg Sewer Rat from Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back (1997)

This one I believe I drew back when I was in the early years of Further Education (for US peeps, it's british highschool).

For those who know me or don't, I'm quite a fan of the OG Crash Bandicoot trilogy, with second game being my favourite!

The game featured alot of the mooks from the 1st game except they were all roboticized by Dr. N. Brio to stop Crash from gathering the Power Crystals for Dr. Neo Cortex.

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Legacy Lance Thursday #1 is here and celebrating Mar10 in style!!!

Here it is, the first of many old, OLD sketches and drawings I'll be sharing every Thursday from here on out!

And what better way to kickstart it than on the day we celebrate Mario Day!

The first sketch I'm not sure when I made, know for sure tho that this was a very early attempt to draw the SMB game in it's pixely state.

The second sketch however I do know for sure I made during the golden age of Youtube Poopery, featuring the Hotel Mario Bros!

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Hope yer ready for some premium Legacy Lance content, because at 9pm GMT (roughly an hour from now), I'm gonna reveal the first of my never-before-seen school sketches!

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Xmas 2021 & OCs Anniversary Art!

Artwork belonging to this interactive card right here!  -> https://lance-arts.tumblr.com/post/672477137660526592/merry-belated-christmas-a-happy-also-belated

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Merry (belated) Christmas & A Happy (also belated) New Year 2022!

FINALLY after fighting bouts of lack-of-motivation and my body telling me to fall asleep at my desk, right before the final day of Christmas, it is DONE!!!

More below the cut!

Now this is a Christmas Project that I had thought up a while ago and have been meaning to make. Originally I wanted to animate it, but didn't have time. It was also meant to be more minimalistic, with both characters representing two of my favourite colours, Purple and Green Teal.

Speaking of Characters, not only is this a Christmas double art feature, this art also counts as the anniversaries of both my OCs Michelle Aquastone (space pirate slime girl) and Janus Moonhare (Chillax Lunar Demi-God), the former of which I created 5 years ago (Dec 20th 2016) and the latter I created 15 years ago (Sep 24th 2006)! Oh yeah and then there's 3 year old Kittowl critter companion fella, another OC I made on the 7th of Sep 2018. (Keep in mind though these aren't their actual ages lore-wise)

So yeah, this basically doubles as their birthday gifts. Truly a Christmas miracle!

My only regret is that I chose to make this right before Christmas day, thinking I could power through and complete it before then, or even before the end of the year instead of, ya know, doing it a week before in advance so I could spend a little bit more time spending the 12 days of Christmas relaxing with friends and family (which ofcourse I did, I just wish I did a bit more of it instead of working).

With that all said and done though, I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and/or Happy Holidays, and a prosperous new year!

Characters and Art are all mine.

Music is the Mike Oldfield cover of In Dulci Jubilo which was performed at the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony.

You can check out the YT version of this here which also includes additional links to the artwork on it's own!

-> https://youtu.be/xcLeFYMRUzE

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And so after 6 years of being on the air, we finally bid a bittersweet farewell to Steven Universe with the finale of Steven Universe Future.

Man, I really don’t know how to do this sendoff to one of my favourite series justice, but I will do my best.

I remember years ago, back when I was way more active on this site especially, Steven Universe had started off it’s life on Cartoon Network. I watched only the first two episodes, but I never really bothered to keep up with the show.

It wasn't until the start of the second season I really started getting into Steven Universe as a whole. I reblogged fanart, read all these crazy theories (most of which came true funnily enough), listened to covers of the show's boppin' songs, and of course, I binged the entire show repeatedly to the point where I know most of the lines from some of the episodes.

I took the next step and started socialising with the fan community via SU's subreddit. It was there I eventually joined the SU/r's Discord (AKA SUD). And then I made new, life-long, friends with another discord server related to SU/r's partner subreddit BeachCity, where they used to host weekend Drawpiles while we were waiting for new episodes to air during those long, LONG Hiatuses. To this day, I am still with most of the friends I made back in the early days of this show's life.

I feel that without this show, I wouldn't have all the online friends I have now.

Heck, I'd say this show has changed me in ways I didn't think possible.

It taught me that it was okay for men to cry, to garner greater empathy for different people from all walks of life, to resolve conflicts that don't always need to require violence, and to love on a grander, more nuanced scale...

And for that, I am deeply humbled and thankful.

Thank you Rebecca Sugar,

thank you Crewniverse,

thank you Garnet,

thank you Amethyst,

thank you Pearl,

and thank you Steven Universe.

We will always believe in you.

Thanks everything...