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speedpaint up!

my full piece from the @mementomoristrahdzine! it accompanies @geopvnk's beautiful introspective piece on patrina shortly before she was sent away from ravenloft. if you haven't read her piece yet, please go do so! it has my personal seal of approval as the (self-proclaimed) preeminent patrina velikovna enjoyer.

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announcements and housekeeping

i wanted to announce it yesterday but realized it is never a good idea to do anything that day, so i will say it today! i have an expensive purchase to make, so most likely this month i will be opening three commission slots for $75 each. i have a lot to do this month unfortunately so it will either be the third or last week if i am able, keep an eye out!

i have wanted to post more sketches here for a long time but always struggled because i thought of this as more “professional” than my main, but i don’t want to do that anymore. professional stuff can go in a professional portfolio. this is tumblr. in may i will be going back and separating posts, tagging them by sketch or more polished piece. i am not sure what the tags will be yet but we’ll cross that bridge when we get there.

i am looking to change the site gestalt is hosted on. this should not affect your experience at all, just save me money. i have been so. so. so busy learning a new skill set and working. after i finish the next update, the rest will be in a much simpler rendering style so that i can actually work on it once a week and finish a page or two every other week, similar to the intermission comic with victor and izek. thank you for understanding

the new skill i have been learning is 3d modeling and animation (and a little compositing) for those not following my main. i’m still not at a place where i’m happy with my progress, but i at least wanted to share my plans for it: i’m animating the interior castle scenes of the epilogue to i strahd (EVENTUALLY) as essentially my “final exam,” but mostly just as demo reel/portfolio work. the storyboard is done, the soundtrack is picked out and edited, but it will be a very long time before it is finished and released because i am doing backgrounds the hard way by painting them (i need to brute force myself to get better at backgrounds and perspectives. this is the only way). i am also only just learning rigging. animation course is next, then making van richten’s model, then making that old man dance. it’s largely just an elaborate rig + model + painting showcase because it is a lot of boring but pretty shots until one small fight scene i added in. once it is finished and released, i will put the van richten model on gumroad or kofi or something. i need someone to make a lot of old man sounds and a line of dialogue or two (my voice is too sultry smooth for this. sorry van richten), but that’s another bridge i will cross when i get there.

i have more speedpaints processed and ready to upload, but they’re all other peoples’ ocs so i’m not comfortable uploading them until i can link to their pages in the description as youtube doesn’t let you link until you are verified. i may just upload them and put the links in a pinned comment for the time being, hadn’t thought of that until typing just now. good plan everyone

there is still one more announcement or two but they haven’t been publicly said elsewhere yet so i don’t think i’m allowed still! soon.

okay that’s my yapping for the year

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i'm always hesitant about posting my wips for character designs here, but i know there are some people who have wanted to see more of my process, so here's step #2 of that. designs are not final, are never final... the #1 most important part is finding a song to put on loop for the next hour and a half

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one brings shadow one brings light, to this riddle all souls are tied

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it has been fun figuring out designs for people who never show up in game. i am totally free to do anything i want forever.

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Featuring: ShanyafromStar, nouvaeumoon, vesperosy, and Fruitnoot

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we rockin with the thagomizer?

i'm a little insecure about this design because it veers SO far away from what DnD says a silver dragon is meant to look like, but also because.... his earthy palette of red + silvers + blacks + browns means he does not stand out in a big battlefield against strahd's forces. :( but i guess if he were just pure silver then he would blend in with the armor anyway... aaaanyway anyway. bottom doodle is based off a convo a friend and i were having but i needed to include it for his freaky hand diagram. also sorry to any ornithologists. this is just a quick concept drawing to figure out his colors. i'll look at wing references next time. i'm still up in the air about the false eye butttt that's okay i'll hit post

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Is that a gay little mustache you gave Van Richten? Very faggy, very chic

but of course

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Contributor Spotlights

We would like to begin introducing you to the lovely artists and writers helping work on this zine! Thank you! @shanyafromstar | @nouveaumoon

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a clairvoyant told me once i've got an old soul oh lord, i wish i could sing like that

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speedpaint now uploaded

We thank the Pope for granting us this wish When Friday comes, we'll all call rats fish. We catch them with a net, kill with the gun. We'll call it all forgotten when we're done.

angel devil for the wonderful @peachy-txt

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peekaboo

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i'm going to finally go through my recordings and stitch together some speedpaints :']

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i decided i didn't like how this piece looked so i'm redoing this whoooole thing from chalky to painterly. still waiting on a few things to be announced so i can talk about the stuff i'm actually working on hoohoo

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exethanter and neferon play the guitar. youtube // original audio

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he showed me sunlight for the first time in my life. i didn't tell him how it burned