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attack on @snoodls! love this design so much

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Gift art for @snoodls of Chief Pact Medical Officer, Doctor Ophyrra Faithrazor. I love that Ophyrra is friends with Vax, because any time they inhabit the same space it’s like this.

I love nothing more than to listen to one or two songs on repeat when I’m drawing, so this July’s gift art came with government-assigned playlists. guess which one matched to which… LOL:

Let’s Get This Over With by They Might Be Giants

Various Kitchen Utensils by Skybox

Lollipop by MIKA

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CAVE · CANEM handbuilt △10 stoneware box and lid, iron oxide wash

I took a ceramics class this summer and spent 8 weeks locking myself in the studio. I had a blast and made around 50 pieces that I'm all very proud of. Not bad for my first time with real clay!

This box and I...we went through it together. The first iteration I made, with the Hound lid, had to be carefully revived from the brink of death after an air leak caused the greenware to prematurely dry past chocolate bar hard. Then, when it was finally assembled and the lid carefully cut, it exploded in the bisque. It wasn't a total loss, only a baseball-sized hole blew right through the bottom. So I decided to make another box and lid exactly the same size so that the original lid would fit the new box. It miraculously did (which is literally a miracle because of how clay shrinks and warps in the kiln), but I dremeled the flange down just to be safe. I agonized over how to glaze it, but ultimately settled on an iron wash with careful application to get the variance in hue. I pulled the new box and lid out of the kiln, only to discover that the iron had acted as a flux and sealed the flange to the box. Awesome. So back to the dremel for another 3 hours of grinding away with various bits until finally it was free. Yippee! There’s a staccato of nicks in some places along the rim where my rotary tool went wild, but they kind of look like rat bites. I think they add to the story of these boxes being in a tomb and feasted on throughout time. They’re nostalgic in a way; I used to work at a rare books library and several of our collection items had been snacked on by critters. My favorite was an old bible from 1100 CE whose spine looks like Cookie Monster took a huge bite out of it. (A phrase I never thought I’d write in a description.)

The figure depicted on the box is my oc The Hound. They were once a king’s loyal hunting hound, as ruthless as they were relentless. I’d like to think this was the Hound’s funerary box, designed to hoard their bones in his great vault. Unfortunately for the corrupt king (or perhaps fortunately), he never saw the mutiny coming. When the maw that withstood a thousand lashes bears the ire no longer—it can only find home snapping around a neck.

I drew inspiration from ancient Egyptian animal funerary boxes, and an old Italian leather book-shaped box. I loved working with my hands and learning about all of the crazy wonderful processes and peculiarities about this medium. Here's to more clay days in the future!

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en garde! 🤺🌊🪸 i’m team seafoam for art fight this year~ https://artfight.net/~snoodles

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good luck on your journey. come home safe.

and when you find him, guide him home.

Ximone, despondent and beside herself, sends her companion hawk Sappho after her best friend Commander Yuri Six-cants, who is presumed dead and in the Mists. Pictured, in order: Ximone overlooking the Brand in Ascalon, relaying instructions to Sappho, reminiscing about younger days with Yuri after reuniting in Ebonhawke, Sappho appearing to a lost commander in the Mists, and Ximone wishing the people she loves would stop slipping through her claws.

These are my humble little pieces that I did for the Commander of Your Heart Zine! I'm so honored to be alongside all of those lovely and talented artists! ;m; <3 Yuri belongs to @1ore! Sappho belongs to herself!

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Commander of Your Heart; a free Zine made as a love letter to all of the Commanders (and non commanders) all over Tyria is now available to download!

We are proud to present COYH. We would like to take this time to thank every single contributor, aritist and writer alike, for taking part in this Zine. We appreciate each and every one of you from the bottom of our hearts.

If you would like a copy of Commander of Your Heart simply follow this link to download the PDF!

Once again we thank you all and hope you enjoy!

Love, The COYH Mod Team!

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For the next month we will slowly be introducing our wonderful contributors!

Snoodles | Charr Artist [@snoodls]

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[Recreation of a gw2 equipment interface, the text has been changed to match the creator] Snoodles +deviantart.com/snoodls +snoodls.tumblr.com +126 Hoarded Items +74 Roleplays by the Hero Point +67 Befriended Creatures +18 Tyrian Road Trip Playlists

Transmuted Marsh Frog Masterwork Charr Artist A companion for any traveler who wants to throw themselves at jumping puzzles, befriend enemy creatures, or harvest herbs in the heat of battle. Rumors tell of a strange condition where scenic vistas are unable to be ignored. Well-equipped for roleplaying, photoshoots, and niche Charr customs. Unique Account Bound

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2023 art retrospective! ✨

I can't believe I'm writing one of these again already; where did this year go??

Looking back on this past year, wow! I can see and feel my confidence with my art growing tremendously. Finally it feels like I'm comfortable with tools and the process. I'm not totally lost when I open a canvas; there's a sense of reassurance that I can do it, and if I can't, I will figure it out along the way. 

Overall, finding time, space, and energy for art proves to be both exceedingly difficult and yet the only thing that I want to do when I get home. I know logically this is mostly because of my job--new office, new boss, new responsibilities, new position--and a few huge life transitions, but when you're someone who makes things who is not making things, it can be rough seas in the brain soup.

I think a major theme for this year was getting back into creative habits. It's an annual tradition at this point to nosedive into an artist's block death spiral. February into March into April...were all lean months for my creativity. Intense job/interpersonal stuff plus news of two of my big art inspirations both suddenly dying...the world hit me hard in these months.

I owe a lot to Lynda Barry's Making Comics for giving me my spark back and for helping to heal a part of me that I didn't realize was so broken and bruised. I remember when I picked the book up around my birthday; the cashier said the book made her cry and I didn't understand. I asked why, and she said "It's just healing." I was skeptical, but now I get it. I've been observing more, giving more credence to my creativity, and being less afraid of making a "bad" drawing.

Now I've been focusing on creating portfolio pieces that I'm proud of and happy to display in my space, as well as finally getting around to my hoard of accumulated characters. I've been picking away at my personal site and uploading much more to toyhouse to keep track of them all.

The last month or so has been completely consumed by making gifts, meeting deadlines, finishing owed art, continuing special projects 👀...so I haven't had much of a presence here. I've been doing lots of traditional art--getting back into acrylic painting and hopefully back into oils soon. I started pine needle basket weaving and have made 2.25 baskets so far! it's a long, tedious, menial process, but it's so satisfying to have something physical (and functional) that you've worked on for hours. I've also been living in my sketchbook the past week--practicing with pens, markers, and practicing itself. I've been conditioned to have the sketchbook be a precious space, and I am trying my best to break out of that. If you want to see some of my traditional sketches and offline stuff, I made a little collage for this year's picks too. ↬ sketchbook 2023

I think for next year I'd like to continue finding better balances--in how I spend my time, how I can spend my time...and to continue pushing myself out of my comfort zone with experiments and messiness. I want to continue being creative in so many more mediums--more film photography and video, hopefully!

In my sketchbook I wrote this meandering paragraph that I want to share: this is a living document--of breath, of movement, not of polished stasis. I reject capitalistic notions of being "industrious" "beautiful" "marketable" "pristine" and on public display at all times. I am not a product to be consumed; neither is my work. I embrace the messy, the incomplete, and the ugly. I refuse to tailor myself to an unseen audience. We thirst for the drafts, the brushstrokes, the incomplete works of the famous. Is this because, in our minds, this makes them more human? Less untouchably great? Or do we see ourselves in the struggles and not in the finished pieces? How charitable is that reading? What I would give to see my inspirations' marker streaks, their 12yo sparkledogs. Framing these byproducts--there's that word again--as art reframes them, reframes myself. To be human is to mark-make, to scribble in the dirt. I hear they reconstruct civilizations from stuff like that.

All my best to you & yours, and happy new year!

art featured: garden ghost | Vagabonds - Aqua Fria River | 6040 elk? | i'll still be around | blue sky | umm hihihi omg hi ...? | porcelain | nothing to remember | Lacquer | river bed-time

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art fight drawing for @snoodls

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There's 4 days of Artfight left… but I'm pooped, so here’s the rest of my attacks! (1/2)

Starrain- @snoodls

Altair- @toonsy-doodles

Donovan Monroe- @birbwell

Ernst Augury- st.franis (INSTA)

Cyril- ester3st (INSTA)

Gargoyle Knight- @julijbee

Frederick- poo_mello (INSTA)

Absinthe- @smapis

Brutus (and Pronghorn friend)- Deerspine (AF)

Ekt-belun- wediblinoheno (TWITTER)

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AF23-17: Storm get out of the water. For @snoodls. Personal Website | Discord Server 

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umm hihihi omg hi

Origin Prompt V: The Other featuring @1ore's Senna and my Salosa!

A painting of a special meeting place. Senna was looking for someone else when she had to show up. :\ whatever dude. Biggest thai tea cup shattering thanks to 1ore for letting me take the wheel and drive us out to this spot. Good thing I had a backup cam and she had a giant map or we would have been stuck on 231. : - ) c)=^)

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just surfin'! art trade with fairwren

I'm on a road trip visiting a dear friend and listening to a lot of songs in the car. This is one of them that's been on my mind.

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there's room for everyone under the big sky (ty 1ore for letting me borrow Dia!)

if you have some spare change, please consider donating to one of the organizations: Transgender Education Network of Texas (TENT)  | Thrive Youth Center | Equality Texas

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call my name when the world is upside down i'll still be around x

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Cerma cerintha

I'll just wait for springtime / wait for springtime

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my final shots of the TWWM Vagabonds MAP! | a reunion at the river - Ora meets her wife (@1ore's Dia) again! 💕