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Here is some art, now I am going to tell you a parable. It is not my own, rather It is from my childhood. I think it was a book or something. A stork and a... I think it was a weasel, were friends. They have never eaten together, so the Stork asks the weasel to visit for dinner. The weasel accepts, and upon entering the home the Stork sees that the Weasel has decided to have soup on a plate. The beak of the Stork is far to long, unwieldy to drink from the plate. While the Weasel could drink greedily to it's heart's desire. The Stork soon invited the Weasel over for dinner. Upon arrival to the Stork's house the Weasel notices that the Stork has decided to have soup as well. Out of a tall pot. The Weasel's nuzzle is far to short to drink from the pot for it is to long. It is also to heavy to even tilt over. While the Stork feasts upon the soup inside it's pot. That story could have been cut in half and you would have gotten the idea surely. Yet I remember it being two parts. In hindsight they have a toxic friendship but I did not think or even know of that when I was hearing it as a kid. Of course I trust your reading literacy to be on the same level as a child; so I will not explain it to you. It was just something I had remembered, due to a situation that I had faced recently.

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I have been thinking about characters that are in the same vain lately.

Portal 1 Glados, ENA, Ordis, Spamton, and I think one more that I am missing.

They are quite similar, well, Glados in portal 1 only starts being similar to the rest around the ending of the game.

I have been thinking about most of their lines.

"Why don't you marry that thing since you love it so much? Do you want to marry it? weLL I woNt lET yOU! How does that feel?"

-Glados (From Portal 1)

"Now go out there and- CUT, DOWN, THE- make the Lotus proud."

-Ordis. (From Warframe)

"What if I sold you something that could change your life? / BAH! ARE YOU KIDDING!?!? I HATE THIS STUPID JOB!!"

-Ena. [Salesperson/Meanie] (From ENA)

I have not done research on Spamton lately, but I remember him having similar behaviors of suddenly changing topics or personality.

A lot of [HYPERLINK BLOCKED].

I do not know what has made me think of these characters but I find them to be charming in a way. Being unapologetic without fully intending to.

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My friends have said that I should start a blog.

I have had this account for awhile but I have done nothing but post art and my thoughts on it.

So I suppose I should take their advice.

I do not think it was normal to message them at five AM sending paragraphs about things I found interesting so I think they had a point.

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Fanart for a friend. Their reagent from The Outlast Trials. I think multiple weeks of me doing RPG maker sprites has conditioned me to create more.

I take these sprites to my best work, as for the full drawing, I just now realized I forgot the night vision goggles.

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The entire cast of Darkest Dungeon as RPG maker sprites.

I did not create them in alphabetical order, however you can see that I did improve over time when doing this project. It was a interesting way of overcoming art block and hopefully it has helped to make me not fret over every single detail. For example I could not do all of The Occultist's facial hair in a 32x32 style so he gets a normal mouth facing forward and his moustache when facing to the side. I seriously hope I'm not missing one of them somehow.

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Even more sprites. I'm going to touch some up before making a big post with all of them in it. Things such as Man At Mans remembering he has a beard on his side profile and such. Also adding a full sheet for Bounty Hunter, Hellion, and Arbalist. Instead of just front facing ones. But besides all of that all of the heros should be done.

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Did some more sprites. Flagellant came out the best. Jester's side profile is also great. I still sometimes have to hype myself up to start doing art and keep myself going. But it is nice when I can get going and stay focused.

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More RPG maker sprites!

I have enough energy to do more then just front facing sprites. I am very happy with how some turned out, all of the front facing ones are great. The side facing ones range from great to silly. (Plague Doctor.) But It feels good to get them done.

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I'm planning on making a RPG maker sprite for all of the Darkest Dungeon heros. I'll most likely draw them facing all directions for a proper sprite sheet. I'm still recovering from art block so it will probably be slow but I'm trying to get back into it. I think she came out a bit plain but it's not to bad. She looks tired, and a bit rough, so I'm happy with how I've captured her expression even with the simple style.

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Tried some perspective practice some time ago. I'm not confidant in it yet.

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Asprite has a feature to change all of the colours in a image. It is effectively a filter. However, you can also decrease the amount of pixels a image has. I quite enjoy the somewhat retro look it gives. Reminds of me the game: "Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk.

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I forgot to post here that I do animations. They are very clearly inspired by those 2010 stick fighter videos. Alongside a game called Your Only Move Is Hustle. They are of varying quality because I've made them at various points in the year. I often think about remaking the first animation now that I can animate better at a higher framerate.

"EEYEAH!"

Also, here is Fang doing a Stringer.

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Some sprites I made in the style of RPG maker. With the beta I made Olivia to dark and Inco to yellow. Afterwards I learned to take the colours right from the game. The updated sprites are much better and show off the design more.

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Olivia! As... Olivia!

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Battle scene plus individual sprites. I wanted to match each character's personality to the class as best I could. In rank 1 is Fang. In all honesty I did not play snoot game and should've done at least some research on a project that took twenty or so hours but to late now. Fang is the Hellion class because I think it suits her punk personality, a shallow reason but I don't know a lot about Fang, only bits so I played it safe. In rank 2 is Anon as the Bounty Hunter. I know a bit more about Anon. Starting out, as far as I know, He's a bit abrasive. But then starts to open up. The Bounty hunter CAN open up like Anon, but the biggest reason I went with BH was the personality. I used the colour of his shirt for the leather armor and the colour of his pants for the chainmail under it. Anon has a really basic design so he has more BH traits so you can tell what class he was. In rank 3 is Inco. I have played Wani so I know a lot more about the other two. Inco is very outgoing and tries his best to help Olivia despite how she pushes people away. Due to how protective he can be, It's not hard to imagine him wanting to protect his friends as well. So I made him be the Man-At-Arms. His shirt doesn't really look like the armor I wanted it to be but I think he came out better. And finally in rank 4 there's Olivia. Ending two Olivia to be specific. Both the Arbalist and Olivia were forced into a situation they didn't want to be in. The arbalist having to fend for themselves as just a child and growing into soldier just to survive. While Olivia, due to her condition, struggles to get anything but pity. Ending two shows how much she hates how people want to get her into a company that sells art from disabled people. But it seems that there's no other option, after years of trying to be a normal artist in a wheelchair. It seems as if she must resign and accept being called a disabled artist and take the easy way. Of course the Arbalist has it harder but the angst is there. Both of them being something they never wanted to be, and now only being known for it. Also It's probably best to keep the wheelchair bound Hero in rank 4 though I guess being in a wheelchair with the breaks on would give you extra Move resist or something. That was probably a annoying amount of text but I hope you guys enjoy the artwork!

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"- If the word 'hate' was engraved on each nanoangstrom of those hundreds of millions of miles it would not equal one one-billionth of the hate I feel for humans at this micro-instant. For you. Hate. Hate." -A.M

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I saw this on twitter and had to do it.