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Santa Monica Sand Bright Turquoise (#f1b169 to #21ebf2)

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bubblegum pink and electric purple <3

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~ A Tropical Vibe ~

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Tonight

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Knit plesiosaur plush by Best Years, bought from a little fairtrade gift shop in Paisley in January 2024. I got the bead necklace for it there too.

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i love themes. i love when i'm writing and i'm like ughhh i have to come up with some filler bullshit details to go here because it's necessary to the rest of the plot but not actually very relevant to it, and then i'm like wait. i know how to make it relevant. i just have to make the details echo the overarching themes of the piece. and suddenly it stops being filler bullshit and starts being, like, foreshadowing or allegory or some cool shit like that ^w^

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Reebok USA Ltd, 1987

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AssClass OC: Matsuoka Isami Anime Design Reference Sheet

I've done a couple sketches of Isami's design when I first introduced him in this blog over a year ago, but I haven't really done a proper reference sheet.

So I thought it would be a good idea to do this one, especially since I have made a couple of tiny tweaks in his look according to his lore that I have developed in private for the past year.

Which I'm lowkey kinda regretting now cuz MY GOD Chiba's canon high school uniform is so ugly especially in the lerche anime style, not even my pretty princess can save it 😭

Anime Design Reference Sheets:

Puey Santiago

Tsuchiya Kaho

Yamazaki "Miki" Jenny (OC)

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HERMIT A DAY MAY - DAY 31

ReNDoG x Borderlands

For Rendog I chose the first-person looter shooter video game series Borderlands!

Ren's base this season reminds me a lot of Borderlands (at least so far). With its desolate landscape, eccentric naming conventions, and industrial buildings put in place by a morally questionable mega-conglomerate, it would fit right in as a setting in one of these games.

Borderlands is an incredibly fun (and funny) game series that I highly recommend playing if you've never picked it up before. However, the games have a lot of adult humor and are very violent, though the violence is played for laughs. If you're familiar with the character Deadpool, Borderlands has a very similar energy.

To learn more about Borderlands and see my style references, continue below the cut.

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(Congratulations on crushing the Gamers Outreach fundraiser goal!)

Borderlands is a series of first person looter shooter games set in an open world with a procedurally generated weapon system. The plot of the games follows a group of protagonists with various abilities who complete missions and explore the planet (usually a place called Pandora) in order to find and unlock a fabled treasure trove called a Vault. These Vault Hunters (shoutout Iskall) are not exactly heroes, but as the player you have the option to help people along the way.

There is a lot more to the Vault Hunters' adventures throughout the games that just looking for treasure. Each game has an engaging plot and memorable characters, but the the core gameplay for the entire series is this: shoot, kill, loot a badass new gun, rinse and repeat.

Borderlands is a blast to play and no two playthroughs are exactly the same. It's also great fun to play with your friends and has an excellent multiplayer mode. The series also has a unique aesthetic that makes it look like you're playing in a 3D comic book. The effect is really cool.

Style references:

The games take place mostly on Pandora, a desert planet which has a lot of abandoned industrial buildings and machinery from various intergalactic corporations. Most of what the companies left behind have since been looted and incorporated into ramshackle towns populated by the locals.

This is Handsome Jack, the primary antagonist from the second game. The games use hand-drawn textures for the characters, which create the comic book-like feel.

The Borderlands title design.

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Clairvoyant Bright Turquoise (#47064a to #11e3dc)

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I sunk 24 hours of rendering into this piece so MAY AS WELL POST IT

I had to design and illustrate an underground city for my concept art class, and decided to go with subterranean aliens building a vertical metropolis! I’m very inexperienced and no real good with xenobiology, so they ended up like walmart brand bug ferrets….. but I’m definitely happy with the style of architecture!!

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~ A Tropical Vibe ~

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meme that I made

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white star line's albertic, formerly nordd. lloyd's münchen art card by walter thomas, ca. 1928 @postcardtimemachine