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FloraSpectmber Prompt 6- Carnivore

Networt (Neoutricularia gigantea)

A true giant compared to it's terran bladderwort cousins. Networt is as dependent on fishermen as are they are to this plant. It grows sturdy traps to capture fish but not digest them for fishermen to take, but also grows snap-chambers for fishermen to deposit guts/scraps for the plant to digest. The floral spurs are often used as grapple/tie points for ease of handling.

While wild untended-to Networt can be very rarely found in some places, they hardly thrive as well as the ones cared for by fishermen and tend to be significantly smaller and weaker.

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Surprise wlw OC flirt wip for a friend sssshhhhh don't tell her

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Aaaaand done just on the day before Artfight begins. Demauria's reference sheet redesign/remaster is complete! When compared to previous reference sheets I've really had some growth- which is something I'll rarely say with my art.

For the heck of it I'll throw in the flavourtext from the artfight page;

"Demauria is one of the last of a Clan of monster hunters known as Fallen Slayers that hunt monsters called Fallenbeasts. In the loss of the last of her direct family she attempted to freeze the world in ice to take the Fallenbeasts down with it but was stopped/defeated by Kayla. She fled to far away lands and simmered on her mixed feelings only to be taken in by Riivar as Riivar's official/unofficial "bodyguard". She has been traveling with Riivar ever since, all the while trying to sort out her feelings and figure out the small scraps about her clan. She dual wields battle axes made of ice for melee, and uses a bow of ice to fire explosive ice bolts for ranged attack. She can use other forms of attack using ice/shadow magic. For those curious; yes the ice body armor can be melted off, but is easier said than done if she does not wish it to be melted off. She is a petite 4’6” in stature but makes up for it with attitude. She struggles with facing and compartmentalizing her various soup of emotions and so ends up translating them all into the form of anger."

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Some close friends started up a lil prompt where we'd draw whatever DnD character result we got from a quiz. I ended up getting Chaotic Good Halfing Wizard. I should've considered the stat block that came with the results but I forgor

I chose to give her a Sun/Celestial theme to her wizard aesthetics, even if the staff would accidentally imply a more sunflower theme instead. Despite the bookmarks in her spellbook she tends to forget some of the spells she has, and struggles to even sift through her own book to find some of her spells at times.

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"is this a new piece?" no, I have been sitting on this piece since 2021. since I wasn't 100% sure on the design, and to a degree I am still unsure.

Either way, a return to Sango, Harriet's former boss, a retired crime lord, and the captain of a now since retired large sailing ship. While I'm still iffy about it, this is a far better design than my previous attempt back in 2019, at least in regards to what I wanted to convey with her design.

Felt I mind as well share it with you guys since I somehow hadn't up till now. Hope y'all like the beefcake.

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BETTER LATE THAN NEVER- and its STILL RABBIT YEAR ANYWAYS!!!

Finished a piece I started april 2022; Demauria in a sexy bunnysuit. She'd probably be at first uncomfortable in it but then settle into the outfit quick enough to be able to throw hands without any self-consciousness~

Did Riivar persuade Dema into this outfit? Who know~ >w>

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Earlier in the month I had a surreal dream that I couldn’t shake off the memory of. I blame it on compiling a spreadsheet on fictional plants from various published media the night before. Brain must’ve took “plants from other worlds“ a lil bit literal.

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After the dream-inspired Space-greenhouse drawing my brain still couldn't let the idea go (I also blame Within Temptation's "Supernova")- and with it I ended up giving Gertrude an overhaul in design and in world/setting.

There are currently 3 different drawings I've uploaded of her in the past which somewhat reflect what she was before; She was more of a steampunk dragon/robotgirl in design, with the origin that she was a young lone god who created several worlds accidentally in her loneliness and didn't know what she could do about them. Problem was that I also wanted to have a plant growing under her shell that was also part of her, and could never reflect that well in drawings, and also as much as her design was interesting it was paintful and difficult to draw, especially when it came to her limbs (some of it can be blamed to overdetail but it also was imo too visually rigid for her limbs etc.).

This new Gertrude is more sci-fi space inspired and her background/world/story now reflect that; Her full chosen name is Gertrude C.B.C. (Chimeric Botanical Cyborg). She is a blend of a robot and 3 different non-identified plant species (a woody plant that protrudes from her head, a tuberous plant which is deeply rooted into her motherboard in her chest and purple plant cells that work the solar panels which are her "hair") which work together to form her single consciousness/being.

She is found on a dying/self-destructing planet as a shattered piece of a non-sapient servicebot with the plant life struggling onto the remains of the frame, by a spaceship that is dedicated to finding/documenting/preserving alien plant life in the galaxy/universe and with their help rebuilds/reconstructs her robot shell with close-enough components to make it she can actually move, interact and communicate. From there, after the captain (and only remaining official crew member) of the spaceship passes away, Gertrude takes the helm to do what this spaceship was meant to do; travel the reaches of Space and discover/document/preserve alien plantlife.

I'm still not 100% sold on the redesign. I'm not very versed/comfortable with drawing cyclops-eyed characters (but was the ideal solution to retaining her detailed eyes while making it less difficult to draw them by making it a single big eye) and I somewhat miss the draconic robotic wings. Despite not being fully sold on her design, I think its a much better and easier design than her older one. I just need more practice.

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Harriet's reference sheet is done (with her dragon form included!!!)

I love my lil high-ego captain so of course I had to get her ref up for art fight month. She got some new boots in the process (I couldn't imagine her with her previous drawings where she had armored golden boots; poor woman would sink like a rock in those).

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Last night I had to do a fast draw my captain as a treat ❤

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Kayla finally has a completed reference sheet for her Fallen Slayer Armor! Funny how I get it done for Art Fight not unlike how I did for her original reference sheet which was completed for last year's Art Fight.

Unlike the other outfits I drew for her, this one was not on her digital body template that I made for myself and was completely done on paper from hand which is why there's a *little bit* more wonk on it compared to her main reference sheet.

The skulls are meant to be from Fallenbeasts she's slayed (as is the Fallen Slayer tradition) though the hammer has to be a modeled off of the OG skull and not be the actual skull as the beast in question would NOT be that small. A friend asked how big the hammer would be if it was life-size to the skull and well... just resizing the hammer to the point of what the skull would be for size of the beast, this is what you get

That is the SMALLEST estimate of how big the skull would've been of the Tunderjaws she slayed, since in the scene/story the beast was big enough that it's open sleeping maw was mistaken for a small cave.

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Riivar Aden Blu's reference sheet is done and ready for Art Fight!

I used her first redesign template/outfit for the reference for time/energy sake and worked from there. Her dragon form sadly will not be shown in any reference for Art Fight for this year as a week before Art Fight is too short of time to wrestle that challenge (her human form is challenge enough for me for whatever reason).

I have not drawn her firebird puppet since her original concept sketch so it was nice to get to see it in a drawn art style (as the OG draw I had toyed around with realistic fire rendering more).

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Another OC's birthday has arrived; Kayla Marabane! She is a bisexual Gotheek dragon who's also a Fallenbeast Slayer! She is one of my oldest existing OCs, being one of the few I created onve I started drawing more human forms in highschool!

Her very first design was uploaded November 2010 (shown here) and hoo boy she has changed a LOT since that very first iteration; she was paler and skinnier, and her personality was ditzy, quite battle hungry and a bit of a switch flip flop between a hero and a villain.

From the very start of her creation she was sorta smitten with Terra, but at the time Terra was being paired with a male OC at the time.

Oh how little did I know how much her love for Terra would take more the forefront while that other OC would get fully benched from existence

Look how different she is from way back then; she's now fatter, darker skinned, and much gentler despite her high energy nature. She's still a Fallenbeast Slayer though, its just that now she takes that responsibility cause she HAS to not cause she wants to.

You get to see the current newest iteration of her Slayer armor, even if it still is under WIP imo (very close to done though! still figuring out the hammer and cannon especially)

Her love for Terra hasn't changed though, & they are still one of my dearest OC couples I got. They don't kiss often but they do nosetouch and snuggle a lot as far as showing affection~

Though I enjoy shipping Kayla with others, Kayla/Terra is the OTP

I wanted to draw Kayla kissing some other characters for her bday I'm still unpracticed in drawing different kisses 😅

She may love most/all men/women but she definitely has a particular weakness for muscular peeps, especially strong/muscular women 👀 Oh to be princess carried~

It's funny thinking about the fact that in main-canon she probably can outmuscle the very types of people she covets

I enjoy drawing her happy in cute/pretty dresses (and she loves wearing them too), but I definitely want to draw her in more outfits (and not just dresses!), in more expressions (Even just different smiles; not all her smiles can just be happy smiles!), and her dragon form which I may redesign in the future.

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March 31st- Terra Bantam's birthday. Couldn't really muster the energy to draw my usual styles so I mostly sketched her in a simpler style and drew off some action poses.

I'd give a whole ramblefest like I've done for the other OC birthdays but I truly am too exhausted so you'll just get two random facts;

Though she uses fire magic she is actually more built for poison magic, she just actively chooses to not use poison magic.

Her surname was originally Warekin (and it still is her biological family's surname), but due to story reasons it made more sense for her to have the surname Bantam after her adoptive mother.

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Art Attack on @rizutsuki (as far as I know she's inactive on tumblr but tagging out of courtesy) with her cute Gnome Necromancer Artemis Theirastra!

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While the first drawing of Gertrude's new design suffices for a reference sheet in Art Fight, I still wanted to make a more detailed breakdown of Gertrude's robotic and botanical anatomy, so here we are!

It ended up having a bit of a schematics kind of style which is kind of a happy accident, but also somewhat inevitable when stuffing SO MUCH INFORMATION into one sheet. My only personal gripe with this sheet is the fact that the angle of her head makes it less clear about what's going on with her head overall, which the first drawing I did of her is better at doing.

At the moment there isn't any proper name for her individual plant parts (Outside of Tuber, Woody Antlers, and plant cell sheets), partially cause I want to keep them mysterious as unclassified and unidentified flora from alien worlds but for sake of convenience I may need to give them names, even if its more following common name monikers rather than botanical/latin.

One ref done, a few less-complex ones for other OCs left to go.