#art backlogging my beloved

[myuniverseinabox]

First art of 2024! (though not the first thing posted) One of my spore critters that I've grown quite fond of

Speedpaint

[mintjeru]

pov you're at the airport to see your bias and he smiles directly at you?? and his bodyguard is kinda cute too?? thank you @/dendrosummer for your donation to @hkvthm-action!! (this gotcha is accepting donations until august 9! your support is appreciated 🍉)

open for better quality | do not repost

[teisubrainrot]

minedai doodle dump from a while back (that may or may not have been all on one huge canvas that i kept expanding)

[embroideredequations]

My half of an art trade with @rimupon

[clerichs-xi]

those weak of heart, avert your eyes from this piteous soul

my dnd character Caspian Lovelock (he/him)! do not repost <3

[lunasohma]

mogeko march

[messy-paws]

Compilation of literally just a bunch of face design studies for Dirk Strider

[thesketchystar]

Hello Aron! I hope you're doing well and happy Easter! Here's a nice egg for you :}

I LOVE HIM AND EAGERLY AWAIT HIS HATCHING-

[swordbreakerz]

Happy new years from Them, may you have just as much rivals to lovers and Cool Robots in the new year 💖💖

[ronnie-james-dio-brando]

shoving the first idea back into my big idea bag and making sleepy descartes body pillow instead now

cooking up some stuff on twitter

[crescencestudio]

๋࣭⭑ Devlog #41 | 5.28.24 ๋࣭⭑

It's hot girl (/gender neutral) summer season

HAPPY MAY!!

Hope you're all doing well <3 We're already getting into summer, which is a little crazy to me. The year is flying by! Before I get into what we actually did this month, it wouldn't be a May devlog without our annual Mermay celebration!

Look at those locks. His Ariel/Rapunzel era fr

Since I already had updated Mermay pieces for the Alaris LIs, I decided to do one for our beloved Van this year ^^ Hope you all like it!

For writing this month, I spent a lot of it catching up on Etza edits. Being totally transparent, I wasn't Completely Happy with their route when their draft was finished. But now that I've started the editing process with Wudgey, I'm really excited to see how their route is shaping up!!! We've been fleshing a lot of little interactions out with their route, and I can already see Etza's character really starting to shine with these edits ^^

I've also been chipping away at Kuna'a's route! While it's nowhere near finished, I'm hopeful that this upcoming month will be the month of Kuna'a now that I don't have a bunch of releases I'm trying to balance. His route is also one of the ones whose outline is more fleshed out (Druk and Etza I would say were the least fleshed out, which might be why they also took a bit longer). So I'd love to see Kuna'a's first draft complete/almost complete by the next devlog!

This month, I had to dust off my art skills tbh LMFAOIJSDF. It's been.... a WHILE since I've made CGs since I've been in the writing and coding dungeon for so long. So most of this month's art updates are me getting tilted from redrawing an ugly sketch over and over.

I DID manage to get the Van Mermay piece out. And I also was able to sketch out Kayn's Tragic End CG; that leaves only one CG that has to be sketched out! Currently, six of their CGs are finished, two need to be rendered, and one needs to be drawn still.

And since Kayn's CGs are mostly done, I've started drawing Fenir's. I was actually able to finish one because I basically Locked In when I made it, so here is a sneak peek!

Kisses his little pink nose

You might notice there's not toooo many updates on this month's devlog. The reason for that is because this month, I spent a lot of it recovering both mentally and physically. April shenanigans and those back-to-back releases took a lot out of me, and after going full speed basically since this year started, I learned I REALLY needed a break. That coupled with the concussion I got made it so that most of this month was focused on recovering and then getting back into the groove of things.

Another thing I tried to focus on this month was finding a balance in my workflow. Going into this month, I felt like I was on the verge of a mental breakdown almost every day, in large part because I have a lot of big things I'm trying to accomplish this year. Between finishing my dissertation, Alaris, and a personal big event that I have to plan, I have a lot on my plate this year, and it's made it easy to get overwhelmed as the months pass by. So I wanted to find a balance between all three that didn't make me feel like I was also falling into insanity. After talking to beloved Wudgey of @herotome fame, I've started adopting a schedule that gives me enough structure and flexibility to feel like I'm making progress without going crazy and getting lost in the sauce.

While it's still early in the process, I'm really happy with the balance I've hit, and I'm feeling much more like myself now compared to a month ago!

I caught up on quite a few things in my backlog this month, which made me happy ^^ I always like to learn from and support other devs, so finally being able to return to that helped with the recovery process <3

I don't have any actual fanart pieces, but there are a couple of games I'd like to highlight!

First of all, of course I must talk about our hot girl (/gender neutral) summer cross-promo. If you haven't checked out these games, I can't recommend them enough!!

Links to each game can be found on the Alaris Game page under the magic and mystery otome section!

Specifically, Save the Villainess, The Good People, and Thorn for the Villain are amazing games if you're into thriller/political games layered with mystery

The Silent Kingdom (which I played recently and is AMAZING) and Dual Chroma (Otojam 2023 ALLY) have added mechanics of RPG for exciting action-adventure fantasy stories

Lost in Limbo, Obscura, and Snow White Ashes are BEAUTIFUL dark fantasy games. I've played all three of these and they have some of the most beautiful writing and visuals... BIG FAN OF ALL OF THEM.

Mask Beyond Lies and Sigh of the Abyss have that epic fantasy adventure appeal to them, in a way that I think is similar to Alaris! And Pearlglow Cafe (another Otojam 2023 ALLY) is a very lighthearted and charming game for those of you who like the comfy vibe that most of my stories have!!

Some other games that I played are Favor (@favorvn) by beloved @concreteparasite which is SOOOOO stylish. If you've played Binary Star Hero by Connie, you can expect that same stylish, dark, sultry vibe from Favor. If you haven't checked out either of those games by Connie, I can't recommend them enough, especially if you like yanderes. There is so much aesthetic and atmosphere to them!

I also played Where Winter Crows Go by @prikarin who is a VERY talented developer (and one I'm sure many are familiar with). I had a lot of fun romancing Crowe and both the MC and him have such strong personalities, it was so fun seeing their dynamic!!!! The CGs were also made by anta, who is the dev behind Thorn for the Villain, and they're BEAUTIFULLLLL. Each one has so much style and rly has a professional look to them. Can't recommend enough if you haven't played already ((heads up that it is another yandere game for those who can't do yandere!))

Okay I've yapped enough. If you've made it this far, you are god's strongest soldier LFMASLDIFJ. See you all next month with hopefully some exciting progress!

[agentorangejuice]

Two chicks sitting in a hot spring! Five feet apart, cuz they're NOT gay! July of 2018 was the last time I posted art on this beloved hellsite, around the time where the great porn purge of '18 occurred. It was so bad that swaths of my artwork was completely wiped from this site, and swaths more were tagged as "innapropriate" in some way. Oh, and of course my blog was blacklisted as "mature" for years. You better believe I was salty about that, so for many years I refused to touch the site. But eventually I came back to it (like the sick sorry internet addict I am) and just stuck to reblogging shitposts for teh lulz. But apparently over the last couple of years or so the site finally laxxed some of it's hardcore censorship to allow for "tasteful nudes" and the like. This meant I was finally able to appeal my blacklist and now have full functionality back on this profile. So now I'm going to upload some backlogs of semi-spicy content I've been making to retest the waters and (hopefully) get back to my brazen shitposting origins.

[helios-projects]

Techno my beloved!! this is another one of the drawings i did ages ago in 2020!! I miss my beloved chaotic warpig!!

anyway thanks for all the support this far and if you haven’t please follow as i slowly post out my backlogged art!!

[teisubrainrot]

undersocialized man doesn’t know how to gay love, turns into an anime trope

like??

[ramlightly]

I wanted to say this here since I know you like to keep your artistic profiles separate, so!

I just started reading Kingfisher after following your Ram accounts for a year, and man! It's so so so great getting to see even more of your narrative work!

I've loved all of your Temptations & Devil/MadDog comics & bits of writing, so knowing that I'll have a huge backlog of your work to eat up makes me so happy!!!!

Also, as a brit, Basil being bri'ish makes me happy, haha. He's such a silly guy and is very beloved to me; it made me pick up my old priest character from 2020 and work with him again!

Oki, that's enough rambling - thanks sm for reading this and sharing such incredible art!

Aw thank you! I hope you enjoy Kingfisher!

[voidthatdraws]

it appears i am some abomination

Going through my backlog of older art I forgot to share :)

My beloved Great Old One Warlock! Miss Galia <3 they could never make me hate u miss galia. suffice to say they're not exactly thrilled abt bring in another warlock pact right abt now.

this was a big ol mess of experiments. honestly wish I'd used a scratcher brush for the texture and vibes but I didn't think abt it till I was finished (also yes I know bird wing skeletons do NOT look like that but the anatomically correct version doesn't read all that easily as bird wing bones anyway tbh lol)