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Hollow Knight food concept art I’ve done this before, but I wanted to go into more depth on the processes and ingredients used

I’m slowly amassing the ingredients needed to bake a cake

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Both of these drawings were supposed to be colored, but I lost the motivation to continue working on the pebbles drawing. So I left it black and white. Another example of my inability to be consistent with my art style.

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Godlike in Comparison

Oh, how far you have fallen.

(literally)

Drawing I did that took me like, a week to finish or something crazy lol. The golden accents and parts of his antennae are reflective, but it didn't come through super well in the pictures (some of the snow is glittery too).

The first meeting of Pebbles is one of my favorite moments of the game, and Saint's campaign did a really good thematic mirror of it (imo).

Wanted to take better pictures of it than this, but I've been procrastinating it for a week and just wanted to post it at this point, so sorry for the bad lighting/curled paper.

Closeups of each side under the cut

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Full page beneath cut, this took me a week to do. Please enjoy!

[IN-GAME CONVERSATION] - Five Pebbles, Spearmaster, Gourmand. ] [Sky Islands - Dark Green Pearl 4#] [ This pearl is in horrible condition. Aside from the color, most of the external details are unreadable due to physical damage. ] [ What's that expression for? Don’t tell me you’ve grown sentimental over this pearl! ] [ Fine. Let me figure something out. It’s the least I can do - after all, your kind saved my life. ] [ Here, I could attempt to reformat this into plain text; however, if I process this pearl, it’s almost certain it will lose all functionality. ] === [ it smells horible. i cannot feel my ffigners anymore ] [ my mechanisms are locked, they do not move because of the e ee rs. ] [ e even when theres iterators around me, i cant shake the f eeling off. ]

[ it feel cold, like wind. i remeber wind. ] [ the panels are faling on the floor too. at lest three have fell. ] [ i feel anger, i am scared ] [ and i will die ]

[ i see lite on my projectr , are they listener?? ] [ blue listener, please save me ] [ please, ]

[ m m m plea s.. ] === [ ... ] [ As predicted, this pearl is now inert. The last thing I could process from it was the iteration number. ] [ ...which has been overwritten a multitude of times, with each iteration further degrading its quality. ] [ To know someone had the same fate as me, it hurts me in ways you could never understand. ] [ I want that pearl gone. Get it out of my sight. ]

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dee kennedy... :]

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Rainworld adventure collection ~

I'm spending too much time on this game, but I just love it so much even though I've suffered a lot.

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been sick lately so i decided to use my free time to update my moon design. i like this one a lot more

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Moon cosplay photodump

hiiiiiii so I finally had my full moon cos this weekend :3 at Burning Pumpkins Fest in Tallinn

I took a couple photos myself plus a couple people also asked for photos with/of me but i dont have those

anyway!!

(Also mine and @kotikaleo ‘s artist alley table for anyone curious 👀)

Anyway heres the fanservice (and by fan i mean @excessive-moisture )

(Pebbles is also Kotikaleo)

Anyway con was awesome!! Im tired as hec

Depending on how things go, next time might be at Desucon Frostbite in january 👀👀

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did some painting

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Pebbles

LMAO this supposed to be a simple colored sketch but i cooked too hard this for the @hdra77 entry

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in the clinic now and ngl i hate it. have a wip for your troubles anyway

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My concepts for the development progress of an Iterators Puppet

-my ideas below

-Feasibility Study  

[1]: First autonomous control module, any instruction to be given must be done manually through physical means (the keys), outputs were shown through the screen. A very primitive system, however, did its job proving the greater machine concept was achievable. While it does look like a lens above the monitor, this was a simple status gauge for benchmarking.

-Prototyping and Development  

[2]: Now with the capability to wirelessly and audibly communicate to receive instructions and inputs. The system was no longer directly integrated into the facility, and resided on the first instance of an iterator's arm. This was considered a feat due to the complications with isolating the control module from the rest of the iterators components, while keeping processing power. A permanent connection/umbilical was needed to sustain life and function though. 

To “talk” back, they were crafted with multidimensional projectors, the mobile arm allowing the angles and variance for this projection. Only later into development were advanced speakers installed for optimized understanding, however the extra computing power required to synthesize proper speech was found to strain the contained module, so this function had rare use in the end.

[3]: At this point there was a change in perspective in the project. What once were machines to simply compute and simulate, were now planned to be the home, caregiver, and providers. The further the project came to fruition the more religious importance was placed upon these “random gods”. From this stance not only did the puppets have to manage and control their facilities, they had to communicate with the people and priests. To represent benevolent beings who will bring their end and salvation. In this process iterators began to take a more humanoid shape, to better reflect their parents. Development was focused on compacting the puppet closer to the size of an ancient for this purpose. This stage was the first to incorporate a cloak/clothing into their design considerations, to further akin themselves in looks. The cloak would hide the iterators' engineered bodies and give a body to their silhouette. 

[4]: As bioengineering and mechanics were rapidly progressing due to the void fluid revolution, this allowed plenty of margin for developing the outer design of the iterator puppets. This prototype was the first to incorporate limbs for the purpose of body language. This was another step in the drive to give a body to their random gods.

-Final Iterations

[5]: First generation iterators had the final redesign of puppet bodies. Far different from their first designs, they are fully humanoid. Their bodies are shaped to be organic and as full of life as they could at the time. Their center of sapience has fully settled within their body, as can be seen as their unconscious use of limbs without the direct intention for communication. This can also see how they manage their work, where many of the functions (which can be done with just an internal request) are operated through physical gestures of their limbs. Their puppet chambers also allow for full comprehensive projection, where many of their working monitors are displayed. It is seen how iterators prefer to utilize their traversal arm to transfer between the current working projection window.

These designs were hardy and nearly self-sufficient, only requiring minimal power from their umbilical to charge. (However was still limited in the terms of internal power production, for this first generation extensive batteries sufficed)

[6]: Later generation not only incorporated advanced bioengineering internally, but externally. While still a hardened shell, their body plates have been incorporated into the organics of the puppet, maintaining the protective requirements while barely leaving a trace of hinges or plates. This “soft” skin had drawbacks, such as reduced durability to the first generations, this was offset by the greatly enhanced repair speeds and capability this type of skin allowed.

Internal power generation was implemented into these late generation models. If the case arose, the Puppet could be disconnected from their umbilical and still be conscious from an undefined period of time. (However this would limit the operating capacity of the puppet when running self sufficiently) This greatly eased maintenance works, as the Puppet could still run the greater facility wirelessly while work was done on the chamber, arm or whatever as needed.

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2023

2024

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[IN-GAME CONVERSATION] - Five Pebbles, Gourmand, Survivor, Monk or Artificer. [Sky Islands - Dark Blue Pearl 3#] [ Where did you retrieve this? ] [ There is illegal requested information on this pearl. ] [ It is nothing of value to you. However, the conversation between Looks to the Moon and this other iterator intrigues me. ] [ Allow me to read it for you. ] === [ 1724.550 - PRIVATE ] Big Sis Moon, No Significant Harassment ] [ This is all I could manage to gather for you. Suns wasn’t too keen on negotiating with data hoarders, so take from it what you will. ] [ This… is terrible. How could anyone resort to methods like these just to cross themselves out? ] [ Well, you did want to see this knowledge, am I correct? ] [ Yes, but… what kind of iterators would do something like this? ] [ The kind that have nothing left to lose. ] [ I think I’m beginning to understand now. These methods - they’re flawed. There’s no control, no format, no consistent variables to even execute them properly. ] [ Exactly. You’d be better off having your overseers push your superstructure into the void sea than trying to perform whatever’s written on those pearls. ] [...]

[ I need more. ]

[ Excuse me? More what? ]

[ More data. This can’t be all there is! ]

[ I’m sorry, but I can’t. ] [ As much as I care about you, Seven Red Suns isn’t willing to keep sacrificing his experiments just to retrieve pearls from half-baked third-gen iterators. ]

[ I already owe them one too many favors, and relaying this kind of information is beginning to wear on my conscience. ] [ Don't you think you've had enough, Moon? ]

[ You’re right; I think this is all I need. Thank you, No Significant Harassment. I’m sorry I had to put you through all that. ] [ Right, just… please stay safe. You’ve been acting differently ever since Sliver of Straw broke the cycle. ]

[ Don’t worry about me, alright. I’m going to be okay. ] [ I’ve always been. ] === [ What an idiot. ] [ Look what he’s done because of his naivety... ] [ ...throw that pearl away. Just being around it brings back bad memories. ]

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Summer penumbra

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Haven’t been here in a while, should really browse more often.

Oh yeah I turned my Plant Protogen Ozias into an Iterator so this is based. Rainworld is amazing.

Iterator names are hard but I think I got something, Absences of Meaningful Suns. AoMS… Or “Ohms” nickname he goes by is Sol :>

Artists are sunlight_helen and Metsubo.