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HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

I inked and colored this one in an impromptu stream! Thank you SO much to everyone who came by and hung out for like 2.5 hours while being yelled at by a cat! We couldn't do stuff like this without the support of our patrons!!!!!!


HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!!!! πŸ˜ˆπŸ˜‡βœ¨πŸŽƒπŸŒ™πŸ’•

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Gonna try to stream soon!!!

I'm doing a LAST MINUTE HALLOWEEN ILLUSTRATION!!! If you'd like to join me, I'll be starting around 3:30 EST!!!!

Join over on my twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/aidosaur

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we're still playing BG3 (4)

One of my favorite things to do in this game is to have Karlach (who has the highest strength stat in our team/ therefore can carry the most stuff in her pockets) run around a room and pick up everything that's not nailed down... that means we're playing a good rogue, right!!!!

There's something really satisfying about seeing giant 8x10' canvasses disappearing into Karlach's pockets, what is a greater joy than that

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BARBAROUS Season 2: Chapter 8 Page 19

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Chapter 8 / Pg 13 breakdowns

This page went through a bunch of variations in the thumbnail stage but this was the one version that came out on top! Once again, this is one of the pages Ananth thumbnailed and he did a great job. I think the huge center panel is so eye-catching, it was a delight to draw and really push emotionally.

I've been trying to really push color palettes to show time, place, character, and emotion in this chapter! There's SO many flashbacks it's been really important to denote them as differen...

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BARBAROUS Season 2: Chapter 8 Page 18

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BARBAROUS Season 2: Chapter 8 Page 17

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YAY Hyewon is here!

Hyewon has finally formally been introduced in the comic, so I wanted to share her paper doll character sketches I put together before the starting chapter 7 and 8. :D

We wanted to set her apart from Percy stylistically so she wears a lot of flow-y pastel high femme clothing that shows off her legs. Visually, she's supposed to come off as "perfect at a glance" but, y'know.

Also included is the paperdoll sketch for who we called "Camwon" in the scriptβ€” Hyewon's perfect ideal of C...

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BARBAROUS Season 2: Chapter 8 Page 16

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we're still playing BG3 (3)

These are some of the guiding traits we're trying to follow while playing Percy in Baldur's Gate, it's surprisingly easy to roleplay someone mean-and-self-serving-but-not-cruel based on the number a variety of responses the player is given. Final governing trait not pictured: distrust of authority, that one actually comes up a lot haha

TO OUR SURPRISE, ASTARION HATES PERCY LOL... I thought they'd be fairly similar characters, but Percy wants to nose into other's people's busine...

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BARBAROUS Season 2: Chapter 8 Page 15

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Chapter 8 / Pg 8 breakdowns

I wanted to show a breakdown of Page 8! There's kind of a whole secondary story happening through the facial expressions and body language so I thought it would be fun to share Percy and Cameron's ~duplicitous exchange~

Ananth was the one who thumbnailed this page! Thank you Ananth, you did a great job!!!! It was fun and stupid to do all the dick analogies with Cameron's stupid sword, I hope people enjoyed the double entendre lmao

For some reason this scene was a huge challenge fo...

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BARBAROUS Season 2: Chapter 8 Page 14

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we are still playing BG3 (2)

We had it ALL PLANNED OUT, we wanted to make Percy as our player character and then Leeds as her guardian... and then it turns out you can't make Dragonborn guardians for some D&D deep-cut reason. ;____; We wound up making a version of a newer character of ours from [undisclosed project], but I wish we could've done Leeds instead U___U

(context: when doing character creation in Baldur's Gate 3, you're asked to design your player character, then a character called "the guardian" who ...

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BARBAROUS Season 2: Chapter 8 Page 13

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BARBAROUS Season 2: Chapter 8 Page 12

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Two Wolves (one is a dragon)

I saw this great photo online and wanted to redraw it! Here's North and Dhio. I'm trying to do as much style simplification as possible these days to keep drawing-for-fun a bit gentler on my brain.

After an absurd amount of reverse image searching I CANNOT find the source of the photo at all, the best guess I have is it's from a wolf sanctuary in Ontario, but even then I can't find the actual photo on their website. I feel badly, but at least I've done my due diligence U__U

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BARBAROUS Season 2: Chapter 8 Page 11

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oh no we started playing BG3

In my ~very long convalescence~ it's been pretty important to be doing something that engages my brain and makes me feel like I'm achieving goals so I don't hyper-focus on whatever is going on with my body. That is to say, Ananth and I started playing Baldur's Gate 3 lol

As with Elden Ring, we wanted to play an AU of Percy. This time, we wound up creating an AU of Elden Ring AU Percy, so a mean vain horny little goblin who loves to lie and hates authority. Which isn't too far from regul...

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BARBAROUS Season 2: Chapter 8 Page 10

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BARBAROUS Season 2: Chapter 8 Page 9

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BARBAROUS Season 2: Chapter 8 Page 8

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Tears of the Kingdom - tusked beast

Recovery is still a bit slow and trying to get back into drawing has been difficult. I wanted to try and do something simple that was mostly dependent on repetitive strokes and building texture over flat color so I wouldn't have to worry about linework finesse as much.


There's a quest in ToTK that started with NPCs talking about "princess zelda was seen riding a giant tusked beast" and while it ends completely different than you'd expect it still left an image in my mind that...

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BARBAROUS Season 2: Chapter 8 Page 7

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BARBAROUS Season 2: Chapter 8 Page 6

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Barbarous ch 8/pg 4 breakdown

HELLO sorry for the lull last week, we spent a majority of the week preparing to go to SPX which took up a lot of my energy and attention. Full disclosure, I'm absolutely not recovered from covid and ultimately we had to bow out of the show because we didn't think I'd be able to manage the trip down let alone the show itself. If you went, I'm sorry we missed you and I hope you had a great time. 

I wanted to show off the thumbnail for chapter 8 that Ananth did and how I wound up tac...

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BARBAROUS Season 2: Chapter 8 Page 5

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BARBAROUS Season 2: Chapter 8 Page 4

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BARBAROUS Season 2: Chapter 8 Page 3

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BBR Ch8 Pg1: breakdown

HEY DID YOU KNOW THERE'S A BUNCH OF 3D MUZZLE ASSETS AVAILABLE FOR FREE IN THE CLIP STUDIO LIBRARY!!! Here's the one I used in case you wanted to also have a free 3D muzzle asset for home use!

Just in case you were curious!!!!


Here's a breakdown of Chapter 8 Page 1 Panel 2! I love the cold open that Ananth set up. We also get to visit Ruby's cabin that we saw briefly in Chapter 5.

I found a free 'fantasy inn' asset that I used as a dummy background just for the sa...

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