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Orctober

i'm back from my trip to Melbourne! i actually finished this before leaving, but didn't want to post it at the same time as the Kylos haha

this is Koran, my old orc oc!! i redesigned him a bit since i haven't drawn him in Literally Years,,

he's a city stablehand who takes care of adventurer's horses and pets, and is a big softie and very sweet

Pectober (+ Biceptember)

i missed biceptember but i still wanted to draw some more Kylos,, he's wondering why you're staring so much and when he can put his shirt back on

still experimenting with trying to do art more efficiently haha

i'm gonna be away for the next few days at PAX Aus, but i hope you guys enjoy!

October Fanart Poll

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the poll for October is up! put in an orc for Orctober, and since it's a spooky month I also put in some spooky bois

everyone gets to vote on this poll (and future polls, maybe), since the previous fanart polls haven't been getting too many votes! be sure to vote on who you'd like me to draw before Wednesday 12/10!

September Fanart Reward - Timelapse

here's the timelapse for Djoser! sorry this one took so long, I was really struggling with assignments and didn't have time to put it together until now

i actually had a lot of trouble with the pose and anatomy for this one until i came up with the final pose and started sketching that

enjoy!

Update

hey guys!

first, a heads up for Black Hole Seal patrons - since i've been really busy with assignments lately (and still have two i need to finish over the next three days) i won't be able to upload the timelapse of the Djoser art until next week at the earliest. it's recorded, i just need time to edit it together ;_; sorry for the wait!

for everyone else, especially Lunar Sign patrons - for next month's poll, i'm going to make it available for all patrons to vote on! i've noticed that not a lot of people are voting on the polls,, the actual reward will still be exclusive for a month for Solar Sigil patrons only, but everyone in the Lunar Sign tier will get to vote on what i draw for the month!

thanks for your continued support, everyone!

September Fanart Reward

that is one sturdy table

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Djoser won the poll for September! this one took a while to finish because i was burnt out from assignments, but i had a lot of fun drawing it once i had the idea for the pose, and i experimented with some different shading styles for this one too

thank you everyone for your continued support!!

[ Summon Bahamut ]

Radimir, you did it! you summoned Bahamut! now order him to attack the enemy-- ...Radimir? 

this was mainly an experiment with doing a lineless style thanks to seeing @SmokeyFiend 's art, and it turned out really good but it.... took so long...... ;_;

Kylos Redesign

after doing the biker version i redesigned Kylos' regular helmet too slightly and also uh. made him beefier,,

September Fanart Poll

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reminder to vote before the poll closes tomorrow! (do it for Lizzie)

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the poll for September is up! picked a few more big beefy bois (and also Misraaks), but again if there are any characters that you guys would like to see feel free to suggest them below!

be sure to vote before the poll closes on Friday 9/9!

Modern AU Kylos

i had the idea a while ago of a headless horseman, but his "horse" is a motorbike, and his head is a biker helmet

i remembered the idea the other day and had some energy to draw so i decided to make it Kylos haha

[Machinist Unlocked]

breaking news, Estinien found dead in a back alley

based off of this classic of course

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haven't had a lot of time to draw because of assignments and Depression / stress from said assignments, but i've been drawing a little bit and had some very funny ideas that i wanna draw hdfgjhj

also would you guys rather i upload art as i complete it for the Lunar Sign tier, or upload everything together in one pack at the end of the month?

August Fanart Alts + Sketches

here's the alt for the August reward of Leongar by himself! Kirby and Elfilin are too short,

i'm also including the sketches for this month's reward because i,, forgot to tell CSP to record the timelapse this month,,,

i might not be able to do a timelapse every month since it causes the file to lag A Lot while i'm drawing and also means i have to do a lot more work to put the timelapse together, but also i'm not sure if timelapses appeal to anyone?? let me know haha.

August Fanart Reward

♫ Kirby victory theme plays ♫

Leongar won the poll for August! spoilers for Kirby and the Forgotten Land, but i couldn't not draw this bit because it's the Best Bit In The Game

he dance...

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i had loads of fun working on this one!! thank you all so much for the continued support~ 

i'll upload the Kirby-less version for Black Hole Seal patrons in a bit (but why would you want that--), along with some sketches and process

Bowser Day 2022

Bowser was meant to be in the fanart poll this month, but i really wanted to post something for Bowser Day and ended up drawing him before the poll even finished lmao,,

congratulations to the two (2) people who voted for Bowser, you win!! if you're in the Solar Sigil or Black Hole Seal tiers and haven't voted in the August Poll yet, please remember to before it closes!

since i already posted this one to Twitter, it's available to all tiers as a bonus~

WoLs (OC)

i did that "draw your WoL in your clothes" challenge that was going around, and since i have two WoLs i drew both of them lmao

i only ever wear one pair of pants and one pair of shoes....... and then just a bunch of t-shirts and a jacket i wear whenever it's cold (or when i want to be comfy, which means i'm almost always wearing it)

i also drew my Azem, they're the Ancient for both Seinwyr AND Radimir (since Radimir is the reincarnation of the WoL from the bad-end 8th Umbral Calamity timeline, after Seinwyr dies). and because i'm Like That i made them a combination of Radimir and Seinwyr's designs, and also they are non-binary (they/them). they have pink hair and pronouns...

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the first two weeks of semester have been very draining but i'm still finding energy to draw in addition to assignments, so i'll try to keep posting art every now and then! whenever i have time to draw i'll try to post it to the Lunar Sign tier a few days before i post it to Twitter

thank you everyone for your support!!

August Fanart Poll

here's the fanart poll for August! semester has started and i haven't had any energy for drawing for the past few days, but hopefully i can get more energy once i get past the initial shakeup

Bowser day is this month so i HAD to include him, but i also included a few other Nintendo dads that would be fun to draw at some point in the future! be sure to vote before the poll closes on Tuesday 9/8!

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also, if you guys have any characters you'd like to see me draw, feel free to comment them below! if it's a character i like, i might include them in a future poll

July OC Reward

"...cursed?"
"...definitely cursed,"

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here's the reward for July! 

Argus runs a store where he buys artifacts and magic items from adventurers, figures out what they do, and then either re-sells them or locks them up for safekeeping

Mason and Argus met up again years after their adventuring party disbanded (and Mason got murdered, and then revived 20 years later) so that Mason could help Argus with identifying some of the artifacts

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semester has started up again so this might be the last OC reward for a bit, but i had a lot of fun with this one and i'm really happy with how it came out! i'll still be trying to draw OC art for the Lunar Sign tier, but i'll definitely be much sketchier and there might not be a lot of it

thank you so much everyone for your continued support, and for supporting me for so long!! i really want to keep things going here and i'm gonna do my best to find time for patreon stuff still

New tiers are live!

i wanted to do these before the end of the month, and had some free time yesterday to get them set up, so here are the new tiers!

$1 - Lunar Sign
- just a tip jar for now as i figure out how much work i can do with assignments
- i'll still try to upload sketches and other OC art to this tier

$5 - Solar Sigil
- early access to monthly fanart
- vote in the fanart poll

$10 - Black Hole Seal
- exclusive access to alts of fanart, and timelapses

i've also decided to keep the current $3 - Solar Sigil tier active, as a way to say thanks for supporting me for so long!! it will be unpublished at the end of the month, which means new patrons cannot join it, but everyone who is currently subscribed to the tier will have access to all the Solar Sigil rewards for the original price

i've loved doing the OC poll and suggestions for the past few years and don't want to drop those completely, so i'll be experimenting and seeing how much work i can handle. the next few months might not have a lot of content and i'm very sorry ;_;

i also want to say thank you to everyone for supporting me through your patronage, it really means a lot and running the patreon has been really fun! i really really appreciate it

July Fanart Reward - Timelapse

here's the timelapse for the July reward! this one was much kinder to my pc for some reason haha

still not sure if i'll do timelapses for every fanart reward, but i will try and see how they go!

July Fanart Reward - Alts

here are the alts of Tuxedo Beast! one with the mask, one with Beast by himself, and one of the full art without the blur and 90s anime filters

hope you guys enjoy, i had loads of fun with this reward!

July Fanart Reward

Pretty Guardian Sailor Belle, Episode 5: Friend or Foe..? Tuxedo Beast appears!

this started as a joke sketch because i've been watching so much Sailor Moon with a friend, and Beast has a rose motif, and Tuxedo Mask has a rose motif, and then the idea was too funny and i couldn't stop

i like to think that when he's not dressed in the tuxedo and in his regular civilian clothes no one can recognize him, but he's still a Beast, and is also the only Beast in Tokyo, but everyone is just like "oh it's Adam-amoru" and doesn't question it

i'll upload the non-anime-filter alt and maybe the timelapse later for Solar Sigil patrons! 

Tiers Update (+ plans for the future)

behold, the new tier symbols! i haven't updated these since i started the patreon and the old ones are Crunchy haha. i've talked about this a bit already, but i thought it'd be best to make a proper post about it!

i'm planning to change up the tiers, either next month when semester starts back up, or the month after once i have an idea of how much time i have to work on art with assignments

i'll be reworking the rewards to focus a bit more on fanart, since the fanart i did last month was really fun, but i'm still definitely wanting to draw lots of OC art

the current plans are:

$3 Lunar Sign: access to OC art and sketches a month early

$5 Solar Sigil: voting on fanart, access to monthly fanart a month early, + lunar sign rewards

$10 Black Hole Seal: access to bonus alts, wips, and timelapses of rewards, + lunar sign and solar sigil, + extra stuff(??)

currently, i'm debating whether to keep the suggestion box and polls available for OC art. i've noticed that there have been a lot less submissions in the past few months, so i'm considering either:

a) keeping the OC polls, but picking the options myself (which will let me do some variety and offer OCs that i haven't drawn in ages, and motivate me to actually draw OCs, but will be a lot of work with assignments)

b) dropping the polls, and just drawing OC art in my spare time (but there might not be a lot of it)

i'm opening a poll to see what you guys think, but if you have any other suggestions or ideas for where i should go from here (like different things to offer in the tiers, or different prices), please comment below!

July OC Poll

here's the OC poll for July! only one suggestion this month, so i grabbed a few suggestions from previous months again

i'm considering changing up the way i do the OC polls for when semester starts up / when i potentially open the fanart tier, so i'll make a post about that very soon

be sure to vote before the poll closes on Monday 18/7!

July Fanart Poll (Tie-breaker)

Asgore and the Beast got the same amount of votes, so i'm gonna do a quick 24-hour poll to decide the winner

the other one WILL be drawn eventually because i love both of them, be sure to vote on which one you'd like to see more!

July Fanart Poll

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gonna do another one of these! i had so much fun with June's and really want to try and make this a regular reward. i'm considering reworking the tiers to include fanart, which i'll talk more about later this month

i chose some of my own favorite characters/designs for this poll, i'm excited to draw them! i think i'll try to build up a backlog of characters to put forward for later polls

be sure to vote before the poll closes on Friday 8/7! 

June OC Reward

here's the OC reward for June! this one suffered a bit because i had a really good action sketch, but then struggled with the anatomy and lost the action-ness when i fixed Rufus' pose ;_;

i also redesigned Rufus a bit for this one, now he's a bit of a were-hyena! i might go back and redesign all my ocs at some point just to update their designs a bit

i had a lot of fun drawing this one, thank you so much everyone for your continued support!

June Fanart Reward - Timelapse

this took so long to put together and i think i almost killed my computer, because CSP and Adobe After Effects hit 100% CPU and Memory when they were rendering out the video..........

i will maybe need to find another way to record and edit timelapses in the future if i decide to do more lmao

enjoy!

June Fanart Reward

here's the bonus fanart reward for June, of Blaidd from Elden Ring! 

i put... a lot of effort into this one,, ;_; i went back to my old oil-shading brush and edited it a bit to make it work with multiply layers, which really helped to make this a lot of fun to work on~

i also tried out CSP's timelapse feature, and discovered halfway through that it exponentially increases the file size, so the final CSP file is over 2GB......... i'll upload the timelapse for the $3 Solar Sigil tier!

i'm really really happy with how this reward came out, thank you everyone for your continued support! i'll try to do another fanart reward next month, and then i'll have to see how it goes when semester starts up again

May OC Reward

here's the reward from May, finally! i'm really sorry it took so long to get this finished, i was just so sick and so busy when i got back from the trip ;_;

i'm really happy with how this turned out in the end, though! i had a lot of fun drawing this one and i really hope it was worth the wait~

thank you so much for all your continued support! i'm starting to feel a lot better now, and i'll hopefully have lots of time to do the two rewards for June with no problem

June OC Poll

here's the poll for June! i'm finally making progress on the reward for May and should definitely have it done by the end of this week, i'm really looking forward to sharing it with you all~

there weren't any suggestions this month, so i've drawn from options from previous months for this poll! be sure to vote before the poll closes on Tuesday 21/6!

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Kuroku | Kylos

Victor | Rufus 

Pierce

Argus | Mason