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04.05.25

Been getting back into a painting type approach and god it's doing good on my soul

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get to be reminded that feet are still hard to draw right lmao

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Character: Croia

Showing off another character that might see some more playtime soon; Firbolg surgeon who got into some occult troublessss.

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Return to form / Commission process

I've been putting a lot of priority into doing commissions over the last few months while juggling game dev work,, so personal art has fallen to the wayside a bit, but I'm very glad I opened for proper illustration comms during the last batch, they've helped me get back that sense of "oh right!! This is what its all about-" ,, like with this piece, I was reminded how natural somber and dramatic lighting used to feel for me, and it scratched a creative itch I had forgotten about.
I still f...

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Process video is up!

i still gotta get back into properly cross-posting at the different sites i got, but hey, gotta ease into it

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29.04.25

Will be posting a speedpaint of this in the next few days! Let's see if i can make a habit out of random doodling again

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25.09.24

dont have nearly enough random dragon art in my backlog, i should def get back into that when I do my warmups before commission work, I think that'll do me good

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Im def using this new patreon thing as motivation to redraw some of the early spice art - gotta say, it's a fun balancing act to try and improve on the shape language and posing, and yet loosing a little bit of that original gesture along the way - old sketch on the right is from 08.23!

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Introducing

From top to bottom, it's Jamie and Simon;
If you want some more information on the dnd-side of things, you can visit my tumblr, I intend to write down little blurbs around the Campaign and the characters in said campaign, and already have some posts collected there:
https://rema-rin.tumblr.com/search/ca%20campaign

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The votes are in!

Or at least the votes, made by the people who saw the poll within 24 hours, are in lmao - I'll be creating a NSFW tier on this account and share explicit content here!
And I'm not gonna lie, it's a bit funny- doing explicit artwork has been motivating me to do studies again, so there are some nice pieces amongst the backlog I'll be posting - I'll make an effort to be consistent in my usual artwork posts too, I think starting off I'll be sure to pair any explicit post with a normal sketch ...

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New Patreon exclusive content?

There's been a question floating about for a while now. See, I draw lots of dnd character art, and since a little while ago, let's say, I've discovered how joyous it is to draw characters intimately co-mingling together. Should've been obvious honestly, I've always enjoyed drawing human bodies in fun perspectives, poses and interactive scenes,, additionaly drawing clothes is always a tedious step too- so it shouldn't have been a surprise that nsfw art was so fun to explore lmao -

Now ...

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31.03.25 - sketches

A recent commission that took me a couple of sketching stages to properly get the feel for the drawing - I know one way to circumvent this would be to have a proper warm-up phase, but I've gotten a bit too used to trying to brute-force my way through a piece - im hoping to get better at allowing myself detours

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24.10.22

Some dnd npcs I designed for a wildfire druid; lesbian satyr moms!

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We already know what it is, another character design that has not seen actual gameplay in dnd - but taught me that big coat + fencing is def a vibe i still need to further explore

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14.01.23

Had this little sequence made for the backstory of a lil Totem Barbarian bunny I got to play for a lil bit - really gotta experiment more with B&W illustration, I feel like I'm so close to understanding the wider scope of controlling your values and atmosphere for dramatic impact >:I

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Sketching process - Ascelin

My most recent commission! I'll detail out some of the thought process that goes into my thumbnailing for an illustration.
Final: https://www.deviantart.com/remarin/art/C-Ascelin-1160771958 

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The primary use for thumbnailing is to quickly test out different approaches to a piece, testing the posing, the perspective, the composition, the lighting - feeling out the different ...

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Simon ref

showing off this one here early; the highest effort ref sheet ive made so far lmao- chipped away at this one on and off for multiple months

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Bec design

Have this lil gunslinger harengon i got in my backpocket - took me a while to figure out what kinda face stylization i wanted to go for!

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21.10.2024

Some progress steps of a headshot! Planning out a drawing with a complex design like this takes some patience and caution - gotta make sure to split the design into components so that adjusting, tweaking and correcting can be done without needing to redraw a bunch of details over and over again!
Layer management is a valuable skill to improve if you want to make your digital art feel less tedious or draining - though it takes some trial and error to start catching which parts of a drawing ...

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08.2021

Character design that has not seen any playtime yet - would probs need to redo the concept by now if I found any game to put em in - but I really liked the sleeveless turtleneck tunic and that leg patterning combo lmao, so that'd be def re-used

Wouldve been a warlock-paladin in this iteration

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03.2024

Lil character concept thats in the backpocket for a game a friend is planning - alien fungus centaur drake??????
Setting was meant to be fully within an astral sea type environment, draconic creatures only that have for generations diversified into different genetic branches

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10.2024

Yoinked an NPC to give em an AU witch-king fit type look tho wasn't fully warmed up when I started sketching so there was multiple run-up attempts for the pose

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10.2021

Going back to share some work that I never got around to finish or refine!

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Animation - Osiris

I've been doing some YCH animations inbetween illustration commissions and I figure I can break down that process a lil!

I'll focus on the process of establishing the motion, and tying down linework & detail for a walk-cycle like this-

Some general info - this animation has 14 individual frames, that play for a total of 36 frames at 24 fps / 7 of those images last for 3 frames each, and 7 images last 2 frames each. The rhyme or reason as to which frame I picked to last a tic...

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Raydiin steps

Since the last few commissions didnt have speedpaints, i figure I could show off some of the inbetween phases of em!

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03.2023

Some exploratory sketches for a dnd character i didnt end up getting around to playing - I've been meaning to play a triton-esque character, and the design challenge was quite interesting- how do you balance a highly colored base character with thematic intrigue and then leave enough room for colorful clothing? (one consideration was to play them as a bard-)
Also how far do you push the inhuman elements while still maintaining the ability for expressions? Usually I land on a character shap...

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02.2022

Another point on my journey of figuring out outfit design - this was a fun fit, but I still wasn't fully certain of the actual direction

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10.2024

And because I have no impulse control, here have a much more recent example of an outfit design I've worked on-

It's... my god, I have 4 years worth of different phases of character brainrot, all at different quality levels, and I gotta figure out how to sift through all of it bit by bit and catch up to posting it - doing it chronologically will never work for me, so might as well just take the "fuck it, we ball" approach

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10.2021

Ok gotttta make sure to not immediately shy away from sharing sketches just because they're old -
I've been playing dnd for the last few years, and it has repeatedly made me confront the challenge of outfit design - and since this dragonborn was amongst my first characters, that means these older sketches mark some of my first attempts to learn some new skillsets!

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Let's figure this out

I've not thought about my patreon for a while now, but I would really enjoy having my own little corner to just dump random sketches and drabbles - I've just not sat down long enough to actually consider it - I've always felt like I need to curate my content to such a degree.
But no, I'm gonna make an effort to reformat this environment, to hopefully make it easier to keep maintenance up and actually,, update, when I've got small things to share

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