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tiny official lore update

I know I havent said anything but I've been secretly drawing drake teeth a new way for /some months/  (a year) now.

I've included some examples of when I've drawn the new fangs.




Essentially, drakes got refitted with a double set of upper fangs. the bottom fang is slightly smaller than the larger fang but bigger than the rear fang. the bottom teeth were moved slightly back to accommodate for the newly lengthened [as of 2022] 2ndary fangs.

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Drakecember day 3 video

yeah boye. I enjoyed this one because it didn't take all day :D

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drakecember 2 video

I had a PAIN doing this. you can see I start and stop the shading and redo it several times before finally deciding to go with the end result


I'm still totally a novice at working with greyscale. it's very hard to convert to color

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drakecember day 1 vid

wow I am sorry I completely forgot to post the process vids here even tho I already uploaded them on youtube.


I'll get right on that

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Drakecember 3: colossal [public size]

"It was gargantuan, shuffling on those many stick like limbs, kicking   waves of dust as it mindlessly stumbled along, the virus controlling  the  beast in entirety."

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Drakecember 3: colossal [hd]

"It was gargantuan, shuffling on those many stick like limbs, kicking  waves of dust as it mindlessly stumbled along, the virus controlling the  beast in entirety."

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me asking my bf "so bigass rock or bigass critter. bigass rock would be easier"

him: bigass rock

me: DOES BOTH

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drakecember 2: rebirth [public size]

initially when amanathine rushes into a body it kills, but the  modified amanathine-chaos structure in prototype 002, Ezrael gives her a  sort of extreme ability to fire all her muscles and neurons  simultaneously, making her a near unstoppable killing machine.

I  imagine the first time of hitting that roid rage would be terrifying to  her, as she'd wake up covered in someone elses blood and not know  exactly what happened.

As she builds a  toler...

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Drakecember 2: Rebirth [HD][update, now with animated version too]

initially when amanathine rushes into a body it kills, but the  modified amanathine-chaos structure in prototype 002, Ezrael gives her a  sort of extreme ability to fire all her muscles and neurons  simultaneously, making her a near unstoppable killing machine.

I  imagine the first time of hitting that roid rage would be terrifying to  her, as she'd wake up covered in someone elses blood and not know  exactly what happened.

As she builds a  toler...

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Drawcember day 1: Rift [HD]

puppies running thru a canyon


the dogs were a "hey i kinda rendered the bg why not add critters" and I sorta regretted it because I didnt want to render entire animals--which is obvious since they're fairly messy and have very poor contrast. so I did a version with them and the 'intended' version with no pups and bg blur.

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dont even try to argue!!

title is literal clickbait sorry haha


BUT DON'T TRY TO DENY THIS GREEN JOBFISH WOULD MAKE AN AMAZING DRAKE DESIGN.


they're supposedly also delicious, I'd love to eat one someday but they're native to the indo and asian-pacific ocean so we don't have them here T-T


kinda really want to make a drake adoptable tho



[images from google]



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December challenge

So few things, more than I bothered to type on bluesky.


why scifi in december?

because xmas themes are tired and boring


why december at all?

personally i think any challenge a month long has more value at the END of the year, rather than middle. then you can truly look back and say 'before the year was over i did THIS.'  it's a great way to start the new year.


who can...

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December challenge

I'm notoriously bad at month long challenges, however I wanna end the year off pushing myself to complete one. I can't promise anything but I shall do my best.


I'll post the fancy pants image version of it soonish.


anyone is welcome to participate and if you dont draw you can feel free to write a short story or whatever. poems, art is art so go off

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bsky invite codes

I have a few on my account so here's one of them in case anyone wants to escape twitter:

bsky-social-sh46n-jjhjt

and if it ends up taken just comment and ask for one I've got 5 currently and have no use for them

https://bsky.app/


unlike threads and hive, bluesky is not in fact 'dead' and you can really curate your feed on this site. mine is literally ALL art. it's great. no twitter ads, no elon musk, ...

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deer ref commission

done with references now for the long forseeable future


dont try to order one from me, for any price. i'll say no.

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hehe meme sticker comm

la tee da


it's another commission

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boll

what should I sculpt? Easy-ish ideas preferably because it's meant as a learning exercise. 

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commission openings

picture for attention grabbing lol


NO REFERENCE COMMISSIONS. ABSOLUTELY NONE. I'm permanently closed for refs except for very certain conditions applying only to drakes


all other commissions are open


I need a minimum of 167$ before my bday[dec 9] as it's time for my bi-yearly tag renewal, so commissions are open. I'll do icons, portraits, scenes, paintings [35$ an hour for paintings] and whatever other type of scene you want....

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This is no home [HR+animation]

my man said the pulsating chaos nutsack was "creepy and disgusting as fuck"

so I guess I succeeded lmao


this is obviously a different period of time from her initial drop onto emain for battle practice [aka prototype weapon testing] some point at this time she's traveling the dying world, learning whatever she can about Emain before she's shipped off to space. She's probably between 1-5 cycles old here.

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This is no home of mine [video process]

Young Ezrael

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raptor comm

it's a commission, one of the last refs i plan to do for a VERY long time. like so long that it's never gunna happen again except for drakes kinda long

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wips

some more young Ez/emain wips


a TRULY MASSIVE infected beasty too. one of the wasteland critters, normally a passive herbivore sorta like an elephant/tapir crossed with a stick bug crossed with a horse. this one is just serving as a vessel to spread chaos though. It's in the advanced stages of the disease, the beasts heart has been completely destroyed and replaced with the virus acting as the organ, the entire head of the beast and circulatory systems are compromised and sin...

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I'm getting good at this video editing busines

Totally a novice but I am slowly learning, it's great! it's actually a LOT of work to compile, clean, add music, text, etc during video editing. now I understand why youtubers have editors they pay to do this shit for them...and my videos are just are process. XD *simple*


anyway I hope you guys like it, I busted my ass this time

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In plain sight [animated + HR+ alts]

[continuing from: https://www.patreon.com/posts/forgotten-short-90720500]

The amanathine began coursing through my body, burning into my veins with each pulse from my heart and with it, the rage that was a simmer became a torrential volcanic explosion.

Suddenly, my body moved in such a way I couldn't grasp, too fast, too agile. It was if the beasts tailing me were moving on another phys...

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Anniversary kiss

video process

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Anniversary

Just something cute I managed to paint while suffering an artblock, for the whole anniversary thing. yep

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Swamp [midsize]

the public version of my latest painting.

I'm honestly not that pleased with it. I'm trying to force myself into learning greyscale but it's hard and takes a lot more effort than I am used to.

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Swamp forest HD

ezrael in the rain on a huge old alien ficus and some bigass lizards doing some territory dances at night in the same scene. 

it was pretty relaxing to work on

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Swamp process video

Process recorded from the start this time, praise me I wasn't an idiot who forgot to record.


anyway it's self explanatory, and it's a LONG process video because it took probably a week of multiple 12-15 hour sessions.  It's on Io. There are 2 versions of the finished painting too, a day/night one so you can see literally both versions made in the video and all the tweaking done and whatever.


cest la vie

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another lore/environment piece

This one will actually have a full length video! I wasn't an idiot this time and hit record at the very beginning! big brain lizard!


it's still not done, I have a lot more rendering to do as well as some creatures to add and different times of day.


This is also on Io. A lot of the plant life on Io is red, silver and bluegreen hence the colors here. Mosses are all various shades of blue. Most plant life on all Astaris worlds are in the blue-green-purple family...

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woof

since dogs are and always will be superior to cats, i made an alien dog


actually it's based off a dream i had a few nights ago and I was so upset when I woke up because the dog wasnt real. >:C


I had a dream I was /somewhere/ n the EU, idk where, and I found a stray street dog. she was so sweet and beautiful and precious in every way so the whole dream was me tryign to rescue this dog and bring her back to america. getting her a dog passport and all that sh...

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