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Made a Zagreus and Thanatos fan art for @captainmac's birthday 🌟

#hades #hades game #zagreus x thanatos #fan art #sketches

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Baggage 🥴

Edel + Leuce sketches. Still working away on my silly little stories

#sketchbook #character design #OCs #the living ashes #horror #dark fantasy

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Sketchbook pages, working on pulling more expressions for my characters out of my head

#concept art #character design #sketches #sketchbook #the living ashes

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A handful of concept art I've done for my current project, For Honor. Still undecided on which things to post, but these are some of my favourites ♥

(Art direction by Andrew Jangwoon Im and Anastasia Ovchinnikova)

#concept art #character design #work art #historical fantasy #For Honor

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A boreal dancer for my friend the dark souls king. I tried blending black pastel with ink for the background, I think it created an interesting texture/intensity 🔥

#dark souls 3 #dark souls boss #dancer of the boreal valley #ink drawing #sketchbook

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Finally got around to finishing these little colour studies last weekend, my excuse to revisit BCS a year after the finale 😢 I refuse to get over it

Turns out acrylic works pretty great as a sketchbook medium! The colours stay so vivid and there's almost no warping, so I'll continue experimenting adding lil pops of paint here and there

#sketchbook #colorstudy #Better Call Saul #Saul Goodman #Kim Wexler #Nacho Varga #Bob Odenkirk #Rhea Seehorn #Michael Mando

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Cancelled sci fi project - Creature concepts pt. 2

The idea with these was a self sustaining alien ecosystem had adapted itself to an abandoned cargo ship, interconnected like a reef

#concept art #work art #sci fi horror #creature design #monster design #thumbnails

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Cancelled sci fi project - Creatures concepts pt. 1

I don't get to design creatures at work too much, but I do enjoy it a lot. In space anatomy can be whatever you want it to be 💫

#concept art #creature design #monster design #sci fi horror #thumbnails #work art

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Cancelled sci fi project - Character concepts pt. 2

Thumbnails are a big part of the process, and often the most fun

#concept art #work art #sci fi #character design #weapon design #thumbnails

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Cancelled sci fi project - Character concepts pt. 1

Worked on this one years ago, but there's a lot I still enjoy about it. I don't do a lot of sci fi so adapting my shape language was tough!

#concept art #work art #sci fi #character design #weapon design

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Lost girl

#sketchbook #ink #torontobeaches

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Long time no post- I have to admit I've been feeling pretty alienated from most social media platforms, more than used to be normal for me anyway. I do miss sharing my art with friends and the few people who stumble on it, so I scanned a few things I had laying around. Hope you're all holding up ok out there ❤️

#sweeney todd #michael ball #imelda staunton #the living ashes #resident evil 4 #RE4

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A couple design sketches I've done for my characters in different ttrpg campaigns 🎲

#sketches #Vaesen #homebrew dnd

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Places I drew

#ink #illustration #sketchbook #sketches #studies

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More fan art painting. Listen the last season is coming out in less than two weeks and I am Stressed

#Better Call Saul #Saul Goodman #Jimmy McGill #Kim Wexler #Bob Odenkirk #Rhea Seehorn #fan art

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In a break from my usual work I painted Billy Bones as a birthday gift for @captainmac , a tribute to our love of Black Sails and Mac's icon Tom Hopper ☠

#Black Sails #Tom Hopper #Billy Bones #fan art

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Do you know when you see a better artist that you like their stuff and want to ask questions, but when you start writing turns out you already know everything that you need to study , practice etc and you don't even know what you have to ask... yet it feels like something is missing and you get lost day after day. That's where I am... stuck in limbo

That's a tough place to be. I think so much of the work an artist has to reckon with is really much more to do with our progression mentally and emotionally in art, rather than the demonstrable skill progression which usually gets the spotlight.

Of course there are so many reasons we can feel stuck; there's paralysis, where you can be so overwhelmed with everything you feel needs to be done at once that you experience executive dysfunction. It can be a fear of failure. The most common one I see is usually perfectionism stopping artists before they even begin to try. Whatever is at the heart of it is something only you can know, and it requires deep vulnerability and honesty with oneself.

I guess all I can say is, the 'rise and grind' burnout mindset around art is incredibly overrated. Your relationship to art is never going to be as 2 dimensional as just building skill- your mental health, what your self-talk sounds like and what you expect of yourself are all vital and complex aspects nobody sees. I find that when I feel lost, those are the aspects that need my attention to find clarity again.

I hope maybe something here touches on what you're going through, and wish you all the best ❤

#irl #FAQ #art advice