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Hey @callmegaith I needed to draw your David because he's just *chef's kiss*

#the OG adult David as I like to call him #for real you're an inspiration and your art and compositions and character design make my brain go feral #hope you like it! #rusty lake #david eilander

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David Eilander "the Magician"

You might've seen him before at @thecrimsonvalley-creates since we came up with this face together!

I personally headcanon that he's got dubious eating/sleeping habits. He sometimes cuts meals by smoking and consuming large amounts of caffeine and sugar. As shown here: drinking Rusty Lake Cola, made with genuine Lake water. There are no side effects to this drink. Don't worry about it. :)

#rusty lake #david eilander #mr rabbit #finalmente here's the boy in my style! #I was only going for portraits at first but I couldn't take the fullbody idea ouf of my head #he's just taking a small break here #of course he gets a full meal after a while #(= consumes everything within his reach) #listen this was a boy who complained about his blood sugar being low #Is he diabetic? Maybe. Did he suffer from malnourishment? Maybe. Does he have a fast metabolism? Maybe. #Is he going to compensate it all by stuffing his face with sweets even though this is another life/body? Absolutely. #He's got no fuck to give anymore #Life (as much of a ''life'' as *vaguely gesticulates at RL* is) sucks so he might as well enjoy things you get me?

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~ Forgetting is just forgetting... ~ I am a very simple man: I adore American Mcgee's Alice (and Madness Returns) and have been replaying it recently and just, so many quotes really vibed with the Rusty Lake characters! So take this elaborate piece on forgetting, be it not being able to have someone forgive your own actions. Or perhaps you're the one who can not forgive or forget yourself... Collaboration piece with @nattravn-art! Thanks for your adding of all the pazzazzs for this work of art T3T

#rusty lake #elizabeth eilander #jakob eilander #collab #lookit what me and the husband did! #the quotes/themes of Madness Returns do fit a lot with the Rusty Lake universe #... or we just really like games based around tragic memories #Elizabeth my beloved #Eilander siblings my beloved #you didn't deserve all that shit aaaaaa

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I wanted to try and figure David's head shape so I I did a few sketches that I liked enough, I thought I could line some. I ended up lining them all and threw some colours in while I was at it. :'D

Bottom right is: "David, what do you have in your mouth?" "Nohinnnnn'"

#rusty lake #rusty lake paradise #david eilander #little shit.png #I love him so much #pasty ass malnourished-looking kid #always has his collar stuck in his vest and doesn't care #drawing his messy haircut was so fun honestly #I headcanon that Elizabeth cuts his hair #his grandma can do it but she pulls too hard and he hates it #he doesn't give much of a care if his hair look uneven #he doesn't care about his physical appearance at all tbh he has no reason to #next drawing in line is how I picture him as reincarnated/adult version #I'm a slow artist so idk when that will be but I'm looking forward to doing it :> #you can already see how I picture him by checking out thecrimsonvalley-creates btw :>

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"Eyes blinded by the fog cannot see the truth."

#rusty lake #cube escape #elizabeth eilander #fun fact: the texture used for this one is from an old photo plate from the 1800's #something something lore #alyway she's the best girl #I have a lot of feelings for her and her siblings alright ;; #another fun fact: that pose was a struggle and I accidentally drew her absolutely JACKED #think à la Luisa Encanto #If she had that power she'd be unstoppable #lift the house and the animals and yeet it away #last fun fact: it looked like she was having googly eyes on my sketch #the shitpost was so close let me tell you #David would have put googly eyes on it #David would have put googly eyes on everything

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@thecrimsonvalley-creates and me were talking/joking about certain characters and uuuh, my hand slipped.

#edit: I FORGOR THE FRECKLES #shitpost #I'm sorry rusty lake fandom #the power of the manboobs is too strong #manboob meme #dale vandermeer/david eilander #rusty lake #dale vandermeer #david eilander #I'll post more serious art soon but I allowed myself a shitpost as a treat

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Hello Hello Everyone! Welcome to the Queer Expanded Tarot Project. A full 78 card Tarot deck themed around being Queer and the journey of self discovery.

This project is well underway and we're excited to share stuff with everyone over the coming weeks! Some details! This deck has been modified to fit the Queer theming, every Major Arcana has a new name and our suits have been changed too. With this some cards have new readings. We'll be introducing each change with it's own post! Every card is also tied to a specific pride flag. Yes, all 78 of them. We tried to be as varied and representative as possible when picking, but being Queer is an incredibly diverse and unique experience with as many labels as there are people! We hope you like our selection <3 Our artists have been working hard on making all of our card illustrations, we'll be showing off some of the early concept work for them as a break in the information barrage, before giving sneak peaks at the finalized work once the project launches! Speaking of project launch, as of right now we are looking at a June 1st launch for this project! That's right! Queer Tarot for Pride Month. We hope you follow along!

#hellooo I'm participating in this! :D #looking forward to see this project come to life!

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Mr. Rabbit are you okay?

#mr rabbit #cube escape #rusty lake #sketch #edit: I see y'all's tags and I really appreciate them! ;u; thank you! #of course he's not okay #he's so broken but I love him your honor #something something symbolism #I listened to Fear & Hunger 2's sountrack while drawing this and it slapped so much #pure anxiety; in the best possible meaning #I remembered to record the canvas (too late of course) but I still uploaded the process on my yt #but if I have to summarize it: no thoughts brain empty

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I recently discovered the Cube Escape/Rusty Lake games and I'm maybe just a little obsessed with this babygirl Detective.

#cube escape #rusty lake #dale vandermeer #cube escape paradox #sketch

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In regards to these news, I'd like to precise that I've opted out of "third party sharing" (AI scraping) on this blog, my main @nattravn-stuff and my other secondaries.

I'm no big artist, but I still do not want my work to be used for AI purposes.

Following is personal feelings. The TL;DR is: I don't think I'll keep posting my personal art on tumblr/my socials any longer. That doesn't include zines/promo art and occasional fanart.

Quite frankly, it hurts and I'm tired of this all.

Drawing has always been a way for me to express myself and share what I love, drawing characters I love whether it's mine or other people's, whether it's fandom characters or OCs. However since a couple of years now, I've gradually lost the joy of sharing it on social sites, hence why I've posted less and less here.

I know I briefly mentioned it before but my mental health is not always the best, to put it simply, it never really was. Nearly two decades ago, finding online art communities was a lifesaver. First it was on forums. Then, after a wrecking art school year, I'd promised myself I would never draw again. I did pick up a pencil after a bit of not drawing due to OCs and fandom characters. Despite my art being bad at the time, I joined Deviantart. I'd found a community full of fantastic people there, and this community encouraged me to draw more of what I loved and post it online. I don't know where I would be artistically nowadays, or if I would still be drawing at all, if it wasn't for this community. Then I'd found tumblr, which was a fun way for me to share art among other things. DA was about to decline so I just stayed on tumblr, even if there was less engagement there for me aside on some specific fanart pieces.

I never was a popular artist and honestly, I didn't intend to be one. I just drew what I loved and appreciated the engagement. During DA days, I used to be more excited to share my stuff with the world than drawing, then the joy became equal between creating and sharing. That source of joy started vanishing for me, and it has affected my art. It affected it first because it felt that art only became "content" to be "consumed", it felt that it lost its personality and meaning. Then AI generated "art" and "artists" happened and it feels that it finished killing that joy for me. Today's news was the last nail in the coffin.

Not is all negative thought. Over the past year, I feel that I started regaining joy creating by telling myself that I don't need to share my art. It feels kind of stupid to type that tbh, but making art had been so tied to posting it online to me that I'd almost.. forgotten that. I started liking drawing for myself again. I started liking getting an idea and figuring how to express it visually again, even though the process could be so frustrating... I guess these are pretty words for me to just say "I love OCs and characters and want to draw my, my spouse's, my friends' and strangers' brains blorbos and the blorbos from my games too. I'm not sure I enjoy posting them on socials though."

All this to say that I've come to terms that I don't think I want to post my personal art on tumblr/my socials any longer, as long as it doesn't bring me joy. I will continue drawing and partaking zines and art events that bring me joy (such as Art Fight, or art challenges). I will also share art for promotional purposes + and I may post occasional fanarts if my brain gets in hyperfocus.

Eventually, if you're here reading this and liked seeing my personal art on your dash, I'm sorry and I hope you understand.

PS: if we're mutuals and you're on TH, shoot me a message I'd love to see you there!

#not art #personal

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"All hands on deck!"

My piece for the @ddzine2023 charity zine: The Mountains & The Valleys! Ft my favourite enemies and favourite region!

#darkest dungeon 2 #darkest dungeon #the shroud #leviathan #captain #wharf rat #cabin boy #charity zine #fandom zine #zine art #The Mountains & The Valleys #It was an absolute pleasure to partake this zine despite my life being very chaotic at the moment of making this #thank you Os for organising this zine! #my joy when I was assigned to the Shroud: unlimited #of course I love the region with sea themed horror and fucked up sailors!

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💫 The Darkest Dungeon Art Zine of 2023 is OUT NOW 💫

With a total of 89 contributors and 108 original creations, the "Mountains & the Valleys" is chock full of artists from your very own Darkest Dungeon community. Art, writing, music, and more to come in the future!

For now, see what your talented community has made!

#darkest dungeon #come check out this zine! #it was a pleasure to participate in it!

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Frohe Krampus Nacht!

Video process (lines + colouring)

#tf2 #team fortress 2 #tf2 krampus #krampus #insert here I'm not a furry but... #AHEM anyway belayed Merry Crisis and Happy New Fear to everyone! #I've had a lot of fun on the Krampus map and this design is so good I had to draw him #it speaks to my Bloodborne loving ass for some reason #Youtube

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TTRPG Questionnaire

Tagged by @lipsie! Thank you this is lovely! :D

I'll answer for my butch main gal: the paranormal investigator Beatrice Blythe (homebrewed universe based on Call of Cthulhu, a pseudo Noir-fantasy universe set in an alternate reality version of the UK).

GENERAL

Name: Beatrice Blythe

Alias(es): None but her friends nickname her as Bea. A colleague of hers call her Sir. She likes that.

Gender: Female (she/her)

Age: 30

Place of birth: Small town in Wales

Spoken languages: English, Italian

Sexual orientation: Demi/lesbian... GIRLS!

Occupation: Paranormal investigator/detective

Class: Inquiry Agent

Ancestry: Human

APPEARANCE

Eye color: Amber

Hair color: Auburn (red)

Height: 1,80 m

Scars: Nothing notable (she's got a good healing skin)

Burns: Nothing notable

Overweight: No

Underweight: No

FAVOURITE

Color: Teal, warm browns, fall colours in general

Hair color: Doesn't care

Eye color: Doesn't care

Music genre: Doesn't listen that much to music but dances to swing.

Entertainment: Reading, dancing with her girlfriend.

Pastime: Reading too, and napping when she can. She has a bit of a.. sleep problem. She recently picked up endurance running.

Food: Mamma's ragú (she might be obligated to say that by Italian Family Law but she genuinely loves it)

Drink: Coffee, black, no sugar

Books: Nonfiction books for the most, she enjoys reading about practical things. She might enjoy a sappy lesbian romance book or two though, but you'd rather catch her dead before she admits it.

HAVE THEY

Passed university: Took a course in Criminology before an apprenticeship with a Detective before she applied for her own license.

Had sex: Yes

Had sex in public: No, and is not interested

Kissed a man: No

Kissed a woman: You bet!

Kissed someone of other gender(s): No

Gotten tattoos: No

Gotten piercings: No

Had a broken heart: Yes, when she got rejected by a crush. She then thought she didn't have time for relationships with her line of studies/work and grew close to her best friend she TOTALLY thought just saw her as a friend.

Been in love: Is very much in love with her girlfriend Lizzy.

Stayed up for more than 24 hours: Too many times, both due to her job and the fact otherworldly presences tend to find her at the dead of the night because they NEED her services to break their curse and have no concept of open hours.

ARE THEY

A cuddler: Yes but only in the privacy of her bedroom.

A kisser: Only in private.

A smoker: Yes, of cigarettes and more rarely cigars

Jealous easily: No, she's exclusive with her girlfriend and has absolute trust in her.

Trustworthy: Absolutely, she puts her honour on the line and she has a VERY strong sense of honour. Even it it's detrimental to her sometimes.

Dominant: Quite often. She doesn't particularly like it but she has a very strong "no bullshit" rule and some people she works in collaboration with can pull up quite a lot of bullshit. She also has a temper.

Submissive: It depends of the situation but not often, and as long as she judges it to be fair.

Single: Nope!

RANDOM QUESTIONS

Have they harmed themselves: No

Wanted to kill someone: Yes, but more in the sense that she wished some people would drop dead.

Actually killed someone: No, but she's gotten into physical fights and might have sent some people to the hospital that way.

Ridden a horse: For her girlfriend's sake, yes!

Have/had a job: She's a detective at the head of her an agency that she co-owns with a colleague. She also has 3 associates and is part of a network of paranormal investigators.

Have any fears: Losing her loved ones or have them harmed by looking into too powerful forces/dangerous individuals.

FAMILY

Sibling(s): Single child

Children: Two foster daughters, one that she gets along with greatly and another who she's quite similar with in character. They... tend to clash.

Grandparents: None, all passed

Parents: A witch and writer of a mother and historian of a father! Both are alive and teaching classes at university.

Aunts/Uncles: A bunch of them in Italy that she's barely met, from her mother's side.

Cousins: A bunch in Italy, she's barely met them too.

Pets: No but a benevolent twinned eldritch house spirit who she's welcomed into her home, under the pressure of her girlfriend/colleagues. They eat cobwebs and dust bunnies. She actually really likes them.

tagging @thecrimsonvalley-creates @guided-by-the-blood

#natt answers #lipsie #TTRPG questionnaire #I am SO sorry it took me so long to answer #I was very busy when I was tagged and thought I'd do it later and of course I forgot about it #my bad ;-; #hope y'all enjoy knowing a bit more about my main gal! #Blythe & Associates #Beatrice Blythe

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After nearly a year of development, we have gathered over 100 artists to create "The Mountains and the Valleys", the Darkest Dungeon Art Zine of 2023

See what your community has made on February 1st, 2024!

Art by @nattravn-art

#DarkestDungeon #DDZine23

#Hello I'm alive! #and I'm participating in this awesome zine full of awesome contributors! #here's a teaser of my work for it #looking soo much forward to it! #DDzine #The Mountains and the Valleys #teaser #charity zine

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A Fine Team Of dramatic disasters Paranormal Investigators

You ever see a meme that represent your OCs so good you have to draw it? This one was perfect for this squad!

These disasters are my & @thecrimsonvalley-creates's Call of Cthulhu RPG OCs. The universe expanded in a way we didn't expect and They. Are. Thriving.

From left to right:

Lizbeth: a cheerful and peppy wildcard who enjoys throwing one too much molotov cocktails and hates paperwork with a passion.

Beatrice: a semi-functioning grump, constantly tired because she's awoken by spirits and entities at odd hours of the night.

And Gabriel: as much as a wildcard as Lizzy, a snarkass and kind of a dick, who has fucked himself both in and out of situations.

#draw the squad meme #call of cthulhu #-ish #like it's a fine mix of homebrewed tabletopping and text-based RPG #Blythe & Associates #(<- that will be the tag for this general universe/these characters btw) #original characters #rpg #fun fact : they're all gay #fun fact number 2: Lizzy and Bea are a couple #the universe is a pseudo-beginning of the 20th century Europe #like ''''pseudo'''' as it has mixes of technology from the era and magical things.. and fashion is all over the place #but most importantly #eldritch bullshit! #Lizbeth Duffy #Beatrice Blythe #Gabriel Chevallier

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Beatrice Blythe, paranormal investigator.

After playing her for 7 good and chaotic years, I've decided to retire my main Call of Cthulhu/homebrew horror RPG character in the beginning of this year. Exit Josephine, enters Beatrice.

Beatrice is not like Josephine. In fact, Beatrice is the stark opposite.

Imagine your typical gruff Noir detective… that's basically Beatrice. Beatrice also happens to be a descendant of a line of witches, and has seen weird shit since she was a child. Thankfully, she was taught how to protect herself and, by extension, the others. While she isn't too inclined in investigating your typical cheating spouses cases, she will throw herself in cases about mysterious deaths, the occult and curses. That is, when she isn't awoken in the dead of night by otherworldly creatures which have no sense of open hours.

She investigates what needs investigating, shoots what needs shooting and hexes what needs hexing.

She's at the head of her own agency and works on cases with a growing team of oddballs, including (and not limited to): a close friend who seems to be the total opposite of her (they are now a couple), two orphaned adolescents she rescued in a mission (one becomes her secretary, the other partakes in underground fighting rings), a dramatic vampire alchemist, a dramatic ex-theologist and his two shapeshifting foster children (him and the vampire are dating) and a snarky psychometrist (who ends up co-owning the agency with Beatrice) and his foster daughter.

She might or might not have been outvoted in keeping an eldritch house spirit, which is harmless to everything but cobwebs and dust bunnies.

#The setting is a pseudo-1900 to 1930 Europe where magic is real and eldritch powers are at work #it developed much more than we thought and I'm living for it #call of cthulhu #rpg #Blythe & Associates #Beatrice Blythe #my OCs