Spinnin' Boys

Kevin Wettsworth; The Parable

Kevin, great and mighty, voiced by the amazing @earndiltheequalizer!

The folk over at Ogre Poppenang have the remarkable ability to make a character hilarious one moment, and heartbreaking the next. I think Kevin here is one of my favourites. I hope he survives the series.

Lemme tell ya, making a guy with a nose like a mosquito look forward wasn't easy, but I think I got it in the end.

KSS KYUR MUB MUB KA MUB BLI SKA

The endlessly endearing Mr. Mub Mub, as voiced by the irrepressibly energetic @baronharkonnen (SpeakerD)

I love how genuinely alien the Xenians and other aliens are in half-life, from their biology to their mannerisms to their speech quirks. SpeakerD does a fantastic job of conveying the true alien grasp of social interactions in a way that is both funny and very empathetic.

The species in HL also have some interesting means of making art too, which is what I tried to get at here. I like to think if Mubby wanted to make a self portrait, it would look a little like this.

"Honesty is Strength"

Waaaaay back in the Horse Days I made a series of MLP themed posters where the main idea was to not actually show the horses at all -try to keep it a little vague, but still use all their colours and symbols.

I think it came from the idea that some people would like to show their fandom of MLP without the obvious and implicit ponys in it for one reason or another, ergo the posters.

This one is Applejack; who is apples apples apples apples apples apples apples apples apples apples apples apples apples apples apples farm-lesbian

Prophet of the Potato

Despite the Golden Tuber's immensity and power, it is lodged firmly in the earth and cannot move its vast bulk. Lo, it has transformed its most faithful into rooty forms than can enact its will upon the people!

Bits and pieces of the old Orthadoxy and Pagan beliefs are stirred into the starchy stew that is the new faith, sometimes literally as these priests can give themselves bodily unto their parish. More than one proselytiser has ended up in their followers bellies to sate the unnatural hunger that pervades the lands.

I love these, they make me think of something written by an elder god or a yith in lovecrafts work.

I like to imagine the first is a user manual on shoggoth maintenance, the second is a self portrait through the means of what the portraitee has in their pockets right now, and the last is a formal essay of some sort.

Santiago Ramón y Cajal (Spanish, 1852 - 1934)

Neural Drawings, circa 1900 - 1908

Literally me and husband @xx-k1tsun3-k1d-xx

these are in desperate need of posting. gregg x angus drawings.. i love them so much

Observers Guide to Kobolds #1

Tools, with Illustrations!

The first hole a kobold will make is a small burrow in the soft loam or sand. They use their tough nails to dig a hole big enough to sleep in, and hide in. Familys and tribes will make a burrow-village of connected tunnels.

Next the kobold will find a suitable strong rock, one that can be knapped like flint, and they will break a sharp line along one side to give it an edge. This tool can be used and made when there is little to no wood or metal available, and whilst heavy and not the most effective, it can break down materials the kobolds nails cannot or would take months of scratching to achieve.

If metal and wood are available, the kobold can start to make mining and digging tools that humans and dwarves would recognise. Crude and humble they may be, with shafts of bone and heads of scrap copper, but they perform their task well.

Thanks for replying! this is very useful and I'll try to convert the pen settings you use to one I can plug into Procreate at some point.

Yo! I love your drawing and colouring style and I humbly request to steal your brush settings and colour palettes please.

Answering this ask (with pictures!)

The program I use is IbisPaint X. I really like it because it's free, there are a lot of brushes that you need the full version for, but you can watch an ad to use them for a few hours. It's really good ^⁠_⁠^

I use the Felt Tip Pen (Hard) from sizes ranging from 4-7 depending on the canvas size and vibe

I get the breaks from just, breaking it. But I also sometimes go through and add them after, like if I use rulers.

The color pallet is my Octonauts colors + some other colors I commonly used in my art

Whenever I shade, I use a purple-blue on multiply with opacity at 20-30%, I use red (or blue if it's on blue or green) with an Air Brush around the edges, and highlight with yellow on add

Thanks for reading :⁠-⁠D

I really enjoyed making this and I hoped it helped someone out there (⁠✿⁠^⁠‿⁠^⁠)

Catboy Vetinari, scruffy terrier Vimes!

sorry i turned him into a kittycat

Grim Squeaker

A heavily Discworld inspired commision made for my good buddy, Grimrat!

I'm still rather chuffed with this one despite it being a year or so old now, and its interesting for how the lineart was pencil and ink scanned in, and the paint was digital.