Sketchymorguefile - Theft:D

this blog gives my brain the happy chemical

aaaaa I'm so glad!!! here's a friendly face for ya <3

i can recall this fellow’s humming was the most relieving sound during my first playthrough

How many thousand siblings lie behind this gate? Created, discarded and forgotten by a kingdom I dare call my own I beg you my kin: haunt me So we may yet meet in my dreams

Spot art I made for the second edition of @hkhallowzine! It was supposed to accompany a story of hornet paying her respects to her shade sibling squad, but sadly the fic got dropped. The full zine will be out in less than a month, please look forward to it!

Was looking through my old stuff and found some doodles from, like, 2022 which i never posted and forgot about, so here's that :D i think they're worth posting, giving em a second chance i guess

Siblings stuff :)

Hollow gijinkas

This is actually pt1 i have more of those but tumblr doesn't let pin more than 10 pictures smh

Nice background you’ve got there. It sure would be a shame if someone were to. Nom.

mantis lords!

omnis-99

Yoinking this for later.

got any tips for drawing backgrounds/environments? yours are just utterly stellar

hello and thankyou for the ask!! and for the kind words!!!

truth be told—i, myself, don't much know what i'm doing when it comes to. anything art related. my process involves a lot of flailing and nebulous feelings of what to do.

in addition, for me, my character art actually came after my work with scenery, so advice may be wonky as a result! this is simply what i have found for my own style.

for backgrounds of my style i have found:

focusing on shapes is good!! just like closer-up artworks, it's good to focus on silhouettes and general impressions. getting some nice shapes into the background, without adding much detail, can go a long way (this goes for objects, landscapes, lighting, what-have-you)

things that are in the background (or, generally, out of focus) tend to look lower in contrast. i will even fade some of mine into neutral colours so that the objects in the foreground/the objects of focus stand out more. values are important for separation!

it's helpful to keep in mind how different colours/lightings may affect one another (reflection and whatnot), too! all of my pieces tend to use quite limited palettes partly for this reason. colours from the background will find their ways onto your subject and vice-versa. that is not to say that background colours and subject colours cannot be different—contrast is good!! cohesion is also important, however.

So apparently i had to find out by accident today that stickbug eggs look like tiny pots and they hatch out by opening the lids and crawling out

Fangs, Steel and Stolen Honour

Illustrations for one of the new SCURRY! adventures from Stout Stoat Press, now available on backerkit! If you ever wanted to play as a little woodland animal getting into big, big trouble, I highly reccommend this system and these stories!