♱ Sojourner in a Hostile World ♱

I’ve got a Listography for the purposes of being clear about what to expect from interacting with me. While it's not necessary reading, it does answer a few frequently asked questions (though the main one I will restate here is that I do not take art requests)

Link out to other socials over at Linktree.

Art is general tagged #art, though it might be just easier to use archive view for a quick glance. I also dump things over on my Artslush blog, which covers works off old alt-accounts (granted they're all defunct now and I doubt I'll do specialist sideblogs going forward), but is less organized.

I am very picky about who I follow; I tend to avoid following blogs that do a disproportionate amount of off-topic reblogging. I like a clean dashboard.

If you don't want to hear me whining, mute/filter #dai sighs. Random nonsense/musing posts are #shut up dai.

I do not intend to push people away, but I do want people to know my stances on certain things relative to some rougher past experiences in other fandoms.

Thank you.

The fact that I have "Safe Place" (the .ogg version that switches to the simplified The Window after about 7 minutes) on loop on the smalls yard speaker makes it extra funny.

Blind streams continue to be the greatest gift this game can give.

A couple more for some GREAT raw reactions:

He makes it look so easy!!!!

Anyway, I don't know who this is, I legit just started blobbing in colors and pushed the pixels around until a person happened and worked from there.

...You’re... You’re making a... a mistake...

If anything, this was my mistake. It took so long to finish because I wanted to use the larger surface area to try and get more out of Psalm's dark-iridescent/oil sheen.

And the obligatory 'solid light background for silhouette' inclusion, plus all of them together for contrast.

I tried to fix my Namiki again, and did what I know I wasn't supposed to do with a 14k nib and used pliers (with padding, at least!!!), and nearly ruined it permanently. However, it was either nigh-unusable and would need replacement if I did nothing, or I'd try and fix it and have a 50/50 chance to either fix it or still need to replace it.

Argh, in the process of helping someone on my way home, the drink I had on me spilled into my bag and got my tablet (thankfully safe) and pooled to the corner of my sketchbook.

The part of me that is very particular about my sketchbooks reels looking at it knowing it was probably preventable if I'd been just a little more careful.

Wanted to try something different while inking and immediately regretted coloring this. While the lines didn't bleed, they also got completely eaten by the darker colors rather than there being a multiplicative effect.

I decided that if I want to get a fancy fountain pen that needs to be manually refilled, I should first start with a cheaper/simpler one, so I went to my old stationery store haunt and picked up a Pilot Metropolitan and some Monteverde Moonstone ink and decided to blob around a bit.

Psalm continues to be the absolute worst character design of all time when it comes to spriting (as well as in general).

Additional light solid bg for silhouette