assorted works by the worlds most wretched critter

Meat the "Artist"!

The Wretched Critter Crafting & Coloring Codex is here (on the world wide web) at long last! It has been combed over by my many fine teeth countless times since it was started in early 2024. It's got a lot of ideas about art & games & some other stuff too, most in arguably colorable shapes! It is pay what you want on my itch. If it's nothing else, it might be toys, so consider playing!

I've been going out to the park, touching grass, making art, wearing hats (metaphorical & otherwise) all activities I recommend. Once we return to cooler weather I'll get back to participating in the occasional fight, but in the meanwhile I've arranged an assortment of works concerned with the subject of pretend, as well as playing it, some leaning heavier on one side or the other. Some are Oracle cards. Some are old un-uploaded works with a couple tweaks, others were pieces uploaded here which have since been revisited and edited. A few are brand new, including a couple letters from a curious "friend". Many were harvested out of my current sacrificial tome.

Most Stealable OC reshuffled

This deck & post are dedicated to the public domain

If you find the zines folding guide parsable you can thank my editor for bullying me into adding more instructions.

If you're confused, searching up something to the effect of "how to fold a zine" will yield a plethora of tutorials for which clarity is their primary goal & of course you can blame my editor, for not bullying me enough.

Some revamped portraits of Elizabeth Bridewell. She, the art, & the writing in this post are all dedicated to the public domain.

Back in the day, she ran away to join the circus (mostly contortion, dabbling in trapeze, & of course making/maintaining costumes & props. Variety is the spice of life after all). Ended up briefly dying in a circus accident as one does, to be then transformed into the vampiric nuisance she is now.

Enough of the dusty old past! These nights she's concerned with keeping her finger on the pulse of mundane life, getting odd jobs bar tending, as a night stocker, or production assistant/ghost haunting a low budget horror flick. Immersing herself in the lives of her coworkers for a few months, maybe even years before whipping up some excuse to disappear, scampering off to another city.

In regards to her vam-peers, she tries to balance staying on good enough terms with local powers to come & go freely, with pushing everyone's buttons in all the ways etiquette permits. She has of course been banned from a few cities for justifiable reasons (though she would never admit that)

Elizabeth is the sort who simply cannot abide being bored & to prevent this keeps at least a couple small art projects to nibble on lurking in her purse. If you'd like to try one such project there's a companion post to this one with a printable oracle deck.

I use clip studio paint for my digital collages. The layer selecting mode? (not sure what the sanctioned vocab is) works really nice for smoothy adjusting the placement all the things on different layers (click on the thing i want to move, drag it where i want it style).

imps: the sequel