Fried Tofu Goblin

Temple of the Golden Tuber

Turnip 28! I love the setting and the amazing amount of world building and model kitbashing you can do with it.

This is my first landscape piece in a long time, and whilst I'm not super happy with the paint/texture on the temple I'm pretty chuffed with the work I did on the ground and sky.

The idea behind this is that in the far east and even farther north of the world of Turnip 28, lies a country in the thrall of a devious & dominating vegetable intelligence. It claims cultish dominion over the lands that used to be eastern europe in the world of T28, and is ever seeking to spread its sinister (and delicious) tubery tendrils into the rest of the world. One day all shall join in its starchy communion!

"The Fool Rules Freely"

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 Pinkie Pie; Best pony and literally Weird Al's Waifu.

Mistakes into Miracles

I seem to recall a reason why Tom Lehrer stopped making new music was because he felt like nothing he could make could match the depraved cruelty and absurdity of the times he found himself in later on.

Anyway, you have to try I suppose.

Fuck the gruesome twosome. Facism will consume itself.

Thanks for replying! I've always loved the way you can include so much personality and story into a single character image, it reminds me of the best examples in RPG books where they want to depict a character concept or a monster and they just nail it.

Yo! Whats one thing you love drawing and find hard to do, and one thing you hate drawing but can do easily?

Really great question!

I love designing characters and I never get tired of doing it, but it also never really gets easier. I agonize over every little detail, drawing and re-drawing things over and over and pulling up tons of reference images. A fully-inked and colored character usually takes me a whole workday. I'm generally pretty happy with the finished results but I never seem to get any quicker at it haha.

I don't know if there's anything I'm good at drawing that I also hate to draw. I find the act of drawing pleasurable in and of itself. I sometimes find it frustrating when I'm commissioned to do "generic" fantasy or sci-fi illustrations. Like something that's just a "knight" or just a "spaceman" and the client really doesn't want me to riff on the design. I chafe under those kinds of restraints. Not gonna post any example pics because I don't want to offend anyone but it happens lol. Most of my clients are great though and give me a pretty free rein!

Hope this answers your question. If you've got any other questions about art or how I draw or whatever, just send them my way!

Second Dorf Fort propaganda poster! Spoof of the old american one of the german soldier peering over a wall menacingly.

I think if I did this again I'd have him peering out of a bush or tree foilage, the whole "over the wall peering" vibe isn't very elfy.

Sploon

When the servers you paid for hosted on your switch that you paid for using internet you paid for playing the game you paid for have connection issues all the damn time so you can't play.

The Witches Oven

My slavic thaumaturge characters very important oven!

I think my favourite thing about drawing stuff I'm unfamiliar with is the rabbit hole you can fall down of learning, both in how to draw the stuff and its history and background. I now know considerably more about eastern european rural home design than I did before!

I haven't thought of a name for the character yet, but I know her Domovoy (house-spirit that lives in the oven) is called Uncle Ugol. You can see him peering out of the stove.

Someone put the feeling into words!

I can remember playing very early beta/late alpha minecraft. The one where you spawned in a simple wooden house and had to kill sheep to get their wool.

It had such a weird ethereal feel to the gameplay, and now that it’s more of a normal “game” with an end that you can work towards it’s more and more divorced from the feel of it’s original soundtrack.

Also Notch is a cunt, but that goes without saying.

the minecraft nostalgia phenomenon is so odd. like so many people my age have formative memories of being thrown into an oddly empty world for an unfinished game & hearing the occasional ambient piece that was equal parts dinky and profoundly morose. like our mario 1-1 theme is c418 sweden

I think its important that she still went with him to the Iron Foundry, and the Mineral Museum. She might not be a geology fan like him but she still went with him, because it made him happy and she trusted his genuine interest.

how am I supposed to believe they're dating

The Blue Man at the Register

IT IS HOW IT IS.

IT IS HOW IT SHOULD BE.

We never get to see the rest of his body, so I took a little creative liberty to be a little weird and silly with it.