Please Dont Tag As Anything (3/30/24)

Operating

Some TTRPG characters I've played:

The Masked Phantom, dhampir rogue

Grossk, lizardfolk fighter

Moxie Tripfoot, halfling waitress turned clerif of Tymora (the goddess of luck)

Jenny Bennet, human rogue consulting detective!

Ulara Berbisa, Yuan-ti cleric of Jazirian, the Totally-Not-Dead god of Couatls

Ryoko Musashi, tiefling assassin

Henry & Scooter, a halfling summoner and his eidolon (I reused a lot of elements of Henry's design for My Childhood Wonder Grew Up)

Junpei Den, the Crooked playbook from MOTW

Shaw Dreyfuss, a wayfarer/guardian/arcanist in Fabula Ultima (and also a big fish man with a shark for a head)

Sid, a black mage from Interstitial (a Kingdom Hearts-like PBtA game)

Also a bonus drawing of Tymora in the style of the gods I've drawn for Midgaheim:

I think Faerun's gods could use more stylized depictions than "a human with nice clothes," which seems to be what they usually get.

Commissions are open! (as of 3/3/2023)

If you’re interested, please fill in this google form! Thank you!

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Art by ArtsKarely Two girls go into a Crises Recovery Center looking for answers and help. Is love the answer they’re looking for? Can love even help in the face of depression, anxiety and trauma? A story about depression, anxiety, trauma, that which leads to crises and how one recovers from it, the sort of advice I’ve learned over seven years of therapy to help with these issues and the ever pervasive question of “Can this actually help?” It is the first time I’ve thought maybe I could help people with a book but that wasn’t the intention. The intention as always with me was to give something personal and emotional. And there is probably not going to be a more personal work of mine than this. Not for a long while at least. So please, if you can, consider checking out Crises Girlfriends, available on anything with a web browser for $2.99 USD. Or less, sometimes much less, depending on where you live in the world. If instead you want a physical copy, you can get it for $11.00 USD or something close to that in other regions of the world. The back cover was also done by ArtsKarely and is a reference to something I did in the Crises Recovery Center when I went and also an event in the story where the girls pick out leaves to put positive reminders of their life onto. I’ve left them blank on the back cover so you can put down whatever will remind you of your own triumphs.

Thank you all and one final link as well as the number to the National US Crises Prevention Hotline. Please remember to reach out for help when you find yourself struggling. It’s never showing weakness or cowardice to seek help, not when what you face is always so terrifying. It only makes you all the braver for being willing to confront it as you must when seeking help. 1-800-273-8255

So, guess who’s trying their hand at commissions again?! I would like extra money, so I figured I may as well try my skills!

Commissions are 15$ for 1, maybe add on an extra 5-15$ if they’re especially complex, IE super elaborate actions or multiple elaborate characters interacting.

I specialize in horror/fantasy, surreal landscapes, creatures, posters with weird slogans/text on them, fake movie posters, and various combinations of the above. But I can do a fair few other things, just try me!

Contact me by either messaging me here on Tumblr or emailing at tfjohnson20@gmail.com. If a few days goes by and I don’t see the latter, message me, cause it mighta got caught up in spam.

Payments should be sent to paypal.me/tjohnson616 and they are to be sent only after I complete your piece. I don’t wanna end up having to send back your cash after all!

Also, as a final note I will do NSFW content, but I will not do The Bad Shit, here defined as pedoshit, incest, zoophilia or sexual assault. Or dookie.

Otherwise go nuts, tho it may end up a bit jank, and I will probably have to only be able to show it on my Pillowfort because Female Presenting Nipples and all that.

:EDIT: An addendum wrt image synthesis/”AI art” with regards to my services:

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HorrorVale: Act M Progress Report #2

(Spoilers for "HorrorVale" below!)

April is gone, so that means it's time for the second ever Act M Progress Report!

Has it really been a month already?

First off, let's unveil the first ever Progress Bar for Act M!

This month was spent working on art primarily as we got started on the Twisted Woods, the first major area of Act M!

It's here where Mothman will have his first encounter with the Creepies (although unnamed at this point!)

We also got the art ready for a very important place in game!

This is the equivalent of "Layla's Lane" in HorrorVale. Here you can freely talk to all your Party Members and even buy some special food from Tamamo herself!

Although technically you won't even visit here until Chapter 2...

Finally, we completed the art for the BOSS of Chapter 1!

This foe might surprise you, but for many of those who used this character in battle in HorrorVale, it might be intimidating to come face to face with him!

Chapter 1 takes place before the story of HorrorVale, so don't expect this fella to be quite "himself" yet...

All of this was streamed live over on our YouTube channel!

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Welcome to HorrorVale, the spooky RPG. Don't worry about anyone you kill along the way, everyone is already dead! Discord: https://discor

We plan to stream all of Chapter 1 Development over there weekly, so subscribe and stay tuned!

That's all for now folks, but we'll see you again in June for the next Progress Report!

Stay Mothy!

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INTERVIEW ON THE MAKING OF THE CANCELLED MMORPG NINELIVES

Ninelives is the most beautiful RPG that was never completed, but can still be experienced as it was left. As part of my video on the game (now up for early access on Nebula), I also interviewed Tota of SmokymonkeyS on its inspirations and development before its suspension in 2016.

What would you say are your main inspirations for the art style in Ninelives? E.g. other artists, film, games, literature, history etc.!

I was a huge fan of Adventure Gamebook when I was a kid. Well, maybe you don't know what that is. Please read the wiki if you need: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamebook. I was reading (playing) translated oversea gamebooks well, and love the inner artwork especially what draw by monochrome. I had never seen pictures like that before, and had a strong impact on me. So, I wanted to make a gamebook by my self. When I started making my own gamebooks, I learned a lot about how games are made. That's because a gamebook is a medium in which the player can see all the source code. At first I started making gamebooks because I was attracted by the artwork, but my interest eventually shifted to making the game itself.

Related to the above, do you take a lot of inspiration from real world cultures and places? Are there any that you particularly gravitate towards?

I like the mixed culture, like Chinoiserie in France at the 17 century. Plus, since I'm Japanese and this country has always been greatly influenced by China. So I'm not limited to any one of these cultures, but trying to create as I am influenced by all of them. Sometimes people say that what I create looks Japanese, Chinese, or Asian, which is neither correct nor incorrect. I try not to be only of a certain culture when I create. That's because I want to create an imaginary world that is somewhat like reality, but slightly different.

Why did you want to make Ninelives?

Ninelives was the first game I ever thought of making, I think when I was about 17.

Do you think Ninelives being in an unfinished state provides a different atmosphere when playing the game and exploring the world?

I don't particularly think so. The atmosphere of the game is still complete. I wanted the game to be a relaxed, free-roamed adventure for players.

I wasn't certain during my research, so I wanted to confirm if Tomomi Sakuba was involved in Ninelives in any way?

Yeah, Sakuba was involved in Ninelives lots of ways. As you said, he did some of the texture pictures for flowers, plants and tree leaves. He also drawn the world map and area maps of the game like below: http://www.smokymonkeys.com/kyrill/index.asp?direct=138 He actually walked around the world by himself to make this. He was one of the most earliest game tester of the game. Oh, and I have to tell you this. He's a voice actor of male Nightbreed and Elf! In addition, his wife did some of creature voices. Her voice is also used on Triglav too!

What are your own personal thoughts on Ninelives? Is there anything you would drastically change looking back on it? Or any big changes you would want to make if you were to continue development at any point?

Ninelives was too much for me in many ways. It was a world I had been thinking about since I was young, but there were too many things to actually create to handle, and in that sense it's exactly the dream a child thinks about. We are a team of two in SmokymonkeyS, but one of us is in charge of programming and system engineering, and the game itself was created completely by myself. I had to create all the pictures, models, terrain, music, and story by myself. Now if I'm going to make something, I don't make it on such a large scale anymore.

Apart from the Switch release for Garage and occasional updates on Triglav that you mentioned before, is there anything that SmokymonkeyS are working on for the future?

Not yet so far.

I noticed your banner on the official website (http://www.smokymonkeys.com/kyrill/index.asp) has a character on a train platform, I wondered if that might be a future game?

Once it was. It was a previous project of Triglav for mobile. But it was going to be on a larger scale again, so we decided to port Triglav before that. There are no plans to make that game now. But I may make another game with that worldview and atmosphere. For example, as a mobile game.

A big thank you to Tota for taking the time to answer my questions! You can find SmokymonkeyS and their games here:

ninelives.smokymonkeys.com

Ninelives - Free Online RPG

          

March has been a very challenging month for me — from the first 2 weeks where my mom was admitted to the hospital while me & my brother stayed by her side; to my mom passing away later on due to kidney failure. During those times I asked for help & received a lot of doodle commissions. Since the past weeks have been pretty busy and difficult for me & my brother, I've been trying to pace myself so that I could go through them slowly.

I don't have any other source of income and since I can't take new commissions at the moment, I've put up 3 PDF doodle compilations in my ko-fi shop to help fund me & my brother's budget for our needs & expenses.

If you'd like to help out & support, you can get the pdfs individually from my ko-fi shop for a minimum of $5 each:

Gotchibam Doodle Compilation #1 (PDF)

Gotchibam Doodle Compilation #2 (PDF)

Gotchibam Doodle Compilation #3 (PDF)

Or get all 3 pdfs above for a minimum of $12 instead: Gotchibam Doodle Compilation #1, #2, & #3 (3 PDF Pack)

Each and every support counts & means a lot to me 🙏 Honestly I wouldn't have been able to get this far without you guys so I just really want to say thank you, thank you so much, from the bottom of my heart 🙏🙏🙏

What a lovely way to ring in SPOOKY MONTH (or shortly upcoming day, rather) and support an independent artist! And the comic itself is excellent; thank you so much for bringing us so much joy and a new reading tradition to enjoy each year, OP!

It’s that time of the year again! I have Scaredy Cat mini books on my website (heatherfranzen.com/shop)

Thank you to those who already ordered!!

@adobe-outdesign Look, it’s your FAVOURITE REVIEWER-*suspiciously disappears before I can finish this sentence…perhaps I’m the one that is dead?! But that’s just a theory!!! A GAYYYYYYYM-*

Babe wake up, new stupid dhmis MatPat theory just dropped

Oh for fucks sake

I genuinely believe the whole “Yellow Guy being Lesley’s dead son” thing was made up SPECIFICALLY for Mr. Mathew FNAF Pathew

Well, at least it’s not as horrible as the Pilot theory