dandythistle

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sometimes posting art, fond of nature and horror he/they • 28

Two screenshot repaints from The Ritual 2017. 1. a strange, antlered ungulate silhouetted by the fire of a burning structure. 2. The same creature front on, it is rearing up and raising human arms in a prayer motion. It is in a dense forest, backlit by the fire and the first light of dawn.
Colour drawing of a calico cat sitting on a tiled windowsill, looking at the viewer with a mischievous expression. She is lit from behind to look like she's glowing in the sun.
Painting of a person in a brown jumpsuit and helmet ventilator, running down a tunnel from a gigantic iridescent silver centipede. They are fleeing towards the viewer into clouds of yellow gas.
Painting of a lily of the valley plant with a moth perched on the stem and a pale yellow background.
A painting of a landscape, with coral fungus and mushrooms towering over a tiny implied figure. The scene is backlit by a bright and pale yellow sky filled with clouds and haze.
A painting of a tree stump, with orange bracket fungus forming a loose staircase around the outside and cracks in the base of the stump emitting light. Behind the stump is some lush foliage while to the side and in front is grass and clover with white flowers.
Drawing of a contorted sheep skeleton in some grass with orange-brown mushrooms sprouting
Gouache painting of a brown furred unicorn, the have cloven hooves and a long, tufted tail. The piece is bordered with floral motifs.
Needle felt hornet from Hollow Knight, her cloak is red fabric with red and dark brown embroidered details. Hornet is standing in some ferns facing the camera.
Painting of a cat with tuxedo markings, on her back so you can see her fluffy belly and stretching out one paw towards the viewer. The background is a variety of foliage.
A painting of a night time scene, a person is sat under a brick bus shelter, their upper body is shaded from the glare of a street light right beside the bust shelter. In the background is a chain link fence, trees fading into darkness, structures of an overhead power line for trains and a purple night sky.
Drawing of a stylised fishing boat on open water, with an anthropomorphic fox in a blue sweater fishing out the back. There is white smoke coming from a chimney on the boat and a bright blue sky in the background.
Photo taken of a laptop screen, showing an art program. a menu on the left shows brush settings and a colour picker wheel. On the right a zoom in of a painting: impressionist foliage which appears to be dark, muted green and purple. The cursor points to a pale yellow-olive green: the colour picker shows a very dark, desaturated red-brown.
Photo of part of a sketch page, showing loose pen sketches of five birds and a turtle
Photo of the book "Women in the Picture" by Catherine McCormack. The subtitle is "women, art and the power of looking"
Charcoal sketch of a woman sitting from behind, the arm closest to the viewer is extended behind her, and her face is obscured by shoulder length hair.
Photo of a painted sketchbook page in warm lighting. The page has four busts of varying skin tones and hairstyles, all with stern expressions. There is also a hand reaching up, relaxed, with a dark skin tone. Paint swatches are along the top edge of the page and the bottom left, the paper has buckled from the water in the paint.
Drawing of an anthropomorphic arctic fox, wearing a blue sweater. He is crouched, looking back over his shoulder and making a shushing motion while smiling. Red sketch lines can be seen throughout the drawing.
Painting of a dirt path, overgrown with grass. There are trees on either side creating a darkening tunnel towards the centre of the piece, where there's a bright light and a rundown wooden gate.
Figure on a white background, dancing with their hands in the air, eyes closed and smiling. They're wearing a poncho, long baggy pants and dark boots.
A page of various colour pencil sketches of two cats: one tuxedo, one tabby.
Bust painting of a person at a 3/4 angle, smiling softly and looking at the viewer. They have golden eyes with horizontal pupils, golden rams horns and long black hair with bangs. They're wearing a dark grey tshirt and their hands are visible with golden nails.
An angled photo of a graphite sketch, a masculine profile facing left, almost entirely washed out by glare.
Painting of a white anthropomorphic fox, wearing a navy cloak and wizard hat, and a blue scarf. The background is abstract cool-toned brush strokes.
Page full of boxes at a roughly 2:1 ratio, white borders between them, 4x10 for 40 total. Each box has a close up on a painted pair of eyes, with varying angles, expressions, skin tones etc.
Photo of a felted bulborb from Pikmin, mouth open, standing on some dirt in a patch of grass. There are three pikmin drawn onto the photo to interact with the bulborb.
Two glass pendant necklaces in small jewellery boxes. one is a sparkly orange with a black chord, the other is a mottled green and clear with a delicate silver chain. The background is a rainbow mailing envelope.
Front on photo of a person dressed as Wirt from Over the Garden Wall, in a forest walking up some stone steps.
Photo of a seagull, from the left as it walks. The background is a large outdoors drain and paver tiles.
High angle photo of a tuxedo cat in my lap, her eyes are yellow
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Photo of the cover of "Chromatic Fantasy" a comic by H.A there's some golden details and the style appears inspired by medieval manuscripts
Photo of three graphite sketches 1. A seated figure with closed eyes looking page left. 2. A standing figure, looking page right, with one hand on the hip and one above the head. 3. A bust facing page right and looking at the viewer, smiling.
Painting of a humanoid figure, (Dalya) from the hips up, their body is in profile while their face is front-on with a gentle smile. Dalya is painted in white, cream, orange and yellow colours, they have a unicorn-like horn, feathered wings spreading out from their temples and goat-like ears. Their hair is a fluffy, mullet-like style with bangs. Their hands are up in front of them, just below their chest which shows a star-like top surgery scar and a heart-shaped nipple. Dalya's lower half becomes fluffy and a long tail winds into the background, the tail is fluffy at the base, quickly becoming smoother for the length, before sprouting longer, wavy hair towards the end. The background is largely warm and cool, rich purples, with some simple white flowers and foliage painted in the same colours as Dalya framing their figure on either side of their torso and head.
A sequence of coloured sketches 1. Wide shot of Link, wearing the archaic outfit, seeing gloom hands start to spawn in 2. Close up of Link's hanf grabbing the hilt of a decayed sword 3. Mid shit of link swinging the sword, cutting through one hand while looking over his shoulder at another behind him 4. Link has swung around and grabbed the arm of the hand, he's about to cut this one down. There are other hands and gloom around him, including one starting to spawn back in
Photo of a felted bulborb from the Pikmin games, on a patch of lawn. It's mouth is open and it's looking at a yellow Pikmin drawn in digitally. The yellow Pikmin is looking up at the bulborb while a blue Pikmin cowers behind it and a red Pikmin is running away.
Tall, narrow gouache painting of some plants with abstract blue brush strokes in the background and working swatches to the left of the painting. The plants are: nightshade in the back, a white foxglove flower stalk in the middle and pale pink clematis flower and foliage in the front.
Photo of a sketchbook page, slightly out of focus and a little blurry. Three sketches each of Link and gloom hands from tears of the kingdom can be seen with red undersketches and graphite clean sketches over top.
Photo of a page at an angle, showing four bust sketches and one waist up sketch of masc-presenting characters. The rough sketches can be seen in red with cleaner graphite over top.
Photo of a tuxedo patterned cat sitting front on and looking off to the right, where the edge of a window can be seen. The cat is sitting on a bed.
Photo of the corner of an unfurnished room, the ceiling and lefthand wall are an off white, the right-hand wall is a somewhat deep yellow ochre colour
Photo of a desk surface with glasses, felting needles, various wool colours and pliers on a craft mat. There's text saying "COMING SOON whenever I edit the photos"
Painting of a knight in a suit of armour swinging a halberd, the halberd is black and the blade is breaking the painting border. The suit of armour is mostly yellow-green, shifting into redish pink and pale blue, inspired by beetle shells. The armour has spikes on the forearms and shoulders, and two shiny black beetle-like horns on the helmet. The knights skin and face can't be seen, but a glow of a single eye can be seen inside the otherwise black visor.
A portion of an in progress painting showing the body of armour in motion holding a long weapon, the armour is in the colours of a beetle shell and the weapon is uncoloured
Painting of a pale skinned man, front on from the waist up, in a robe inspired by a priest's vestments. The robes are dark with a teal cross adorned with copper details. The man is raising his left hand and looking up at it while speaking, there's a cut in his palm and blood running down his arm. In his right hand he's holding a copper coloured chalice, filled with blood.
A portrait of a dark skinned person in profile, they're facing left and wearing a silver crown, white puff sleeve shirt and a bright purple vest. Their expression is neutral or serious.
A painting in shades of warm yellow and grey, showing a king slumped on a throne, illuminated by a beam of bright light
Three graphite headshot sketches of people
A portion of a sketchbook page with a seated nude figure in the middle, their face is turned downward with closed eyes and one hand holding the other wrist above their head. The figure is lightly coloured with pale skin and warm brown hair. Around the edges are a few uncoloured sketches of hands and faces
Slices white bread with rainbow sprinkles added, cut into triangles
a painting of a sulfur crested cockatoo from the side, it's leaning down in a field of grass and flowering clover. in the background is a second cockatoo, and some trees
A traditional, front on self portrait of the artist, a white masc person with short hot pink hair and glasses. He's looking to the left while smiling and posing with his hands framing his face, he's wearing blue v-neck T-shirt and there's a circle of mustard yellow framing the character.