Diantha Crystal

@diamonddidi.bsky.social

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Character designer, Fakemon artist, and jack of all trades working on Elskold and Arketa! AuDHD | Lesbian | Asexual | 25 She/Her https://linktr.ee/DiamondDiDi

An illustration of a ruin in a dark submerged cave. Fianna features prominently, using her phonomancy focus to help move fallen rocks for passage, her focus glowing gold at the point of contact. A chibi Corvus is off to the right side with a blank, distressed stare.
An illustration of the Library of New Munuria from Elskold in a dynamic shot with various characters strewn about, going about their tasks.
An illustration of Jorunna and Pulp's Vanilla in dramatic poses, gearing up to throw comically oversized seedbombs.
An image with two drawings of the same persona: the left being from June 2016 and the right being from June 2026. The left one is far more crude with rough anatomy and depth, and sharper, more narrow features. She retains more from the original costume in LittleBigPlanet, featuring a recoloured outfit from Gravity Rush's Kat and long, merely wavy hair, remaining very consistent with the original Ariel Hair of the costume. The right one is far more refined with a strong sense of anatomy and depth, while still remaining stylised with chibi proportions. Notably, the outfit is now entirely unique to the design and the hair is densely curly, cut at shoulder length, more closely mirroring my hair in real life.
A screenshot of Tomodachi Life featuring a custom Sackbot (LBP) pet.
A screenshot of Tomodachi Life featuring a recreation of the Kermit Doing Your Mom Lore video.
A custom book in Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream of the recently leaked Jair (pronounced Ja-ear) Bolsonaro biopic script 'Pílulas mágicas' de Demares or 'Dark Horse'
An edit of the classic "Out of your friends, which one are you?" meme where the options are replaced with Genshin sub-areas: - Tollan - Remuria - κύβος (Space of Asmoday) - The Chasm
A style guide that analyses Y2KDoodles' attempt at Peargor's art style with various notes and references to help them understand the style better.
Ten drawings of Fabales from the neck up displaying a variety of different facial expressions.
A rough handsewn concept for pants that would comfortably fit a digitigrade biped done with blue fabric with wires and polyester stuffing to simulate legs being inside them. The hips comprise of two halves that wrap around and join in the front and back. The legs are designed with a medial half and a lateral half sewn together along the front and back, as opposed to the traditional posterior and anterior halves for standard plantigrade biped pants (ie humans). This image is from the front, facing diagonally to the left.
A screenshot of a 3D model in Blender, showcasing specifically a model for nylon parachute pants over digitigrade legs from the front. The character in question is Fabales from Elskold, specifically her model for Trifolia.
Grandpa is about to start a race in The Karters 2, but a Thwomp is riding him and crushes his poor body before getting into gear.
A screenshot from The Karters 2 where Henry VIII from LittleBigPlanet 1 is riding atop grandpa in his bed.
A 3D model of the grandpa from Stardew Valley in his janky bed imposed onto the original screenshot. While still strange from this angle, it looks better than at other angles.
An edit of Varka's character trailer from Genshin Impact where his dialogue is replaced with the Green Lantern gibberish voices from LittleBigPlanet 2 with an appropriate LBP2 Movie Camera-style framing and subtitles.
A video showing early footage for Trifolia, a puzzle platformer based in Elskold by Studio Ousia. In it, one protagonist (Melilot) has a finished 3D model with basic animations. She runs around to demonstrate the vertical mixing feature that adjusts the mix of the BGM, then triggers dialogue with Valise Kofferton, a sentient suitcase, to demonstrate the early dialogue features such as dynamic gibberish voices and dialogue portraits. After the dialogue, the BGM resumes exactly where it left off.
Drawings of three figures in my attempt at PEAR哥's artstyle, featuring Acantha (left) in a tuxedo sitting in a chair with a bottle of water in her hand and two drawings of KatFS/GDN001's Callie (right) with the middle one depicting her in a swimsuit freediving and the right one being a bust of her smiling while wearing a white hoodie.
An image with the same character as in the previous post. A clean sketch with smooth shading of the previous illustration is to the left, while the original reference is to the top right and the previous attempt at a realistic Donna McClark is in the bottom right. The previous attempt is noticeably flatter in depth with less refined shading and eyes that look more goopy than the new attempt.
A realistic illustration of Donna McClark is on the left against a white background. She is a pink, pear-shaped head with red lips, a large nose, and large bags underneath her blue eyes. A small tuft of dark hair tops her head. Overall, she has a very Muppet-esque design. To the right, there is a reference of the original Donna McClark from LBP2. She is a blob of pink felt with various decorations from The Muppets Premium Level Kit making up her face with black curve stickers to imply wrinkles.
A 3x3 grid featuring 8 pieces of artwork made in 2025 around a selfie of myself in the center. Clockwise from the top left: Callie diving in Arketa, a Lufteborg postcard, a group shot of the professors in Arketa, a Fiana illustration, a frame of an animation of Zylozome, 16 portrait icons of Elskold characters, the doodle I did for my birthday this year, a Corvus illustration.
A photograph of a wooden cutting board covered in bright yellow saffron buns (lussekatter) in the classic spiral S shape and small braids, dusted with powdered sugar. Various electric candles are strewn about amongst other festive décor with a large white paper star lantern in the background. This photograph is angled from the top right.
A sheet with a 4x3 grid of character icons. Row 1: Melilot, Fabales, Jorunna, Corvus Row 2: Huifang, Byb'Laio, Eurik, Grimmur Row 3: Fianna, Guillaume, Linelle, Tiaca
An illustration of my persona in cozy festive winter clothes, engulfed by a red and green-striped scarf. She is holding a mug of tea and a small puff of mist is coming from her mouth.
A photograph of an indoor hydroponic garden filled with plants. Several immensely bright grow lamps beam so much light into the camera that the lamps seem to smear.
A timeline showing my evolution in character design (specifically for Elskold) from 2017 to 2025, grouped together as: 2017: Quite simplistic and minimalistic designs with little finesse, quite chibi 2019: Anatomy and shading has improved, still quite chibi 2020: Designs are starting to become more sleek and coherent, starting to move away from Sackboy-esque proportions 2024: Designs are far more refined, skill has increased dramatically. Proportions are much more realistic, though still quite anime-like. The style is quite Pokémon-like Early 2025: Designs are more detailed than before, starting to really come into itself Late 2025: Designs are quite intricate with greater refinement and finesse. Overall compositions move away from being Pokémon-like to Genshin-like
A comic featuring Melilot, Fabales, and Jorunna. Mel is having an anxiety spiral about drawing something. Fabales is trying to comfort her but Mel is TOO in her head. Jorunna is just... there. Panel 1: Fabales has her hand on Mel's shoulder, trying to comfort her, saying, "Hey Mel, babe... Don't push yourself too hard. It's okay if it isn't perfect." Panel 2: Melilot says, "But my brain just. isn't. working!!!" Panel 3: Jorunna is thinking, saying, "Y'know, Pebble doesn't worry about being the perfect frog. She just... frogs. And that's enough." Panel 4: Jorunna continues, "The world still has Pebble in it, so it's beautiful. You're like Pebble but for art." Pebble, a small nudibranch-like frog sits very derpily like a little squidge, front and center with sparkles and shines around her. Panel 5: Mel.exe stops working. Fabales is trying SO HARD not to laugh because it's ABSURD but also... it worked??? Panel 6: Mel starts crying (happy overwhelmed crying) and now she's praising Jorunna for being so wise and hugging her. Jorunna is just "??? I was just thinking about Pebble???"
A screenshot of the Obsidian desktop note-taking application. There is a file viewer on the left, a wiki-style entry on Ousionic Particles in the center, and a massive net graph of this Elskold repository on the right.
A render of a 3D model of a LittleBigPlanet version of Elskold rather than the usual Earth. It is focused on Berezat.
A render of a 3D model of a LittleBigPlanet version of Elskold rather than the usual Earth. It is focused on Paititi.
Assorted silly doodles of Melilot and Fabales, also featuring Huifang, Corvus, and Valise.
Early Köppen-Geiger climate map of Munur
An equirectangular projection of an early satellite mockup for Elskold, including the polar ice caps but not being a completely accurate representation of the local climates. However, it remains quite close to what it would look like, as Elskold is a more temperate and humid planet where vast deserts like the Sahara would not occur.
A character card for Linelle Moon: a cucurbitoid witch and psychomancer with an Epithymos anchor based on the continent of Munur on Elskold. She carries herself with confidence and elegance, dressed in dark colours with vibrant red and bright yellow accents, wielding a cute star-shaped wand as her psychomancy catalyst.
A character card for Fianna: an Inanimate warrior bard and phonomancer borne from a treasured lyre with a Zelos anchor based in the continent of Munur on Elskold. She wields a large golden mandolin as her catalyst and weapon of choice.
A character card for Corvus: a yanguanglin ranger and chemomancer with an Epithymos anchor based on the continent of Munur on Elskold. His bright glowing green chemomancy catalysts contrast with an otherwise dark blue and purple colour palette for a very spooky appearance.
A Vevaios male ukir structural engineer from Jitu name Liem who specialises in choromancy. His most prominent catalysts are the two large mechanical gauntlets he wears.
An equirectangular projection map of Elskold featuring many points that represent major locations. Locations on Alpha Nodes are purple. The continents are: - Northwestern: Paititi - Equatorial Western: Berezat - Southwestern: █████ - Central South: Yarkaya - Central North: Vidyumati - Northeastern: Munur - Central Equatorial: Jitu - Equatorial East: Nebiru
A doodle of my persona's face looking particularly gormless.
A screenshot of an equirectangular map projection of Elskold in QGIS.
A vectorised map of the isle of Brodleif with contour lines in QGIS.
A doodle sheet based on the concept of Pepitya working as a postal courier like Kirara from Genshin Impact. The doodles include: - A full-body doodle of Pepitya in her human form dressed as a postal courier, running with a package in hand. - A winking Pepitya head captioned "Pepitya Post - The ONLY Postal Service You Can't Rely On" - A Pepitya version of Kirara's box form. - Said box form anxiously running. - The box form on a moped that Acantha is driving.
A topological relief map of Elskold that features exaggerated terrain rendered with angled lighting to map the topology of the planet more apparent than it is with simply a height map. The oceans are also rendered with high transparency to show the underwater topology.
Expression doodles of various Elskold characters.
An average annual ocean surface temperature map for Elskold. The temperatures range from -2ºC to ~30ºC.
A WIP Köppen-Geiger climate map of Elskold. All finished areas use the standardised colours of the classification system, if you want to understand what climates are what; but, simply put, nearly everywhere is some level of temperate and humid with very minimal arid or hot regions. Tropical rainforests cover much of the equatorial land, while temperate rainforests cover much of the belts above and below before the polar regions.
A screenshot of Genshin Impact, with Navia surrounded by the three shields of Noelle, Ineffa, and Thoma. Birgitta is in front with Ineffa's face as an additional layer of protection.
A screenshot of the Genshin Impact Party Setup screen with a team consisting of Navia, Noelle, Ineffa, and Thoma. The party is nicknamed "How Mafia Works", in reference to the "that's how mafia works" meme from ages past.
A photograph of a fraisier: a French sponge cake filled with strawberries and diplomat cream, topped with marzipan.
A birthday illustration of my persona behind a fraisier (French sponge cake with strawberries and diplomat cream). I have an exhausted yet smiling expression on my face.
A front-on concept for a Lutea redesign on the left with the illustration for Lutea's old design on the right. Notable changes include bolder colours, a hood added to her jacket, a more detailed shirt, more defined shoes, fingerless gloves, and restylised cornrows on the right side of her hair (left for viewer).
A doodle of Fabales excitedly slamming her fists on a table, shouting, "LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!"
An illustration of Blastozoa (they/them): a former Ultra Recon Squad member with a Blacephalon theme. Blastozoa is the protagonist of Jacob's Mono Explosion challenge series.