Zathsu

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I do art, and make characters & worlds. Deathshead Hawkmoth (she/her/it/its ΘΔ)

A bipedal deaths-head hawkmoth of brownish-black coloration and orange stripes.
A scratchy white figure with antlers and a spindly frame. Its body spirals and twists. In its left hand is a black sword.
An artifical shell with pointed limbs and digitigrade legs. A glowing purple diamond shaped aperture is in the center of its chest. A crowbar is affixed by braces to its right arm. Its pentagonal faceplate can open to reveal disgusting meat and a singular eyeball beneath.
A figure in blue garments with a veil over her face extends a hand charged with black magic toward the forehead of another kneeling figure in blue robes. They are together perched on a cliffside overlooking rolling hills, in the moonlit night.
An obsidian figure with a golden helm and horns stands with arms outstretched. They wear a yellow robe and wield a golden and obsidian scythe. Pale yellow and red wings stretch from their back. A glowing pink pentagram is affixed behind their head.
A heavily armored figure that in body structure resembles an arthropodal centaur. She wields in one hand a large electrified spear, and in the other a spiked shield. Purple banners hang from her armor.
Halfbody drawing of an armor clad man from a slight low angled perspective. His helmet has many eyeholes, coiling horns, and fangs. His shoulderpads like the skulls of beasts. A pair of fake ornamental arms fold over his chest.
Twelve antagonistic creatures drawn in only three shades of red to show different layers of depth.
A bipedal being with an artificial exterior resemblant of a goat stands in front of a bloodied purple curtain with an arm raised to a supposed crowd. Golden leaves fall from above. He is wrapped in a purple, white, and gold toga-like gown. Within his eyehole is seen stringy red flesh and a glowing purple eye.
A pale woman-like figure in a red dress-like garment. Her hair is white and her eyes milked over. Two large snaggleteeth rest beside her lips. Her lower robe is flesh-like, and a tail peeks out beneath. Two wing-like flaps hang behind her body. She holds in her hand a bladed sicklestaff.
A stony gargoyle leers down with an upturned chin. It is sitting in criss-cross position on the edge of a temple rooftop. Its visible eye glows golden.
A woman clad in dark blue armor. She wears an eyepatch and a metal faceguard. She wears a purple cape and grips a black greatsword with both hands, enhanced by purple magic that flows like water.
a bipedal moth with lanky limbs. it’s body is bluish-gray, with large black eyes and white fur.
A gray wolf/mainecoon hybrid wearing a jacket, black jeans, and boots. He's crouched on one knee, armed with a gun. A cigarette is sticking out of his mouth.
A trio of icy ghouls dressed in tattered formal attire. The leftmost one wears a hat and tattered jacket, holding a bloodied shovel. The middle one wears a tattered white shirt and jacket, holding a gigantic bloodied casket. The last one wears priestly garments, holding an open bible.
A woman with red hair & a silver tiara. She wears a multilayered beige robe wrapped in belts. Her hands, ankles, and neck are protected with evil-warding black gauze.
Big banyan tree with all kinds of coiling aerial roots and a canopy of green leaves.
A skinless horse with visible bones, covered in stray strands of kelp. A fish tail with veiny fins hangs behind it. The skinless torso of a humanoid with elongated arms and a veiny cape of flesh is attached to its back.
An armored man leers down, with one hand raised. His helmet has many eyeholes, spiraling horns, and fangs. His pauldrons resemble beast skulls, and a small pair of fake arms wrap around his chest. Blue cloth is tied by belts around his waist.
A suffocating swampy environment. Knee-deep water runs through the center, where thick murky green brush lines the pool's sides. Contorted pale trees twist into a dense canopy, and vines swing themselves through the foreground. Yellow lights peer from the darkness yonder the treeline.
A large three headed reptilian creature with foliage-covered necks stands in the middle of a fenced off plantation. A small dead creature has been chomped in the neck in front of a bush. Houses and a treeline loom in the background.
Halfbody drawing of an armor clad man from a slight low angled perspective. His helmet has many eyeholes, coiling horns, and fangs. His shoulderpads like the skulls of beasts. A pair of fake ornamental arms fold over his chest.
A monochrome piece of a horned figure with a deer-like skull, looming over a star against the background of space. One of their hands is replaced by a head, which is seen biting into the star.
A ghastly undead woman wearing armor with skeletal motifs. A blue scarf drapes the upper sections of her chestplate. Blue cloth hangs down from her belt at the front and side. Holds in both hands a gigantic axe, the banner of which is a stream of spectral weaponry. Two more spectral weapons sit on her backside.
An androgynous shadowy figure in a trenchcoat holding a machete stands opposite a horrific meat angel with prosthetic limbs. They are inside of the crumbling remains of a skyscraper. Four magical swords made of light hang above the shadowy figure and the arena spaces around them, ready to fall.
A basic combat mockup. Eight spaces in a line, set against an environmental scene. Player can begin in any of the left four spaces, enemies will be arranged initially in the right four. And then from there, over the course of combat, anyone can move anywhere. Two entities can occupy one space at a time.
A slender woman in golden armor with an ornamental crown-like wrapping around her head. A cloth drapes behind her body. Her neck, arms, and legs are wrapped in a grayish gauze. She wears sandals, and grips in both of her hands a glowing saber held in a low guard. Her face is obscured by a vacant darkness. Her left hand and upper arm are burnt.
A dark green mecha with a brownish-gray waist, arms, and neck. Bright blue energy blades emerge from its wrists, and an energy gun emerging from one of its forearms.
Colossal worm-like creature with milky gray eyes. Its pale flesh is pocked in scars, and open mouths. The skin around its lips have entirely flaked off revealing open red wounds. Two uselessly small wings emerge from its back. It has spindly human arms and hands, upon the wrists of which are worn silver bracelets. Tiny legs with human feet emerge halfway down the body. Frayed reddish cloth drapes over the creature's body in a number of places. Black tar drools from its many mouths.
Page 1 of the commission sheet, detailing the prices and intricacies of character artwork.
A bright red and dark gray robot with arms extended, each holding out a red pistol. Bright blue accents glow from various points on the chest & legs of the robot. Black antennae & small black mandibles stick out of the head.
Symbolic artwork depicting a red and black robot with a hand to its chest and the other pointed to the sky. This is mirrored vertically by a clay-like being with a hand fashioned of amber and large luminescent wings. A metal strip in the process of being transmuted to gold, and blue banner depicting the phrase "As Above, So Below" obscures the point where they adjoin. A snake is likewise depicted in an infinity symbol, devouring its own tail. Behind them is the squared circle depiction of the alchemical great work.
Messy sketch of a monstrous being, with a long deer-like skull and horns. A necklace of different skulls dangle over her rib-like chest. Her entire body drips as if coated in liquid. Her right arm is wreathed in spiky energy and her left arm ends not in a hand, but another head. Knots of fate tied around her waist and arms secure her immortality. Has gnarly digitigrade legs & a large abdomen.
A broad individual belonging to a fantastical fictional race known as the vasatan. Wears a tricorne hat and a uniform resembling that of an early 20th century military officer, with an orange cape draping over his left shoulder. His feet are hooves, and he has a pointed white beard and green eyes. Has a giant shotgun slung over his shoulder and a greatsword sheathed on his back. His left arm is a simple rusty mechanical prosthetic.
A woman with desaturated blue-hued skin stands firmly, her right arm holding an early-contemporary pistol toward the sky. The gun is smoking. Half of her face and body has been corrupted into an inky black color, with mandible-like growths on the face and spider leg-like growths on the back. She is otherwise dressed in a uniform resembling WW1 officer attire.
The flavor text & stat table of an object used to cast magic. Its flavor text is as follows: "Finger of the spirit-saint Seidon, maiden of guidance. Her ten digits were severed after her bodily demise, distributed among ten ancestral human lords. With the Storm of Stones humanity’s to claim after the fall of Sulidiqua, the fingers of Seidon guided the lords to grounds upon which to build their kingdoms. It set them upon treacherous paths, so that they might learn from adversity and establish institutions that would endure."
A large dark armored being in the molten ruins of a city. It has a large horned helmet, and torn brownish cape and skirt. Grates in the faceplate show orange fire illuminated where the face would be. It holds its blade down over a lava fissure.
A gaunt figure whose lower body has been entirely replaced by a bloated pale worm. They wear a mitre-like headpiece with a silver facemask. The eyeholes shine with glowing pink eyes, and black tar leaks from the vertical slits around the position of the mask's mouth area. Their shoulders are shrouded in torn clerical vestments of reddish-violet color, with pale gold trimming. Their ribs and arm are emaciated, and discolored. Large silver bands hang loosely from their arms. It grips in both hands a silver scepter tipped by a gnarly pointed tooth. Their visible torso and arms are ingrown with a number of molars and incisors breaking the skin. Below the waist their body is that of a gigantic gray maggot. Its hide is scaly in some areas, whilst in others maws lined in teeth drip tar along the body. Near the very tip of the tail and in a few other places, the skin of the maggot is shedding to reveal tender pinkish flesh beneath. The whole creature writhes in a pool of black tar liquid.
A figure with a muscularly top-heavy built, clad in armor. His face is protected by an iron mask designed to remember a number of fearsome creatures. Two horns with twirling accents emerge from the top of the mask, which also bears seven eyeholes arranged in a circular pattern with one at the center. Two metal fangs and a forked tongue curl out from the mask's mouth. Black cloth drapes the sides of the head down to the shoulders. The man's neck is exposed, ringed by a mantle of fur that partially obscures the chestplate. The mantle of fur runs down his back like a cape, slightly further than the waist. The armor's pauldrons resemble the simplified heads of two beasts, the left of which (viewer's right) has a horn. Frayed blue sleeves cover his upper arm, with iron armguards and gauntlets protecting the rest of his arms. His right (viewer's left) arm is down at his side, and his left (viewer's right) arm is raised, glowing with blue energy fashioned into wicked claws projected over his hand. Two false ornamental arms wrap around the lower torso of the armor. Two belts wrap his waist, one diagonally trending upward whilst the other crosses, with a triangular buckle at the center. Blue cloth folds down in thirds over the tassets of the armor, the centermost of which runs slightly longer than the blue skirt decorated in a swirling pattern beneath. He wears leather boots with a wild fur trim. The vamps of the boots are metallic, with ornamental claws reaching slightly forward.
An armored figure standing in a dark chamber. Their helmet has two curved rams horns, one of which is chipped. Their shoulders are draped in a brown fur mantle, one of which is further protected by a pauldron. Their torso armor gives way to a triple-parting red gown, one of which has red slash mark icons across it. Their arms are completely protected by armor plating, and in their far hand is a long halberd with a red cloth tied near the head. The back wall is composed of mossy brick, with a large dark doorway. Two creatures completely obscured by the shadow save for glowing red eyes and white teeth peer through the darkness of the door.
A horrific beast-like creature uncomfortably bent into a quadrupedal stance. Its skin is pocked and warped, between shades of pale human flesh and leathery purple hide. It has a grotesque elongated face with a number of sharpened yellowing teeth. Its glowing yellow eyes possess slit-like pupils. Messy white hair and short black horns emerge from its head. Its spine greatly protrudes from its inclined backside, ending in a tail lined with white hair. Its arms and legs are spindly, lined in white hairs, and end in human hands & feet.
A monstrous creature standing upright, clad in bluish hued armor. It wears an elongated sharp helmet, with a hole in the top of it. A tendril of flesh emerges from the hole, lit with a burning yellow flame akin to an anglerfish's lure. Two black horns stick out of the back of the helmet, alongside a massive plume of white hair. A glowing blue bead necklace sits around the creature's neck. Its chest is armored, with pauldrons and rib-like plating down the length of the beast's torso. Two ribbons of blue cloth go over the shoulders, draping down the front and back. The pelvis is protected by a ring of armoring, from which two metal tassets further protect the upper legs. Metal knee and shinguards cover the lower leg. The creature's uncomfortably human hands and feet are revealed, flesh colored a leathery purple-gray. In the creature's right hand (viewer's left) held point down to the floor is a greatsword with a dark gray hilt & guard but a brighter colored gray blade. The sword crackles with an unending enchantment of blue lightning.
Two large beasts donning blue hued metal armor. The left one has the body structure of a wyvern, with arms replaced by clawed wings. Its flesh is purple-hued and rough. Black horns sprout from its head and purple gas leaks through its teeth. Its legs & feet are uncomfortably human. White hair plumes out both from behind its metal faceguard and along its tail. Its torso and shins are protected by armor plating, with blue cloth streaming from the rondels and as a short gown below the waist. The right creature is on all fours, with an elongated face concealed completely inside of a sharp metallic helm. There is a hole in the top of its helmet, through which extends a stalk of flesh that roars with yellow flame akin to an anglerfish bulb. White hair emerges from the backside of its helmet, between its black horns. Its uncomfortably human hands and feet are revealed, at the end of blue colored arm/shinguards respectively. An electrified greatsword is sheathed on its backside, and like the other creature it has a purple tail lined in white hair.
A slender figure in elegant clothing. His face is covered by a silver mask that resembles a simplified human face. It connects to a helmet worn over the cap of the head, from which the man's long white locks of hair hang down. He wears a bright grey herigaut over a red coat, with armored sleeves. A dark brown belt with a silver buckle ties the clothing at the waist, with two metal tassets accented by white frills below it and protecting the upper legs. The long red sleeves of the coat are billowing, and reveal the figure's hands. His left hand (viewer's right) is pressed against his chest, with a silver ring on his index finger and silver bracelet on his wrist. His right arm (viewer's left) hangs down at his side. The long white gown of the herigaut obscures his legs, showing only dark brown leather boots below.
Figure of average build in glistening golden armor accented by silver. Their helmet consists of a golden face mask with a crown-like topping encrusted with an orange gem. The only features on their helm's faceguard are three rigid vertical cracks. Streams of cloth held by rings of gold hang from the helm and drape down to the figure's chest. They have segmented golden pauldrons. Their shoulders are draped by a whitish-beige cloth that hangs down behind him and in front of them in two streaks. Their arms are protected by black cloth and brown straps, with forearms protected by gem-encrusted golden bracers and gauntlets. In each hand they wield a scimitar with shining silvery blades. A beige skirt hangs over their upper legs, folding behind them down to the ankle but leaving the front of the legs revealed. Their shins are protected by golden armor and silver toe-pieces.
A towering figure in clad in blue steel armor. They stand in an alert idle pose, head turned to their right (viewer's left). Their helmet has an elongated faceplate, underneath which is visible the wearer's gauze-wrapped face and neck. A large plume of white hair chaotically poofs out of the back of the helmet. Their chest is broad and armored, with small bowl-like pauldrons protecting the shoulders. Two brown belts cross the chest, one straight across and the other diagonally upward to connect to a strap hanging from the right (viewer's left) rondel. Three sets of tassets, two down the sides and one straight down the front, give way into a blue skirt that drapes the upper legs and a portion of the lower legs. Their feet are protected by heavy steel boots. The figure's upper arms are protected by thick dark cloth and metal plates strapped in place by belts. Their forearms are protected by large thick bracers and gauntlets. The figure's right hand (viewer's left) clasps a gigantic flanged mace glowing and crackling with blue lightning, whilst the figure's left hand (viewer's right) is clutched in a tight fist.
Two large beasts donning blue hued metal armor. The left one has the body structure of a wyvern, with arms replaced by clawed wings. Its flesh is purple-hued and rough. Black horns sprout from its head and purple gas leaks through its teeth. Its legs & feet are uncomfortably human. White hair plumes out both from behind its metal faceguard and along its tail. The right creature is on all fours, with an elongated face concealed completely inside of a sharp metallic helm. There is a hole in the top of its helmet, through which extends a stalk of flesh that roars with yellow flame akin to an anglerfish bulb. White hair emerges from the backside of its helmet, between its black horns. Its uncomfortably human hands and feet are revealed, at the end of blue colored arm/shinguards respectively. An electrified greatsword is sheathed on its backside, and like the other creature it has a purple tail lined in white hair.
A large arachnid-centaur creature, composed entirely of plant matter. Its flesh is vivid green foliage and vines, reinforced and given shape by brown bark armoring. Its head is gnarled, with various branches sticking upward into what resembles a messy crown of horns. Its facial features consist only of a singular crack in the bark, revealing an array of small glowing green eyes. Its neck is naught but exposed vine, with one shoulder guarded by a horned bark pauldron and the other a sleeve of loose grass. In its left hand (viewer's right) it grips a cudgel composed of two twisting tree branches, which the head of a green insect has been fettered to by a number of vines. Its lower body below the torso is spider-like, with two hanging smaller appendages, and four spindly bark legs. Its insectoid abdomen has an upper shell of bark that obscures a tangled mass of drooping vine loops. In many places such as its chest, legs, and abdomen - there are hollow holes like those found in trees. Some cracks in the arms and legs are sealed up with knots of vine.
Figure of average build. Their silvery helmet leaks with purple liquid from its eyeslit. They wear a hooded shawl over their shoulders, beneath which they don a mauve-ish robe stained by corrupted waters. They wear heavy leather boots on their feet and silvery gauntlets on their hands. In one hand is an enchanted longsword, and the other a glowing crystalline talisman.
An armored figure of average build in dark gray armor. Bright red streaks of cloth drape the shoulders, and also emerge in tangled ribbons from the helmet. The left upper arm and right upper leg of the individual resemble the attire of doppelsoldners. A red half-skirt drapes the left leg. The figure holds a greatsword in both hands, stained sickening red by blood magics.
A horribly bloodied and burnt figure in extremely damaged dark iron armor. He has been sloppily beheaded, allowing the spark of flame that animates his corpse to leak away through the gaping hole where his head used to be. A massive greatspear runs through his body, and the flesh of his left (viewer's right) is extremely exposed. He is wrapped in bloodied gauze in a few areas, and grips a large wooden pike bearing his own meaty skull in his right (viewer's left) hand.
Armored figure of stout build. Their equipment is vaguely antelope themed, leather and brass-ish in coloration. Glowing yellow eyes peer through the eyeslit of their helm. A black ponytail comes out of the back of the helmet, tied in blue string. A massive stone greataxe rests against the floor, held in the figure's left (viewer's right) hand. The boots are hoof-like. A greatshield remains clasped to the figure's backside.
A horrifically burnt individual in torn and splintered armor. The lower part of their face is exposed, and a red plume comes out from the top of the helm. Their scorched torso is mostly revealed, with a gaping wound exposing ribs and flame. Their arms and legs are mostly bare, with only one leather glove and boot. They wield in both hands a bloodied greatsword.