maradyne Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 (edited) Hey there, I'm a creator. Artist, technomancer, meme-lord extraordinaire. I do a bit of quite literally everything; what exactly and when depends entirely on when I can summon the motivation...and scheduling. This is my topic for stuff, mostly of the DST variety. Sometimes I create, sometimes I talk about creation. This top post is an archive where I'll attempt to compile my Klei-related creations. I won't be posting .PSD files because of reasons, but in most cases, they are available via PM if you're interested. In general, if you want to contact me for whatever, use a PM; just know that my timing on checking any service can be wildly inconsistent. I am an ephemeral being. [There is a metric ton of stuff for me to import here from other posts, other places, and an old art topic. It will never be entirely done. Oop.] -o- ARHT -o- and relevant maymays Spoiler Charlie and the Shadow Gang: Spoiler Hail to the queen. Reaction Faces: Spoiler Original: Smugg: Blankk: oh: I stole an alien hat child's sunglasses: Smugbob: MI HOY MINOY: thisdoesnotmakemefeelsafe: Intrigued: Spoiler Original (it's the central dress color change not a divide between horribly deformed legs): The queen is watching you spost: im ghooooost: aaaaayy: delet this: Creative Liberties: Spoiler Original: Lineart: Filtered: u h: Head: smugdance: Shadbros: Spoiler Original: Refined Lineart: [forum functionality placeholder] Less important enemies haha git rekt nerds: Spoiler Wolfgang update leak: Spoiler Original i kinda feel like this is better uncolored but the whole thing was a rush job for a joke i wanted to make ANYWAY ORIGINAL: Wendo and Abigrill: Spoiler The section that begs the question "How far do I feel like going today?". Normal Day With Abigail: Spoiler [Yea, that's all. Maybe I'll do something else with it in the future, like...complete it? Also, forum functionality placeholder.] Bacon Goddess: Spoiler Bacown Gaw-des: Assorted: Spoiler this was accurate once upon a time: [forum functionality placeholder] hahaT Funno beever man ECKS-DEE: Spoiler typing that was depressing I NOW PRONOUNCE THEE MAN AND AXE. Fight In The Shade: Spoiler Yea, uh...never finished this. Lost interest in the character with the update. Oop. [forum functionality placeholder] Wormwood: Spoiler #PlantGang Wormwood Head: Spoiler Original (why yes, I did run low on time): Transparent: WormroW: You most certainly are: [forum functionality placeholder] CAN'T STOPS THE TOX: Spoiler ing F U R R I E S Meat Noodles: Spoiler Original: Transparent low-fat meat noodles: B E E V E R (Woodie rework hype): I did a portrait-style cutout of Wort with proper colors and: mistakes: were: made: Assorted: Spoiler [forum functionality placeholder] Smackswell Collection: Spoiler YoU thOuGHt ThIS WAs OVAH?: Wolswon: Spoiler My beloved: Spoiler go check out the person I swiped the base image from: i play spore apparently: how 2 sum in abi grill: Aileen Rose again: WE'RE GOING TO WARly: Spoiler Warly update in a shellnut: Warlock hahHAH: Webby Boi: Spoiler there's a bug net skin: WX and WX accessories: Spoiler Dragon-chan: Do you ever look at someone and wonder...what is going on inside their head?: I await the day when it comes to pass: uuuuuh: Whynona?: Spoiler WHYNOTA We don NEED no WATAH it's a willow section: Spoiler Wickerbutt: Spoiler the odds of getting this exact screenshot on accident are astounding convenient_censoring: Wes this is where you belong: Spoiler [forum functionality placeholder] -o- Mods -o- Spoiler Rimworld: Spoiler Oxygen Not Included OST: Endless breaches of the Geneva Conventions got you down? Drown out the pain with these sick beats! Now get back to sewing up those raider-skin pants. We're productive here, Jerry. Don't Starve Together: Spoiler Uncompromising Mode: Spoiler pretend this is a sig I haven't made it yet lmao Miss that struggle from your first game of Don't Starve? Feel like the world is waiting around for you to conquer it rather than actively trying to yeet you out of existence? Think that DST is just too...Compromising? Then this is the mod for you! The mod is collaborative. In that spirit, there's a link on the main topic to the public Discord server, and we're always looking for more contributors, be they coders, artists, animators, or even people who just want to throw in their ideas. Check it out! dear god this section is old maybe i'll work on it in 420 years k later fam [forum functionality placeholder] [...hehe. Hehehehehehehehe.] [forum functionality placeholder] -o- Meme Hell -o- Spoiler like the art section but just the cancer Lore and "Educated Guesses": Spoiler DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE. Memetheus: Spoiler TELL ME WHAT THIS BUTTON DOES: A delicious new reign: Some...: BODY: Turn Of Tides But Actually They Don't Turn Much?: Spoiler Look at your lunar island: Now look at me. THE TIDES ARE NOW BUMPER BOATS: [forum functionality placeholder] Wrong Forest: Spoiler Jesus Whale: Spoiler ABANDON THREAD: Spoiler N O P E: Spoiler Genny is best girl fight me: Spoiler Character alignment chart: Spoiler Homurika: Spoiler NEVR 5GIT DADDY WARBUCKS RIP IN PIECES: Spoiler i can be ur: Spoiler [forum functionality placeholder] it is done Edited December 10, 2021 by maradyne doggo? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maradyne Posted September 11, 2019 Author Share Posted September 11, 2019 Until I can get around to working more on the main post... Charlie collection! Recent pfp: Variants: Spoiler Smugg: Blankk: oh: Smugbob: MI HOY MINOY: UNSAFE: i ripped the glasses from a hat in time: Current pfp: Full version and also mini-magnus: Spoiler im ghooooost: I was tempted to make the little icon my pfp, but I try and keep them all a similar color/concept. Well, perhaps I'll do collection posts like this and work them into the main post as I go. Kind of a trip down memory lane? Who knows. Spoiler Hehe...Let's go. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minespatch Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 I like the idea you're already having ideas placed in the first post under places holders, but you might want to look at the first page of my apophenia art thread to see that... It might really clog up your first post as you continue. The idea of a to-do list is fine, but I just want to save you time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maradyne Posted September 12, 2019 Author Share Posted September 12, 2019 12 hours ago, minespatch said: It might really clog up your first post as you continue. The idea of a to-do list is fine, but I just want to save you time. Heh, yea, I get that. Dealt with it in the past a bit...but I feel like I have a really solid organization scheme this time around; with all that set up now, I can pretty quickly toss stuff in once I've posted it somewhere. In any case, having a post like that also helps me; it's a single place I can point to for sources and such. Also feels nice when people can look through one place to find other stuff I've done; I know how unlikely it is for most people to look through the entirety of a forum topic/across the forums for one persons work. You and me aside, hehe. ...it's also a way for me to start bringing stuff from my old account back into the light without like, spamming all of it in repeat posts. So that's a nice feeling.I just won't make the mistake of trying to come up with a witty edit note every single time that I change the post this time around. The gems come when they come. In any case, technical post! Part of why I favored digital mediums so heavily over traditional for a long time is the ability to change your mind. Ctrl+Z doesn't exist on paper, even if my fingers have attempted to press those nonexistent buttons a few times while drawing. I'm...also really well versed in Photoshop, at this point. I don't normally finish my more complicated images because reasons, but I can pull off some crazy stuff. ...fact remains though, traditional has some advantage over digital. I think the level of control is my main personal benefit. I came up with a, in retrospect pretty obvious, simple way of making use of the advantages of both mediums. Want to experiment, but worried about messing up the surroundings? Chop @Canis to pieces and work on them separately! Then commit Photoshop wizard. I felt that was a good image to talk about it due to how little refining I actual did to the lineart for the final image: Spoiler I intentionally tried to keep it a simple, quick thing. Usually, there's a lot more refining involved... ...buuut hey, that's for another post! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minespatch Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 2 minutes ago, maradyne said: ..fact remains though, traditional has some advantage over digital. I think the level of control is my main personal benefit. It's why I do both, but I prefer inking instead of scanning my pencils since the ink shows off better. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maradyne Posted September 12, 2019 Author Share Posted September 12, 2019 (edited) 21 minutes ago, minespatch said: It's why I do both, but I prefer inking instead of scanning my pencils since the ink shows off better. Aah, yea, I actually came up with a process for extracting the markings to handle that! Has helped a bunch. I think I've used some variant of that method on everything new I've posted under this account. I'll probably go over it in the next process post. For the Fuelweaver drawing and ones like it, I do kinda use both; draw on paper, extract markings from the white space, move them to an otherwise transparent layer, darken...then refine by digital drawing. Physical pencil for control, but I definitely like manual digital brushing/erasing for cleanup. That feeling of getting every pixel just right. Obviously a trap that you don't always want to fall into; I didn't do it in the Canis image except in a few places that were initially a mess. But some things just call for it. Edited September 12, 2019 by maradyne 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canis Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 ow my neck 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maradyne Posted September 18, 2019 Author Share Posted September 18, 2019 (edited) why do i inflict this pain upon myself Early version of this drawing I assure you.Huh, why am I starting with the head lately? ...hehe. music for working on slightly spooky charlie Edited September 19, 2019 by maradyne stealthy mood music addition 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minespatch Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 How big is this piece going to become? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Variant Posted September 19, 2019 Share Posted September 19, 2019 On 9/18/2019 at 5:39 AM, maradyne said: ...hehe. Hand. Spoiler Superior hand. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maradyne Posted September 19, 2019 Author Share Posted September 19, 2019 (edited) On 9/18/2019 at 8:22 AM, minespatch said: How big is this piece going to become? thiiiiiis big You ever start with some silly idea like Charlie with a gun but then it just-- Other versions: Spoiler Original: FILTERS: Lineart: Well, the result wasn't entirely random; I needed this particular picture anyway. To reference. For a...thing. That may or may not occur. ...I took some liberties for design choices I liked, and made it a bit easier to replicate in my style.Related to the thing. Funny story, that's the same way I started drawing Charlie in the first place. "Alright, I'm going to sit down and draw my sister's character!" Hand: "Nope, shadow queen." "...huh. Well, guess that's ok--" Hand: "We make smug face now heh." "LISTEN TO ME GOD DA--" Edited September 19, 2019 by maradyne u h 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minespatch Posted September 23, 2019 Share Posted September 23, 2019 On 9/19/2019 at 4:43 PM, maradyne said: I like the creepyness to this piece. Gives a dark twist to what's holding Charlie's power. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maradyne Posted October 6, 2019 Author Share Posted October 6, 2019 I'll get back to ARHT soon; been a tad busy lately. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minespatch Posted October 7, 2019 Share Posted October 7, 2019 Philin needs one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maradyne Posted November 2, 2019 Author Share Posted November 2, 2019 (edited) Happy belated spooky month! "Huh, I've got some designs down. One thing that I still need to figure out is how to make that spooky black fill that I've seen in webcomics..." "Oh. That was easier than I thought." "Wait hand what are you doing--" And here we are. Funnily enough, I actually finished this over a month ago; I've just been really hecking occupied this month and didn't end up applying the final filters until just now. Despite it just being a style test, I wanted it to look decent before posting. I may end up using this excerpt later on as part of a flashback from Abigail's perspective. Not sure... As I got farther into it, it became a test for Wendy and Abigail's designs. I like how I was able to slightly differentiate their clothing/hairstyles (though Wendy's here is purposefully different from in-game; there's a lore reason), but the face style that I'd like is...somewhere between the two faces that I have here. I happen to have exactly that kind of face in an older, unused drawing, so I'll dig that out and use it as a guide in Wendy's future appearances; Abigail is close enough, and this memory is probably the only time that she'll appear alive. ...as all of that kind of indicates, this excerpt is part of a much larger mini-comic concept that I've been thinking of lately. This is probably the darkest moment visually; in general, the rest is pretty lighthearted. It also follows different characters... Speaking of which. I guess the next thing I need is to simplify the Fuelweaver's design to a reasonable level. Nothing massive, though. Little slices of events building pieces of a larger narrative. If you happen to know what a 4koma is, that'd be the closest thing to what I'm going for. ok enough rambling about Soon™ stuff here's dessert HAHAH GEDDIT Comic fill experiments if you want to steal them: and yea, hopefully I made that blurry enough to not get yeeted Edited November 2, 2019 by maradyne typos 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maradyne Posted December 4, 2019 Author Share Posted December 4, 2019 this is discord's fault @Canis gave me the idea i'm not responsible for anything or responsible in general ok bye Spoiler 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canis Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 10 hours ago, maradyne said: this is discord's fault @Canis gave me the idea i'm not responsible for anything or responsible in general ok bye Reveal hidden contents Sans is my favorite meme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Variant Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 1 hour ago, Canis said: Sans is my favorite meme. Sans is my favorite religion and deity. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maradyne Posted November 22, 2021 Author Share Posted November 22, 2021 (edited) MARA'S BACK ON THE MENU BOYS Pretty darn good for trying to do it fast. Missed some things I would have rather not, but I'm definitely better at rushing lineart than colors. That said, I'm happy with how everything involving the potato sack came out. Also, overdue 'I'm alive'. Hello again! EDIT: also here's a flying sack of potatoes, throw it at people you love and take pictures or whatever the kids do these days Edited November 22, 2021 by maradyne 3 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowDuelist Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 6 hours ago, maradyne said: Also, overdue 'I'm alive'. Hello again! Glad to see your posts again, Keep ‘em coming! in tons! Let them raaaain 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minespatch Posted November 23, 2021 Share Posted November 23, 2021 Your art improved before I noticed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maradyne Posted November 24, 2021 Author Share Posted November 24, 2021 On 11/22/2021 at 10:48 PM, minespatch said: Your art improved before I noticed. ...aha...ahahaha......ahahAH... thankie Oh, I hope my passion keeps flaring up like it's been, once Thanksgiving festivities are over... I've gotten some practice in during my time in the void. And my concept notes are spiraling out of control again. Not DST, but recent project I'm really happy with that I'll get back to in time: Spoiler I've only recently realized that this aesthetic that I adore...is entirely within my capabilities now. Can we just have Halloween all the time? Yes. Perma-Halloween now, its the rules, I'm the big rat that makes all the rules. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maradyne Posted December 4, 2021 Author Share Posted December 4, 2021 (edited) Me: Get inspiration to work on anything but DST during this week's days off. Also me: hey I know it's literally the last minute but HERE'S THAT IDEA YOU ORDERED Draft 2. The face is meant to look off, though the positioning of the eyes/nose needs some stretching to the right given the perspective... I may also need to move the top of the lip toward the right to match. Teeth should be fine once they're colored white... Well, that's what drafts are for. With the more recent things I've done, I've made a habit of drawing drafts over eachother until I reach a point that I like. Kind of like how sometimes I draw things in part, then stitch them together in Photoshop. Overall...it makes me more willing to damage the lineart for the sake of trying different things; at a minimum, the final draft is drawn on a new piece of paper, so none of the marks in these earlier ones really matter. If you'd like an example of what the differences between drafts are like: ...and if you'd like some vague snippet of what this is, spoilers: Spoiler It didn't really end up being a SHAFT head tilt since I got the feeling I was going for with this pose, but...it's still the file name, hehe. welp, new week, time to die, later Edited December 4, 2021 by maradyne 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minespatch Posted December 4, 2021 Share Posted December 4, 2021 2 hours ago, maradyne said: Holiday spirit or the moon seed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maradyne Posted December 4, 2021 Author Share Posted December 4, 2021 8 minutes ago, minespatch said: Holiday spirit or the moon seed? moon seed 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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