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Creating characters, building worlds, crafting tales. Tracking XP gained in creative endeavors and skills. 🎨 Artist | ✒️ Illustrator 🎸 Guitarist | 📝 Writer | 🎲⚔️ TTRPG Enthusiast | 🎮 Gamer 🔞Occasional posting and reposting of NSFW 🚫No Gen AI | No NFT

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TrackingXP @trackingxp.bsky.social · 20d

Hello and Welcome!

I’m Josh, Tracking my XP gained in various creative endeavors.
I aspire to sequential art and comic-making.

The current project aims to push my comic skills forward, making a story focused on a band of mercenaries trying to earn some silver in a dangerous fantasy world.

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Current PFP, the first drawing of Bridget, a major character of mine. She holds a tankard, garbed in a blue brigandine, steel pauldrons, steel vambraces. She has a messy bob of orange/blonde hair.

A collage of each of the digital drawings of my characters, places onto a simple background. From left to right we have: Marianne the archer, Simon the cutpurse, Bridget the bold, Collin the pious, and Beatrice the sorceress.
They are an adventuring party, styled after western medieval fantasy, based on ideas from TTRPG and my own writings.

A digital drawing of my cast of characters for an upcoming comic project. They're a party of fantasy adventurers enjoying some down time at the tavern. There's a warm light coming from above. The characters lean against the counter and sit on the stools, engaging in conversation, carrying tankards.

A simple digital drawing of my character, Bridget, poised for action. She has a sword in one hand and a wooden heater shield in the other. She leans forward with one leg postured back behind her. She’s garbed in her blue brigandine, tan pants, a green shirt, metal bracers, metal shoulder pauldrons, and metal knee protectors. She wears dark boots and a sword sheath belted around her midsection. Her hair is a dark blonde and worn in a messy bob.

TrackingXP @trackingxp.bsky.social · 3h

*dun dun duunnnn*

TrackingXP @trackingxp.bsky.social · 4h

I'm on TV!

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Stonepaul @thepaul92.bsky.social · 6h

OC-tober day 9 - Necromancer

#characterdesign #artmoots #ocartist #rkgk

TrackingXP @trackingxp.bsky.social · 4h

Let's hope the shrine is cake too 😂

TrackingXP @trackingxp.bsky.social · 4h

Wonderful to have you along!

She's got good intentions certainly, a goal to save someone from a life of servitude to a cabal of sorcerers!

TrackingXP @trackingxp.bsky.social · 4h

Nice job here! Love the composition, love the colors and the lighting. Looks sick

TrackingXP @trackingxp.bsky.social · 4h

Right? It's always a nice thing to see!

TrackingXP @trackingxp.bsky.social · 16h

Kind of hard to name one thing. At the moment, I think it's more or less the journey we've been on together. Seeing how she's developed and changed over the years to become the character she is now, looking ahead to when I start inking her story. From a nameless barbarian, to a woman with a quest.

A two page spread featuring Sheila, my swordswoman oc in various poses. She's powerfully built, wearing an outfit reminiscent of a cross between Conan the barbarian and a Roman gladiator. She carries a great two handed sword. She has blonde hair pulled into a ponytail. She bears a scar over her right eye.

A digital pinup drawing of my character Sheila the Swordswoman. She emerges from a dark corridor with walls of grey stone. She has light blonde hair pulled up into a ponytail. She is garbed in revealing armor, reminiscent of characters like Conan, Red Sonja, or Xena. She carries a bloodied sword on one hand and has her other gripping the corner of the stone wall. She enters into torchlight, looking ahead to what lies in the next room. She herself is bloodied, with a cut on her stomach and her left arm, implying previous battles fought.

A traditional drawing inspired by Frazetta. Sheila the swordswoman stands atop a rocky platform, hand on one hip and her greatsword clutched in the other. A short-haired woman sits on the ground next to Sheila, and clings to her leg.

A portrait of Sheila the swordswoman. She has light blonde hair in a low ponytail. She has dark brows. She has a scar over her right eye. Her eyes are big and blue, with the scarred eye being a much lighter shade.

TrackingXP @trackingxp.bsky.social · 1d

Oh very nice! Congrats on getting the last one done!

TrackingXP @trackingxp.bsky.social · 1d

It was such a fun thing to redraw!
It's an inevitability 😂

TrackingXP @trackingxp.bsky.social · 1d

Valid!

TrackingXP @trackingxp.bsky.social · 1d

I'd *like* to think there's a little more going on here. But I'd be lying if I said big strong ladies wasn't the main thing.

TrackingXP @trackingxp.bsky.social · 1d

We're looking good for a Friday stream. Debating whether I want to do some more gaming, or if I want to try a digital art stream.
(I'd do trad art, but I'd have to move my whole setup and I ain't about that right now.)

TrackingXP @trackingxp.bsky.social · 1d

Describe your bsky account in a single image.

Big strong ladies.

A meme redraw. A two panel comic featuring a red-headed woman with a dark shadow cast over her face looking up and into the next panel. On the right side, we see that she's in shadow as she's being dwarfed by Sheila the swordswoman.
Sheila is not actually a giant. But it may feel that way at times.

TrackingXP @trackingxp.bsky.social · 1d

There's still a lot more work to do! But it's looking a lot nicer.
Thanks for popping in and chatting a bit while you worked on your commission!

TrackingXP @trackingxp.bsky.social · 1d

Stream over! Thanks to ya'll who came and chilled. I appreciate it!
Worked on making our house, getting some pets, getting some armor, and getting our workbenches sorted.

TrackingXP @trackingxp.bsky.social · 2d

I am in fact doing an early stream today! Continuing on from last night with some Conan Exiles, exploring the Savage Wilds.

www.twitch.tv/trackingxp

TrackingXP @trackingxp.bsky.social · 2d

Woo!

TrackingXP @trackingxp.bsky.social · 2d

So happy to hear it! She's such a fun character.

TrackingXP @trackingxp.bsky.social · 2d

Honestly valid 😂

TrackingXP @trackingxp.bsky.social · 2d

That's gonna be a pain to clean up 😂

TrackingXP @trackingxp.bsky.social · 2d

You are so welcome!

TrackingXP @trackingxp.bsky.social · 2d

Oh that's so rad! Such a great color scheme!

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Inkgrid | Edel-Art @inkgrid.bsky.social · 2d

🧛‍♀️😈 New art! 🩸🦇

Drolta Tzuentes from Castlevania Nocturne!

#art #edel-art #digitalart #fanart #castlevania #vampire #anime #artsky #artmoots

Artwork of Drolta from Castlevania Nocturne. Drolta is an attractive, tall, dark-skinned woman with a slim, athletic build ample muscle and pointy ears. She has long, flame-like pink hair and pink eyes with black sclera. She often wears black clothing and a pair of large, pin-like earrings.

TrackingXP @trackingxp.bsky.social · 2d

Super boss for sure, right? 😂