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@wyraine.com

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👹 THEY/THEM 🌕 Artist, Illustrator, & Designer. 🌖 Original Narratives & Game Design 🌘 https://linktr.ee/wyraine 🌑 Masters in Illustration 🌒 Available for work! 🍰 Autumn '97 (I'm 28!!) ❌ AI = Blocked #workbyraine #digitalart #wyraineocs #wyrainedex

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Work By Raine @wyraine.com · Jul 9

My name is Raine, I'm an illustrator who focuses on narrative and game design. I love character design, mythology, cards, and drawing!
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#digitalart #illustration #characterdesign #meettheartist

A torn page illustration of a young dark-skinned figure in golden armor, holding a helmet in their left hand, and a rifle-like weapon in their right. They wear a cape and have plum-purple eyes. They are standing on a desolate brown landscape, backed by scattered earth, space, and a starry, moonless sky. The torn page is concealing another figure who is less refined and is only a sketch.

A collage piece of various works by the author, with a silhouetted white sketch of them in the center.

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Work By Raine @wyraine.com · 13h

Feeling a little nostalgic. Here's my take on a particular set of Underworld Deities. They're a bit more removed from their inspirations than when I first designed them, but as the saying goes, iykyk!

#workbyraine #wyraineocs #characterdesign #hades #persephone #zagreus

"King, Prince, & Queen" Three black figures wearing some level of modern clothing, standing in a cave.

Work By Raine @wyraine.com · 2d

Hehe. I definitely wouldn't peg you as a part of the problem! The forces at work are really beyond our control in a lot of ways, but in the ways that matter there's not much we can do! Doesn't hurt to keep trying though.

Work By Raine @wyraine.com · 2d

i think bsky has a litany of problems that twitter frustratingly doesn't. But I'm willing to ride this app into the ground or quit social media cold turkey before I go back there.

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Work By Raine @wyraine.com · 2d

This is excellent!

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Work By Raine @wyraine.com · 2d

I'm not going to lie, some of these anti-ai lists are perplexingly stupid.

Work By Raine @wyraine.com · 3d

i almost never see people talking about THIS Junji Ito story. It's one of my favs.

Work By Raine @wyraine.com · 3d

everything I do in futility, I do for the love of the game

Work By Raine @wyraine.com · 5d

He's distinctly Afrocentric, but if you couldn't tell by his appearance and vibe, he's generally not perceived as any kind of nobility, and is inspired more by his duplicitous nature as a trickster. Maybe I'll share more about him later.

Work By Raine @wyraine.com · 5d

He was initially designed for a defunct setting, but I've successfully revised and retrofitted him for my purposes. I would love to like, draw some comics with him as a presiding force, but one thing at a time.

“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.” ― Cesar A. Cruz. A pair of pieces utilizing this quote for emphasis. Features my OC's, Anansi, and a woman and her nephew

Cropped sketch of me, Anansi, and another figure who has been removed via the cropping.

Rough painterly doodle of Anansi from sometime last year. He has ringed eyes like a crazy person.

A work in progress from 2025, featuring Anansi and a name tag that obscures his true identity.

Work By Raine @wyraine.com · 5d

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For Day 12, I'm skipping over my monster challenge to share one of my most precious characters. This OC is my interpretation of the god, Anansi, an African-Diaspora mythic figure, trickster, and folktale hero (also the God of Wisdom).

#wyraineocs #mythology #blacktober #spider

An eight armed african man with a spider motif. The Trickster God of Wisdom and Storytelling, as penned by the Author/Illustrator: Anansi.

Work By Raine @wyraine.com · 6d

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For Day 11 of the Halloween Monster Challenge I did last year, here's an unaltered Boogieman! I've got mixed feelings about the Boogieman, but I like the design so I'mma let 'em slide for now.

#wyrainedex #workbyraine

The silhouette of a humanoid figure stepping out from a dark place. Kind of scary!

Work By Raine @wyraine.com · 7d

Seeing the process makes your work all the more richer. Thanks for sharing! I'm a big fan.

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Work By Raine @wyraine.com · 7d

Work By Raine @wyraine.com · 7d

[ #spooktober ]

Happy Early Halloween, everybody!
For Days 8, 9, and 10, I bring to you a Wolfman, a Mummy, and a Vampire!

#monstober #halloween #werewolf #mummy #vampire #art #workbyraine #wyraineocs #wyrainedex #characterdesign

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Work By Raine @wyraine.com · 9d

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Day 8, 9, and 10 are a packaged deal! They'll all go up together!

#wyrainedex #workbyraine #silhouette #characterdesign

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 10d

I will definitely be sad if I have to stop posting art on the internet to protect the very concept of art, but I'll do it.

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Work By Raine @wyraine.com · 10d

[ #spooktober ]
Day 07 of the Halloween Monster Challenge I did last year!

#fakemon #pokemon #slug #gastropod #alien

Work By Raine @wyraine.com · 11d

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Day 6 of the Halloween Monster Challenge I did last year! For Sickle, I drew a Kamaitachi!

#pokemon #fakemon #monsterdesign #wyrainedex #workbyraine #weasel #polecat #art #monstober

An elaborate character sheet of a sickle weasel!

Work By Raine @wyraine.com · 11d

Bsky This. Xitter that. Tumblr still the undefeated champ of niche enthusiasts who actually care.

ALT: Finally broke containment on tumblr after some 3 odd years lmao let's gooooo #talktag #sketchtag

Work By Raine @wyraine.com · 12d

[ #spooktober ]

Days 4 & 5 of the #Halloween challenge I did last year! Both of these guys were inspired more specifically by the likes of #digimon! Some of the later monsters down the line were, as well.

#monstober #art #characterdesign #monsterdesign #wyrainedex #workbyraine #scarecrow #doll

A sentient scarecrow that hops along the ground.

A doll with eyes alighted by a mysterious flame. It seems to be possessed by a wisp. It was very directly inspired by the likes of Ex Tyrannomon

Work By Raine @wyraine.com · 12d

wowie what a beautiful sunday morning.
time to speed through the #morsels demo again 😃 #talktag

Work By Raine @wyraine.com · 13d

out tabling at my alma mater.
paid for a full table and they only gave me half of one 💢 #talktag

Work By Raine @wyraine.com · 14d

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Day 3 of the Monster Design Challenge I did for Halloween last year! These guys are little minion dudes for a concept. They're cute though, would love to use them for something later as well.

#pokemon #fakemon #digimon #monsterdesign #wyrainedex #workbyraine #art

A red imp. If it were a pokemon it'd be a pure dark type with an ability like prankster or infiltrator. They'd probably be a single state evolution, but if i ever made a more in-line evolution for them they'd probably be really nasty with an eviolite.

Work By Raine @wyraine.com · 14d

🫡 Keep up the good work, Guy!! 💕

Work By Raine @wyraine.com · 14d

If you can read this, go follow @coverartguy.bsky.social for some of the most underrated collages in the game.

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