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Todd Westcot - Regular Human Artist @toddw.bsky.social · 2d

Cursed Relics Week 3. I was sick for a while so this is the abridged version of what could have been but I'm still happy with it.

Week Three's prompts:
• Nightroot Fruit
• Abyss Crown
• Eclipse Orb

#cursedrelics2025 #art

A chimpanzee sits in the dark. It is wearing a pronged circlet that has created a dark hole in its head. It is staring at a glowing orb held in its left hand and is chewing a bite from the oblong, root-covered fruit in its right hand. A dark liquid is dripping from the fruit and the chimp's mouth.

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Todd Westcot - Regular Human Artist @toddw.bsky.social · 22h

*clink!*

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Todd Westcot - Regular Human Artist @toddw.bsky.social · 2d

Cursed Relics Week 3. I was sick for a while so this is the abridged version of what could have been but I'm still happy with it.

Week Three's prompts:
• Nightroot Fruit
• Abyss Crown
• Eclipse Orb

#cursedrelics2025 #art

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Todd Westcot - Regular Human Artist @toddw.bsky.social · 11d

After a trip out of town for a few days delaying me, I've finally finished my second week of Cursed Relics. I had a blast working on this one.

Week Two's prompts:
• Dragon Crest
• Stormclay Ocarina
• Portal Key

#cursedrelics2025 #art

An orange haired cat person wearing dark red leather armor and a bright red cowl with a fin on top. They're holding in their right hand an ocarina shaped like a cloud and thunderbolt. In their outstretched left hand they hold an oversized, spiral shaped key. Electricity is coming out of the ocarina and is flowing into the key, which is glowing with a blue light. On the right side of the image is a blue glowing portal opening with a clawed hand and four tentacles reaching out of it. The cat person is quite shocked to see it. There is a caption panel in the upper left that reads, "It's simple." explained the old wizard. "The Stormclay Ocarina generates electricity. The Dragon Crest (yes you have to wear it) protects you from the lethal charge. The energy flows into the Portal Key which gives it enough power to open the back wall of the vault. The best part? It's completely unguarded inside! You'll be fine alone."

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Todd Westcot - Regular Human Artist @toddw.bsky.social · 11d

After a trip out of town for a few days delaying me, I've finally finished my second week of Cursed Relics. I had a blast working on this one.

Week Two's prompts:
• Dragon Crest
• Stormclay Ocarina
• Portal Key

#cursedrelics2025 #art

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Todd Westcot - Regular Human Artist @toddw.bsky.social · 17d

Big thanks to past me for writing down all the info I need for an annual form I have to fill out so that current me doesn't have to make a phone call to get answers.

Todd Westcot - Regular Human Artist @toddw.bsky.social · 21d

It's time once again for Cursed Relics, a no stress October art project created by @albabbgg.bsky.social . There's three prompts a week for four weeks and you can draw them separately or together.

Week One's prompts:
• Shadowfang Blade
• Lunar Scars
• Moonlight Scythe

#cursedrelics2025 #art

A large purple ogre-like man with curved horns and a glowing crescent shaped scar on his chest holds a staff topped with a glowing crescent moon blade. In front of this ogre, facing him with her back to the viewer, is a smaller woman in blue and gold futuristic armor decorated with star shapes. She is holding a matching shield in her left hand and a sharp, curved, purple sword in her right hand.

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Todd Westcot - Regular Human Artist @toddw.bsky.social · 28d

Oh hey, I'm doing Cursed Relics again this year. Just wanted to post that for accountability.
The first drawing is in progress will be all three of week one's prompts combined like I did last year. Not sure if future weeks will be combined or not. I definitely did *not* plan ahead.

Todd Westcot - Regular Human Artist @toddw.bsky.social · Sep 26

Fun fact: This power manifests most frequently as finding good parking. Thankfully there hasn't been a downside to that yet.

Todd Westcot - Regular Human Artist @toddw.bsky.social · Sep 26

Did I ever tell you about my superpower of serendipity? Small lucky things happen often but bigger luck usually comes with a cost.
For example, I was recently at a tightly packed gathering with lots of people but I didn't get sick afterwords.

The price arrived today as a broken lawn mower belt.

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Todd Westcot - Regular Human Artist @toddw.bsky.social · Sep 23

Nothing hurts quite like finding the perfect name for your new character then discovering the same name is used in a popular video game so now you have to find something different to avoid the comparisons.

spongebob is sitting at a table in a diner with a cup of coffee .

Alt: Spongebob is sitting at a table in a diner with a cup of coffee .

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Todd Westcot - Regular Human Artist @toddw.bsky.social · Sep 3

You know how you can click an image in a post here and it embiggins it? It would be very nice if you could click it a second time to pop it out to full size. I know I can open the image in a new tab to do that but I follow so many artists I'd be spending half my day opening and closing new tabs.

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Todd Westcot - Regular Human Artist @toddw.bsky.social · Aug 30

Not sure why I'm seeing so much sexy Watto #art being reposted but here's something I drew waaaay back in 2010 that somehow fits right in. You're welcome and I'm sorry.

A blue toydarian alien from Star Wars, possibly Watto, laying nude on a wampa skin rug.

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Todd Westcot - Regular Human Artist @toddw.bsky.social · Aug 22

Saw a new doctor today and our very first exchange went like this:
Doctor: Are you Todd?
Me: That's me, hi. How are you?
Doctor: Good, How are you?
Me: I'm good how are you? Oh, I just asked that.
Doctor: *laughs* I'm still good!

And I didn't die of embarrassment so I'm calling it character growth.

Todd Westcot - Regular Human Artist @toddw.bsky.social · Aug 14

This is a bit of a cheat as far as posting new art goes since I started it over a year ago. It was a replacement PC for a #Pathfinder2e game that had a TPK & ultimately ended up abandoned. It became a go-to test piece for rendering & brush experiments for several months but I'm calling it done.
#art

Grinning elf with long dark hair wearing plate armor.

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Todd Westcot - Regular Human Artist @toddw.bsky.social · Aug 13

I sat down to draw immediately after posting this but instead cleaned my desk, made & ate dinner, spent 20 minutes deciding what podcast to listen to, then ran dailies in a video game, which is, sadly, pretty standard operating procedure in case you were wondering why my art posts are months apart.

Todd Westcot - Regular Human Artist @toddw.bsky.social · Aug 12

I recently realized I haven't made new personal art in nearly 8 months. I keep telling myself I'm better off with quality over quantity but it turns out the lack of quantity has led to a sharp dip in quality.

So I'm going to create and share more art, even if it's just for me, even if it's junk.

Todd Westcot - Regular Human Artist @toddw.bsky.social · Aug 12

I recently realized I haven't made new personal art in nearly 8 months. I keep telling myself I'm better off with quality over quantity but it turns out the lack of quantity has led to a sharp dip in quality.

So I'm going to create and share more art, even if it's just for me, even if it's junk.

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Todd Westcot - Regular Human Artist @toddw.bsky.social · Aug 7

Pumpkin spice coffee creamer acquired! That makes it official.

a woman in a cowboy hat is holding a pumpkin that says it 's sticker giant on it

Alt: A woman in a cowboy hat is holding a pumpkin and saying, "It's fall, y'all!"

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Todd Westcot - Regular Human Artist @toddw.bsky.social · Aug 4

Why are seemingly inconsequential decisions sometimes the hardest? I've wanted to change my Twitch username since they introduced that feature but I never actually do it. I'm a lurker on most channels so it would practically go unnoticed, yet I still cling to the name I no longer use anywhere else.

Todd Westcot - Regular Human Artist @toddw.bsky.social · Jul 29

I'm really liking what I'm seeing so far for #Starfinder2e. The classes seem particularly well designed and the ancestries are all so interesting I'll have to play a shapeshifting astrazoan just so I can try them all with one character. I'm definitely looking forward to playing this game.

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Todd Westcot - Regular Human Artist @toddw.bsky.social · Jul 15

While out and about today I saw school supplies on sale (or as some of us call them, analog TTRPG supplies), a store putting out Halloween decorations, and I even snagged a pumpkin spice cappuccino (from a gas station, but still).

Fall is on the horizon folks and I feel my power returning. 🍂🎃

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Todd Westcot - Regular Human Artist @toddw.bsky.social · May 4

Happy Star Wars Day! Here's a drawing from waaay back in 2016 when I foolishly felt the need to correct a spelling error on the internet.
#starwarsday #maythe4th #yoda #wookiee
#art

Yoda in front of a chalkboard using his cane to point out the spelling of the word Wookiee and he's saying, "Always two, there are." in reference to the two letter E's at the end of the word.

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Todd Westcot - Regular Human Artist @toddw.bsky.social · Apr 25

You ever absentmindedly tap your ear in a public place thinking you were pausing the music so you could hear better only to realize the sound was coming from the store's overhead speakers and you aren't actually wearing earbuds?
Nah, me neither. 🫤

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Meg @Lightbox Expo @meganroseruiz.bsky.social · Apr 10

My thoughts on Generative AI

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Todd Westcot - Regular Human Artist @toddw.bsky.social · Apr 9

You know how in some TTRPGs if you fail at a task you can't try again until you gain a level? I think I might have leveled up because I just solved a problem I've been stumped on for months.

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