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Camila Brun
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I draw fictional people making questionable fashion choices.
▪ Concept artist and illustrator for books and games
▪ Krita + Blender fiend
▪ ❤️ SFF horror & winding critters
▪ Commissions! camilabrun.carrd.co

🖼️ cara.app/camilabrun
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Wait, is it #PortfolioDay already? 💀

I'm Camila, concept artist and illustrator working in games and books. I love SFF and a touch of horror! My character work tends to get most attention, but I like variety and at heart I'm a bit of a generalist.

🖼️ cara.app/camilabrun
📨 info/@/camilabrun.com
Digital painting of a creature made of arms barging down a dark corridor. It's dark, with skin ridged like bark yet but smooth like obsidian, and embers rise from it. The hands don't look quite human, with weird joints and sharp tendons and knuckles. Its lower half is still forming, and there's an overturned brazier behind it spilling incandescent coal on the floor. It's holding most of its hands in menacing claw-like positions, with arms intertwined in the center forming the bulk of its body. It stands taller than a person, but isn't large enough to fully block the passage. The corridor is flanked by tall windows in art deco style, with a gentle breeze blowing the translucent curtains. There are ornamental plants and wood benches by the windows. Some of the window panels are broken, and there are glass shards on the benches and floor. There's also dust spiraling in the air. The corridor doesn't seem well-kept, but hasn't been abandoned for long. This artwork was made on Krita, with help of Blender mainly for lighting reference and the background. Three character digital portrait paintings showing: - A girl with short curly brown hair. She's in 3/4, almost profile, and has thick eyebrows and a bit of full cheeks. The portrait is cropped at the shoulders height. - A Black teenager boy with his gaze locked into the horizon. He's holding his head high in an almost stately manner. - A woman with brown braided hair and doe eyes. She's gazing into the distance and the rendering style mixes brushwork with sharper transitions, being reminiscent of sculptures. An Indigenous woman emerging from a body of water. Only the top of her head down to the nose are visible. There's a dark forest behind her, and she's staring directly at the viewer with fixed intensity that suggests she might not be friendly. She's surrounded by stylized aquatic plants including Amazon's vitória-régias, a type of water lily. Insects are buzzing around and the reflection of the sky can be seen on the water. The scene's colors are very saturated, but somewhat dark and ominous. She's Iara. Her legend is a mess, an attempt by colonizers to make sense of older Tupi and Guarani myths. In it she's the daughter of the Pajé, the spiritual leader of her people, and was known for her beauty and fighting prowess, respected by her father, beloved by all. One night her brothers, deeply envious of her, set up an ambush. She fought back and accidentally killed them in the ensuing scuffle. Severely wounded and afraid of her father's punishment, Iara fled to the margins of the Negro and Solimões rivers (which feed the great Amazon river), but was found and thrown into it, drowning. The fishes took pity on her, and under the full moon they turned her into a mermaid. Then the once fearsome warrior... apparently decided to sit on a rock, brush her hair and sing (and lure and drown men) like European sirens, hah.
April 8, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Sketchbook pages from 01-2024.

It's from before I started using a color pencil for darker blacks or mixing acrylic paint, so it's a bit faded.
Photo of an open sketchbook with pencil sketches. It has studies of portraits of people mostly from early 1900s. Page 1: 1. A girl with curly hair tied with a large bow looking to the side and smiling. 2. A dark-haired man with a moustache and a goatee(?) looking to the side. 3. A woman with a wavy bob cut smiling, with her mouth slight open as if she were talking at the time. Page 2: 1. A young man wearing a cap and what seems to be a porter uniform. He has a serious expression. 2. A man with a pointy moustache, wearing a hat.
April 2, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Hey, I'm booking up work for May and later! I'm open to freelancing and contracts. If you have a game or book in need of cool art, ✉️ 👉 [email protected]

I'm prioritizing commercial work but I also take private commissions: camilabrun.carrd.co

More art: cara.app/camilabrun

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A banner with 5 digital artworks showing the range of work I do: Concept art, creatures, character portraits, game props, illustrations, and cover art. They're paintings in the fantasy and sci-fi genre: 1. A Black woman in a 1940's inspired outfit (concept art for the player character in a UE5 videogame) 2. An horror scene with an undead creature made of arms advancing towards the viewer in the style of a trading card game 3. Portrait of a character wearing a discreet scifi device 4. A game prop 5. A close up of an environment painting: a lake with foliage and lily pads The banner has "commercial and private commissions open" written on it, with my email address and instructions to use the link in the post for private commissions.
April 2, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Another week, another portrait! This one is from November, with the "fun" fact it's actually repainted from an early 2024 thumbnail.

I'm always low on storage and got a new HD last year that nuked itself one month in, as soon as I temporary moved some archived stuff to it to make room. 🥲
Digital portrait painting of a girl with short curly brown hair. She's in 3/4, almost profile, and has thick eyebrows and a bit of full cheeks. The portrait is cropped at the shoulders height.
April 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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3/3 - Find or create a comfy matcap. This is the one I use, I like neutral colors and anisotropy to see planes better. Free download: ko-fi.com/s/522fa55057

The video I mentioned: www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4Wt...
And proko's channels seem good, but no idea why he has so many.
A screen capture of blender's 3d interface with a sculpture, showing 3 different views of the same sculpture: - A work view with a matcap - A view slightly from the bottom, with material shading - A second helper view using full shading and light
March 31, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Sketchbook pages from 05-2025.

Something I had no idea is this fun to draw until I tried are beards and moustaches! The bushier the more interesting they are to render. 😆
An open sketchbook with pencil drawings of mostly people from late 1800s. Page one: 1) A frowning mature man in profile. He's a bit overweight, balding and got sideburns, but no beard on his chin. 2) A startled-looking hawk with its head thrown back, beak wide open saying "AH!" on a speech bubble. 3) A girl smiling at the viewer. Her dark straight hair is loose and thrown to the side, giving her a relaxed look. 4) A serious Black man staring intently at the viewer. He's got a moustache, closely-cropped hair and kind eyes. 5) A teenager looking into the distance. Her large doe eyes give her an appearance of innocence. She's fat with full cheeks. Her hair falls onto her shoulders in luxurious curls and she's also sporting short bangs. Page two: 1) An older man almost in profile. He's clad in a military uniform complete with epaulettes. His hair is light or graying, and he's got a moustache. 2) A smiling woman in profile. She's got a classic 1900s chignon and is wearing a white dress. 3) Iron Tail (Siŋté Máza), an Oglala Lakota Chief and performer with Buffalo Bill's Wild West. He's smiling and looking up, to the side. 4) A man in a suit, staring at the viewer. His hair is dark, slicked and combed back and to the sides, intensifying the looks of his wide forehead. He's got an also carefully groomed handlebar moustache.
March 27, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Sending everyone warm hugs today! 🙂
Digital painting of a creature made of arms barging down a dark corridor. It's dark, with skin ridged like bark yet but smooth like obsidian, and embers rise from it. The hands don't look quite human, with weird joints and sharp tendons and knuckles. Its lower half is still forming, and there's an overturned brazier behind it spilling incandescent coal on the floor. It's holding most of its hands in menacing claw-like positions, with arms intertwined in the center forming the bulk of its body. It stands taller than a person, but isn't large enough to fully block the passage. The corridor is flanked by tall windows in art deco style, with a gentle breeze blowing the translucent curtains. There are ornamental plants and wood benches by the windows. Some of the window panels are broken, and there are glass shards on the benches and floor. There's also dust spiraling in the air. The corridor doesn't seem well-kept, but hasn't been abandoned for long. This artwork was made on Krita, with help of Blender mainly for lighting reference and the background.
March 21, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Ack, I keep forgetting to post artwork! Hue practice from the end of last year. Gray shifts suit this skin tone exceptionally well.
Portrait painting of a girl in 3/4, looking off-canvas with a slight frown. She's got a ponytail with a hint of her natural texture and dark skin of a rich cool tone with grays, purples and a touch of gold snuck into the hues.
March 11, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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By April I settled in using a black color pencil with a slightly damp tip for deeper blacks and a acrylic paint mixed to the exact shade of the paper, but lighter, for highlights.
Close-up of sketch 1, page 1, (elegant's woman mugshot). She was so pretty! I'm very happy with the blend of paint and hatching in this one. A close-up photo of the portrait 2, page 2, (young possibly Latin-descendant woman with white bow) taken from a steep side angle to keep the acrylic paint highlights from looking grey in this lighting. Close-up photo from portrait 4, page 1, (the Japanese envoy) because I loved his expression and want to show how I'm working the paint into the sketches.
February 28, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Pencil sketches from 04/2024. Some photos I took aren't great, but the people are!
An open sketchbook with various sketches of people from mostly 1900s. Page 1: 1) A woman in a hat and an elegant coat, its neck lined with black feathers. She's looking directly in the camera. It's based on a mugshot; she's been arrested for "loitering", which at the time was often used to arrest sex workers. 2) A young woman looking up. She seems to be of mixed heritage, partially Black. Her hair is tied in a low bun and she's wearing a high-collared white dress. 3) A rainbow stag beetle (Phalacrognathus muelleri australia) with wings wide open. 4) A Japanese man looking directly into the camera. He was the Japanese envoy to Great Britain in 1862. He's wearing traditional Japanese wearing hair and clothing, complete with what seems to be a katana to his side. 5) An older man in 3/4, with graying hair and moustache. He has an air of dignity around him. Page 2: 1) A Black man in 3/4. He has a long face and is very serious. 2) A young woman in 3/4. She's wearing a large white bow on her collar, has curly hair in a low bun and seems to have some Latin heritage. 3) A woman in profile. Her wavy hair is arranged in a classic and elegant 1900s bun. 4) A modern hanfu model. She's actually wearing a qipao, a style introduced in the 20th, inspired by Manchu fashion. She's looking off camera and has a slightly stern expression.
February 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Meant to post in a thread, accidentally made a standalone post. 🤣

Since the timelapse starts from a sphere this was likely the *first* study, hah. #Blender3D
February 27, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Final nose study in the series, this one as an actual study of an actress' nose.
Four views of a digital sculpture of a very sharp woman's nose, blended on a single piece.
February 27, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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The first steps of the process.

I kept all layers, but had to split it into files because my PC can't handle it and now I don't have the stamina to go back and put a full timelapse together haha
February 26, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Oct 2024 art. I used the itch to paint sparkly glossy critters to try out the transform tool and new brushes in Krita.

I didn't plan to make an entire art poster (though my wall thanks me) and initially had a fish doing a flip in the middle. It looked like everyone was shocked he was dead. 😂
A digital painting of several fishes against a light background. The seem to be converging on the center in either a convo or a secret fight club. An impasto-like technique was employed for the background, inspired by the works of J. C. Leyendecker. 1. A small silvery fish, no species in particular. 2. Small Silver Forage. It's silvery and long. 3. Silver Carp Fish. It's dark greenish on the top, with a cream belly and punk highlights on the head and fins. 4. Female Betta fish. It's hue shifts from dark purple to green-blue. 5. Neon fish. It's tiny, long, translucent with electric blue and red stripes. 6. Red Tail Shark. It's small, dark with a bright orange tailm a bit elongated and has the whiskers of a catfish. 7. Japanese eel. It's dark and sinuous and glossy. 8. Mono Fish. Round but not exactly thin, spadefish-shaped, small and very cute, cream color with bright yellow fins. 9. Zebra Pleco. Shaped like a catfish, but with diagonal black stripes on a white body. 10. Java Barb. It's flat and round, but with pointy orange fins. Silvery with a pink undertone. 11. Male Betta fish. It's red with the vaguest hints of blue in the edges of its veil-like fins. 12. Barramundi. Stocky fish, dark on the top with a cream, slightly orangeish belly. This one bright has blue highlights because I liked the effect how the reflections in a photo looked like a pattern. 13. Mackerel. It's light blue with darker blue stripes, more on the green side than red on the color wheel. It's belly is cream/silvery. 14. Longfin Batfish. Blue with yellow fins and a two subtle darker stripes on the head. 15. Arowana. It's large with larger scales of a dark color with a lighter rim. It has catfish whiskers. Same collection of fishes, dark background art print version. 1. A small silvery fish, no species in particular. 2. Small Silver Forage. It's silvery and long. 3. Silver Carp Fish. It's dark greenish on the top, with a cream belly and punk highlights on the head and fins. 4. Female Betta fish. It's hue shifts from dark purple to green-blue. 5. Neon fish. It's tiny, long, translucent with electric blue and red stripes. 6. Red Tail Shark. It's small, dark with a bright orange tailm a bit elongated and has the whiskers of a catfish. 7. Japanese eel. It's dark and sinuous and glossy. 8. Mono Fish. Round but not exactly thin, spadefish-shaped, small and very cute, cream color with bright yellow fins. 9. Zebra Pleco. Shaped like a catfish, but with diagonal black stripes on a white body. 10. Java Barb. It's flat and round, but with pointy orange fins. Silvery with a pink undertone. 11. Male Betta fish. It's red with the vaguest hints of blue in the edges of its veil-like fins. 12. Barramundi. Stocky fish, dark on the top with a cream, slightly orangeish belly. This one bright has blue highlights because I liked the effect how the reflections in a photo looked like a pattern. 13. Mackerel. It's light blue with darker blue stripes, more on the green side than red on the color wheel. It's belly is cream/silvery. 14. Longfin Batfish. Blue with yellow fins and a two subtle darker stripes on the head. 15. Arowana. It's large with larger scales of a dark color with a lighter rim. It has catfish whiskers.
February 26, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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When going from bone to flesh I tend to misjudge the jaw line and the chin depth in particular. 😆
February 18, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Second nose study! Like the first one the second didn't have a specific reference, I just kept various faces in mind mixed what I *think* I know about anatomy.

#b3d
Overlapping views of digital sculpture of an East Asian woman seen from 4 different angles. It's strongly lit from above, with a soft, eerie light from below, and looks like gently aged plaster. Her features are fuzzy, her nose her most sharply-defined trait.
February 18, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Close ups!
Closer photo of traditional pencil sketches in page one: 1) An Algerian man from circa 1890. He's wearing a white turban patterned with small dot-like figures, which contrasts nicely with his very dark, reflective skin tone. He's got a short beard peppered with white. 2) Another man from Algeria, c. 1890. He's in profile, and wears a traditional white headscarf held in place by a kind of thin rope wounded many around the top of his head. He's got a dark beard and medium skin tone. Closer photo of traditional pencil sketches in page one: 3) A young woman of seemingly Black heritage. Her hair is curly and dark, arranged in a low plain chignon, and she's wearing a white dress. 4) A sherpa from 1957, Tibet. She's smiling at the camera, and wears full traditional garb. Close up photo of traditional pencil sketches on page two: 1) A girl from Jaipur, late 1800s India. She's balancing a huge metallic water container on her head as she stares quietly at the camera. Her nose jewelry has been painted in gold acrylic. 2) A Tuareg Beber warrior from 1900s. He's got a sword over his chest, and the lower half of his stern face is covered by the fabric of his headpiece, which is a combination a plain dark color fabric and a light striped top fabric. 3) An Bulgarian elderly man from 1921. He's got a very long white beard and serious expression, squinting under the glare of the sun. He was the cook of a monastery.
February 15, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Oops, forgot to post pencil sketches this week! Pages from my second sketchbook, 08/2023.
An open sketchbook full of graphite portraits from historical photos, with off-white and gold acrylic for details. Page one: 1) An Algerian man from circa 1890. He's wearing a white turban patterned with small dot-like figures, which contrasts nicely with his very dark, reflective skin tone. He's got a short beard peppered with white. 2) Another man from Algeria, c. 1890. He's in profile, and wears a traditional white headscarf held in place by a kind of thin rope wounded many around the top of his head. He's got a dark beard and medium skin tone. 3) A young woman of seemingly Black heritage. Her hair is curly and dark, arranged in a low plain chignon, and she's wearing a white dress. 5) A sherpa from 1957, Tibet. She's smiling at the camera, and wears full traditional garb. Page two: 1) A girl from Jaipur, late 1800s India. She's balancing a huge metallic water container on her head as she stares quietly at the camera. Her nose jewelry has been painted in gold acrylic. 2) A Tuareg Beber warrior from 1900s. He's got a sword over his chest, and the lower half of his stern face is covered by the fabric of his headpiece, which is a combination a plain dark color fabric and a light striped top fabric. 3) An Bulgarian elderly man from 1921. He's got a very long white beard and serious expression, squinting under the glare of the sun. He was the cook of a monastery. 4) A Bulgarian woman from a little earlier than 1970. She's in full traditional clothing, with golden details.
February 15, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Close up. I wanted to know whether detailing the beard with a rake brush would work and yes, it may not be noticeable in the full picture but I like the result.

I forgot to mention it's all painted in #Krita.
Close up of the portrait artwork in the previous post. His beard was rendered by using a rake-like brush.
February 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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I though it'd be funny to paint a guy with a vaguely modern hairstyle in fantasy-ish clothing, but when I was stuck painting fur it no longer seemed that clever. 😅
Digital painting. Portrait of a stylized, long faced man with pronounced ears, brown hair styled in a 1930s inspired toupee fashion, but longer like 2010s+ sytles. He's wearing a rough-looking leather coat lined with fur. There's snow on his clothes and hair.
February 13, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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I experimented with new approaches to references usage this weekend because it always looks so boring and stiff, and accidentally discovered I really like ballpoint pen style sketching, which is funny because I'm scared of traditional pens.

12 first figures out of 100. Can't wait to sketch more!
12 digital sketches of people. Except the first, they are filled in pink shading looking like quick markers lines denoting volume, and outlined in a thin ballpoint-like black brush. 01. A woman seen from behind, one raised arm the other on a wall, doing a 4 shape with her legs. The shading is solid here, and she was sketched using a pencil brush. 02. A shirtless man holding a large bottle in a hand, the opposite foot resting on a football (the round variety). 03. A man with a toupee looking to the side, walking as he adjusts his jacket. 04. A woman stretching, arms up, one foot flat on the ground, the other to the side with only toes touching it. 05. A woman mid-run or jumping. Her body language is taunt and determined. 06. A man standing and looking to the side. His arms are resting relaxed to the sides, with closed fists. He's wearing a zipped-up jacket, pants, ankle boots and has a bag. 07. A woman in sportswear resting her elbows and back against a railing. She's relaxed and smiling. 08. A man seen from behind playing golf, mid-swing. His left foot is twisted in an awkward angle. 09. A stylish woman peering at the viewer. She has long curly hair and is wearing shades, cargo pants, sneakers and a jacket over her shoulders. 10. Woman from 07, now leaning slightly forward, looking at the ground with a smile. 11. A woman with long curly hair sitting on a rock. She's wearing a leotard and posing for the camera. 12. A woman in a bikini holding a surfboard upright.
February 11, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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I wonder how well bsky deals with gifs?

The timelapse from the study above, I tried to start from a vague skull to improve my grasp of tissues depth because when drawing I structure heads around the skull, not circles and lines.
February 7, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Nose study sculpture from 2022. Sculpting is not only a great way to improve anatomy, it's incredibly fun.

Last year I started playing with real clay, doing more body parts studies from imagination and life and pinning them to a wall. 😂

#b3d
Digital sculpture of a Black woman's face arranged from four different angles. It was made in Blender 3D software.
February 7, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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I can't believe I didn't think of posting a page with a snake, given the year and everything.

This year is ours, fellow serpents.
An open sketchbook with portraits of people from late 1800s, early 1900s and a few other mixed sketches. They're sketched in pencil, using off-white acrylic for discreet highlights. Page one: 1) A young woman looking rather sternly at the viewer. She's got dark hair gathered in a low, wide chignon covered by a net with metallic or gemstone details. 2) A man in profile looking at cards in his hand. He's frowning, has dark hair, strong eyebrows and reddish cheeks. 3) Tiny full body sketches of three people, a boy in suit and a flat cap, a younger shorter blonde girl in a light dress, and a sitting teenager with long braided hair and a stripped dress and apron. Their faces are obscured by the distance. 4) A young blonde man in profile. He's got a somewhat anachronistic disconnected haircut style. 5) A beautiful black headed python (Aspidites melanocephalus). Page two: 1) A dark-haired woman looking to the side. It's my take on a painting, not a photo, by Mihály Zichy. 2) A handsome man looking at the viewer with a neutral expression. 3) A young dark-haired woman with ringlets falling over her shoulders. She's got a noble, if not almost concerned, countenance. 4) Surrounding her in the white space are made up silvery fishes. 5) A young Black woman in 3/4 profile. She's got a slight prominent jaw due an underbite, and she's very pretty. 6) A mature man with a white dog on his lap. He's frowning at the sun, wearing a conical cap to protect his eyes, and is overweight, with full lips and a round face. Close up of page 2, 6) A mature man with a white dog on his lap. He's frowning at the sun, wearing a conical cap to protect his eyes, and is overweight, with full lips and a round face. Close up of page 2, 5) A young Black woman in 3/4 profile. She's got a slight prominent jaw due an underbite, and she's very pretty. Close up of page 1, 5) A beautiful black headed python (Aspidites melanocephalus).
February 5, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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It's from 2020 and I know it's sloppy but I still like it! I wanted a nice cover for a thing I'm picking up again to work on this year.

#ProjectMachina #GameDev #ConceptArt
Surrealist horror monochrome sketch of a man in a heavy military style coat holding a rifle. His eye glows ominously. He's vertically split open in half, one side of his body facing left, the other in 3/4. There's no gore, instead there's a winding maze-like material in place of where it'd be the insides of his body and head similar to mitochondria. A few spots deep inside the gaps of the "maze" glow red/pink. The illustration was created for an ongoing personal gamedev project, brainstorming what sort of cosmic horror enemies would be.
January 30, 2025 at 12:24 PM