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Batty
@netherbat.bsky.social
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human artist (canvas, digital, minis) • hobbyist v/ttrpg creator, gm, and player

she/they • demi, married • very neurodivergent
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Character development is fun. #wowoc #warcraftart

Concept of Lysabet's new 'fit. Might make changes, but wanted to get the initial idea down.
February 10, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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No new pictures, where are you mentally?
January 15, 2026 at 12:57 AM
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Howdy, #PortfolioDay!

I'm Batty, primarily a digital artist (but I dabble in traditional paints). I make character art for friends and visual aids for my own VTT group (and sometimes maps).

I like lighting (a lot) and try to use colors and lights to help tell stories.
An eldritch entity of bones and blood-red light breaks free of a prison of crimson roots after thousands of years. She looks up at a golden sky for the first time in many ages as her brothers (and jailors) watch on. A previously glorious cathedral or castle lays in ruins now, potentially millennia later. The entire landscape is colorless, showing a misty, destroyed landscape, and a distant, looming darkness. Four versions of the same character have half-bodies drawn in various poses. Lit by a smoking potion bottle is Mort, a friendly pathologist, in blue robes and hood. Lit by a possible candle is also Mort, reading a book. He looks concerned and kind. On the other side, lit from a stark white light from above is an additional Mort, wearing a metallic plague doctor like helm. He's in fancy attire and holds a warscythe. At the top is a fourth and final Mort, lit from behind by dark magic, wearing a silly grinning bronze skull-mask, and holding a voodoo doll. He's threading the doll with a bright blue string that ties all the other Morts together. A top-down battlemap of a room covered in crimson vines vaguely shaped like a heart. A massive bovine-adjacent skull is trapped there. A blood-red light glows from its eyesockets and the gaps between the roots.
January 13, 2026 at 2:47 PM
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Just a small medium at large. More Lysabet, my forsaken necromancer.

#wowoc #WarcraftArt
A thin, emaciated woman in a raggedy old cloak. Her clothes look beat up. A dagger and a flask are connected to her belt, and a shoulder-bag is slung over her chest. A funky little skull keeps her cloak pinned together. She's holding onto a staff made of bones and holding her hand under a floating, glowing lantern. Wisps of light- possibly souls- dance around the lantern.
January 6, 2026 at 2:02 AM
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Nice.
January 6, 2026 at 1:57 AM
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Happy Halloween! My very tattered and torn-up #ghost for your amusement-- she's a wraith, to be exact. #warcraftart

This was anti-burnout art. Something different, and for myself. Been wanting to make art of Lysa's ghostly self for a while, but man, a lot's been happening. So, here it is.
Against a hazy teal background where the barest hint of massive chains can be seen, floats a tattered ghost. She has an empty hood, and her legs trail off into ragged, cloth-like wisps. Parts of the ghost are damaged and sewn together by pale blue stitches. Her lower arms are just the shapes of bones, and her hands are claws. Her left arm is shattered, and sort of stuck in place by mysterious means. The ghost from the previous image is now floating in front of the windows of a giant spectral lantern: three blue windows with a crossbar through them. Below the ghostly figure are a lot of shadowy, reaching hands, all seem intent on grabbing at or for the ghost.
October 23, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Some interior pieces from my VTT group's previous campaign (the one that just wrapped). I'm not the best at a lot of things, but I try to follow the Bob Ross rule of 'giving an impression' and letting the imagination do the rest.
The interior of a fantasy tavern. Crimson roots grow through the walls and floors, and string lights are used to decorate the inside. Trophies from war adorn the walls, including weapons, drums, and skulls. The fireplace glows magenta rather than orange. Attendees include an orange cat, a strange owl-deer, a blue elf, a kelpie, and a hooded lizard. A large blue-feathered friendly figure servers at the bar, and a humanoid with spider-like limbs acts as an attendant. The overall vibe is cozy, and hints at a larger establishment with stairs going up the back of the room. An image of a witchy chamber, adorned with drapery, occult tapestry, and glinting mirrors hanging from the ceiling. Shelves and tables are decorated with magical reagents (crystals, cards, bowls of herbs, parchments and scrolls) and shelves are lined with tomes. A plinth in the middle of the room holds a bowl of eerie crimson light. A circular window lights the room, because lord knows those candles aren't doing a good job of it. A large round room with four visible doors, overgrown with crimson roots. Fonts of glowing crimson liquid space out the room, and a giant statue of some sort of tree (also overgrown with real roots) stands tall in the middle. Lights overhead shine down a pink glow. The stone room has a stone plinth in front of the trees, which holds an old tome. We can't see what's written in the tome. A vibrantly-lit stone corridor bathed in orange and red light. Everything is very ornate, with violently violet banners hanging above. Many doorways line the corridor, spaced by columns. Crimson roots have broken through the floor, cracking the stone.
October 4, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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30 minute speedpaint of my 3.5e character-- a skeleton paladin, called Saint Lucius the 17th by the temple. Described, personality wise, as a "mute Kronk, but a skeleton".

Those who've known me a while may also find Luci here a little similar to an older character. 😉
A headshot of a skull in an old hood, surrounded by flowers. A bit of armor can be seen: a shiny gorget and breastplate.
September 27, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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Also, have the "final boss" that my players faced. They were pretty sure they'd have to kill him, but surprise, he was just a little guy, kinda trapped, and very much a coward! I mean, his name was Lord Craven, after all...
A strange and thin humanoid creature wearing a stained white mask adorned with a crown of thorns. Blue glowing eyes peer fearfully from his mask. He is clutching the "throne" of roots he sits on in fear, but the roots also entangle him, trapping him there.
September 26, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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She blossomed. :) My players were very surprised what was inside!
An image of an eldritch tree under a golden sky, with bare branches. She appears to be unravelling admist a cloud of mist or dust, with wide, eye-like wounds in the crevices of her roots. An image depicting a giant skeletal monstrosity- an eldritch being with a deerlike skull and a humanoid torso. She pulls herself free from red roots, toward a golden sky, out from branches unravelling around her. A crimson glow beams from her chest and eyes. Two much smaller figures panic below her.
September 26, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Oh right, I did paint a giant eldritch tree-queen for my vttrpg group. I'm still kinda proud of it, and the players' reaction was pretty great. I don't think they expected her to be so big and gnarly.
An artist's depiction of a massive, gnarled tree growing up through a ravine. Her bark is twisted and almost fleshy. Unlike a normal tree, she doesn't have any leaves, and is entirely crimson, with bright blood-red light seeping through the gaps in her bark.
September 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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when burnout hits hard, we draw a lil' lysabet.

(she's ok, i promise)

speedpaint, digital art, yadda yadda
September 21, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Hello, I'm not dead! I've been suffering a months-long art block and finally broke through with art of my grandfatherly shadow-cultist, Nadaelius.

This scratchy-paint style is fun, and I might do more with it. That's twice now that it's gotten me through art block. #digitalart
August 4, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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heck it, we #makeaterriblecomicday2025

feat mort and lys
June 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Mort and I recently got back into the game, so I made a Forsaken reference for the goober.
May 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Also I made this- referencing the Darkest Dungeon plague doctor stress image- for Bones (the one in red, with the bird helm). Because, y'know. It fits.
April 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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I did make a reference for her around the same time as making this, and last night I doodled up some more expressions. I had fun during my first RP back!
Four sketched expressions, showing a hooded character's disgust, embarrassment, indignant anger, and inner peace. A reference sheet of a hooded character; the half-body on the left shows an annoyed woman in long gloves and a jacket, three expressions in the middle of the page show how that character looks when she's intrigued, cunning, and horrified. A full-body to the right shows the character's full outfit: hooded cloak, half-face mask, long jacket, and tall boots- with a white staff. Magic flows behind her. Text in the bottom right reads "Lysabet, Necromancer's Apprentice".
April 18, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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(Digital, 6+ hrs) Recent #art I finished of my psychopomp character, Lysabet. In all versions of this character, she's a seer to the spirit world- sometimes, much to her chagrin.

I'm returning to WoW, so I decided to revisit that version of the character for this piece.
A hooded woman stands in an eerie, foggy pine forest. She's wearing a cloak, with a long jacket and a shoulder-satchel. She has one hand held nervously over her chest, and the other hand holding onto an engraved staff. The same hooded woman from the previous picture, in the same pose. However, now it is obvious why she is nervous: ghosts reach for her from all sides, and a ghostly glow comes from her left glove, staff, and eyes. The sky has become a vortex of souls.
April 17, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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This art's gotta be five years old. Either way- please enjoy the weirdos (osruth and dariesh). I had fun, and I still think it's one of my better pieces from the time.
April 17, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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A piece I did last year for my husband of his undead necromancer, Mort! Mort has many different costumes- these are but four in his wardrobe. (Digital, 8+ hrs)
April 15, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Bonus token today of my D&D character, Alice Redhood, my Human Rogue. That isn't her real name, and she's not from around here.
February 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Tokens I made a while back for the current PF2e party I'm in- Girrig the Lizardfolk Magus, Hruubo the Tengu Wizard, and Vespera (me!) the Fetchling Investigator. Campaign's still going strong!
February 8, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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More images I'm pulling from my VTT's archives; this time, encounters. Because we're a RP group that started in WoW, the first two may look similar to Maw denizens- as we ran a campaign there. The third and fourth images are post-WoW, when we branched off away from the game.
This is a digital painting of a winged humanoid in concealing, ominous metallic armor. A hood covers any defining features. They're kneeling, and holding a flanged mace. A digital painting of a bear-like or dog-like construct made of dark, shineless metal. Ghostly light peeks from within its ribs and its eyes. It has a skeletal appearance, and stands amid pale mists and hovering chains. A digital painting of some sort of monster made from long white points, with a fiery light from within. It looks aggressive and violent, and has too many fingers, with no discernible eyes. A digital painting of a very colorful monster with many arms, but no humanoid body. Instead, they all seem to connect to a central, fuzzy mass of purple. The arms are tattered, as if damaged, and boneless- spilling out stuffing, like a plush toy, instead of blood. The head the arms are supporting is doll-like, white a half-head of blue and pink hair. The entire entity is cartoonish in nature and "friend shaped".
January 24, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Older illustrations I did for my VTT group a few years back. The hanging garden, cavern, and orrery were all located inside the ruins in the fourth image. There were other locations that I painted like this, but I like these the best, even if I don't use them anymore. ✨
This is a digital painting, from a POV that is looking up through a room filled with hanging plants of various types. High above there is a blue glass window. Water seems to be falling down like rain. Windows from which the plants hang from imply that there are stairs elsewhere, but none appear in the painting. This is a digital painting of a dark cave. A carved stairway leads to a makeshift infirmary against one of the cavern walls. In the center of the cavern is a magical blue spring that glows brightly, lighting the entire cavern. This is a digital painting of a magical orrery. A round room with a staircase that follows the walls in a spiral. The room is lined with bookshelves, and at the center of the room is some sort of magical console that projects planets as floating blue holographic images. This is a digital painting. A lush valley surrounded by mountains against a blue sky. Four elven towers lay in overgrowth, with ruins at their base. Old roads travel through the valley, snaking around rocks, lakes, waterfalls, and trees. A dirigible is seen leaving the leftmost tower, where a docking platform seems to have been built.
January 24, 2025 at 6:39 PM