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Arastryx @storyteller.monster · Nov 26

For the past few months, I've been working on a little gallery organization tool so that I can finally organize my art by character/species, and I figured I'd make it publicly available in case anyone else wanted to do the same!

arastryx.itch.io/impart

Impart by Arastryx

An open-source, fully offline gallery organization tool

arastryx.itch.io

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Arastryx @storyteller.monster · 4d

Every so often, I find myself scrolling back to look at this pic. As someone who started learning how to draw kinda late, I find this piece nostalgic in a comforting way.

Also I just really like this pic, I literally can't figure out how you made that zigzag effect on the inner art look so perfect

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Arastryx @storyteller.monster · 5d

lol I can actually specifically relate to this. I would love to learn how to make a good chicken noodle but every recipe online is like "Takes 10 cups of broth and three whole chickens, serves 800"

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Padda @vargur.bsky.social · 7d

yucky dog

Gris, an alien, drawn in pen on paper. Various angles of its face and body.

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Arastryx @storyteller.monster · 15d

A sergal taur with bright red fur and a long flowing mane. They have a very gentle expression, and are leaping gracefully

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Arastryx @storyteller.monster · 16d

I'm particularly obsessed with the color mixing and brushwork you used to depict the refraction on the translucency! It's such a delightful, evocative effect

Arastryx @storyteller.monster · 16d

possibly the cutest expression to have ever been drawn

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Arastryx @storyteller.monster · 16d

Inspiration is so funny to me. This last month, I've had like zero motivation to draw, and then the other day, I misread a sign that says "Tour" as "Taur", and now I want to draw 500 taurs

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Arastryx @storyteller.monster · 18d

Eyeless perception ⁽²⁰²⁴⁾

Two guarians, both eyeless, with text next to them that says: "Spirits, able to perceive the world around them via other-worldly means"

An eyeless, anthromorphic fluffy dragon guy with text next to them that says: "Innately, immensely powerful species, capable of astrally projecting their perception, allowing them to see in third person."

Two eyeless, impish summon guys with text next to them that says: "idk they can just see somehow"

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Arastryx @storyteller.monster · 28d

ripping this out of your notebook and eating it, it's so tasty mmmm

Arastryx @storyteller.monster · Sep 6

Bummer too since I was actually kind of looking forward to having a dedicated linux machine. Oh well, fun idea for the future I guess

Arastryx @storyteller.monster · Sep 6

Unfortunately, the used laptop fell through, so instead, I'll be doing plan B, which is just biting the bullet and setting up WSL on my tower (which I'll do after I upgrade to W11). I've got a busy next few months in front of me, so it might be a while, but I haven't forgotten about this!!!!

Arastryx @storyteller.monster · Jun 26

Figured I should mention since it came up this morning, but in case anyone's curious, I'll be getting a used computer at some point this summer that I plan on converting to a Linux box, and once I've got that set up, I'll finally be doing up a Linux build for Impart :)

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Arastryx @storyteller.monster · Aug 30

Various rough sketches of sunmaker, an anthromorphic deity beast, feathery and fluffy, with a long rectangular muzzle filled and a piercing glare. They are smiling at the camera with huge, sharp teeth

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Arastryx @storyteller.monster · Aug 26

Maybe it's because they're designed around abstract nostalgia, but there's something I find so indescribably comforting and cozy about weirdcore stuff and I always wonder if the feeling is mutual. I'm legit addicted to those "weirdcore images with so-and-so soundtrack" vids

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Arastryx @storyteller.monster · Aug 26

She just finished baking cookies and was wondering if you wanted some

A long, super fluffy character and a long face inquisitively looking at the camera

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Arastryx @storyteller.monster · Aug 4

quick summon doodle while I watch evo teehee

An eyeless impish fellow with smooth grey skin gives a peace sign to the viewer with a big smile.

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Arastryx @storyteller.monster · Aug 1

Be sure to accessorize your summons!

A little sequence of my sona (stylized as a facelss little red fluffy dragon dude), adorning a large but ultra simplistic quadrupedal beast with shiny, bright yellow arm bands. The last frame is a full body pic of the beast all happy looking with big yellow bands around their wrists and ankles.

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Arastryx @storyteller.monster · Jul 31

My art fight entries this year! Characters belong to:

X: softandferal
@cytosprout.bsky.social
@catfr1end.bsky.social
@trufours.bsky.social (on the left)

A sentient galaxy with planets and stars for eyes gently observes the human from the arecibo message

A six legged raptor with tiny wings leaps in front of a red background

A devious looking beast stares ominously towards the camera with an open smile

Xenon (stylized as a bunny character as opposed to his usual self) adorning a friend of his with gold accessories

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Arastryx @storyteller.monster · Jul 25

AH okay, I get what you mean now. That should be pretty easy to fix, so I'll add it to the list!

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Arastryx @storyteller.monster · Jul 25

I think that's the reason I went with default chronological order instead; if you create a tag, it always appears at the end and then you just drag it to the spot you want it to be in after. It's a neat idea though, I'll have to think more about how it might work.

Also thank you!!

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Arastryx @storyteller.monster · Jul 25

Aaaah, that's a clever idea! Admittedly though, with the ability to reorder tags manually via drag and drop, that'd actually be a bit tricky to implement. If you had alphabetic sorting enabled, but you manually sort some of the tags into a different order, where would the next created tag go?

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Arastryx @storyteller.monster · Jul 20

They're something I saw in a dream I had about a year ago! I ended up developing them into a full design that I still enjoy to this day.

The short version is "What if you had a jet that loved you?"

Arastryx @storyteller.monster · Jul 1

The random team button has spoken, I am officially team fossil on art fight! This admittedly changes my plans a bit, but I find it more satisfying to be on the team with less players (substantially less in the case wow), so I'll figure it out!

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Arastryx @storyteller.monster · Jul 1

I'll just link it here hahaha

artfight.net/~Arastryx

Art Fight

An art gifting game

artfight.net

Arastryx @storyteller.monster · Jul 1

p.s. I realize that I could just friendly fire the characters I really want to draw, but I feel like part of the fun of art fight for me is the limitation! It steers you to characters you wouldn't otherwise consider and I just think that's nice

Arastryx @storyteller.monster · Jul 1

Oh god, I was gonna join team crystal on the basis that the majority of my bookmarked characters are all on team fossil, but they just revealed the team numbers and it turns out crystal already has like 20k+ extra players SDLKJFS

I may be back to leaving it up to random chance again!

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