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Aria

@thatartisan.bsky.social

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Just call me Aria. She/Her 🏳️‍⚧️ Freelance Artist/Animator Previous work - MARVEL: Cosmic Invasion - He-Man: Dragonpearl of Destruction Check out my info at thatartisan.carrd.co Tags: #art #pixelart #digitalart #animation #oc

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Aria @thatartisan.bsky.social · 1d

feeling too depressed to get up and work on art, but also having the itch to continue workshopping my personal mecha design... mayhaps this is a sign to get up and continue working on my RG RX-78-2.

Aria @thatartisan.bsky.social · 1d

I don't even bother with them anymore because none of them can possobly be funny as my extremely elaborate and somehow slightly believable theory that ralsei is a hivemind of toriel's shedded fur strewn about all across town. in this forty-five minute seminar,

Aria @thatartisan.bsky.social · 1d

oh trust me I'm VERY confident in Wolf's visual design, but as I elaborate in this reply thread, I was taking this as a wakeup call to be truer to myself ^^;
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Aria @thatartisan.bsky.social · 1d

so basically I'm less concerned about the visual design (Wolf's design is 100% not going to change because of external factors, if it does it'll be because I thought of a way to improve it for my own tastes) and more concerned with making his gameplay/feel be as authentic to my own roots as I can

Aria @thatartisan.bsky.social · 1d

yea I'm well aware of the archetype, I'm mostly thinking about "oh a lot of those normals and specials look REAL familiar to my own sketches and design notes, maybe this is a sign to take another look and try to incorporate more of my inspirations like sentai and tokusatsu into his battle style"

Aria @thatartisan.bsky.social · 1d

I'll admit, this is encouraging me to get more inspired and original with Wolf's combat and special/super moves, since the 2xko guy's kit wasn't really causing me to jump for joy wanting to play him. it's almost funny seeing the ideas I had in motion and thinking "damn, I should do better"

Aria @thatartisan.bsky.social · 1d

Well that's kinda fucked up lol, turns out 2xko also has a bluish grey and white wolf guy and... a decent number of his attacks were things I was imagining for Wolf. No biggie since werewolf characters are somewhay hard to diversify in terms of fighting style, but still a bit disheartening

Aria @thatartisan.bsky.social · 2d

testing whether I prefer Wolf with a fully white muzzle or with a dark patch going down his snout that a lot of wolves have

digital bust-up sketch of my character, Wolf. He is a werewolf with golden eyes and a stoic (if slightly unamused) expression on his face, wearing a scarf and a mane created of his hair tied back in a ponytail. One version of the sketch has his nose fully white, the other with a band of his darker fur color going down the bridge of his snout

Aria @thatartisan.bsky.social · 1d

I have been meaning to draw Willow again for a hot minute but just keep neglecting to. What should I draw the silly demon lady with chronic anxiety doing

Aria @thatartisan.bsky.social · 1d

It does not, tragically--same issue for me, I couldn't get it to work well with Wine either. Best you can really do right now is send a support ticket asking for a linux port and maybe encourage your followers to do the same 🙄

Aria @thatartisan.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks! You definitely seem to be keen on singing the praises of his looks, which I'm glad since it's important to the story that he's got his own brand of charisma despite society rejecting him for his monstrous nature.

As for the full-white, I guess it sort of makes him look kinder? Hard to say

Aria @thatartisan.bsky.social · 2d

definitely just an illusion, haha--I copied the layers directly and just edited the coloration on the snout, so there's no chance that the size changed any

Aria @thatartisan.bsky.social · 2d

I'm undecided on it, but there's something about the fully-white muzzle that feels more... authentic to the character for me? maybe it's just because it's what I'm used to, but the other one has a slightly different feeling that it portrays about him as compared to the fully white one.

Aria @thatartisan.bsky.social · 2d

testing whether I prefer Wolf with a fully white muzzle or with a dark patch going down his snout that a lot of wolves have

digital bust-up sketch of my character, Wolf. He is a werewolf with golden eyes and a stoic (if slightly unamused) expression on his face, wearing a scarf and a mane created of his hair tied back in a ponytail. One version of the sketch has his nose fully white, the other with a band of his darker fur color going down the bridge of his snout

Aria @thatartisan.bsky.social · 2d

thinking about it, undertale really got me through some of the worst years of my life, being an undiagnosed AuDHD trans egg and having just moved to florida.

folks were stumped as to why I was so enamored with that game, but I guess always having been "the weird kid" I just felt accepted for once

Aria @thatartisan.bsky.social · 2d

for the first point yeah 100%, though fishfolk have developed some special ways to make their clothes hydrophobic

for the second one, yeah, in part because of her mom forcing her to work as a secretary, but within that job she's also witnessed a lot of rampant corruption and grown a disdain for it

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Aria @thatartisan.bsky.social · 3d

Anatomy of the Fishe

#art #digitalart #oc

Digital sketch of my character, Topaz, a fish lady with a massive grin on her face holding up a peace sign with her fingers.

There are a number of labels around the image, noting off parts of her anatomy. They include:
Zero wrinkles on her brain
- Thinks cats are adorable, never seen one in person before
- Webbed fingers and glover-like pigmentation present on her hands
- Fin-like appendages made of cartilige for hydrodynamic steering
- Award-winning smile
- Powerful swimmer's shoulders and hefty arms for carrying metal tridents around
- Boobs are actually float sacs because fish don't need mammaries (every member of her species has them) (makes transitioning really easy)
- Absolutely should wear a belt. doesn't.
- Not a big fan of the government (her mom forced her to get a job as secretary to the president) (her mom is president of the ocean)

Aria @thatartisan.bsky.social · 3d

also she's one of the canonically trans characters in the story so do with that information what you will

Aria @thatartisan.bsky.social · 3d

Anatomy of the Fishe

#art #digitalart #oc

Digital sketch of my character, Topaz, a fish lady with a massive grin on her face holding up a peace sign with her fingers.

There are a number of labels around the image, noting off parts of her anatomy. They include:
Zero wrinkles on her brain
- Thinks cats are adorable, never seen one in person before
- Webbed fingers and glover-like pigmentation present on her hands
- Fin-like appendages made of cartilige for hydrodynamic steering
- Award-winning smile
- Powerful swimmer's shoulders and hefty arms for carrying metal tridents around
- Boobs are actually float sacs because fish don't need mammaries (every member of her species has them) (makes transitioning really easy)
- Absolutely should wear a belt. doesn't.
- Not a big fan of the government (her mom forced her to get a job as secretary to the president) (her mom is president of the ocean)

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MELFIST - Reposting helps a lil'guy grow @lordmelfist.bsky.social · 3d

If you see this, post something monochromatic!

A hooded man sits at the edge of a narrow balcony on a high tower. The hooded man wears a black cloak, covers his face with cloth and has a number of knives on his person, including one, unsheated, in his hand. The surrounding scene is that of a gothic city: large towers, decorated spires, tall windows and cramped rooftops. Flocks of birds fly above the spires. A stone gargoyle looks below from the foreground.

Aria @thatartisan.bsky.social · 3d

If you see this, post something monochromatic!

pixel art two-tone likeness portrait of willem dafoe. He stares straight ahead with a neutral expression on his face, all of the variations in value accomplished through varying dithering techniques despite the entire piece being only two colors, a light eggshell color and a darker warm tone somewhere between grey and brown. The piece could have been done in black and white, but I preferred it with slightly unconventional colors

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ラリアット/rariatoo @rariatoo.bsky.social · 3d

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Aria @thatartisan.bsky.social · 4d

I know I have a friend who ships adriana and topaz, even though I never even conceived that they could get together

Aria @thatartisan.bsky.social · 4d

I'm fine with whatever, ultimately folks are gonna do stuff whether I give it my blessing or not lol

I mostly posted this cuz it's nice to talk about random tidbits, and (whether you care about canon or not) gets folks thinking about my characters ^^

Aria @thatartisan.bsky.social · 4d

I might have made this kind of post before but I couldn't find it if I had, so. Posting it anyway. Also, Spike won't let me talk about him in this kind of context. Anyone who tries thinking of him like that gets an anime explosion from their forehead as they're knocked backward, dazed and confused

Aria @thatartisan.bsky.social · 4d

quick notes on my characters' sexualities:
Candrin: Aroace 🧍‍♂️
Wolf: Straight 🐺
Willow: Pansexual 🦇
Adriana: Lesbian :3
Kingsmith: Ace Bi-romantic 🤖

Topaz: Lesbian 🐠
Hraetnar: Straight [citation needed]
Lyuda: Straight ⚔️
Balthazar: (he laughs at you for asking, never clarifies what that means) 👁