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Zathsu
@zathsu.bsky.social
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I do art, and make characters & worlds.
* A Tale Where Nothing Matters (post-apocalyptic)
* NO SUN (soulslike)
* Neo Sulfur (sci-fantasy)

You would be a fool to ask me about any of them! (the knowledge would drive you mad)
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I'm a deaths-head hawkmoth actually.
#art #artist #sona #moth #oc
A bipedal deaths-head hawkmoth of brownish-black coloration and orange stripes.
October 16, 2025 at 5:10 PM
zathsu.bsky.social
THE NORTH WIND BLEW FIERCELY
THE ROARING KNIGHT APPEARED

#art #artist #deltarune #deltarunechapter3 #deltaruneart #deltarunefanart
A scratchy white figure with antlers and a spindly frame. Its body spirals and twists. In its left hand is a black sword.
June 9, 2025 at 8:53 PM
zathsu.bsky.social
If video games have taught me anything, its not to underestimate the efficacy of a crowbar as a weapon.

Protagonist for a side project of mine that I probably care about the least LOL. Same one as Saiga is from. Drew a while ago but forgor to post.

#art #artist #oc #ocsky #robot #characterart
An artifical shell with pointed limbs and digitigrade legs. A glowing purple diamond shaped aperture is in the center of its chest. A crowbar is affixed by braces to its right arm. Its pentagonal faceplate can open to reveal disgusting meat and a singular eyeball beneath.
April 30, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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"Mother Narul will guide us to victory, for she has been taught in the arts of the void by the First Teacher. If Kilmatyka and her Ironclads march south, the Illumoran people will not be subjugated again. So decree the Heirs of Sorrow."

#art #artist #oc #ocsky #postapocalyptic #fantasy #atwnm
A figure in blue garments with a veil over her face extends a hand charged with black magic toward the forehead of another kneeling figure in blue robes. They are together perched on a cliffside overlooking rolling hills, in the moonlit night.
April 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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i believe ive mentioned the card game some friends and i have been working on. i enlisted myself to do the card art for THEINOS - WORSHIPPED IDOL, the hero representing the Demonic + Divine class combo.

They demand your total and unwavering devotion.

#cardgame #cardart #art #artist #oc #ocsky
An obsidian figure with a golden helm and horns stands with arms outstretched. They wear a yellow robe and wield a golden and obsidian scythe. Pale yellow and red wings stretch from their back. A glowing pink pentagram is affixed behind their head.
April 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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A warrior queen that as of Laraprim's apocalyptic modern day seeks to conquer all of the nations and environs weakened in the fallout of the Dormancy Period. Eccentric to a fault, and claims heritage to a storm deity.

#art #artist #oc #ocsky #worldbuilding #postapocalyptic #fantasy #atwnm
A heavily armored figure that in body structure resembles an arthropodal centaur. She wields in one hand a large electrified spear, and in the other a spiked shield. Purple banners hang from her armor.
April 12, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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OC lore train. Explain OC lore in the dumbest way possible!

"Now, I know I came to YOUR kingdom and lied about everything I was going to do to help you out, but if I'm gonna become a god now that the sun is dead I HAVE to turn you all into monsters, thats just how it is."

#art #oc #ocsky #arttrain
Halfbody drawing of an armor clad man from a slight low angled perspective. His helmet has many eyeholes, coiling horns, and fangs. His shoulderpads like the skulls of beasts. A pair of fake ornamental arms fold over his chest. The same man as before but in a full body drawing, with magical claws projected over his raised hand. The same character as before, now sitting on a throne in a dark room. Two monstrous beings peer from around the backside of his chair, one with wings and one with an anglerfish-like flaming lure.
April 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Took a departure from my usual style to experiment with simple silhouette-oriented design in three shades. Which of these twelve enemy types are YOU??

#conceptart #art #fantasy #creaturedesign #oc #ocsky #roguelike #elementology
Twelve antagonistic creatures drawn in only three shades of red to show different layers of depth.
April 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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There are no two things Saiga loves more than watching the menials dismantle each other over frivolities, and flaunting his immense wealth. Now praise him, before the Shell-Guards dent your cranium plate.

Art for a small project I don't work on enough.

#art #artist #oc #ocsky #dystopia #conceptart
A bipedal being with an artificial exterior resemblant of a goat stands in front of a bloodied purple curtain with an arm raised to a supposed crowd. Golden leaves fall from above. He is wrapped in a purple, white, and gold toga-like gown. Within his eyehole is seen stringy red flesh and a glowing purple eye.
March 28, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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S'vylna the Ruin Prophet is a boss in NO SUN. A wyrm from beyond the stars in service to a hungry great one, she has assumed a humanoid disguise and infiltrated the church to goad them into hosting her offspring as part of a ritual of ascension.

#art #artist #oc #fantasy #darkfantasy #soulslike
A pale woman-like figure in a red dress-like garment. Her hair is white and her eyes milked over. Two large snaggleteeth rest beside her lips. Her lower robe is flesh-like, and a tail peeks out beneath. Two wing-like flaps hang behind her body. She holds in her hand a bladed sicklestaff.
March 23, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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I think I mentioned back on that one Riann portrait post that some friends and I have been working on a card game. These a few quick art pieces I've whipped up for some Divine cards in it. Gazing Gargoyle, Angel of War, Platinum Paragon, and Overambitious Crusader.

#cardgame #art #artist #oc
A stony gargoyle leers down with an upturned chin. It is sitting in criss-cross position on the edge of a temple rooftop. Its visible eye glows golden. A golden armored angel with a plume of fire, holding a longsword over its chest. White angelic wings emerge from its backside. Floating sky cathedrals loom in the golden sky behind it. A platinum armored figure with three golden glowing eyes. Its helmet has crown and feather-like imagery, and wings of light sprout from its back. Its golden greatsword glows brilliantly, and a magical holy skull is gripped in its hand. A silver armored crusader holds shield aloft to the camera, with a glowing sword raised overhead in its other hand. Beneath its helmet are glowing eyes. It wears a white tunic.
March 17, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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"Primarch", the chief of the Fallow Knights of Belisk. Wields a magic sword which can stretch like water with every slash. Drew her for International Womens Day since my friends love her so much for her past, which is an entire story unto itself.

#art #artist #oc #ocsky #fantasy #worldbuilding
A woman clad in dark blue armor. She wears an eyepatch and a metal faceguard. She wears a purple cape and grips a black greatsword with both hands, enhanced by purple magic that flows like water.
March 9, 2025 at 2:23 AM
zathsu.bsky.social
Drew some quick doodles for use in my bestiary. I may eventually go back and do all these creatures with the same effort as Frost Procession, but not rn.

#art #artist #oc #folklore #cryptids #gamedesign #roguelike #fantasy
a bipedal moth with lanky limbs. it’s body is bluish-gray, with large black eyes and white fur. the previous creature, shown as part of a stat table. the top half of an elk made of wood, vines, and cloth. the former creature, shown in a stat table.
March 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Commission for catify, who requested i link their toyhouse page: toyhou.se/catify

Flat color piece of a gun-toting cigarette-smoking hitman.

#art #artist #commissionart #commsopen #comms
A gray wolf/mainecoon hybrid wearing a jacket, black jeans, and boots. He's crouched on one knee, armed with a gun. A cigarette is sticking out of his mouth.
March 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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The Frost Procession is a trio of funerary ghouls that endlessly wander the frozen forest. A trio fight encounter composed of (from left to right) the Widower, the Pallbearer, & the Priest.

#art #artist #oc #ocsky #undead #fantasy #darkfantasy #roguelike
A trio of icy ghouls dressed in tattered formal attire. The leftmost one wears a hat and tattered jacket, holding a bloodied shovel. The middle one wears a tattered white shirt and jacket, holding a gigantic bloodied casket. The last one wears priestly garments, holding an open bible.
March 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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NPC for NO SUN. Harriet is the last keeper of an ancient religious site that grows in power by finding and empowering Hearth Fragments throughout the world. She assists you behind the back of Aisha, who naturally wants to see you dead.

#art #artist #oc #ocsky #fantasy #darkfantasy #soulslike
A woman with red hair & a silver tiara. She wears a multilayered beige robe wrapped in belts. Her hands, ankles, and neck are protected with evil-warding black gauze.
February 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
zathsu.bsky.social
Was requested to draw a badass banyan tree.
I had never heard of these things before this, but I absolutely love how wild they are.

#art #artist #tree #oc
Big banyan tree with all kinds of coiling aerial roots and a canopy of green leaves.
February 24, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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You know you're in the thick of it when you start drafting the rules for fucking map generation in your roguelike that will never exist. Though I have actually been thinking about this potentially being something I could GM through text. Its that tight knit

#oc #roguelike #gamedesign #gamemechanics
February 22, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Another boss for the roguelike I've been posting about recently, THE NUCKELAVEE. It was the most foul thing that could have emerged from the seas, and has tainted the valley with its pestilent presence.

#art #artist #oc #nuckelavee #folklore #fantasy #darkfantasy #roguelike
A skinless horse with visible bones, covered in stray strands of kelp. A fish tail with veiny fins hangs behind it. The skinless torso of a humanoid with elongated arms and a veiny cape of flesh is attached to its back.
February 21, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Turned that Riann halfbody drawing from yesterday into a dialogue box mockup for a card game some friends and I have been developing featuring our worldbuilt settings and projects.

The site is definitely too shit to format it like this though

#art #artist #oc #ocsky #fantasy #cardgame #gamedesign
An armored man leers down, with one hand raised. His helmet has many eyeholes, spiraling horns, and fangs. His pauldrons resemble beast skulls, and a small pair of fake arms wrap around his chest. Blue cloth is tied by belts around his waist.
February 20, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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A mockup of the combat screen for one of the possible areas you could get as your second act in my conceptual roguelike, Six Days.

Fear the unsanitized & suffocating stretches of THE MIRED VALLEY.

#oc #art #conceptart #artist #gamedesign #environment #roguelike
A suffocating swampy environment. Knee-deep water runs through the center, where thick murky green brush lines the pool's sides. Contorted pale trees twist into a dense canopy, and vines swing themselves through the foreground. Yellow lights peer from the darkness yonder the treeline.
February 20, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Commission for @heyashera.bsky.social, of a creature that appears in a book they are publishing.

The effort that went into this piece was definitely worth it! :D

#commission #commissionart #art #artist #creaturedesign
A large three headed reptilian creature with foliage-covered necks stands in the middle of a fenced off plantation. A small dead creature has been chomped in the neck in front of a bush. Houses and a treeline loom in the background.
February 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Halfbody drawing I did of Riann again simply because I wanted to. Perhaps I do play favorites with some of my characters, especially my villains. ☠️

#art #artist #oc #ocsky #fantasy #darkfantasy #soulslike #villain #nosun
Halfbody drawing of an armor clad man from a slight low angled perspective. His helmet has many eyeholes, coiling horns, and fangs. His shoulderpads like the skulls of beasts. A pair of fake ornamental arms fold over his chest.
February 19, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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i have so much fun conceiving things for video games that will never exist

#oc #gamedesign #gamemechanics #roguelike
February 17, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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IT WASNT JUST ABOUT SURVIVAL ANYMORE.
IT WAS ABOUT BEING CORRECT.

She was content to know that all would be slew & put to rights, in the unforgiving dark of the last eclipse.

#art #artist #worldbuilding #oc #ocsky #monochrome #postapocalyptic #fantasy #darkfantasy
A monochrome piece of a horned figure with a deer-like skull, looming over a star against the background of space. One of their hands is replaced by a head, which is seen biting into the star.
February 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM