wisdom from a youtube video

Art by me, in a simple style that makes heavy use of basic shapes, patterns, and strokes, with flat colors. Three trees with velvet leaves and geometric branches sit upon a field of short, blue grass, against a neon green sky that gives an alien or dream-like aura to the scene. Between the trees sits an ominous black cat with a wide toothy grin and no eyes, staring directly at the viewer.

lost where the forest would grow
[ #DELTARUNE ]

Just my bby Tony Tony Chopper in Okami style :v

My goal this year is to read all of One Piece let's gooooo

Terrence!! 😭♥️

A lineup of NPC assets I created for the Hunt! First on the left is a normal human male student, named Ned, looking for his twin brother. Unfortunately for him, the school he's investigating is partially filled with "Content Corpses" (the three figures on the right). They come in three variants: Male, Female, and Cop (the three genders). In-universe, there are many more variants, but I'm only one man and can only make so much art lol [For all art made during for campaign, I'm sticking to a standard style guide inspired by the art present in the CAIN rulebook by Tom Bloom: art is to be made in greyscale, only using color for supernatural subjects.] Designing the students was fairly simple: just had to give them a simple polo with dark pants/skirt reminiscent of my own experience going to high school. The police officer design is based on a stock image I ended up using in session 1 because I didn't have enough time to draw a proper cop character (the "Content Corpse" version showed up in session 3, so I had plenty of time to draw something by then lol). As for the Content Corpses, I removed their faces to convey the idea that they have been deprived of any original personality. I also used the same pose for all of them just to make drawing them easier, but this ended up conveying the "hive mind" concept really well, so huzzah for shortcuts! Sticking with my style guide, I also let some color seep in here from their phones, which is the source of their condition. These content corpses were created by the IDOL, an influencer-based SIN born from a high-schooler's trauma (more on them in another image). These content corpses, despite the name, are actually living people who are under the influence of a greater supernatural being that the player exorcists were sent to hunt. Upon being compelled to look at their phones, their very faces are pulled into the screens, causing them to become part of the IDOL's hivemind.

Terrence, the players' impromptu handler, backup, and friend :) The left image is his standard standing pose, while the right image is a depiction of him taking an attack meant for the players. [For all art made during for campaign, I'm sticking to a standard style guide inspired by the art present in the CAIN rulebook by Tom Bloom: art is to be made in greyscale, only using color for supernatural subjects.] I designed Terrence to be slightly off-putting: with unnaturally raised shoulders that seem to have an odd shape, a somewhat sunken head that dips into his jacket, and what appears to be a green scar over his left eye. He's also just over 7 feet tall. Primarily, he stands back and lets the players do their thing, evaluating their performance from a distance. But once they find themselves in a dire situation, he wills himself to act. However, he avoids using his own supernatural powers and simply stands between the enemy and the players, taking the full force of anything intended for them.

And here's this hunt's big bad: The IDOL and its host. The host is a completely unassuming, scrawny high-schooler with a bowl haircut and glasses that obscure his eyes, anime style. He has two images here: one standing upright, with clenched fists looking slightly to the right, and another, more unhinged, leaning back as light emanates from his glasses and he screams skyward. The IDOL, itself, however is an amalgamation of a lanky torso and arms, with the head replaced with a webcam, as lamp and microphone arms jut out from behind. Two large monitors with the words "LIKE" and "SUBSCRIBE" extend from the rib cage of the creature. There are many red wires protruding from the body to all of the electronics. [For all art made during for campaign, I'm sticking to a standard style guide inspired by the art present in the CAIN rulebook by Tom Bloom: art is to be made in greyscale, only using color for supernatural subjects.] Designing the student came rather easily: make a dorky-looking loner kid (err, I'm so sorry if the person reading this looks like this; I'm sure you're very cool). The SIN, on the other hand, was a bit more of a process. It came in pieces as I thought of what a content creator-based entity would look like. Eventually, I got a few ideas: Just have a torso and above (since content creators with webcams only realistically show their upper bodies, why not literally remove that lower half), a webcam instead of a face (implying that, for the sake of content, his individuality be removed), and a bunch of gear protruding that a creator might need (and tie it all together with red wires, implied to be blood, fueling this gear). So, super quick look at what a SIN is: when someone with a large amount of "grace" experiences a traumatic event, that emotion twists into something they can't handle and a SIN is born. This guy suffered from extreme loneliness upon approaching high school graduation and something snapped in him, resulting in the birth of a sin.

J̷̡͋u̷͚̓s̶̯̑t̵̨͐ ̴̗̅á̵̙ ̴̲̈ḽ̶̕i̵̮̍l̷̤͌'̶̣͊ ̷̝͝g̷̬͘o̸͖͝o̶̭̕b̵̗́e̶͝ͅr̶͈͆ This lil' goober is a drifter. It's a little ball-like thing with tendrils extending from the center. [For all art made during for campaign, I'm sticking to a standard style guide inspired by the art present in the CAIN rulebook by Tom Bloom: art is to be made in greyscale, only using color for supernatural subjects.] Honestly, this fella's design came about as a result of playing around with brushes in Clip Studio Paint. And I REALLY like how it came out! Looks properly otherworldly, especially alongside the other characters. "Drifters" are (typically unrelated) entities that find their way to our world when SINs appear and distort reality. This lil' goober is just one that stumbled into the players' first hunt. Drifters can come in innumerable forms and you never know what to expect from them (actually, probably something negative).

My TTRPG group and I recently finished our first hunt in CAIN, a really cool game about exorcists and killing trauma monsters :) (made by @orbitaldropkick.bsky.social )

Now that this first arc is completed, I can share some NPC art I made to run the game!

Check ALT text for design notes and lore!

Drawing of a young woman in a knee-length black dress with white sleeves. She has pale skin and hair in two braids that fall in front of her shoulders. She's also wearing a bright red head scarf and hair ribbons. Her gloved hands are clasped together in front of her, and she holds a hand-scythe.

Drawing of a man with a short beard in a simple black suite and white dress shirt, with medium length hair tied back in a low pony tail. He wears a brown leather eyepatch over his right eye.

Some CAIN exorcist art I made for myself and a fellow player!

#CAIN #CAINTTRPG #oc

A digital illustration of a young boy from the third episode of Mushi-shi titled "Tender Horns" depicting him small sets of horns as he covers his ears. Behind him are a mirrored set of hands, with a trio of "un mushi" and branching veins.

Tender Horns #mushishi

A post by c.a.t.y.a.y that reads, "I wonder what my art could've been if I didn't quit". Iggy responds, "I wonder what it will be if you start again"

Going into 2026, a reminder for everyone who's fallen off the creative wagon, game dev, writing, art, music, whatever, no matter how long:

Love the "decrepit technology in frozen wasteland" aesthetic ♥️

love being an artist with free will

I love this so much 🥹

Haunted Hayride Makes Extra-Spooky Turn Onto Interstate

Haunted Hayride Makes Extra-Spooky Turn Onto Interstate

The absolute irony of me—someone with ADHD—realizing a week late that it’s #ADHDAwarenessMonth

"we traveled to the remote monastery where this specialty cheese is created to interview the monks that hold the secret to its unique woody flavor"

Happy birthday, you get to see this before YouTube does because the audio quality there is ass ✌🏽

Thank you so much!!

good evening

Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024

been playing a bunch of older games that I never gave a chance since grabbing a SteamDeck and I’m having way too much fun

some more helpful reminders from 2016 me who knew more than i do now #reruns

my banana cream soda review!

Pixel art illustration of Mothra, flying up in the night sky with the moon behind her.

Queen of the Monsters
#Mothra #Godzilla #PixelArt #Kaijune

Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

My sister got a new kitten and it immediately decided to loaf on a watermelon and bless us with this picture.

Barakamon is funny and heartwarming :3

thought when making toast earlier