Oh, mood! 😂

This looks so cozy!

A pencil sketch of two characters standing side by side. On the left is Xaranthras, who looks vaguely kinda like some sort of anthropomorphic ungulate with a head crest that resembles a cross between a ceratopsid dinosaur's frill and antlers, with multiple horns sticking out at the back. He does not look happy. Next to him is a human in fancy robe like clothing. He seems to be looking at some kind of notebook or pad in his hand. He's holding a cane on the other hand.

I think I'm a bit proud of myself.
I've been trying to learn how to draw humans and after a full year of trying I finally figured out how!

So Xaranthras's boss finally has a proper face.

In less time than it took to get our jaws off the floor and make this little update, Runaway to the Stars has already hit the first funding goal of $10,000 in just 18 minutes! here's a link for you to look inside: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ironspike/runaway-to-the-stars?ref=bv3t4m If you haven't touched this IP but enjoyed Project Hail Mary, this is for you! If you enjoy space travel or the idea of life off-Earth, this is for you! If you are a fan of anthro or aliens or interspecies community, this is for YOU! You won't want to miss out, and if you're still on the fence, take a little read: https://www.runawaytothestars.com/

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Drawing of two minotaurs sitting side by side. The left one is a cream colored male, who's smiling and gesturing theatrically with one arm elevated and the other placed over his heart. He has two golden rings on his left horn and two small earrings on his left ear. The right one is agouti/wild type in color, with a gradient brown base with a darker mask marking, neck and shoulders and dark thighs and tail tip. She has a fluffy white tuft of hair, thin white blaze down her snout and a long, triangular white marking on her chest and down to her abdomen. She's also smiling and looking at her brother, leaning an elbow against his shoulder, while her other arm is propped up, hand on her thigh.

I colored them! Unfortunately this sketchbook page didn't take watercolors as well as previous ones, so the colors are a bit blotchy.

The theater twins, the cream colored himbo and his wild type (with some white) sister.

Oh, I can believe that! There's so much going on, I keep finding new details the more I look at it.

Hot DANG, this is such a cool design!

Well, technically the tattooniversary was couple days ago, but I forgot to take the celebratory photo the day of.

But celebrations to all my fellow aces out there!

A photo of my forearm, resting on the back of an old, dark-ish green couch. Underneath the arm is a small asexual Pride flag. There is a tattoo is a stripy Sinosauropteryx-type dinosaur surrounded by monstera leaves tattooed across the forearm, covering it from elbow to wrist. The dinosaur is fluffy, it has whiskers like a cat, and has a wide eyed expression. I like to think it's gonna go have zoomies at any moment.

Oh, I heard it's International Asexuality Day today!

Also featuring my arm dinosaur, to also celebrate its one year inking anniversary while I'm at it! (Tattooed and designed by zu_immortal on instagram)

Two minotaur characters sitting. The one on the left is smiling and gesturing something while holding the other in a one-armed side hug. The right one is laughing and leaning into him, looking at his gesturing, her arms crossed over her chest.

The same two minotaurs, sitting yet again. The brother on the left is gesturing again, one hand in the air and the other over his chest. This time the sister is leaning on an elbow she has propped on his shoulder. They are both smiling.

If I just keep drawing my minotaurs, I'm eventually bound to make a drawing I can actually color.

Still nameless twins, who are part of a performing troupe otherwise mostly made up of fauns.

The weather continues to be great, so. A Wednesday update.

Google's telling me this means 25.4miles in american units.

A cropped screen shot with the text: You walked 28,4 km this week!

How to tell it's spring time and the weather has been pretty:

(For context, it's Tuesday.)

Giving this a boost in hopes it will reach more folks who would be able to sign, it's a citizens' initiative for adding non-binary as a legal gender marker option in Finland💛🤍💜🖤

Kansalaisaloite ei-binäärisen, juridisen sukupuolimerkinnän lisäämisestä lakiin: www.kansalaisaloite.fi/fi/aloite/15...

Thank you!

Aww, thank you!

And then I spent, like, another hour doing basically the pencil version of that thing where you move a line a single pixel over, back and forth over and over again.

Still not brave enough to do watercolors on it. But hey, at least the character looks nice!

A sketch of a female minotaur. She's sitting on something, leaning slightly to the side in a relaxed recline.

A sitting minotaur lady for the same project as the centaurs.

This was supposed to be a simple doodle to test some colors and markings on, but I like how the sketch turned out so much that I'm now scared of coloring it in case I ruin it with watercolors. 😅

Colored her!

A line art drawing of a female centaur standing in a side view, looking back over her shoulder. There are faint pencil outlines for piebald markings on her fur. She has long, wavy mane and tail and she's smiling. She's wearing a minimal outfit of a decorative collar/necklace with three hanging bead chains on the front, an earring similar to the bead chains. She has a big silk flower next to one ear, and she has a capelet on the "horse" half that looks like an ancient Egyptian style loin cloth.

Concept arted some centaur fashion. This one is specifically supposed to be the uniform of a fancy bath house worker.

Screen shot of the site behind the link. It says: "Your JND 0.0031 Okay this is genuinely impressive. You're well below the standard JND of 0.02. The CIE should be sending you a job offer. Or at least a certificate."

Did the color thing. This was pretty fun!

Also discovered my phone screen needed cleaning, the slightly discolored mess on where the keyboard comes up in wasn't helping, haha!

www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

I'm so proud!

It really was! My minute as a disney princess, haha!

Yet another photo of the fox, this time in better focus (and blurrier background) as it decided I'm not dangerous and walked away towards the woods.

One more photo of the fox right before it disappeared into the woods.

Couple more photos, as the site kept crashing when I tried to upload the whole set in one post.

But FOX! I've seen them on my evening (and night) walks many times before, but never this close!

A blurry photo of a fox staring cautiously at the camera. It's on a pedestrian dirt road with some snow at the edge. On the background there's an underpass and the edge of woods. (I didn't have my flash on, which is why everything got blurred, but on the other hand I didn't spook the fox with the flash, which I think is the nicer outcome.)

Another, marginally sharper photo of the fox. It's back half is in sharper focus than its front as it turned its head just as I took the photo. It's a pretty popular jogging route, which is why it's so well light, though apparently atill not enough for the phone camera.

I saw a fox on my evening walk today!

I had stopped to type a message on my phone, which is probably why it didn't notice me untill just couple meters away. It inspected me for a bit before disappearing into the woods.

Such a neat encounter!

Today is my balloon day! 🎂🎈

I saw the custom sharing an artist's work on that day, so... if I may wish for that? 💜😳👉👈

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Thank you!

The way you draw fur is just so pleasant to look at. The textures are just great, and I feel the paper/pencil just enhances the effect!

Also happy anniversary of existence! :D

A photo of a deep green T-shirt being worn by your's truly. On the shirt are printed 12 emoticons, three of each of the four characters. On the left is Ajax the changeling party paladin in his human form: the top emoticon showing him blowing a kiss, middle one is a party emoticon with a party hat, confetti and sun glasses, and Ajax having a bright smile, and the bottom one is Ajax drinking from a bright red cup. Next character is Fanni, the hexblood ranger (gloomstalker). Top one is her with an unhinged smile, the middle one is a sly, knowing smile, and the bottom one is the disgruntled squint seen reflected in the other photo. Next is Kuisma, my satyr warlock/sorcerer (celestial/divine soul, unicorn patron). Top one has them with the biggest puppy eyes, the second one has them smiling and tossing their hair back, surrounded by sparkles, and the bottom one is them facepalming. The final character on the right is Rustonupikka, the warforged druid (circle of spores, a robot covered in mushrooms). The top one has them doing a happy gasp, the middle one has them with a shy blush and the third one has a blank stare with a buffering/loading icon over their head.

Given that our DnD group consists of four art people (and one engineer), we have a lot of custom art, and have a habit of ordering custom shirts for our campaigns! This campaign's designated shirt having emoticons of all our player characters, as drawn by our druid's player.

A photo of a gaming table. On the table there are a map of a dungeon, with a smaller detail grid book placed on it for a combat map. On said map are some painted miniatures. There are some other knicknacks scattered around the edges. On the front there's a tablet screen propped up with a digital character sheet open on it. Reflected on the screen is an emoticon of a deeply disgruntled looking character's face squinting. (The character is a hexblood gloomstalker ranger named Fanni.)

Had a DnD weekend with some friends!

Accidentally managed to take the best photo ever, as trying to take a general shot of our gaming table, the sun bounced off from my custom shirt in JUST the right way so our ranger's emoticon reflected on my tablet screen as a reaction shot!

Dang. The real thing is so cool too! I remember the first time I saw a video of it in a documentary, and *I* was fooled. It doesn't need to be like actual spider to be impressive.