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Ari
@arikin13.bsky.social
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Hi! I am Ari (Arikin) and I am an accountant who struggles with motivation to draw, but loves to be creative. I mostly make art for my D&D games and characters, but I've drawn pretty much everything over the years.

https://linktr.ee/Arikin
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Hello! I am aiming to engage actively in ArtFight this year on Team Crystals ^_^

My AF user is "Arikin"
Featured Characters from left to right: Buggi (memorial), Flicker, Asha, Sailleach, and Frostfire

#artfight #teamcrystals #arikin #arikin13
ArtFight user template. User: Arikin or Ari. Ari attacks: humanoids, ferals, anthro, monsters, real animals, and fantasy. Art does friendly fire and revenge. Ari has human, feral, and anthro characters. The user portrait is a faun woman with olive toned skin, brown hair, a single horn on her right side, brightly lit amber eyes, and leaf-dappled shading. The five featured characters are Buggi, a black and white spotted cat with green eyes. Flicker, a human witch with light toned skin, many brown freckles, purple eyes, glasses, a green witch's hat, and curly brown hair done up into two pigtail buns. Asha, a green skinned tiefling/changeling with long dark green wavy hair and bright golden eyes with no sclera and a brighter golden pupil. Sailleach (otherwise known as Willow) is a gray corsac fox with green eyes and green, gray, and cream markings. The Main marking is a cream crescent moon on her forehead. Last is Frostfire, an icy blue dragon with feathers.
June 22, 2025 at 9:54 PM
arikin13.bsky.social
Meet Kali, my Firbolg Gloomstalker Ranger! ^_^ Her ghostly snake companion is a homebrewed version of the item "Simon" from CritRole campaign 1.

#dndart #firbolg #portraitsketch #gloomstalker #ttrpgart #art
June 14, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Please feel free to save, print, and use personally. Not for commercial use.

I'm not a cartoonist or a caricature artist, but an attempt was made. DM me if you want the OG file in order to resize. Default resolution is letter sized paper.

#nokings #democracynow #staysafeeveryone
Cartoon caricature of Donald Trump in front of a diagonal sign stating "No Kings" atop a United States of America flag
June 11, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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My Sibling had me do a "roll for OC" and this ghostly kiddo is my roll. Nonbinary ghost/ghoul child. Took a lot of reference from Grell (Black Butler character) and some pins that got me wanting to try a more cartoony style than I normally do.

I haven't named them, feel free to comment suggestions!
A fullbody concept sketch of a nonbinary glowing ghost child with floating straight red hair in a half up-half down hairstyle. Their face shows an almost smug expression with glowing blue eyes and a single sharpened tooth in their crooked smile. They wear a red long trench coat, a glowing chain moon necklace, a suit vest, suit pants, and multi-colored sneakers.
June 7, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Did a portrait of my sibling's (Cherry_Trickster) DnD character Locke. Apparently it is National Drawing Day and while I couldn't make a decision of what to draw myself, I am always thankful to my Sibling for giving me prompts when I can't.

#dnd5e #dndcharacter #art #characterart #arikin13
A portrait of a humanoid woman with long black feathery hair, piercing yellow eyes, and brightly colored beaded earrings with a crow feather. She has an almost bemused look on her face as she has one brow arched and a half smile. There is a golden hair clip in her hair. She wears dark brown leather armor that is very roughly colored in. The background is a gradient mix of lilac and yellow with a rough blend.
May 17, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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Did another D&D scene sketch

We are in a giant library with some floating pillars and it has made for some interesting things. Our harengon is standing on our Goliath in order to read the directory and my earth genasi has rigged her rope whip as a harness from the floor above

#dnddoodles #dndart
April 30, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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April 21, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Different take on a self portrait... so here is me surrounded by my negativity with what little glow of creativity I still have, wilting, but trying to continue shining.

#arikin13 #arikin13art #selfportrait #digitalartist #clipstudiopaintart
An excessively dark, red tinged abyss with a faintly glowing green and orange body in the fetal position in the center. Inside of the body is green leaves of varying colors, and a single tree with branches holding faintly glowing orange flowers. The glow is dimmed on most of the flowers. The person holds a single, wilting orange flower with barely any glow, but yet it still gives off enough light to brighten up the person a little.
April 8, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Not... my normal style. Chose to use a very rough pen for this piece because I didn't feel clean fit the emotions I was creating with.

Portrayed is my character Asha... it isn't perfect, far from it, but I think the emotion is there. Wishing for better days ahead, for health and hope and friends.
A green skinned face framed by dark green hair with orange to yellow to white eyes that burn with an inner and outer rage. The eyes glow with the anger and that glow spills onto the cheeks, nose, and strands of hair.
April 5, 2025 at 5:21 AM
arikin13.bsky.social
Watching EXU: Divergence and very much enjoyed a description of Crokas during battle and so gave an attempt at drawing him.

#art #sketch #crokas #criticalrole #exudivergence #dragonborn #ttrpgart
Side view facing bust of Crokas, a character from Critical Role’s Exandria Unlimited: Divergence. A scarred Dragonborn with a bulge at his throat and an attempt at lightning shooting from his snarling maw. He wears tattered clothes and has some darker markings on his mostly white scaled body.
March 23, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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QRP with your art that has stars!

This is an oldie of mine- Galaxy Fox which I made in 2018 for a competition. P sure it’s only on my ancient dA account at this point (ForeverEryn).

#arttrain #artshare #art
March 19, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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I have worked on an art. :P Sketch of my D&D character, Wuri, and his sentient scythe Sapphire (Saf). I hath digitized my sketch and colored them in. May I do more of these this year, please no more art block. #dnd5e #dndcharacter #art #characterart #scythe #arikin13
Sketched illustration of a pale man holding a flaming scythe in his right hand. His back faces the viewer. The scythe has a blue eye and is wreathed in bright blue flames. The man wears armor and holds a shield in his mostly unseen left hand.
March 18, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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I struggle with motivation and habit building. This year I hope to do more than I did last year (practically nonexistent) so yesterday I pulled my tablet out and just started playing. I threw rules out the window and just tried. I don't know if I am done with this portrait or not, but I have tried.
Flat colored sketch of a right-horned half deer half human woman. She has Hollyhock flowers at her forehead and along a vine up her left arm. She wears a collar with a sparkling gemstone. Her eyes glitter in yet unseen light. Roughly colored and shaded portrait of a right-horned, half deer half human woman. Dappled sunlight shines on her olive toned skin. She has furry downturned deer ears, and hollyhock flowers in her hair and on her left shoulder. Her eyes are brightly lit and there is a smile on her face.
March 12, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Sketch of my yet unplayed character Alcea.

Origin: Hollyhock flower (Alcea), Buff-thighed Puffleg Hummingbird (mostly for coloration), Muntjac deer

Ancestry: Satyr for the statblock, but she's basically a half deer-folk? I love crazy D&D worlds.

#art #dndart #satyrart #Alcea #sketch
Sketch of a deer-like woman with round eyes, downward turned deer ears, a single upward pointed horn above her right eye, and very puffy long wavy hair. She has a deer-like nose, a dark upturned upper lip. She wears a high collared top with no sleeves and feather decorations on her shoulders. Fullbody sketch of a satyr-like female with cloven hooves on digitigrade deer legs. She has a smile, deer ears, and a single upturned horn above her right eye. She has a curved glaive in her hands. She is wearing a skirt and tank top.
February 12, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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I... have not done much drawing since 2023 so this is my biggest success for 2025-- I sketched a character and completed his portrait.

Wuri -- Human Cleric/Sorcerer who looks like death warmed over

#art #portrait #dnd #dndcharacter #dndcharacterart #humansorcerer #investigator
February 2, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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ARTSHARE
Lots of new folks coming in from META let's welcome them in!

✦ Introduce yourself, add a fun fact about you
✦ Share your art
✦ Repost for visibility
✦ Tag a friend!
✦ Will repost for 24 hours
🚫 SFW human-made art only🚫
#artshare #art
Artshare. A lavender tiefling is jumping excited toward the viewer!
February 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Posting some of my favorite art to start off my blue sky account ^_^ Haven't drawn in a long time so most of this is from 2021. These are some old portraits I still love.

#art #portraits #dnd5e #pf2e #aasimar #dwarf #elf #lizardfolk
Portrait of a weathered, middle aged woman wearing heavy armor meant for color weather, gray hair drawn into a messy bun with bangs concealing part of her tilted head. Her skin is pale, in a deathly sense. She has two long scars stretching from her left forehead, across her nose, to her right cheek. Her eyes have a glowing white pupil, and her sclera are a raging thunderstorm with lightning dancing. Her name is Amnizi Nimraza. A portrait of an elderly dwarven man with heavy wrinkles across his weathered face. He has very bushy, feathered eyebrows and bright brown eyes. His dark brown and gray hair is long and drawn back into several braids. Three feathers are pinned in his hair above his left ear. He has a dark brown and gray beard that reaches down to the bottom of his chest. Three braids of mostly gray hair decorate this beard. He wears simple leather armor with shoulder armor carved out of bone. A young elven woman facing left with a gentle smile on her face as she looks down to the corner of the portrait. Her eyes are green. The shown right side of her face has two scars running through her forehead, over her eye, and ending at her cheek. She has three more less-noticeable scars on the back of her head, behind her right ear. The right side of her head of hair is shaved close to her skull, while the left side of her head of hair is barely seen in a large braid that drapes down her left shoulder. She wears leather armor glowing in the warm orange light, with a golden scale pinned at her collar. A portrait of a screaming lizardfolk man. His head is turned towards the upper right of the portrait with a mouth wide in a hissing, snarling scream. His bright yellow eyes close from beneath a crunched brow, and spotted brown and yellow frills (similar to a frilled lizard) flare out from his skull. He is wearing green light armor that shows his chest and he has three scars across the middle of his chest.
January 28, 2025 at 11:20 PM