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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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Zathsu @zathsu.bsky.social · Feb 12
Slots open again for another wave of commissions. The first set was a test run to get a feel for my pace. That plus demand has unfortunately resulted in me raising prices a smidge. Feelin more final about these ones though. :)

#opencomms #commissions #art #artist #commissionsopen #oc #ocsky
zathsu.bsky.social
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
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Im so sad that bluesky doesnt just have a basic spoiler option. I did Deltarune Chapter 3 fan art but dont want to post it so soon without a spoiler tag RAAARGH

#deltarune #deltarunech3 #deltarunechapter3
June 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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the-funi-harm-guy.bsky.social
Me alongside 20 of my favorite characters that I've made over the years for my 20th birthday. It's on June 9th, but y'all can have this a bit early :3

#art #artist #collage #oc #ocsky #birthday
June 2, 2025 at 4:17 AM
zathsu.bsky.social
Sorry I havent posted as much recently. I've been working on a huge project that I'd love to share more about as it gets closer to completion!! ;)
May 20, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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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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lapissedl4zuli7.bsky.social
Sooo, @zathsu.bsky.social mentioned a while back that she and some friends are working on a card game; I'm one of those friends, wahoo.
Here's some art I made for a few cards: Bloodbender, Ravenous Hydra, Tumulton the Tank, and Hammerhead Dragon.

#cardgame #cardart #art #artist #oc #ocsky
Bloodbender - A woman with a skull-like mask and a large hood, along with robes that glow orange. Her arms also have glowing red markings as well, especially on her sleeveless left arm. She wields a dagger that glows red; combined with her open right hand, which has an obscured cut in its palm, she manipulates blood around herself. Her robes and even her face are splattered with blood. In front of her neck on her hood she wears a Demonic emblem of a red bovine head with a pentagram. Ravenous Hydra - A blue, three-headed hydra with short, sprawled legs and a long fishlike tail in the background. It lives in a swampy jungle in front of awaterfall. Two of its heads are tugging at a shred of meat while one looks on, jaws agape. In front of the hydra is the half-eaten head and neck of a smaller hydra (another card in the game, by the name of "Incomplete Hydra" since it only has one head). The Ravenous Hydra has numerous scars all over it, likely from fighting with other dragons. Tumulton the Tank - A gigantic, reanimated corpse of a humanoid warrior against a nondescript red background. Both arms are reduced to sinewy muscles, with its right arm unravelling into a series of tentacles. Its face bears a large rhinoceros-like horn and numerous eyes, one of which has two pupils. Various parts of its armor glow with a pale, necrotic energy. Stabbed into its armor and body at random points are numerous weapons like arrows, swords, and harpoons. Only an exaggeratedly thin spinal column connects its two halves together. On one part of the armor on its left arm it bears the Monstrous emblem of a Lovecraftian single-eyed cephalopod-like creature. Hammerhead Dragon - A large dragon in a volcanic, underground landscape. So-called because not only do its eyes protrude sideways like a hammerhead shark, its two horns and large, square head also resemble a hammer. The upper half of its body is protected with numerous small spikes.
April 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
zathsu.bsky.social
"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
zathsu.bsky.social
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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oldalph.bsky.social
April 15, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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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
zathsu.bsky.social
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
zathsu.bsky.social
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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wizard-world.bsky.social
Howdy y'all 👋🧙‍♂️ redesigned my dragons 🐉

#fantasy #scifi #dragon #wizard #world #cryptozoology
I’m still working on it, but I have decided to lean further into avian traits for my dragons, due to their gizzards. (They swallow the crystals of Hollow Earth as gizzard stones.) When an older dragon is slain, these stones can be repurposed as crystal balls for communication and magical conduits. Wizards rely on crystal balls for communication, as prolonged mana use tends to fry most modern electronics over time.
April 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
zathsu.bsky.social
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
zathsu.bsky.social
wegghhh sometimes i feel like a bug on a stone that just got flipped over and exposed to the sunlight..
March 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
zathsu.bsky.social
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
zathsu.bsky.social
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
zathsu.bsky.social
I am doing a 33% DISCOUNT on character art for the first three commission clients this month.

My pinned commission sheet lists other places to contact me, if not comfortable with Bsky DMs.

#commsopen #commissions #commissionart #commissionsopen #art #artist
March 1, 2025 at 6:08 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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oldalph.bsky.social
lil guy needs a name
#art #oc #ink
February 27, 2025 at 6:47 AM
zathsu.bsky.social
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