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Bas Wilk
@elektroschnitzl.bsky.social
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⚡️ Vis Dev Artist (part-time), Freelance Illustrator (occasional), Idiot (full-time)
🌈 Two Gnomes in a Trench Coat (he/they) - also queer
🗡️ I like D&D/TTRPGs a Normal Amount
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The Queen's Retinue (Dungeons of Drakkenheim) ⚔️
AD: Marius Bota

„The unfortunate souls that perish in the ruins of DRAKKENHEIM shall seldomly find respite. Delirium shards pierced the once cherished Queen‘s retinue, now doomed to walk the abandoned gardens in their new grotesque forms.“
The picture shows a twisted, undead-looking dryad. Purple crystal shards pierce her chest and lower back, while its face is pointed skyward. Its dress is dirty and torn, moss is growing in some parts and fungal growth shows the corruption the humanoid has undergone. Grassy, almost slimy-looking hair covers most of its face, while the bark skin carries a sickly blue tone. The most defining feature is its broken back that is held together by hardened leaves from a bird of paradise plant that wraps around its mid-section. The sheet presented shows the original notes written down. They read, top to bottom: "dryad-like", "once the Queen's personal attendants", "handmaidens", "dishevelled, misshapen", "moss-covered petticoats", "slimy grass for hair", "skin like knobbly bark", "delirium shards in their flesh", "considered monsters / semi-intelligent". To the right of the list are three medieval headdresses and variations that make it look more plant-like. The entire bottom of the picture shows six different concepts for the creature, some dainty, others resembling more of a bruiser-type of a creature. Picking up the second sketch from the concepts, this sheet shows the first scribble, a cleaned-up linework of the original sketch, and a roughly coloured version with three small variations floating next to it. This resembles the final stage before rendering of the illustration.
December 5, 2023 at 2:44 PM
elektroschnitzl.bsky.social
Oh hi, Blue Sky! Seems like we've got to populate this channel at some point, so why not start now?

Here's a quick spread of artworks that I've worked on, both privately and professionally, in the past - and then fell off the face of the planet.

BUT, let's tackle that and paint again; can't wait 💚
The picture shows a twisted, undead-looking dryad. Purple crystal shards pierce her chest and lower back, while its face is pointed skyward. Its dress is dirty and torn, moss is growing in some parts and fungal growth shows the corruption the humanoid has undergone. Grassy, almost slimy-looking hair covers most of its face, while the bark skin carries a sickly blue tone. The most defining feature is its broken back that is held together by hardened leaves from a bird of paradise plant that wraps around its mid-section. A pale wood elf hovers a few inches above the ground, their legs slightly tucked in for balance. Their hands, much like claws, are outstretched to the left and right, as if to summon something. The elf's shoulder-long dark hair is matted, greasy, and slicked back behind the pierced ears. Scarifications on their face symbolise the eye placement one would find with wolf spiders. On their shoulder rests a horned toad, that would look normal if it wasn't for the cordyceps mushroom growing from its right nostril. Looking up from within a large and walled desert pit, we see a gargantuan pyramid upside-down and floating mid-air. From each of its edges, waterfalls are spouting into the unknown depths below. From the right, a platform with obelisks on top reaches into the pit, like a place for prayer. Set into alcoves within the walls, animal-headed statues of towering size look towards the pyramid, as if in permanent vigil. A large stairway in the back of the pit leads in and out of the place of worship, where tiny silhouettes suggest people coming and going; tiny in comparison to the rest of the structure. And above, peach-coloured clouds make their way over a warmly lit evening sky. Above the artwork itself, the steps are shown, including not only the shape exploration but also a 3D-version of the scene which helped to visualize the difficult perspective and was overpainted later. An oval and polished orb seems to hover over three stone slabs in the middle of a mystical forest. Sunlight is breaching through the canopy of a triangular-looking tree; its bark twisted in spirals, and vines hanging from its branches. In the otherwise dimly lit surroundings the shapes of similar trees pierce through the veil of fog and mystery. Around are sloping grass-covered mounds, sprinkled with wondrous glowing weeds. Above the picture itself it shows the steps that lead to the artwork; first a shape sketch in pure black on pure white, then a version that suggests lighting in the scene, followed by the first colours being added. The sketches are much more zoomed in than the final piece.
December 3, 2023 at 5:38 PM