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ginger/alaina 🪽🔥
@gingersnipevm.bsky.social
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27 - they/them - occasional critical role fanart and constant dnd brainrot - curse of strahd DM - currently: horsin around 🎠
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quick 30 minute horse study for this week’s #wednesdayweeklies
a digital illustration of a black horse rearing
November 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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some closeups from this piece that i really enjoyed painting
a zoom in on desireè’s face a zoom in on visenya’s face and their collar a zoom in on their upraised hands
October 29, 2025 at 2:31 PM
gingersnipevm.bsky.social
and the war, it carries on

a redraw of JC Leyendecker’s Man and Woman Dancing, featuring my visenya and their ex lover, desireè

#dndcharacterart #wednesdayweeklies
a digital illustration of two people dancing. visenya, an aasimar with grey skin and a double halo, leads the dance in the position of leyendecker’s man. desireè, a vibrant red tiefling wearing a purple backless dress, takes the women’s position and looks back over her shoulder with a downcast expression
October 29, 2025 at 2:31 PM
gingersnipevm.bsky.social
some figure drawings from last month

#figuredrawing #wednesdayweeklies
a charcoal drawing of a masculine torso lit from the right side a charcoal drawing of a feminine person sitting on a stool holding a staff a charcoal drawing of a feminine person sitting on a wrinkled cloth
October 8, 2025 at 3:11 PM
gingersnipevm.bsky.social
3 hour figure drawing from sunday’s class 🕺

we each spent a 20-min session on eachother’s pieces so this ended up as a bit of a collaboration with my classmates. i learned so much!

#figuredrawing #wednesdayweeklies
a charcoal figure drawing of a man from the thighs up
August 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
gingersnipevm.bsky.social
second and final #artfight attack of the year

to the players in my trojan war oneshot, i love you. thank you for bringing your devotion to my silly little game

#wednesdayweeklies
a digital painting of a group of people lit dramatically by light from one side. thamyris, demigod of desire, rises from the center, as their myriad lovers cling to them from below. one of these lovers, a half-orc named blair, stabs thamyris through the heart with a bronze blade. thamyris strokes blair’s cheek with one hand a closeup detail shot of thamyris’s face a closeup detail shot of blair’s face, as well as some of thamyris’s other lovers. elektra, right, grabs blair’s arm in vain hope of preventing the blow. alcaeus, left, tilts his face up to thamyris in supplication another zoomed in detail shot. this one depicts pericles, top, devastated as he reaches out his hands to grasp for thamyris, and aithon, bottom, who uses their hand to lift up alcaeus’s
August 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
gingersnipevm.bsky.social
first #artfight attack of the year 🤺

go team fossil!! ignore the fact that this is friendly fire :’)

the lovely lady arhemise for @eyezpike.bsky.social

#wednesdayweeklies
a digital drawing of a half-drow woman’s head in profile view. she sneers back at the camera
July 9, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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🪽 hi, i’m alaina or ginger!

🔬 i’m a scientist building a portfolio to hopefully apply to medical illustration grad programs next year

🐉 i also draw fanart for my own dnd campaigns as well as (occasionally) critical role

#portfolioday
a traditional illustration of a group of pigeons in a tub. one white pigeon makes eye contact with the camera while two other pigeons flare their wings behind it. colored pencil and chalk pastel on grey toned paper a digital illustration of three people embracing in front of a gothic cathedral window. the person on the left is a blonde elven man with golden skin and lavender eyes. he embraces the person in the middle, a pale woman with brown hair. the person on the right, a half-elven woman with tumbling red curls and copper skin, embraces her as well, exposing her pointed vampire teeth as she licks up her neck a traditional illustration of a black woman sitting on a box. colored pencil on sepia toned paper a digital illustration of a dark bay horse trotting across a field
July 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
gingersnipevm.bsky.social
my last painting from the class i took this month 🎨

3 hour portrait
acrylic on 16x20” canvas

#wednesdayweeklies #portrait #painting
an acrylic painting of a person with vibrant purple hair a previous version of the same painting
July 2, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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another wednesday another #figuredrawing

3 hours, acrylic on 16x20in canvas

#wednesdayweeklies
a painting of a person sitting on a stool leaning on a walking stick the same painting at an earlier stage
June 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
gingersnipevm.bsky.social
in the midst of moving into my new apartment i paused for 3 hours to go to another figure painting class.

i was challenged by one of the instructors to stop layering and mix colors instead 😭 very difficult for me, but i learned a lot!

#figuredrawing #wednesdayweeklies
a painting of a nude woman sitting on a stool the same painting as previous in an earlier stage of painting
June 18, 2025 at 6:22 PM
gingersnipevm.bsky.social
i attended a live 3 hour figure painting class for the first time last week— so much fun, and i’m very much looking forward to the next one!

#wednesdayweeklies #figuredrawing
an acrylic painting of a nude woman looking over her shoulder. she’s painted in shades of pink and purple and stands in front of some drapery and a potted plant a preliminary step to the previous where the painting is unfinished
June 11, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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may was so busy i haven’t done a lick of art since my last piece, but i’ve been picking away at this chain in my (very sparse) free time. sweet pea using 18swg 3/16” (AR 4.0)

hopefully will be a necklace eventually! it’s getting there

#wednesdayweeklies
a photo of two segments of gold rings pieced together in a sweet pea pattern the same as previous except now there are 6 segments the same as previous but longer the same as all previous but much longer
June 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
gingersnipevm.bsky.social
this love is the killing kind 🥀🗡️

#wednesdayweeklies #dndcharacterart #curseofstrahd
a digital painting of 3 people embracing in front of a gothic cathedral window. the left person is a blonde elf man wearing a billowy poet shirt. he looks up at the middle person, a brunette woman in a green dress, with adoration in his eyes. the right person, a woman with tan skin and deep red hair, licks up the middle woman’s neck, her vampire teeth exposed
May 7, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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if your curse of strahd campaign doesn’t have at least one vampire polycule at the end of it you’re doing it wrong

#wipwednesday #wednesdayweeklies #dndcharacterart
a digital painting of 3 people embracing
April 30, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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3 hour figure drawing with prismacolor pencils ✏️

#wednesdayweeklies #figuredrawing
a colored pencil illustration of a black woman sitting on a white box
April 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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hi #portfolioday

i’m alaina aka ginger, a multimedia artist who does their best to balance the science and arts in their life 🔬🎨
a colored pencil and chalk pastel illustration of a bunch of multicolored pigeons in a tub. the white pigeon at the center states down the camera as it is framed by the upraised wings of two other pigeons a digital illustration of a bay horse doing a big stretch a digital illustration of a dark bay horse with white feathering cantering across a field a colored pencil illustration of the ring of brass sitting around a table. laerryn holds the fragment of the solar’s bow, her lips twitching into a smirk. nydas holds a tuning fork. loquacious rests his hand on laerryn’s shoulder. zerxus holds his hand up in a “stop” motion. patia elegantly brushes the fragment with the tip of a finger. cerrit’s hand is clenched on the table and he turns his head so that his eye, the only one visible in the piece, glares at the viewer, clutching his hand axe with his other hand
April 8, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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pigeons at bathtime

colored pencil and chalk pastel on grey toned paper. ~20 hours

#sciart #realism #art
a colored pencil and chalk pastel drawing of a group of pigeons in a tub. two white pigeons take center stage and are surrounded by a somewhat chaotic group of grey pigeons. the center white pigeon stares down the camera while two other birds flare their wings behind it.
April 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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just under 2 hours on this one, a little looser than my other horses

#wednesdayweeklies #horse
a digital illustration of a chestnut horse cantering across a green field
April 2, 2025 at 2:48 PM
gingersnipevm.bsky.social
happy #transdayofvisibility from your friendly neighborhood agender 🖤🩶🤍💚

here are a couple of my genderfucky dnd characters to celebrate :)
a digital drawing of simeon star-eyes, a firbolg stars druid slash path of the harbinger barbarian. they use all pronouns. they have dusky grey/purple skin, long ears like a brahman cow, and a prominent profile similar to that of a damascus goat. their hair is white down to the eyelashes. they have a tail. they wear form-fitting black underclothes with a loosely belted wrap of starry fabric overtop a colored digital drawing of visenya, an aasimar with grey skin, long white hair, and pupilless orange eyes. they’re wearing fishnets, knee-high combat boots, a red dress open at the chest and with slits up to their hips, a black corset with gold hardware, a tall black choker laced up at their neck, and a set of scale mail pauldrons draped with golden chainmaille. they have sets of golden chains crossing over their body and are wielding a spiked golden chakram in one hand. a pair of ethereal winged halos cross over her forehead
March 31, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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it’s sapphic saturday! QRP with something sapphic 💕

#dndcharacterart
a digital drawing of two people embracing on a bed. they gaze into each others eyes. the person on the left, visenya, is a grey-skinned aasimar with a double halo, pupilless amber eyes, and long straight white hair. they wear a wine red shirt open over a flat chest, a black corset and pauldrons, and fishnets. the person on the right, desireè, is a tiefling with red skin, golden eyes with black sclera, and dark curly hair. she is wearing a gold dress and ornate gold earrings. their surroundings are plush and toned in purples, reds, and gold accents. visenya is an aasimar sorcerer/paladin and desireè is a tiefling sorcerer/bard/rogue
March 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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pigeons at bathtime

~10 hours in so far, prismacolor pencils on grey toned paper

ref photo courtesy of @pryingblackbird.bsky.social

#wip #wipwednesday #wednesdayweeklies
a colored pencil drawing of a group of pigeons clustered together
March 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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timelapse of this piece! ~2 hours in 60 seconds

#horse #art
March 19, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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~2 hour study 🎠

#wednesdayweeklies #art #horse
a digital painting of a bay horse bowing its head in a big forward stretch
March 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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happy 10th anniversary, critical role 🎉🥳

#CR10Party #criticalrolefanart
@exandriaartists.bsky.social
a digital painting of imogen. she’s wearing a strappy red dress with long flowing skirt panels and shoulder pieces. her customary thigh holster is in full view as she lifts one leg forward, floating in midair. both arms are outstretched to either side as she casts a glowing number 10 in lightning, wreathed in red, purple, orange, and black clouds. her purple hair streams out behind her.
March 12, 2025 at 1:03 PM