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CERU@extended hiatus 📌
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drawing for fun
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to the future! #xenoblade
April 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
misc scraps #ocsky
March 15, 2025 at 11:59 AM
elysium ~ in the dream #xenobladechronicles2
March 14, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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February 27, 2025 at 11:58 AM
🎨
February 27, 2025 at 11:58 AM
the beginning of the world #xenoblade
February 27, 2025 at 11:58 AM
the beast, the princess, and the hero #tloz #tearsofthekingdom
November 21, 2024 at 4:17 PM
ok i think the wall i hit on this was having to draw a loftwing tbh..
November 18, 2024 at 9:09 PM
never finished the page this is from but she's still so cutes. Some parts really need going back over but this still holds up i think...
November 18, 2024 at 9:04 PM
the oracle games 🍃 #TLOZ #link
November 18, 2024 at 8:59 PM
November 17, 2024 at 4:03 PM
1hr30
November 16, 2024 at 9:17 PM
Practice
November 16, 2024 at 9:10 PM
Thank you for the art share! I'm Ceru, i mostly draw fanart but i do block printing and post about my ocs too, i've historically sucked at remembering alt text but I've started making a conscious effort to include it across platforms since coming here 🫡 here's some of my recent work!
November 15, 2024 at 4:25 PM
horror as in the underlying creepyness and psychological stress throughout the xenoblade games
November 15, 2024 at 3:07 PM
2 ways.
nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html is a v useful offensive tool but can spit out quite big files bc it's pixel-by-pixel. Glaze is its defensive, less demanding counterpart: glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/webglaze.html

A noise overlay works too, though i think none of these are foolproof.
November 15, 2024 at 1:06 PM
TY everyone for reading my ramblings 😭 a lot of people following me here have been keeping up w/ my work for a looong time and it really means a lot🥹 i've been drawing for most of my life and the 10-year improvement goes crazy. Im going to be 20 in a few months so i hope that i keep aiming higher :3
November 15, 2024 at 11:49 AM
It's nice to feel like you're improving, and until i reach the point where i feel my backgrounds are better than the characters on them, it's where i'll keep my focus.
Heres some stuff I've had on the backburner that I've been waiting to be good enough at drawing to finish
November 15, 2024 at 11:16 AM
I don't actually have a ton of examples of recent backgrounds to show off because of how much I have under NDA, but these are fairly demonstrative.
2 is a quick touch-up of 1, 3 and 4 are the same concept a few months apart
Notice - tighter shapes, more conscious shadows, detail only where needed
November 15, 2024 at 10:59 AM
Something I've learnt wrt detail is to stop when it's at a point that Works.
1 and 2 are thumbnails in a larger piece, so that point was blocking shadows on a form.
I stopped too early on 3, so it looks unfinished. The level of detail isnt consistent lol
4 is good, but i could have pushed it more!
November 15, 2024 at 10:52 AM
Overreliance on a broad range of brushes is also something that trips me up when painting - it leaves me trying and failing to copy texture 1-1 rather than just imply it. I was very proud of these when i first did them (piece 4 still holds!) but the textures on the minutae are in the wrong places!
November 15, 2024 at 10:41 AM
In trying to improve my background work, I had reached a point where studies werent enough to construct a landcape from scratch. ive relied a lot on game screenshots in the past since im pretty neurotic about accuracy so recently ive been trying to do quick(~1hr) drawings of landscapes from my head
November 15, 2024 at 10:06 AM
November 14, 2024 at 7:59 PM
holy fuck congrats on 5k. Lone stocks rising. I would like to enter this plus Here is a funny meme (its a 2 parter i love these images so much)
November 14, 2024 at 7:17 PM
i finally put together some sort of webpage :) go and check out criticalspell.straw.page (maybe even send me some stuff in 🥹?)
November 13, 2024 at 5:10 PM