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sebyth.bsky.social
Seb Williston
@sebyth.bsky.social
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Old, tired, they/them, mostly European-Canadian, spending my time playing video games, reading, and drawing/painting when my brain lets me. Particularly like spooky and mysterious things. Trying to re-learn how to be social in appropriate ways.
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This doll's hair isn't in good shape, and the attempts I'd made to braid it did not go well. Now I'm trying "rag curls". It's a lot slower than I'd expected but I have about half her hair prepared. When it's all wrapped I will try to set it using boiling water or some other heat thing.
November 22, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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One of the side effects of putting all my dolls in one place, is I found the doll I started customizing several years ago (but stopped because I made a mistake and was like welp I guess everything is ruined forever). Think I might try to work on it again.
photo of a doll laying on a dark surface. The doll is made of plastic and vinyl probably, is pale, has very light pink hair, and a custom face painted with acrylic paint mostly. There is an orange post-it with "WORK IN PROGRESS" written on it, covering the doll's torso.
November 21, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Been saving this packaging paper that came in various things over the years. Was thinking that I'd paint on it or use it in crafts or something some day. But while trying to tidy/make it neater, I noticed there's old bug cocoons/webs etc in some places. Should I just recycle it instead?
photo of cheap brown packaging paper on a dark orange blanket. Some of it is folded loosely and some is somewhat crumpled.
November 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Here is my doll shelf (and part the art shelf in it's new location). Wasn't sure how many dolls to take out of their boxes so a couple are still in them. I think this is more or less the final setup.
photo of a shelf unit filled with various dolls and figures. Some are in their original packing, some are in storage boxes. Most of them are Monster High and Rainbow High line dolls. There are other unrelated shelfs to the side with various sketchpads, papers, and a few more game-related figurines.
November 15, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Just need to install two more screws in the base of this thing and it will finally be assembled. Then I just have to tetris all my Stuff out of the spot I want to place it (while trying not to block access to any of my stored art supplies), and I can finally display my doll collection on it.
photo of a dark brown 3x3 cube shelf unit in front of a lot of other clutter and stuff in a dimly lit off-white rented room.
November 12, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Busted out the regular-ass HB and 2B pencils and drew some boxes at some point before rotting in bed all day and night. Couldn't be bothered to boot up the scanner so just took a photo with my phone.
photo of a sheet of orange construction paper with various 3D-looking boxes drawn with cheap graphite pencil. One or two are shaded to look more 3D.
November 10, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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screenshot of a sign template with the words changed to read "I'm so ready for sleep"
November 9, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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Took a break from struggling with sketching to update my Minecraft Villager residence with a new entryway and automatic doorway. Also I used different dark blocks to make a gradient on the roof tiles to make the lighting stand out more.
screenshot taken in the video game Minecraft, showing a nighttime scene focusing on a building two double gables (assuming I'm using that term correctly) made of brick, diorite, and spruce wood. Most of the lighting is copper lanterns.
November 6, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Was following a youtube portrait study thing from my watch-later and used paper I'd previously been trying to get my old gel pen to work on (it didn't). The pen scratches left over made a kinda interesting texture under the colour pencil.
scan of blue construction paper with a portrait sketch in green, blue, and dark red colour pencil. There is a texture or impression of many thin lines showing where the colour pencil didn't touch the paper. Text on the side indicate the date of the drawing (Nov 3 2025) and that is is a study from a video called "Block In Demo with Steven Bauman" on youtube channel Proko
November 3, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Decided to continue watching drawing exercise tutorials on youtube and I did in fact draw. Not sure how I feel about this drawing, but I did indeed draw (and paint, technically)
photo of a page in a watercolour sketchbook, with a continuous line drawing of a vaguely flower/floral shape, which was then thickened in places with black colour pencil and then covered in light washes of red, purple, and yellow-green-brownish watercolour
November 2, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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Drawing in October, following group prompt Holding Hands from #PoorlyDrawnOctober
This character has many hands to be held. Technically he has even more hands than I was able to depict, but I didn't want to make it even harder on myself.
scan of a drawing done with marker and colour pencil, depicting a giant seated figure covered in layers of red cloth and protective talismans with more than the expected number of arms sticking out of the cloth. A human figure in black is reaching out holding one of the giant hands.
October 29, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Ended up following one of the (probably hundreds of) drawing tutorial videos on my youtube watch later list. Ended up being forced to give up because I made the mistake of choosing construction paper. It did NOT take the pencil very well after one layer.
scan of a piece of white construction paper with an attempt to do a pencil rendering of a sphere with directional light shading the form. Used a 2B pencil and some cotton ball to smudge. Text on the top indicates that it is from "Shading a Sphere in Pencil" youtube video tutorial posted by StevenZapataArt
October 27, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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Drawing in October following group prompt 1 D&D from #PoorlyDrawnOctober
I'm counting our Minecraft roleplaying group going on an adventure in a Trial Chamber. (Clawed my way through this one repeating "it doesn't have to be good it just has to be done" through gritted teeth.)
scan of green construction paper with a drawing of four figures facing the viewer, most of them are meant to look deternined and ready for battle. From left to right there is a figure in white robes with a thin silver sword, a figure in orange and green coat and pants with a bow, a figure in dark clothes with a leg brace with a large hammer, and an eerie floating figure with long dark hair coiling through the air. There are squares on each side meant to be copper bulb lights and I basically gave up there. Uhh markers and colour pencil, and a bit of fineliner.
October 25, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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Todays drawing in October was prompt 22 rodent from #PoorlyDrawnOctober
I chose the beaver.
scan of a light orange construction paper with 7 or 8 basic sketch shapes of beavers done in green water-based brush pen and then one more realistically rendered beaver to the righthand side done in orange, red, light blue, green, and dark blue Sharpie markers with some additional lighter tones done with colour pencil.
October 24, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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Drawing in October, prompt 21 Glasses from #PoorlyDrawnOctober
Drew my reading glasses (really should get an actual prescription but it sounds like a pain in the ass)
scan of light pink construction paper with a drawing of reading glasses done with orange and blue Sharpie markers (and the initial construction lines/sketch done in yellow is also visible)
October 23, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Drawing in October, prompt 20 animal feet from #PoorlyDrawnOctober
scan of white paper with 7 rough drawings of various animal feet done in different colours of Sharpie marker
October 22, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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Drawing in October, prompt 19 florals from #PoorlyDrawnOctober
Drew sunflower/daisy/marigold kinda shaped flowers over old gaming notes on looseleaf as a change from the construction paper.
scan of a piece of looseleaf lined paper that was already covered in writing but now is focused on flower shapes drawn with Sharpie marker and a touch of colour pencils. Three flowers overlapping slightly with thick round centers and many pointy petals radiating out from them, also there is a vaguely bud-shaped one. Colours are mostly warm tones with a bluey purply background colour
October 21, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Drawing in October, following prompt 18 jellyfish from #PoorlyDrawnOctober
Included a swatch of markers from when I was deciding on a base colour (all of them), and was having fun putting more colour on top with colour pencils, trying to make it seem transparent.
scan of charcoal-colour construction paper with a jellyfish drawn on top with sharpie markers and colour pencils in mostly pink and blue hues. On the left is a swatch of the marker colours I was using that I did first, to see how they looked on the paper when dry.
October 20, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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Drawing in October, following prompt 17 chickens from #PoorlyDrawnOctober
Tried quickly getting the shape/impression from the thumbnails of a chicken image search (and also not wearing glasses). And not letting myself sketch first or render anything.
scan of light pink cheap construction paper on which are several rough doodles meant to depict chickens, drawn in green Sharpie marker.
October 19, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Today's drawing was prompt 15 hands are scary (I think, that is what I drew anyway XD) from #PoorlyDrawnOctober and I kinda tried to do too much
scan of a drawing on cheap pink construction paper, depicting four hands with strong lighting reaching in various poses. They are drawn with mostly orange and red Sharpie marker and some light colour pencil.
October 16, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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My main Minecraft home/village on my forever-world is starting to come together a lot more now that I'm building in creative instead of survival and also following various youtube tutorial build videos :V
screenshot taken in the video game Minecraft, showing a smallish village area that has been transformed with fancier buildings, retaining walls, and lanterns. It is nighttime so the lights show up more.
October 15, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Today's drawing is prompt 14 skull from #PoorlyDrawnOctober
scan of orange construction paper with a drawing of a skull in orange and dark blue Sharpie marker, with a faint attempt at a construction box for the shape in pencil also visible.
October 14, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Today's drawing in October, following prompt 13 of #PoorlyDrawnOctober a whole skeleton.
scan of a sheet of cheap green construction paper with a skeleton shape drawn in mostly white and black colour pencil. The skeleton is vaguely humanoid and is in a curled up on it's side pose.
October 14, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Today's drawing in October, combining prompts 11 and 12 from #PoorlyDrawnOctober
scan of a drawing done on yellow construction paper, with blue Sharpie marker and blue ballpoint pen, mostly of random shapes and doodles, with a cartoonish figure laying down near the center with red hair and green clothing
October 13, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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A while back there was an offer for a plushie of the titular character from the game A Date With Death, and I pre-ordered it as a present to myself. It showed up today, almost like a birthday present to myself! I love him!
photo of a plushie figure of a pretty man with long white hair, stylish dark clothes, pointy red eyes, and a smirk. He is propped up on my somewhat cluttered desk standing on the cloth bag he was shipped in.
October 11, 2025 at 9:22 PM