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Hi! Thanks for the #artshare!

I go by Z Scribe. I'm an illustrator who does character and logo design, as well as illustrations for TTRPGs and video games. I also create water slide decals for miniatures.

Illustration of a peasant woman in prayer, receiving epiphany. Her face is a mass of cilia or fungal cordiceps.

Portrait of a white-haired woman in banded armour and a fur cloak, sauntering out of a snow storm carrying an axe. The smile of her axe glows blue.

A demon with a large mouth smiles out of the portrait, many hands reaching out toward the viewer. Each hand has an extra thumb and a bloodshot eye in the palm.

A layout sheet for decals for a Viking themed Space Wolf army, featuring a ghostly wolf head and Nordic runes of various sizes.

August 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM

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Hi #portfolioday!

I go by Z Scribe. I've done character design, video game art, RPG illustrations, logo design, and print water slide transfers for miniatures.
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White haired woman in a red dress with leather gloves and boots, tears through the arm of a Black Legion Helbrute. The woman is smiling as electricity arcs from her fingers. Around her neck is an Inquisitorial 'I'.

A large eyed, big headed monster stalks through an abandoned house during sunrise/sunset with a lipless grin. Two women with a more distinctively cartoon style hide around a door frame. The brunette crouches down, trying to keep it together, while her red-headed friend looks pensive, a kitchen knife in her hand.

A Space Marine in grey Mark 3 Armour wears a blue nightcap with gold stars on it. He holds a mug of coffee with a crying wolf and the hashtag 'Bloodclaw Tears' on it. In his other hand is a stern teddy bear wielding a Volkite rifle.

A decal sheet for a custom Space Wolf Great Company, the White Howlers. The sheet features the Blue-White white howler, it's banner design, as well as a complete banner, and several runes.

April 8, 2025 at 3:02 PM

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Fun little image I made based on discussions during a #WIPWednesday meeting in the community. #warhammer40k #familyguy #spacewolves

A cartoon rendition of a Space Wolf in grey, Mark 3 Armour, lies in a crumpled heap similar to Peter Griffin on Family Guy when knocked unconscious. He lies in a pool of light in a grey space with splotches of darkness. Above him are the words "We'll be Right Back..."

March 12, 2025 at 5:55 PM

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The fourth instalment in a series of images I've made of Inquisitor Vegi Bloodclaw. Really enjoying the motion of the pose and getting good practice on some different techniques for lighting to get that phase done faster.
#inquisitor #oc #warhammer40k #darkheresy

Woman with tanned skin, a confident smile, and wild white hair, swings an axe horizontally, electricity arcing from the power field the weapon produces. The woman wears a simple red tabard and black leather leggings and bracers. In the foreground, a Plague Marine's helmeted head flies by.

March 12, 2025 at 5:53 PM

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Inquisitor Vegi Bloodclaw, being a classic biomancer, has a war form she uses when she wants to increase her strength, size, and overall terrifying qualities. Can't talk much without lips though. She models it after the Wolf of the Red Moon, her totem.
#inquisitor #warhammer40k #darkheresy

A bipedal werewolf with a large mane of white fur on it's head and fur on its lower body. Its upper body is exposed muscles and bones and there is no skin on it's face. The creature looks to the left with a glowing blue eye.

March 3, 2025 at 7:41 PM

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Another illustration from the crazed sketches I've made of Inquisitor Vegi Bloodclaw as a for fun project. #inquisitor #oc #warhammer40k #darkheresy

A buxom woman with long, wild white hair and a manic, gleeful expression, hefts a large axe over her shoulder, looking like she's preparing to swing it down on the viewer. She wears a crimson tabard over her body, arm length leather gloves over her hands with metal bracers, and similar thigh high boots. The axe's smile is glowing and giving small bolts of electricity.
In the background is a vague apparition of the woman with a similar crazed smile.
The scene is illuminated from below by pink neon lights with abstract hearts floating up.

February 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM

ZScribe

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Hi #portfolioday!

I go by Z Scribe and I am an illustrator. I've done character design, videogame art, RPG illustrations, logo design, and print water slide transfers for miniatures.
💼: cara.app/zscribe/port...
✉️: zscribe.commissions@gmail.com

A former member of the Death Korp of Krief, in a trench coat and flak armor, descends into the under hive via a sewer canal. His gear is heavily fitted to his body, not an ounce of skin showing. He is puffing noxious vapours out of his gas mask and strips of scripture are wrapped around his body. He is reading a handheld auspex scanner, barely paying attention to the sewage he is trudging through. He holds a modified las rifle in his grip, a bayonet attached to the end, and more strips of scripture draped over the firearm. An Inquisitorial 'I' is painted on his shoulder guard, marking who he works for. A servitor drone, built inside of the skull of an oversized wolf, hovers behind him, shining a flashlight ahead.

A woman is stepping through the stony frame of the image, out of a mountainous, winter landscape. She looks down at the viewer with a arrogant smile, one of her two blue eyes hidden by her long white hair which is moved by the icy wind behind her. A prominent, red scar is on her left cheek. She wears heavy carapace armor like that of the Sister's of Battle, under which is a crimson robe. She accessorizes with a large brown fur cape and mantle, a red corset, fur loincloth and skirt, and a chain around the hip from which a gold-bound book hangs. Wolf skulls are bolted to the knee pads of her armour. She rests a hand on one hip, while carrying an axe with a conspicuously curved half. The smile of the axe glows, suggesting that ions are energized along the edge.

A Wolf Priest stands with his back against a pillar on an upper balcony of a building. He is covered in various tribal ephemera, fang necklaces, leather straps, fur cape, with rune stones dangling from his shin guards. He grips a plasma rifle in his hands which glows and intense blue. The eyes of his blue wolf skull helmet glow a similar hue.

It's extremely dark and below him is a street covered in fog where a dark blue Rhino transport, its sensors shining in the fog along with the headlights. From it's side, two renegade marines of the Violators, step out, green laser sights on. Three or more violators are looking for the Wolf Priest at that moment.

A stylized sketch of peasant woman turning her eyes up to heaven in a religious epiphany. The ring on her finger suggests she's married. Her face is gone, a cavity replaced by cordiceps, that reach for the sky. The background is grungy and abstract, except for a sore circle of green which seems to flow upwards in strings.

January 14, 2025 at 4:16 PM

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From the archive, a #commission of the client's #spacewolf #OC in Terminator armour. #warhammer40k

Love how clean the lines and values are on this piece.

A full body cartoon portrait of a Space Wolf Terminator from Warhammer 40k. The armour features a Wolf Head Helm with glowing orange eyes looking to the right. A heavy bolder is attached to the power fist on the right hand while the left hand includes articulated claws. A power sword hangs on the left hip with a wolf's head hilt. A white train hangs from his hips with gold edging.

January 6, 2025 at 6:37 PM

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From the archive, a #comission of the Emperor from #starwars as a #warhammer40k #spacemarine

Portrait of Emperor Palpatine from Star Wars as a Warhammer 40k Librarian in Terminator Armour. A cybernetic eye and Psyker hood are bolted to the emperor's head as he grins wickedly at the viewer with glowing orange eyes. The Star Wars Imperial Crest is emblazoned on his chest and his armor is scorched from blaster fire.

In the background is the circular window of the throne room on the Death Star, looking at a dark, starry sky.

January 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM

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A follow up to my earlier 'breakthrough' piece, featuring #Inquisitor Vegi Bloodclaw on the verge of kicking a #thousandson #sorcerer in the head.
#warhammer40k #darkheresy

A buxomm woman with long white hair and a manic grin, is preforming a flying round house kick, her attack coursing with red lightning. The woman wears a red tabard/sling bikini and black leather gloves and leggings with some metal guards on her forelimbs. An Inquisitorial 'I' pendant swings about her neck.

Her victim is a Thousand Son sorceror in blue and gold armor with an Egyptian pharoah motif, his eyes and forehead gem glow blue. He doesn't seem to be expecting the attack.

December 31, 2024 at 4:15 PM

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Made a pretty significant breakthrough with my work earlier this December. Really happy with how with image of Inquisitor Vegi Bloodclaw turned out, showing off Malleus Hammer Hands to some #blacklegion #chaos
#warhammer40k #darkheresy

A buxom white haired woman with electric blue eyes and a dark red scar on her left cheek, gives the viewer a mischievous grin while pouncing/tearing through the arm left arm of a Black Legion Helbrute.

The woman is clothed in a red tabard / sling bikini and wears a silver necklace with the Inquisitorial 'I' hanging off as a pendant. Other than that, she wears long leather armlets and leggings with metal bracers and shin guards held on by leather straps.

Electricity courses from the woman's fingers and around her, the result of a psychic power that turns her body into a destructive weapon.

December 31, 2024 at 4:11 PM

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Client #commission of a #crimsonfist posing on a hill on Rynn's World. Opted to not hide the linework as much with this piece and I'm really happy with the result.
#warhammer40k #spacemarine

A Crimson Fist Space Marine captain stands on a hillm on Rynn's World, yellow foothills behind him leading to autumn leafed forests and mountains under a semi-overcast sunset/sunrise.

The marine is fully armored with a white cloak over his shoulders, a golden halo hanging over his red helmet, white a banner reads 'Orion' over his brow and telescopic eye lens.

On one arm hangs a powerfist with an underslung bolter, it's ammo belt disappearing behind his back. In the other hand, he holds a combi-melta pistol. At his hip, a golden power sword is sheathed.

Additional accessories include leather baltea straps hanging from his belt, a laurel engraved on his right knee, a banner with 'Rynn' on the right shin, and a trio of gold reliquary carvings of saints on his left ankle.

December 31, 2024 at 4:03 PM

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Client wanted a #commission of their Miqo'te OC looking irate while staying at the Carline Canopy. Apparently, someone said something very rude and insensitive regarding her Moon Keeper affiliations.
#ffxiv

An angry cat girl with long grey hair and a pink cloth and leather outfit, snarls and spits at the viewer while jumping up from her seat at a tavern. Her stool is knocked over and several cards with stained glass images on them clatter to the floor. What remains on the table include a roast ham, mugs, a pitcher, a lamp glowing yellow, and several objects which are the hilts of her two oversized daggers (not clearly shown).

Behind her, the scene is bathed in green light from large stained glass windows.

December 31, 2024 at 3:58 PM

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Client wanted a design for a Vtuber they had in mind. A #nightlords ambassador with some inspiration from Lotara Sarrin from #horusheresy and the #lannisters from #gameofthrones.
#commission #characterdesign #vtuber #warhammer40k

Character design of a pale young woman with dark eyes, coloured red, glares at the viewer with disdain. Her platinum blonde hair is tired in a side braid that runs down her back. She wears a leather overcoat with a red felt corset and silver buckles. A white lion pelt, complete with maned head, wraps over her shoulders.

Her hands are permanently stained red. One hand clutches a curved, hooked dagger, while the other holds a chalice with the Night Lord's winged skull emblem carved into it. A leather belt holds a bolt pistol made for human hands.

Beneath the coat, she wears leather belts and black hose under leather boots with tall, square heels.

December 31, 2024 at 3:53 PM

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A belated Halloween Commission I did for a client of their Miqo'te OC as a vampire. She is also a fan of V Rising and wanted to indulge in her villain schtick.
#commission #ffxiv

A buxom cat girl vampire with long gray hair stands on a grand staircase in a racy crimson dress with gold chains, silk, and a bat wing brassier. She holds a goblet of 'wine' while vamping at the viewer. She is lit from the front by an unseen source of fire while red light bathes her from behind where a large red stained glass window shines with depictions of eclipsed suns, crescent moons, and water lilies loom.

On either side of her are large basalt statues of buxom were wolves with bat wings, snarling at the staircase. Behind them, two large vases also flank the staircase, towering over the statues and the vampire.

December 31, 2024 at 3:49 PM

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An illustration I did of Inquisitor Vegi Bloodclaw for summer, looking to have some fun on some tropical beach.

Buxom woman with long white hair smiles and sticks her tongue out at the audience while adjusting a flat top military cap. She has a distinctive dark red scar on her left cheek. She carries a fluorescent yellow volleyball under one arm and is wearing a navy blue halter top and grey jean shorts while at a tropical beach.

December 31, 2024 at 3:43 PM

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Experiment in coloring an illustration that features heavy lines and dark pools for contrast. Aimed for an 80's B-Horror movie vibe, despite the costume looking like something from a Tokusatsu piece.

Low angle view of a horror monster, made out of cuts, muscle, and bone, with a silver mask and a metal sword coming out of its right arm. It stands in a doorway back lit by a spot light, not unlike an 80s slasher villain or the cover art of Carpenters 'The Thing'.

December 31, 2024 at 3:40 PM

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Another Tribe 8 illustration, this time of a Knight of 'House' Flemis. Flemis are disturbed by the idea of individuality and bind every soul within their collective into a single. Everyone is Flemis, and Flemis is united in its worship of the Seed and to bring greater unity to Creation.

A corpulent body made out of calcified flesh squats in a pool of unknown liquid that seeps from its bellow button and his chest. It has no arms, which end in craggy stumps. It barely has a head, more like a mouth and cleft chin wreathed into a collection of odd sized pearls with faces cared into them. More pearls appear to be hidden in its belly under the flesh. Wings that look like roots or capillaries flair out from its back under a eclipsed sun.

December 31, 2024 at 3:37 PM

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Was testing a look for a cosmic fantasy story earlier this year. Project didn't go forward, but I liked how the concept worked out.

Cartoon woman with long, red hair and blue eyes with a determined expression on her face in a mid-stride action pose. Wearing bronze armour with leather accessories and light blue cloth. Scarf around the neck flairs out into multiple ribbons behind her. The armour and clothes have a rough texture distinct from the smooth skin and hair of the character, as if they do not belong together.

December 31, 2024 at 3:31 PM

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Is 'heretic' two or three syllables?

Based on a Mini Marvels comic.

Two panel comic.
Panel 1: Two Thousand Sons on a grainy video feed, one pointing at the camera with a smarmy grin saying, "That was a haiku, chumps!"
Panel 2: Various Space Marines and Wulfen counting on their fingers.

December 23, 2024 at 8:53 PM

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Originally intended to be posted during Halloween, but why limit the creeps to October?
#darkart

Too cartoon women head against opposite sides of a door frame in a decrepit house. A brunette in a pink shirt covers her mouth and sinks to the floor, her eyes showing hysterical fear. The red-haired, blue-eyed opposite to the first is in a Catholic schoolgirl blouse and plaid skirt, carrying a knife and looking worried and unsure about what lurks in the door frame.
Between the too girls, in the dark room behind them an oversized human shape, whose head is nearly half the size of the girls. Large, milky eyes look towards the viewer/redhead and it smiles with a lipless, manic grin.
The scene is lit with orange light from slats in windows, as though this scene is taking place in the early morning or dusk.

November 12, 2024 at 12:45 PM

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Another Dark Art sketch of a demonic creature from the Tribe 8 universe. Members of House Melanis are consumed by curiosity about Creation and the magic of the Seed. Function over form, they relentlessly seek answers to the most frivolous of questions.
#darkart #Tribe8

A demon in robes with no eyes and long hair reaches out of the frame with eight hands. He smiles with too many teeth and one too many windpipes down it's throat. The hands of an additional thumb each and an eye with a dark sclera and bright iris are set into each palm. The head and limbs seem to dangle over some sort of recess in the ground, like a coffin combined with a massage chair. Two of the hands appear to welcome or beckon the audience forward.

November 12, 2024 at 12:36 PM

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Some of my earlier artwork.
Beloved Morning Glory is a Solar from Skullstone Archipelago, a topsy-turvy land where ghosts rule by night and hide from the day. When her nation is most vulnerable is where this champion is at her strongest.
#Exalted