Tho the whole month has been challenging so far, this last week is really kicking me while I’m already on the floor… I’m stealing away minutes to sketch, and haven’t been able to touch anything more serious or complex lately… I just hope it starts easing up a little soon 🤍

my mind feels like a forest fire the last couple of days🔥

Some quiet reading time - Emmrook doodle amidst total chaotic days✨ #dragonage #dragonagetheveilguard #emmrichvolkarin #emmrichxrook

two tiny tiny love letters to doors, doorways and other very fine portals: 3x4" watercolor, colored pencil and graphite

If you actually have a reasonable budget to hire an artist for your project, TELL THEM IN YOUR INITIAL EMAIL TO THEM. Right off the bat. Here is the project, this is what I can pay, this is the deadline. We get so many time wasters it’s remarkably refreshing when a potential client is upfront

A few more portrait doodles between ‘longer’ sketching sessions ✨🤍✨

Oh lol, 😅 since ceasing with the daily uploading, I could make nice progress on a few projects that had been piling up and still managed to do a few quick doodles in between them, even a few minutes finger painting on my phone on a wedding 😅

160825 mental image planted firmly by a dear friend, I just had to✨🤍✨ #dragonage #dragonagetheveilguard #emmrichvolkarin #emmrichxrook

150825 ✨celebration✨ and a final piece for DA Kiss Week - I thoroughly enjoyed these sketches, love drawing love and I’ve been missing doodling my own Rook🤍 #dragonage #dragonagetheveilguard #emmrichvolkarin #emmrichxrook #dakissweek #dakiss25

140825 ✨reunion✨ we skipped naptime today, so once again I couldn’t draw in time, and I also got carried away so yada yada… bad day, a nice hug would feel nice🤍 #dragonage #dragonagetheveilguard #emmrichvolkarin #emmrichxrook #dakiss25 #dakissweek

130825 ✨battlefield✨ boy did I get a bit ambitious with this prompt-I really said to myself,“let’s do a few very loose and quick sketches for this challenge”…nice one Anna…but I really liked working on this one🤍 #dragonage #dragonagetheveilguard #emmrichvolkarin #emmrichxrook #dakiss25 #dakissweek

120825 ✨famous landmark✨ this prompt was definitely the most challenging, and so special thanks for @sofiemystique.bsky.social for the suggestion and reference for this piece 🥰 because no better place to get handsy😂🤍 #dragonage #dragonagetheveilguard #emmrichvolkarin #emmrichxrook #dakiss25

110825 ✨Fade✨ DA Kiss week day 3 prompt #dragonage #dragonagetheveilguard #emmrichvolkarin #emmrichxrook #dakiss25 #dakissweek

100825 ✨Tavern✨ DA Kiss week second prompt🤍 #dragonage #dragonagetheveilguard #emmrichvolkarin #emmrichxrook #dakissweek

090825 ✨morning ✨ I can not let it stand that DA Kiss week happened during my “off week”, so I “might” do at least a few of the prompts ✨🤍✨ #dragonage #dragonagetheveilguard #emmrichvolkarin #emmrichxrook #dakissweek

080825 and a relieved, heartfelt, warm hug for Madzilla✨🤍✨ #dragonage #dragonagetheveilguard #emmrichvolkarin #emmrichxrook

070825 lovely scene for dear Velvetsage✨🤍✨ #dragonage #dragonagetheveilguard #emmrichvolkarin #emmrichxrook

060825 second (and last of the six total) endpaper illustration for the special edition of ChloeLiese‘s Once Smitten,Twice Shy by @afterlightbooks.bsky.social ✨🤍✨ #illumicrate #illumicrateeditions #afterlighteditions #afterlightbooks #wilmotsistersseries #chloeliese #chloeliesebooks #bookart

050825 first endpaper illustration for the special edition of Chloe Liese‘s Once Smitten, Twice Shy by @afterlightbooks.bsky.social ✨🤍✨ #illumicrate #illumicrateeditions #afterlighteditions #afterlightbooks #wilmotsistersseries #chloeliese #chloeliesebooks #bookillustrations #bookart

040825 second endpaper illustration for the special edition of Chloe Liese‘s Better Hate Than Never by @afterlightbooks.bsky.social ✨🤍✨ #illumicrate #illumicrateeditions #afterlighteditions #afterlightbooks #wilmotsistersseries #chloeliese #chloeliesebooks #bookillustrations #bookart

030825 first endpaper illustration for the special edition of Chloe Liese‘s Better Hate Than Never by @afterlightbooks.bsky.social ✨🤍✨ #illumicrate #illumicrateeditions #afterlighteditions #afterlightbooks #wilmotsistersseries #chloeliese #chloeliesebooks #bookillustrations #bookart

020825 second piece I did for the special edition of Chloe Liese‘s Two Wrongs Make A Right by @afterlightbooks.bsky.social ✨🤍✨ #afterlighteditions #afterlightbooks #wilmotsistersseries #chloeliese #chloeliesebooks #bookillustrations #bookillustrator #bookart #bookartist

010825 it’s reveal time! Earlier this year I had the pleasure of illustrating 6 endpapers for a special edition of Chloe Liese’s #wilmotsisters series by @illumicrate.bsky.social #illumicrate #illumicrateeditions #afterlighteditions #wilmotsistersseries #chloeliese #chloeliesebooks #bookillustrator

310725 so it’s the last day of July and I finally finished the April painting 😅… but, we press on, the important thing is that I do paint sometimes when I can, and it feels nice to render something from time to time ✨🤍✨ #dragonage #dragonagetheveilguard #emmrichvolkarin #emmrichxrook

300725 another scene from ‘Specimen Fidelity’ by Emmg, you can read the full fic here: archiveofourown.org/works/655179... ✨🤍✨ #dragonage #dragonagetheveilguard #emmrichvolkarin #emmrichxrook

290725 a second piece I did for our wonderful Sofie✨🥰✨ #dragonage #dragonagetheveilguard #emmrichvolkarin #emmrichxrook

280725 this piece was commissioned for a scene from ‘Specimen Fidelity’ by Emmg, you can read the full fic here: archiveofourown.org/works/655179... ✨🤍✨ #dragonage #dragonagetheveilguard #emmrichvolkarin #emmrichxrook

270725 alrighty, so this piece was done for a lovely friend Sofie @sofiemystique.bsky.social ✨🥰✨ #dragonage #dragonagetheveilguard #emmrichvolkarin #emmrichxrook

260725 one more animal before I post a few comms I did recently ✨🥰✨

250725 :3✨🤍✨

240725 I’m enjoying these waaay too much✨🦊✨

230725 more birbs!✨🦉✨

220725 if we have kitty, we shall have doggo✨🐕✨

210725 kitty tiiime✨🐈✨

💵Ways to earn money for an artist in gamedev and beyond 1. Working in a studio for hire 2. Freelancing for private clients 3. Freelancing for companies 4. Selling original art 5. Selling your own 3D models 6. Selling reference packs 7. Selling stock art (died with the AI)

200725 more animals! (there’ll be a few more for a while)✨🤍✨

190725 aaand since we don’t care about engagement numbers here because they are bad anyway, onto doodling cute animals! - I actually love doing animal studies but never get really into them as much as I’d like ✨🤍✨

180725 random quick portrait number five ✨🤍✨

170725 random quick portrait number four ✨✏️✨

160725 random quick portrait number three ✨🤍✨

150725 quick portrait number two ✨🤍✨

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

140725 quick portrait number one ✨✏️✨

130725 sometimes you just find a reference photo so unmistakably perfect for a character you have no choice but to do it ✨🤍✨ (that said, I’m once again super short on time, so in the coming days I’ll probably do quick portraits) #dragonage #dragonagetheveilguard #emmrichvolkarin #emmrichxrook

120725 and mooore dnd characters, even if they never got any game time ✨😅✨

110725 absolutely random doodle ✨✏️✨

100725 I’m digging up all my dear dnd characters and OCs✨🤍✨

090725 felt like doodling my friend @falesia.bsky.social ‘s lovely character Kate✨🤍✨

080725 I’m slowly picking back up an old project, purely for funsies✨

070725 random doodle✨✏️✨ (Procreate on an iPad Pro, time:~30m, ref:✖️, brush is in my highlights, as well as my brush settings)