BingBongs your button.

I know it's officially autumn when I start to listen to the Beetlejuice musical on repeat. And since I plan on handing out bug-themed candy and decorate my place for Halloween this year, have my old design for Beetlejuice trying figure out how to make some garlands for the season! 🪲🧡

trust us bro #myart #nudity #censorship

I got a small notebook for my D&D notes - and I've decided to make a bunch of pages featuring my character's opinions on his party members! They'll feature little sketches of what each character would have to do to fluster Sköll into stopping all movement. So far I got Wig and Eelf covered-

Based on my earlier custom Hector cutout, featuring a rusty-looking vent, I really wanted to draw Hector in something based on the very old heating + ventilation contraption I have in the old German house I live in. #dateeverything #hectorvalentinoairnestocondicionado

Good evening Hector Nation! Don’t let your dreams be dreams - all that stands between you and your vent dweller + personalized vent cover is layered cardboard, acrylic paint, permanent markers, glue, scissors and determination. #dateeverything #hectorvalentinoairnestocondicionado

An absolute delight these past few days - brainstorming some Star Wars-themed stuff with a dear friend of mine and getting to experiment with glow effects and dramatic lighting!

It's been a rough time on my end, but at least it's behind me now. Two devastating years full of struggle and pain... but also keeping on walking and healing. It's time for a lot of new beginnings and perhaps picking up where I left off with some things too. Scary? Yes. But worth it? Absolutely.

Sometimes you get overly excited for a possible hero figure in your D&D campaign, knowing full well that her existing in the end is a 50/50 chance and very much up to the DM. Is she now just cut content? Nah, that’s a free OC, baby. 👀

🎶 I am not the sunshine, I am not the moon at night Well, who else could I be when I can hardly see? I am not the sunshine, I am not the moon at night I’m no one if I’m nowhere in between 🎶

A few little updates on my D&D character's design - now featuring my boy’s jeweler glasses and new pair of ear rings! :>

Happy New Year from Germany! We made it through 2024, we'll make it through 2025. 💕✨

2024 was one hell of an emotional rollercoaster ride for me, but man, did it also cause some of my favorite pieces of art I've made in a while! :>

man I'm feeling sentimental and this year was so hard for the artists so I say fuck new year's resolutions and I'll just wish for all of us to fall in love with drawing all over again.

If you're interested in learning a bit about my D&D boy Sköll's backstory, I posted a long thing detailing parts of it on my Tumblr today! ☀️✨ www.tumblr.com/newtafterdar...

Sometimes you just gotta draw your silly little D&D creature (in my case a Tiefling monk) bonding with their party members. Some of these moments he's still trying to make happen in the first place. Well, fingers crossed! 🤞

When I say that my D&D character Sköll is a little guy, I mean it.

Hmmm... maybe I'll do a little Sköll sketchpage later & post it too. I love my little D&D guy a lot and since last session, there was a slight change to his looks anyway that I want to figure out how to draw! 👀

… and it’s not even the same dragon. #ttrpg #dnd #art #ocs #newtafterdark

Ancestor and heir. #dnd #ttrpg #ocs #dragon #art #newtafterdark

~One with the power to electrify One with the strength to smash First you hear that rumble baby And then you see the flash~ 🌩️ #dnd #ttrpg #tiefling #ocs #art #newtafterdark

There's nothing quite like the realization that you're in the process of giving your D&D character the monk equivalent to grey sweatpants.

"Hey Newt, it's been a while since you finished one big illustrated piece - why is that?" Simple really. I am not normal during the sketch phase.

An art request from Tumblr - my D&D fella Sköll getting the good tummy scritches! Featuring fellow party member Wig, who might currently be the only one who'd go for it without a second of hesitation. #newtafterdark #dnd #ttrpg #tiefling #ocs #art

artists 🎨 stop apologizing for not posting, for taking breaks, for being slow, for drawing the same character, for posting only sketches, for gushing over OCs, for being a beginner, for raising your prices, for trying a new medium— start doing whatever you heckin want

literally one of the best things about streaming is sometimes we get folks who don't draw often or only started recently, and it's such a delight. Every time. There's so much love in someone puttin' pencil to paper every single time, and I mean that.

I love nothing more than our DM describing some type of creature that exists somewhere in our homebrew campaign - because I'll gladly take any excuse to visualize The Horrors™. (+ little guy on the left for size reference) #newtafterdark #dnd #ttrpg #art #dragon

qrp with your 🌙fanart🌙

🚨 SKEETERS. If you suddenly have "Invalid Handle" in your name, here is the quick fix -

lore runs deep and snow just keeps falling

You know what? I am done carrying the weight of past harm I had to endure with me - in the way I have been, at least. I had the pattern of continuously forcefully exposing myself to the trauma to get numb to it, to get past it - but that pressure never helped. Only patience and healing did.

I'm sketching up some more outfits for Sköll. This time for a special occasion: visiting the Tiefling village, which he hasn't gone home to in almost 10 years. He used to be the jeweler of the place... and I want him to show that off to the party for sure! >:]c #newtafterdark #dnd #ttrpg #art #ocs

Well, that was unexpected~ #newtafterdark #dnd #ttrpg #art #ocs

Which as a reminder, Bsky has had a sizeable korean and japanese population for ages, and unfortunately this setting could mean you're missing out on a lot of cool people. This is not a preference or what you post, this -limits- what languages you see! Set it to nothing!

Plans for today: making some tomato soup, getting my D&D notes in order and then drawing my player character Sköll a bunch. I have some ideas for his (slowly regrowing) horns and his old outfit that he 100% will put on when we eventually visit his village in-game! 👀

I am looking at my country's (Germany) politics today and... man, after everything these past few days I think I need a drink. The next year will be rough, but we will persist. We will remain stubborn and we will survive, no matter what despair the elections cause.

I created a block/mute list for AI accounts so they won't flood your timeline during october art challenges. Just hit subscribe and decide to mute or block all at once. There are more than 150 accounts so far, and I'll keep adding to the list. bsky.app/profile/did:...

it's important for anyone, but especially artists to be very vocal, loud, and proud about their stances on human rights/politics. Our work reaches communities, what we create, share & show makes a difference. Art cannot be separated from humanity. Keep making things that showcase the world you want

New this morning

I'll let my Twitter sit as it is now. I have no desire to use that site anymore, especially after today. I have yet to decide if I'll delete it fully (mainly bc I want to wait a bit and see if more of my fav artists on there move to Bluesky), but yeah. I've had enough.

hey, you. yeah, you reading this. your life matters. don't ever forget that.

whatever happens, we keep taking care of each other

don't comply in advance and don't destroy yourself in advance. make them do it with their own goddamn hands if they want it so bad

Always 💖 Don't make me tap the sign

Whatever happens, I am never—NEVER—going to regret hope and optimism and working for a better world. Because that is the ONLY way we get to a better world.

chin up, solider

Since it's already the 4th over here- What a year it's been, and despite it all I am still here. Here's to another (hopefully less eventful) year! 🎉✨

The game changing art advice? Sometimes you just have to draw things in a way to make them look cool and not necessarily correctly If the light source left the room, or the thing is not very anatomically correct, etc, then sometimes it really doesn't matter as long as it looks great