We have to kill the ocean.

First year last minute art fight!! #artfight2026 artfight.net/~chlorinesea...

A little progress on this one. #art #CSP #HumanArtist #WIP #digitalpainting #blue #elves

Omera #OC #elf #CSP #bloodmagic #thecrystalcityfalls

little test using #CSP and WonderUnit Storyboarder

The Darkest One promised us much. World domination. Two square meals a week. But his promises are emptier than our bellies! He may control the Citadel itself, but our minds remain our own. Do not let him deceive you, no matter how many delicious maggots he offers. I just made myself hungry again.

Gobins, Trolls, Undead, Demons. Some of you may think we are very different. But Undead, weren't you like us long ago? Demons, aren't you too tired of chasing your lord's approval? Trolls, don't we all enjoy smashing skulls? Then let us unite under one banner, and conquer the realm TOGETHER!

Cronies and peons! As our warbands return from the front, we hear of their pillaged spoils... Sacks of gold, fine silks, salted meats, even kingly foods like "soap". But did we see any treasures? Did a morsel fall off the tables atop the citadel?! I SAY, FAIR PILLAGE DEMANDS FAIR PLUNDER!

Serak breaks one of his horns but I can't decide which one. #orc #oc Which is better: right horn only, or left horn only?

I don't want to do social media, I want to make up stories with my friends about weird little guys. :(

A little #pixelart of Mia of @crystalcityfalls.bsky.social :> Featuring the banded and unbanded version! Maybe one day I'll learn to animate in pixels...

little test using #CSP and WonderUnit Storyboarder

excitedly printing this out to put on the fridge !!!

Harmonic, masculine/feminine, dissonant, shapeshifter, and "orc."

I personally did more than the US government to respond to January 6, and all I did was write a story about blood magic elves.

I forgot to flip it, she's left handed. Maybe one more pass on this later.

Omera #OC #elf #CSP #bloodmagic #thecrystalcityfalls

Omera #WIP #CSP #art #OC #elf #humanartist

what if I flipped him upside down

I am trying to sketch digitally so I can try out colors more easily! Some rough thoughts on Araan's outfit and "Adventurer" uniforms. #art #oc #elf

Hi i have been busy with work and an art show! I'm trying to refine the character designs for the main cast. I know them better now, if that makes sense, and need to do another pass on them. Here's some tiny sketches of Rhem and Araan, whose body shapes felt too similar. #sketch #humanartist

Hello to my 12 followers I am working on this story about the end of capitalism when I have time but until someone kindly eats my real life landlord, i have to have another job. And in the unlikely hypothetical where this ever takes off, please don't let me turn it into a "Brand"

When I first started writing, I planned to give Mia 2-3 throwaway shitty friends who we wouldn't see past the first episode. But then I liked them so now they get whole character arcs. Here's Rieni, gravity magic specialist.

Oh, I could scream about this for HOURS. But suffice to say: This is what happens when large studios don't want to fund original projects, anymore. They make Scooby-Doo for the 16th time, and the hot young talents goes off, runs a Kickstarter/gets backed by Glitch, and succeeds without them.

New elf gender diagram about elf genders (for elfs) (only) "baby's first nonbinary gender system" in intent, it's pretty straightforward and hopefully easy to grasp for people who are only accustomed to binary genders. #oc #gender #lgbt #nonbinary #enby #thecrystalcityfalls

Three pages on process of designing the wands for this setting. Explanations in the alt text! Human art will ALWAYS produce better, more interesting, more usable results than anything an LLM could do. There are reasons behind each choice. #conceptart #sketches #humanartist #humandesign

Liirem's younger sister, Mia. She's a fun, irresponsible, short-sighted person who's fixated on her own pet issue, but struggles to see the big picture. Her hobby is fire, which is also coincidentally the cause of most of her problems. #oc #indiepilot #thecrystalcityfalls

A small test with character Mikel, who doesn't show up until act 2. #oc #HumanArtist #process #sketch #csp

#thecrystalcityfalls starts as a murder mystery and ends as anarchist propaganda. Here's every character in the pilot, and a few characters who aren't. #art #oc #ocsky #indieanimation #indiepilot #fantasyart #cyberpunk #solarpunk #traditionalanimation #csp #elves

Process shots, starting with pencil and paper thumbnails. :)

Most of my work for this project is in pencil and paper sketchbooks. #art #oc

this one is for all of you

Serak #orcs #oc

A little throwback: In 2018, The Line studio had already handled the animations for Gorillaz "Humility" music video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5yF...

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There is no way I can produce this story fast enough to be timely and relevant, let alone cautionary. The real world is too ridiculous. "In my story about magic elves they made magic illegal" that's nice, in reality they are gambling on assassinations.

Long live 2D animation (& practical effects).

Omera, ye olde boobs-and-butt pose. #sketch #oc

Liirem, studying his body type. #sketchbook #HumanArtist

this goes so fuckin hard ”A revolution must be started by yourself. An egg, opened from the outside, is food; opened from the inside, it is a new life.“ Ovum exteriore apertum cibus, interiore vita nova. Revolutio exteriore est incursio.

Anyway all of this to say, most adventurers are fems. - short hair - archery - cool backflips - sneaking around in the forest

The elves of #thecrystalcityfalls have a very basic four-gender system, to explore some ideas that might be unfamiliar to people who are only used to binary genders. 🧵

Vehicle designs for fascist magicpunk mountain elves.

This setting has three culturally-accepted genders and it took me some time to figure out the expectations for clothing and hairstyles. A lot of my early Omeras have "harmonic" (puffy, layered) rather than "feminine" (slim, fitted) sleeves!

Omera is a necromancer who works for the government. Like Liirem, she's one of very few with an inborn intuitive control of blood magic. Omera didn't make it into the pilot, but she'll get an introduction in ep2. #oc #art #indiepilot #thecrystalcityfalls

Here's the very last named character in the pilot--Councilor Vontaas. They are a sensible moderate. They're certain they can explain the reason for the council's decisions if everyone just calms down a little bit. Oh no they are dead now. Well, anyway, #oc #art #indiepilot #thecrystalcityfalls

These two characters, Dravem (masculine) and Gria (feminine) are known as "Draagrin." They hate each other and love power. Harmonic couples are legally the same as one person and therefore Draagrin can collectively hold a title like "CEO" or "councilor." #oc #art #indiepilot #thecrystalcityfalls

Araan is a third-gender "Harmon" and the leader of this group of adventurers. Unlike the rest of the group, Araan is not a wild caster. They know a lot of magic (including a few new things they personally created) but it was all learned through hard work. #oc #art #indiepilot #thecrystalcityfalls