haven't drawn my wrestling OCs actually wrestling in a while

today’s sketch 🎨

For people that feel helpless, this period is so tough but there's ways to help for anyone. Go out there support Venezuelan ppl and artists living in it as they prepare for unpredictable times Here is a starter pack of artists with commissions or donations open as well: go.bsky.app/8daQmpX

another one for the tag #3d

quote retweet because I forgot to tag it but I want a 3d tag for my learning journey with it #3d 😭

2025 was the year of blender 🎉🎉🎉 learning the basics of 3d modeling is one of those things a lot of artists have in their bucket list and i can finally say i did it 🥳🥳🥳

got back to learning 3d again this past week with @everydaymerlin.bsky.social we've been following a sculpting tutorial by Kenny Praise based on a character sheet by Borja Montoro on youtube and i mixed it up with a hair tutorial by Yansculpts also on yt!

i know there's good intentions on adding me to starter packs and i want to say thank you but i'd prefer not to be in them because of the mass following part of it 😭 i rather people just naturally find what i do and decide to follow because i know my style isn't really for everyone if that make sense

i have a one month contract lined up but after this im considering just changing careers like seriously this industry is so cooked and i don’t think i want to draw for it anymore I want to draw just for myself again ONLY but honestly i do not know what to turn to 😞 im tired of burn out and crunch

car broke down just what we needed rn 🫩🥀

well that’s disappointing and an unfortunate reality in a whole LOT of studios nowadays i fear 🫠 i seriously hope leadership at larian reconsiders this asap because like wtf man

at the start of this year i said i was finally going to learn 3d modeling and sculpting but i got way too busy with work and lost all motivation lmfao i will now try once more 😭

LOOKING FOR WORK!! i’m merlin and i’ve worked in animation, games and comics as a visual developer and illustrator 🫶🎨 past clients: netflix, d&d, magic the gathering, volta 🎨 www.artstation.com/merlin-gg 📧 [email protected]

i really believe using glaze and nightshade on top of everything we post is the best course of action to battle all the bs that's going on but the anti-a*i distortion layer on top of everything kind of makes me feel like it ruins some of my pieces 😭

this is your regular reminder to use both nightshade and glaze on your art to avoid it getting stolen by gen-A👁️! nightshade (use BEFORE glaze): poisons images so the crawlers see something else glaze (use AFTER nightshade): protects your art style from getting stolen remember to protect your art!

i’ll adress the background tomorrow but i love her sm 😭😭😭😭🙏🎨

hi everyone! i’m going through some financial hurdles so it’d really help me if you shared this post promoting my brushes, maybe consider gifting them? it is the season 🫶 you can find them here: 🫶 www.patreon.com/MerlinGG ✨ ko-fi.com/everydaymerlin ✨ merlin2g.gumroad.com

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haven’t been around much not doing to good mentally as usual ✌️😎 be back soon hopefully

that cute af mossy snorlax single-handedly going to force me to play pokopia 🥀 now can Pokémon make and release a full art shuppet card that would fr make my year I need one for my full arts binder ffs 😭

just posting a little compilation of these guys because i fixed some small things on them #oc

just posting a little compilation of these guys because i fixed some small things on them #oc

was going thru my gallery and found an old gortash doodle i did on PS loong ago 🚶i don't think i ever posted it here

okay lmao hi i finally finished it!🐈 #oc can't catch a break i keep falling ill and work's taking all my time but at least i finished this 🖤

so it's now a trend on tw*tter to put people's art through a*i to "make it better" because it's apparently "funny"??? like putting people's stuff through shitty a*i upscaling filters which pinterest is riddled with wasn't bad enough like okay i don't miss that place at all 💀

gortash on the brain and chalk brushes my beloved, yeah i'm putting this wip here 🫠force me to finish it 🖤 #fanart #bg3art

i dislike social media a lot and struggle with posting ngl 🫥 i just push myself to at least post here and try to keep up with online friends but every day is a struggle to not just disappear and isolate again man 🥀

mostly been drawing and flat coloring+simple shading and barely painting much lately and i kinda miss it ngl 🚶

okay i finally finished cat gang 🐈 more #oc stuff, i hope i can finish the last batch of this little abandoned project i have planned this sunday 🫠

okay i finally finished cat gang 🐈 more #oc stuff, i hope i can finish the last batch of this little abandoned project i have planned this sunday 🫠

🪵🪵🪵 Still need to be tightly glued! Just waiting for the right day to varnish/seal it and then glue everything together.

another crop/close-up for phone users out there who can't see shit on my last post because the compression is wild 💔 (see them on desktop) #oc

another crop/close-up for phone users out there who can't see shit on my last post because the compression is wild 💔 (see them on desktop) #oc

i'll be sharing my latest post with much better quality on tumblr eventuallly i'm just finishing off a couple other drawing boards so i can do a big post there 😭 bluesky hates horizontal posts bro...the compression 💔

well i know bsky is going to compress this to shit and back but here, some poker night fun 🐷🐺🐱 #oc

I painted a cat in a drawer. medium: Nicker poster colour on Arches watercolour paper

re-uploading my first gortash painting studies from last year too 🫶 #fanart and like nah his collar is a nightmare... never again just getting a pattern stamp now fr 😭

#sketchbook 📓✏️

thought i'd repost my old comic because it's still very nice to look at honestly if nothing else! scrapped for multiple reasons but a big one was honestly that I'd just paint it to cover up that I couldn't line/draw well back then which was just . burnout central lol

is there anything similar to nightshade and glaze but for videos?

hefty guy is here! 🦏 #oc life's kicking my ass lately sorry for not posting much

cat gang wip sketch #oc 😼

posting this from my side account from when i found some old likeness studies quick sketches of when I was trying to understand gortash (I still don’t)😭 gortash science….

i kinda miss painting digitally and with gouache tbh i mostly do flat coloring these days and i want to go back to learning 3d modelling on blender ngl 🫠 i still have stuff to finish beforehand but eventually i'll get back to it i hope

these old dudes again #oc

my first durgetash sketch from last year 🫶😈 #oc #fanart

always stuck between deciding whether to draw more realistic or more stylized every day so i just do both but then i always feel inconsistent as fuck 🫠