Donations for Character Art

In light of a fascist becoming the president of US I'm most concerned about Palestinians, so at least for this week I will make character sketches in exchange for donations to vetted Palestinian fundraisers or eSims for Gaza!

To find vetted fundraisers, here's for example two different lists of them:

Operation Olive Branch

Google Docs

Vetted Gaza Evacuation Fundraiser List

Google Docs

How to participate:

Donate at least one eSim or at least 10 USD (or equivalent, about 9 EUR for example) to a fundraiser for each character you want me to draw (you can always donate more than that)
Sent me screenshot of your purchase
And details of what you want me to draw, which could be: reference pictures of the character, descriptions of their appearance and clothing etc.

I'll draw:

Original characters
Fanart
Historical figures
"Historically accurate" versions of characters
Animals
Non-human humanoid characters
Artistic nudity

If you're unsure weather I'll accept your request or not, ask me beforehand!

Here's some examples of my character sketches.

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Fun Fact Friday - Valeri cor Mantgamia

He has two dogs, Cúén and Faendie. They are Cabalusian Bear Dogs, originally bred for hunting big game like bears, but also used by the Cabalusian cavalry class íochiar, which Valeri is too, for warfare. Valeri's dogs are trained for war. They are black, though Faendie has white in her chest, big and they are basically a fantasy world version of Karelian Bear Dogs. He loves them a lot. They sleep with him and go with him basically everywhere. They have a hierarchy since Faedie is older, so she gets to sleep on Valeri's back as his weight blanket, while Cúén sleeps on his feet.
Cúén shares his name with Cúén cor Faélci, though Valeri doesn't know that yet, since Faélci is going with his cousin's name. Once they become hated allies and Valeri learns Faélci's real first name, he absolutely will not let it go that they share a name. What makes it funnier to Valeri is that Faélci is very cold and prickly, while Cúén the dog is extremely eager to please, hyper-active and always demanding affection from Valeri. The amount of times Valeri makes the "Do you want scratches, Cúén?" *turns to Faélci* "I'm talking to the dog" joke as if it never gets old is many.
He has a nice singing voice, but he has too much social anxiety to ever sing in front of other people.
He has extensive burn scars in his back. The worst burns have caused nerve damage, which causes him chronic pain. It's worst in summer, since the pain flares with temperature changes, but it's usually fairly manageable with pain medication.
He's religious. He was raised for several years in an orphanage run by a temple, so he became quite devout Arkhonite, which is the main religion in the Angusian Empire. The main god worshipped in Arkhonity is the Sun God (there's two gods) and a lot of the rituals involve fire, which is a problem for Valeri, since he has pretty bad phobia for fire, and cannot even light a candle himself.

Bear Castle Cycle Masterpost

Tag list under the cut! Let me know if you want to be added/removed!

#my art #bcc #character illustration

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Fun Fact Friday - Cúén cor Faélci

He got into revolutionary politics through lesbianism. As a 17 yo he had a lesbian phase so he got into lesbian poet circles, where he met all kinds of lesbians - working class, republican, revolutionary, Cabalusian separatist. He also met trans masc people and quickly realized he was a) not a woman b) not into women.
He's really good at archery, including horse archery. He won archery contests as a teenager. They have guns so archery is basically a sport of the nobles, not used in warfare. Cabalusian nobles use archery for hunting too. He's also a very good marksman with rifle.
He has conspired with his sister, who along with her husband are also Cabalusian separatists, to keep the fact that he's been infiltrating the Virénian army for several years hidden from their mother and the rest of the clan. His mother thinks he's living with his sister and studying poetry in Virén. He also hasn't told his mother he has yeeted the teet (had top surgery), and he's not sure at this point how he will do that.
He's very pretentious about poetry and literature. He's kinda pretentious in general. He hates popular literature, and especially Julie noé Maupin, who among many things (opera singer, fencer, infamously hot lesbian) is a writer, who writes very popular very fun chivalric romances, which every self-respecting pretentious literature enjoyer thinks are trashy.
He has an on-and-off affair with Aerich, the leader of the separatist group he's part of. On and off, because since he's infiltrating the army they are regularly separated for multiple months and can't have any correspondence either, since Aerich is very much a wanted enemy of the empire. Faélci has said to Aerich that he's free to have other affairs while he's away, but in reality he's stressed that Aerich will fall in love with someone else. He would not admit that under torture, because being in love is very embarrassing and being jealous on top of it is even more so.
Aerich calls him "Little Wolf" (Faénie in Cerfi) because Cúén means wolf cub in Cerfi. It makes Faélci extremely soft and weak when he does it so casually (especially when he says "my Little Wolf"). He would not admit that either under torture.

Bear Castle Cycle Masterpost

Tag list under the cut! Let me know if you want to be added/removed!

#my art #bcc #character illustration

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Ingrained

This was done in collaboration with @grozat. It's the first time we're actually posting something like that, but definitely not the least 💚 Nothing compares to the experience of creating a single piece together with your beloved person.

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salmonandfox asked:

Happy BB!

We love all our blorbos but who'se your current favorite and how hard is it to be them? ;)

karkkidoeswriting answered:

Happy BB!! Thank you for the question! :D

Valeri, who is one of the main characters of Bear Castle Cycle, has been living rent free in my head for a while now as I've been writing his storyline. You're definitely making the correct assumptions here, it's not fun being him. Since the common wisdom is that you should set the expectations for the story in the first chapter, his storyline start with him getting beaten up :) And it's just downhill from there. He's a tough stoic soldier type, or like that's what he tries to seem like, when in reality he's an anxious emotional mess, but basically it's a story of him getting into Situations and witnessing the Horrors until he has a proper mental breakdown and cry. And then he can be put in more Situations, but now with a little less repression!

I like to make warm ups of the characters I'm currently writing whenever I'm painting so I think these warmups I've made illustrate quite well how not good time Valeri is having. First one is from the beginning of the story, second is from roughly the 2/3 point of the story.

Tagging @bardic-tales @creators-club

#i made another valeri sketch #bcc #my art #scetch

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Shop stays open only until tomorrow, Nov 15th at 12pm CEST! Highlighting some of our gold foil Sefirot prints ✨ (don’t forget you can also bundle them and save some €€€ 🔥🔥 )

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Donations for Character Art

To find vetted fundraisers, here's for example two different lists of them:

Operation Olive Branch

Google Docs

Vetted Gaza Evacuation Fundraiser List

Google Docs

How to participate:

Donate at least one eSim or at least 10 USD (or equivalent, about 9 EUR for example) to a fundraiser for each character you want me to draw (you can always donate more than that)
Sent me screenshot of your purchase
And details of what you want me to draw, which could be: reference pictures of the character, descriptions of their appearance and clothing etc.

I'll draw:

Original characters
Fanart
Historical figures
"Historically accurate" versions of characters
Animals
Non-human humanoid characters
Artistic nudity

If you're unsure weather I'll accept your request or not, ask me beforehand!

Here's some examples of my character sketches.

karkkidoesartsandcrafts

Sketch of @thalassicbeast's characters in 12th century Italian dress (left) and Iron Age (around 12th century) Finnish dress! Thank you for your donations!!

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Sketch of @choking-on-roses' character in 1890s inspired clothing! Thank you so much for your generous donation!

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Second sketch of @choking-on-roses' character also in 1890s inspired clothing! Thank you again so much for donating!

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Here's a sketch of @beepochi's character in 1790s dress! Thank you so much for your donation!

#palestine aid #donation sketch #my art #sketch

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oooocleo

wipes brow... these are all part of tomorrow's Big Admin Round so pre-any requested edits, but im v happy w/ them so i wanted to share fdfg

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#omg these are soo pretty

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tinyspaceofficer

Lady with a cat and some floating pumpkins, wanted to draw something Halloween-y, Happy Halloween everyone! c:.

#omg i love this so much

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Donations for Character Art

To find vetted fundraisers, here's for example two different lists of them:

Operation Olive Branch

Google Docs

Vetted Gaza Evacuation Fundraiser List

Google Docs

How to participate:

Donate at least one eSim or at least 10 USD (or equivalent, about 9 EUR for example) to a fundraiser for each character you want me to draw (you can always donate more than that)
Sent me screenshot of your purchase
And details of what you want me to draw, which could be: reference pictures of the character, descriptions of their appearance and clothing etc.

I'll draw:

Original characters
Fanart
Historical figures
"Historically accurate" versions of characters
Animals
Non-human humanoid characters
Artistic nudity

If you're unsure weather I'll accept your request or not, ask me beforehand!

Here's some examples of my character sketches.

karkkidoesartsandcrafts

Sketch of @thalassicbeast's characters in 12th century Italian dress (left) and Iron Age (around 12th century) Finnish dress! Thank you for your donations!!

karkkidoesartsandcrafts

Sketch of @choking-on-roses' character in 1890s inspired clothing! Thank you so much for your generous donation!

karkkidoesartsandcrafts

Second sketch of @choking-on-roses' character also in 1890s inspired clothing! Thank you again so much for donating!

#palestine aid #donation sketch #my art #sketch

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Donations for Character Art

To find vetted fundraisers, here's for example two different lists of them:

Operation Olive Branch

Google Docs

Vetted Gaza Evacuation Fundraiser List

Google Docs

How to participate:

Donate at least one eSim or at least 10 USD (or equivalent, about 9 EUR for example) to a fundraiser for each character you want me to draw (you can always donate more than that)
Sent me screenshot of your purchase
And details of what you want me to draw, which could be: reference pictures of the character, descriptions of their appearance and clothing etc.

I'll draw:

Original characters
Fanart
Historical figures
"Historically accurate" versions of characters
Animals
Non-human humanoid characters
Artistic nudity

If you're unsure weather I'll accept your request or not, ask me beforehand!

Here's some examples of my character sketches.

karkkidoesartsandcrafts

Sketch of @thalassicbeast's characters in 12th century Italian dress (left) and Iron Age (around 12th century) Finnish dress! Thank you for your donations!!

karkkidoesartsandcrafts

Sketch of @choking-on-roses' character in 1890s inspired clothing! Thank you so much for your generous donation!

#palestine aid #donation sketch

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ultrabrite-dl

Heeeeeere's Nina!

Halloween's here so a vampire doll fitted the theme perfectly!

But instead of a classic victorian vampire, I chose a 60s/70s inspired style, because why not?

I also made her two outfit since she's both a working and party girl. Creatures of the night got a double life after all!

#dolls #gorgeous!

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tokyoproxy

富士山 Mt. Fuji by Masayuki Nozaki

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Donations for Character Art

To find vetted fundraisers, here's for example two different lists of them:

Operation Olive Branch

Google Docs

Vetted Gaza Evacuation Fundraiser List

Google Docs

How to participate:

Donate at least one eSim or at least 10 USD (or equivalent, about 9 EUR for example) to a fundraiser for each character you want me to draw (you can always donate more than that)
Sent me screenshot of your purchase
And details of what you want me to draw, which could be: reference pictures of the character, descriptions of their appearance and clothing etc.

I'll draw:

Original characters
Fanart
Historical figures
"Historically accurate" versions of characters
Animals
Non-human humanoid characters
Artistic nudity

If you're unsure weather I'll accept your request or not, ask me beforehand!

Here's some examples of my character sketches.

karkkidoesartsandcrafts

Here's vetted fundraisers by Palestinians who have reached out to me. Please consider donating for their fundraisers and I'll make you a drawing!

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More vetted fundraisers to donate to by people who reached out to me!

Donate to Join Us in Our Struggle: Save Our Family from War in Gaza, organized by Ghazal Naseer

‎‏Dear friends, ‎‏My name is Ghazal Naseer, from pales… Ghazal Naseer needs your support for Join Us in Our Struggle: Save Our Famil

gofundme.com

Donate to Donate to Save Majed and His Family from War, organized by Lanie M B

Hello, my name is Majed, 19years old from Gaza. I was injured in a previous war… Lanie M B needs your support for Donate to Save Majed and H

gofundme.com

Donate to Urgent Appeal: Save Ola' family evacuate Gaza war, organized by Ola Ferwana

I am Ola Ferwana from Palestine ,Gaza. I'm a mother of 3 kids Yamen, Qus… Ola Ferwana needs your support for Urgent Appeal: Save Ola' family

gofundme.com

Donate to Urgent Relief for Family Living in Tent, organized by Ashraf Alserr

About my family: It consists of a mother, father, me, my wife, and my children.… Ashraf Alserr needs your support for Urgent Relief for Fam

gofundme.com

Donate to Help Heba and her 3 children survive and reunite with father, organized by Ashika Jaffar

Heba is a mother of 3 stuck in Gaza, her husband works in Kuw… Ashika Jaffar needs your support for Help Heba and her 3 children survive and

gofundme.com

#palestine aid

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kebriones

"An emperor, a philosopher, a general and a god walk into a cafe"

Hadrian, Antinous, Socrates and Alcibiades hanging out at a cafe! The modern AU crossover you didn't know you needed! (in honor of @scribl1ta and I hanging out in Athens recently :D )

#love this

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albinobirb

Happy Halloween🎃

#megthanzag

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Off-Brand Nano Update #3

I finally spent some time researching Napoleonic era warfare and cavalry because I reached the chapters where the war actually starts and like I would have to write battle scenes. I'm not super interested in war history, which is why I had put that off, but it was more interesting than I expected! I found the perfect very 2005-core website with all the information I need and more. I could kiss on the mouth the nerd who made it. Unfortunately it was very illuminating and now I have many ideas on how to make the worldbuilding and the beginning of Valeri's storyline stronger. So I started his storyline again. I removed around 11K words :') Well, not actually in reality, I'll still be able to use many of the passages and some scenes fully, so I'll quickly catch up to my earlier word count. I already wrote 679 words.

I did reach my weakly goal on the time spend on writing (in Thursday so at the end of the first week I had written for 9h 25 mins)! I included the research and worldbuilding and replanning of Valeri's early storyline, which amounted to 5 hours in total.

Words written: 679 Current word count: 5 937 (-11 089) Time written: 10h 25m

I won't give a new excerpt since I have written very little actual words to the manuscript after the last update, but here's a new uniform I drew for Valeri to figure that out. For context the old uniform is the second drawing.

The old uniform on the right is still the uniform of the heavy cavalry, but I did learn about the different kinds of cavalry, and decided Valeri is light/medium cavalry. Valeri is cavalry class originating from Cabalusia, íochiars, and their uniform is also based on the traditional gear of the Cerfi horsemen.

#my art #bcc