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AstralDrake

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He/Him πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈ, 22, sometimes I draw things. Look under #art for all the stuff i've made, and #wip for the stuff i may or may not be working on.

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Screenshot from the Planet of the Bass Tiktok where lyrics on screen say "Women are my favorite guy"

Screenshot from the Planet of the Bass Tiktok where lyrics on screen say "Women are my favorite guy"

Screenshot from the Planet of the Bass Tiktok where lyrics on screen say "Tell the world 'stop the war'"

Screenshot from the Planet of the Bass Tiktok where lyrics on screen say "Tell the world 'stop the war'"

This song feels incredibly relevant today.

08.03.2026 18:40 β€” πŸ‘ 7017    πŸ” 2161    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 37
digital illustration of saint-14 in his own tomb, hand outstretched to touch his dead self's head. behind him, the memories of another timeline shatter like shards of glass - saint fighting vex, the perfect paradox, geppetto hurt, saint standing at a mountain of dead vex. in the foreground, warm and solidly real, osiris hands saint their chipped teacup.

digital illustration of saint-14 in his own tomb, hand outstretched to touch his dead self's head. behind him, the memories of another timeline shatter like shards of glass - saint fighting vex, the perfect paradox, geppetto hurt, saint standing at a mountain of dead vex. in the foreground, warm and solidly real, osiris hands saint their chipped teacup.

a commission for zeteram (dont know if they are on bsky!!); episode echoes and saint-14. #Destiny2 #o14

22.10.2024 21:14 β€” πŸ‘ 58    πŸ” 35    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

one of the simple pleasures in life is saying 'wow it looks like silent hill out there' when it's really foggy

10.12.2024 13:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2335    πŸ” 1380    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 27
Alekos in 3 stages: beginning to get irritated/emotional, as the light creeps through his scars and up from his chest/heart. The second has the rage enveloping him, his chest is completely covered in light and it begins to peak through his eyes and hair. The last he is completely enragedβ€” full flame, light hair and ready to fight.

Alekos in 3 stages: beginning to get irritated/emotional, as the light creeps through his scars and up from his chest/heart. The second has the rage enveloping him, his chest is completely covered in light and it begins to peak through his eyes and hair. The last he is completely enragedβ€” full flame, light hair and ready to fight.

rage ignites a flame in you, and you love to let it burn.

#art #digitalart #dnd #dndart #ttrpg #oc #ocsky #fantasy #espoeria

21.06.2025 20:29 β€” πŸ‘ 407    πŸ” 111    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 2
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Always Nisa
#destiny2 #destiny2art #aotw

07.03.2026 20:15 β€” πŸ‘ 203    πŸ” 64    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0
Sir Gawain Fucks the Green Knight


Here’s a tale ripe for telling. Can’t say where I heard it firstβ€”in pretty French or Dutch. Perhaps as a young lady walking β€˜longside the Rijn. I’ll spin it for you in an English tongue, fine as frost on lace, sweet as malmsey wine. So it goes that young Gawain, strength kissed into his limbs, fresh as the bright dawn, comes trembling down to the Green Chapel. You’ve heard this tale, I know. His breath makes peach fuzz in the air, fear into him like worm to apple. Christmas Morn is too soon, time is short. You have your own life to save, he says, picking through thorn and bough to an ivy-clad cave.
The creature is the Jack O’ the Glen / forest prince / the wood’s own laughter. Beard of lichen and eyes like dark elder. I need not repeat their exchangeβ€”my boy’s flinching heartβ€”a songbird in a rattled cage. It is after the blows are dealt, he asks, what god is worshipped in these green trees? Boy, the Knight replies, boy, were you not just down on your knees?
The Knight is the tang of sap / bark rough and petal soft / everywhere leaves scatter / easily crushed / Gawain clings / hardly knows what he clings to / he is the forest and the flower / a turmoil of roots / where god and tree meet and melt / the birch the oak the fern the deer /  mushroom maggot crow / here Gawain is branch and bud / blow returned for blow

Sir Gawain Fucks the Green Knight Here’s a tale ripe for telling. Can’t say where I heard it firstβ€”in pretty French or Dutch. Perhaps as a young lady walking β€˜longside the Rijn. I’ll spin it for you in an English tongue, fine as frost on lace, sweet as malmsey wine. So it goes that young Gawain, strength kissed into his limbs, fresh as the bright dawn, comes trembling down to the Green Chapel. You’ve heard this tale, I know. His breath makes peach fuzz in the air, fear into him like worm to apple. Christmas Morn is too soon, time is short. You have your own life to save, he says, picking through thorn and bough to an ivy-clad cave. The creature is the Jack O’ the Glen / forest prince / the wood’s own laughter. Beard of lichen and eyes like dark elder. I need not repeat their exchangeβ€”my boy’s flinching heartβ€”a songbird in a rattled cage. It is after the blows are dealt, he asks, what god is worshipped in these green trees? Boy, the Knight replies, boy, were you not just down on your knees? The Knight is the tang of sap / bark rough and petal soft / everywhere leaves scatter / easily crushed / Gawain clings / hardly knows what he clings to / he is the forest and the flower / a turmoil of roots / where god and tree meet and melt / the birch the oak the fern the deer / mushroom maggot crow / here Gawain is branch and bud / blow returned for blow

This is a sheer indulgence on my part, but it turns out I never actually shared the poem here, so:

πŸƒ

05.03.2026 18:32 β€” πŸ‘ 319    πŸ” 87    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 6

I'm so glad I can draw and function without using AI. I'm so glad I can do basic things like jobs without needing it at all

05.03.2026 18:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1272    πŸ” 326    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 4
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Yooooooo

05.03.2026 17:50 β€” πŸ‘ 224    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1
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🐸

05.03.2026 17:24 β€” πŸ‘ 142    πŸ” 50    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Old one from 2015

05.03.2026 12:49 β€” πŸ‘ 702    πŸ” 145    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
square painting depicting a dark corridor and a central mass of red in the vague shape of a human figure, with nerve endings unspooling from it and bleeding into the floor and ceiling. it has vague indications of features like eyes and screaming mouth.

square painting depicting a dark corridor and a central mass of red in the vague shape of a human figure, with nerve endings unspooling from it and bleeding into the floor and ceiling. it has vague indications of features like eyes and screaming mouth.

album cover commission from last year

05.03.2026 13:58 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

05.03.2026 05:17 β€” πŸ‘ 17398    πŸ” 5764    πŸ’¬ 128    πŸ“Œ 102
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when he’s strong and fast and also fresh from the fight 🫦

05.03.2026 01:36 β€” πŸ‘ 3937    πŸ” 1061    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 3

And they're done! I'm so happy with how this turned out. I'm starting to feel a little more confident in being able to produce finished illustrations in traditional media, not just studies. 😊This is watercolor + gouache., with a little bit of color pencil and pastel for final touches.

05.03.2026 00:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2356    πŸ” 528    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 3
Digital painting of a sunset sky: a pink and orange veil is covering most of it, with a couple of rows of long, thin, purple clouds in the lower quarter of the frame.

Digital painting of a sunset sky: a pink and orange veil is covering most of it, with a couple of rows of long, thin, purple clouds in the lower quarter of the frame.

We report at the end of a strange, warm, sunny day. We spent it attempting to reconcile our idea of an early March day with the lukewarm wind we felt on our face. As the sun is setting, the crisp humidity is swallowing half of the thermometer in one fell swoop.

04.03.2026 23:17 β€” πŸ‘ 99    πŸ” 30    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"don't make it political"

everything is political, it is inescapable, it is a privilege to pretend to forget this

04.03.2026 21:50 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
A dog chomping through barbed wire with text that says down with the cis-stem. KC DSA

Kansas trans ID ACCESS FUND

WE ARE
LAUNCHING THE KANSANS
TRANS ID
ACCESS FUND

TRANS
KANSANS DESERVE
ACCESS TO STATE IDS WITHOUT FINANCIAL BARRIERS

APPLY
THROUGH
OUR LINKTREE

KANSAS CITY DSA WILL CONTINUE TO ORGANIZE FOR TRANS LIBERATION AND AGAINST THESE ACTS OF STATE VIOLENCE
AN INJURY TO ONE IS AN INJURY TO ALL

A dog chomping through barbed wire with text that says down with the cis-stem. KC DSA Kansas trans ID ACCESS FUND WE ARE LAUNCHING THE KANSANS TRANS ID ACCESS FUND TRANS KANSANS DESERVE ACCESS TO STATE IDS WITHOUT FINANCIAL BARRIERS APPLY THROUGH OUR LINKTREE KANSAS CITY DSA WILL CONTINUE TO ORGANIZE FOR TRANS LIBERATION AND AGAINST THESE ACTS OF STATE VIOLENCE AN INJURY TO ONE IS AN INJURY TO ALL

KC DSA is launching the Kansas Trans ID Access Fund as a direct assistance initiative of Kansas City DSA designed to ensure that trans, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming Kansans can obtain and maintain valid state issued identification. 🧡(1/3)

27.02.2026 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 275    πŸ” 220    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 4
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Scarlet Grove

Finally had time to finish a personal piece again! c:

04.03.2026 09:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1367    πŸ” 433    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 0
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A dog (?)

CW: Painted exposed muscle, blood & bones

03.03.2026 20:28 β€” πŸ‘ 509    πŸ” 161    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
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12 hours to get free shipping on orders over $30 on INPRNT!

A great time to pick up prints if you’ve wanted to get things from multiple artists (such as my friend bio down there πŸ’š) & would like to support an artist who just had to replace their 16yo car (such as me πŸ’”)
www.inprnt.com/gallery/riva...

01.03.2026 17:42 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

So, one challenge with printing out sketches onto watercolor paper is controlling how dark to make the lines. If they are too light, I lose track of them beneath my washes. If they are too dark, they stand out too much and can only be tamped down with gouache. πŸ€”

01.03.2026 20:52 β€” πŸ‘ 192    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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Birthday commission 🀍🐍
#darksouls #darksouls3 #Gwyndolin

01.03.2026 01:38 β€” πŸ‘ 354    πŸ” 149    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Sons of Godfrey

28.02.2026 14:11 β€” πŸ‘ 849    πŸ” 252    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Donate to Support Zeno's Top Surgery, organized by Sara Zeno Camponeschi [ENG/ITA] Hi everyone. I’m Zeno (or Sara) Camponeschi, and you may know me onlin… Sara Zeno Camponeschi needs your support for Support Zeno's Top Surgery

Hi everyone! πŸ₯Ή
My Top Surgery is officially on βœ¨πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈ JUNE 5TH 2026 πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈβœ¨ and I've decided to open a fundraiser for those who want to help me pay for it. All the details are in the link.

I'll be forever grateful to anyone who shares or donates 🫢 Thank you so much for supporting me throught this journey!

26.02.2026 10:52 β€” πŸ‘ 808    πŸ” 534    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 9

Knight and Valentine - After

[ #oc | #art ]

28.02.2026 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1820    πŸ” 401    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 1
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Here's a knight design i was working on, not sure i'll get around to finishing it so I figured I'd share it in this earlier state

28.02.2026 02:10 β€” πŸ‘ 72    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Post image Post image Sword and Sorcery character Jirel

Sword and Sorcery character Jirel

Elric of Melnibone

Elric of Melnibone

Turning 24 today! πŸ§™β€β™‚οΈ

Shares of my art are very much appreciated πŸŒ›

28.02.2026 02:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1092    πŸ” 364    πŸ’¬ 63    πŸ“Œ 4
digital painting of Ranni the witch sitting in front of a full moon.

digital painting of Ranni the witch sitting in front of a full moon.

Ranni sketch
#art

27.02.2026 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0