🍊✨ r. a. menace | (they/them)

I know it’s difficult right now, but I insist that you seek and enjoy beautiful things, even if it seems frivolous or irresponsible in the face of overwhelming horror. I want you to feed yourself artistically, spiritually, and literally, because you can’t Do The Work when you’re starving.

My painting LIGHTHOUSE SKY

One of 20 full length painting videos in The Landscape Painting Studio. Learn to paint stunning landscapes using my easy to follow techniques.

A digital illustration of a profile picture for a white nonbinary trans masculine person. They have short brown hair, glasses, and brown eyes. In this small bust drawing, they are wearing a green flannel, black tee shirt, and black triangle earrings. A faint bit of peach fuzz is visible on their upper lip and chin. The background sets the color palette for this image. It is a wavy blue-green and orange image with a grain texture. Around the person’s busy are glowing lines and stars, and over their head is a glowing symbol. The glowing symbol resembles a hurricane symbol, with a circle and two wings on either side, but it’s actually the symbol for their persona project: Broken Dimensions, whose title is visible on either side of their head.

New PFP! I haven’t drawn any sort of legit self-portrait since the big one I painted in a class like 3 years ago, so this was a funny little one to test it out again.

Since starting my medical transition, I’ve actually started to like how I look so… it feels better to draw myself too 😊

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Restored Peatlands Could Become Carbon Sinks Within Decades - Eos That’s much faster than what most scientists thought.

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Massie Says ‘Significant’ Epstein Files Were Shielded From Lawmakers Before They Could View Unredacted In an interview on Sunday, the Republican congressman also said he had no confidence in Attorney General Pam Bondi.

In an interview on Sunday, the Republican congressman also said he had no confidence in Attorney General Pam Bondi.

My painting WHITE IRON LAKE

What do you image when the clouds clear for only half an hour?
M42 of course.
Esprit 100ED, ASI2600MM Pro.

2x300s Red, Green and Blue and 50x5s Red, Green and Blue

#astronomy #astrophotography

Share 4 years of your art!

2022 // 2023 // 2024 // 2025

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YouTube video by Drain - Topic Bleed You Dry (feat. Soulfiera)

Song link:

youtu.be/t9KY11gxXEA?...

4/4

(somewhere in the afterlife, Wilson Alder is hit with the disturbing sense that he’s missing out on something hot as hell, and wonders idly if maybe he should’ve let Pitch commit more murder while he was still alive…)

/3

….and sometimes he gets to be a bit feral and dismember other psykojics limb by metaphysical limb! as a treat. call it enrichment.

/2

Notes from tumblr:

sometimes Pitch is a chill (and kind of menacing) girl dad who looks like he should be head of his own biker gang.

/1

A digital illustration showing a character in tactical pants, combat boots, gloves, and a crop top. He’s suspended in the air of his own power, grinning viciously down at whoever he’s pulling at with the golem cords of magic twisted around his hands. There is a glowing gold symbol over his head which identifies him as a psykojic (sigh-ko-jick) - an entity created and wholly powered by control magic. He is menacing, but he’s clearly having fun ripping his victim apart. The character is Pitch Alder from The Lycanthra Syndicate, my hypothetical WIP comic (lol). In addition to the combat clothes and crop top: he is inhabiting a highly advanced android body that has black and yellow synth-skin. His face is split in half, and the gold half is facing us. He has color detailing on his rib cage and also has gold fingertips. I forgot his freckles but it’s okay.

The same image but with a narrower crop. Currently my phone lock screen.

A closer detail crop showing Pitch’s expression, i.e. his maniacal grin. He appears gleeful and a bit evil, and it’s great. You go, reformed psychic demon man (android?). Somewhere in the afterlife, Wilson Alder has been struck with the sure feeling that he’s missing out on something hot as hell, and suddenly regrets not letting Pitch kill more psykojics while he was alive.

I also have some actual polished artwork to share too!! I got brain-zapped by a song I’ll link in the replies, and it wouldn’t let me go until I made something with Pitch.

So, here we are!

(I love drawing him going a bit feral. He’s so often the cool, menacing dad lol)

#art #thelycanthrasyndicate

a digital painting, showing an extremely detailed strawberry patch, though only one tiny red strawberry is seen in the bottom left corner. there are occasional pops of yellow buds of new flowers, but over the image is angular shapes of leaves in various shades of green, yellow, and blue.

Dreaming of Spring
(aka 73 hours of painting leaves in CSP. you know, for fun!)
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Anyway, it's been a lot of fun getting back to this point in the story. I had to make some art with her, more than just the usual doodles I do to remember how to draw her braids. Hope you guys enjoy the variations and the lore (or the teasing of lore, lol)!

10/10

And then everyone finds out what she did and what she turned herself into... Oh yeah. Fun times.

/9

Someone who fucks up shit on the playing field of interdimensional trade, occasionally charges the Aetherian Empire with empty threats - she's a nuisance, basically, until she isn't.

/8

That's a huge part of "Finale" actually, because up until this point in the story, Adira's machinations have been entirely her own - and she's been a background antagonist!

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But Adira now is also SO much more fun to work with than OG Adira. She's malicious and self-centered and cruel, and I HATE her - which means I also quite love writing her. The fun part now, too, is that she's not doing it alone.

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(It was a reasonable switch to make in terms of characterization, imo.)

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It made a lot more sense for Adira to be the bad guy, in the end. Dariia had always been the character who did the work, who saw people for what they were (as people). Adira was always the entitled one, the one who had everything - except full control of everyone around her.

/4

Somewhere around 5 years ago I flipped the story around and a lot of stuff changed - including the responsibility for who destroyed the entire world-system of Darekaeii (the place both sisters and their siblings hail from).

/3

Adira started out as a good guy actually, if you are so inclined to know. Her sister, Dariia, was the original villain ages and ages ago when I was meddling around with creative fiction as a mid-teenager.

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Notes from tumblr:

I'm getting to the point in my rewrite of the Fractal Alliances finale where the final battle with Adira is about to take place, and as such I've been listening to her playlist again... mm. She's such a freak, definitely a fun villain to work with!

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Antagonist concept art for Broken Dimensions: Fractal Alliances. The illustration shows a woman in armor and torn fabric standing at an odd angle. She has grand wings, but in addition to the fully feathered set, she also has 2 additional sets of inky black, molting, bony ghosts of wings. The same inky black shadows are creeping and winding up her disfigured legs and up her body as blue magic crackles across her arms like lightning. An inverted blue triangle (which is supposed to show her emblem but I didn’t draw it there) glows at the base of her throat. I’ve Rhea’s head is a ghostly blue halo or magic, as well as a pointed, triangular emblem (here) which glows over her forehead. In the dim black of the space above her, a faint scythe symbol can barely be seen, haloed faintly in blue. Character: Adira Eagriss, corrupt queen turned megalomaniac, self-experimenting mad scientist (and perpetrator of a genocide).

The same image as previous, generally, but with color alterations. Instead of an overall blue and black color scheme, some of the lighting is tinged green as well. A subtle change, but definitely adds some atmosphere.

Another variant in which the underlighting has an orange hue and the blue of Adira’s magic has been carved out as well. A starker color contrast overall.

A final variant with the most color. Purples, blues, greens, gold, and reddish pink. There is more color to her magic as well, and the e gradient map have been layered and manipulated to create the most color-diverse version of this illustration. It’s probably my favorite, personally.

I actually have several iterations of that piece! I didn’t realize I hadn’t posted them here yet :)

(I’ll post some notes in the replies)

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⬛️ If you see this, post something monochromatic ⬛️

A digital painting of a character in armor holding a smoking blaster. The lighting is harsh and hot, like they’re standing over a pit of fire. Rings of red and blue magic circle their wrists and head, and angular symbols adorn their forehead and both shoulder pads.

The same image but cropped closer and at a slightly different angle. Copied description: A digital painting of a character in armor holding a smoking blaster. The lighting is harsh and hot, like they’re standing over a pit of fire. Rings of red and blue magic circle their wrists and head, and angular symbols adorn their forehead and both shoulder pads.

The same image but cropped closer and at a another angle. Copied description: A digital painting of a character in armor holding a smoking blaster. The lighting is harsh and hot, like they’re standing over a pit of fire. Rings of red and blue magic circle their wrists and head, and angular symbols adorn their forehead and both shoulder pads.

a warmup thing I finished up for fun

#art #oc #brokendimensions

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