Pseph/PastelGremlin (Comms Open!)

One of my first shiny hunts ever was actually Charmander, so I made my entry a little homage to that! :)
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Some lineless sketches I did! At the top of the page is Eevee (Pokemon), and the bottom half has Tenna (Deltarune) on the left and a Blob (Monster Sanctuary) on the right!

Some lineless sketch/color studies I did with some very good goobers :)

Forgot I could just slap colors onto a page sometimes
#fanart #pokemon #deltarune #monstersanctuary

Page of drawn designs for a creature type I call “Potted Golems”! Living creatures made of magical plants that have taken over their vessels. From left to right, top to bottom we have: Standard Teracotta Pot: A golem made from sprouting plants in a cracked terracotta plant pot. The cracks from the creature’s “mouth”, and allow for holes to form soil into hands and extend roots out into feet. “Recycled” Cup: A styrofoam cup with a dandelion planted in it (and a plastic straw), turned into one of these creatures. It can’t crack the cup enough to get more than a single spread of roots out for one foot to hop along on, but it continues on regardless. Flower Basket: A golem made up of a large number of flowers in a woven basket. Instead of soil and roots, its “hands” are stray leaves and petals that have fallen from the flowers it carries, and its “feet” are the bottom ends of the ribbon tied at the bade of its basket handle. Old Potion Bottle: A glass bottle not rinsed of life potion thoroughly enough before being used as a vase, resulting in a potted golem! It is cracked to form its mouth and limbs in a similar way to the Standard Terracotta Pot golem, but instead of soil, it’s filled with and using water, with a lovely flower standing tall over the edge of the bottle. Mini Succulent: A potted golem made of a small succulent plant in a miniature porcelain pot. Its exterior isn’t cracked, but instead its hands are made of floating soil and rocks from the top layer of the pot, and it has feet/eyebrows made of pebbles too.

A sketchy notes page that goes into more detail on the anatomy and history of Potted Golems as a creature! At the very top is a little doodle of a witch watching her potion bottle spring to life as a Potted Golem, with text next to it that says "Potion Bottle breeds were the first ones! A witch in training didn't rinse a used bottle well enough before using it as a vase." Under that is a little drawn diagram of a vase, showing the ratios of Life Potion, Water (or soil), and Soul Host plant needed to assemble a golem. To the left of that is a sketch of the Potion Bottle golem, with arrows and captions pointing to places on its body, stating "If vessel is solid, it will usually crack to allow for limbs" and "Plant health measured by appearance OR eye brightness" Under the assembly diagram is 3 sketches of different plants, with the caption "Any plant works!" above it. The bottom left of the page has sketches of a terracotta pot golem in attack mode, one being watered, and 3 more shapes/plants for golems not featured in the initial artwork. The bottom right shows a terracotta pot golem being "dismantled", as the plant is removed from the old pot to be put into a new basket vessel, the old pot going lifeless and the dirt that was once limbs piling up on the ground. The written text above and below this drawing reads "Remember, the soul IS the PLANT! Golems can be dismantled by removal, OR replanted into new pots for a makeover!"

My initial rough sketches for each of the potted golem varieties I included in my full art, sketches in blue pencil brush! Next to it on my canvas is a zoomed-in picture of the oiriginal pen-and-paper sketch, the very first design for the Potted Golem (a Terracotta pot one)

Posted the finished art page for these designs with yesterday's portfolio day post, but here's a closer look at Potted Golems!

Originally I'd drawn it with pen while out of the house, and later decided I wanted to try and take the concept further.
#art #creaturedesign #oc

An illustration by me in two halves, that can be turned right side up or upside down. The “top” is a white, flower-covered cat on a mossy rock in the middle of a pond, surrounded by a misty forest full of fairies, flowers and wildlife. The “bottom” is a black, crystal-covered cat on a mossy rock in the middle of a pond, surrounded by cyan mushrooms with bioluminescent swirling patterns on their caps, and crystal growths glowing in pink, purple and orange colors inside of a cave.

Page of drawn designs for a creature type I call “Potted Golems”! Living creatures made of magical plants that have taken over their vessels. From left to right, top to bottom we have: Standard Teracotta Pot: A golem made from sprouting plants in a cracked terracotta plant pot. The cracks from the creature’s “mouth”, and allow for holes to form soil into hands and extend roots out into feet. “Recycled” Cup: A styrofoam cup with a dandelion planted in it (and a plastic straw), turned into one of these creatures. It can’t crack the cup enough to get more than a single spread of roots out for one foot to hop along on, but it continues on regardless. Flower Basket: A golem made up of a large number of flowers in a woven basket. Instead of soil and roots, its “hands” are stray leaves and petals that have fallen from the flowers it carries, and its “feet” are the bottom ends of the ribbon tied at the bade of its basket handle. Old Potion Bottle: A glass bottle not rinsed of life potion thoroughly enough before being used as a vase, resulting in a potted golem! It is cracked to form its mouth and limbs in a similar way to the Standard Terracotta Pot golem, but instead of soil, it’s filled with and using water, with a lovely flower standing tall over the edge of the bottle. Mini Succulent: A potted golem made of a small succulent plant in a miniature porcelain pot. Its exterior isn’t cracked, but instead its hands are made of floating soil and rocks from the top layer of the pot, and it has feet/eyebrows made of pebbles too.

My illustrated character design, dubbed “The Dancing Dark”. A humanoid being with a “face” and “hair” made of shadows leaking out from their big hat and parts of their snazzy suit. Instead of a tailcoat they have 4 floating panels attached to their waist that resemble butterfly wings. Besides the wide brim hat and suit top, they also have on vertically striped pants, pointy dress shoes, and white gloves (that also show they may have claws as well). Their tie and earrings are designed to look like the chrysalis of a butterfly. They are surrounded by butterfly-like entities that use their wings and antennae to emote like sets of eyes (should I call them Butterfl-eyes?)

My drawing of a shiny Hydrapple (Pokemon), decorated like a giant supreme candied apple! Hydrapple itself is a light green 5-headed serpent with two tails, coming out of a candied apple base that’s usually red, or caramel in the case of the shiny. The main of these heads sits in the middle, with horns and a green apple skewered on one! For my candied Hydrapple, I used the shiny for the caramel base, but gave it different layers of cool coatings/toppings! The top layer is covered in dripping caramel, a white chocolate swirl, and dollops of whipped cream. The second layer is darker caramel with peanut pieces. The third layer is white chocolate with rainbow sprinkles. The fourth layer is smooth milk chocolate. And at the bottom, the caramel returns with apple slices decorating the bottom around the base of the apple!

Hello and happy #portfolioday!
I’m Pseph (or Pastel), a freelance artist specializing in 2D art, illustration and character designs! I do originals, fan art, and also do a bit of animation :)

You can find my Ko-fi for comms, other socials and contact email at linktr.ee/psephrain8

#art #fanart

A Persona 3 fan art illustration I drew at the end of 2025! It shows the dark blue silhouette of the MC in a calm watery background (like Reload), with his lighter blue eye and bright red SEES patch visible. He’s holding his Evoker at the ready as a breeze blows his hair, clothes, and some bright blue flower petals that match him gently across the canvas. Underneath him, where his shadow would be on the floor, is the while silhouette of chains and the face of his persona. The outside of the canvas is framed in the shape of a coffin (like what normal people turn into during the Dark Hour), with black and white tile patterns that slowly fade into black and bright green like the Dark Hour’s full moon. There are carnations on the edge of the tile framing, each one a color representing the different party member characters from the game. Pink, darker blue, scarlet, teal, yellow, white, gray, orange, and a torn dark red one. Light blue petals are scattered around them all, and a glowing blue butterfly rests on the yellow one.

One of the last big pieces I finished in 2025 was this Persona 3 illustration!
Tried a lot of new, experimental stuff, especially on all the symbolism from the game I put in here, but I really like how it turned out!

#fanart #persona3 #illustration

MINI COLLAB INCOMING!!!

Start with year off with a little char-m!
We are partering with local lizard man Crantime to invite artists of all talents to draw a member of the Charmander family.
Pieces are due by January 27th!

Rules and additional info:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Thank you! It was really cool to work on them all! :)

I spelled gingerbread wrong but you know what, I'm human, lmao

Reposting this now that the collab is out! Here's my Sylveon ginergbread cookie I made for this.
This has gotta be up there in my personal favorite collabs, it was so fun seeing people's cute cookie entries!
Support the artists, everyone did awesome!

Happy holiday season to all! :)
#pokemon #fanart

My character portrait for the female Elementalist in the game JRoguePG on Steam. A dark-skinned woman with hazel eyes, blue hair, a red witch-like hat with gold details around the rim and a grey belt around the middle, in colorful robes with pearl bead strings adorning it. She holds a magic flame up in her hand.

My character portrait for the male Rogue in the game JRoguePG on Steam. A light tan-skinned man with blue eyes and silver hair that covers his right eye entirely. He has a black headband, black clothes, fingerless gloves and clutches a dagger in one hand in front of him with a determined grin.

My character portrait for the male Fighter in the game JRoguePG on Steam. A dark-skinned man with a dark brown mohawk, and thin facial hair. He has blue eyes, scars on his face, silver earrings and a red and gold outfit on. His fighting gloves are fingerless and red, with gold edges and silver spikes on the knuckles.

My character portrait for the female Wizard in the game JRoguePG on Steam. A fair-skinned woman with deep blue eyes and yellow-orange hair. Her wizard hat is blue with a thin grayish belt tied around it, the slack hanging off the rim of the hat, and she has golden earrings on. Her robes are blue, her cape is black and there’s bright blue magic flowing around her.

I can now say why I’ve been so quiet this year!

I did portraits (and some fullbodies!) of characters for JRoguePG on Steam, based on the dev’s sprites!
My first time on a project like this! Here’s a few of my favorites :)

Support the game!

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#indiegame #art

So, I did this some months ago, finally got the guts to post it.
I’m practicing making comics again! I wanna get my story out there and stop being afraid to post!

Here are some test pages I made! Need to experiment more with layouts and text boxes, but I like the direction I’ve got!
#oc #art #comic

Thanks!
Also feel you on that, lol. I dunno if I could eat this one, but painting the textures on this one DID make me really want gingerbread...

I decided to make my favorite mon into a gingerbread cookie for this one!
Excited to see what everyone else does! Join in if you can! :D
#pokemon #fanart

Got some more doodles for my gremlin that I don’t think I’ve shared! Some alt outfit designs and some funny expression practice!
#art #oc #sona

Thanks! I do love designing food creatures quite a bit, lol

“Hope you all have a good one” I meant have a good day, “have a good one” is just usually how I say it, LOL

This might be my favorite Pokemon art I’ve done all year, this was such a fun one to design! Go support the rest of the artists too, everyone made some really cool apples!

Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! :) Hope you all have a good one whether you do or don’t!
#pokemon #fanart

A doodle I made of my trainer from Pokemon Legends ZA, surrounded by my main 3 Pokemon from my team! In the center is my trainer. She has purple hair with blue highlights tied into a ponytail, pale skin and blue eyes. She’s wearing an outfit made to resemble a rainbow, so from top to bottom, her hat is darker reddish-pink with a black ribbon around it, her sweater is red, and her pants are bright rainbow-gradient cargo pants that go from orange up top to purple down by her shoes. Her shoes are black with white stitches and laces. She has on black gloves that leave her pointer fingers and thumbs out, a black leather jacket, and black circular shades. To the viewer’s left is Eloise, my Clefable, looking happy/carefree. To the viewer’s right is Gretchen, my Hawlucha, looking determined. And behind all of them is my huge alpha Dragonite, Ramen, who just wants a hug it’s fine :) (Note: He looks INCREDIBLY menacing with red glowing eyes, a shadowed face, and is reaching past everyone towards the camera like he’s gonna grab ya)

An actual screenshot of my character from Pokemon Legends ZA! She has purple hair with blue highlights tied into a ponytail, pale skin and blue eyes. She’s wearing an outfit made to resemble a rainbow, so from top to bottom, her hat is darker reddish-pink with a black ribbon around it, her sweater is red, and her pants are bright rainbow-gradient cargo pants that go from orange up top to purple down by her shoes. Her shoes are black with white stitches and laces. She has on black gloves that leave her pointer fingers and thumbs out, a black leather jacket, and black circular shades.

After beating the game I decided to sketch my trainer and main 3 Pokemon from Legends ZA!
Had a blast with the story. I really love the battle system, it’s so much fun!
Also very proud of my cool rainbow fit, lol
#fanart #pokemon

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(I forgot to include it, but oh well, it's in my bio too)

An original illustration from me! There’s a cute little cat reaper, in a desaturated blue robe and hood, with a body made of deep purple shadows. She is standing atop a grassy hill of different color stripes that go up in hue (purple at the bottom, then indigo, then blue, then cyan, then light green), and is dotted with flowers in many colors. Her scythe has a crooked, curly purple handle, and two blades (one big one, one smaller one under it). Around her swirls an ethereal swarm of ghostly souls, all in different colors of the rainbow, swirling around the hill and up into the sky.

An illustration by me in two halves, that can be turned right side up or upside down. The “top” is a white, flower-covered cat on a mossy rock in the middle of a pond, surrounded by a misty forest full of fairies, flowers and wildlife. The “bottom” is a black, crystal-covered cat on a mossy rock in the middle of a pond, surrounded by cyan mushrooms with bioluminescent swirling patterns on their caps, and crystal growths glowing in pink, purple and orange colors inside of a cave.

My crochet piece of a little orange and white tabby cat!

My crochet piece of a gray and white cat in a dark teal coat and hat, with a lime green scarf!

Thanks for hosting these! :) Love seeing all the cool things people do!

I'm Pseph/Pastel and I do a lot of whimsical 2D art!
I also crochet (but haven't quite had the time to launch a store for that yet, hopefully soon!)

The Winner of the Mini Collab vote is...

APPLIN!!!!! 🍎🍏🍎🍏🍎🍏

This month we'll be drawing the Applin family for a harvest themed Mini collab!
More info and how to join: t.co/wsu8IkoN1s

Honestly it’s mine too! One of my big takeaways from this is that I’m gonna try and blend my fancy usual with that somewhat going forward :) I love how the colors turned out

The first of two pages of Hoppip (pokemon) I drew to experiment with different rendering styles! Labeled from top to bottom, left to right, we have my Fancy Usual, my Simpler Usual, Clear Shapes, and Sugimori-Inspired

The second of two pages of Hoppip (pokemon) I drew to experiment with different rendering styles! Labeled from top to bottom, left to right, we have Black and White shadows, Gradients, Dreamy Marker, and Scratchy Lines

Decided to do some render tests/experiments, and whenever I try out new art stuff, I usually use something I’m already familiar with, like Pokemon!
So Hoppip has been helping me learn some things :)
#fanart #pokemon

An original illustration from me! There’s a cute little cat reaper, in a desaturated blue robe and hood, with a body made of deep purple shadows. She is standing atop a grassy hill of different color stripes that go up in hue (purple at the bottom, then indigo, then blue, then cyan, then light green), and is dotted with flowers in many colors. Her scythe has a crooked, curly purple handle, and two blades (one big one, one smaller one under it). Around her swirls an ethereal swarm of ghostly souls, all in different colors of the rainbow, swirling around the hill and up into the sky. The sky goes from dark purple, to dark blue, to dark teal, and up where the ghosts meet it- it becomes a shiny rainbow of colors leaking down into the rest of the background.

In a moment of serendipity, I ended up finishing this piece I’ve been working on for quite awhile now (chipping away between other works) in time for Halloween, AND it’s spooky themed!
I think I started this in September. Maybe even August, lol
At any rate- Happy #Halloween! :D
#art #illustration

The next mini collab is....
THE PEOPLES CHOICE!

November is the end of the harvest season. Thus, we'll be ending the season with a mini collab focused on one grass type Pokemon line, which you will all decide!

Votes will be closed in 1 week from today!

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An honor to have participated, as always! May our silly goobers honor James' memory❤️
Here's my full piece for the collab!
#pokemon #fanart

Happy 12th anniversary to Pokemon X and Y!
Please send our talented artists who helped put together our Kalos collab some love 🫰🏻

#PokemonLegendsZA

MINI COLLAB INCOMING!🐈

This month we'll be dedicating our mini collab to James Cathcart, who passed from throat cancer earlier this July. In his honor, we'll be drawing Meowths and raising money for the American Cancer Society!

More info in the replies!

(art by Sleepy Cheeky)