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Artist | 33 | perpetually tired sketches, musings, headworld dumping, illustration ► Current braintrot epicenter: Dragon's Dogma 2 #DD2 ► Sketches: #sketch Sketch thread: https://bsky.app/profile/nukerooster.bsky.social/post/3lujba7cjss2u

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next on the comm list, it's going to be a headshot of a client's oc I did the visual design for a few years ago.

28.10.2025 12:24 — 👍 25    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Beastren Arisen Kraus scribbles. something a lil puma and lion works for him.
#dd2

27.10.2025 19:08 — 👍 22    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Highlighting fantastic palaeoartists:

渔火 on xiaohongshu, a mixed-medium artist from China. Magical depictions of theropods. Pictures are panels from their Spinosaurus comic.

27.10.2025 13:04 — 👍 1430    🔁 401    💬 8    📌 3

Late reply here; same for me, I need fans going at all times to help muddy the brain screeching as well.

27.10.2025 04:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🐉

Commission for Austin Zheng @f3nghuang.net

25.10.2025 18:48 — 👍 388    🔁 126    💬 1    📌 0

Cute lil guys

25.10.2025 05:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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i tend to sketch on massive canvases and cobble stuff up this way and that and this sketch just happened to get mashed over my earlier notes. Understandable reaction, Liam.

22.10.2025 17:50 — 👍 17    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
sketch that I got very lazy with when it came to Kraus. very rarely does Pawn Liam get spicy, but he pulls his will through Oblivion like an ace card a few times and reminds Kraus of what he is underneath the human veil he's often forced to wear.

 Dragon's Dogma story things~

sketch that I got very lazy with when it came to Kraus. very rarely does Pawn Liam get spicy, but he pulls his will through Oblivion like an ace card a few times and reminds Kraus of what he is underneath the human veil he's often forced to wear. Dragon's Dogma story things~

#dd2 Liam pinning Kraus and asking the important questions

22.10.2025 17:38 — 👍 172    🔁 35    💬 1    📌 0
OG Kraus refers to Kraus' original story and person, though here, because his OG story is muted, he's not as spicy (despite him being reaper hot even in his human form, he's just a grumpy individual), though I am cooking up a variety where he is indeed involved in pit fighting in his DD2 story in some fashion to bring on the juicy internal conflicts he does go through in some other stories. Liam is in it for the ride and generally puts up with Kraus' bark and bite behavior, though because he has a very old existence as Oblivion, he does indeed snap back a few times and puts even Kraus in his place.

OG Kraus refers to Kraus' original story and person, though here, because his OG story is muted, he's not as spicy (despite him being reaper hot even in his human form, he's just a grumpy individual), though I am cooking up a variety where he is indeed involved in pit fighting in his DD2 story in some fashion to bring on the juicy internal conflicts he does go through in some other stories. Liam is in it for the ride and generally puts up with Kraus' bark and bite behavior, though because he has a very old existence as Oblivion, he does indeed snap back a few times and puts even Kraus in his place.

some #DD2 notes for myself in the instance OG Kraus was Arisen and not his human flavor.

22.10.2025 14:20 — 👍 16    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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scratches of mostly Fallion

22.10.2025 12:11 — 👍 17    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

it's very bothersome, my tinnitus is kinda similar to that 'gunshot ringing' noise you hear in films, a little scratchier, like metallic sand rattling around in my head. I can only hope one day there's a fix for it.

22.10.2025 09:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Having fairly bad tinnitus at times stacked on top of visual snow blows. Tinnitus is extra spicy tonight so I'm up. My visual 'static' is very similar to a grain filter for me, I thought this was normal for a long time. Anyone else have this? Generally ppl w tinnitus often also have visual snow.

22.10.2025 09:23 — 👍 55    🔁 3    💬 6    📌 0
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#dd2 dragonsplague pawn Liam sketches.

21.10.2025 18:27 — 👍 35    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Hello! I'm Nuke, I am a varied artist and I like doing all kinds of stuff. I've worked as a concept and illustrative artist, but now mostly sketch for fun. I can namely be found here:
* www.artstation.com/nukerooster
* cara.app/nukerooster
* www.instagram.com/nukerooster/
* x.com/RoosterNuke

21.11.2024 02:05 — 👍 269    🔁 66    💬 2    📌 0

🔴👄🔴

12.10.2025 10:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is really cute!

06.10.2025 14:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
A drawing of two leopards, one normal and one black, chasing each other in a circle with a star sky and nebulae in the background

A drawing of two leopards, one normal and one black, chasing each other in a circle with a star sky and nebulae in the background

...And done.

Once again colored pencils on black paper, this time also with some silver and gold ink. A3, probably around 20-25 hours.

#art #fantasyart #space #leopard #traditionalart #drawing

25.09.2025 20:11 — 👍 741    🔁 263    💬 15    📌 1
Sketch of a leggy, winged character somberly playing a violin. There is a small rough sketch showing the idea he's at a memorial.

Sketch of a leggy, winged character somberly playing a violin. There is a small rough sketch showing the idea he's at a memorial.

Sketch of Fallion making sad violin noises
#sketch

15.12.2024 02:59 — 👍 87    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0
a reference sheet for Liam, the main pawn companion to Kraus, the Arisen, in my Dragon's Dogma 2 story. He is a dark pitch six-limbed dragon with a bird-like face, bright red eyes, and long, slender wings. He is shown with a side profile, two headshots, a dorsal view for wings, and his full dragonsplague form, which is less solid in appearance and more like a black mass of smoke with red eyes.

a reference sheet for Liam, the main pawn companion to Kraus, the Arisen, in my Dragon's Dogma 2 story. He is a dark pitch six-limbed dragon with a bird-like face, bright red eyes, and long, slender wings. He is shown with a side profile, two headshots, a dorsal view for wings, and his full dragonsplague form, which is less solid in appearance and more like a black mass of smoke with red eyes.

Simple reference for Liam's dragonsplague and primordial, draconic form. He's kindhearted and that rings true for all his forms, dragon or no. For my Dragon's Dogma 2 story. I don't really like adding text like this but though it may be helpful.

#DD2

03.12.2024 17:35 — 👍 171    🔁 38    💬 2    📌 0

He doesn't even know himself sometimes. 😂

24.09.2025 02:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Jareth works closely with a former pit-born Arch named Riddick, who lost part of his arm to another Arch in a pit fight. Most pits dock the ears of Archs; Riddick and some kits they rescue have docked ears. Riddick's quad sketch below. I haven't done much art with the rescue team recently.

23.09.2025 18:01 — 👍 17    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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#sketch from my 2022 folder. Jareth is Kraus' son. Kraus is a 'Pit Master' and runs an underground fighting pit using namely Archs and boar. Jareth is part of a small team that goes in and rescues kits (baby Archs) from pits, he targets his father's labyrinthian pit heavily.

23.09.2025 17:55 — 👍 16    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
Commission for Yangwolfsw(DA) of their character Armin. I created this character some years ago and sold it as an adopt and it's so awesome to see him still flying around today!

Commission for Yangwolfsw(DA) of their character Armin. I created this character some years ago and sold it as an adopt and it's so awesome to see him still flying around today!

for Yangwolfsw(DA)

23.09.2025 17:07 — 👍 87    🔁 13    💬 2    📌 0
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#sketch sprinkles, last three are from 2022-ish. DD2 Arisen Kraus and pawn Liam in his primordial/dragon form, ArchKraus and Liam (and Surie the kit), pit boar, and Lead sketches.

23.09.2025 15:32 — 👍 30    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Finally finished this project!! 💚🌱

It was an uphill battle for SURE but I'm really happy with the result, I'm proud of myself 🥹

Check check www.artstation.com/artwork/nJGE6X

15.09.2025 15:25 — 👍 341    🔁 91    💬 9    📌 3
an anon said my ocs were 'smoochable', I responded with Arisen Kraus questioning such a remark as he doesn't find himself to be very 'smoochable', and his pawn, Liam, in his draconic form, showing him he is, in fact, smoochable, with a lick to the noggin. Liam as a dragon has a beaky snoot so he can't exactly 'kiss' like a human but he can certainly boop and lick like a goof. Kraus is stunned as a response, in multiple facets. 

further alt: idk how to tag my dd2 stuff properly, dd2 is also getting mixed up with darkest dungeon 2, which idk about. :'D in any case, on my profile it means Dragon's Dogma 2.

an anon said my ocs were 'smoochable', I responded with Arisen Kraus questioning such a remark as he doesn't find himself to be very 'smoochable', and his pawn, Liam, in his draconic form, showing him he is, in fact, smoochable, with a lick to the noggin. Liam as a dragon has a beaky snoot so he can't exactly 'kiss' like a human but he can certainly boop and lick like a goof. Kraus is stunned as a response, in multiple facets. further alt: idk how to tag my dd2 stuff properly, dd2 is also getting mixed up with darkest dungeon 2, which idk about. :'D in any case, on my profile it means Dragon's Dogma 2.

dragon licks count as a smooch in Liam's book.

#DD2

10.03.2025 15:00 — 👍 178    🔁 29    💬 3    📌 0
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Dragons. 😌

#sketch commission WIP

11.09.2025 02:44 — 👍 174    🔁 21    💬 4    📌 0

That's so awesome to hear. 🥲 insta is hard for me to keep up with and stay in the loop in terms of artists I follow too.

09.09.2025 12:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

You're right I did. ): deleted the dupe.

07.09.2025 10:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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WIP to a colored sketch comm. It'll be cleaned up and colored next. This one made me extra happy bc it's a character who's design I created years ago. I really love seeing that they still thrive out there. <3

07.09.2025 02:06 — 👍 112    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

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