The Dashing Dhampir

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Dysania [dahy-SAY-nee-yuh]
(n.)
-The state of finding it difficult to get out of bed in the morning.

Use:
“I struggle with dysania every day, but Monday mornings feel like a personal attack.”
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Image of Kefka Palazzo from the video game “Final Fantasy VI” holding up a shard of magicite and looking to the viewer menacingly.

🔸-Magicite-🔸

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Swedge [swej]
(v.)
- To leave without paying one’s bill.

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Gorgonize [GOR-guh-nahyz]
(v.)
- To have a paralyzing or mesmerizing effect on; to stupefy or petrify.

Used in a sentence:
"The Egyptology professor gorgonized his students with amusing riddles and captivating anecdotes of the ancient kingdoms.”

Maybe a little more recognizable now

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Bedlam [BED-lum]
(n.)
- A mad scene of uproar and confusion; wild pandemonium.
- A sanctuary for bedlamites; a madhouse.

Used in a sentence:
"What followed was bedlam — not panicked chaos, but a deeper, primal frenzy, as though every mind had shattered in unison.”

Wanted to just add a little more flare and post a close up of the detail parts of this piece.

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This is so beautifully well said, Tayto. I love it.

Elven man with glasses wearing a black suit and brown gloves. He has a mini astroglobe in his hand.

The Lord of Time [ oc ]

Watching the progression into this rabbit hole you've been commenting through about the reproductive habits of arthropods brings me the most delectable joy. It has me genuinely intrigued on exactly what the creative result of your investigative adventures will be and I am not even into centipedes.

Painting of an alien lurking with a horde of other aliens.

Looking back fondly at this one alien I did~ 🤭❤️

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Peccadillo [pek-uh-DIL-oh]
(n.)
- A slight offense or minor sin.

From Spanish “pecadillo” diminutive of “pecado” (a sin) from Latin “peccatum” (a sin, fault, error)

Used in a sentence:
“He supposed, in the strictest accounting of moral ledgers, that the heist was no mere peccadillo.”

Art of a fairy pirate girl with dark skin, sprawled out in a filled beer stein full of froth in pinup style. She is wearing a tri-fold hat with an ostrich feather, white ruffled shirt, corset, gold belt, purple dress and suede brown boots. Her wings are covered with a treasure map. The beer stein is sitting on top of a wooden table. She has her feet crossed and in the air, one hand in front of her and the other behind her head.

#Commission for a dear friend and long time client. Her #DnD character is a pirate fairy with a treasure map etched onto her wings.

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Sketch with colored pens and markers of a skull with melting eye sockets and mushrooms

Sketchbook

Eluein, a Highborne night elf, gazing up solemnly at the dilapidated painting portraying her parents, Teneda and Vreis.

remembrance
#art #worldofwarcraft

The last thing you see

Illustration for the Castlevania Piano Collection vinyl

The bone zone

A reference sheet produced by Kitsunuki Studios for the character William von Braun, a dhampir (half human, half vampire) with a few details about him and his history. Always clad in dapper attire, he's wearing his favorite burgundy coat, purple gloves, cravat, vest, slick black slacks and wingtip shoes.

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Lineart bust drawing of human Alastor from Hazbin Hotel grinning while raising a bloodied hand to his mouth.

Caught the "draw that guy" itch again for Alastor after the latest episode and I loved the human form reveal~ 💀🩸

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Invective [in-VEK-tiv]
(adj.)
- Of, relating to, or characterized by, or using abusive language, bitter sarcasm, etc.
- Vituperative; denunciatory; censoriously abusive.
(n.)
- Vehement or violent accusation; censure, or reproach, especially of a bitterly abusive, insulting, or sarcastic kind.

digital illustration by Abigail Larson depicting a hand with a lace web pattern glove. The hand has sharp fingernails dripping a tiny amount of blood. A black butterfly is perched on the hand.

"Girls are caterpillars while they live in the world, to be finally butterflies when the summer comes; but in the meantime there are grubs and larvae, don't you see - each with their peculiar propensities, necessities and structure." - excerpt from 'Carmilla' by Sheridan Le Fanu

Comm inspired by Ayami Kojima's work🌟

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