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Close-up of the detail around the face of the Wyll Ravengard embroidery portrait

If you wanna know what the Infernal says, you’ll have to translate it yourself

An embroidered portrait of Wyll Ravengard from Baldur’s Gate 3. His head is ringed by Infernal script like a halo. He’s looking down and to the right, an expression of grief on his face and three tears trickling down his cheek.

Complete in 21 days of work, ~3 hours per day

I wish the game had explored the interpersonal drama between Wyll and his father more. When Duke Ravengard looked his son in the eye and told him he was disgusted with him for becoming a warlock, I wanted to see Wyll’s facade really come crumbling down.

Char Aznable and Amuro Ray locked in a passionate embrace after stabbing each other with swords.

I just watched what surely is one of the top 3 all-time homoerotic sword fights in anime history. In other news, I’m a card carrying Mobile Suit Gundam fan now.

think this is gonna be the one

OH well that’s another thing entirely, can’t exactly dismiss the dog and inform her you no longer require her services!

ooof. at this point you’d have to pay ME to allow a stranger to touch my yard ><

Seated male Nude (Self-Portrait)

Seated male Nude (Self-Portrait), 1910
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/24965

I love the pose & the hands in this one SO MUCH but I’m not sure embroidery is the right medium for all the painted color fill

just scrolling through this account now while I wait for my thighs to stop feeling like jelly. SO MANY good options for an embroidery study.

did too many squats and now I think I may die

2/2 Hieronymus Bosch died on this day 509 years ago. Man of the most extraordinary imagination. Nobody has ever come close.

I don’t care what the in-game model looks like, if you ever read anything I write featuring Lash please assume that the version of Lash therein has a giant round tum and big ol’ love handles

Batman acrylic painting his form is abstracted geometric shapes

Lil batman acrylic I did a while back

Art by Franz Fiedler

Make a Face

Photo of a stamped, hand addressed letter to Stripe

There’s one sternly-worded handwritten letter down

1. are they manually reviewing artists’ posts from start to finish?? how tf is that worth the TIME?
2. I don’t know how I missed this one when you first put it out but I’m over here DYING at that image of kith’rak Voss

Love that saucy little buns-out imp

Chapter 8 made me nearly miss my train stop. The shaving scene, jesus h christ. GOOD STUFF.

yessssssss you got the beans & franks, it’s all about the details

Nearly-finished embroidery of Wyll Ravengard from Baldur’s Gate. Only a few details around his shirt and neck scars remain to be finished.

Close-up photo of the most recently finished portion of the embroidery showing the different textures of his shirt collar.

Day 20 one more day and he’ll be done

Pregnant woman and Death

Pregnant woman and Death, 1911
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/25099

This is a large energetic ink and pen drawing i. Deep hues of green and blue. It is of two abstracted faces who seem bouyant and loud It is $400

Hollar

Generative AI by definition is conformity. It is an averaging of anything you ask of it - quite literally guessing what the most likely version of a thing might be. It is, by definition, mainstream, as is everything it creates old and deeply ideological, as every model trains on similar data.

these two

Thanks!!! <3 One more childhood aspiration checked off my to-do list. Two, actually, if you count “making my 11th grade English teacher proud”.

Nearly-finished embroidered portrait of Wyll Ravengard from Baldur’s Gate 3 with a halo of infernal script ringing his head

Day 19 got distracted from this for a hot minute but I’m on the home stretch now

Benefits of paperback smut:
* can’t be arbitrarily deleted by censorious digital overlords
* great segue to flirting if you want to not so subtly encourage cute strangers to ask you what you’re reading
* if you meet me in person & ask me to sign it I’ll die and go straight to heaven