this must be a rare occurrence of me doing a piece inspired by music i listen to and, to be honest, i like for that to happen more often inspiration: [FRUITS CLiPPER - CAPSULE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-EFlRptF7k)

**a slow crawl to my 30s commences as of today!** other than gathering with family yesterday, celebration has mainly been isolated to myself. to be fair, i haven't been putting myself out there offline and online quite recently. it's been a real slow crawl rebuilding everything about myself from scratch, especially in regards to meeting new people to befriend. for context: i cut myself off from almost everyone i knew before the pandemic hit and, looking back on how i felt being with a number of them back then, i cannot say i'd feel comfortable with reconnecting with past people that i thought i could trust and/or even call friends. plus, i feel i need to call it: i'm burned out in almost every aspect of myself. not just with my art, mind you, but also with getting out of bed, looking for ways to support myself, and even making myself compatible with others. basically, it's been hard convincing myself that love, respect, and compassion are things that i can have in reality and not just in my dreams. on a slightly brighter note, i've been recently trying to find ways to make space for myself through keeping a private journal and making a schedule for myself to follow. plus, i feel like i'm doing well in being intentional with how i interact online; it's a real eye opener having to comment/reply and do anything else to interact with someone that isn't merely liking, reacting, or resharing a post from them. i wish i was a bit quicker with getting my shit together but progress is progress, i hope and suppose. here's to another year! 🎂

wanted to illustrate the atmosphere of a time when my rogue during one dnd session a long time ago made the _definitely wise_ decision to attune to a cursed dagger i will tell you, my hands felt cold the moment it happened

Did it really take me **this** long to realize that I don't have to draw only for the purpose of improving my craft? That I can also draw because I just wanted to? I just had an hour of sketching of things that are a combination of things I like and, sure it looks messy, but I found joy in creating something and that's what I missed feeling whenever I draw and paint.

Hello, my name's Dracinna and I'm a digital artist who tends to fluctuate between fantasy and light horror with their art! I'm in a rather experimental stage in terms of figuring which online spaces to devote my time to and, I'm sincerely hoping that this can be a space where I can frequently show my art without rambling too much about several thoughts that get in my head. Things I have liked so far are: * Infloresce Records * Spiritfarer * Slime Rancher You can probably talk to me when it comes to video games, ttrpgs, and anything that has to do with gardens and forests. That's all I can think to share for now, take care y'all 💐

It's been a week for me so here's a blob doing a little step for now! I'll update my gallery with art I made since 2021, one step at a time; hoping for the best!

With the theme "The cutest character in the Galaxy!" for that round, I made an attempt to make this space fairy sort of character who lived in a planet full of water and crystals. Finally getting into the backlog of art I posted everywhere else before I discovered Inkblot! Gonna try my best to space them out and post either one or two every two days.

I feel like the fakest fan in existence since I like doing art of things that I actually haven't played nor watch. Though, as of now, I do have Baba is You but I don't have the Untitled Goose Game. Forgotten why I thought this crossover would be a good idea but I think they can get along nicely!

I got to be somewhere away from home for the first half of the holidays and, whenever I get bored, I borrowed a sibling's Ipad and doodled in Autodesk Sketchbook. In the process of it, I attempted to do some automatic drawing with one brush only in each piece! I wrote more about it over at my [Cohost](https://cohost.org/dracinna/post/729958-part-one-of-two-of-t). I intend to keep longform written musings about anything over there while my focus on Inkblot is to curate my art like a personal gallery. It was pretty neat to do and I'm sorta want to try it out in my computer now that I'm back home for the New Years!

casey van akkeren was an oc i made originally for a oneshot that fell through years ago. he's basically a priest that slowly gets attracted to the eldritch god that his order is intending to take down! ever since i made this piece, i've been having too many thoughts about what parts of his story i'd like to illustrate. some of these, im not sure if im brave enough to pull off i originally made this as a submission for a contest in another server and i'm looking to rework this oc further, hopefully once the holidays are through

i don't even eat chicken nuggets, but the picrew the community team made is very cute! plus, it's one of the few april fools bits i witnessed and love!! [here's the post that's got a link to it, if you want to have a go yourself!](https://inkblot.art/post/uCAYmvd79c62IKPowmGn)

I was backreading my messages and it turns out it's probably cool for me to share these pieces I made last year at my own leisure. **A quick glance at a personal project: a webcomic about this magical girl investigator going through a whole ass fantasy adventure, in the guise of solving mysteries around their area.** ------ ## General Notes - I still haven't fully fleshed out how magic is gonna work at the moment but I know I want to expand the ways that people can cast magic in Etherfell beyond wands - I did both of these in three months, out of my own volition. Probably first to a number of evidence supporting how I got burnout in the first place (there's something I did with an even tighter deadline; we'll get to that later) - Fun fact: these two are the first pieces I decided to use Glaze on, so don't mind the visible artifacts for now as I'm still figuring out what settings would be best for my works ## Esme - Yeah, her surname formerly was Bedaisy... Changed it to Weaver for certain worldbuilding reasons I'll get to later as well - Also, this is indeed the same Esme I mentioned here: https://inkblotapp.page.link/pG4Tef6ouapKTtRz9 - This was a more recent iteration and I'm mainly going to update the outfit here because this should be her work attire that she generally wears during cases and it's entirely different to her magical girl outfit ## Darling - He's an anti-villain with a lot of baggage from knowing one of the Cosmos' Web members - Melodramatic strategist of sorts who secretly helps Esme out in certain cases, out of either common goals or spite towards the aforementioned member of the team - In the least spoilery way I can describe his arc: In some way, he teams up with a deity who created the magical artifact that Esme uses to turn into a magical girl