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Here we go, back to the insanely complicated, advanced projects! Commission for a Discord friend!
This was a beast to do. Around 16 hours of work in both blender and krita, worked over the course of several weeks due to health issues and IRL chores and stuff, but better late than never!

Moneybags the Scrafty watches over the Scrap Pile, a lawless, rundown area, a no man's land where criminals and other unscrupulous individuals could be hiding at any corner. One has to worry what he's planning to do...

Lots of post processing, filters and effects were required in the creation of this picture. I can barely believe I even finished it!

Enjoy, ya weird salamanders!
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Here is one of my projects based on the Schizophyllum Commune mushroom, but on an alien planet with large amounts of copper. Part of a much much longer story I have yet to publish but I'll get there in time, life permitting. I Made this in Houdini, Substance Painter, and V-Ray

This project means a lot to me, so much so I have a print of it hanging above my bed. I'll keep whittling away at it and the story on my patreon, but I'm hoping to really deep dive into it, life and struggles permitting. When I first posted it I hid metadata story snippets in the images but no one ever found them. Here is the one that was buried in this project :

//LOG ENTRY AZU-03//
I found the source of the signal emissions, such a strange planet. I'm no botonist but even I know a surface this copper heavy is normally a natural fungicide. All species on this planet seem to not only thrive on it, but have adapted to use it. I'm going to carefully study the signal after I setup some more atmospheric barriers, I don't want to strain the suit if I'm going to be down here awhile.

Terror (c) thejessofmess(https://inkblot.art/profile/thejessofmess)

Art by NanoBanana

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Commissioned by **TheJessofMess**! OvO <3

(_Fire, fire, fire, fire, fire, fire!_)

**Total Time:** ~10 days

**Total Layers:** 136

**Final Size:** 4500 x 3500 px, 300 dpi

**Commission Traits:** Atmospheric Shading, one character, no BG

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A piece I drew in 2018 with black ballpoint pens, felt tip pens, and brush pens. Inspired mainly by Mesarthim and other space-themed atmospheric black metal music.

A digital illustration from 2019 of an alien Cerberus, highly inspired by the atmospheric black metal band: Mesarthim.

An oil painting on canvas inspired by one of my favorite atmospheric black metal band albums: Saor - Forgotten Paths.

And so, another term for "affectionate bullying" was born~

Plus it was a chance to play with some atmospheric effects (which I wanna get better at).

A gift for my dear friend Semekord, to whom Rous and the Rheitvas species belong. ♥
Thorne and the Maelin species belong to TideKeeper.
Do not steal them. They're in the middle of redirecting a jet stream.

(Drawn in August 2021)

Some fanart of indie horror game House!

I am normally not the biggest horror game fan because I scare easily, but I love this game a lot; the story is great, the music is super atmospheric and there's lots of endings to find ^^ I especially appreciate the giant rat :3c

BG credits: "Asian environment at night" (https://skfb.ly/6RDXR) by nur_ay is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

see, it took me a metric butt ton of test renders just to make sure the atmospheric density was just right to make the god rays look pog, and even then it ended up looking a little worbly due to the denoiser stroking on the... idk the odd patches of missing light? whateva this is all you get.

also also: so the jist behind this creature is that its a merger hybrid entity of a Renamon and a Blaziken. Its my homefront personal guard class of minion specc'd out for hand to hand combat (and legg).

Her armor clings to her skin.

Cold temperatures continue to plummet, directing shivers across her nerves at rapid rates. Snow crunch underneath Feron's pace; exacerbated breaths details the Drells exhaustion. She offers him no mind - for now, focusing on their shared goal, treading along the treacherous land.

The Normandy’s scattered appendages surround roaming Blue Sun members, planted vessels disturbing the graveyard her friends laid. Feron leads her over to a lone container, whispering commands to her and preparing for the inevitable fight.

Her eyes adjusted, twinkling dog tags sprung her into action.

For their benefit, their opponents were a minuscule size compared to what she previously dealt with. They stood no chance against her biotics - Feron assisting clips eliminating any buoyant mercs, effortlessly trapped in blistering eezo fields.

Scorching armor clads drop, intensified by electricity terrain scalping the snow. Cautiously, Liara trudges over the corpses (Pressley's unattended corpse decomposes in). Halls she attended once decayed under whiteout. Feron migrated to other means. Unidentifiable mutterings fluttered in the air.

She located their objective, an awaiting presentation only the Goddess would have been able to conjure.

Shepard’s body seared from atmospheric influence, characteristics singeing the Normandy’s skeleton remains as well. Her logic only draws blanks - ligaments tore connective tissue on her legs. Her right arm, disconnected from its origins. Tangled veins absorb frostbite instead of blood. Dried blood merges frost.

She wrinkles her nose.

She inhales (she watches Shepard’s agonizing plummet, overwhelming emotions shut her mind off -).

Her knees crumble under her weight, liberating relief washes over her veins, calming her hysterical mind. She ignores Ferons warnings; searching eyes evaluating Shepard’s tattered form. Her hand lays on fragmented fingers (warm human hands compliment her colder presence), carefully laying her helmet on the shattered visor.

Familiar ‘clink’ muted by roaring winds.

“I found you, my love. I found you,” Liara tells her, lifeless eyes greet her, “It’s going to be okay now, I promise.”

She reaches out. She finds nothing.

“Liara - we need to go now!” Feron interrupts. She debates cradling Shepard’s corpse close.

His unsuspecting hands clasping her shoulder startles her, aware of incoming ships of the Shadow Brokers forces. Her throat clenches, eyeing the awaiting pod.

“Forgive me, I must move you now,” She informs Shepard (it's okay), easing a biotic sphere around the corpse, delicately lifting her love out of her frozen barrow.

Howls and bullets attempt to cease her recovery, retaliating fire suppresses their rude arrival. Swinging arms; she successfully migrates Shepard into her refuge, automatically securing once it detects a presence.

Chaos ensues - Feron rushes her towards a ship (“Any ship!”), firing any mercs bordering their cover. Biotics maneuver the pod into the carrier - haphazardly she feared - before closing on her, guarding against clips after clips of foreboding assault.

Liara sighs, rushing towards the pod in immense happiness. She rests a hand on the glass; the ship jerks for their ascension, out of the fridge glacier. She announces her emotion, turning a heel, expecting Feron to be standing near her, congratulating themselves on a job well down.

Panic blossoms; it’s empty, leaving only her and Shepard alone in the ship.

'Finding a Place'
Been having art block lately, so defaulting back to some older atmospheric styles.

subentity young + future, initially drawn in may 2021 and edited in november 2022.

while drawing i was listening a lot to black dresses' 2019 album THANK YOU, which evokes feelings i associate with these two, particularly the song DEATH/BAD GIRL. 

edited while listening to fennesz' 2001 album endless summer, which doesn't conjure quite the level of despair and anger appropriate for s. young but has a lovely glitchy sound that was quite pleasant and atmospheric, and from which i have borrowed the title.

drawn in autodesk sketchbook, edited in darkaudacity and medibang paint.