I'm here after years, wow how time flies! AM I VERIFIED??? WHEN DID THAT HAPPEN!?!?!? hahaha

Today you get 3 new illustrations! It's a big reopening (?) hehe :3c

Flying back to the airship that was basically a yacht, she landed on the deck with Eri and Ravi. “My darlings, did you miss me?”

Eri looked at Annaerlitha, sensing she was hiding something. “What do they have that you want so much, Naerli?”

“Some things are best left unsaid about them and their private little villa,” Annaerlitha replied. “I’m sure our friend Comandante Luis is enjoying his stay as much as I did last time I was there.”

“As a guest?” Eri asked with some concern in his voice.

“More or less, it was from an invitation by my dear uncle Frabritheo.”

“From him? I never liked the bastard,” Ravi interjected.

“You think he’ll enjoy being stuffed in the cargo hold?” Eri mused, as a bloody ichor burst from his left hand congealing into a pair of twisted strands that tightened till it solidified into the form of a rapier with a red blade.

“I’ll make sure he’ll have a pleasant stay with us.”

Eri and Ravi watched as she flew close to the ground. As Annaerlitha approached the entrance to the villa, Eri tore open a shadowy rift with his blade bringing Ravi through with him.

Ravi prepared with shield forward and his tulwar in at the ready as he walked through the rift, spotted about eight soldiers scrambling around the grounds readying their muskets.

Annaerlitha flew over the wall of villa’s grounds, casting one of her more powerful spells. With an incantation and a circular cut of her athame, she invoked a blast of elemental cold freezing those same eight soldiers.

One of them was not completely frozen, so Eri quickly unleashed two bolts of eldritch energy as he emerged from the rift. Eri guessed that a Dwarf armed with a pistol and a battleaxe was the Comandante’s bodyguard.

Ravi hissed and ejected a stream of venom at a soldier not caught in Annaerlitha’s spell. Eri lunged through one soldier with green flames around his blade while Annaerlitha dispatched another with a ray of frost.

Left standing in the aftermath was Comandante Luis, an Orc armed with a sabre and a revolver, and his Dwarven body guard.

Ravi charged at the bodyguard taking a few swings at the Dwarf who parried each blow with his axe. The bodyguard countered Ravi’s next exchange making a superficial cut on his sword arm. The two fought as Luis tried to take some shots at Annaerlithai and Eri.

Eri vanished in a cloud of black smoke, reappearing behind the Dwarf with his blade embedded. Ravi finished off the bodyguard, as spectral vipers coiled around his Tulwar’s blade.

Annaerlitha invoked the power of nightmares that tore at Luis as he panicked. Luis tried to run away, but Ravi called upon the powers from his oath to the Naga Kings to summon spectral snakes to bind the Comandante.

“Please stop! I surrender!” Comandante Luis screamed.

“That’s the smart thing to do my dear Luis,” Annaerlitha smiled as she approached.

Oh god... What even happened here? We went from an art site to a facebook clone?

All my artwork is out of order, my page doesn't even feel like an art site gallery, the front page is just another scrolling timeline where everything is massive and built with only mobile users in mind... I have to scroll endlessly to see any new artwork, hidden among people's status posts...

No way to browse just artwork outside of tags. No way to see a tile of recently uploaded artwork. At least as far as I can tell. Clicking on trending tags brings me to yet another timeline scroll, which isn't even centered on desktop. It's aligned to the left with a lot of dead space on the right that is just... empty.

Yeah no. This website is not for me. This isn't an art site. ("Photos" instead of "Gallery"???) It's yet another generic social media clone. Sorry, but that's not what I'm interested in. I don't know why there's such a push for every new site having a mobile-centric UI, even on desktop, designed to keep you scrolling forever on your phone. It is *so clunky* to use on desktop. It's so easy to miss new art uploads, because you can't view thumbnails on a grid. Discoverability becomes tied to how often people share your pieces around.

I'm just tired, man. Maybe I'm just getting old and exhausted from trying out so many new "art sites". The way artwork is displayed and discovered is one of the most important things to me. I want to be able to open the front page, and see a grid of new artwork, where I can select multiple tabs to open and browse at my leisure. I want my profile to have my art be the focus. I don't need everything to try to function like bluesky or twitter, and if this is the direction inkblot is going to go, then well... I don't think I'll be giving it another chance.

So if anyone who happened to follow me here (I can see my follower count got wiped anyway) wants to see what sort of art I'm doing now, please check out any of my other social links here:

https://runicillusionist.carrd.co/

I hope for those of you who do intend on staying that this site serves your needs better than mine. But for me, I'm out.

- Rune

EDIT: WHY IS THE WEBSITE CARD LINK SO BIG!???

[ID: An ibisPaint screenshot showing some doodles of a short-haired person. They are resting their head on their hands, and are wearing a jacket. Only one of their eyes is open. There's also a drawing of their profile view and a doodle that resembles a tree branch. End ID]
#digitalart #digital #ibispaint #ibispaintx

A new year, a new book, a new look. I didn’t take this as far as I had hoped or wanted to but I did have fun reopening a new chapter to my sketchbook. This one features an Ocelot and some facts there about and a few thoughts.

***Like what you see? Consider donating me a coffee and I’ll write down your suggestion for the next couple pages :)***

with my screaming in your itching ears

ID: an anthro red and white belgian shepherd/siberian husky, sasha, lying on the floor in a room filled with various media. there is a spiral notebook opened to a page with the word "hello" written repeatedly, a pencil with a business card underneath it, and a paper where the only readable words are "danger to self" and "danger to others", checked off. one of the books is open by sasha's face.

sasha is longhaired with a snow nose, atrophied muscles, lopsided eyebrow dots, orange eyes, freckles, and one eye closed. they are wearing a white hospital gown, green scrub pants, and 3 hospital bracelets, 2 psychiatric on one wrist and 1 medical on the other. they have red, orange, and yellow bandaids in places where you would put an IV.

the room is dark, the floor deep purple red, and all screens are lit hot pink. the laptop screen is open to google and in the search bar are the words "hello? are you ali". the computer with the tower is open to a livejournal page. on the old TV is a simple drawing of sasha holding an ax. they look distressed. half of their face is shadowed, and they have multiple eyes. on the lit side, the eyes are of "good" alters, and on the dark side, "bad" ones. all of the red wires on the floor lead behind the TV, where there is a big, tangled cluster of red and orange wires. end

Another art trade! :D I have art trades and discounted fullbodies open atm! Check out my website for more!

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character © aether_draconi

art © me

4th batch of these warrior cats designs I made!

These are also open for sale as adopts! Please go over to my adopts account https://www.instagram.com/luztiee_adopts/ to claim anyone!

# Here's my first dnd character, Marit Leori, along with some fancy attire from one of the campaigns I play in with them!
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