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Spring Update - 🌸BLOOM🌸, UI rework + more
Hello everyone,Things have been busy, from funding wrangling to a UI re-design and finally a new dress up game in the works, lets get into it.So much of the last two months has been the dry work of trying to organize funding for Cursed Gems (if any of you are secret millionaires let me know) - the result of which is an application pending that i'll know the status of by the end of the year ;;. It's been a truly exhausting process when all my adhd brain has wanted to do is work on art but i'm glad it's done with for the moment.As...
June & July Update! - RPG mockup & Femboys! (nsfw)
Hello all,So the last few months have been pretty wild for me, dealing with a difficult and very stressful housing situation - fortunately it's culminated with me moving places into a lovely apartment with my gf! which was been a vast improvement, but also took about a month to get fully done.In any case I've still been working hard, and although i'm doing a two in one for the patreon this month it's not for lack of content! This (combined) month we've got a mockup for the RPG walk around bits of cursed gems, the right side ...
Hell Month Update! - OnlyFiends Finished & More
Hello all!Well it's been quite a month, and to be honest with you i spent a lot of it sick in bed from a bad cold or otherwise dealing with general life chaos and misfortune. None-the-less i managed to finish an illustration series! OnlyFiends, which i am happy to share with you now :3Website link for viewing on a nice dark backgroundTitled : OnlyFiends, LetsPray, Convulse.TV and DoomI'm happy with how they turned out, and the weird use of the limited six colour pallet was really satisfying. I made a gif of the process for anyone intere...
Special April Birthday Update - Coding!
Hello all,Guess what! I did some coding!I decided, with a huge amount of the art assets under my belt, it was finally time to begin trying to code this thing into some semblance of functionality. I decided gamemaker studio 2 seemed like a reasonable platform to use, and while i was a little intimidated at first, i ended up enjoying the process a lot! it's still early days but i got the first draft of some pretty vital systems up and running, as you can see below.(gif linky because patreon app doesn't play gifs *eyeroll*)Here I am genera...
March Update II - Weapons Finished, Illustrations & More
Hello everyone,Well march has ended up being a pretty monstrously productive month, especially for cursed gems, which is approaching it's final art pass before coding. (for real this time lol)Firstly, as promised! the final weapon variations for cursed gems!(link because gifs don't work on the patreon app good job patreon lol)And the weapon sheet, updated :I have also done most of the ship parts! but i want to give them all a final pass before posting so look out for that next month. :3I've also pixeled and written eleven new gems, ...
March Update - Weapon Variations
Hello everyone,I was sick at the end of February so to make up for it here is an early march update.I decided after designing the ships that the weapons were feeling a little lackluster - so i've revamped them with a custom designs per gem type slot, you can see i planned out all the designs - and matched them to the ship designs, below.I have also shaded them, with six of the ten complete! this should also give me guidance and resolved pallets for when i shade the ship components.(brightened pallet for patreon)(designes!~)(current weapons!...
January Update - Ships, Portraits, Pallets & More
Hello everyone,Hope you are well, lots going on this month including plenty of new cursed gems stuff, some onlyfiends shading & more book illustrations. You might also noticed i updated my vibe here and on my twitter, which honestly was long overdue.Welcome to the new slightly evil vibe >:3c.So lets begin with the thing nearest and dearest to my heart, cursed gems.This month I have been mostly going through the logic of the game to get it ready for programming. This process has been going pretty well and has also generated plenty of additions a...
December Update! - Cursed Portraits, OnlyFiends
Hello Everyone,I moved houses last month and that took a lot of my energy, so i decided to combine Nov/Dec into a single update - though there is still plenty of stuff to go through!To start with : Cursed Gems.The game is about accumulation and degeneration : curses. Being driven by obsession towards a beautiful even enviable self destruction, but a terrible self destruction none the less.To show this, i have been working on portraits:(everything below is best viewed in dark mode)Portraits should show the accumulated burden of the curses contai...
October Update - Cursed Gem Colours, OnlyFiends (WIP) + More
Hello everyone,Lots to share today!Still hard at work on my game! I get to share another exciting one this month, the titular cursed gems themselves. >:3Doing the gem shading was a challenge, in order to get the effect i researched gem cuts, and the way that light passes through gems to the back facets picking up colour along the way and i'm very happy with the result.The part i'm most proud of is fitting all of the gems into a shared <64 colour pallet, which is pretty low given the variety of colours and shades i'm representing. Th...
September Update - Cursed Gems Refined - Mothgirl (NSFW)
Hello everyone!I've got some very exciting pixels to share, it's not done yet (as in a game) but here is the basic total refinement of the cursed gems UI:I've also almost completed all 30 gems + 4 guest gems, but i'll be sharing that hopefully in next months update :3.Beyond that I've been doing a little sketch series where i have been trying to figure out ways into some more emotive art, with mixed results but still happy over all.I hope everyone enjoys the work! i'm having loads of fun at the moment and this + collabor...
CURSED GEMS (DESIGN LAYOUT)
Hello everyone,I was recently given some time off work and set out to work on a new game / mock-up gif. Here is the design layout! + weapons! The shaded version is 99% complete, but i'm still hammering out writing and animation. Interactivity for this thing is also a big question mark.More as it develops!mystery layout!weapons!
July Update! - 4 Sketchpages!
Hello Everyone!I'm scribbling away, my RPG went on a pause while i did some concepting for a potential collaboration with Patrick James Stuart - you can see the sketches and some writing on his website! (http://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2020/07/queen-mab.html)Beyond more collab stuff i'm looking to get to the next stage of my RPG! but i hope you enjoy my sketches until that reaches it's next form.Big love!
May Update !
Hello Friends,Some more updates!Lets start with a fun sketch-page! this is me trying (eternally) to learn how to balance my blacks. But also having a lot of fun with expressions and detailing. I'm feeling recently like these sketch-pages strike a nice balance for me between testing out ideas and having something to share with my fans and supporters! Which is a thing i find myself still very much wanting to do even as I focus on my book project.Secondly here is another little sketch of some character items I did for a game of Whitehack I pla...
dread super collider super post mega thread
hello everypony,So i've been absolutely alive and busy cooking up some stuff and also being hot and cute which is a new hobby of mine.This post is long and kind of insane so i advice you kind of go to whatever depth you are comfortable with and then when ur ready go "hmm, so that's what alco's up to, cool" and close patreon and move on with ur life until the next time.Firstly! here is some sketching, i was looking to push my pixel art line style to something with more depth and power, and after a lot of sketching on paper th...
Patreon Future
So the last post might be the end for that series, in fact i'm thinking about mixing up my practice pretty radically. Producing these as single social media works weekly is fun, but it isn't really pushing my practice forward. So i'm either going to begin work on producing more long-form content (gaming books) or at least reworking my illustration style so it has a little more depth and beauty, probably both. The pixel style is fun but i feel like it's at the end of it's life-cycle and i don't know where else to take it,...
Six Images! 🌺🏛️🌊🪓🌳☁️
Hello everyone! I hope you are well!I've just finished six of these pixel drawing things! Full series: https://ramheadedgirl.com/illustrations/pixelsketch/
Ink Stained - 12 pages!!! 🎼🎺🥁⚡🕷️🏛️🕳️🧵
Full Series : https://ramheadedgirl.com/illustrations/inkstained/Hello everyone,I hope you are well! I've worked on 12(!!) pages of ink stained for you to enjoy. I even have a couple more in the oven, but i think i'll need a little break before i finish them. We are up to 50(!!!) pages all up, despite what the broken page count says (which i still have to fix).Next up i'm gonna be back to drawing some girls and finishing those bloodwar sketches i started. And then maybe we can push ink-stained past the 50 page mark!I hope you enjoy ...
☄️Magic Missile☄️ + 🧪Experiment💀 + 🕷️Summon Spider🕷️
Hey Gang!Here is a treat! Three images based around spell-casting. I hope you like em!Hopefully can get to the bloodwar images next, or inkstained. I feel a little behind this month so i'm going to make an effort!!More soon!
Sneak peak <SECRET PROJECT>
Hello gang,I've got some mock-up shots for a secret project that i'm collaborating on for later in the year for a certain music group ;). Please don't share outside of this patreon!!!
Bloodwar Character Sketches (WIP)
Hello everyone! thinking about returning to the bloodwar for a new series so I started with some cute little imp soldiers and worked on some character designs.Pvt. Cylibel2nd Lt. Decibel Pvt. ClaymoreHaving HEAPS of fun with these so i think i'll do some more! soon!
Cast :✨Light✨
Hello Everyone!Here is a little pin-up-y illustration as a little break. I'm thinking that a little series of d&d pin-up spells & girls would be cute? Something to do between more ambitious and serious works. Always very important to remember to have fun.Enjoy and more soon!
🔥Controlled Burn🔥 & 🌷Regrowth🌷
Hey Gang,Just a couple more of these and then either onto more D&D stuff or another series I think!Enjoy! more soon!
6 Sketches Before Colours (WIP - NSFW)
Hello everyone!I've been working hard, below is some of the sketch detailing that I've done. I've a few more and then i'm hoping to colour by the end of the month. Enjoy!
✒️Ink Stained - Introduction✒️
Hello everyone! I finally have some more writing for my D&D series. https://ramheadedgirl.com/illustrations/inkstained/This was a hard bit of writing, i wrote it very early but it sets the stage for everything else, so I tried to be careful with what I was introducing and how.The next thing to do chronologically would be the class section, but I still have a dozen or so monsters to get though so i might tackle one of them.In any case, please enjoy and more soon!
New sketch batch WIP (nsfw!)
Hello friends,Here is a sketch-batch for the end of January. I've actually got about... thirty of these? but a lot of them are very messy and will probably not see the light of day so i just chose the most resolved to share at this stage.This is a mix between some good ol country tiddy art and then something a little more serious and different. I've been meaning to get a little more cinematic with my sketches, so this is an attempt at that. But despite bullying myself over it I can't quite leave cute pinup girl art alone either! so ...
Experiment #1 - Victorian House
Hello everyone!I'm trying to get a little bit more proficient with perspective and architecture so i worked on this experiment. This is probably nothing i'll post on twitter or anything, but it was good practice! (update: i did end up posting on twitter for posterity sake) (full disclosure here is the reference i used.) I'm very interested in my illustration heading in a bit more of a 'cinematic' direction. But that means breaking out of some old habits and trying new stuff! I hope you enjoy me trying to figure it out! i thi...
⛓️Warden & Penelope👑
Hello folks!Happy new year! I've just come back from holidays and i'm feeling ready to tackle the new year and some new works. But first, i still have some loose ends from last year, and the RPGB&W series is one of them.Above we have Penelope and Warden, the second pairing of my set of ten characters. I would like to ideally finish three more pairings (and get all the characters in again) before moving onto the next thing, just to call it complete.The other thing in the wings is more Ink Stained monsters and pages. I have HEAPS of this ...
☢️Чернобыльский омут фей | Chernobyl Fairy Pool☢️ (RELEASE!!!)
Hello everyone!It's finally out! and you can play it here:☢️ https://ocias.com/works/chernobyl-fairy-pool/ ☢️Big thanks to my follow collaborators AlexanderOcias& sintecta!Thank you for all the patience and support with this one, I hope you all enjoy seeing our work come together! I think this is a lovely cap to a great year of art.Thanks for the support, and as always, more on its way! (but first, a nap 😴)
(NSFW) - ⛪Gargoyle⛪ + 🥾Downtime🩹 + 🪓Pit Champion⛓️ + 🩸Nightwalker🔦 + 😈Demon Queen👑
Five new works, enjoy!






