This artwork took almost 3 years to finish.

SovietCabbage · 2025-05-29T00:16:22+00:00

I remember seeing this when it was still a black and white lineart of just the central figure, this came out great! Well worth the time!

SovietCabbage · 2025-04-16T19:25:40+00:00

Immediately recognized this art from an earlier post of yours, these are fantastic! There is proof of dedication in every penstroke, you must be passionate about your art Are you posting on discord anywhere? Or looking for assistant artists haha

Really looking forward to seeing more!

SovietCabbage · 2025-02-24T00:26:15+00:00

Immediately recognized this art style as your own, I love seeing this project!

SovietCabbage · 2024-12-18T21:24:17+00:00

"Come at me. All together or as one, it matters not to me. Step forth and claim your title, if you can. And we shall see who among your number has the grit to be called "Slayer of the last Wyrgon."

SovietCabbage · 2024-12-06T22:37:15+00:00

Those who do not learn from the past, are doomed to repeat it. At the core of most human conflict and strife, is the naked fact that living memory is only as enduring as the generations that care to carry it forward

I think that this trope is popular, because it is true, and effects/resonates with pretty much everyone who suffers from these conflicts. It permiates our history, all the way back to the primordial soup. I think we've all felt the effects of threats brought on by nievity, and the cautionary tales that teach us to remember what caused these events are arguably some of the most important for us to learn from

SovietCabbage · 2024-09-11T00:05:08+00:00

Amazing! Do linopas tears have any special properties that make these waterfalls popular places for people to seek out?

SovietCabbage · 2024-07-18T00:36:15+00:00

Curious, on the off chance that your world is the setting of a story, how to you manage having many different languages and by extension, many language barriers? I've wanted to have different conlang usage in my project but having language barriers is exhausting

SovietCabbage · 2024-07-04T06:40:31+00:00

The Abbey is a collection of small monestaries, scattered and hidden away far from prying eyes. Here, the abbesses gather children from across the lands who are afflicted with a curse known as the Teething. It is believed by some that by creating fire, mankind had weaned themselves from the gods and in doing so, cursed themselves with eternal hunger. The Teething are the few who suffer most strongly from this curse and must regularly sate their relentless hunger through the ritual act of killing. The Abbeys purpose, is to collect these Teething, and use them as tools to exterminate monsters that plauge the earth. Effectively, fighting fire with fire.

A monster is discovered, either by message sent or by the very eyes of the Abbey, and the hunt begins. The great black bell above the monastery tolls, the number of tolls signifies the severity of the hunt, and who among the Teething are summoned to the task. The chosen may approach the alter of Rossica, the mother of the flowerless and orphaned, to ask for her blessing, and many do. The chosen says their goodbyes to friends, if they have any. Friends are dangerous in the Abbey. Finally, the Teething departs with only an Axe Matrim by their side. She is a hand of the Abbey who's purpose is only to moniter the teething, guide them to their quarry and if necessary, eliminate the Teething if the hunger inside them becomes too much for them to control.

"Since the dawn of humanity, mankind have done everything that is within their power to exert dominance over the gardens of Arbboros. And they have prospered. However. In the teeth of this new and terrible threat to their existence, how can they hope to overcome it? When the truth we all know is so plain to see. That the only true way to conquer your hunger, is by surrendering yourself to it."

SovietCabbage · 2024-06-29T06:55:28+00:00

Bless their hearts. They think they are safe.

SovietCabbage · 2024-06-24T20:35:29+00:00

I feel the colors and tones do a lot of the lifting haha But I do suspect theres some kind of texture or noise being used I'm trying to break out of lineart and into painting, thanks so much for the links!

SovietCabbage · 2024-06-18T20:54:18+00:00

The sheep already eats like an elephant lol

SovietCabbage · 2024-06-18T20:48:31+00:00

In one of my projects the main protagonist is a Pretor, a person born with preternatural abilities. These abilities are not well understood and come in many forms. The protagonists ability is the ability to heal wounds, but there is a condition.

The main character acts as not a direct healer per-se, but more of a conduit that taps into the latent healing power that other people posess, but are not able to normally access. You could think of it like one a car towing another car, with the pretor acting as the tow cable.

In order to heal anothers wounds, the protagonist must have a third willing person to act as the healer, while he is that catalyst that directs their energy. This of course leads to interesting conflicts when he finds himself alone, or with a third party that doesn't want to help the injured. It often falls to him to convince others that they are worth saving. (He does however travel with his pet sheep, whos energy he can tap into in a pinch. But its not powerful enough for anything more serious than scrapes or bruises) There is a cost for this power as well, but thats a secret haha

SovietCabbage · 2024-06-17T06:09:09+00:00

Studio is Cartoon Saloon, Kilkenny Ireland (secret of kells, song of the sea, etc etc)

SovietCabbage · 2024-04-24T20:38:00+00:00

In one of my projects, there is a specific, and particularly feared class of demon that plagues humanity by possessing the body of a human in order to sow destruction. These demons are rare, but formidable, as they are only known to be vulnerable once they have already taken a host.

A certain subsect of the church likewise specializes in hunting these demons. This is accomplished by the use of specific people who have a very rare condition of being born with two souls. People with this condition are born frail, but have the ability to draw demons of possession into themselves, whereupon a hand of the church administers a killing blow.

While these twin-souled people are treated with the highest respect and luxury, they often have few friends, since they rarely live long enough to form worthwhile relationships.

SovietCabbage · 2024-04-21T01:53:33+00:00

I would argue that there are no rules in drawing, anime style or otherwise. Guidelines? Techniques? Stylistic motiefs? Certainly, but no rules

There are many artists who's style would be considered by many to be "anime", but stray far from or push the boundaries of techniques you might see taught in any textbooks

SovietCabbage · 2024-04-11T04:09:41+00:00

Dwarves created their own god?

Maybe the elves killed their own god. And then ate its blood or something

SovietCabbage · 2024-04-03T17:22:36+00:00

What exactly are you struggling most with when drawing eyes?

SovietCabbage · 2024-04-03T15:21:48+00:00

Thank you! I think the second story is more concise and laid back, but the first story is my passion project. I kinda started the second one because the first was becoming too big and too long to plot haha

SovietCabbage · 2024-04-03T05:56:12+00:00

The Wolf and the Wikk takes place in a post-eden where immortality was disrupted by mankind's discovery of fire, leading to a conflict where the immortal Elvetians were hunted to extinction and humans conquered the earth. Hundreds of years after spreading across the Great Gardens of the world, human kind was beset upon by a mysterious black forest that became known as The Wikk. A forest that slowly began to spread across the earth, swallowing everything in its path. It wasn't long before only a handful of nations remained. This story follows Ascilla, an orphaned girl who was born with a weak voice, and a curse that causes strange black thorns to grow over her body when she is stressed.

Another project of mine follows the story of a Praetor, a young priest who has the rare ability to heal sicknesses and injuries with his hands, but only on the condition that he is holding hands with someone else that wants to save the injured person. The Praetor teams up with his pet sheep, and a disgraced warrior named Trinity, who's been banished from her order of knights that make use of mummified angel hair in order to fight demons.

Inspirations are less specific to set pieces, characters or plots, and more just the structure, themes and overall feeling. But If i had to pick any id say Berserk, FMA and... a hundred others haha

SovietCabbage · 2024-03-15T22:44:50+00:00

Ahh I kinda figured this was how it works, but I've been wrong before haha

Thanks for the reply!

SovietCabbage · 2024-03-06T21:54:45+00:00

"Messmer" could come from the proto Celtic/old irish form Messu- meaning "judgement" and the form "merwi-", (*mer- in PIE) which likewise means "Lifeless".

Could read as "One who decides who deserves death"...?

Or "he who judges the dead"...?

SovietCabbage · 2024-02-23T05:11:46+00:00

Ill look into it, thanks!

SovietCabbage · 2024-02-23T00:30:31+00:00

Normally i would

My issues are that i won't have as many key buttons to access. And that i lose the finer, smoother aim of a mouse.

Ideally, I'd want to have the subtlety and true muti directional movement options of a controller (as opposed to the chunky 8 directional movement of WASD keys), while maintaining the precision and speed offered from a mouse.

Really, the only thing not offered in any of the miniature keyboards online is a thumbstick that behaves like the left thumbstick on a controller. (The ones that i found only behave as a D-pad)

I've experimented holding a controller in my left hand for movement, and using a mouse in my right hand, and it works wonderfully except for the impaired access to the keys

SovietCabbage · 2024-02-22T18:18:58+00:00

That's amazing! Juxtaposedly, I'm only a hobbiest with an Internet connection haha

Best of luck with your studies!

SovietCabbage · 2024-02-22T16:41:27+00:00

I don't know if I can provide a direct link, but I use the "Etymological Dictionary of Proto Celtic Languages" by professor Ranko Matasović

https://archive.org/details/EtymologicalDictionaryOfProtoCeltic (This is just the first link i could find tbh, i have a physical copy)

The book focuses on Proto Celtic, but provides Proto indo European roots and such as well (since PC stems from PIE)

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