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Randy
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cute & good. heir of Skorri: a writer, artist, & otherwise teller of stories. any pronouns. 🌐portfolio: http://circlestrafe.net ☕️ko-fi: http://bit.ly/41GugnA 🖼️prints: http://bit.ly/3DVxVo0 💵comms currently closed
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 1d
Hey there, #PortfolioDay! I’m Randy, a writer and artist with particular affection for engaging, emotional stories with monsters, robots, and other nontraditional characters.

I’m looking for illustration and narrative work in the games industry, especially in the indie sector!

🌐: circlestrafe.net
A digital illustration of an Exo Warlock from Destiny. Her chassis is teal with brown/maroon markings on her shoulders, fingers, and a stripe down the middle of her face, where she also has a single horn protuding from her forehead. She is wearing an olive green dress with bits of lace, and her hands are up grasping her shoulders. Heulog holds herself as close as she can and continues to hum. She couldn’t yet form the vocalizations, and maybe would never be able to do so, but she hoped that for now the acrid notes alone would suffice. That through the burgeoning haze of unchecked anxiety Kysurax would be able to recall the invoking words and hear the earnest appeal to her inner strength, the words that define that strength as extant and obligate it to come forth, to inhabit her bones and manifest as the truest form of her will. The words that assert that she, as a single unified force of will and body—in defiance of all existence—shall persist. Heulog feels the thrumming slow, its rhythmic cadence aligning with her own deep breaths. She gently removes her hand from Kysurax’s torso and feels the Wizard’s arms close around her, pulling her into a tight embrace. “I am afraid,” Kysurax finally says, calm returned to her voice. “But I temper that fear with the certainty that I will be alright, because you are with me.” She looks down at the Exo in her arms, into the starblue flames that are her eyes, and smiles. “I do not doubt, for I have seen your heart. As you have seen mine. That is the power intrinsic to the Yielding Inquisition: there is no obfuscating act of misdirection, no factor of deceit that can withstand the abrading blade of trust conjured by the ritual. Truly, I have known you, and that secret knowledge is a weapon with which I joyfully flense and cast aside any and all flesh given over to the rot of doubt.” A digital illustration of Dûl Incaru, the Eternal Return, daughter of the Witch Queen Savathûn, from the game Destiny 2. She is holding herself tightly in a sentimental pose, arms crossing her chest with her head resting on one hand. She is a Hive Wizard with a unique model, with tall flanges on the side of the crest on her head, which gives the impression of wings or ears. She has three glowing green eyes. She has broad, spiky pauldrons that are pierced with spiked rings. Around her wrists are spiked bracelets inscribed with glowing Hive runes. She has more spiked rings attached at the waist, from which flow crimson ribbons. She is flanked by shattered columns, and looming behind her are Savathûn's three eyes. Cover art for the podcast "Real Lich Hours" hosted by Kaye Ross and Gary Butterfield over on their network "Duckfeed.tv" for their new season wherein they are covering "Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines" The art is of the two hosts as vampires, looking menacingly at the viewer. They have glowing eyes, Kaye is glowering over her indoor sunglasses and sipping upon an IV blood bag. The background is a gothy bar setting, with wine bottles and skulls and candles and the like. The logo for the show has been stylized to look like a neon bar sign, specifically one for Miller Lite.
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Matinee Mode @matineemode.bsky.social · 1d
Take a few minutes to appreciate Drew Struzan creating the original artwork for THE PHANTOM MENACE. Truly a master at work.
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bio 🌙 comms open @bioluminosity.bsky.social · 1d
Argent Oathbreaker

commission for a very patient person 🖤 their OC Nya'sii al Somme
#astroluminescent #spaceart #illustration
a winding, many winged dragon slips through a breaking planetary construct with curving etchings and patterns, denoting a machine rather than a regular planet. the dragon is framed by glowing filaments of energy and stars, including a small singularity for a crown
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 1d
it's in my backlog! i swear I will get to it one day, lol. thanks for the Rana rec though 🙏
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bio 🌙 comms open @bioluminosity.bsky.social · 1d
hello #PortfolioDay! I'm Aster, a part-time art teacher in Texas looking for illustration or concept work; book covers, splash, and more! I like doing scifi and fantasy themes, especially with space, dragons, and Destiny! 🌌

🎨 biolumi.art
✉️ asterartwork(@)gmail
💜 ko-fi.com/bioluminosity
a winding, many winged dragon slips through a breaking planetary construct with curving etchings and patterns, denoting a machine rather than a regular planet. the dragon is framed by glowing filaments of energy and stars, including a small singularity for a crown. private commission from 2024-2025 An angelic, pearly-white figure on the left seems to revive or heal an unconscious astronaut, surrounded by wreckage, on the right. For Nova and Mali's book Book cover -- a swirling nebula forms a tunnel with asteroids and debris. a clunky spaceship barrels through it, towards the brightest stars A portrait of the Witness from destiny 2 surrounded by ethereal, glowing petals and sparkling stars on its skin.
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 1d
Hey there, #PortfolioDay! I’m Randy, a writer and artist with particular affection for engaging, emotional stories with monsters, robots, and other nontraditional characters.

I’m looking for illustration and narrative work in the games industry, especially in the indie sector!

🌐: circlestrafe.net
A digital illustration of an Exo Warlock from Destiny. Her chassis is teal with brown/maroon markings on her shoulders, fingers, and a stripe down the middle of her face, where she also has a single horn protuding from her forehead. She is wearing an olive green dress with bits of lace, and her hands are up grasping her shoulders. Heulog holds herself as close as she can and continues to hum. She couldn’t yet form the vocalizations, and maybe would never be able to do so, but she hoped that for now the acrid notes alone would suffice. That through the burgeoning haze of unchecked anxiety Kysurax would be able to recall the invoking words and hear the earnest appeal to her inner strength, the words that define that strength as extant and obligate it to come forth, to inhabit her bones and manifest as the truest form of her will. The words that assert that she, as a single unified force of will and body—in defiance of all existence—shall persist. Heulog feels the thrumming slow, its rhythmic cadence aligning with her own deep breaths. She gently removes her hand from Kysurax’s torso and feels the Wizard’s arms close around her, pulling her into a tight embrace. “I am afraid,” Kysurax finally says, calm returned to her voice. “But I temper that fear with the certainty that I will be alright, because you are with me.” She looks down at the Exo in her arms, into the starblue flames that are her eyes, and smiles. “I do not doubt, for I have seen your heart. As you have seen mine. That is the power intrinsic to the Yielding Inquisition: there is no obfuscating act of misdirection, no factor of deceit that can withstand the abrading blade of trust conjured by the ritual. Truly, I have known you, and that secret knowledge is a weapon with which I joyfully flense and cast aside any and all flesh given over to the rot of doubt.” A digital illustration of Dûl Incaru, the Eternal Return, daughter of the Witch Queen Savathûn, from the game Destiny 2. She is holding herself tightly in a sentimental pose, arms crossing her chest with her head resting on one hand. She is a Hive Wizard with a unique model, with tall flanges on the side of the crest on her head, which gives the impression of wings or ears. She has three glowing green eyes. She has broad, spiky pauldrons that are pierced with spiked rings. Around her wrists are spiked bracelets inscribed with glowing Hive runes. She has more spiked rings attached at the waist, from which flow crimson ribbons. She is flanked by shattered columns, and looming behind her are Savathûn's three eyes. Cover art for the podcast "Real Lich Hours" hosted by Kaye Ross and Gary Butterfield over on their network "Duckfeed.tv" for their new season wherein they are covering "Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines" The art is of the two hosts as vampires, looking menacingly at the viewer. They have glowing eyes, Kaye is glowering over her indoor sunglasses and sipping upon an IV blood bag. The background is a gothy bar setting, with wine bottles and skulls and candles and the like. The logo for the show has been stylized to look like a neon bar sign, specifically one for Miller Lite.
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 1d
RIP Drew Struzan

I’ve already talked about how important and formative his work was to me, but what an incredible loss.

Each piece a love letter to the fantastic and imaginative, the films he did work for were elevated in their association.
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · Mar 27
Drew Struzan was inspiring me long before I knew his name, before I knew that being "an artist" of any sort was something that I could actually aspire to be. I would not have the same relationship to these favorite films of my childhood, to that sense of wonder, to the pencil itself, if not for him.
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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · Mar 26
Some sad updates on the health of Drew Struzan, one of the great film artists of Hollywood.
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Charlie Ashby @charlie-ashby.co.uk · 1d
RIP Drew Struzan - a man whose talent and imagination etched onto so many minds throughout the last 40+ years.

His art & posters are some of the first visuals I think of when I think about cinema - an invitation to watch these stories and worlds.

A massive loss 💔
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 2d
Today is Tove's birthday.

Every day is a struggle; a fresh new pain reveals itself or a familiar, trodden one proves still able to cause a missed step, a stubbed toe that catches the day's share of impetus and tosses it out-of-bounds.

Every day I miss them.

Happy birthday, Tove. 💔
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bio 🌙 comms open @bioluminosity.bsky.social · 2d
catching solar flares ++

charity comm for @aproustian.bsky.social who donated to the bungie foundation in the summer! 🧡

#Destiny2 #Destiny2Art #Destiny2AOTW
a warlock in the plunder robes and cowboy-esque helmet with reds, teals, and browns tiliting their hat to you ! close up on the collar close up on the abstract orange background and gloved hand
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 2d
hopefully the mystery can be solved!
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 2d
alas, I don't remember the specific area then unfortunately. "stairs" made me think of these sections through the Hanging Crypts (first image, Sunless Cell strike) and the "swinging platforms" made me think of these from the Crux (second image, King's Fall raid) which you access via Big Portal
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 2d
oh, I mixed up some dreadnaught stuff in my memory, my bad; this was probably the King's Fall raid
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Marie @eiramew.bsky.social · 3d
#Destiny2 #Destiny2Art
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 3d
Sounds like part of the Sunless Cell strike in D1 (recently reprised earlier this year in D2)
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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 4d
I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 5d
It absolutely elevates the moments like when your slight dark-elf lady is squaring off against this 15ft skeleton dwarf king, he throws his whole body into this devastating swing with his gilded warhammer and you clash-parry with your big fuckoff Guts Berserk sword and punish with a 15-hit combo
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 5d
I think special attention should be given to the music for the Underking. An inspired choice to put a guest track by Mick "BFG Division" Gordon in your (very good!) high fantasy OST. Not only that, he gets weird & proggy with it, with its samples and 70s-fantasy blown-out horns youtu.be/5xHJYljCqDI
The Underking
YouTube video by Mick Gordon - Topic
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 5d
Yeah, Absolum is as good as I remembered from the Next Fest demo. Game feels absolutely stellar in the hands. Beautiful animation behind which you can clearly see the work put into it. Became instantly obsessed with Galandra again. The roguelite structure does have me wondering about longevity.
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 6d
man, I keep forgetting about this revival. if they can update the UX while still making me feel the way HoMM3 did when I was 13 (which sadly the HD re-release didn't—wrong time & place perhaps) that would be quite powerful indeed

there's also songs of conquest that I keep meaning to check out
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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 6d
Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era Demo is up on Steam buff.ly/DyYQGsN
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 6d
The very specific thing I needed to hear, thank you. The stylus (and moreso the blank canvas) have been so daunting for the past few months.. years even.
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 6d
absolum releases today hell yeah
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · Jun 10
i like her 🥰
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 6d
the next fest demo was good as hell, stoked for this
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bio 🌙 comms open @bioluminosity.bsky.social · 7d
eyewitness

2022 (i knew it was big all along you see)
#Destiny2Art #astroluminescent
a very long, zoomed in portrait of the witness from destiny 2 showing only one eye. just above the lower rim of the iris, you see rhulk holding his glaive, drowned out by the empty void before him.
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 11d
Man, Immortality was so good
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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 11d
What a beautiful and devout lady 🙏✨
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