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@vanade.bsky.social

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🇸🇩🇨🇦 she/her • '92 • Destiny 2 warlock ✦ multi-fandom fan artist ✦ making indie VNs at @hamiltonhour.com ✦ Contact: vanade23 (@) http://outlook.com Tags: #destiny2art #D2comics #art #VNdev #ff14

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vanade @vanade.bsky.social · Aug 14

Hello, I'm Vanade! I draw (mostly) video game fan art and occasionally make indie visual novels.

Art blog: https://vanade.tumblr.com
D2 blog: https://sparkofthemachine.tumblr.com/
Commission Info: https://vanade.carrd.co
Itch: https://hamiltonhour.itch.io/
Buy me a coffee! https://ko-fi.com/vanade

vanade @vanade.bsky.social · 1h

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Reaaaal

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A simple drawing of me (chibi) with a thought bubble reading "I miss zenos yae galvus, my beloved" doodled in a planner on October 20

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Just at work at 2PM on a Monday afternoon thinking about zenos yae galvus

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I miss zenos yae galvus, my beloved

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I think that's another reason this quote about Van Gogh resonates with me so much and I think about it often. Art isn't so much about the skill in execution, but the heart and intention.

When Van Gogh was a young man in his early twenties, he was in London studying to be a clergyman. He had no thought of being an artist at all. he sat in his cheap little room writing a letter to his younger brother in Holland, whom he loved very much. He looked out his window at a watery twilight, a thin lampost, a star, and he said in his letter something like this: "it is so beautiful I must show you how it looks." And then on his cheap ruled note paper, he made the most beautiful, tender, little drawing of it.

When I read this letter of Van Gogh's it comforted me very much and seemed to throw a clear light light on on the whole road of Art Before, I thought that to produce a work of painting or literature, you scowled and

thought long and ponderously and weighed everything solemnly and learned everything that all artists had ever done aforetime, and what their influences and schools were, and you were extremely careful about *design* and *balance* and and getting *interesting planes* into your painting, and avoided, with the most astringent severity, showing the faintest *acedemical* tendency, and were strictly modern. And so on and so on.

But the moment I read Van Gogh's letter I knew what art was, and the creative impulse. It is a feeling of love and enthusiasm for something, and in a direct, simple, passionate and true way, you try to show this beauty in things to others, by drawing it.

And Van Gogh's little drawing on the cheap note paper was a work of art because he loved the sky and the frail lamppost against it so seriously that he made the drawing with the most exquisite conscientiousness and care. "

- Brenda Ueland, If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit

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I just try to think of that old work like my "mark" on the world, and the expression of my ideas, feelings and love for the games & media I liked at that time, in that moment. The jokes and discussions shared between fandom friends from all over the world, many of whom have moved on to other things.

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I don't know if I'll *always* commit to that... it gets harder with incremental improvement to look past all the flaws, and this illogical regret that I wasn't better at drawing back then to "do justice" to my ideas/the series I loved (especially watchdogs) so

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I've tried to commit over the years to keeping all my old art up even when I've outgrown/no longer like it, because when I was younger it was a bummer when artists I admired wiped work I really love.

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my old star wars new trilogy art is getting some reblogs again lately and on one hand I grimace at that but on the other hand I'm glad people are able to find joy in it still especially in these times

Same feeling when I see someone go down a rabbit hole of my old watchdogs/farcry/AC art too

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ok those are like... all of my unposted/rarely seen WIPs/doodles worth showing ! not even close to 38 LOL but I tried. thank you for your enthusiastic likes on the post!!

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I think this was back from the d2 art events movie zine when I was thinking of doing the infamous john wick cover as my parody movie cover, and did a draw-over with uldren/crow. I don't remember why I decided to switch over to dr. strange instead. too much work maybe?

a sketch drawn over the john wick 1 movie poster with many guns pointed at a central target: uldren/crow from destiny 2

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okay this one pains me... Astra's chibi trading card 😫
I think I just got burnt out of doing these at the time since they were all painted. I could go back and finish it any time!! It's just I felt like I wanted to modify her face design and I didn't have any ideas

unfinished work in progress chibi painting of the d2 titan astra-9

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possibly THE MOST annoying of my WIPs in WIP hell... a lesson learned in "please nail the pose before the face" and "f**k armour can't I just put him in a tight shirt and call it a day?!" and "full bodies are hell"

but I love him so I just keep coming back to poke at this every month

an unfinished sketch of the hunter guardian naji seated and holding a baseball bat over one shoulder

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animal crossing new horizon doodles from when/before the game launched

animal crossing new horizons uncoloured drawings on a sketchbook page featuring a campground near a pond and a campfire, the island title "Echo Bay", the frog villager Lily with clouds in the background, and a tiny DAL sea plane

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me and his unemployment in video game series any time I play any video game LOL

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bg study from an episode of Mushi-Shi. It's a very chill, wistful anime series with standalone stories in each ep, set in fictional rural japan and follows a kind of shaman type guy who investigates supernatural phenomenon. if you like stuff like the Lore podcast series, I recommend checking it out.

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had to filter the heck out of this because I'm too lazy to scan it, and irl the sketch lines are suuuuper light because this is blue graphite from a mechanical pencil but I still love this page!

#themandalorian | #mando | #grogu | #art | #starwars

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the concept sketches I did for the fan art piece I submitted to the D2 fashion zine! (went with delicate tomb). I had a lot of fun designing a dress based off of the amazing delicate tomb concept art by jacob gonzalez ! www.artstation.com/artwork/nEVQ...

sketch ideas for destiny 2 fashion designs based off of in-game weapons. on the left, an unused dress concept based on ticcu's divination. on the right, the design I went with based on delicate tomb. the original delicate tomb concept art is by jacob gonzalez

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this was from a whiiiiiiiile back on twitter and I don't know how many people actually ended up seeing it? not even sure I posted it over on sparkofthemachine!

#destiny2art | #art

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I would redraw his expression here but anyway last year I was prototyping a TINY tiny game for O2A2 (Only One of Any Asset Jam) that is literally just Eridanus hitting on you at a bar LOL

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real ❤️

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something completely different

I've been on and off *trying* to play pathfinder: wrath of the righteous over the last 2 years and I wanted to paint my own character portrait to use in-game but that's in WIP hell, just like my playthrough. one day I'll come back for you Daeran!!! you rude bastard 😍

a full-body rough sketch of a woman with a sheathed sword and a blue cloak

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unposted doodle

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this #aymeric sketch that's completely done and languishing in WIP hell waiting for inks + colours dasjdhakdh

ONE DAY FOR SURE I SWEAR

#ff14 | #ff14art | #aymericdeborel | #ff14aymeric | #art

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I've definitely posted this eridanus painting before because I didn't think I'd go back to it even though it's not 'complete' but it's done *enough*.

I've been torn on his constellation tattoo placement ever since I added it, I'm still not sure about it

bust-up eridanus sketch/painting