Vosdugolva
@vosdugolva.bsky.social
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🔞 beware of some NSFW material Amateur illustrator, game developer, and resident weirdo that is fascinated with all things elastic and expandable.
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Wow! I may have to keep an eye out for these! They may not be in style with magic but they sure are fun to look at!
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Found this card in the bulk boxes of my local card shop. Doesn't seem like a particularly good card but the art looked sick so I just bought it!

I've heard nothing good about Aetherdrift But I really do dig the way this card looks and wonder if there's others in this style.
vosdugolva.bsky.social
concept sketches and illustrations for balloons of the blue color group, this specific class is known by the fact they wield plastic prop weapons and training swords to score a hit against players. it skirts the rules of the in-universe dodgeball game but blue does a lot of mildly cheat-y stuff.
vosdugolva.bsky.social
Along with inflatable magic spells in purple, you have a class of balloons that are inflatable sorcerers themselves. Balloons are all magical by nature but these take it further beyond just being animate.

This image is actually really old, like 2 years old from an earlier draft of the game.
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Card art of another one of those elemental balloons, in game they are called "SpellBeasts"

This is one that while I can certainly do better on, I'm pretty happy with how it came out, a giant, glowing inflatable thunderbird ready to descend on this hapless player.
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He's my favorite too, a big ol inflatable fire monster!
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These are card illustrations for cards in the purple color group, elemental themed inflatables that are styled to be like personifications of magic spells, and are named after popular fantasy magic spells.

The colored ones were older while the two monochrome ones are more recent.
vosdugolva.bsky.social
More recent sketches of that really big beast balloon. not used in any cards, just been wanting to work on the design.

His name is "Silverfoot" by the way.
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These two are more recent additions, one actually being in both of the aforementioned balloon groups while the other is just a big balloon in the large beast group of balloons.

As with everything, they are early designs, but they help identify the cards during playtesting.
vosdugolva.bsky.social
This particular group of balloons have actually been around for a while, these were illustrations made last year when working on a different draft of the card game, all but the last one are still being used as playtesting art.

The last one was for an action card.
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Some assorted concept sketches, The bats are one division of balloons but another consists of round/pear shaped beast creatures that are the bigger, stronger dodgeballs.

The yeti-like one is the base design with others riffing off that one design, main thing they have in common is body shape.
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Another rough illustration done for the card game, fumbled the perspective on it a bit but I'll redo the art eventually.

Basically, this one has the game's equivalent to "Haste" from games like MTG, where it can come at people as soon as it enters play. wanted to represent that on the card image.
vosdugolva.bsky.social
Rough illustration of another Giant bat balloon from my card game.

Cards are split across 4 colors, and I usually do the sketch illustrations in monochrome of that respective color.

Anyways, here's a player about to get tackled by a gigantic balloon bat.
vosdugolva.bsky.social
Want to share some of the rough sketches and illustrations I've been making for cards in my card game "Balloonomancy", This one is from a subset of balloons that are all big round bats.

The game is dodgeball but with balloon creatures, so these big round bat's are basically flying dodgeballs.
vosdugolva.bsky.social
Sure! This whole thing is just for fun! Do you have a discord?
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... Bonus points if you're someone that likes to make up characters because a lot of what I'd be asking is for people's own takes on a given idea.
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Been making steady progress on my card game, and I'd like to arrange to get some guest art done for it. Anyone out there like drawing balloon creatures that may be open for a commission or something?...
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THIS THIS THIS
Failure is a natural part of learning ANYTHING. Don't tangle it up with your self worth and identity.
blackwallmancer.bsky.social
Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).
Someone's screenshot of a two-post twitter thread, from user blue (@bluewmist):

the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it's called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don't care, but because you care too much.

you don't need lower standards. you need less self-worth tangled up in your goals. the work gets easier when it's not about proving who you are.
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balloogabu.bsky.social
[ART] More fishing for concept art for Vosdugolva's "Balloonomancy" card battler! No telling if this will make it!

A fat ninja dragon balloooon that shoots its upper body forward and attacks with dual cosplay sickles! None can escape!
A fat ninja dragon balloooon that shoots its upper body forward like a twisty balloon and attacks with dual cosplay sickles
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starwolfskin.bsky.social
I wanted to see my beloved CDI Ganon (the thing that he is) in other Ganon outfits and bro… I knew he had potential to be cool 💕
Ganon in the first Zelda really only had a skull shirt and boots, tho, and that is so endearing. Closer looks on replies idc
#SWSart
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balloogabu.bsky.social
Hewlett's brainstorming for @vosdugolva.bsky.social 's "Balloonomancy" card game!

Tried to draw a fat otaku tanuki, with a poorly translated shirt, and nerd butt.
A lazy otaku rubber anthro tanuki, laying on their side, scratching their balloon butt, wearing a shirt saying "OTAKU MAIN !"
vosdugolva.bsky.social
So I've talked about my old Monster Buster artpack with some peers and if I'd ever do a Volume 2. and I've thought on it. maybe not as one I'd sell but as just a series of illustrations I'd share for free.

I imagined wanting to do them ahead of time for spooky month but that's a bit late now.
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So it's Lugia day, I've got nothing new so here are some older Lugia pieces I did during a strong Lugia mood.
vosdugolva.bsky.social
I'll admit, I've never experienced any questions regarding my gender, I'm fine but I often wonder out of morbid curiosity what gender dysphoria actually feels like.

I've had a different type of crisis of identity but it was more a feeling of lack of identity.
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It's kinda unfortunate really, alphys has more of a character arc and a grander role in the narrative. But sans got the ultra hard boss fight so he's remembered and celebrated more.