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Damian Ivory 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🔞
@damianivory.bsky.social
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Gothic fantasy artist who really likes vampires, werewolves, and ghosts, oh my!

Art blog is @damianivorydraws.bsky.social

He/They

Support me on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/damianivoryvt
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Found this absolutely gorgeous character on Cara by @megglesart.bsky.social, and I wanted to do my take on her too!

Original Art: cara.app/post/c27870d...

#DTIYS #DigitalArt #Art
A digital illustration of a black woman with sunset-colored hair decorated with stars and dark clouds surrounding her torso. She gently holds a small glowing moon to her chest. The same character done in a more painterly style. There's text above her that says "#MotherMoonDTIYS" and "Draw This In Your Style".
December 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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I don't know why but lately any time I hear the word "perchance" my immediate response us to say, "you can't just say 'perchance'" and I blame this essay even though I only just recently reread it now.

[I hope you like the alt text cause it was a pain in the ass to write for this btw.]
A photo of a printed essay that's been criticized in red pen. The essay is signed by Phil Jamesson, the class it was written for is Philosophy 101, the date is 2-18-22, and it's Midterm I. The essay is titled "Mario, the idea vs. Mario, the Man". The essay has a large "F" circled on the top of it. The actual essay goes like this: Everyone knows Mario is cool as fuck. [Red pen circles the word "fuck", written notation being, "horrible opening"] But who knows what he's thinking? Who knows why he crushes turtles? [Red pen underlines previous sentences, notates "to save the princess? also gross"] And why do we think about him as fondly as we think of the mythical (nonexistent) Dr. Pepper? Perchance. [Red pen circles "Dr. Pepper" and crosses out "Perchance". The annotation reads, "You can't just say 'perchance'" The Dr. Pepper reference is not commented on.] I believe it was Kant who said "Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play. ["I believe" is crossed out.] Mario exhibits experience by crushing turts [circled with the annotation "stop"] all day, but he exhibits theory by stating "Let's a-go!" Keep it up, baby! [circled with a bunch of question marks next to it.] When Mario leaves his place of safety to stomp a turty [crossed out], he knows he may Die [circled with note just saying "Ok?"]. And yet, for a man who can purchase lives with money, a life becomes a mere store of value. A tax rhat can be paid for, much as a rich man feels any law with a fine is a price. ["fine"] We think of Mario as a hero, but he is simply a one percenter [circled with the note "why are we saying this"] of a more privileged variety. The lifekind. Perchance. [circled with the note, "what?"]
December 1, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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Aw hell yeah
A work in progress digital illustration of a person with a round face and pointy ears. They have large lidded eyes with pointy triangular bottom lashes, a nose with a bump in it, and thin lips. The rough sketch, done with a red chalky brush, underneath the line art is still somewhat visible though at a low opacity.
November 30, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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I miss when I used to draw those bigass cartoony bug eyes for my characters I think I might start doing that again.
An old design of Damian with the large cartoon eyes as an example. He has pearlescent colored hair that's tied back in a half ponytail, large round glasses, and pointy ears poking out from his hair. His outfit is a black suit with gold trim and a jabot with a pearly gem fastened to it. The image is a portrait that cuts off at the shoulders, with one of Damian's hands rested over his jabot while he smiles at the viewer.
November 30, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Piece I created specifically as an example for what my "character illustration" commissions could look like: ko-fi.com/c/076337f027

You can also buy a higher quality and watermark-less version of this illustration itself here: ko-fi.com/s/05d97162a0

#art #oc #commissionsopen #gothic
A digital illustration of a pretty man with long pinkish orangeish hair and bright blue eyes. He wears a black vest above a white blouse and a white and blue bow tie around his neck. He is depicted in profile view, smiling at the viewer. Around him is a gold picture frame with vines and roses growing around it. There is a giant watermark logo with the name "Damian Ivory" on it.
November 29, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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I got an NES inspired palette from Lospec [ lospec.com/palette-list... ] specifically for pixel art, however I wanted to experiment with how it'd look when applied to my regular digital art. I do not like it so I think it's definitely going to be reserved for pixels.
A portrait shot of a person with two toned black and white hair and red eyes, looking up at the top left while drooling. They wear what seems to be a cow print bra with a choker that has a cowbell chained to it. The colors are bright and saturated, with their skin being a pale pink and both white and black parts of their hair appearing blue-ish. The same drawing, except their hair is now a true white color. The black is still blue-ish, but more on the gray side and less saturated. Their skin is also a bit redder and more obviously pink, as though they had just gotten lightly sunburned. The cowbell hanging from their neck is now a more yellow color, when the previous one was more a pale orange.
November 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Nice.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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Trying to figure out if I like him more with or without the outline.

#PixelArt #GameDev #GameArt
A orange pixel art sprite of a man with a ponytail and metal arm. It doesn't have an outline. A orange pixel art sprite of a man with a ponytail and metal arm. It's outlined with the darkest orange in his palette.
November 13, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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Was wondering how to describe the main "ship" in my lore and I think this chart helps visualize it.
A relationship chart between three characters. The top character has black hair with white bangs and pale skin, the left character has peach colored skin with reddish pink hair and freckles, and the right character has tan skin with dark brown hair facial hair. The pink arrow coming from the left character and pointing to the top character has a heart next to it, another orange arrow is below it pointing the opposite way and has the text "very close friend" on it. The yellow inbetween the pink haired man and the brown haired man says "tolerates" above it. Finally the orange double-sided arrow between the top character and the right character says, "Queerplatonic FWB".
November 12, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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I think I may just need to redo them from scratch...
A sketch of a character wearing a t-shirt with the sleeves cut off, with a loose plaid tie. They wear pants with a half-skirt attached to the belt. They wear plain sneakers and plaid fingerless gloves.
November 8, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Trying to redesigning Val but I'm currently struggling with making their outfit coherent. I wanted them to keep that plaid motif they had in their og design but I think if I lean too into it with that skirt & tie it'll look too much like a punk school uniform and they're supposed to be around 20.
An incomplete sketch of someone wearing a punk outfit. They have on a loose shirt with no sleeves, a haphazardly put together tie with two safety pins fastened to it, a belt with round studs, and a plaid half-skirt over top pants with plaid details on the ends of them.
November 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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I think bookshelves might be one of my favorite pixel art things to draw.

#GameDev #GameArt #PixelArt
Pixel art of two bookshelves right next to each other, with one being wide and the other being thin.
November 6, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Idk if anybody else has this issue but for some reason my Linux Mint laptop fucking HATES beepbox and won't play the percussion correctly, so here's a video version of the song instead.
November 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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This is taking me OUT. Why are they like this.

Kris being canonically dogkin is something I never expected but it's also really funny. Rotatoing them in my mind.
Susie: Stop scratching at the door like a dog, you idiot. Ralsei: Aww, Kris wants walkies...?
November 5, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Redesign of Gabriel Cassidy, my vampire hunter OC. Ended up getting rid of his coat wholesale because I didn't want to deal with drawing it.

#OC #OriginalCharacter #OCArt #VampireHunter

Commission Me Here: ko-fi.com/damianivoryv...
A digital illustration of a man with tanned freckled skin and dark hair. He has a few visible scars and stubble on his chin. One of his arms is a chunky silver robot arm, while the other wears a brown leather glove. His dark brown hair is tied back in a thick low ponytail with a yellow ribbon. The bandana around his neck is the same shade of yellow. He wears a bright red vest over a white sleeveless collared shirt, that's been left unbuttoned far enough for his cleavage to peak out. His pale brown pants are on the tighter side, clinging to his skin and emphasizing the shape of his legs. His pants are also tucked into a pair of simplistic brown leather boots. The background is pale green with simple dark green rectangles to add slightly more interest.
November 3, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Two options for dialog portraits. Right now I'm leaning more towards the latter one as I think it looks more visually interesting, and I actually drew it in Krita which is an art program I'm more comfortable with. Would like further feedback though.

#GameDev #GameArt #RPGMaker
Out of context screenshot from a debug room in a work in progress RPG Maker MV game. The player is talking to an NPC that looks exactly like him, in order to showcase the custom made dialog face. His face is located within the text box, and stares straight ahead. It's been completely done in pixel art. An alternate version of the dialog portrait, this time much larger and detailed. It goes above the text box instead of inside of it, and the pose is more dynamic with a little head tilt and one shoulder cocked up. The whole portrait still has the vibe of a pixel art style due to the brush it was drawn with, but it wasn't made the same way as the first one was.
November 1, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Decided to watch a Deltatraveler let's play since I rage quit the last time I played the game. Anyway Deltatraveler Kris is absolutely adorable.
A surprised Kris Dreemurr sprite from the Deltarune fangame Deltatraveler. They're leaning back in shock, and their singular visible eye is so large that it takes up half of their face.
October 30, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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HE HATH BEEN FIXED

I just had to change my laptop's color profile... I initially avoided it because I figured color correcting my monitor was a lost cause since other people would just see my art on their non-corrected monitors anyway. For some reason RPG Maker MV seems tied to it though.
The in-game sprite with corrected colors.
October 28, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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This sprite has slightly different colors in the RPG Maker MV playtest and it has been driving me up the wall. When I hadn't altered my screen's color display the bright pink red color looked like a muddied orange so I'm asking that some of you respond and tell me it doesn't look like that for you.
A very pink and simply colored sprite screenshotted from aseprite. The same sprite screenshotted within RPG Maker MV. The colors look different, and probably darker.
October 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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barking...
A traditional ballpoint pen sketch of a man with his hair tied back into a ponytail. He has a freckled nose and shoulders, with a few scars on his face. His jaw and chin have some facial hair on them. He wears a cloth tied around his neck with a low cut vest and undershirt. He smirks while looking off to the right. His hair is fully shaded with hatching, implying that it is supposed to be dark.
October 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Deltarune collab I participated in recently :3

Featuring:
@kaptainkelpi.bsky.social
@shortmf02 [instagram]
@axeru.bsky.social
Three character drawn in wildly different art styles cosplaying Deltarune characters.
October 25, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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so... head

I will actually be stopping here today because wrestling with the face was already a lot and I know the hair will be worse.

Also upon reflection maybe I shouldn't have hid all of the other parts when modelling the face because it looks WAY more detailed than the rest of his body.
An incomplete low poly 3D model of a person. They have their face, torso, waist intact. However they also only have one of each limb and no hair, with their face lacking the back of their head.
October 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Oh fuck off.
White text on a black background. It says, "Google couldn't confirm you're an adult, so some account settings have changed".
October 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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torse

I could also finish the arm today but since I've already done the leg, shorts, and torso I think I'll save the arm and face for later. Especially the face, I already know that one will be a doozy.
An incomplete 3D model of a person. Their torso, waist, and a single leg are all complete but they lack either arm and a head.
October 22, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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shourts

Stacking them on top of each other one by one like this feels like I'm making a mini model kit lmao.
A low poly 3D model of a pair of shorts with only one leg with boots attached.
October 22, 2025 at 6:36 PM