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dertherck.bsky.social
Gender is irrelevant when one is first and foremost an alchemist
@dertherck.bsky.social
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He/Him - I am a luxury
Few can tolerate

Commission info: http://dertherckscommissions.carrd.co
Work inquiries: [email protected]
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Headworld Tag: #whalefall

I turn things into dragons
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Commissions with spooky energy for the spooky day

#art #commissions #HappyHalloween
Stylized illustration of a dark jaguar posed beneath an archway of slender branches framing a thin slice of crescent moon. Stylized illustration of a long and many-limbed skull-faced monster leaping from a bed of acid green flames. Stylized Illustration of a green wolf-like creature charging from the darkness, an explosion of flowering vines sprouting at her feet as her four arms reach out, fingers curled and grasping. Stylized illustration of an anthropomorphic dragon, arms raised in a ritual pose as his power swirls around him in glowing ragged spirals.
October 31, 2025 at 3:00 PM
dertherck.bsky.social
Restrained

#art #dragons
Some old 2020 vent art that I thought was still interesting featuring a fluffy dragon with its mouth bound by cables anchored somewhere out of frame, pulled taught by the dragon's tugging. Its single visible eye is rolled back to look at the viewer as what little of its face that is left uncovered twists into a snarl.
October 27, 2025 at 7:58 PM
dertherck.bsky.social
Some stickers

#art #commissions #Vaarn
Six different stickers featuring Vaarn, a fuzzy beast with a long snoot and a single golden horn jutting from his forehead. He is in various states of extreme emotion ranging from smug to elated to utterly furious. I love this creature so much
October 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Hang on I HAVE to share something I found in my files whilst looking for more recent work examples

#art #commissions #Honsies
Softly rendered drawing of a little anthropomorphic horse lady with a luxuriously long mane and tail decorated with flowers. She is posing at the viewer, her fluffy red wings held high, winking like a mischievous little fae. I love her.
October 24, 2025 at 2:27 PM
dertherck.bsky.social
Mr. perpetual-work-in-progress himself

#art #critters
Doodles/planning sketches of a dragon-like monster with a long, undulating body and a sharp head adorned with frills. You can see from the colored headshot that he’s purple! Sort of! More of the same monster, but this time you can see that the tip of his tail, even partially obscured by his robe-like fins, ends in a nasty lil second mouth
October 21, 2025 at 11:40 PM
dertherck.bsky.social
Teatime

#art #dragons #Gala
A little bit of a lazily rendered illustration with Gala curled up all snug and cozy inside of an orange teacup with a big ol’ heart stamped on the side. Additional information: Gala has his tongue out
October 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
dertherck.bsky.social
Crimson

#art #dragons
Rough sketch of a sleek looking fellow with broad white scales, a thick black mane, and a mischievous glint in his single blue eye twinkling cheekily at the viewer. At you.
October 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Unrelated but I’m also working on some lines for a friend

Don’t tell him

#WIPs
Line art of a gnarly dragon face covered in angular, thorny scales. I’m trying to give him a sense of weight and value with the intensity and thickness of the strokes but I don’t know how well that’s working!
October 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Ma'am

#art #dragons #commissions #LoZ
Colored illustration of Midna (you know her) as a long, twisty dragon with an even longer mane of hair twisted into a pair of gesturing hands. In her dragon hands floats the Mirror of Twilight.
September 28, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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A pair of shape-shiftin' horses

#whalefall #doodles #honsies
Okay I don't know if I ever shared these here before but meh, here we go: Rough character illustration of two characters, the one on the left is a smug lil orange and black fellow resembling a lil anthropomorphic horse, and next to him is his monster form: a gigantic four-armed eel creature complete with a set of double jaws. The one on the right is also a little anthropomorphic horse, but he's way more pumped with green and grey color palette. His monster form is a large stinky wyvern, smirking at you.
September 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Desperately need to make one like this again

#art #dragons #Adopts
Illustration of an orange dragon with numerous sharp frills and scales that refract light like gemstones, wings spread wide in flight.
September 15, 2025 at 12:35 AM
dertherck.bsky.social
Snowbound

#art #commissions #dragons
Character illustration of a wyvern posing in a blizzard, one feathered wing raised high, the claws of which grasp at the viewer as one piercing yellow eye stares in their direction.
September 14, 2025 at 12:15 AM
dertherck.bsky.social
Reposting one of my favorite lil guys today

(An adopt from @spadefish.bsky.social!)

#art #dragons
Two drawings of the same lil dude; a tiny wyvern with skin dusted with nebulas and speckled with stars. The illustration on the left was done by Spade the left was done by moi
September 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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The working title for this one was “Absol Dance”

#art #commissions #pokemon
Stylized drawing of an Absol, rearing up with claws splayed as a twisting vortex of energy whips around it like flames. Barely visible, but there if you squint, are subtle patterns resembling stars and a crescent moon splashed across its tail, horn, and flank.
September 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
dertherck.bsky.social
I think social media was invented for the sole purpose of sharing doodles that belong nowhere else.

Maybe.

#art #dragons
Very rough and exploratory doodle of a grey dragon with rough angular scales and a messy mane of orange-ish hair falling down its back haphazardly. He’s looking over his shoulder, givin’ you a stinky grin. What a trouble maker.
September 1, 2025 at 5:53 PM
dertherck.bsky.social
White dragon doodle

#art #dragons
Rough headshot sketch of a white dragon with iridescent fins and broad angular scales. He’s just chillin’.
August 31, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Found a fish in my WIPs

#WIPs #critters
Rough sketch of a fish-like monster with a long serpentine body and pointed fins. They also have a magnificent pair of whiskers.
August 31, 2025 at 12:55 AM
dertherck.bsky.social
Fööt

#WIPs
Cropped progress shot of some line art. The line art is of a dragon foot.
August 27, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Ancient Archive Tuesday I Guess!

#art #OdinSphere
MESSY as hell painting of the Darkova Beast from Odin Sphere dutifully standing guard over a newly sprouting Yggdrasil. If you know anything about Odin Sphere it is my hope that you will find this utterly devastating.
August 26, 2025 at 10:01 PM
dertherck.bsky.social
WIP break because my tablet needs to charge

#WIPs #commissions
Line art progress shot of a furry monster reeling back, her toothy mouth twisted in a manic grin
August 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
dertherck.bsky.social
Ancient Archive Sunday
(there isn't a day of the week that starts with 'A'. SHAME.)

#art #critters
OLD art of a three headed dog monster spewing red flames, dark lines carved out and chiseled into some suggestion of fur and shadow. The flames are the same shade of red as his eyes and the inside of his mouth. The background is supposed to be transparent, but I doubt Bluesky will stand for that nonsense At All
August 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
dertherck.bsky.social
Unused Link dragon idea?

Which is typical for me I GUESS

#art #dragons #LOZ
VERY rough sketch of wolf Link except he's got big dragon wings and a big dragon tail and cool pinion feathers and FLOATING HORNS because those are NEAT and I LIKE THEM (there is also a Midna, but the projects weren't related)
August 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
dertherck.bsky.social
Doodle of Sonya She’s smiling and also very delighted to meet you
August 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Sonya Saturday!

#art #dragons
Rough (colored) sketch of a fluffy little pink dragon bedazzled with hearts sitting very politely with her wings at rest. If you squint, you may notice that she is ever so slightly blipping Cleaner drawing of the same dragon, but this time she's in flight with her fluffy tail zig-zagging out behind her. No blip this time, tragically.
August 9, 2025 at 5:07 PM
dertherck.bsky.social
Hang on I HAVE to show you all the Little GUY

#doodles #critters
Sketchbook drawing of some kind of lil wyvern thing perched upon a branch with his head held up on a loooong neck dotted with big blocky stars (and one moon)
August 8, 2025 at 2:41 AM