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@riithewordsmith.bsky.social
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Retired evil overlord; Digital and graphite artist; fantasy writer; TTRPG GM; harpist; mother; probably a fairy.
Commissions: https://artistree.io/riithewordsmith (or DM)
My webcomic about villains & eventual redemption arcs at monochromecomic.com
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#drawtober days 16-20 and 21-25: enchanted princess and troll toll

I didn't consistently draw every day. Got all the drawings done. Real fricken hard to both come up with ideas and motivation to draw when you're "everything is bad in the world at large and my personal life" depressed but here I am
Ensorcelled princess page. My favorite one is the moth princess. We also got a half-hearted crystal princess, a princess turned to stone, one is trapped in a book, and one would look a lot cooler if I put real effort into it. Maybe I will later. Gotta have all these glowing runes on her that are extending out with their enchantments wrapping into bindings. Troll toll. Got a troll paying the sunlight toll for trolls turning to stone, one begging for food at the table, a troll toll coin, and two different demanding trolls idk I got pretty bad in the "I would rather die than think of ideas" phase of things here. I like drawing trolls and goblins though, you get to really exaggerate their features and I love that.
October 27, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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Whelp, due to travel, I fell behind on #drawtober and due to Life catching up had been challenging. (Can you tell how things are going that I'm finding drawings this simple difficult?) But here's days 12-15: Mushroom Fairy.

🎵 One of these things is not like the others 🎶
A low detail fairy hugging a mushroom A low detail inky cap mushroom fairy witch A fairy suffering from cordyceps A fairy wearing a mushroom hoodie-poncho-thing
October 17, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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#drawtober day 11-15 (1): mushroom fairy

I'm pretty excited for this prompt. I love mushrooms and fairies. I'm still abroad so I'm still drawing in my journal.
A lil mushroom with butterfly wings. Text? Nothing to do with the picture, you nosy. I'm just complaining that when I went to get new shoes, for some reason, sizes smaller than my usually already small size were what fit. Sure, it means that they actually had my size this way, but whyyy did such a small child's size fit me? What is happening?? I blame the mushroom fairy.
October 12, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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#drawtober day 6-10 (10): Toad Astrologer

I'm traveling so I drew in my journal today
A toad or possibly frog wearing a silly long pointed hat riding a star You don't get most the text because that's my journal, you shouldn't be reading it, nosy! (Lol JK I made sure not to capture personal stuff, it's just me explaining to my future self why I drew that.) Text: whoosh
October 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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#drawtober day 6-10 (8): toad astrologer

Idk astral toad is basically the same thing right? He probably went up there to get a better look at the stars and then realized his folly.
A toad sitting on a celestial crescent surrounded by stars and looking rather uncomfortable. Text: help tho
October 9, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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#drawtober day 6-10 (7): toad astrologer

Why did he set up the telescope so high
A toad on his tiptoes looking through a telescope with a silly long cap
October 8, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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#Drawtober Day 6-10 (1): Todd Astrologer

Just drawin' a jolly fat sparkle boi. Looking forward to four more days of it.
A round toad with a star patterned wizard hat sitting upon a star chart. Text: 10/6 Drawtober Day 6 Frogs cannot read This is a toad, not a frog. Can he read? More on this story tomorrow. Maybe.
October 7, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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#drawtober Day 1-5 (5): Candlelit Messenger
Turns out I've been off a day this whole time because we started on the second. I have no idea what day it is ever I guess.
This one is traditionally drawn because of other ADHD/technology related reasons and also I should draw in sketchbooks more anyway.
A lil candle dude yelling about an edict he's holding. Or maybe he's yelling about being on fire. Text: 10/5 Drawtober Day 5
October 6, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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#drawtober day 1-5 (3): Candlelit Messenger
If it looks like I put less effort than usual into my already low-effort I-don't-have-time-to-draw offerings so far, it's because it's a bad brain day. Really didn't feel like drawing. But I did anyway. yahoo or whatever. Read the alts.
Someone who clearly doesn't know how to draw a bird drew a bird messenger flying through idk a candlelit path outside a building. I don't know what this is I just made it so that existential nihilism didn't win today. Text: Drawtober Day 3 drawing even though I didn't feel like it
October 5, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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#drawtober day 1-5 (2): Candlelit Messenger
Yesterday I tried to lay down strong lines with no sketching. Today I just sketched while limiting how much I used the eraser. I think I did a little better with my hatching this time.
Last time the hooded figure was the messenger. This time the wall is.
A hooded figure reads a message by candlelight on a scarred wall. Text: Drawtober Day 2
October 4, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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#drawtober Day 1-5: Candlelit Messenger
I don't have a lot of time to draw, so I'm keeping it simple. Also Spoopy month seems like a good time to mess around with hatching, a style of shading with which I'm not very familiar.
A messy sketch of a hooded figure holding a candle. Text: Drawtober 2025 day 1 "Candlelit Messenger"
October 3, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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Here's the art he made for me; I didn't grab it earlier like a dummy. Again, this is @bogtwarog (insta)'s art:
A skeletal figure overlaid with a dim ghost despondently playing chess while dark, deadly tears leak from his eye.
September 12, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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After #Artfight I decided to do an art trade on the discord. Got some sweet art of my Death and made some art of his Mila. Check him out on instagram @bogtwarog
A tall, gaunt woman staring off into the night while a tv shines into the dark room, her own face and body illuminated by her phone. Done in the style of Chibi. Character concept and design by @bogtwarog
September 12, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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I made a self portrait!

#art
#artist
#digitalart
#selfportrait
#chibi
May 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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I was going through some old art and found this poster I drew for my dad, who is a knife dealer. I'd list what knives they are, but it was long ago enough I don't remember. Graphite on posterboard. (This art is a little painful for me to look at, but I'm still very proud of the artistry.)

#art
Six switchblade knives arranged in a loose semicircle; one has a dark blade and two are Damascus steel. Graphite pencil on posterboard.
March 28, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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Did a little Artfight minigame. Here's what I drew - Toyhouse and Artfight user Beelu's Nyoka (with some watermarks at their request ^_^)

I always enjoy drawing a chibi where I can cut loose on fine details.

#art #chibi #artfight
A chibi drawing of a POC queen with facial markings and fantastic long, white-furred ears sitting upon an invisible seat; this character belongs to Toyhouse and Artfight user Beelu.
March 1, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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@deliciousjames.bsky.social I recently drew a bunch of pokemon from memory but here's some of my favorites and also my apology to beedrill for remembering it so badly. Behold. My portfolio for your thumbnail call.
January 24, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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I've decided I want to try to develop a new art style. Hopefully by going into the style of stained glass, which I've always loved, it'll help me come back with fresh eyes on my "normal" or "default" style and help me improve it.
A peacock drawn in the style of a stained glass window. The lineart is heavy. The peacock sits with its tail unfurled in front of a cloudy, moonlit sky shining on the garden in which the peacock sits.
January 21, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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I was remembering that Art Fight is a thing and it's only half a year away! Here's some of my favorites I did from last year while on #teamstardust
@RainbowFish.art (insta)'s Castiel Delray
@sleepymimimim (X)'s Lumin
NalakBel's Malebranche
Oozerloser's Squid

I can't wait for July.
BE NOT AFRAID An aasimar entity with outspread arms and wings and a smaller set of wings covering his face. They are emitting beams of light and bear a halo. Contemplating the Impermanent A princess made of dripping candle wax with a few lit wicks is gazing at a lit match and the bubble of wax fallen to her other hand. Stand and Deliver and Die A spooky haunted knight in dull brass armor with a thorn motif is brandishing a long sword in an aggressive pose. The Sweetest Treats Are Stolen A lil blue lass with teensy horns and red eyes is excitedly flapping her wings while holding up a piece of candy.
January 4, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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Aaand I did it. The original 151 pokemon from memory before the year is out, with bonus pre-evolutions and evolutions (before I had to have a crunch time) and now a bonus missingno. (Which I drew backwards, lol. I hope you've enjoyed this silly little endeavor! I feel like I learned a fair amount.
Dratini, dragonair, and dragonite drawn from memory. I couldn't remember if dratini also has an orb at its throat or not. I kinda felt like it did but I just couldn't remember so I left it. There's always the temptation to alter these guys, and take up the theory that magicarp was supposed to evolve into dragonite and dragonair, gyarados. But idk, with how feisty and angry gyardos is, I'd prefer dragonair to become the round, friendly, happy dragonite, even ifthat means losing the sleek design. Mew and Mewtwo from memory. Idk it just seemed like Mew really, really needed a cookie. Missingno drawn from memory. I know it's actually lines of glitched data piled on each other but this is still ultimately the impression we have of it, right? I drew it backwards because I always remember it as Utah-shaped and... that's actually mirrored from its real shape. Whoops. I'm... probably not going to manage to fix that error in my memory. It's too strong an association. I'll think, "Now, wasn't there something about it being shaped like Utah? Oh, that it WAS shaped like it!" and I won't manage to get the "backwards" in there. Whatever, it's the vibe of looking at a monolith of "not supposed to exist" that really counts, imo.
January 1, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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Oops forgot to make jpegs again. Here's the other two fossil pokemon sets along with some more pokemon from memory. More in alts.
Omanyte and omastar from memory. I always had a really hard time picking between the helix and the claw fossil...but I usually went with helix. Kabuto and kabutops from memory. Because I usually went with the helix fossil, I'm less familiar with kabutops. At this point I think this set appeals to me more so it kind of surprises me I usually went helix as a kid. Snorlax from memory. What a snuggly guy. Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres from memory. I was trying to make Articuno sleek and elegant but it turned out kinda lanky instead. I'll have to give it another go sometime, maybe... but I never have been good at drawing birds. I think Moltres turned out the best. I should've made Zapdos' wings way sharper spikes, too, now that I think of it.
January 1, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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Next batch of pokemon from memory. My memory of porygon keeps shifting under my scrutiny, making it really hard to figure out how to pin down lines.
I would've liked to do all the eeveelutions and porygon's but you know, time constraints from the keyboard incident.
Ditto from memory. Hit this one and went "oh thank goodness an easy one." I could've made ditto a little fancier with shine marks and whatnot but it was a blessed reprieve from most of the single stage detail intensive creatures I had been and would need to draw so I grabbed at that. Eevee, vaporeon, jolteon, and flareon drawn from memory. Eevee was my favorite pokemon for a long, long time. I still adore Eevee. So drawing it from memory was pretty easy. Vaporeon was my favorite eeveelution until Sylveon. Honestly this vaporeon looks crappy more because of the hastiness in which it was drawn than anything else imo. Porygon drawn from memory. It's rough to almost remember something. It feels like I have a clear memory of it but then I go to draw what I remember and it shifts or fades away. Aerodactyl drawn from memory. I couldn't remember if it had a little tail or not. I know it's head isn't shaped quite right but y'know, rushing.
January 1, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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More pokemon from memory. The same problem I had with Ponyta in not being able to draw horses? Applies to bulls and Tauros as well.
Pincer drawn from memory. I guess the features I remember best are most exaggerated here. Tauros drawn from memory. Yeah, I can't draw that animal shape. Magicarp and Gyarados drawn from memory. I think maybe Gyarados' head might have been a little more crown like? Lapras drawn from memory. I always loved lapras. I was one of the people who, on reading it was endangered, bred and released Lapras. I didn't do a ton because with my little ADHD brain, my kid self only had so much patience for it, but it's nice to hear other people did it too and Nintendo has said Lapras isn't endangered anymore.
January 1, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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More pokemon from memory. These were all harder ones.
I once saw someone do Jynx as more of a banshee like spirit and I really liked that. I didn't wanna stray too far from its original design for this, but in the future, I'm gonna be leaning into that cuz it's a good way to move away from... well.
Scyther drawn from memory. This was my favorite bug pokemon until Volcarona. A modified Jynx from memory. I know Jynx has round white eyes with tiny pupils and a rounder stature. But I did wanna draw her more like a creepy spirit. The one tricky thing of making Jynx into more of a banshee is that she's psychic-ice. I could retype her as a ghost ice, but there's already Froslass that is ghost-ice and a redesign of Jynx more into that territory would really start to step on Froslass' toes. Maybe I could go more for a creepy witch-spirit rather than a banshee kinda thing. Like, the frozen entity in the highest icicle like mountain that is wont to cast a hex on you but you're going to see her because you're desperate, that could still make sense as a psychic-type while still allowing me to re-imagine Jynx with less blackface undertones. I'm gonna end up playing a lot with those fat lips trying to make them look like a lamprey and not like a racist depiction. Time will tell if I will succeed or just give up and get rid of them. I am going to not do the hour glass shape and do more of a bell shape in the future, though. It's more true to original Jynx and not erasing of that body shape. In this case, I was trying to make her tall and leering, but because I was also trying to go fast, I'm not super pleased how it turned out. I'm really hoping the tone I chose comes off as shadowy and not like, an actual skin tone. That was the goal. Electabuzz from memory. I gotta be honest I don't really remember electabuzz. He's got the weird knobby ears and I really hope he has a knobby Marill like tail cuz that's what I gave him. Poor Magmar. Drawn from memory, I mostly only remember the flame design on the body and what everyone knows Magmar for: that they did it dirty with making it a literal butthead.
December 30, 2024 at 5:10 AM
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More pokemon from memory.
I obviously don't remember Kingdra very well. The main thing I remember about Kingdra is it humbling me in Pokemon Crystal when I had been wiping everything out with my Typhlosion main no problem, and it whipped out some massive water move that practically one shot me 🫠
Horsea, Seadra, and Kingdra by memory. What you have to understand about how I played Pokemon back in the day is that if my main ever fainted, or any other pokemon I was proud of, I just shut the game off and restarted from the last save. I liked to brag that my main had never fainted. Which. In my little mind was true if it wasn't in the data. I'd stopped saving before gym leaders because I had been able to destroy them, so I lost a lot of progress when that stupid Kingdra washed away my Typhlosion TT_TT Goldeen and Seaking from memory. I guess I needed to give Goldeen more sultry eyes. Staryu and Starmie by memory. You can tell I didn't put my best effort into it because they're just geometric shapes and the way I drew them kinda sucks. Mr. Mime from memory. This one was hard for me because I try not to think about Mr. Mime so he's not in my memory super well.
December 28, 2024 at 11:50 PM