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Triumph of Death processes.
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Current location: Los Angeles, CA
Current books: Waiting list
Travel statue: planning 2022
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We decided to do the lines in one sitting and the shading in another. I was very pleased with the whole process.
Thanks again for your massive trust in me Robert!
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#xcjxtattooer #tattoo #tattoos #tattooing #ink #blackwork #brooklyn #Art #London #darksoulstattoo #darksouls3 #darkartists #california #horror #darksouls #darksouls2 #medieval #medievaltattoo #losangeles #reaper #death #videogametattoo #knig #blackclaw #thetriumphofdeath #bossfight #PieterBruegel #triumphofdeath #medieval #knight (at Los Angeles, California)
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My Redition of this particular part of The Triumph of Death by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Swipe to see reference and lines. *lines healed*
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Current location: Los Angeles, CA
Current books: Books closed
Travel statue: planning 2022
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When Robert approached me with this fantastic idea i thought i would enjoy this piece but as soon as i started to conceptualize the design i became enamored with it. So much so i had to ask if he would be willing to go a bit bigger than originally planned. Needless to say I think we are both happy with the outcome. Thanks again for your massive trust in me Robert!
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#xcjxtattooer #tattoo #tattoos #tattooing #ink #blackwork #brooklyn #Art #London #darksoulstattoo #darksouls3 #darkartists #california #horror #darksouls #darksouls2 #medieval #medievaltattoo #losangeles #reaper #death #videogametattoo #knig #blackclaw #thetriumphofdeath #bossfight #PieterBruegel #triumphofdeath #medieval #knight (at Los Angeles, California)
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Healed Dead Space piece! Isaac Clarke seems to put himself in some really terrible situations!
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Current location: Los Angeles, CA
Current books: September open soon
Travel statue: planning 2022
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Thank you so much for the trust and endurance Bob! Looking forward to working with more Dead Space themes!
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#xcjxtattooer #tattoo #tattoos #tattooing #ink #blackwork #brooklyn #Art #London #darksoulstattoo #darksouls3 #darkartists #california #horror #darksouls #darksouls2 #medieval #sifihorror #losangeles #videogame #sifi #videogametattoo #deadspace2 #blackclaw #convergence #bossfight #isaacclarke #necromorph #plasmacutter #deadspace (at Los Angeles, California)
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This piece is very heavy because of the lore behind these two. Most stories in the Souls series are depressing and the story of Siegward and the Lonely Giant is no different. It seems the Dark Souls universe is a cruel place for many within but the light of companionship burns ever bright admits the onslaught of darkness. Truly this is a story of friendship and love til the bitter end. Alas there are no fair-weather-friends in Miyazaki’s world.
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“…Yhorm, old friend.
I, Siegward of the Knights of Catarina, have come to uphold my promise!
Let the sun shine upon this Lord of Cinder.“
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Current location: Los Angeles, CA
Current books: August NOW OPEN!
Travel statue: paused
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#xcjxtattooer #tattoo #tattoos #tattooing #ink #blackwork #brooklyn #Art #London #darksoulstattoo #darksouls3 #darkartists #california #horror #darksouls #darksouls2 #medieval #demonsouls #losangeles #videogame #horror #videogametattoo #lordofcinder #blackclaw #siegwardofcatarina #bossfight #friendship #yhormthegiant #siegward #yhorm (at Los Angeles, California)
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Death is inevitable… but how will ye parish?
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Aimee came to me with the concept of a Dame fighting off a horde of demons in which i could not be more excited! Such depictions of the eternal struggle resonate with all of humanity. How do you make it even more epic? Add plate armor in the mix… thank you Aimee!
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Current location: Los Angeles, CA
Current books: Waitlist
Travel status: planning 2022
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#xcjxtattooer #tattoo #tattoos #tattooing #ink #blackwork #brooklyn #Art #London #darksoulstattoo #darksouls3 #darkartists #california #horror #darksouls #darksouls2 #fromsoftware #knight #losangeles #overcome #medievaltattoo #twitch #gamer #blackclaw #triumph #goodvsevil #bossfight #demons #dame #perseverance (at Spirits & Rituals)
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“Were it not for fear, death would go unlamented.
Seek the old blood. Let us pray, let us wish to partake in communion. Let us partake in communion and feast upon the old blood.“
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Were it not for Bryce i would not have the pleasure of diving back into Bloodborne. Vicar Amelia is one of my favorites as her cutscene reveals a rare glimpse into the sudden transformation from human to beast.
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Current location: Los Angeles, CA
Current books: Waiting list
Travel status: planning 2022
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Adventure: The Doomsday Book
“If you don’t like how it’s done, do it yourself” is very bad advice for someone with a god complex
Setup:In life, the mage Varner of Boltzford was fascinated with the complexity of the world, the seemingly infinite inter-connectivity of all things in a web so complex that one mortal mind could never understand all of it. In death fascination transformed into obsession, as Varner was driven to extend his existence to perfect what he saw as the art of the gods: Genesis, the act of bringing life out of nothingness.
Decades of experiments with astral constructs and transmutation eventually led Varner into the a philosophical and theological haze of “ontology” and “ideal forms”, along with a lot of other prattle that allowed him to convince himself that the things he could create things so beautiful they could redefine beauty, so perfect they could improve on perfection, and so real that they made other things less real by comparison.
He created the Renascent Tome, an artifact that ate up the matter of the existent world to produce things that adhred to Varner’s vision of perfection, small things at first that were mere pretty trinkets, through which he learned that the more he wanted form his creation the more he had to feed it
It was shortly after the lich turned an entire town and its surrounding valley into dust that Varner fell victim to the bane of so many promising omnicidal visionaries: meddling adventurers. The heroes did what heroes did best and though they made a proper mess out of the perfectionist’s plans they were unable to keep hold of his Tome, which slipped through their grasp to cause problems in the wider world to this day, diminished in power but no less a threat.
Hooks:
- Varner went through a number of research facilities/evil lairs in his time before he was felled by heroes, and any one of them could be a resting place for his tome. Such lairs are often dumping grounds for the lich’s escaped or failed experiments: creatures and constructs so beautiful they sear or corrode things around them, eerily stagnant wilderness, the soulless progeny of attempted “master races”. Such oddities would draw all sorts of adventurers, or at least the collectors and conservationists looking to study these anomalies.
- A foolish and famehungry apprentice found the Renascent Tome at his local book fair being sold ( at a discount no less) by an unwitting salvager. After discovering its ability to transmute things into idealized forms, he began using the book to mend broken objects and “heal” local livestock ( no matter the fact that things the book abzorbs are effectively disintegrated with a new thing made in their place). Tales of his wondrous talents reached the ear of the ailing local countess, who requested the apprentice bathe her in the books healing light and restore her to the glory she once possessed. Now her lands are ruled by a nightmarish “perfected” tyrant, and patrolled by her inhumanly “idealized” soldiers. The thing that took the countess’s place brings the captive apprentice out from his cell every week or so to illuminate her increasingly crystalline castle, each interaction getting crueler and more alien.
- Cultists of an outergod dedicated to ego destroying perfection have come to see Varner’s work as a holy relic of their faith, allowing them to perform miracles that they could have never dreamed of otherwise. They seek it always, putting a target on the party’s back should they come into possession of the Renascent Tome. When pushed to extremes, these same cultists will unleash the relic’s power without any heed for who or what it consumes, gleefully sacrificing themselves to become the foundation of the world it will create.
Item stats: The Renascent Tome
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Dormant: while dormant the tome serves as a +1 arcane spellcasting focus.
A creature attuned to the Renascent tome gains the 2nd level wizard school feature: Minor Conjuration, save that the items created always have a +1 magical bonus to any rolls they were intended to make. Conjuration wizards treat both the focus and the items conjured as if they were a +2 bonus instead.
When this feature is activated, the book’s pages glow and begin siphoning in dust and small unattended objects from its surroundings. The effect is otherwise harmless.
Awakened:When awakened, the Renascent tome gains 10 charges, which may be used to cast the following spells: Discorperating light (1 charge as tasha’s caustic brew, but dealing radiant damage) Conjure Barrage ( 3 charges) or Fabricate (4 charges). Items created by the fabricate spell are of exquisite quality and retain the +1 magical bonus from the minor conjuration feature. The tome regains 1d6+4 charges at dawn. When the last charge is spent, roll a d20, on a 1 the tome consumes itself in a blast of siphoning radiance. All creatures in a 20ft radius must make a save vs the bearer’s spell save dc ( or int+proff if they are not a caster) or suffer the effects of a successful gravity sinkhole spell
Exalted: The bonus the focus provides grows to +3 and the tome gains 10 extra charges. The spells that it can cast now include disintegrate ( 6 charges), mirage arcane ( 7 charges) and blade of disaster (9 charges). Spells can still be cast if the item lacks the prerequisite charges, but this increases the number rolled on the no charge roll to go up by 1 per missing charge.
Curse: Once exalted, Each spell cast from the book now also requires an extra 1d4 charges. If the no charge roll occurs, in addition to triggering a gravity sinkhole, the Tome begins to act as a sphere of annihilation from that moment onwards.
Further Adventures:
- Removing the curse from the Renascent Tome requires access to Varner’s research notes, requiring the party to either seek out a source of great knowledge of attempt to seek the imprisoned lich himself.
Varner has had a lot of time to think after he was imprisoned, and has concluded that the current material world is too corrupt and messy for any of his perfect creations to truly take root. Though his reemergence into the land of the living will bring with it a tide of new horrific experiments and dangerous objects released upon the world, his ultimate goal is to find a nice enough place to use as raw material for the eden he’s going to build. Given that he’s spent long enough as a lich that many of his own feelings have begun to atrophy, he’ll reach out to those closest to him ( like the meddling adventuring party that woke him up) to see what they think of as ideal. Say, the starting town of the campaign or wherever the heroes have decided to make their home.
Should the Renascent tome fulfill its purpose it’s safe to say that the party will have very little chance of undoing what its done, muchless surviving the process should they have been caught within its mile wide blast radius. However, with the slightest bit of divine intervention from whatever spirits are watching over their adventures, the party might just be able to turn that slim chance into a fighting one. They find themselves trapped inside the grotesque Perfection of Varner’s world, a grotesque parody of a place familiar to them with all the personality and imperfection scrubbed away. At its center is the Tome, its own less than perfect existence protected by an enchantment Varner made to protect his magnum opus from devouring itself in an act of sentimental self sabotage. The perfect world is contained inside the book while the book is contained within the world, this paradox, if inverted, might allow the party to reverse the flow of the Tome’s reality devouring magic, deconstructing the demiplane it’s constructed and reassembling the world that was in mostly the right order. All that’s required is to brave the maze of hyper-real nostalga and face off against a perfected Varner, alive again after a near century of lichdom, ignorant of any of his previous failings, but master of his domain.
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I played the first 2 Darksiders games- the art direction on there titles was above and beyond. I own both the art books as well, Joe Mad is a beast.
(Commissioned Artwork)
#darksiders #war #death #plague #bossfight #vector
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EXISTENTIAL VISION
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“This isn’t even my final form!”
This drawing took a real long time, and then after I finished it, I went back and forth for a few weeks trying to decide whether or not to add color. Maybe in the future (digitally, I’m really happy with the ink original as is), but for now, here’s the original black and white drawing!
I’m adding this to the roster of some recent work that I think of as the “vision” series.
Soon this will also be available as prints and on shirts, stay tuned for more info!
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You can tell which OST I was listening to while doing this!
This game deserved all my effort to make a fanart.
If there’s a good game dev team who would like my art on their game, please notify me in a PM. Just a pro team plz, hopefully having already 2 game releases.
Usually quick made teams leaves projects very soon…
Lvl 3 - Oil Boy This reckless boss monster uses its special claws to perform its signature “fracking attack” to drain life out of his opponents. After fracking the heck out of the ground, Oil Boy can call earthquakes at his will.
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Lvl 1- Fictora A boss monster with the power of water pollution! Factories and manufacturing facilities built around rivers increase the attack level of Fictora by 1000 pollution points! Part of my new project “Meka Boss”
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