AERIAL/DARILBALDE

The Child of the Witch / The Prince’s Scarlet Beast

[CHARLOTTE KATAKURI]

“If you want to laugh at that fool... laugh at me, too”

BUST COMMISSIONS AVAILABLE

I have 2 bust-only commission slots open right now with an expected turnaround within the next coupla weeks. 

Bust slots cover the head, shoulders and some of the chest if applicable, and come at a flat rate of £200 each. Slots are first come first served!

You can secure a slot via my inbox here or by email at witnesstheabsurd@gmail.com. I take all payment exclusively via paypal invoice, so please have your paypal address ready!

Thank you so much for your interest! I’ll be updating this post at source when a slot sells, but these have gone fast historically!

Hope to hear from you soon!

[Helm of Exhaustion]

[November Rain]

Commissions are Open!

I’m opening 3 COMMISSION SLOTS ahead of my trip to Japan in a few days. These will go into a queue that starts after I get back!

A slot can be filled with either a Full or Bust Commissions!

£400 - Full Illustration -  Full Illustrations are fullbody/large pieces with a background, simple or otherwise. These start at £400 but the price may go up based on complexity or subject matter!

£200 - Bust Illustration - Bust Illustrations are head/shoulders/chest pieces with a simple background. These are £200. 

You can contact me directly via asks or email me at witnesstheabsurd@gmail.com. I only take payment via paypal invoice, so please have a paypal email address ready! Thank you so much for your support!

NSFW is available on request, and I can offer examples if needed!

No idea what you're fucking talking about

I hate choosing definitive favourites of anything bc it always feels too restrictive but some animals I adore include: whip scorpions, bearded vultures, gharials, coelacanths, aurochs, cassowaries... the list goes on. I tend to gravitate towards animals that look a little out of time.

I mentioned it before but lately i've been listening to a lot of Emperor X - given that I already mentioned that though, I recommend Dive's "Sanakan's Search for Cibo" which is the best 6 minutes or so of Nihei manga themed japanese shoegaze you'll ever hear

Paint Tool SAI + a Cintiq 22HD (Except when i'm on the road, in which case it's a Cintiq 13HD). Has been that way for... about a decade now!

It is *more* than okay, please! The whole team treasures the fanart we've received, i'm so grateful anyone feels strongly enough about our game to produce some! Please send it my way when it's done so I can share it with everyone, if that's cool with you!

So the grim reality is that honestly the best reference for the kind of material I used in say, the recent Artillery Theory pieces IS photos of some pretty upsetting subject matter. I have a fairly high tolerance threshold for that but even I tend to steer away from stuff outside of a more clinical setting - for instance, a lot of the refs used for the aforementioned Artillery Theory painting were photos documenting proper procedure in equine intestinal surgery (Horses are FULL of guts lemme tell you).

There are certainly ways to abstract it a little - referencing an existing painting from some other artist can be less intense than the source itself, but that comes with the usual risks of secondhand reference, which is to say the possibility of internalizing mistakes or idiosyncrasies unique to that artist without understanding fully why you're doing them etc. Anatomical diagrams like the kind you might find in an illustrated Gray's Anatomy are also usually "softer" on the brain than surgical photography but also tend to be less representative of stuff like texture or how light falls on a surface.

If you can't handle direct images of animals being butchered like pigs etc. it might be worth looking a little further down the chain to post-butchered slabs of raw pork/beef etc, decontextualized from the whole body. A lot of photo ref sites and photobash repositories like photobash.co have great packs of just like, individual meat sections lit well for the purpose of studies/texturing etc. I own a copy of their "Flesh And Skin II" pack which has barely anything in the way of actual recognizable animal parts while still providing a great set of textures to study - warning for gore/meat regardless though, your mileage may vary.

I hope these help! I got desensitized a long time ago so I tend to just google exactly what i'm looking for and steer away from the worst but it's very important to understand your limits.

Thank you so much! I let the team know about all the kind messages y'all have sent - it's their hard work more than mine honestly that makes the game what it is, and I want everyone to know i've been directing yr compliments to them!

Plenty of client work but in terms of personal pieces, if something requires an enormous amount of revisions it tends to start drifting towards either being finished for it's own sake before I spend too much time on it or it falls by the wayside to never be finished. That said, there's a lot of recent work that's taken a long time just full stop - the image I want to convey is clear, the process is a direct line to completion and I love how it's working out, but the lack of free time i've had between game and client work and the increasing density/rendering time of my work overall has lead to some pieces taking *months* to finish, which is very alien to me honestly lol