It's been a while since I turned a panel of Just Cause into a wallpaper, and this one seemed especially conducive to it. In this panel, Frisk is wondering if Flowey can wrest control of the timeline from them, and make them relive their most painful moments over and over again.

I'm not entirely happy with it; I feel like the scenes from Frisk's past don't quite mesh with the rest of the picture. They feel slapped-on to me. If you have any suggestions for making them feel more integrated, I'd love to hear them!
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Time for another snowflake series, this time in my favorite color. :)
 

It took me several tries to get a background that both complemented this pattern, and would look good when tiled.

​Below, you can see one of my earlier attempts; the contrast was so high that it distracted from the snowflakes, but it looked so good on its own that I decided to use it as a standalone art piece.

 

​​​If you'd like to get this artwork on physical items like clothes, accessories and home decor, here are a few of your options:
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​​Here are the links to the items in the collage:
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​Face Masks
Stickers
Floor Pillows
Throw Blankets
​Dresses
Shirts
Phone Cases & Covers
Towels
Tapestries
Shower Curtains
Coffee Mugs
Duffel Bags
Apple Watch Bands

You can see all the RedBubble items with this artwork here:

Stormy Swirls
Shower of Sapphire Snowflakes

To see more products with these pictures on Society6, check out these art prints, then scroll down to where it says "More featuring this artwork".

Stormy Swirls
Shower of Sapphire Snowflakes

The latest chapter of my Undertale fanfic, Just Cause, is out!

In this chapter, Frisk, armed with a fear of adults and a complete lack of dating experience, finds themselves on a date with a skeleton who's just as confused as they are, but who is nonetheless determined to try his best.

You can read it on my website here, or on Archive of Our Own here.

After seeing how well It Will Be Okay was received, I decided to share another of my Subnautica: Below Zero stories.

Spoilers ahead...


I was playing around with "What if?"s, and I thought: "What if Marguerit Maida had answered Al-An's distress call?

The image began with an ominous scene in which Marguerit stood on top of an ice cliff, inches from the edge.

And then, as the story developed, I was startled to realize just how much the crusty mercenary and the softspoken scientist had in common.

You can read the story on this website here, or on Archive of Our Own here.

And if you want to read my original novels, you can find them here.

I don't quite remember who, but one of the people who was looking at my snowflake patterns had a great suggestion: take a bunch of the snowflakes I've already drawn, and combine them into one pattern.

It took me a while to get around to doing it - too busy making new snowflakes and other art, haha - but I finally did it, and I'm glad I did!
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​If you'd like to get this artwork on physical items like clothes, accessories and home decor, here are a few of your options:
 

 
​​Here are the links to the items in the collage:
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​Face Masks
Stickers
Floor Pillows
Throw Blankets
​Dresses
Skirts
Phone Cases & Skins
Towels
Tapestries
Shower Curtains
Coffee Mugs
Duffel Bags
Apple Watch Bands

You can see all the RedBubble items with this artwork here.

To see more products with this picture on Society6, check out this art print, then scroll down to where it says "More featuring this artwork".

A few days ago, ​I was in the process of putting Sea of Violet Snowflakes on RedBubble when Mom came up to me with a picture on her phone and asked, "Can you make something kind of like this, but with lots of sparkles, and put it on a phone case?"

If Mom wants me to make some art for her on Mother's Day, then heck yeah, I'm gonna drop the other art thing I'm doing and make her some special art for Mother's Day.

So I put spots and streaks of the colors she'd requested on a blue-grey canvas, and started tinkering with the liquefier tool, occasionally making adjustments at her request.

Then I chose my favorite sparkly brush and started coating the image with stars. (One of the star layers was actually called "BLING OUT THE WAZOO" - if you've watched Over the Hedge, you'll get the reference.

I thought of calling this image "Sparkling Angel Mist", but given its connection to mothers and Mother's Day, I wanted to have "mother" in the title.

If you, too, would like this on a phone case or other physical items, here are some of your options:
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​​Here are the links to the items in the collage:
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​Face Masks
Stickers
Throw Pillows
Comforters
​Dresses
Shirts
Phone Cases & Skins
Duffel Bags
Tapestries
Shower Curtains
Coffee Mugs
Bath Mats
Apple Watch Bands

You can see all the RedBubble items with this artwork here.

To see more products with this picture on Society6, check out this art print, then scroll down to where it says "More featuring this artwork".

I'd love to get some feedback: do you like it when the video is sped up like this, or would you prefer that I go back to the original speed? You can send the feedback via my contact page, or as a comment on this blog post.

After the video was made, I decided to make the background a bit darker, so the snowflakes would stand out more. So if the finished product looks different from the one in the video, that's why.

To get early access to future videos, join my inner circle on Patreon.

To learn how to draw symmetrical artwork like this, watch my art tutorial on SkillShare.

You can see all the RedBubble items with this artwork here.

To see the products with this pattern on Society6, check out this art print, then scroll down to where it says "More featuring this artwork".

Music credits:

​Flickering
By VYEN (YouTube Audio Library)

Pixelated Autumn Leaves
By Jeremy Blake (YouTube Audio Library)

Indigo
By Eveningland (YouTube Audio Library)

Dreaming in 432Hz
By Unicorn Heads (YouTube Audio Library)

You can see all the individual snowflakes with the darkened, wavy background by clicking "read more".

It’s about time I made another symmetrical pattern-drawing video. This time I wanted to try a more floral twist on my usual snowflake patterns.

If you want to see how Burst of Burgundy Blossoms was drawn, or if you just want to watch something pretty and relax, then sit back and enjoy 11 minutes of soothing symmetrical artwork set to slow, dramatic music.
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To get early access to future videos, join my inner circle on Patreon.

To learn how to draw symmetrical artwork like this, watch my art tutorial on SkillShare.

You can see all the RedBubble items with this artwork here.

To see the products with this pattern on Society6, check out this art print, then scroll down to where it says "More featuring this artwork".

Music credits:

It Happens
By Doug Maxwell/Media Right Productions (YouTube Audio Library)

Turning Slowly
By Ugonna Onyekwe (YouTube Audio Library)

Lonely Troutman II
By William Rosati (YouTube Audio Library)

True Art Real Affection
By Noir Et Blanc Vie (YouTube Audio Library)

Flickering
By VYEN (YouTube Audio Library)

Of all the characters I would've expected to latch onto my mind and not let go until I wrote his story, Ondolemar from Skyrim was NEVER on the list.

Erandur, sure - he's friendly, interesting, and complex, with an intriguing backstory and a lot of dialogue. There's a reason I have a partly-finished story about him in my WIPs.

But Ondolemar? The leader of the Thalmor Justiciars, whose job is to arrest people for their faith? The arrogant religious fanatic Elven supremacist with just a handful of spoken lines and NO backstory beyond what we can guess from his rank? WTF?

It's Tumblr and YouTube's fault. They introduced me to a few voice lines I'd never heard before, because I'd never helped him arrest a guy for worshiping Talos.

After the hostility, condescension, insults and murder attempts I'd gotten from pretty much every other Thalmor I'd ever encountered, I was surprised to find out that:

1. If you've helped him, Ondolemar greets you as "my friend," no matter what race you're playing as.

2. If you've helped him AND you have a high enough speech skill, you can get him to cause a distraction for you during a party. In the Thalmor Embassy, no less. He'll even lie to Elenwen for you.

3. When his distraction gets an innocent human in trouble, he'll immediately take the blame for the incident rather than get said human thrown out of the party, despite his belief in Elven superiority and his moon-sized ego.

This, and the fact that he seeks proof before arresting a "heretic", is a surprising contrast to the Justiciars who label you a heretic and try to kill you just because they don't like you.

(Sure, you could argue that he isn't legally ALLOWED to arrest Ogmund without proof, but the Thalmor have no problem trying to have the Dragonborn illegally assassinated, so clearly extralegal options aren't off the table for the people Ondolemar works for.)

4. Sometimes he'll comment, "There are so few pleasures in life as fine as your company" - once again, regardless of what race you are. And if you think it's because he's a skilled manipulator, clearly you haven't heard his other voice lines.

If you want a brutally honest opinion from a Thalmor officer about the Empire or the political situation, he's the place to find it. This dumbass has precious little filter between his mouth and brain.

5. Whether you've helped him or not, he is happy to chat with you, both in Markarth and at the party. He also seems very sincerely focused on the religious aspects of the Talos ban and the civil war, whereas the other Thalmor make me suspect that it's more of a means to a political end.

Combine all of that with my observation that Talos' shrines and amulets follow the same game mechanics as the implements of the divines that the Thalmor recognize, and it made me wonder what would happen if this unusually friendly Justiciar were to be told - VERY tactfully - about the evidence that his faction might be lying to him about a matter of religion.

Over a century of indoctrination, his whole self-flattering worldview, and the risk of being killed for questioning his totalitarian government, vs. the evidence. FIGHT.

When I first started writing, I'd expected it to be one quick conversation that I just wanted to get out of my head and onto the screen. But then it grew. And grew.

I saw a picture of Ondolemar being captured, and I felt that would bring a great new level of emotional tension to the story. So I added it in.

While I was writing a scene in which Ondolemar tried to defend his point of view, I realized I was knocking down a strawman. So I looked deeper into the lore about the Thalmor and their rationale and goals. And the story grew some more.

Next thing I knew, I'd written almost 35,000 words about a character I never thought I'd give a crap about, and gotten into his head far deeper and more effortlessly than I'd ever thought I would. And the story was still growing.

I never would have guessed that he'd be a character who practically wrote himself, but he is, and I thoroughly enjoyed writing him.

Now the story is finally done, and you can read it on this website here.

And you can read it on Archive of Our Own here.

After I shared Cradled Globes in ProjectComment on DeviantArt, one of the other members suggested that I add stars to the background.

​Now I'm torn - I like the slightly more unique aspect that having distant globes in place of stars provides, but having stars in addition to those makes the picture feel more full and alive.

What do you think? Which version is your favorite? And would you like to see the starry version on RedBubble and Society6?
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