Miguel Arguelles

Miguel Arguelles

@cmarguel.bsky.social

Hi! I'm Miguel and I like to program and also to art! 🇵🇭 He/him Feed of just my art: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:fihdrp55syzklvus5nfdk6w6/feed/aaacve4jmsbbm 🇹 http://cmarguel.tumblr.com/ 📷 http://instagram.com/cmarguel/ ☕ http://ko-fi.com

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I'll be on a panel discussion at MCM Comic Con London on Sunday 25th October. Panel is at 1pm on the Writers Block stage. Should be good, plus if you want something signed by me this would be a good opportunity to do that!

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I try to have two WIPs going on at any given time, but my iPad fucked up an update and it's likely all my Procreate art is gone forever. Here's the two pieces that were in progress and have had many hours of refinement since then. Unlikely I'll go back to these now.

First is The Wandering Inn, and second is FF14's Sphene. Maybe one day I'll try to work off of these WIPs to finish them but for now... they're dead. I'll be working on other things now, I guess. Or I can pray that the Apple store can resurrect my iPad when I next go to Japan.

Is there a way to recover all my files from my iPad after an update fucks up, but before I do a factory reset? Because I think all my Procreate art is at danger of being gone forever

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How to read it? Well, the first two volumes (split into 4 books for pub), because of the publishing deal, are no longer free on the site--you can buy a print copy from your local bookstore, or digital from Amazon. BUT. Once you finish those books, the rest of the books are FREE at wanderinginn.com!

wanderinginn.comOverviewTable of Contents Latest Patreon Chapter loading… Latest Public Chapter loading… Where I left off loading… New here? START YOUR JOURNEY Welcome to the Innverse, a captivating web serial where stories ...
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And really, more than anything else, what appeals to me about this is how committed the story is to what I would call its central theme (see linked essay below for more): that treating everyone with dignity and compassion is far more powerful than any ancient eldritch being.

Anyway, go check out The Wandering Inn! And feel free to ask me stuff! I've left out a lot because, well, 1. character limits, and 2. I didn't want some dingus to come in thinking they're funny by saying "even bsky posts about it are too long"

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I've always been surprised by just how much the author is willing to experiment! Their attempts at playing with genre don't always land, but are usually interesting. And keeping up with the varying tones is one reason I've always played with styles. Comedy! Horror! Drama! They've tried it all!

I know how easy it is to dunk on its length, but even years into TWI, the author has still been able to knock it out of the park with emotional scenes, somehow covering new ground. This scene was particularly evocative, and more importantly, felt earned over years of character growth.

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And conversely, it's quiet moments like these that serve to heighten the loud moments that come soon after. I'll concede that the pacing isn't for everyone--but for most of us readers, the so-called fluff is central to it! The burger selling, the stage plays, and yes, even the baseball games!

Over the years, I've drawn so much fanart of Erin herself, because I've always loved how her character grew. She gets a bad rap for being an airhead, and yeah, that's core to her, but she's so much more than that! And I've loved painting every milestone she's had as she learned more about herself.

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to fishers, to kings. People, living their own lives, separately from the main character, but with resonating thematically... and eventually, weaving in and out of the inn's story. TWI didn't invent worldbuilding, but it leveraged the web serial format to do it in a way unlike any other.

"Slice of life" is often conflated with "cozy", but it turns out it's far from cozy! And that's because it contains slices of lives of people around the world--and many of these lives are ones that see death and mayhem on a regular basis, which makes the actual cozy moments all the more meaningful.

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It proved shockingly unpredictable, and while the inn remained core, it surprised me just how much variety there was to it. While this looks like something straight out of an anime OP, it is in fact very literal, and I painted this absurd scene to highlight the crazy directions the story goes.

And yeah yeah, I know--"oh no, it's an isekai? and a LitRPG? I hate it already!" I won't deny that it does carry some tropes associated with those, but it goes way beyond that! Before I knew it, the story grew to encompass so much more--glimpses of lives of people from all over, from couriers...

Don't think of my art as spoilers... think of it as teasers. I started reading TWI in 2016, and it's been crazy watching it grow as my own art grew. Don't stop me even if you've heard this before--it's about a young girl who gets transported into a fantasy world. Things were so simple back then!

Initially, I thought that this was as far as it was going to go... but it wasn't, as I expected, just an inn where random people come in to tell stories! Far from it! I painted this to illustrate that the inn isn't merely a hub for disconnected vignettes, but a central player in the world's events.

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Beorn's Hospitality MtG: the Hobbit, AD: Colin Boyer. I'm so glad I had the opportunity to paint Beorn, I love that big grumpy vegetarian guy and his animal friends 💚 I'll add some close-ups (as well as the card) below, so you can look at the details and approve of Bilbo's sense of priorities!

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The card illustration in question :) Desolation Prowler, painted for MtGxThe Hobbit, AD: Colin Boyer. Look at this cute little black-aligned warg, I'm sure it's only following someone's bloody trail to make new friends 🖤 I had a lot of fun with "oily" colours on that one!

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The writer, the myth, the legend @brandonsanderson.com revealed one of my Hobbit Magic cards! Omg! I'm never going to wash my drawing hand ever again! (until I take a shower in, like, an hour) (also it's not the one on the preview, it's the warg. Still cool!) www.youtube.com/shorts/7IIIJ...

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MY FIRST MAGIC CARD HAS BEEN RELEASED A FEW DAYS AGO, WOOOOO! LOOK AT IT! Ahem. What I mean is: Last Light of Durin's Day, Magic the Gathering: the Hobbit, AD: Colin Boyer. I was fangirling a lot when working on that set (...and quite a few others), so I'm so happy I finally get to show my art!

lmao every single comment he reads out about FF14 sounds EXACTLY like the reddit discourse about The Wandering Inn. The two really are similar in so many ways, but I guess most people only have room for one forever-media in their lives...

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Pat & Woolie VS FFXIV: Sephirothposting vs Cozystreaming @patstaresat.bsky.social 1/2

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After a long painting break for learning purposes, here is another Wandering Inn painting to break my inactivity. because it's cooler to like things than hate on them and boy oh boy for some reason people who hate TWI really don't want to let you forget it

After a long painting break for learning purposes, here is another Wandering Inn painting to break my inactivity. because it's cooler to like things than hate on them and boy oh boy for some reason people who hate TWI really don't want to let you forget it

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being a wandering inn fan in litrpg spaces is so rough, like they hate the wandering inn and they will let you know they do lol

I've emerged from my Blender hole with my first try at 3d models+paintovers. I've actually been using Blender for a while now for lighting ref, but with premade assets--and I wouldn't paint over other people's models. But everything here is sculpted by myself, so now I'm allowed!

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Every time someone says she has no character development, or just dismisses the story entirely, I make a painting like this out of spite. "That'll show you!" I say to myself, not understanding entirely how I'm teaching anyone a lesson by making this. Also: sympathy for goblins is NOT her big flaw

Every time someone says she has no character development, or just dismisses the story entirely, I make a painting like this out of spite. "That'll show you!" I say to myself, not understanding entirely how I'm teaching anyone a lesson by making this. Also: sympathy for goblins is NOT her big flaw

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Given the people who run this place are transphobic crypto fascists who kick trans women. Let’s promote Gretchen’s work on here for her. She has a new book out. It looks really cool, you should grab a copy and help her out, and also you’ll get to read a cool book bookshop.org/p/books/blac...

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100 endings I've been going down a 3d rabbit hole the last month or two, so I haven't done a lot of 2d paintings. I promise I have at least one more coming that's already mid-progress! #HundredLine #LastDefenseAcademy

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It pains me whenever a well-known reviewer gives up after a few chapters and then makes a video to laugh about how bad it is. I have much longer thoughts, but all I can say in 300 chars is that I hope, in some small way, my art somehow can help prove it's actually very good. (how? dunno. but it is!)

It pains me whenever a well-known reviewer gives up after a few chapters and then makes a video to laugh about how bad it is. I have much longer thoughts, but all I can say in 300 chars is that I hope, in some small way, my art somehow can help prove it's actually very good. (how? dunno. but it is!)