koloquials

koloquials

@kolo.games

๐ŸŒฆ GAME DEVELOPER ๐Ÿช„ ui/ux & systems design ๐Ÿ”ฎ senior designer @ wizards of the coast; views my own ๐ŸŽ‹ let's tell heartening stories together!

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thank you, love you, goodnight. partial redraw of a comic strip that turned a decade old recently โด #oc, #art, #comic โต

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happy #portfolioday ๐Ÿ’ซ i have a hankering to do some more illustrative work these days; my DMs are open if you have covers, posters, anthologies & such you'd like to work on together!

iโ€™d never hurt a fly, but iโ€™ve got walls to climb you put me in this house, i had to crawl right out ๐Ÿ“š๐ŸŒ๐Ÿ”ญ๐Ÿ’ซ๐Ÿ‡

heartwarming: the soggiest waifish orphan you know ends up loving their job at fantasy lockheed martin

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happy #portfolioday ! i'm jihae/abi, an illustrator and background artist who likes weird, vibrant settings and excuses to draw designer chairs. previous experience in games, comics, and illustration! ๐ŸŒฑ ajihaew.com

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woah! #portfolioday! i'm corv, a NYC-based illustrator + UI/UX designer currently in the game industry. a total body horror enthusiast when i'm not obsessing over pixels open to #design, #illustration, and #gamedev opportunities โœŒ๏ธ ๐ŸŒ corviday.net ๐Ÿ’Œ tocorviday(@)gmail.com ๐Ÿ›’ store.corviday.net

happy #portfolioday ๐Ÿ’ซ i have a hankering to do some more illustrative work these days; my DMs are open if you have covers, posters, anthologies & such you'd like to work on together!

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๐ŸŽถ Custom OC Theme Song Commissions are now OPEN!! ๐ŸŽต Do๐Ÿซต YOU ๐Ÿซตwant a personalized theme song for: - your OC? - your TTRPG character? - your FFXIV character? - your blorbo? Have a look at my VGen here: vgen.co/umriss Prices start at 35$. (๐Ÿ”„โค๏ธ) #vgen #oc #vgencomm #commission #musiccommissions

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Finished pages from a couple years ago for a XIV Planner project! i got to represent shadowbringers, and chose to do that with the light warden + aesthetics of each area in the expansion; it was a fun to try and balance aesthetic + wide open negative space to preserve its use as a journal

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. . . ๐’†๐’—๐’†๐’“๐’š ๐’”๐’๐’–๐’ ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’Ž๐’†๐’†๐’•, ๐’‚ ๐’•๐’‰๐’“๐’†๐’‚๐’… ๐’๐’‡ ๐’˜๐’‚๐’“๐’Ž๐’•๐’‰ โ„๏ธ๐Ÿ”ฅ some dear npcs from a game i ran last year! โด #oc, #art โต

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PRISONER'S DILEMMA : SINNER'S PUNISHMENT ๐Ÿฉธ โ—พ ๐Ÿ’˜ the final choice is mine to make โด #oc , #art โต

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trim the fat, cut the excess! life is a bonsai to prune, snip snip snip! โœ‚๏ธ๐Ÿƒ โด #oc, #art โต

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ME OF THE MIRROR ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿชž๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿฆ‹ the creator : the creation // #oohchiczine GILDED GOLD overjoyed to have created an amity & calliope piece for oohchiczine.com ๐ŸŒผ โ€” please give it a gander!

ME OF THE MIRROR ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿชž๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿฆ‹ the creator : the creation // #oohchiczine GILDED GOLD overjoyed to have created an amity & calliope piece for oohchiczine.com ๐ŸŒผ โ€” please give it a gander!

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princess & pauper, the creator & the creation: their dynamic is a revolving balance of power and a metaphor for the relationship between artist and art. for both their sakes the Creator expresses her rawest innermost hopes, and for both their sakes the Princess must protect her subjectโ€™s hope.

as my original characters, they hold my own insecurities from when i made them over a decade ago, and today they're an important reminder of the art i wish to make, and my relationship with my oldest past creations as i continue to grow and create.

ME OF THE MIRROR ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿชž๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿฆ‹ the creator : the creation // #oohchiczine GILDED GOLD overjoyed to have created an amity & calliope piece for oohchiczine.com ๐ŸŒผ โ€” please give it a gander!

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she is just the gilded self-inserted creation of a flawed, delusional girl, she feels the urge to snuff out amity for the falsity of her existence. the creation is inclined to kill the creator for the crime of reflecting their deepest deficiencies, for being born under selfish pretenses.

yet, at the same time calliope carries the deepest dreams of amity, nestles and protects her most painful insecurities.

ME OF THE MIRROR ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿชž๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿฆ‹ the creator : the creation // #oohchiczine GILDED GOLD overjoyed to have created an amity & calliope piece for oohchiczine.com ๐ŸŒผ โ€” please give it a gander!

artist commentary ๐Ÿ”ท do we form our creations or do they form us? โ€จcalliope is an idealized self fashioned from the ordinary amityโ€™s lack of self-esteem. she is everything her creator is not: a special princess, poised, confident, and capableโ€”so when the mirror turns inwards and calliope discovers

it's three different blue girls actually but it's also the same blue girl. blue girl osmosis is what happens when you deny the blue girl a narrative where she gets to be the main character. this will continue until morale improves