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Basil @basiled.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Zezryathalwin, Wood Elf Guardian of Kyonin for C-Rhino
A stocky, built wood elf with an olive skin tone and shortish curly brown hair, wearing thick wooden plate armor and leaning on a shield made of a thick green tree bark. Spanish moss grows from under the plates, and behind him are thick olive tree branches with leaves. An olive laurel clings to the side of his head.
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Basil @basiled.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Panel 1: As Damian drags his hands downward, Freya murmurs "I don't know about this..." Panel 2: Zooming in on Freya's hesitant face, one of the holes is revealed to be a peephole, with Skib's eye poking out. Panel 3: The button stands at the far end of the hall as the adventurers consider. Panel 4: Skib watches as an adventurer says "Let's go back to town." Panel 5: From inside the wall, Foreman Skib's gleeful face is illuminated by the peephole. "I think Damian needs a cleric..." Panel 6: Foreman Skib throws her arms and legs out in celebration, a big toothy smile on her face. FOREMAN SKIB DOES IT AGAIN!!
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Basil @basiled.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Panel 1: The perspective warps. A long hallway with walls that have holes in them stretches down, to the adventurers on the far side. A button sits in the foreground, waiting. One of the adventurers says "...That's a long way for a button." Panel 2: Freya shrugs, stepping forward but Lilith stops her, yelling "WAIT-" Panel 3: Lilith says to the others "The last room had traps, this one will have EVEN MORE." Damian looks sick. Panel 4: Lilith continues, pointing at the floor. "The whole floor looks like the spike trap in the entrance that you fell through." Panel 5: Damian puts a hand on the wall, looking worse. "And these walls have so many holes... Just like those poison darts..." Panel 6: Damian slumps to the floor, passing out.
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Basil @basiled.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Panel 1: Foreman Skib returns to the drawing board to strategize with her advisors. Teakettle on the left suggests a Tower of Hanoi puzzle. Her crewmate on the right suggests a Sudoku. A third voice pipes up. "Consider!" Panel 2: A spectacled goblin with a braid and a batlike nose says "I've created a phonetic cipher that can be used as a simple password-" She holds a booklet showing the goblin script and the roman script together. Panel 3: "We can put a riddle on the wall in the cipher so that they can parse the text." She points to a chalkboard that says "What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in a thousand years?" Panel 4: She smiles, holding a tablet with the letter "M" on it. "The answer of course, will be one of the symbols, but their guesses can be parsed by an animated statue-" Panel 5: Teakettle and Skib are both confused. Teakettle: "What language is that? The riddle doesn't work in Common. Much less Goblin... Skib: "WHAT." Panel 6: Foreman Skib seems determined. "We have to get psychological." Teakettle has sparkles in their eyes.
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Basil @basiled.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Panel 1: Damian has somethin he wants to say. "Y'know..." Panel 2: He continues. "After the scary fight we all barely survived today, I have to confess..."  Freya and Lilith look at each other quizzically, the latter shrugging. Foreman Skib watches on. Panel 3: He looks stricken, sweating. "I'm Prince Damian Stormwind, the second prince of our kingdom." Panel 4: Freya confides similarly. "It's hard to tell, but I'm the half-blood daughter of the Gold Dragon Quinalathrax." It's not hard to tell she's a half dragon. Panel 5: Lilith the tiefling looks at the both of them as if hesitant to say something. "..." Panel 6: She joins the group hug, finally saying "It's painful when the way you were born affects your life." Foreman Skib rolls her eyes and gags. Panel 7: Skib stomps off, Teakettle walking backwards with them to maintain the conversation. "No night ambush." "But there's only three of them!" "HRGH." "Well then, what should we do instead?"
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Basil @basiled.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Panel 1: The captain commands the archers as they raise their bows. "Focusfire! Target the wizard!" Panel 2: Damian the wizard casts "Fireball!" blasting the archers even as arrows stick out of him like a pincushion. Panel 3: Freya catches up as Damian falls down, Lilith watching on as she slowly gets up. Panel 4: The Captain calls for a "RETREAT!" as Freya bares down, snapping an archer's bow. Panel 5: Freya flexes in victory. "I did it!" Below her, Lilith says "Damian is dying-" and Freya replies "This ain't about him." Panel 6,7: Lilith pours a health potion down Damian's throat, his eyes bugged out as he gasps for air. Panel 8: The adventurers celebrate while Damian recovers in the fetal position, calling that it's time to "LOOT!" Foreman Skib watches from the darkness.
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Basil @basiled.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Panel 1: A large panel showing the three antagonists: Freya an eager barbarian, Damian an ominous mage, and Lilith an edgy tiefling rogue. Panel 2: The barbarian falls into the spike pit, shocked. Lilith tries to edge around the pit to the square adjacent. Panel 3: The goblin crew peeks in from the exit to watch. They're stacked atop each other and whispering: "Is it working?" "Looks like..." Panel 4: Lilith sets off the feline statue trap, spraying a wide fan of fire at her. Panel 5: Exposition: Traps don't usually stop any tourists. They mostly just slow them down... Foreman Skib looks on from the archway. Panel 6: Exposition: ...For the Goblin archers!! Skib high-fives the archer captain as the archers emerge from the darkness. Skib's crew retreats.
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Basil @basiled.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Exposition: Not many people maintain the Crypt out here, so we do. Like the foremen before me adding their own touches. Top panel: An isometric grid layout showing a small hallway leading to a trapped room- a spike pit at the front, two stone feline statues, and a wall with small holes in it  on one side. Panel 2: Skib: "Floor swept?" Crew: "Yes ma'am!" Skib: "Corpse pulled from the pit?" Crew: "Yes ma'am!" Skib checks them off a list on her clipboard. "Loot placed" and "Poison darts installed" remain. Panel 3: Skib: "Loot planted?" Crew: Yes ma'am!" She holds a pen between her fingers. Panel 4: Skib: "Trapsmith Teakettle, how do the poison darts look?" Teakettle: "Installed and ready, Foreman Skib." Trapsmith Teakettle is a shorter goblin with a round face and soft features. They wear cargo shorts. Panel 5: Foreman Skib is interrupted as she says "Good, I- ...!" She points her ear upward as if hearing something. Panel 6: As Foreman Skib helps a crewmate out of the spike pit, she yells to the crew to "RUN!" Teakettle is surprised, and another crewmate is dragging a push broom toward the exit.
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Basil @basiled.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
At long last, it's Foreman Skib and the Big Red Button!
Foreman Skib and the Big Red Button - by Basil Vesca. Exposition: THE CRYPT OF DOOM - Where now the Grand Archmage Yuzu lays in eternal rest... But we've been here this whole time. Three adventurers, a tall woman, a hooded figure, and a short tiefling enter a hill tomb, which shows multiple levels of archways and a crypt. Stairs give way to an underground river crossing and a small goblin child kicking a ball to Foreman Skib, a thin goblin with a ponytail tied back wearing simple constriction clothing, including a hi-vis vest.
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Basil @basiled.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I'm so excited.
A comic panel from Foreman Skib: a clipboard with a dungeon room layout at the top, along with a checklist with two items checkmarked: "Floors swept" and "Body extracted." Two items remain: "Loot placed" and "Poison darts installed." Foreman Skib is confirming the tasks completed with her offscreen goblin crew.
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Basil @basiled.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
#makeaterriblecomicday 2026
"Knock Knock and Beep Beep" by Basil Vesca for Make a Terrible Comic Day 2026. First panel: "My name is Knock Knock! I am just a little boy." A simple black cat wearing a harness smiles at the camera. Second Panel: "I like to play with my strings." Knock Knock is laying down, front paws outstretched to play with a ribbon. Third Panel: "I live with another cat! Her name is Beep Beep. She is silly." He looks up at Beep Beep's tail hanging off a bed. Final panel: Beep Beep sits with tail up, haunted and stooped in shadow. A crawling narration flows behind her. "Day 56 - I fear that the brute returned to torment me. I live in this wretched place with no safe harbor of my own; should I make the great sojourn to the cat tower I fear I shall not survive. My life here hangs in the precarious balance created by great beings with strength and speed. I must keep my wits about me should I find I must remain vigilant, shrewd, and swift if I am to escape.
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Basil @basiled.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
#commission for Lurker of Brünhilde, a PC for Public Access TTRPG
Full Body with rendering of Brün carrying a purple VHS tape with her leashed Malinois Vega at her side. She wears baggy men's clothes and a red New Mexico baseball cap.
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Basil @basiled.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
#commission for @swagsire.bsky.social of his Ysoki, Moyzst!
A sandy tan Ratfolk Thaumaturge with a long green coat leaning on his skateboard while eating an empanada.
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Basil @basiled.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Some day I will miss this.
Digital illustration mimicking ink and watercolor of a cat laying on a pillow on a person's lap. Curtains are illuminated by bright light in the background next to a bookshelf.
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Basil @basiled.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Commission complete!
Don Quixote from Limbus Company, a bright eyed girl with short blond hair, sits armored atop a mule with a windmill on the hill behind. The illustration is rendered in bright oranges, golds, and bright blues.
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Basil @basiled.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Drew @gayeldestdaughter.bsky.social when she performed live!!
Watercolor illustration of Gay Eldest Daughter at the mic holding a banjo as she performs. She's a fat blond woman wearing a blue shirt and bandana, illuminated by yellow light.
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Basil @basiled.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
#commission of Aditya and Esme for Hack...! This time, two fullbodies.
A fullbody image of a woman with curly black hair wearing a navy captain's coat commanding a ribbon of magical water around her gill hook oarstaff. She has an eye patch. A fullbody image of a woman with curly black hair wearing a stylized qipao with tall leg slits commanding a ribbon of fire around her staff with a black stony head in the loose shape of a head. She has sharp, painted nails and heavy black and red eye makeup.
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Basil @basiled.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Hard to emphasize how much I played that flash game. my9games.com
Nine games in order: Pokemon White, The Yawhg, Fancy Pants Adventure, Dota 2, Fallout: New Vegas, Portal 2, Where the Water Tastes Like Wine, Cloudpunk, Pyre
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Basil @basiled.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
The same horned dragon with both hands up. Caption: Do some awful MS Paint ArtThe same horned dragon facing the other way, head curved the other way. Caption: There are no rules. There is No Standard.The same horned dragon smiling encouragingly. Caption: In spite of it all, art should be fun.
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Basil @basiled.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I found an old set of drawings!! Talking to people about art today.
A rough drawing of a horned dragon with caption: Lower your standardsThe same horned dragon with hand up. Caption: Awful art is good 4 the soul
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Basil @basiled.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
My #artsummary2025! I'm keen to keep taking commissions and get some more comics under my belt!
Basil's 2025 Art Summary. January, February, April, May, and August show sketchy art. March, September, October, November, and December show commissions. June and July show comics.
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Basil @basiled.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
#commission of Elsir for @annunakitty.bsky.social
A purple skinned Drow Elf with long straight pink hair and large round spectacles. Her warlock magic pulls out of the pages of a book she's clutching nervously.
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Basil @basiled.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
#commission of Aditya/Esme for Hack
Aditya is a mixed brown lady with an eyepatch and a captain's jacket in breeches. Her staff has an oversized gill hook. Esme is the same woman but without an eyepatch wearing a qipao styled dress with very high leg slits and feathered epaulets and an inkstone-like staff.
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Basil @basiled.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
A #commission for Twig of Johnny her doggie
A small black chihuahua wearing a jacket and a skydiving backpack looks up at the viewer from the floor of a helicopter, door open to puffy clouds and a city near a forest from high above.
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Basil @basiled.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
#Commission for Lurker of a Centaur Commander ( #pf2e ) named Lorelai Cratermarch
A lady centaur with blond hair wearing plate armor and blue accessories holds a khopesh and an armful of scrolls.
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Basil @basiled.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Made this for an NPC in my dear friend Claude's game.
A meme drawn over- Snapchat text saying "Fuck this stupid quest man / That thing's huge" over a selfie angle- an amaua with curly brown hair grimacing as a six legged housecat leaps overhead.
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Basil @basiled.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Commission for Holk! Un-AI-ifying funny cat images on the internet. Neat trivia fact: that screenshot was painted on one layer.
An illustration of a cat wearing a balaclava and a headset with microphone playing counterstrike.
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Basil @basiled.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
I like seeing how my characters end games compared to where they started. It's neat and fun. They did mitosis to my girl
Two sketched busts of a young girl and his 'brother'- with mirrored heterochromia and cowlicks on their foreheads. The left one has longer, shaggier hair while the one on the right has a slightly trimmed cut in comparison.
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Basil @basiled.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Commission complete! An Arabian swashbuckler for Zel
A man posing with shamshir in hand, ready to 'dance.' He wears traditional Arabian garb in shades of mint green, rich jeweled green, and lavender. He wears a pirate's tricorn and accessories on the belt.
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Basil @basiled.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Page 7 of 7
Fox runs away from Bear, who's tripping over his feet and webs wrapped around his ankles. When he lands on the ground, Fox turns her head to see a woman and a spider peeking their heads out from around the corner. She calls out "Coyote! Anansi!" to her fellow tricksters. Coyote replies, "Well, Fox? Are you coming or not?"
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Basil @basiled.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
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The guard says "Yeah I know who you are, Trickster Spirit. It's my turn to ask-" before he transforms into Bear, snarling. "How the hell did you forget me, huh?" He then grabs Fox under one arm.
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Basil @basiled.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
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Panel One: Narration: "In Europe I took the name Reynard." The fox pulls the hood down over his head, and looks offscreen saying, "Ah, Bear! A subpoena? Of course of course, but first, are you hungry?" Panel Two: Narration: "I lived humbly and unassumin'." Fox hides behind the fence as Bear is trapped in a tree, being pelted and attacked by humans calling out "KILL HIM" "He's after our honey!" and "A BEAR." Panel Three: Narration: "Stayed out of trouble," as Fox chats up a pair of hens. Panel Four: Narration: "Met my brothers with love." as Fox swipes a plate with a sausage from Dog.
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Basil @basiled.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
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Narration: "Across the sea, emperors got the same vices that kings do." A small fox stands looking toward Mount Fuji from the boat at the trough of the Wave off Kanagawa. "In Japan where they called me Kitsune, I reminded of them of what they really wanted." Tamamo-no-Mae feeds inari to the emperor. "What they clung to power for." A closeup of her, the many layers of her kimonos unfolding. "I saw the warning signs that time- sealed meself away in the Killin' Stone for safety." Tamamo-no-Mae peeks out from a crack in a large stone, flanked by two samurai.
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Basil @basiled.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
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Narration: "But y'know, mighta had more ambition than stealin' venison from a pair o' brutes. I learnt somethin' in Yousu." A woman covered in just a cloth examines her hand, three fox tails poking out from behind. "Turns out, kings love to conquer. So I became something worth conquering." An image of Daji, fox spirit, with three curling fox tails over her shoulders. "A dynasty's a heavy thing to put on the head of one concubine, but I do have to ask-" Daji, with none of her jewelry and her hair unstyled, leans forward before a blade. The final panel shows a fox standing on a roof, watching ancient waves flooding the scenery. "Did servin' justice save the kingdom?"
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Basil @basiled.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
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Narration: I've been around since the time of Aesop. A fox watches from behind a rock face as a Bear and a Lion fight over a dead fawn. The next panel shows the Bear and Lion scratched and exhausted from giving the fight their all, as Fox approaches. Fox pulls the fawn away from them, as they protest, reaching as they drag themselves across the ground. Narration: Poor things that they were, who'd been exhausting all their strength- -Injurin' themselfs to give a rogue as meself a dinner.
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Basil @basiled.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
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First panel: A thick arm bars the way of a young woman. He asks "Identification?" and the woman retorts. "Well now this is weird, ain't never been carded before. You surely don't recognize me?" Second panel: The arm frames her face, hand on hip as the guard grumbles. "Mmm." Third panel: The young woman holds an arm out, exasperated. "I'll have you know I'm an adult! Grown! Older 'n' you! Older than dirt!" She wears an oversized Letterman and a necklace with a round bead.
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Basil @basiled.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
FOX TROT - Title Page of my new #comic
Title Page of Fox Trot by Basil Vesca. A fox with black paws and forehead markings reminiscent of a Noh Mask lies languid over a collection of ancient maps.
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Basil @basiled.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
No cheating ☆ Post your lock screen Oh Stańczyk, we're really in it now <3
Screenshot of lockscreen- 1862 painting Stańczyk by Jan Matejko, an oil painting of a jester wearing his red suit and sitting isolated and away from a ball, hopeless as his eyes are sunken in shadow.
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Basil @basiled.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
For a given definition of woman...
A mean looking blue sphinx catfolk/Tabaxi wizard wearing faded green hood and purple pants. She steeples her fingers while looking off to the side, as if she's planning something. A short haired half-elfish dhampir with a couple nervous sweatdrops but a smile nonetheless. She wears a big jacket with patches and a spiked collar.
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Basil @basiled.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
#makeaterriblecomicday2025 I make something short about best made plans and mice and men.
Two paneled comic. Internal narration: Time to make a new guy. Nothin fancy. Recycle some old in for ease. She'll die in a cave soon enough. I am putting an image of a different character into a cauldron, which then explodes. The second panel shows a collage of sketches of a particular character, I look haunted, fingers steepled. Internal dialog: He survived. He wasn't supposed to make FRIENDS.
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Basil @basiled.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
@sourhexed.bsky.social's Leona <3
A satisfied ratfolk cleric crit a bandit to death while a taller cat girl stares down in shock, covered in the bandit's blood.
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Basil @basiled.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
I'm haunted by the league of legends man Take the fictional characters quiz and post the first four you know: openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac...
Andy Dufresne from The Shawshank RedemptionViolet Baudelaire from A Series of Unfortunate EventsViktor from ArcaneDr Spencer Reid from Criminal Minds
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Basil @basiled.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Me and my little oneshot games
A Tumblr ask for Kristina100000 poorly edited to say "How do I GM my table???? I dont know how ill see him that way, I haven't don't it with him before" with the answer "ill do it. since you are so fucking complicated"
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Basil @basiled.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Oh Ship I miss you so much. You beautiful bear. My lovely bulldyke.
Wolverine looking wistfully at a picture frame: My robot OC Ship
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Basil @basiled.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
OC Playlists are so rewarding but because I'm me they must be perfect and each song must flow perfectly into each other. I am in a hell of my own making but pieces are coming together. *Cups my horrible OC's face in my hands* You horrible mess.
Songs in order: Lucky Dog by DREAMERS, Cat & Mouse by RADKEY, Saint Bernard by Lincoln, and All Dogs Go To Heaven by CeschiSongs in order: Not Gonna Break Me by Jamie N Commons, Rolling With the Punches by The Blue Stones, and Damaged Goods by Days N Daze
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Basil @basiled.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Oil pastel illustration of a curving outdoor hall, with a bike at the end. Watercolor illustration of the same hallway with a bike at the end.
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Basil @basiled.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Garrun for Boop!! 🎉 Commission cleared!
A bugbear with thick red fur wearing a yellow tunic. She's happily examining a snail on her finger.
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Basil @basiled.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
My first Watcher was an elf archer and my second was a plant Godlike that I adored aesthetically, but didn't get very far with. I am still attached to the look of the flowers, even if the Envoy's growths are fungal. My aim is for her to be clever, quick, and be very naturally attuned.
Green dogwood blossoms
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Basil @basiled.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Died 2016 Born 2025 Welcome back Dogwood
My Envoy from Avowed: a young woman with freckles, thick curly green hair, and wooden antler-like branches coming out of her head. Slightly obscured by her hair are green and yellow fungal growths that look kind of like lichen, primarily on her brow and cheeks.
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Basil @basiled.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Some commissions (and one for me) happened too
A smoking Ratfolk Investigator wearing leather armor that doubles as an old lab coat, with obsidian arms. His arms and feet are wrapped in bandages, and he holds a book and a large lighter. Unlife is hard when you're a quiet Ratfolk used to large communities and after you died people were weird about and around you, except for a Pharasmin apparently. A short, chubby Ratfolk cleric of Pharasma wearing a simple black robe. Fae wear a purple lilac flower crown and are dark steely-black in fur color, except for faer neck and paws which are a clean blue-white, implying Duskwalker heritage.Mogra, a Kholo who was adopted and raised by dwarves. Wearing heavy golden fortress plate armor and carrying a flag for Torag. Her head is low, since she has that gnoll hunch, but her face is warm and she smiles. Very toothily.A small white wooden dragon marionette poppet stands with a slightly somber catlike pout. His hand is dipping into a bag of holding, which glows with warm yellow and blue magic.
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