iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Zen @beak.zone · 29/09/2026

Some of them start out so reasonable too until you're dead on the concrete at the top of the hill and you can see the whole fuckin city- like man I walked two blocks what happened.

View of Seattle from Maple Leaf park after an absurdly steep hill.

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Zen @beak.zone · 28/09/2026

It's fun, I broke the entire project in a really incredible and positive way, genuinely. You'll love it.

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Zen @beak.zone · 18/09/2026

Waaahhh thanks!

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Zen @beak.zone · 18/09/2026

Getting started on the fingers finally, though they're going to need a lot more darkening. Fingers are aggressively healing through it. They looked considerably sharper day-of.

A photo of my right hand from above, there are bird/dragon scales tattoo'd all down my forearm, hand, knuckles and fingers, though the finger scales look a little faded compared to the rest of the work.

Photo of my right arm from someone else's perspective, the scales are all there as well but the finger scales appear much darker and clearer.

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Zen @beak.zone · 12/09/2026

YESSSS IT'S HAPPENING TO YOU NOW, GET BLENDER BRAINED IDIOT

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Zen @beak.zone · 11/09/2026

I played Alexanders route twice because this big boy tugged at my.. heartstrings.

Alexander, a huge purple dragon from the game Drag'n Wash looms over the view, looking down at the viewer with a mischievous expression while a cropped UI element with the text "NEEDS HANDJOB" hovers just below his face.

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Zen @beak.zone · 10/09/2026

The 50-80 demographic isn't ready for the heat I'm packing

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Zen @beak.zone · 08/09/2026

WAAAAHHHH I'M HATCH

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Zen @beak.zone · 08/09/2026

It's found me once again..

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Zen @beak.zone · 11/08/2026

Some stills, I'm still getting used to how shading and highlights work but I am /obsessed/ with painting all my textures lately, I feel like I learn something new every time I pick up that pen.

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Zen @beak.zone · 11/08/2026

I've been on something of a Neopets kick this month, which is both great timing while my fingers heal and terrible timing because despite healing I went and painted my beautiful Hissi boy.

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Zen @beak.zone · 10/08/2026

Getting lost in the woods because @tallow.bsky.social dropped the laser pointer again.

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Zen @beak.zone · 06/08/2026

The coolest combination of shit I've ever done today when as I was getting more scales tattooed onto me I won a Neopets scratcher jackpot.

A picture of my hand with fresh tattoo outlines for the scales on my fingers.

A screenshot of a Neopets digital scratchcard with three diagonal spots scratched out revealing the words "JACKPOT" and the text:
"Current Scratchcard Jackpod: 100,000 NP!!!"

A picture of a Neopet Wocky and the text "The Kiosk Wocky says 'Three of a kind, you lucky so and so!'

YOUR PRIZE: The Jackpot of 263,800 Neopoints!!!!!!!"

And two buttons for Back to Scratchcard Kiosk and Back to Ice Caves

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Zen @beak.zone · 15/07/2026

Stealing time between work and comms to eek out a fursona refresh. I must have like 48 models of him at this point.

A detailed safe for work reference sheet of my fursona. His bio reads:
"Zenuel
Draconic Crow - He/They - Gay Gay Gay

Corvus Nix Draconis, better known throughout the kingdoms of Yrn as the Raven Snow Dragon. A long-lived race of avians shorn from an ancient draconic forebearer.
Zenuel descends from the ‘TOL’ lineage, or “Those who landed”, descendants of draconic birds who traded their wings to walk with the mortal races.

Like most draconic birds he stands many heads taller than the majority of Yrn’s inhabitants, he was raised in the snowy capital of Soom studying calcified divinity and getting caught up in his fantastic imagination.

He has a sinister presence and moves through the world with a determined grace, though most discover this is a confident front and in reality he is a warm and quiet soul. This quietness leads him to avoid crowds and noise, preferring the peace of solitude and creative pursuits.
He is also the kingdoms foremost expert in ogling boys at the public baths and making ‘rigorous’ study of the magic in desire.

Likes:
Boys, Winter, 'Bad' weather (rain, snow, storms), Colourful lights & decorations.

Dislikes:
Heat, Excessive Noise, Cruelty, Authority."

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Zen @beak.zone · 15/07/2026

Genuinely, deeply in love with games that look like this. EverQuest has such a beautiful vibe.

An incredibly polygonal tiger man looks at the viewer while standing beside a cooking fire. He is a member of the "Kerran" race from EverQuest (1999).

An incredibly polygonal tiger man standing in a blurry corner doing a weird pose. He is a member of the "Kerran" race from EverQuest (1999).

An incredibly polygonal blue and white dragon, his textures are very low resolution but I am so proud of him.

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Zen @beak.zone · 01/07/2026

VS mods giving me The Itch once again luring me back with cunty dragon boys.

A close-up of a dragon character in Vintage Story sitting on a block with their legs crossed.

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Zen @beak.zone · 21/06/2026

I should have expected compression to absolutely obliterate most of the detail work, ah well

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Zen @beak.zone · 21/06/2026

Little weekend treat for myself, refreshing my 'sona design and rebuilding my ref. I absolutely love painting textures now it's so rewarding.

My fursona looking down at the camera, his sheath is out and he has no eyes (I'm working on that)

A detail shot of his legs and feet, big fluffy paws where he used to have claws.

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Zen @beak.zone · 11/06/2026

Woefully underprepared for the light of the divine humming quietly in the remote recesses of an obscure server for a silly dinosaur game.

A discord server announcement for the game The Isle that reads:

"Announcement Ping
This is a shout out to the everyday heros of our server who tonight potential saved a life!

You know who you are, but you aren't asking for any praise or recognition. I want to personally thank you for being there and taking action when it counted.

We are only guaranteed one round in this experience of life and this is it, so it is vital we don't take it for granted and keep looking out for each other. 💜"

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Zen @beak.zone · 06/06/2026

Really excited for some of these announcements, been hoping Square would do this for a long time.

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Zen @beak.zone · 05/06/2026

I really like Thief 3's furniture assets, something so oddly comforting in some of the environment models from this game. Their art team must have been so excited about all the new lighting tools and assumed the light would do more work for their models than it ended up doing.

A very simply textured couch from the 2004 game Thief: Deadly Shadows, a fabric texture is repeated across every surface of the couch with no visible seams, stitching or shading.

The same repeating fabric texture is stretched across a small arm chair beside the couch, the texture is scaled a little larger but there are still no visible details on any of the fabric surfaces. A harsh shadow is being cast from the fireplace just out of frame giving us the barest hint of depth on the furniture.

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Zen @beak.zone · 02/06/2026

He is entirely hand-painted, I've spent the last few months pushing myself to get better and I'm really feeling it lately.

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Zen @beak.zone · 02/06/2026

ACHILLEAN MONUMENT. For all the world's a stage and I am the beast who took theater in highschool to meet boys.

My fursona stands against a light purple background, looking at his bare chest which is painted with the MLM pride colours.

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Zen @beak.zone · 30/05/2026

My obscure sense of humor rages on.

A screenshot of a telegram message window where I'm replying to someone with:

"How could I possibly show my gratitude
I know
[A 1.03 gigabyte file is being sent]
Scaler on the PlayStation 2"

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Zen @beak.zone · 27/05/2026

Comfortably on pace for tomorrows Patreon project update, this month I'm doing a bunch of non-environment art work, animation and art direction shit- and of course client work.

A blurred pureRef screenshot detailing two large reference collections, one labeled "Player Moodboard: Magical immortal tech creature filled with anxiety, fear and limitless power." and the other labeled "General Critter/Creature Moodboard: High fantasy scifi THINGS, skittering metals, living stone and undefinable shapes with 9-5 jobs"

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Zen @beak.zone · 01/05/2026

Redid the exterior of my WoW house, then basked in the moonlight and wrote another alts very gay TRP profile.

My Dracthyr's home, framed by lush, somewhat muted foliage. A mailbox in the foreground has a lovely Dracthyr creche crystal hovering above it, and another sits at a fork in the path up ahead between the building entrance and a small garden/workshop area.

The same house from another angle, the moon is bright overhead and two raptor plushies play on a see-saw.

The workshop area with small natural stone steps leading to an anvil, where a hammer rests. There is a forge just behind it and a long table stretching past the camera. An overgrown trellis offers an alternate view of the front of the house, where the crystal marking the fork in the path is visible again.

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Zen @beak.zone · 17/04/2026

Fragments of my spirit, divided and hidden amongst the island residents.

A Tomodachi Life mii resembling my fursona sits at a table looking at a boxed copy of the 2002 "Most Wanted" game The Elder Scrolls 3 Morrowind.

He is now holding the box up while text underneath him now reads "You've given him a boxed copy of Morrowind."

Tomodachi Life mii resembling Red XIII from Final Fantasy 7 holds aloft a plain isometric cube, below him is the text "You've given him a Blender default cube."

The Tomodachi Life painting interface, showing the boxed copy of Morrowind in more detail.

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Zen @beak.zone · 07/04/2026

Massive shoutout to this obscure 1988 Phantasy Star fansite that decided to hand-draw all the games item icons. www.pscave.com/ps1/items/

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Zen @beak.zone · 03/04/2026

I require all my characters to fit into this image

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Zen @beak.zone · 01/04/2026

To the Vulpera who ran up and held my hand near the pond in Silvermoon: I was very distracted and couldn't give that moment the attention it required!

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Zen @beak.zone · 31/03/2026

Thinking today about all the inspiration material that gets made in the course of a project, how much never makes it into the final game but helps us imagine it's world nonetheless.

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Zen @beak.zone · 28/03/2026

I mod my fursona into games all the time but I've only just noticed how little standalone art I've actually done of him! I'm a crow, with fun additions

My fursona modded into Majora's Mask, pointing a sword at something out of frame.

My fursona in Minecraft, he's wearing iron armor and has a big glowing halo floating behind him.

My fursona in Teardown, he's blocky and holding a big sledge hammer.

My fursona floating on his own, not actually in a game for once, looking menacing.

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Zen @beak.zone · 28/03/2026

March was a mess of bureaucracy and back-to-back weeks of mental recovery, we chase off the doubts and find a roundabout way to achieve the same end without the human cost. I also talk about the importance of having a relief project with no obligations. www.patreon.com/posts/rounda...