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GuyFugly @guyfugly.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Doing a think back to when I used to block everything out in MODO before even starting on a concept. It was...... kind of exhausting.

An arena in an autumnal scene. North side is haunted and dead, south side is idyllic and golden.

A beachside arena. On the left and right are two resorts adorned with statues. The statues are crying fountains into the pool on either side. In the bottom right there's a lagoon, in the top left is an cove with boats anchored off shore.

A birds-eye view of a stylized verdant valley. The ground is a tartan patchwork of farmlands and settlements. In the center is a Tower on the cliffs overlooking a cove. Ships are docked at a port below.

Expanded versions of the previous tower, built up over countless upgrades. You could call it progress, but all they've really done is create a tall, gleaming box of dirt. Are they trying to reach something, or are they running away? Gives +15 to Research.

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GuyFugly @guyfugly.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Some block-headed side characters. They're a little hard of hearing.

A sheet of character designs with a bit of a fashionable look. Top row, left to right: Reclining smoker with an alien musical instrument; a fashionista in a striped dress with many hands wrapped around her head, a single eyeball; a reclining figure smoking with a guitar-like instrument encased in stone; a bulky figure with a large coat and duffel bag. Bottom row, left to right: A bulky figure with a stone microphone for a head, hands fused to the grip; a bulky figure in a large trench coat; a slender figure with a semi-spherical head covered in spikes; a slender figure with a larger semi-spherical head covered in spiked, lodged between rocks that resemble speakers.

Top row, left to right: A reclining figure knitting, their knitting has covered themselves, their surroundings, and their cat in creeping, web-like cloth; a hunched man with a cane and a coffin-shaped head, a hunched woman with a cane cradling what looks like a baby, but is actually part of her own face; a figure with a ring-shaped head covered in eye glyphs, reaching into a bag of Stuff; a seated figure with an elongated head propped up by a cane, his arm and part of his head shattered, a shard of stone on the ground with an eye glyph looks around annoyed. Bottom row, left to right: A hunched figure carrying a bundle of hollow, alien-looking reeds; a roughly boy-shaped figure standing neutral; a roughly matronly figure with a triangular head, arms folded; a bulky figure in a large trench coat, his head a semi-sphere adorned with a row of eye glyphs; a lanky teen-looking figure with an elongated pyramidal head, propped up by one hand; a figure in monk-like robes, one hand holding up a head made of heavy stone, almost in an expression of grief.

Oh god more of these. Uhhhh okay. Okay. Top row, left to right: A seated figure with a hammerhead, smoking a hookah shaped like a monarch cocoon; a figure with a toggle for a head, wearing a jetpack with a long antenna, carrying a tape or MP3 player of some kind in their hand; a lanky 3-armed figure with hair like bleached coral, grasping at shards of stone to collect in a pile on its back, it lurches under the weight of its collection; a figure leaning back, it's head a stone boombox, its hands locked through the speakers like a stockade; a caterpillar-like figure, its body a large bulky coat, its hands fused into microphones, its face covered by one big microphone. Lotta micrphone stuff. Bottom row, left to right; a figure with fans for hands, roughly Aztec-style eyes on each, its head isn't visible; 3 hoodlums, pyramidal heads, smoking a giant cocoon hookah, one is Slav-squatting with a blank expression, one is sitting cross legged and has only teeth for a face, one his leaning back on its hand and has a spiral for a face, asking for a hit; We're almost done just hang in there. A figure with a body like bleached coral, its legs are normal but above the hips its body turns into a twisting web of stone, lungs and heart visible in the knots, one hand is holding a cigarette, in a different area code its head cranes to look at its phone below, the headphones of which have fallen to the ground, dooming the figure to scroll in silence; final figure is walking, its neck is a concrete tangle of vines suspending its head far above, which appears like the telephoto lens of a camera WE DID IT

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GuyFugly @guyfugly.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This is something Fromsoft and drag do really well. There are 80000000000 "big sword guy" designs, but only one of them rides around on a tiny horse that represents his perverse sentimentality.

Starscourge Radahn from Elden Ring. He is straddling a small horse. The horse's name is "Leonard" apparently.

The drag queen Gawdland dressed as, I think, a shrimp cocktail? I can't remember, the episode was awhile ago. The point is she looks very elegant but also has a giant lobster claw.

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GuyFugly @guyfugly.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Finally getting around to updating my ArtStation with art, and now it's here too.

An autumnal forest with an eye-searing palette of yellows, pinks, greens, and purples. The branches of the birch trees curl into shapes that seem to peer out from the foliage.

An autumnal forest in an eye-searing palette of pinks, yellows, purples, and greens. In the distance an ethereal, horned creature gleams in the sunlight, casting prismatic rays yo

Spot concepts of different prismatic foliage, heavily stylized and graphical in nature.

More spot concepts of lighting and style, with text calling out different elements. Top left box (clockwise): "Maybe godrays are mosaic instead of prism caustic?", "Prismatic bloom along terminator", "Shadows have watercolor-like texture". Bottom right box (left to right): "Rim-light and bounce light create mosaic, semi-metallic texture?", "Geometric, unnatural shapes (maybe only sometimes)?". Bottom callout: "Semi-opaque, milky, cloudy, subtle color shimmer", "Opalescent".

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GuyFugly @guyfugly.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Some little dreamy landscape thumbs.

3 images stacked vertically. Top: A knot of green grass curling around blue streams, dotted with red bridges and shards of sky. The land crests into a hill with a red lighthouse, against a backdrop of perfectly spaced clouds. Middle: A road of small clouds leads up to the front door of a house suspended in air. There are thin lines indicating the crude contours of a hill. Bottom: A green field dotted in giant shards of glass, a red lighthouse in the distance. The clouds swirl in a circle, and further our, cascade down into the bars of a bird cage. I donno, I thought it was kind of neat.

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GuyFugly @guyfugly.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I think my results were skewed by one of the images just straight up showing the raw, unredacted description placard next to the artifact

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GuyFugly @guyfugly.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I was trying to draw a circle

An 81% accurate single-line drawing of Reggie Fils-Aime on the website mino.mobi/draw. It's unclear what kind of circle I was trying to do

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GuyFugly @guyfugly.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Hey, #portfolioday I'm Eric. I do environments and props and characters and whatnot for games. I'm a style glutton and perpetually on the hunt for projects that push me out of my comfort zone. Here's a few recent things folk paid me to make.

Side view of a wrecked forge. The wall has collapsed revealing the rotund forge with various tracks for minecarts and whatnot. A gobo sits in a minecart in the background teetering on the brink of a bent track.

A scene of a bright beach. On the left a ship is lodged in a mass of barnacles, on the right a whale-like submarine has burst open and disgorged its cargo, along with a slick of normal map colors. Wrecked ships dot the sea in the distance.

Various designs for some sort of monster spawner. In the center of the image is the final version: a yawning tent with spikes and blades in the shape of an intimidating face. Inside the monsters are getting hopped up on goofballs.

Four heroes walk towards the viewer. In the background is a big big tower. In the foreground are some round, marketable creatures.

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GuyFugly @guyfugly.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

First drawing on the movinkpad pro, figuring out what colors it has.

A person falls through the void in front of a blank sky with clouds and mountains cut out. Little y2k-style cellphone charms dangle from their spiky pink luminous hair and pockets. I drew their hand in front of their face on accident so I put a sticker of a smiling orange on it to compensate.

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GuyFugly @guyfugly.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I was maybe kinda obsessed with the Wieliczka salt mine around when I was doing this biome

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GuyFugly @guyfugly.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Another batch of Towerborne things, featuring some of my idiots

A collection of houses built of stone, sheet metal, and wood, or carved out of the living rock.

Some props for the miners so they can do their job. Pickaxes, lanterns, some Flintstones stone chairs and couches, a minecart, a bug with a big ass.

Old, worn, and weathered statues. Some of them are going all "doo"

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GuyFugly @guyfugly.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Artblast piggyback. Towerborne came out last week so I'm gonna post a couple jpegs about it I did over 4 of these

A very wide image showing a deep deep cave, with some glowing pools of liquid, glowing holes, and glowing mushrooms. There's a quasi fisheye thing going on here, I donno, did I pull it off? Be honest.

Loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong cave. In the background there's a giant lake of glowing liquid. On the left is a speckled field of glowing grass. In the center is a chair and umbrella. Can lava give you cancer?

An arena by the side of a sea hole. Rocks and wreckage mar the landscape, and a great gout of water flushes up from the depths. A sunfish-shaped ship teeters over the gap, getting got by constant backsplashing.

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GuyFugly @guyfugly.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Update: not bad! Definitely could have made the smoke critters darker and done some bolder color blends. wish I’d printed smaller also I’m a printmaker baybee

Riso prints of the previous smoke summoner man on a variety of colored paper.

Even closer up of the lapel, showing textural details

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GuyFugly @guyfugly.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Taking a risograph workshop this Sunday so I made a guy. I have no idea how this will turn out, we won't even know the colors we'll be using until day of Good luck guy, and I'm sorry

A Belgian-looking guy with a tall hat, mustache, and pendant on his coat. The pendant has a diamond-shaped eye. He is smoking a glass pipe. Out of the pipe and hat, streams of smoke form snake and dragon-like creatures with eyes and wings. They are silly. They represent the silliness the man is afraid to express himself for fear of being vulnerable. Will he ever be able to open up to his loved ones? Is meaningful connection beyond his grasp?

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GuyFugly @guyfugly.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

A few more concepts from my friend's action-adventure-magic-melee-slimelike game Slime Heroes Click the link for a 100% chance to buy the game store.steampowered.com/app/1511880/...

Various houses built out of woodland materials. Clockwise from top left: 3 sets of houses carved out of acorns; a green house carved into a pea pod; 3 trees, trained into the shape of homes; an uncolored tree house sketch; more tree houses; a pair of gourds with spooky little faces, probably not actually a house

Top left: An example of the kind of urban density illegal in most of the US, with several spiky, mushroom-shaped houses stacked on top of each other and lashed together with sinuous strands of unknown material. Top right: A handful of concepts of different mushroom houses, some in a kind of clamshell design, others looking more like wood mushrooms. Bottom left: A starberry, suspended by twisting, gnarled vines. Bottom center: Sketch of a couple of starberry shapes. Bottom right: Twisting vines reach up and curl back on themselves, small lantern-like flower pods suspended below at regular intervals.

Left: A sketch of a log with blue, jelly-like fungi growing along its length. Right: Another log, this time the jelly fungi are purple. In the center is a dallop of a slime

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GuyFugly @guyfugly.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

I don't think I ever posted this environment concept. It's called Pokemon, and I made it

An aerial view of an arena on a tropical beach. At SW and NE ends are resort buildings with pools in the center. Each building is flanked by statues of the Pokemon Blastoise and topped with a statue of the pokemon Sobble. The Sobble statue is crying fountains of water that pour into pools on either side. In the center of the arena is a small freshwater inlet, fed by a stream. At the SE corner is a shaded glen. At the NW corner is the shoreline, with catamarans and sailing boats in the bay. The boats look kinda like one of the seagull pokemon probably, if you squint.

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GuyFugly @guyfugly.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

If you see this, post a monster!

A frog girl monster stands in a dark room, illuminated from the doorway behind the viewer. She is staring with long, frog-like eyes. Her frog hair sits on her head like a mop. She is knitting a long stocking from frog wool. Her shadow is that of a frog.

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GuyFugly @guyfugly.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Towerborne, the game I've been doing environment art for, had its Game Preview launch on Game Pass yesterday. They gave me the privilege of painting up some alternate key art for it Not just the rocks and trees even, they let this environment guy draw the folks and hands and faces and everything 💦

Center text: "TOWERBORNE"; Four characters stride towards the viewer. Left to right: A character in barbarian gear wearing a giant skull, carrying two daggers; a character with large barrel-like gauntlets; a character in a helmet carrying a sword and shield; a character in full plate armor, a large metal war club resting on their shoulder. There is a large tower in the distance, half-timbered houses and waterwheels attached to its exterior, a large windmill atop, and a large bell inside the windmill. In the foreground, two small creatures hide among grass, broken/abandoned machinery, and discarded weapons. There's some clouds in a big circle, maybe some trees and hills and whatnot, probably some stuff hidden in there that I forgot about idk, I made this a minute ago.

The same four characters striding towards the viewer. Left to right: A character in barbarian gear wearing a giant skull, carrying two daggers; a character with large barrel-like gauntlets; a character in a helmet carrying a sword and shield; a character in full plate armor, a large metal warclub resting on their shoulder.

The characters, despite taking up much less of the frame than the surrounding environment, are way more complicated than the rocks and trees, on account of being humans with anatomy and facial expressions and whatnot.

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GuyFugly @guyfugly.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Here's some guys I was contracted to design for it a few years back. Please have them.

Clockwise: Two snow owl/penguins creatures; a bird-like creature with a humanoid face; a small penguin-duck creature; a bird-like creature with the face of a mustache man; two creatures vaguely shaped like evergreen trees; two sasquanches

Clockwise: A sleepy flaming salamander; a glowing hawkmoth creature; a glowing bumblebee firefly creature; a caterpillar with a grinning face based on some smiling eggs; a glowy snail slug nudibranch thingy; a translucent freaky, freaky little guy with big eyes; a floaty spore thingy that lives in a mushroom house; several beetle creatures that just kind of walk around

Center: A Hollow Knight OC

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GuyFugly @guyfugly.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

The end of spooktime approaches. I worked with some friends on a horror game a couple years ago. Pitch was about trying to clean a haunted house while avoiding random assortments of ghouls. Didn't end up going anywhere but doing monster designs for it was a ton of fun

"Sound Ghoul".

Left to right, top row: A human with deer-like proportions, the antlers are two giant hands, the face is shorn off revealing the bisected skull; Same human, with an ear for a face.
Middle-row: A human torso/legs, the upper half is a giant ear with giant hands extending; the back legs of a horse with a loudspeaker mounted on top; A giant bearded face with a honeycomb of holes where the eyes/nose should be.
Bottom row: A giant ear with large hands extending on a pair of human legs; The back half of a horse lodged inside of an upside down meat grinder. A bemused whinny comes out the front of the grinder; A giant bearded face on 4 baby legs, with a giant ear where it's eyes/nose should be.

"Sight Ghoul".

Left to right, top row: A hanging marionette with rusty hooks for hands; A hanging marionette with long arms, a sack for a head, and a model hand for a body; A hanging marionette with a bear for a head, and a model hand for a body; The same marionette, but with multiple marionette arms/legs in place of a body.
Bottom row: 4 corn husk ragdolls with faces of teeth, skulls, doll masks, and gaping holes respectively; A corn husk doll carrying a length of hair fashioned into a noose/lasso.

A little guy wrapped in a sheet runs a swiffer over a carpet for some reason.

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GuyFugly @guyfugly.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

Sometimes I wish you could just draw a videogame.

A stylized hooded teenager on a mobility scooter is retrieving the egg. A store clerk in a pig mask looms behind him, boxcutter raised above the teenager. The teenager considers their future.

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GuyFugly @guyfugly.bsky.social · 01/03/2024

Some more PinOCchio sketches from earlier in the week, experimenting with different types of "shitty little kid posture".

Left: A wooden boy "Gnocchi" observing a cricket on his shoulder while reaching for a mallet to our left. small hedhog looks at shoe disapprovingly. Center: Some proportion practice. Right: Same wooden boy, shorter, tubbed up, too young to consider what that anterior pelvic tilt is gonna do to his little wooden spine later in life. Far Right: Go Ku.

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GuyFugly @guyfugly.bsky.social · 29/02/2024

his dad's hand is his heart also I guess, i donno. There might be too much happening here for a doll called Gnocchi. Content warning for mummy hand stuff? Can someone coach me on etiquette here?

The chest of a wooden puppet with a hole cut in it. A mummified dismembered hand is nailed to the center, etched with dangerous geometries. Golden strings wrap around each of the fingers, animating the puppet. It might be too goth. Is it too goth?

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GuyFugly @guyfugly.bsky.social · 28/02/2024

Working on my original Pinocchio "Gnocchi" for D&D. Lots of wild inconsistencies in proportions, still figuring out the core shapes, just don't look at that part. Or do look. Go on, really get in there. Let it radicalize you.

Top: A wooden boy carrying too many corndogs and a big ren fair turkey leg is chased by a Beholder in a chef's hat, carrying various utensils via cantrip. Left: The same wooden boy standing neutral, unbothered. Right: The same wooden boy in a fighting stance with a wooden mallet and wood chisel. Center left to bottom right: various facial expression and proportions explorations. Center right: same wooden boy, sleepy coded.

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GuyFugly @guyfugly.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

I don't even remember why the dimensions were so screwy with these. We were getting so many random marketing asks and nothing ended up consistent, lol

Illustration of the Gigantic character Charnok in his Shaman skin, eyes burning, looking around

Illustration of the Gigantic character Sven in his Crackpot skin, pondering a flask

Illustration of the Gigantic character HK-206 in his Body Mod skin, doing an Akira slide

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GuyFugly @guyfugly.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

Feeling....... various ways about the hows and whys of Gigantic coming back. Happy for the fans at least. Donno if I ever posted these old skin illustrations for various promos. They might never get used again. Look. Hurry, look at them! Look!

Illustration of the Gigantic character Beckett in her Cloudracer skin, doing a little finger gun salute.

Illustration of the Gigantic character Pakko wearing his Tido skin, gesturing menacingly

Illustration of the Gigantic character Knossos in his Gladiator skin, smiling politely

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GuyFugly @guyfugly.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

The past couple years I've had the pleasure of working as a painter/concept artist on Stoic's Towerborne ( towerborne.com ) Can't share most of what I've done but a few loose jpegs have oozed out through the cracks in the machine. Have some ooze, won't you?

Sketches of English-style country homes and farmhouses

A big dome-like crystal tree over a purpled landscape

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GuyFugly @guyfugly.bsky.social · 09/02/2024

Bloody Lavender knight [quick lunch drawing]

A long stringbean of a knight pulling out a sword. There is a small spider just out of frame

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GuyFugly @guyfugly.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

Trying to remember how to draw people instead of rocks

A chunky knight in armor embellished with ogre-like faces

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GuyFugly @guyfugly.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

If you ever need to be reminded of the importance of warm up sketches, please direct your attention to this 3 minute sketch, and then look at the one I did 10 minutes earlier.

Photo-ref rough sketch of Japanese professional wrestler Shirakawa Mina

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GuyFugly @guyfugly.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

I didn't like the first pose so I tried to do a menacing turn, but it ended up looking more like he's going for a jaunty little stroll

A person in a piggie mask doing a funny little walk

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