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monstergarden

@monstergarden.bsky.social
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I'm a self-taught artist who is working on a long running dark fantasy world building project called Rust and trenches, follow me and my journey of creating the world and just enjoying art.

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monstergarden @monstergarden.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
NEW VIDEO IS UP! youtu.be/l6JFtwY_0T8?... hope you enjoy.
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Making a War dancer Miniature. help me make stat blocks!
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monstergarden @monstergarden.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Posted a new video about what Ive been working on! www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdZd...
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I'm making a game
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monstergarden @monstergarden.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
now that you mention it, yea it does kinda look like the rolling giant.
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monstergarden @monstergarden.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Soldiers give accounts of faces in the dark, watching them.
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monstergarden @monstergarden.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
It's done. all that's left is to go to the printing shop and print it on a random shirt to see what it actually looks like. I'm gonna print it both of the front and back cuz I'm thinking i want both as an option. the logo I'm still tinkering with this is what it looks like for now.
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monstergarden @monstergarden.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
yea for sure ive been running all over the place looking for printing shops and good shirts, im panning on doing it all local so i can have a closer connection with all of it, shipping them myself as well. but even if it doesn't work out ill still have some sick shirts to wear myself.
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monstergarden @monstergarden.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
im planing to silk screen the shirts and i dont actually know if you can do that for the sleeves of the shirt ill have to ask the store im doing them with, but i feel like it should be.
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monstergarden @monstergarden.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Im working on a shirt design, its coming along slowly. im kinda just throwing things at it seeing what sticks, and im quite enjoying it. if it ends up looking anything like the mock up i did id be pretty fuckin happy to wear that.
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monstergarden @monstergarden.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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Expedition into Berla
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monstergarden @monstergarden.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Berla is slowly getting fleshed out, and im liking where its heading.
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monstergarden @monstergarden.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
not shitty to say at all, there are alot of things i know I'm still bad at and I'm glad my project is getting me to get out of my comfort zone.
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monstergarden @monstergarden.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Finally working on a video about Berla. it'll be a fun place to explore visually cuz i suck at architecture and itll force me to get comfortable with it.
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monstergarden @monstergarden.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
NEW VIDEO! collab with Power fantasy. We drew designs for each others settings which was very fun, hope you enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcNL...
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Concept swap feat. Power fantasy
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monstergarden @monstergarden.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Some wild dreams you have, let me steal them.
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Leo "Skyhornet" S @skyhornet.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
I saw this in a dream
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monstergarden @monstergarden.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Berlan marble men
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monstergarden @monstergarden.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Yakob's curse
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monstergarden @monstergarden.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
I'm working on a poster idea, I know I've been all over the place with what I want to work on but i think this shows promises, still a lot to iron out composition wise but I'm enjoying the process... for now.
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monstergarden @monstergarden.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Whispers of Rust & Trenches is out now! its more music by Petteril made for the channel, but you can also download it and use it for your own projects if you'd like. Please do support him and his work because it is well worth it. LINK: petteril.bandcamp.com/album/whispe...
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Whispers (of Rust & Trenches), by Petteril
11 track album
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monstergarden @monstergarden.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
feel like its still missing something, like there needs to be another element added to the design to really cap it off. at the moment it still kinda feels like its a harder basic enemy in a game rather than a boss if that makes sense. give me suggestions on what you think i can add
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monstergarden @monstergarden.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Im currently working on a witch of parasites and i like the design alot but I'm sorry because its going to be absolutely vile, listen the concept asked to be this way i had no say, it spoke to me.
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monstergarden @monstergarden.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
after the stream and came back again to try and draw the design we came up with on the computer instead. i feel a lot better about it now, still need to make it look rougher though i think it still looks too clean but i like the shapes. this is a witch btw or a type of one.
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monstergarden @monstergarden.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Another wonderful video from this word which is also a game! you better check it out, i highly recommend it, the game dev videos as well www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuBC...
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Creating A Kingdom
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Fern Medien @fern-medien.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Oh almost forgot to post the #timelapse of the Pyloncrab! #specevo #specbio #gouache #digitalart #illustration #procreate
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Leo "Skyhornet" S @skyhornet.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
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monstergarden @monstergarden.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
working on the page showing the augments pillarmen get
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monstergarden @monstergarden.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I really recommend checking out this channel MORE KAIJU! www.youtube.com/watch?v=l83d...
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Kaiju Origins Card Game - The Lore
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Fern Medien @fern-medien.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Rattletooth with some bebis This was my first try at #digitalpainting feathers, and I cant fathom how people paint intricate patterned birds with traditional paint... thats next level. Will upload the lore page and timelapse for this birb tomorrow! #specevo #illustration #sciart #digitalart
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monstergarden @monstergarden.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Its not finished it can definitely use some more work with the lighting and values but im leaving it as it is for now to focus on other images and i can always come back to work on this one more.
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Fern Medien @fern-medien.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
This is a test to see how bluesky compresses images... I have a #layout for the #book Im working on. I hope the text will be readable but I doubt it. #specevo #illustration #worldbuilding #digitalart
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monstergarden @monstergarden.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
cleaning it up now so its easier to tell whats goin on, ratboy is stealin.
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monstergarden @monstergarden.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
first pf the scenes im drawing to set the mood for the world of rust and trenches, still needs alot of work but i like where its going.
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monstergarden @monstergarden.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
No I just wanted them to have more limbs, is it realistic? Nope but it's a fantasy world where worm Moles uses magic to swim through the earth so I just have fun with designs.
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monstergarden @monstergarden.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
i do think alot of wild ones still are hangin around cuz in contrast to cows and horses, these things live underground at varying depths within vast tunnel systems so most likely alot of different species still are digging around.
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monstergarden @monstergarden.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
that is interesting, yea them being reliant on manmade inputs is a great idea, especially because without magic and constant use of that nail on their face to cast magic it would quickly grow out of control.
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monstergarden @monstergarden.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
well their disintegration magic doesn't go that far and these guys dig fast but compared to any walking creature they are quite slow, so they are most effective just doing their job which is digging tunnels and trenches.
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monstergarden @monstergarden.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Creatures that utilize magic need to have an input and output to take in magic and expell it respectively. An input has to have repeating patters or some sort of fractal shape to atrackt mana. That's why that thing on its head has a fractal shape.
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monstergarden @monstergarden.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I don't know what it would taste like. What affects the taste of an animals milk? They eat mostly red root buds (kinda like potatoes) and bugs and small critters so would that effect the taste? Also it would be quite hard to milk then as their nipples are hidden in pouches as kangaroos.
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monstergarden @monstergarden.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
They have pushes under their left and right flaps that have nipples in them and they give birth to tiny gummy bear lookin babies same as like kangaroos I think. And the bebes stay in those side pouches till they a bit more grown
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monstergarden @monstergarden.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
when used by ram they instead hook them up to manmade inputs, as its own input takes a long time to unfurl and contract, making it so the Dust hog needs to take long breaks in between sessions of digging, the human input mitigates that. they also love red root buds and scratches.
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monstergarden @monstergarden.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Dust hogs are used by ram to assist in the digging of trenches and tunnels, and different species of Dust hog can range greatly in size, the largest ones being as big as whales. (i know it isnt possible really for a land creature to be that big but shhhh rule of cool)
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monstergarden @monstergarden.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
the Dust hog or as we have lovingly decided to call it the Sluppy, is one of the strangest animals who calls world of rust and trenches home. It's a mammal that uses disintegration magic to pretty much swim through the earth. though their most strange feature probably is their inflatable input.
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monstergarden @monstergarden.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
I'm making a big ol image that will show the scale of all the things in Rust and Trenches ill have to fiddle around with how much to overlap the characters as to not make it too wide but also have good readability. ill iron it out slowly but its going good. most of these are still placeholder.
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monstergarden @monstergarden.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
yes
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monstergarden @monstergarden.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
these are also smaller Dust hogs as the larger ones used to dig huge tunnels can get to the size of whales.
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monstergarden @monstergarden.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Trench digger with some Sluppies (slug puppies) that help him dig trenches, they are called dust hogs and are one of the strangest Mammels in Rust and trenches. they use disintegration magic to burrow through earth with ease. they were tamed by Ram to be used in the digging of tunnels and trenches.
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monstergarden @monstergarden.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
I've been playing a lot of deadlock and enjoying Mo and Krill and just got the funny idea of Mo eating someone like Saturn devouring his son, as Krill watches on in horror so i drew it. #deadlock
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monstergarden @monstergarden.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
i want to draw a few more normal soldiers from each both ram and verus to really show the verity of how soldiers wear their gear cuz not all of them look exactly like this.
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monstergarden @monstergarden.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
still quite rough but im thinking about making an image that i can gradually add to that depicts all the creatures and units from the world on 1 big ol canvas to give scale but also just to have it, first 2 added are of course the average soldiers of ram and verus.
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