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Rii @riithewordsmith.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Made some #artfright art using "mist" and "grim reaper" - I was going to use a palette as well, but I've been practicing Sumi-e art so sticking mostly to black and white was better for me. Idk if I really captured the style, but I'm still happy with the finished product! #artfight #digitalart

A list of prompt subjects for the Artfight October minigame, Artfright. You may draw any thing using as many prompts as you like - or use the color palette prompt as well or instead.

A grim reaper walking amongst a misty landscape carrying a nearly empty hourglass and a scythe; in his eye glimmers a whole night sky complete with a cloudy moon. The style is a digital painting meant to mimic Japanese watercolor inks - sumi-e.

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Rii @riithewordsmith.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Here we have more #ArtFight attacks: instagram's @thevelcrolab 's Death and their Dog! And my friend ThereforeDragons' Sula and Imogen! And also DeviantArt/Tumblr's WandererFromNowhere 's adorable couple, Rusty and Mort! And finally, @zanarkandsky.bsky.social 's Vellichor! #digitalart #chibi

Character design by TheVelcroLab: Death and their service dog done in chibi. This piece is POV: You Are Dead; Death is taking you in an elevator to the underworld, which, of course, has an all accessibility entrance.

Sula, the artificer up front, and Imogen, the delightful rogue in back, done in chibi, are D&D characters of my friend ThereforeDragons, who regularly re-designs them to fit her campaigns. Normally they're in less sci-fi circumstances... but they certainly could be, and I thought, even though I'm not great at drawing machinery, it would be fun to put them on a bike.

Roobal's Rusty, the rat man held aloft, and Mort, the shadow entity, done in chibi. They're an adorable couple.

Zanarkandsky's Vellichor, done in chibi. Doing the ombres was a lot of fun, as was adding the texture to her hair.

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Rii @riithewordsmith.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I don't know that much about #EldenRing but I do know the Let Me Solo Her meme. When looking at #ArtFight PhasmoPhantom's Elden Ring character Cyd, I asked a friend what boss is scariest, and he recommended Malenia, so it seemed obvious what I had to do for my attack - stabby. #Chibi #Digitalart

Elden Ring's Malenia performing her signature killing blow to a PC with Let Me Solo Her in the background yelling reprimands, drawn in chibi.

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Rii @riithewordsmith.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

It's post #ArtFight so I'm gonna try to post at least some of my attacks. Here's Veirlith and Zirovi by @ennzero.bsky.social - their characters have such intricate and beautiful designs! This piece probably took me the longest. Just two gay dragons enjoying their hobbies together. #chibi #digitalart

Two chibi humanoid figures, both dragons in human form; one, white with a blue flame and space motif, is drawing a flower which the other, black with a sun motif, is gently nurturing. They sit in a field of pale green and tall golden grasses.

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Rii @riithewordsmith.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Thanks to my mother, my baby ranges from The Duck Song to Peanutbutter Jelly Time to What Does the Fox Say? I'm already letting my eldest eff up my algorithm with Wings of Fire and Minecraft stuff, so this can be Grandma's special screen time and those can screw up her algo.

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Rii @riithewordsmith.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

We're playing Animon Story with the kids - a Digimon like #ttrpg - and I've been drawing my son's (8) Animon. Here's his original drawing, my interpretation, and the three earlier stages. (There's one more final stage but I haven't gotten to it yet.)

A child's drawing of a humanoid Digimon like creature covered in spikes with a flaming sword drawn in marker on paper.

A humanoid Digimon like creature with a head and back covered in spines holding a serrated flaming sword, ready to strike. Pencil on paper.

I had a lot of fun trying to understand what my son wanted with his drawing (he did draw the other four, but I don't have pictures of those drawings). It's delightful when you add your own interpretation and the kid in question lights up because they feel understood. My kid may have put spikes everywhere on his picture, but what I understood after asking him to tell me about his picture is that he wanted a LOT of spikes, not necessarily for every inch to be covered (which is great because that's impractical lol) so I went for a tough, well-defended look and that made him pretty happy. It made me happy too, because that was a lot of spikes to draw 😅

Three humanoid Digimon like creatures with large hands and swords; the largest bottom creature has a sword that is on fire and a sword that is electrified.

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Rii @riithewordsmith.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I love the art in Date Everything - I am definitely paying attention to facial shakes and the lovely ways characters have lovely soft belly curves and taking notes 😍 so we'll call it an educational experience 😉

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Rii @riithewordsmith.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I've started drawing again. I should really post some of the stuff I've been working on. It's not a ton, but it's something, again. Idk though I'm really busy playing Date Everything.

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Rii @riithewordsmith.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I like to try to be that coworker. ...probably one of my coworkers would say I've achieved that goal. but idk, the rest of us all agree he's kinda weird, so it's a difficult metric with which to work.

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Rii @riithewordsmith.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Idk there's DEFINITELY some people I wish would get carried off by giant birds.

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Rii @riithewordsmith.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

The best way to measure time, really.

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Rii @riithewordsmith.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Hah, gotta love fun coincidences like these! (Or, sometimes, not, because sometimes you gotta be like, "No I swear I wasn't commenting on real life events this is just what was gonna happen next in the comic, I SWEAR-")

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Rii @riithewordsmith.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

#drawtober days 16-20 and 21-25: enchanted princess and troll toll I didn't consistently draw every day. Got all the drawings done. Real fricken hard to both come up with ideas and motivation to draw when you're "everything is bad in the world at large and my personal life" depressed but here I am

Ensorcelled princess page. My favorite one is the moth princess. We also got a half-hearted crystal princess, a princess turned to stone, one is trapped in a book, and one would look a lot cooler if I put real effort into it. Maybe I will later. Gotta have all these glowing runes on her that are extending out with their enchantments wrapping into bindings.

Troll toll. Got a troll paying the sunlight toll for trolls turning to stone, one begging for food at the table, a troll toll coin, and two different demanding trolls idk I got pretty bad in the "I would rather die than think of ideas" phase of things here. I like drawing trolls and goblins though, you get to really exaggerate their features and I love that.

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Rii @riithewordsmith.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Whelp, due to travel, I fell behind on #drawtober and due to Life catching up had been challenging. (Can you tell how things are going that I'm finding drawings this simple difficult?) But here's days 12-15: Mushroom Fairy. 🎵 One of these things is not like the others 🎶

A low detail inky cap mushroom fairy witch

A fairy wearing a mushroom hoodie-poncho-thing

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Rii @riithewordsmith.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

#drawtober day 11-15 (1): mushroom fairy I'm pretty excited for this prompt. I love mushrooms and fairies. I'm still abroad so I'm still drawing in my journal.

A lil mushroom with butterfly wings.

Text? Nothing to do with the picture, you nosy. I'm just complaining that when I went to get new shoes, for some reason, sizes smaller than my usually already small size were what fit. Sure, it means that they actually had my size this way, but whyyy did such a small child's size fit me? What is happening?? I blame the mushroom fairy.

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Rii @riithewordsmith.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

#drawtober day 6-10 (10): Toad Astrologer I'm traveling so I drew in my journal today

A toad or possibly frog wearing a silly long pointed hat riding a star
You don't get most the text because that's my journal, you shouldn't be reading it, nosy! (Lol JK I made sure not to capture personal stuff, it's just me explaining to my future self why I drew that.) Text: whoosh

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Rii @riithewordsmith.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

#drawtober day 6-10 (8): toad astrologer Idk astral toad is basically the same thing right? He probably went up there to get a better look at the stars and then realized his folly.

A toad sitting on a celestial crescent surrounded by stars and looking rather uncomfortable. Text: help tho

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Rii @riithewordsmith.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

#drawtober day 6-10 (7): toad astrologer Why did he set up the telescope so high

A toad on his tiptoes looking through a telescope with a silly long cap

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Rii @riithewordsmith.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

#Drawtober Day 6-10 (1): Todd Astrologer Just drawin' a jolly fat sparkle boi. Looking forward to four more days of it.

A round toad with a star patterned wizard hat sitting upon a star chart. Text: 10/6 Drawtober Day 6
Frogs cannot read

This is a toad, not a frog. Can he read? More on this story tomorrow. Maybe.

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Rii @riithewordsmith.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Gorgeous shots. Made my day better looking at it.

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Rii @riithewordsmith.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

#drawtober Day 1-5 (5): Candlelit Messenger Turns out I've been off a day this whole time because we started on the second. I have no idea what day it is ever I guess. This one is traditionally drawn because of other ADHD/technology related reasons and also I should draw in sketchbooks more anyway.

A lil candle dude yelling about an edict he's holding. Or maybe he's yelling about being on fire.
Text: 10/5 Drawtober Day 5

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Rii @riithewordsmith.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

#drawtober day 1-5 (3): Candlelit Messenger If it looks like I put less effort than usual into my already low-effort I-don't-have-time-to-draw offerings so far, it's because it's a bad brain day. Really didn't feel like drawing. But I did anyway. yahoo or whatever. Read the alts.

Someone who clearly doesn't know how to draw a bird drew a bird messenger flying through idk a candlelit path outside a building. I don't know what this is I just made it so that existential nihilism didn't win today. Text: Drawtober Day 3 drawing even though I didn't feel like it

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Rii @riithewordsmith.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

#drawtober day 1-5 (2): Candlelit Messenger Yesterday I tried to lay down strong lines with no sketching. Today I just sketched while limiting how much I used the eraser. I think I did a little better with my hatching this time. Last time the hooded figure was the messenger. This time the wall is.

A hooded figure reads a message by candlelight on a scarred wall. Text: Drawtober Day 2

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Rii @riithewordsmith.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

#drawtober Day 1-5: Candlelit Messenger I don't have a lot of time to draw, so I'm keeping it simple. Also Spoopy month seems like a good time to mess around with hatching, a style of shading with which I'm not very familiar.

A messy sketch of a hooded figure holding a candle. Text: Drawtober 2025 day 1 "Candlelit Messenger"

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Rii @riithewordsmith.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Here's the art he made for me; I didn't grab it earlier like a dummy. Again, this is @bogtwarog (insta)'s art:

A skeletal figure overlaid with a dim ghost despondently playing chess while dark, deadly tears leak from his eye.

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Rii @riithewordsmith.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

After #Artfight I decided to do an art trade on the discord. Got some sweet art of my Death and made some art of his Mila. Check him out on instagram @bogtwarog

A tall, gaunt woman staring off into the night while a tv shines into the dark room, her own face and body illuminated by her phone. Done in the style of Chibi. Character concept and design by @bogtwarog

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Rii @riithewordsmith.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

This mushroom made me feel a little better about my day

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Rii @riithewordsmith.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

"HI yes hello we are the platform that allows you to have a livelihood from your art! Would you perhaps be interested in allowing us to steal all your work so we can undermine your ability to have a livelihood? Thanks in advance, kisses!"

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Rii @riithewordsmith.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Hey if you're going to do #artfight and you like my art, here's my profile: artfight.net/~rii I try to hit all my followers and I revenge all my attacks. Regardless, I hope you all have a great July!

artfight.net

Art Fight

An art gifting game

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Rii @riithewordsmith.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

It's just like my friend explaining his excitement for Pacific Rim: "I don't care if the writing is good or not. I want to see giant monster fights." If the writing IS good, it's incidental to the purpose of the film. Even when the writing should be good, feelings are stronger factors for enjoyment

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Rii @riithewordsmith.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Most DBZ fans aren't going to argue the writing is brilliant because people don't watch the show for clever writing. People watch the show for how it makes them feel, because OP nonsense fights feel cool to watch, and the goofiness becomes part of the charm.

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Rii @riithewordsmith.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

... But to my friend, it was a weird, disjointed moment whose timeline didn't make a lot of sense (and the fact that like two people didn't get poisoned?) I can recognize the flaw now that it's been pointed out to me, but the emotion of the moment when I first experienced it is more important to me

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Rii @riithewordsmith.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

I remember a friend discussing the moment when Kefka poisons Doma in FFVI; it's a really beautifully arranged moment for me, showing his horrible depravity, with the music reflecting how one little action explodes into enormous consequences, a single strain turning into a symphony of disaster...

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Rii @riithewordsmith.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

I think a lot of it is more about how experiencing the story made you feel. When there's jarring holes, those will snag some people and pull them out of the story, but other people will still be caught up in how the story is making them feel despite story issues.

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Rii @riithewordsmith.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Knowing that this is apparently not uncommon makes me feel much less stupid for going through it

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Rii @riithewordsmith.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

And those $2 are my Christmas and birthday gifts from them (1) so I'd appreciate it if they could be left alone while I keep pretending getting a $2 bill is an exciting and novel experience.

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Rii @riithewordsmith.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

But now I want to know where you can get pants like that and do they come in large men's sizes?

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Rii @riithewordsmith.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Well have a compliment to try to put cheer back in the day: your character design is so cute and welcoming! Makes me smile just to look at them.

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Rii @riithewordsmith.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

My husband has been the predominate breadwinner because their skills are valued better in the workplace; I am also rather skilled, just, all in arts. But the programming industry is in shambles so the best we can do is what I've got right now. It's not even art. At least I can make the job fun.

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Rii @riithewordsmith.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I like how I struggled to draw due to over a year of unemployment in my family and the resulting anxiety and depression but NOW I struggle to draw because I got a job (that doesn't pay nearly enough to support my family) and I don't have a lot of spare time anymore. Super cool world we live in.

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Rii @riithewordsmith.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Hysterically, my autistic husband *didn't* ever go on a date. (We got married without dating due to reasons.) But that's supposed to be a funny-cute story, not a symptom of anything 😑

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Rii @riithewordsmith.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I'm aware. Are you suggesting this would not be easy to convince oneself? Or to believe naturally? ;) (Have you never watched someone perform poorly at something you do well and had a "no watch me [to see how to do it]," reaction?)

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Rii @riithewordsmith.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Ah, see, entering a competition is easy. The best way to guide is to lead by example, guiding others by aspiration, and therefore entering the competition yourself to show them all how it's done. ... Maybe it's a good thing I'm not an egs immortal.

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Rii @riithewordsmith.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

It's really cute and preserves a lot of details. Do you like it?

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