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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

it's his title and everything

The Magic: the Gathering card "Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind".

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

i've got some prime real estate for sam altman

A still image of the underwater Breach from Pacific Rim, the location where the kaiju arrived at Earth.

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Yet another new project lol. This time it's a monster tamer that takes place inside a giant evil tower that's locked in time stasis. Here's some of the NPCs, the Architect and Codicier.

The Codicier. She is a short, rotund, mouse-like creature in a green hempen robe. Her mouse tail is visible from under the hem of her robe. She is wearing a large, repeatedly mended witch hat, as well as an overstuffed leather backpack. Her expression is comically worried.

The Architect. A tall, lanky figure made of blue stone, with chipped and square facial features. He is wearing a colorful red and tan robe reminiscent of a priest's gown, and has a key on a golden chain around his neck.

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Another Elenora piece before the end of the year - or should I say, El, Leah, and Nora! [ #oc #mythoverse ]

A digital drawing of Elenora divided into her three sister components, each head with a different expression. The main body's hands are painting a miniature. Leah, the head on the left, is saying "C'monnn, El. You've had the hands for, like, a bajillion years." El, the middle head, is focused and saying "It's been forty-five minutes, Leah. You'll get your turn next." Nora, the head on the right, is asleep.

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

been a hot second since i've drawn At All, so here's some Elenora before the year of the snake ends [ #oc #mythoverse ]

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Some more of my OCs! A group of sillies that are best friends despite their differences. From left to right: Miki, a chef and the heart of the group Hayley, the American exchange student Pirona, a quiet and shy clown girl Meiru, a sci-fi loving cosplay dweeb

A lineup of four character designs. First is Miki, a short girl wearing a chef's jacket and a blue beret with short brown hair. Second is Hayley, a taller cowgirl wearing a stetson hat, red bandana around her neck, and traditional cowboy garb. Next is Pirona, a tiny girl with bright pink curly hair and red/blue heterochromia, wearing a colorful spotted clown outfit. Last is Meiru, a towering tall girl who is poorly cosplaying a robot.

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Elenora comic! I've always loved comics, so I want to get back into drawing them. This is a quick one-page test for a sort of warm-up while I tinker with something long-form. Meet Elenora's friends: Hattie the flatwoods monster, Cameron the bat boy, and Kelly the (???)! [ #oc #mythoverse ]

A digitally drawn comic. Hoo boy, transcribing a comic. Here we go:
Panel 1: A short, antlike character wearing a green and yellow striped shirt (Hattie) is yelling "ELENORA!" which is colored alternating green and purple.
Panel 2: A tall panel that shows Elenora laying on a couch in the distance. She is saying "what." in a much smaller speech bubble.
Panel 3: Hattie is standing still, her hand retracted, saying "...".
Panel 4: Hattie is squished down with a sarcastic expression, saying "Sword-man takes no skill."
Panel 5: Elenora extends her snake-neck rapidly (with a "ZIIIIIP!" onomatopoeia) and gets in Hattie's face. Hattie looks very shocked. Elenora says "The fuck you say?"
Panel 6: Hattie gets back in Elenora's face, squishing Elenora's neck back like an accordion. Hattie says "I said, is wake-up into unblockable super too hard for you?"
Panel 7: The two get into a shouting match with each other. Elenora yells "WHAT-- You can do that, like, once a match! It's better than B-reversing Heavy Spin until the heat death of the universe!" to which Hattie replies, "Oh, you leave Kensu OUT of this."
Panel 8: A wide-angle shot from another part of the room. On the left is a continuation of the shouting match: "I'll fucking kill you!" "Do it, COWARD!" "I ain't scared of going back to JAIL!" "At least stay there this time!" "Goddamn ant!" "Stupid snake!" On the right, Cameron (a guy with tan skin, silver/red hair, and bat ears) sips from a mug as he talks to Kelly (a human with long blonde hair and a purple sweater). Kelly says "Goodness gracious. How do you deal with them going at it like this all the time?" to which Cameron responds, "You kidding? I don't even need Netflix."

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

IT'S STILL #YEAROFTHESNAKE, BABY! Elenora is a fusion of three gorgon sisters, and splits up under stress: El, oldest and most level-headed (also a huge bookworm and nerd); Nora, a meathead jock with a short temper; and Lea, the youngest, silliest, and most social of the three. [ #oc #mythoverse ]

A cartoonish drawing of a three-headed snake woman. Each head has one large golden eye and purple hair. The left head is snickering and has an amused expression. The middle head has an annoyed expression. The right head is shouting angrily at the other two. Their body has a baggy gray sweatshirt with the letters "MR" in red on it. The background is a blurred green and blue landscape.

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

this is probably my favorite out of all the memes i drew for nonog. Twoj is the Stillborn God among its other titles, and I've just always wanted to do a loss edit [ #nonog #worldbuilding ]

A totally redrawn edit of the "loss.jpg" comic. In the first panel, Ononbit, a blue metallic creature, bursts into a mud hut. In the second panel, it receives directions from a slime creature. In the third panel, it confers with a lumpy green creature. In the fourth panel, instead of the laying-down miscarriage pose from the original, Ononbit finds Twoj, a viny and withered plant husk reclining casually with a speech bubble saying "Hey, how's it going?"

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

moooooore memes :3 I always feel like death is such a complex topic that there should be more than just one "dEaTh gOd" doing it all. Ghatura can see the spirits of the dead, but it's not a psychopomp or anything. [ #nonog #worldbuilding ]

A redrawn version of the Bonzi Buddy email meme comic. Panel 1: A small black cat-gremlin like creature lays on a couch next to an armoire, which has a mirror displaying a giant eye. The gremlin says "Oh Ghatura TM, I'm just feeling real low." Panel 2: A closeup of the eye in the mirror. The eye says "I CAN SEE THE SOUL OF YOUR DEAD WIFE". Panel 3: A middle distance shot of the gremlin. He lays in silent contemplation for a beat. Panel 4: The gremlin sits up, and we can now see a spirit version of the same creature he is. Both he and the spirit gremlin say "Oh shit, for real?"

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

It's my banner but I never actually posted it here! One of the wild encounters in the Shaped Lands is a samorah, a local morphovore. They tend to ignore little creatures like chimeras, as long as they don't look too... shapey. [ #nonog #fantasyart ]

A landscape illustration of a plains scene. The subject is a "samorah", a large orange creature shaped vaguely like a slide, with an eye at the top of its raised tail and another eye at the front of its two-tined "mouth". In front of it, a small orange and brown creature stares back at it. They are surrounded by sparse black and red trees. In the distance, purple mountains sit lazily on the horizon, with the sun hovering above them. The sun has two lenses floating around it, one black and one red.

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

despite being considered a god of healing, buvpitap is simply the god of growth, and its ultimate plan is just to consume the entire world. the worldflesh is a remnant of its first attempt to do so [ #nonog #worldbuilding ]

A redrawn meme of the "Is this a pigeon?" format. The corpulent green god Buvpitap beholds a small muddy orb labeled "literally the entire planet". The meme is captioned "Is this food?"

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

more god memes. Buvpitap, the god of growth, constantly antagonizes Arkumain, the god of the hunt, lording it over them that no matter how much they hunt, life still wins.

A redrawn meme in the style of the meme where a boy is honking a trumpet at a girl covering her ears. On the left is Arkumain, a being made of sharp bone-white fragments, covering the spots where its ears would be. On the right is Buvpitap, a corpulent off-green creature with many lumpy heads, each of which is blowing a trumpet.

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

man you can just post anything you want, huh? here's ononbit and chupilain, the craft-god siblings

Ononbit holds a leash that's around the shoulders of Chupilain. Ononbit is a tall, blue, filigreed robot entity, and Chupilain is a shorter green entity with a heavy, flat metal slab for a lower body.

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Might as well post more critters from my #Nonog #ttrpg project. Here are some Iridini, mountain-born tanks made from crystal and stone. They can breathe beams of pure light like a dragon and have magnetized brains!

A lineart sketch of two angular, draconic creatures with diamond-shaped heads. The left one has broad shoulders with spines, sharp fingers, a dragon's tail and hooves. The right one is the same, but wearing a leather craftsman's apron and giant monocular goggle over its single diamond eye. It holds a strange tool.

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

a lil gremlin from a project i'm workin' on

A black-and-white lineart sketch. A short-statured creature clad in bulky, top-heavy armor charges towards the viewer. It has horns, or possibly cat ears, simple features and pointed feet. It wields a sword that's longer than it is tall, and it seems to be screaming a battle cry.

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Sparan arrives at the town-grave of Twoj, the Stillborn God. After a long and grueling journey through the Undying Steppe, it's little comfort to see the Divine Corpse, but hopefully she can still get a hot meal and a proper bed in this morbid place. [ #oc #nonog ]

A massive, wrinkled plant looms over a misty town. In the foreground, a small, orange, four-armed figure wearing red clothes looks up at the plant in the distance. The top of the plant is a withered seed pod that glows green from within and is surrounded by a glowing gold halo. It has long thorny vines that snake all around the town. Black ichor bleeds out of the seed pod and from other cuts along its stalk. In the streets, purple-clad figures mill about.

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

If you see this, post a smiling OC!

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

SHES FUCKING BALL?!????!?!?! it looks so good thank you so much!!!!!!!

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Without downloading any new pics, describe your gender:

A concrete wall painted with the white silhouette of a mountain. Above the mountain, many blue figures are painted with red dot details, including a three headed snake, a humanoid figure wearing a poncho, a rectangular humanoid, a circle with legs, and a symbolic representation of a sun and mountain. They are surrounded by other smaller doodles.

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I have pages and pages of little plant guys

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

the future always looks dorkier than we think it will

A stock image of Spot, the Boston Dynamics quadrupedal robot.

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Happy #PokemonDay! Have Barbara from Genshin Impact and her Barbaracle! 💙

The character Barbara from Genshin Impact stands in an animated pose with the Pokémon Barbaracle. Barbara has one eye closed and is smiling, with one hand on her chest and the other pointed out. Her Barbaracle is also singing with an uncharacteristically happy expression. The two are surrounded by blue, wavy music notes. The image is signed "@SHIELDMAN".

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Ambiguity in games will always remind me of this gem

A screenshot of a Steam Forums comment chain with the usernames blacked out. The first comment says "It's up to you to decide when you are satisfied with the information you have found." The second comment is a reply to the first and says "how do I decide when I am satisfied?"

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Coming back cus I have an example now! PoE maps are procgen'd, so part of this is gamefeel, but noticing shortcuts is a part of the skill expression of "jumps". I have the Dash skill equipped here, which lets me blink across gaps. Doing this isn't *critical*, but it is fun and expedites leveling.

A screenshot from the videogame Path of Exile 1. The player character stands in a hole in a broken wall, facing the edge of a deep pit. There is a balcony across from them, and a green line encircles the player and points to the balcony. Another green circle highlights the Dash skill in the player's skill hotbar. A red line goes circuitously around the edge of the screenshot, indicating a much, much further distance. The minimap in the top right corner has the same red and green lines, showing how the shortcut saves significant distance.

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Never stop drawing! 2008-2025 First digital piece vs my latest. Every time I draw, I make an effort to try something new, so I'm always experimenting and growing. I've been drawing physically ever since I could hold a pencil, but I love the freedom and technical expression of digital art.

A digital drawing of a winged purple monster with one eye and a sluglike body. It is standing in a dungeon corridor made of gray stone with a stone archway in the background. A torch on the wall lights up its big green slitted eye. A rusty grate spills some sort of green slime onto the floor in front of it. The lines of the drawing are very thick and unsteady, and the colors are blocky and vibrant.

A cartoony, digital art drawing of a green-scaled snake woman with a very long neck and three eyes. She has short purple hair and is wearing a gray, baggy sweatshirt with the letters "MR" in red on the chest. Her arms are up, and her hands are making two victory/peace signs on either side of her face. Her lower-left eye is closed and her tongue zig-zags out of her straight-lipped mouth. Her serpentine neck curls in a vague "S" pattern between her head and shoulders. Behind her, the words "YEAR OF THE SNAKE" appear in bold, blocky, red font, and the text is heavily obscured by her. It is signed "@SHIELDMAN" at the bottom.

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

ELENORA for the #YearoftheSnake! It's gonna be her year all year, baby! [ #oc #mythoverse ]

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

the only island that can love you back

The Magic: the Gathering card Island Fish Jasconius.

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

[CW: gore/autopsy] Came down with a cold over the weekend, but I'm still chuggin' along with #SCGMeatManiaJam. Still ~80% placeholder visuals, but look at how clean that incision is! And more importantly, look how lively those organs are! Seems they're not happy about getting cut open like that.

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Totally 100% daily #SCGMeatManiaJam post! Did a little spriting ("spriting") for all the tools I have planned. So far you can pick them up and put them back in their boxes. Since the cursor is going to have a hitbox, I had to do a little mask sorcery to make clicking independent of mouse hitbox.

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Not much to visibly show today, but I did some learning on mouse capture in Gamemaker. The idea is that the only enemy is time, so getting your tools knocked around (i.e., the mouse) will waste valuable time as the corpse decomposes. Here's a little screengrab of it in action! #SCGMeatManiaJam

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

First daily post for #SCGMeatManiaJam! A mockup of the autopsy table for strange beings known as "angels". I want to work on making more cerebral/"learny" games, so I'm envisioning this as a sort of puzzle game about taking apart strange, otherworldly creatures with bizarre internal anatomy.

A scribbled mockup of a game interface. A blue creature is split open at the belly, revealing its internal organs, which are many colors. At the top is the name "THREYNOD THE SUPPLICANT". The creature is framed by brown panels that hold various tools above it, and a mockup of a scrollable index on the right. A timer displays about 75% full in the top right corner.

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Following actual #indie game developers is so hazardous because everyone else's games are so lush and thought-provoking while mine are forty folders of Weird Stick Guy in the Plane of Featureless Cubes

A stick figure with an oblong orange head stands on a floating white pillar with other floating pillars of ascending height on either side. The quality is intentionally low as if it was made in MS Paint.

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I've never made a cool OC in my life but my boys Ray & Lun are still cooler than me

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ShieldPLUS! @shieldman.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I AM A LILY MAIN!!!!!!!! FROG!!!!!!!!!

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