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alex @snail-legs.co.uk · 02/09/2026

I joined bakatako the other week and it became my go-to webbed site so so quickly oops... here are some of my favourite bakas!!

a little creature sits in the palm of a girl's hand. she smiles at it and it goes "!"

moth creature and candle creature meet, then hug after some hesitation

moth creature joins candle creature under its umbrella

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alex @snail-legs.co.uk · 22/08/2026

drew my little guys as a treat <3

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alex @snail-legs.co.uk · 20/08/2026

oh! my hand did slip in the end, just not all in one go haha (doodled the night I was tiredposting, then coloured the next morning)

a moth girl (Nyx she/her)... she's very fluffy, having neck fluff and upper-arm-fluff. her stare is pretty intense.

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alex @snail-legs.co.uk · 15/08/2026

my thumbnails and sketch :)

a page of composition thumbnails, all with a moody and metaphorical sort of vibe.

the sketch for the piece posted earlier in the thread, with the environment blocked in in grayscale

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alex @snail-legs.co.uk · 15/08/2026

I'm biased of course, but I think it came out pretty neat!!

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alex @snail-legs.co.uk · 07/08/2026

the above is a loose redraw of this!! kind of scary what a few years away from a project can do... sharing the original sketch too bc the jump in line confidence is wild...

the same idea as in the previous post, but an older drawing... the overall composition and character art feels more static

the sketch of the prev image. every line has been gone over again and again, looking kinda scratchy

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alex @snail-legs.co.uk · 04/08/2026

for those that haven't used it, it basically lets me integrate a moodboard into my working files!! I can move the stuff on the references "layer" around and resize/flip/rotate them, and even desaturate them or lower their opacity!! unspeakably useful!!!

krita screenshot. the canvas area is outlined, and on top of/around it there are four different reference images of the character drawn on the canvas

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alex @snail-legs.co.uk · 02/08/2026

turns out i wasn't done!! last two for real this time, for @pine-niidles.bsky.social and ~4LeafRose

painting of a ginger man underwater, goggles off and goo leaking out of his eyes

silly chibi painting of a wingull gijinka holding an icecream cone and flying off into the sky looking pleased

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alex @snail-legs.co.uk · 02/08/2026

ok i think i'm done now. i think. probably. my final* stats! my tentative goal was to fill a whole page of my attack gallery, and i have in fact managed a page and a half, so patting myself on the back for that one. *3 hours remaining

Current Battle Stats
Team: Tragedy
Battle Ratio: 54.88%
Points: 2631
Attacks: 33
Friendly Fire: 12
Defenses: 37

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alex @snail-legs.co.uk · 02/08/2026

finally, my screentone sketchies <33 for ~Lostalyx and @nalvali.bsky.social

a fox boy sits on the edge of a deep hole, covered in mud and dirt. he smiles, feigning innocence. no way could he dig a hole like that with his bare hands.

a pair of portraits, one on the left with a wintery theme, and one on the right with more of an autumny vibe. snow elf and ginkgo dryad <3

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alex @snail-legs.co.uk · 02/08/2026

and some more paintings! for @rikavolt.bsky.social, ~Jolibra_Tea, and ~sabon116!

a portrait of a character looking over her shoulder, smiling. she unleashes a flurry of fire-butterflies from a book.

chibi character with big black wings and aloof face and a cool coat, flying in the void

portrait of a man with a cigarette, glasses glinting

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alex @snail-legs.co.uk · 02/08/2026

a few more pokemon ocs for ~_Riolu_, @araghosta.bsky.social, and ~GoSilverRaven!

painting of two trainers on a picnic blanket with their pokemon, who are both sleeping. one trainer rests his head on the other's thigh. there's a berry tree in the background and a lot of berries

painting of a cute little pokemon fusion, jumpluff/galvantula! it swooshes fluffily in the breeze

overly cutesy portrait of a trainer with flowers in her hair and colourful freckles

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alex @snail-legs.co.uk · 31/07/2026

me: ok! no more art fight! we have other work to do! the hydra (self-imposed):

firefox tab group labelled REVENGE QUEUE. there are three art fight character tabs open in it

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alex @snail-legs.co.uk · 31/07/2026

and a lil one-two punch on @deathbyufo.bsky.social, taking us into the pokemon zone!

a man sits under a joshua tree taking notes on a pad and smiling, focused. a little elgyem drifts over to him, holding a zigzaggy map. there are mountains in the background

two men walk through a forest, pokemon in tow.

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alex @snail-legs.co.uk · 29/07/2026

another small painterly set <3

a transmasc sits at the side of a pool as he is splashed by a very happie border collie

two characters press their foreheads together one another's eyes. they're sat on soft furniture, fairy lights and sashes strung from the ceiling. there's a window behind them, showing the night sky and the moon.

looser portrait of a character smiling, little stars sparkling around them.

a pirate lady smiles over her shoulder, having been stood watching the sun rise in the sky. she's on a boat, its mast in the foreground

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alex @snail-legs.co.uk · 28/07/2026

the bloodshed continues

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alex @snail-legs.co.uk · 25/07/2026

out of all the drawings i've made, this is probably the one i think about most frequently haha (from 2020)

man on hands and knees, shaking. captioned "NO ENERGY ONLY BLOOD"

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alex @snail-legs.co.uk · 23/07/2026

ok, I don't think I have any more 3D in me, so here is the OC smoothie I made!!

3D model of a lightning gerbil creature. The render has a funky border overlaid on top of it, with hand-lettered MONTANA and wireframe stamps

A 3D render of an elk-like creature and a caracal-like creature. The elk holds an orb of light, while the caracal brandishes a staff. Hand-lettered text on the borders reads "kiz" and "shin"

render of a little guy popping out of a gift box!

render of an android type character (with heavy bloom effects) floating in front of a code editor, the tab(?) titled "px-3"

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alex @snail-legs.co.uk · 22/07/2026

yay happy birthday august! 🎉

on the left there is a chibi august perched on a cut-open giant lychee. on the right he's adjusting his scarf and there's a lil heart speechbubble

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alex @snail-legs.co.uk · 20/07/2026

my O2A2 entry is now available to play! wahoo! snail-legs.itch.io/sunkissed-sh...

"Sunkissed//Shackled"; an illustration of paige shining her lamp on emery, who stands wincing at the bright light in the foreground

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alex @snail-legs.co.uk · 19/07/2026

making myself jealous of paige by using anchor names like #my_job. I wish i had a #my_job... I'll keep searching!!! It's also making me laugh because. I think it's half-reminding me of a meme format??

code editor screenshot of lines 95-102 of a script, reading:
q (doubt) "It depends. What, exactly, do you plan to do here?"

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"My job." -> my_job
"What would you have me do?" -> and_you

# my_job
q (stare) "That is not an answer."

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alex @snail-legs.co.uk · 16/07/2026

oscillating rapidly between liking my o2a2 story and hating it ghdfkgjhdk

EARLIER: uuuuu what if this is bad. is it terribleawfulnogood?? i can't tell.... | well, I like it. for what that's worth | that's sweet but you have terrible taste
LATER: wow these visuals feel really charged now that I'm drawing them... | what? no, they're good!!!!

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alex @snail-legs.co.uk · 15/07/2026

paige (left) will be the pov character, so no sprite for her! sad. but I've been meaning to update their designs for a whiile now so I drew both of them :>

paige and emery drawn side by side. paige still has her trademark big stupid purple coat (affectionate), she's just been desaturated. and emery now has very very long hair, drawn tied up in chains and looking sorry for themself and a bit objectified (being tied up in chains will do that to you. sorry emery)

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alex @snail-legs.co.uk · 14/07/2026

Happy #PortfolioDay! I'm a character artist who loves anything fantasy. Available for work doing illustration, comics, and game art.

compilation of artworks from the past few months, with a little "Alex Lawrence alex@snail-legs.co.uk" in the corner

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alex @snail-legs.co.uk · 11/07/2026

the three-dee-ening has begun... as long as everything looks nice from camera view it's fine, right??

blender screenshot showing a 3d model of a rodent from behind. the texture on the back side of the model is clearly a; just the texture from the front side and b; not properly uv mapped to this side

a blender screenshot of a little creature in a cape that's clearly midway through being fitted to her figure. she's holding [placeholder cylinder] and kind of looks like they've been modelled out of clay with how simple the shapes are

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alex @snail-legs.co.uk · 10/07/2026

crunchy painting time!! :3 now accepting bets on whether I can make six(6) 3D attacks. I'm excited to try writing some shaders!

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alex @snail-legs.co.uk · 06/07/2026

I think I'm going to change up the finish of my attacks every 6 attacks!!!! gotta keep my enemies on their toes...

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alex @snail-legs.co.uk · 03/07/2026

hunting season is upon us all!!! I will obliterate everyone*, be they friend or foe!! *as many people as I can (artfight 2026 thread)

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alex @snail-legs.co.uk · 24/06/2026

these guys have really been through it(erations)...

fullbody sketches of shelby and marlowe stood in the void. they both have detail callouts, suggesting that these may be... reference images...

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alex @snail-legs.co.uk · 23/06/2026

warmup cloud from earlier (drawn w/ refs from @adorkastock.com!)

a bunch of loosely half-sketched figures overlapping eachother at varying opacities

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alex @snail-legs.co.uk · 21/06/2026

bonus soyas! truly a character that exists for the sake of existing.

sketchy soya frowning and rubbing its paws together

sketch of soya in the rain, trying to protect its flame.

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alex @snail-legs.co.uk · 21/06/2026

my littlest guy over the years! it's so fun seeing which parts of a design get simplified over time~

three drawings of a little anthro candle-fox character (soya) labelled 2026, 2025, and 2024. the 2026 one is the most simplified and the 2024 one has the most design details, arguably being over-designed

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alex @snail-legs.co.uk · 19/06/2026

also, a psa to take reference photos if you need to!! it can feel silly in the moment, but self-taken ref helped me with this piece a lot!!

photo of me in a skirt sat on the floor holding a long plant light dramatically in a similar pose to what ended up in the final artwork posted earlier in the thread

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alex @snail-legs.co.uk · 19/06/2026

some crops of the final, and my thumbnails~

a crop of the piece showing only the stained glass mural. it's super shiny and glowy.

a crop focused on the aasimar, drowning in her own shadow.

a sheet of rough compositional thumbnails labelled 1 through 7.

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alex @snail-legs.co.uk · 19/06/2026

commission for araghosta on vgen!

an illustration of an aasimar sat crumpled on the ground. she's looking down at a broken staff. above her is a stained glass mural of her former self, brightly lit and hopelessly out of reach.

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alex @snail-legs.co.uk · 14/06/2026

team tragedy!!! let's go!!

art fight card. user: snail-legs. attack: based on my whims. friendly fire/revenge/mass attack: heart x3

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alex @snail-legs.co.uk · 03/06/2026

plus some of the sketchywork I did :)

this one is of the aarakocra. there are three different colourways of three different outfits, some prop sketches, and some compositional thumbnails. the page is littered with notes.

a similar page for the dragonborn. this time, there's one fullbody to nail down the design, a little rendering test, and a series of rough arm-drill designs. as before, there is also a section consisting of compositional thumbnails.

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alex @snail-legs.co.uk · 02/06/2026

it's a very flippable/rotatable image, which is fun! here's me rotating it ^^

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alex @snail-legs.co.uk · 31/05/2026

I would describe the vibe like this. except I don't think I can fully capture the beautiful beginner-aesthetic of it all.

digital sketchpage. girl who is sad for unspecified reason. guy who is flustered for unspecified reason. goofy chibis. everyone is only a few steps away from being a stick figure. random full-page oc art that goes surprisingly hard. incomprehensible comic pages. surprisingly OK studies

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alex @snail-legs.co.uk · 08/05/2026

I don't usually feel self conscious about it, because most people won't notice, but I saw someone nitpicking these kinds of errors in another artist's work and I was like :O oh no, some people *really* notice this kind of thing...

zoomed in screenshot of the drawing from the beginning of the thread, with a bunch of tiny little errors circled. we're talking, you still have to look quite closely to notice them, levels of tiny.

another area with lots of little tiny colouring errors.

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