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"I'm SD now" would be an excellent status effect.

It's been awhile since I posted a photo of the physical copy of one of these. I'm sure most people know that most of my art is physical, but it's good to re-exhibit that from time to time. I do Wish I knew how to make an iphone capture colour correctly.

Konsi the goblin wearing a brown bodysuit traced through with glowing malachite energy lines. She wields a long magitech looking staff. She floats in the air, along with a large number of sea-green floating orbs.

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I should offer you Konsi, and see what you can do.

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The joke is that she's got a little over 150 Halloween costumes... but here's my favourite one!

Konsi the goblin, dressed in a witch outfit.

ahdok @socksandpuppets.com · 01/10/2026

I like designs that just start with one simple shape, although in this case nature is picking the shape.

a redraw of the "how to draw an owl" meme, only with just one circle.

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ahdok @socksandpuppets.com · 29/09/2026

28. OC. Just finishing up the last few pieces from last year :) #sockstober #drawtober #gobtober

Konsi the Goblin wearing an evening gown.

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ahdok @socksandpuppets.com · 29/09/2026

Here is my #Drawtober Prompt List for this year. Please feel free to distribute this anywhere you please, use and remix it however you want, and just have fun with it. If you're using it and you want to ping me, I'd be stoked. I use the tags #sockstober to link to this list specifically.

A list of monthly drawing challenge prompts as follows.

1. Detective
2. Frilly
3. Painter.
4. Baseball Bat
5. Grand Vizier
6. Balancing
7. Mascot
8. Prosthetic
9. Goth
10. Wheel of Fortune
11. Animal Tamer
12. Factory
13. Hidden
14. Oversized Boots
15. Year of the Horse
16. Dizzy
17. Magic Staff
18. Maid
19. Floating
20. Polkadot
21. Videogame Cosplay
22. Spherical
23. Pizza
24. Harpy
25. Janitor
26. Leshy
27. Wanted Poster
28. OC
29. Sleepwear
30. Quick
31. Halloween

In addition three bonus prompts are offered

A. Prison
B. Pet
C. Spaceship

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ahdok @socksandpuppets.com · 28/09/2026

She DOES like dressing up.

Konsi the goblin, in a frilly white dress.

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ahdok @socksandpuppets.com · 26/09/2026

Finally, 31, (although maybe this is too well made) Here also are some doubles:

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ahdok @socksandpuppets.com · 26/09/2026

14/15/19/20/21/22/23/ (I have a fairy, but it's not completed) /25/26/30

ahdok @socksandpuppets.com · 26/09/2026

I want to see how many I've got! 3/4/5/6/7/9/10/11/12/13(ish)goblin

ahdok @socksandpuppets.com · 24/09/2026

With a billion dollars in marketing, Meta might manage to make this thing half as popular as friend AI.

A large subway billboard for the friendAI pendant, covered in graffiti that crosses out the word "friend", says "AI is not your friend" a stick figure saying "we don't need AI we need each other" and "Do mutual aid or volunteer for a community garden, you will meet cool people!"

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ahdok @socksandpuppets.com · 19/09/2026

They started pumping the AI crap into this two years ago, and immediately I wonder why anyone would have stuck with their product.

A screenshot from Grammarly that suggests changing the phrase "was mind-numbingly annoying" to be less negative. The suggested change is to instead say "menx'k rxxp qiurezok"

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ahdok @socksandpuppets.com · 18/09/2026

Everyone looking at this:

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ahdok @socksandpuppets.com · 18/09/2026

More monster cosplays incoming.

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ahdok @socksandpuppets.com · 16/09/2026

It's from the SIMS, and it means "negative interaction"

A screenshot from the sims showing people socializing in a building. Symbols float above their heads showing two people standing side by side with large red negative signs.

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ahdok @socksandpuppets.com · 10/09/2026

Don't believe your OC has to be a perfect design off the bat. Character design is a creative process just like writing a story or making a piece of music. Your first design is a "first draft" and it's not set in stone. You're not committed to anything. You can and should evolve the design over time

The same goblin character, drawn years later. Many of the elements are the same, but many of them are new.

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ahdok @socksandpuppets.com · 01/09/2026

Here's a second surprise bonus winner for @smurfysmurf77.bsky.social I really enjoyed your design and hope I did a good job! If you'd like to see the WIP stages (pencil sketch, linework etc) drop me a DM and I'll give you a link. (I didn't have a name for her, so I made one up for the file.)

A drawing of a rabbit girl with big eyes, staring into the camera. She has a bright gold tuft of hair in the middle of her forehead.

A rabbit girl with a bright golden tuft of hair that resembles a crown.

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ahdok @socksandpuppets.com · 01/09/2026

Here's a surprise bonus winner for Shikyo @jwashtear.bsky.social I thought it'd be fun to see what I could do with your character. If you'd like to see the WIP stages (pencil sketch, linework etc) drop me a DM and I'll give you a link to a folder for that stuff.

A screenshot from Baldur's Gate 3, of a pinkish/red tiefling woman with curved horns, and black scale markings on her face. She has bright glowing orange eyes.

The same character, a reddish-pink tiefling rendered in colour pencil.

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ahdok @socksandpuppets.com · 01/09/2026

Here's an example. This is a storyboard drawing that Rian Johnson made for Knives out, alongside the actual scene from the film. That simple sketch is all the director needed to convey the idea, and he trusted his team to do the rest. If he needed adjustments later, he could tell them.

Two images.

The top image shows a simplified stick figure drawing of a woman with a neutral tone sitting in a chair, surrounded by a large number of knives pointing in her direction. It's amateurish, but it conveys the emotion of the scene.

The bottom image is a still from the knives out movie, showing actress Ana de Armas sitting in the centre of the frame while hundreds of knives are seemingly suspended in air, all pointing towards her head.

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ahdok @socksandpuppets.com · 26/08/2026

For anyone arriving late, here's the post that was quoted, so you can still follow what Ben's saying:

A text post that reads as follows:

"bsky isnt ready for this but, if you need a reason to not use words like "clanker" that isn't "well its kinda not a great thing to do" (it isn't) imagine this:

future model that has you in its training data, knows you posted that word online with joy, and denies your insurance claim as a result"

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At the end of the day, it's always been this, just change the outgroup once a decade.

A cartoon. Three men sit in a room. One man sits to the left wearing a T-shirt, head on his hand staring down at the table.

One man to the right is dressed as a construction worker or builder in high vis and a hard hat. He looks pensive, and in front of him there is a plate with a single cookie.

Between them sits Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch has a plate stacked high with cookies in front of him. He looks the construction worker in the eye while pointing at the other man and says "Careful mate... that foreigner wants your cookie!"

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You have a megoosa OC? I love her.

A comic depicting various gorgon variants with different animals for hair, including an anemone, caterpillars, geese, and giraffes.

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Dragons plus goblins you say???

My local art shop, tindalls (Cambridge UK) sell playing-card sized art cards in packs of 50. They're 325GSM and a nice surface to draw on, and pretty cheap. That'd also be a great resource. I normally use them to make power cards for DnD4e, my wife's in a campaign right now, so here's an example.

A photo of a set of playing-card sized art cards laid out on a table.

The middle of the image shows an A5 image of a DnD character "Lumen" who is a mousy librarian looking human women with a manic grin and a huge axe.

Below the artwork are some of the implements that were used to create the art, a unipin pigment liner, a Spoke Design mechanical pencil, a Caran D'ache Luminance pencil and a Faber Castell Polychromos pencil.

In the top right corner is a little card that says "Certificate for: 1 character design consult, 1 set full art powercards." These cards were made as a gift.

I saw some papers a while ago showing that a high proportion of the outputs of the better models highly resemble a single original image, or a "paintover" of a single image... but of course unless you're familiar with that exact image you'll be unable to tell that. Here's an example:

A promotional photograph of queen Guinevere taken for the BBC show "Merlin"

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My current working plan is to use tiles I made. Each tile is a cheap wooden coaster for arts'n'crafts with a cheap paper coaster glued to it.

A photograph showing three coasters with pictures of a grassy field, arranged in a line. Groups of miniatures are at each end.

ahdok @socksandpuppets.com · 23/08/2026

I've now seen the whole game (hooray! although also sad there's no more), you can feel free to tell me anything you experienced in the game without spoiling me. :)

A steam screenshot showing the big walk game and the rosette that says 100% achievements have been obtained.

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Oh, I missed the part where it said 2026 specifically. I think all of those are from 2024? Here's some from 2026

A dwarf, with square, angular, chalky dreadlocks.

A comic where each panel shows me greeting a tree, in the four seasons (spring, summer, autumn, winter) - it is captioned "greeting seasons."

An urchin girl with very poofy red hair.

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ahdok @socksandpuppets.com · 23/08/2026

Hello, I'm ahdok. I draw comics, cute characters and DnD stuff. Here's a little of my art. I draw my stuff with traditional media, bristol board, pigment liner, colour pencils.

Konsi the goblin, dressed as a witch for Halloween.

A comic resembling a CAPTCHA challenge, it shows two guards standing in front of two doors, and asks the reader to select all squares containing "guards that always lie."

It is ambiguous whether some of the squares contain parts of the respective guard.

A girl wearing a ballgown (it's a gown made of balls)

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ahdok @socksandpuppets.com · 23/08/2026

Anyway, thanks for the conversation! Lots to think about. Here's one of those "make a dumb joke" drawings by way of thanks.

A woman wearing a shoulderless dress made entirely of brightly coloured spheres that somewhat resemble ballpit balls.

It's captioned "Ballgown."

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ahdok @socksandpuppets.com · 21/08/2026

I'm reminded of the one time I ordered Dominos and the website finished up the order with this screen:

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ahdok @socksandpuppets.com · 20/08/2026

I generally trust Faber Castell and have no reason to doubt their lightfastness ratings. However, I have some swatches up on the window to test lightfastness, so I might as well toss the new polychromos colours up too. We'll see if anything weird happens, even though we expect nothing exciting.

Colour swatches of the 20 new polychromos colours, cut into strips with a test strip and a control strip.

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ahdok @socksandpuppets.com · 19/08/2026

I wasn't sure if I should draw black pupils or not (turns out the answer was "not"), but I made a version with black pupils first, so here is that version :)

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ahdok @socksandpuppets.com · 19/08/2026

It's done! Congratulations to @skullytrickybonez.bsky.social with their bee character Queen Pollenia

Artwork of Skully's character Queen Pollenia, a bee queen with a strong personality.

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ahdok @socksandpuppets.com · 17/08/2026

Found you through Communani, always like new artists to follow, and congrats on the 1k! This is Konsi, and she regularly changes her clothes (although she likes fancy dresses in white or green with gold accents), and she regularly changes her hair (although she usually has a lot of hair.)

A drawing reference sheet, showing a goblin in a fancy frilly white dress.

Many alternative outfits for Konsi the goblin.

ahdok @socksandpuppets.com · 17/08/2026

I read documents then use my brain to understand them. (With the energy of the scene below.)

A pair of screenshots from the Simpsons.

The first shows Kirk Van Houten (Milhouse's dad) saying "I sleep in a racing car. Do you?"

The second shows Homer responding "I sleep in a big bed with my wife."

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ahdok @socksandpuppets.com · 15/08/2026

Big fan of these cars though:

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ahdok @socksandpuppets.com · 14/08/2026

I would like them to please stop. This could have been an email

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ahdok @socksandpuppets.com · 12/08/2026

Zoominoes is a lot of fun, but it's still pretty buggy, (I end up reporting a bug during most sessions.) @zoominoes.bsky.social Still I've had a great time with it, and it's worth a look.

A screenshot of the achievements page from Zoominoes, showing an achievement (Director Collector) that has been completed, but not unlocked.

While most of my tokens I just drew as busts, a couple of them are cropped out of full body art, including this one ;)

A sharply dressed goblin in a waistcoat, shirt and tie, with a curved knife.

So, these are up on my window now. Results will come sometime around March. Here's a high-res scan of the colours I used.

A high resolution scan of the colours being tested.

Derwent Lightfast amber gold
Caran D'Ache Luminance 350
Polychromos 199, 129, 113, 167
Staedtler Ergosoft 20, 1
Irojiten P1
Copic Ciao Y38

This is a simple, testable, hypothesis: "Fixative sprays can protect your artwork from fading in sunlight." Sarah was thorough in her documentation, which gives me a solid starting point. I can take a few colours that faded in her tests, a few that didn't, and test them in similar conditions.

A photograph showing some swatches of various colour pencils, and some fixative sprays.

My initial observations are interesting. *some* of the old art on my wall has faded, and other art hasn't. I think the difference is that after the first few years of drawing, I picked up some "fixative spray" that I started applying to any piece I drew that I intended to be displayed. This stuff.

Winsor&Newton professional fixative spray.