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Zathsu @zathsu.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I'm a deaths-head hawkmoth actually. #art #artist #sona #moth #oc

A bipedal deaths-head hawkmoth of brownish-black coloration and orange stripes.

Zathsu @zathsu.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Im so sad that bluesky doesnt just have a basic spoiler option. I did Deltarune Chapter 3 fan art but dont want to post it so soon without a spoiler tag RAAARGH #deltarune #deltarunech3 #deltarunechapter3

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Harmony @the-funi-harm-guy.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Me alongside 20 of my favorite characters that I've made over the years for my 20th birthday. It's on June 9th, but y'all can have this a bit early :3 #art #artist #collage #oc #ocsky #birthday

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Zathsu @zathsu.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Sorry I havent posted as much recently. I've been working on a huge project that I'd love to share more about as it gets closer to completion!! ;)

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Zathsu @zathsu.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

If video games have taught me anything, its not to underestimate the efficacy of a crowbar as a weapon. Protagonist for a side project of mine that I probably care about the least LOL. Same one as Saiga is from. Drew a while ago but forgor to post. #art #artist #oc #ocsky #robot #characterart

An artifical shell with pointed limbs and digitigrade legs. A glowing purple diamond shaped aperture is in the center of its chest. A crowbar is affixed by braces to its right arm. Its pentagonal faceplate can open to reveal disgusting meat and a singular eyeball beneath.

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Lapis 🟢 @lapissedl4zuli7.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Sooo, @zathsu.bsky.social mentioned a while back that she and some friends are working on a card game; I'm one of those friends, wahoo. Here's some art I made for a few cards: Bloodbender, Ravenous Hydra, Tumulton the Tank, and Hammerhead Dragon. #cardgame #cardart #art #artist #oc #ocsky

Bloodbender - A woman with a skull-like mask and a large hood, along with robes that glow orange. Her arms also have glowing red markings as well, especially on her sleeveless left arm. She wields a dagger that glows red; combined with her open right hand, which has an obscured cut in its palm, she manipulates blood around herself. Her robes and even her face are splattered with blood. In front of her neck on her hood she wears a Demonic emblem of a red bovine head with a pentagram.

Ravenous Hydra - A blue, three-headed hydra with short, sprawled legs and a long fishlike tail in the background. It lives in a swampy jungle in front of awaterfall. Two of its heads are tugging at a shred of meat while one looks on, jaws agape. In front of the hydra is the half-eaten head and neck of a smaller hydra (another card in the game, by the name of "Incomplete Hydra" since it only has one head). The Ravenous Hydra has numerous scars all over it, likely from fighting with other dragons.

Tumulton the Tank - A gigantic, reanimated corpse of a humanoid warrior against a nondescript red background. Both arms are reduced to sinewy muscles, with its right arm unravelling into a series of tentacles. Its face bears a large rhinoceros-like horn and numerous eyes, one of which has two pupils. Various parts of its armor glow with a pale, necrotic energy. Stabbed into its armor and body at random points are numerous weapons like arrows, swords, and harpoons. Only an exaggeratedly thin spinal column connects its two halves together. On one part of the armor on its left arm it bears the Monstrous emblem of a Lovecraftian single-eyed cephalopod-like creature.

Hammerhead Dragon - A large dragon in a volcanic, underground landscape. So-called because not only do its eyes protrude sideways like a hammerhead shark, its two horns and large, square head also resemble a hammer. The upper half of its body is protected with numerous small spikes.

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Zathsu @zathsu.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

"Mother Narul will guide us to victory, for she has been taught in the arts of the void by the First Teacher. If Kilmatyka and her Ironclads march south, the Illumoran people will not be subjugated again. So decree the Heirs of Sorrow." #art #artist #oc #ocsky #postapocalyptic #fantasy #atwnm

A figure in blue garments with a veil over her face extends a hand charged with black magic toward the forehead of another kneeling figure in blue robes. They are together perched on a cliffside overlooking rolling hills, in the moonlit night.

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Zathsu @zathsu.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

i believe ive mentioned the card game some friends and i have been working on. i enlisted myself to do the card art for THEINOS - WORSHIPPED IDOL, the hero representing the Demonic + Divine class combo. They demand your total and unwavering devotion. #cardgame #cardart #art #artist #oc #ocsky

An obsidian figure with a golden helm and horns stands with arms outstretched. They wear a yellow robe and wield a golden and obsidian scythe. Pale yellow and red wings stretch from their back. A glowing pink pentagram is affixed behind their head.

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Zathsu @zathsu.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

A warrior queen that as of Laraprim's apocalyptic modern day seeks to conquer all of the nations and environs weakened in the fallout of the Dormancy Period. Eccentric to a fault, and claims heritage to a storm deity. #art #artist #oc #ocsky #worldbuilding #postapocalyptic #fantasy #atwnm

A heavily armored figure that in body structure resembles an arthropodal centaur. She wields in one hand a large electrified spear, and in the other a spiked shield. Purple banners hang from her armor.

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Zathsu @zathsu.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

OC lore train. Explain OC lore in the dumbest way possible! "Now, I know I came to YOUR kingdom and lied about everything I was going to do to help you out, but if I'm gonna become a god now that the sun is dead I HAVE to turn you all into monsters, thats just how it is." #art #oc #ocsky #arttrain

Halfbody drawing of an armor clad man from a slight low angled perspective. His helmet has many eyeholes, coiling horns, and fangs. His shoulderpads like the skulls of beasts. A pair of fake ornamental arms fold over his chest.

The same man as before but in a full body drawing, with magical claws projected over his raised hand.

The same character as before, now sitting on a throne in a dark room. Two monstrous beings peer from around the backside of his chair, one with wings and one with an anglerfish-like flaming lure.

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Zathsu @zathsu.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Took a departure from my usual style to experiment with simple silhouette-oriented design in three shades. Which of these twelve enemy types are YOU?? #conceptart #art #fantasy #creaturedesign #oc #ocsky #roguelike #elementology

Twelve antagonistic creatures drawn in only three shades of red to show different layers of depth.

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WIZARD-WORLD @wizard-world.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Howdy y'all 👋🧙‍♂️ redesigned my dragons 🐉 #fantasy #scifi #dragon #wizard #world #cryptozoology

I’m still working on it, but I have decided to lean further into avian traits for my dragons, due to their gizzards. (They swallow the crystals of Hollow Earth as gizzard stones.)

When an older dragon is slain, these stones can be repurposed as crystal balls for communication and magical conduits.

Wizards rely on crystal balls for communication, as prolonged mana use tends to fry most modern electronics over time.

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Zathsu @zathsu.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

There are no two things Saiga loves more than watching the menials dismantle each other over frivolities, and flaunting his immense wealth. Now praise him, before the Shell-Guards dent your cranium plate. Art for a small project I don't work on enough. #art #artist #oc #ocsky #dystopia #conceptart

A bipedal being with an artificial exterior resemblant of a goat stands in front of a bloodied purple curtain with an arm raised to a supposed crowd. Golden leaves fall from above. He is wrapped in a purple, white, and gold toga-like gown. Within his eyehole is seen stringy red flesh and a glowing purple eye.

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Zathsu @zathsu.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

wegghhh sometimes i feel like a bug on a stone that just got flipped over and exposed to the sunlight..

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Zathsu @zathsu.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

S'vylna the Ruin Prophet is a boss in NO SUN. A wyrm from beyond the stars in service to a hungry great one, she has assumed a humanoid disguise and infiltrated the church to goad them into hosting her offspring as part of a ritual of ascension. #art #artist #oc #fantasy #darkfantasy #soulslike

A pale woman-like figure in a red dress-like garment. Her hair is white and her eyes milked over. Two large snaggleteeth rest beside her lips. Her lower robe is flesh-like, and a tail peeks out beneath. Two wing-like flaps hang behind her body. She holds in her hand a bladed sicklestaff.

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Zathsu @zathsu.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I think I mentioned back on that one Riann portrait post that some friends and I have been working on a card game. These a few quick art pieces I've whipped up for some Divine cards in it. Gazing Gargoyle, Angel of War, Platinum Paragon, and Overambitious Crusader. #cardgame #art #artist #oc

A stony gargoyle leers down with an upturned chin. It is sitting in criss-cross position on the edge of a temple rooftop. Its visible eye glows golden.

A golden armored angel with a plume of fire, holding a longsword over its chest. White angelic wings emerge from its backside. Floating sky cathedrals loom in the golden sky behind it.

A platinum armored figure with three golden glowing eyes. Its helmet has crown and feather-like imagery, and wings of light sprout from its back. Its golden greatsword glows brilliantly, and a magical holy skull is gripped in its hand.

A silver armored crusader holds shield aloft to the camera, with a glowing sword raised overhead in its other hand. Beneath its helmet are glowing eyes. It wears a white tunic.

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Zathsu @zathsu.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

"Primarch", the chief of the Fallow Knights of Belisk. Wields a magic sword which can stretch like water with every slash. Drew her for International Womens Day since my friends love her so much for her past, which is an entire story unto itself. #art #artist #oc #ocsky #fantasy #worldbuilding

A woman clad in dark blue armor. She wears an eyepatch and a metal faceguard. She wears a purple cape and grips a black greatsword with both hands, enhanced by purple magic that flows like water.

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Zathsu @zathsu.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Drew some quick doodles for use in my bestiary. I may eventually go back and do all these creatures with the same effort as Frost Procession, but not rn. #art #artist #oc #folklore #cryptids #gamedesign #roguelike #fantasy

a bipedal moth with lanky limbs. it’s body is bluish-gray, with large black eyes and white fur.

the previous creature, shown as part of a stat table.

the top half of an elk made of wood, vines, and cloth.

the former creature, shown in a stat table.

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Zathsu @zathsu.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Commission for catify, who requested i link their toyhouse page: toyhou.se/catify Flat color piece of a gun-toting cigarette-smoking hitman. #art #artist #commissionart #commsopen #comms

A gray wolf/mainecoon hybrid wearing a jacket, black jeans, and boots. He's crouched on one knee, armed with a gun. A cigarette is sticking out of his mouth.

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Zathsu @zathsu.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I am doing a 33% DISCOUNT on character art for the first three commission clients this month. My pinned commission sheet lists other places to contact me, if not comfortable with Bsky DMs. #commsopen #commissions #commissionart #commissionsopen #art #artist

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Zathsu @zathsu.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

The Frost Procession is a trio of funerary ghouls that endlessly wander the frozen forest. A trio fight encounter composed of (from left to right) the Widower, the Pallbearer, & the Priest. #art #artist #oc #ocsky #undead #fantasy #darkfantasy #roguelike

A trio of icy ghouls dressed in tattered formal attire. The leftmost one wears a hat and tattered jacket, holding a bloodied shovel. The middle one wears a tattered white shirt and jacket, holding a gigantic bloodied casket. The last one wears priestly garments, holding an open bible.

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Zathsu @zathsu.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

NPC for NO SUN. Harriet is the last keeper of an ancient religious site that grows in power by finding and empowering Hearth Fragments throughout the world. She assists you behind the back of Aisha, who naturally wants to see you dead. #art #artist #oc #ocsky #fantasy #darkfantasy #soulslike

A woman with red hair & a silver tiara. She wears a multilayered beige robe wrapped in belts. Her hands, ankles, and neck are protected with evil-warding black gauze.

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Zathsu @zathsu.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Was requested to draw a badass banyan tree. I had never heard of these things before this, but I absolutely love how wild they are. #art #artist #tree #oc

Big banyan tree with all kinds of coiling aerial roots and a canopy of green leaves.

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Zathsu @zathsu.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

You know you're in the thick of it when you start drafting the rules for fucking map generation in your roguelike that will never exist. Though I have actually been thinking about this potentially being something I could GM through text. Its that tight knit #oc #roguelike #gamedesign #gamemechanics

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Zathsu @zathsu.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Another boss for the roguelike I've been posting about recently, THE NUCKELAVEE. It was the most foul thing that could have emerged from the seas, and has tainted the valley with its pestilent presence. #art #artist #oc #nuckelavee #folklore #fantasy #darkfantasy #roguelike

A skinless horse with visible bones, covered in stray strands of kelp. A fish tail with veiny fins hangs behind it. The skinless torso of a humanoid with elongated arms and a veiny cape of flesh is attached to its back.

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Zathsu @zathsu.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Turned that Riann halfbody drawing from yesterday into a dialogue box mockup for a card game some friends and I have been developing featuring our worldbuilt settings and projects. The site is definitely too shit to format it like this though #art #artist #oc #ocsky #fantasy #cardgame #gamedesign

An armored man leers down, with one hand raised. His helmet has many eyeholes, spiraling horns, and fangs. His pauldrons resemble beast skulls, and a small pair of fake arms wrap around his chest. Blue cloth is tied by belts around his waist.

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Zathsu @zathsu.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

A mockup of the combat screen for one of the possible areas you could get as your second act in my conceptual roguelike, Six Days. Fear the unsanitized & suffocating stretches of THE MIRED VALLEY. #oc #art #conceptart #artist #gamedesign #environment #roguelike

A suffocating swampy environment. Knee-deep water runs through the center, where thick murky green brush lines the pool's sides. Contorted pale trees twist into a dense canopy, and vines swing themselves through the foreground. Yellow lights peer from the darkness yonder the treeline.

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Zathsu @zathsu.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Commission for @heyashera.bsky.social, of a creature that appears in a book they are publishing. The effort that went into this piece was definitely worth it! :D #commission #commissionart #art #artist #creaturedesign

A large three headed reptilian creature with foliage-covered necks stands in the middle of a fenced off plantation. A small dead creature has been chomped in the neck in front of a bush. Houses and a treeline loom in the background.

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Zathsu @zathsu.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Halfbody drawing I did of Riann again simply because I wanted to. Perhaps I do play favorites with some of my characters, especially my villains. ☠️ #art #artist #oc #ocsky #fantasy #darkfantasy #soulslike #villain #nosun

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Zathsu @zathsu.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

i have so much fun conceiving things for video games that will never exist #oc #gamedesign #gamemechanics #roguelike

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Zathsu @zathsu.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

IT WASNT JUST ABOUT SURVIVAL ANYMORE. IT WAS ABOUT BEING CORRECT. She was content to know that all would be slew & put to rights, in the unforgiving dark of the last eclipse. #art #artist #worldbuilding #oc #ocsky #monochrome #postapocalyptic #fantasy #darkfantasy

A monochrome piece of a horned figure with a deer-like skull, looming over a star against the background of space. One of their hands is replaced by a head, which is seen biting into the star.

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Zathsu @zathsu.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Everyone loves ghastly warrior women lugging around gigantic weaponry!! A zealous undead crusader that has earned the favor of all three houses of the Kingdom of Arandar. Has beheaded at least one demigod. #oc #ocsky #armoredwomen #art #artist #darkfantasy #postapocalypse #fantasy #skeleton

A ghastly undead woman wearing armor with skeletal motifs. A blue scarf drapes the upper sections of her chestplate. Blue cloth hangs down from her belt at the front and side. Holds in both hands a gigantic axe, the banner of which is a stream of spectral weaponry. Two more spectral weapons sit on her backside.

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✨🖤Alphyrawrus ✨🖤 @oldalph.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Impressed isopod as a gift #art #bug

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Zathsu @zathsu.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Slots open again for another wave of commissions. The first set was a test run to get a feel for my pace. That plus demand has unfortunately resulted in me raising prices a smidge. Feelin more final about these ones though. :) #opencomms #commissions #art #artist #commissionsopen #oc #ocsky

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Zathsu @zathsu.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I've finished all of my current commissions. Some clients have requested the work/posting be delayed for now, however. But despite what my visible output suggests, do rest assured that TOMORROW I will be reopening my comm slots (with updated pricing). #commissions #opencomms #commsopen #art #artist

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Zathsu @zathsu.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Oh god, quick Six Days guy! Run to the right side of the arena!! Oh no they cant hear us, they paid the Whisperer in Darkness with their sense of hearing on the last Emporium tile :( Quick sloppy mockup with the boss I posted yesterday. #art #artist #oc #conceptart #roguelike #darkfantasy #fantasy

An androgynous shadowy figure in a trenchcoat holding a machete stands opposite a horrific meat angel with prosthetic limbs. They are inside of the crumbling remains of a skyscraper. Four magical swords made of light hang above the shadowy figure and the arena spaces around them, ready to fall.

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Zathsu @zathsu.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

A boss for the roguelike idea I was posting about before, THE COMPLETED ONE. An artificial being cultured from the cells of a dead hero - to re-manufacture the birthright to wield Caliburn. Fought at the top of an abandoned skeletionized skyscraper. #art #artist #oc #roguelike #darkfantasy #fantasy

A bloodied skinless torso covered in mechanical prosthetics. Its forearms & legs are mechanical, and its lower face is obscured by a metal mask. Tubes run along its body between metallic bracing, and some broken ones dangle behind its legs. A spike covered bloody halo is kept affixed to its head by threads of red meat. Has glowing white wings & mentally commands a meat-laden greatsword.

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Zathsu @zathsu.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Been working on some quick mockup art for a roguelike project I've been conceptualizing on-and-off for the past year or so. #art #artist #oc #conceptart #roguelike

A basic combat mockup. Eight spaces in a line, set against an environmental scene. Player can begin in any of the left four spaces, enemies will be arranged initially in the right four. And then from there, over the course of combat, anyone can move anywhere. Two entities can occupy one space at a time.

The protagonist character, an androgynous shadowy fella in a trench coat. Their starting weapon each run is a machete.

Tile icons for the map screen, which functions sort of like Slay the Spire. These would be arranged randomly in branching paths connected by dotted lines that eventually unite at the end of the area in a boss fight.

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Zathsu @zathsu.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Aisha is a boss in NO SUN. Once the head of the church that worshipped Cyranus, she has in truth lost her faith after seeing her former godking's zealotry invoke the apocalypse. Now she preaches the return of a new god she can reign beside. #art #artist #oc #soulslike #fantasy #nosun #darkfantasy

A slender woman in golden armor with an ornamental crown-like wrapping around her head. A cloth drapes behind her body. Her neck, arms, and legs are wrapped in a grayish gauze. She wears sandals, and grips in both of her hands a glowing saber held in a low guard. Her face is obscured by a vacant darkness. Her left hand and upper arm are burnt.

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monmon @m0nstrosity.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

hihi! my commissions have technically been always open but i decided to make it official & make a commission sheet. let's give this a shot! ignore the tag spam lol. reposts are appreciated <3 #commissions #commissionsopen #opencommissions #art #artist #oc #ocsky #promosky #opencomms

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Raahek @raahek.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Concept of guardian executioner that I did a while ago. His name is Auruilis. From my personal project... again, and next pircture will be probably from the same project as well. Ops. #fantasy #darkfantasy #guardian #creature #characterdesign #conceptart #dnd #monster #soulslike #creaturedesign

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Zathsu @zathsu.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Enemy type in NO SUN. One of the final stages of Civartan ascension, wherein the seedwyrm larva and the devout host fully admix. They remain confined to the cellar of the chapel, fed ruinous dregs by those who pray to one day join them. #fantasy #artist #nosun #art #soulslike #oc #darkfantasy

Colossal worm-like creature with milky gray eyes. Its pale flesh is pocked in scars, and open mouths. The skin around its lips have entirely flaked off revealing open red wounds. Two uselessly small wings emerge from its back. It has spindly human arms and hands, upon the wrists of which are worn silver bracelets. Tiny legs with human feet emerge halfway down the body. Frayed reddish cloth drapes over the creature's body in a number of places. Black tar drools from its many mouths.

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✨🖤Alphyrawrus ✨🖤 @oldalph.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Foot soldiers for the church of blood are done ^^ #art #worldbuilding #ocs

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Zathsu @zathsu.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

After many years of myself & friends telling me I should, I have decided to open commissions. No clue how in demand this is going to be, so I'll impose some kind of limit later on if it becomes problematic. #commissions #commissionsopen #opencommissions #opencomms #art #artist #oc #ocsky

Page 1 of the commission sheet, detailing the prices and intricacies of character artwork.

Page 2 of the commission sheet, detailing the pricing of different degrees of background or scene complexity.

Page 3 of the commission sheet, with the rules & terms of service, alongside additional examples.

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