idk lol probably depends on the character
Kay | 25 | She/It | Resident kobold artist who hardly even draws kobolds 🧡 @wrenzyart.bsky.social 🧡 Sprite artist on Blanksword (Previously on Aethershot)
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idk lol probably depends on the character
Isaac (the cat) is the child of a warzone and fled his homeland at a young age during which he lost his mother. Branlin is the heir to the dragon kingdom that waged war on isaac's home. she ran away at a young age around when things started to get bad and hasn't gone back bsky.app/profile/kobo...
Way to many of them to list lol
not really funny but Isaac can mimic multiple bird calls perfectly. Was used for secret communication by soldiers in the war and he picked up on it. Zee sometimes zones out for several days straight and responds to nothing Branlin’s afraid of heights despite being able to fly Idk about Maya lol
VIVI was a part of an experimental line of bioengineered dragon mutants created to withstand the harsh conditions of the wasteland to be able to ferry heavy goods and supplies across it! This comic touches on other concepts around them bsky.app/profile/kobo...
Are you perhaps talking about VIVI? The big red one with the 4 arms and snail shell house thing?
Zee: their sword. It’s an antique that they’ve held onto for ages. Can’t even remember where they got it. Maya: her soul lantern. It’s a symbol of defiance and her survival. Isaac: his mom’s helmet Branlin: a saber tooth beast plushie she lost when running away. Isaac makes a good replacement though
Well to be fair we’ve only seen the dragon queen silhouetted. Maybe she’s not all purple!
Probably Jira. Literally all purple kobold with bright purple eyes and a purple amulet
Probably Isaac! She was the first OC I designed for my comic way back in 2016 (or maybe 17 I can’t remember) and she was just kind of a boring scaredy cat nerd but then I paired him up with a big dragon that was the heir to the kingdom responsible for his mom’s death and it all just fell in place
isaac: anti-magic spells (he carries a charm that can dispel powerful magic, but it needs to be recharged after individual uses) maya: soul magics. especially spells that use souls to create animated constructs or apparitions. zee: fire magic. me:
only drawing from the pool of characters i've actually shown in art before, probably this one! who i wont say much about because we wont properly meet/see her until much later in my comic
drawn by someone with beautifully fluffy hair irl (me!)
Rad
i never gave them a name i dont think! unfortunately i suck at names and only come up with them either on a total whim or when i'm forced to for story reasons lol
isaac maya branlin zee killian and a few others all have met or will meet. rad meets leo and june's band during her travels in the wasteland and helps them set up a radio station! there's others but i dont wanna be name dropping random characters nobody would know lol
probably Beryllia. she's the emerald dragon soldier deserter who teams up with a weird angry kobold to kill fascists
Rad - creepy Isaac - wet branlin - wet zee - creepy maya - creepy Lyre - despite being a creepy weird psychic mutant, is wet i use wet here in the way someone would describe a character as a sopping wet creature with glooby teary eyes
gosh too many to count. i dont draw my robot ocs as much as i used to but like. literally dozens of them. I've been drawing robots for almost as long as i've been drawing
cant sleep. ask about my characters if you want and i'll give annoyingly verbose answers
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All of my characters exist in the same canon actually hehe But yeah there are time and location disparities for sure
Woke up with a BRC sequel. Woke up with a Hyperfunk
The music in this game consistently blows my mind so if you haven’t had time to play the demo/aren’t sure about supporting the kickstarter yet, I urge you to listen to the demo soundtrack to get a taste of the incredible vibes! (There’s also a playlist on the channel if you want individual tracks)
I definitely don’t draw her enough 😔
Abyssal
Incredibly Rare Kobold Factory Sonic Art Post
oughhh the agony. one of those nights where you just wanna scream endlessly into the void. i'm okay but very upset at the world and several other things lol
I've been wearing my hair in a ponytail a lot lately so I made some quick doodles of my sona with one!
i ended up getting sleepy but i appreciate all of the replies! giving me fuel for the morning! also warms my heart that people actually know the names of a lot of my characters, including the more obscure ones
Was it the one with the fire hair? That’s 22. The little kobold ones are 07s because they go “o7” before following orders
Which of my OCs do you wanna see more of especially? I’m not set on anything to draw just yet
I’m feeling rather dire so I gotta make cool drawings to counteract it
I should draw tonight
Just something I needed to get out of my system
Waxing pulls the hairs out at the root so they grow back slower and also don’t leave black dots and stubble! It hurts a lil and is more time consuming but it makes me feel better and can thin out hair growth over time.
so funny that my depression was causing me to neglect taking care of my face (i.e. waxing and shaving) so then having facial hair contributed massively to feelings of dysphoria which only heightened my already bad depression. Anyways i waxed my face yesterday and im cute! 30% positive mood boost
Or, if you *have* played the demo and have been looking for a place to listen to the music: here ya go! lol
The music in this game consistently blows my mind so if you haven’t had time to play the demo/aren’t sure about supporting the kickstarter yet, I urge you to listen to the demo soundtrack to get a taste of the incredible vibes! (There’s also a playlist on the channel if you want individual tracks)
although to the very end of the game there were several things i think should not have done 2 damage that did lmao
Okie I have officially beat Silksong. Might be my goty tbh not sure yet. I need to ruminate a little. Despite having a brutal early game I just kept growing to love the game more and more the longer I played. Real phenomenal stuff. I may go into specifics at some point in the future but not now!
Glad you’re having so much fun with it!
the energy today has been electric! thank you all for the support! let's try to keep up the momentum yeah? take a look at the demo if you wanna know what the game is all about! and the kickstarter! i made some art for the page itself too! not just some sprites in the demo. awawa blanksword
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Oughhh hell yeah it’s raining really heavy outside rn and I’m soaking in the vibes
Me when someone asks me what pronouns I use other than she:
Sometimes. Art is like this
Bonus bad points if there’s a long cutscene before the boss every time
Super sucky feeling like top 23 bad feelings is when you show up at a new boss battle and almost beat it first try through sheer luck and then every subsequent try you get stomped like instantly lol
Blanksword Tomorrow ‼️
Thanky!! And yeah I’ve been on the team for I think a year?? Exciting stuff!
Blanksword tomorrow
fingers hurt from playing silksong for too long without breaks but i wanna keep playing it!! the real path of pain was the broken fingers we made along the way
The setup for it is fucked though lmaooo that’s all I’ll say
Just had a realization that I could have a sequel to Aster’s Story that would be actually wild but I can’t talk about it in any way that doesn’t massively spoil everything about the current game and a bunch of other stuff. Cool realization though. Logging that for Later
Every time I draw my sona anxiously tugging at her ears they get longer in the next drawing. It’s the rules.
When listening to my old music there’s an entire era that’s like heavily mixed towards the left because my headphones were broken and the left speaker was really quiet and I didn’t realize it wasn’t a problem with the synths I was using lol.
I fell asleep before I could decide to delete it or not so I guess it’s staying up. Woe, my emotional state be upon ye.
constant mood as of late (might delete later i just wanted to eject this into reality)
Can’t draw with that one
only some of it!! i was only brought on like this year to work on it. There are several artists working on the game! i can probably talk more about what i specifically did after the kickstarter actually launches (i'd have to ask for permission though).
i see any shiny object and i have to put it in my mouth. it's the kobold way. unfortunately, lots of shiny objects in this world are cursed u_u
I lived.
Undertale...
AAAAAA I hate fall allergies!!! My eyes feel like they have needles stabbing into them every 30 seconds it suuucks!
It’s almost time!!!! The team has been working their asses off leading up to this! You can even see two whole things I worked on in this sick trailer! Please go wishlist on steam and follow the Kickstarter!
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It’s very very rare that my headspace and motivation align to actually make vent art. I have to work very quickly and finish before I decide that it’s stupid and it loses all of the catharsis.
Just something I needed to get out of my system
I should get rewarded for continuing persevere against the odds every day. Like. With a hundred bucks or something. Actually in this economy? Make it 200.
It’s so funny how weird my sleep schedule is now. My like 8 hour “work day” where I focus on stuff tends to go from 12AM-8AM nowadays lol
Silksong might be going up there into one of my favorite games I think actually. Holy crap.
Ooohhh my grain
I literally want to dress in frilly dresses with armor parts attached and like a sick decorative helmet all the time. I don’t wanna look human when I’m out in public
I was just looking over my wardrobe and lamenting the fact that I basically only have 2 skirts and one dress that I like but it has a weird stain around the neck that won’t come out.
God I need money so I can start buying fancy dresses and stuff
Thing that kinda sucks is that the few little personal art pieces I’ve managed to make lately are all like super late spoilery stuff for both my game and my comic so I can’t really post them here *or* on Patreon. So sorry if my account has been mostly reposts as of late save for a couple doodles
I also need to finish the art i started working on a while ago of Branlin dive-tackling isaac and like plopping her head down on top of his. getting the arms to look right was a struggle so i kinda gave up lol.
I need to draw Isaac and Branlin being stupid together and getting into shenanigans more. They're both smart and creative but also *very* clumsy in their own unique ways. they're very silly
it was a blast watching you!! really brightened my day
Ehehe I’m glad you finally got to see it in gameeee
genuinely have yet to encounter better it/its rep in a game. It’s so me. I think about it all the time. Rotatandsquishkiss it in my brain zone
*sighing wistfully* Oh Huzzlemug…..
Gosh i still love the perspective and posing on this piece. I drew it like shortly after I came out as trans. (okay done posting old art for now lol, hope you enjoyed)
Shout out to the time I turned my elden ring character into a dragon. This was before I came out as trans so you could consider this a proto-sona in a roundabout way.
Was going through old art and found this sick one-off design i made back in 2021. I may hate the way a lot of my art looked like back then but conceptually, whatever the heck this thing is, it rules.
Togore-tastic
Happy 3-year anniversary to Don't Play Defense #Art #Pride
She had a giant laser beam cannon. So she could vaporize me and I’d never have to worry about being tired again! Yippee!!
Killian canonically has lightning powers and a robot arm. So him probably.
Like girl!!!! It is 5:30AM. GO TO BED. Stop poasting on bsky about why you’re sad and can’t draw. You can draw better tomorrow if you aren’t a tired empty husk!
No I do need a robot for that too 😔
well I don’t have one lol. I need someone to make one then yeah sure
I need like a big evil robot that zaps me whenever I get sad and sleep deprived to prevent me from making weird esoteric posts about my current headspace lamenting my lack of time and energy to do fun stuff.
ngl i was having kind of a miserable dogshit horrible kind of night, but just kinda going back and looking through my old art and seeing all of the progress I've made and thinking about the memories I've created along the way really helped me. I feel a lot more relaxed and at peace now.
Gosh i still love the perspective and posing on this piece. I drew it like shortly after I came out as trans. (okay done posting old art for now lol, hope you enjoyed)
Shout out to the time I turned my elden ring character into a dragon. This was before I came out as trans so you could consider this a proto-sona in a roundabout way.
while looking through my old art i realized i used to draw Rad with like glowing neon green claws on her not robot hand. that was sick i should bring that back
I used to do like daily character design challenges so there were a lot of funky one off designs back then. Some of them stuck around! A lot didn’t. I think Rad and a few others like June and Leo were originally just random one off doodles with no greater concept or plan.