the crotovanian atelier

this is a reverse chronological history of most of art i've produced to date. dates on some artwork may be inaccurate; a majority of these were dated retroactively through file properties or when i posted these on socials. all of these pieces took multiple iterations and many many days to complete regardless.

content warnings

this page contains suggestive artwork but anything explicitly pornographic has been cropped. i wanted to create a toggle for this, but labelling my art as sfw or not seemed like a useless task since my perception of my artwork is skewed and i honestly can't differentiate between horny and not most of the time. if you are under 18 please bring a signed parent permission slip

some art may contain blood (as decoration, no gore)

scar looking to the side as a sihlouetted figure looks at her from behind

2024 dec 11

vitas in a trenchcoat overlooking a rocky shoreline, an incoming ship in the distance. he is holding a musket.

2024 dec 08

2024 dec 08 — my least favorite thing about drawing ocs is coming up with outfits. i'm the most dripless motherfucker irl how am i suposed to dress up other people

kiryu grabs a crumb off majima's beard; majima stares deeply into him

2024 nov 22

a blonde bearded man depicted in thick oils

2024 nov 18

an enshadowed man, save a spotlight revealing a wrinkled, tried eye

2024 nov 16 — new pfp designed to replace my old one, the paper mario thousand year door pig

haze from deadlock in silhouette dissolving into miasmic smoke as yellow light shines from under her

2024 oct 27 — first drawing with rebelle 7. i feel rejuvenated. pun intended

majima dressed like a pirate sitting very sluttily, again

2024 sep 23

2024 sep 13 — the dragon's dogma 2 character creator demo is probably the most successful i've been at creating likenesses for my characters. this is a study from a screenshot from that.

2024 aug 29 — these are retouched versions of the plush chibis i made for my 2024 artfight card.

a man reading a book on the ground while a girl braids his hair

2024 aug 20 — retouched version of a sketch done prior to artfight

iroh and zuko tending to the jasmine dragon

2024 aug 01 — for atla zine

2024 jul 30 — artfight attack

an enrobed older woman obscured by shadow and a large-brimmed hat

2024 jul 28 — artfight attack

a draconic kiryu kazuma peering at you through red fire

2024 jul 22 — artfight attack

a tall man caresses a crying girl with long purple hair

2024 jul 19 — artfight attack

an ornage moth person holds a lantern while a blue moth person watches over them

2024 jul 16 — artfight attack

two characters sharing a kiss while cooking a meal

2024 jul 13 — artfight attack

an office working ram takes a picture of her shirtless flexing boss against a wall of motivational posters

2024 jul 10 — artfight attack

a woman with yakuza irezmui tears off her jacket before goro majima on a rooftop

2024 jul 09 — artfight attack

a black tiefling wipes blood from their mouth

2024 jul 07 — artfight attack

a man stands atop a greek column holding a sword

2024 jul 03 — artfight attack

a woman on horseback points her gun and flings her scythe to the viewer, her enemy revealed in its reflection

2024 jul 02 — artfight attack

a purple demon in lawyer attire painted as saul goodman from the better call saul promo photo

2024 jul 01 — artfight attack

c. 2024

2024 jun 16

c. 2024 jun — took some charity commisions for palestine mid april and was initially really worried that it would be a flop since it was stagnant for a few weeks. but we raised a total of $150, so that was really nice.

c. 2024 jun

a man with a scarred forehead and no pupils

2024 may 30

2024 may 30

a old man with orange glasses and a black headwrap

2024 may 30

c. 2024 may — tried making more ocs before artfight but none stuck with me

a girl with auburn hair and a green dress

2024 may 20 — scar haircut

2024 apr 29 — love how this turned out

shinada from yakuza looks upon an idol concert and says 'can hardly make them out,' the second panel zoomed in on him about to cry saying 'i wonder if i looked that small too'

2024 apr 06 — yakuza 5 was so peak. i miss it.

ink-style tattoo drawings of a cat and a flower

c. 2024 apr — had a life crisis this year and thought about becoming a tattoo artist. i tried drawing traditionally in pen and it was so bad i almost cried.

a satyr with long blonde hair and brunette facial hair

2024 mar 28 — woodrow!

c. 2024 mar — i thought this was gonna be cute but a friend said vitas looks like he's sucking on dagon's tit so this is ruined now. thanks

doodles of majima from infinite wealth, but with more wrinkles

2024 mar 28

doodles of senshi from dungeon meshi, with and without helmet

2024 mar 26 — dungeon meshi was amazing and i miss it dearly

a man silhouetted against a burning ship

2024 mar 24

2024 mar 23

2024 mar 23

2024 mar 23

a satyr with long blonde hair and white-streaked facial hair

2024 mar 22 — first concept for woodrow. not sure why i gave him those dots. makes him look diseased

a drowned man washed up amidst crashing waves

c. 2024 mar

three pirates dressed in brown, grey, and maroon rags

2024 mar 16

two lighting studies of a pinterest image and saejima from yakuza

2024 mar 04

elf with a braided ginger beard and a bun

2024 jan 05 — my bg3 tav on a save that got corrupted. rip bozo

josuke and okuyasu dining at trussardi's trattoria

2024 jan 01 — for the cup of jojo zine

kiryu and majima sharing an angsty intimate moment

2023 dec 29 — a panel from an unfinished comic for a scene in the wanting weeks chapter 8. the wanting weeks is possibly the best piece of fiction i've ever read and if you like yakuza you need to read it.

a muscular man in beige and green robes with daggers in his belt

2023 dec 25

a girl with auburn hair wearing rags and gold necklaces

2023 dec 25

2023 nov 19

a woman in a luxurious latex dress and white furs

2023 sep 30 — my first proper commission!

a poster for a vampire flick called blood and guts

2023 sep 05 — for sanguine zine

2023 aug 06 — the artwork that deals the 2nd most psychic damage on this page. which is a shame because technically speaking this is very pretty! but much like that weird porn era, this came to be from being really desperate to make money on my art when i was unemployed so i tried getting into whatever adoptables are and this character didn't sell because of course it didn't. i'm sure people who do adoptables are nice but i saw some very insane shit on toyhouse so i noped out of that shit quickly lmfao.

the word crotovane drawn in an ornate font with medieval sword decorations

c. 2023 jul

a shirtless blacksmithing demon hammers a conveniently-placed sword on an anvil

2023 jul 27 — artfight attack

a warrior's armor gets shatters off of him, revealing bony scales

2023 jul 22 — artfight attack. i think i cried when i saw the original attack i got from this user. i this about this very often

a merfolk with a green tail, pink fins, and a trident

2023 jul 20

man with body tattos emerging from a growth of plants

2023 jul 18 — artfight attack

a buff catboy taking off his jacket (lol)

2023 jul 17 — artfight attack

2023 jul 15 — artfight attack

a grey elf shredding on a guitar with a stained glass window behind him

2023 jul 13 — artfight attack

a man in pirate gear bathing in his own hair

2023 jul 10 — artfight attack

a girl with long hair crawling in a graveyard

2023 jul 07 — artfight attack

bust of a man with neck and chest tattoos

2023 jul 06 — artfight attack

two doves sit atop the arm of a sickly man drooling blood

2023 jul 04 — artfight attack

a shirtless pirate sitting on the edge of a ship

2023 jul 02 — artfight attack

2023 jul 01 — artfight attack

2023 jun 30 — i tried making a fourth oc for artfight this year but i couldn't make her design interesting to me. i like this portrait though

a girl with body freckles long auburn hair

2023 jun 30 — scar in her femme era

2023 jun 29

a character sheet of a man with viking styled hair and monk clothing

2023 jun 26 — i discovered what artfight was only a few weeks before artfight this year so i had to RUSH to make references man. lmao.

a character sheet of a muscular man in pirate clothing

2023 jun 23 — im really proud of this tattoo design tbh

c. 2023 — (cropped) this was from my "weird porn era" aka the time when i tried to be an nsfw artist in 2023. i can confidently say that i'm never doing this again! i traced some random porno photographs from tumblr and slapped kiryu's face on them and the resulting art feels so soulless and exploitative. yes his whole cock is out and no you can't ask to see it.

c. 2023 — from that weird porn era

majima and kiryu oiled and wrestling. i don't know man.

c. 2023 — (cropped) from that weird porn era. majima's teeth piss me off so bad here. his face could've been perfect but his teeth aren't in perspective and it looks like his dentures are about to fall out -_-

topless raiden from metal gear with top scars, chibi sketch of sam eyes wide and blushing captioned 'live sam reaction'

c. 2023 (cropped) — i think this was for some secret santa but i'm lumping it here into the weird porn era. i have zero recollection of making this. in retrospect i'm not exactly sure how to feel about drawing something suggestive like this for someone i don't really know.

2023 jun 02 — why did i make his hands so big and weird and sausagey. ew

2023 may 25 — for a very cursed art trade

a man with ombre hair smiling and laughing

2023 apr 10

a cowgirl wearing leather face mask and a revealing studded jacket

c. 2023

c. 2023

a tan elf with green hair in pink furs and a they them pronoun pin

c. 2023 — paintover of a piece from 2022

unfinished sketches of four dnd characters

c. 2023 — never finished this :(

c. 2023

a goliath with face tattoos and roses in his hair

2023 mar 31 — paintover of a piece from 2022

a purple tiefling with light pink hair and a very pointed stare

2023 mar 31 — paintover of a piece from 2022

portrait of a purple triton with long green hair in a bun

2023 mar 31 — paintover of a piece from 2022

griffith and guts from berserk sitting in an open field

2023 mar 21 — someone on reddit called this ai generated but i'm not too miffed about it tbh. it's not that great

majima wearing a slutty corset with a fur coat and heels

2023 mar 08

snake from metal gear solid tending to his wounds in the russian jungle

2023 mar 08 — i almost got into the metal gear solid fandom but this was really the only fanart i drew lmao. maybe i should try to get back into it with mgs delta coming out

naked snake from snake eater standing holding his hands like with t-rex claws

c. 2023 — i lied i forgot about this. the way he stands in mgs3 is so strange. i love him

a child with an orange ball for a head drawing on a tablet

c. 2023

2023 mar 06 — i only colored and shaded this piece, the original sketch was done by fosworms and the linework was done by craneculture. this was a part of a larger collab which you can find here. this collab was fucking awesome man.

elliott from stardew valley wearing a period hat and holding a sunflower

2023 feb 27 — paintover of a piece from 2021. retrospectively not sure why i repainted this, the original was fine.

2023 feb 23 — paintover of a piece from 2021. also not sure why i repainted this, the original was fine...

2023 feb 22

two buffalo on the plains with trees and mountains behind them

c. 2023? — according to file properties this was allegedly last modified in febuary 2023 but i honestly don't believe that at all lol. this looks like it should've been with my other environment pieces in 2021? but i'm also a dumbass so who knows.

kiryu biting goromi's thong while grabbing her ass. this one was wild sorry fam

2022 dec 15 — based off that peter steel photoshoot. at the end of this semester some friends from class were sharing instagrams and since i don't have a personal ig the only social i could give them was my art account. which had this image on it. but none of them were weird about it though from what i remember? lmao

c. 2022

c. 2022

c. 2022

a buff man in extreme overhead gym lighting

c. 2022 — where the hell did his cleavage go

a pale man with long black hair in ornate dress

c. 2022 — study

a sackboy-styled kiryu inside the ono michio head

c. 2022 — zero clue when this was actually made, i posted it in june 2022 but i know it was floating in my digital sketchbook long before that.

majima busting out of his shirt with his hair down and a rose in his mouth

2022 feb 05 — i'm not a fan of this because it's a thinly veiled copy of another artist's piece that i no longer know how to find. i'm listing it here to acknowledge that & to see the progress i've made at realizing my original ideas. this was also a redraw/reinterpretation of a piece from 2021.

2022 feb 01

2022 feb 01

2022 feb 01

2022 jan 28

maddy from celeste climbing snowy mountains

2022 jan 17

2022 jan 16 — i was really proud of this when i finished it :)

a house amidst a forest, mountains in the distance

c. 2022 — study of some uncredited artwork from pinterest

a hiker on a mountain top, snow blowing off its peak

c. 2022 — study of @allonzimi

an oni-styled majima slicking blood off his katana

2022 jan 01

c. 2021

c. 2021

sketch of majima with long hair, sunglasses, and a black dress holding a cigarette

c. 2021

majima in a ripped crop top exposing his chest which does not have his tattoos because i was too lazy

c. 2021 — lol

sketches of kiryu and and okita (aka majima)

c. 2021

annasui from jojo's bizarre adventure looking scary

c. 2021 — why did i draw this

c. 2021 — dagon v1

sketches of a buff guy with long curly hair

c. 2021 — dagon v1

sketches of elliott from stardew valley smiling and laughing

2021 dec 27 — this is technically a 2023 (?) retouched version of the original from 2021 but the difference is so minimal that there's no point inculding both

okita laughing as his hair flows in the wind

2021 dec 26

2021 dec 17 — from an "artists draw this" post on twitter

a man wearing intricate hand jewelry biting his thumb with sketches of his face behind him

2021 dec 15 — this image gives me, bar none, the most psychic damage from any other artwork on this page. for backstory: this was for a class called digital composition projects (some artwork below was for this class) which was not even an art class, but for our final i chose to draw a comic of my oc's, which at this point were just character designs with no personalities or backstories. we had about a month to "research" for our projects and i only did research on technical comic composition; i did zero actual reading of real life short comics or one-shot manga, so i had no idea how to pace or go about writing or pacing anything about this chapter. the end result of this is so awful and half-baked and says nothing about anything and it's only 6 or so real pages and i think if i unearthed the actual comic pages from this i would die from cringe on the spot. i think i got a 100 on this. this caused me physical pain to find. anyway.

goromi painted in black and white with red accents on her irezumi tattoo

2021 sep 30 — anatomical errors galore but this was ambitious for me at the time, and this pose was from imagination rather than copying a pinterest photo so i think i should be proud of it

a cyborg pulling out their wires and plating

2021 sep 26 — for that digital project class, i forget what the prompt was

2021 sep 21

a guy climbing up stairs in a cave where a colossi sits at the top

2021 sep 20 — for that digital project class

majima with his ass in the air. i don't know.

2021 sep 23 — when the jacko challenge was a thing (i am cringing)

a decrepit city overrun with plants with billboards promoting nfts and crypto

2021 sep 10 — for that digital project class, this is super corny but this was when nfts were the big craze so it felt inspired at the time lmfao

dionysus from hades with zagreus' outfit, red light illuminating him evilly

2021 sep 09 — this was drawn for a random assignment in a mythology class. i think the idea was that in depending on the culture dionysus was the son of hades and persephone instead of zagreus? so i drew dionysus from hades but with the zagreus' outfit and an evil red light. the professor asked if she could use it for her slides on that topic in the future, which was really cool and i don't think i appreciated at the time. she was awesome. i wish i wasn't so mentally ill during this period so i could've enjoyed her classes more

2021 sep 04

majima wrapped in a snake with a flower coming out of his eye

2021 aug 27

a desert covered in miscellaneous shrubery with mountains in the distance

2021 aug 25

a character faces an evil version of himself in a miasmic cloud

2021 aug 23 — i remember being so proud that i started and finished this in less than a day

jolyne in a white dress sitting on stone architecture

c. 2021 aug — paintover of a piece from 2020

a green field enshadowed by a large tree in the foreground

2021 aug 08

a desert covered in miscellaneous shrubery

2021 aug 08

c. 2021 jul

2021 jul 26 — lmao

a crystalline tree growing from a field of blues and greens, and pink flowers

2021 jul 17

a character sheet of a pilot with a snake

2021 jul 13

2021 jul 10

2021 jul 07 — i overrendered the shit out of this and there were like 10 versions of this in my files. i've still never played the witcher.

dio from steel ball run riding his horse through a desert

2021 jul 15

majima from yakuza looking very yassified

c. 2021 — file properties says this was last modified in 2022 but there's zero goddamn shot that's true. this was the first time i drew majima so this was probably shortly after playing yakuza 0 for the first time in june of 2021. he's so facetuned here...

c. 2021

2021 jun 17

an unfinished drawing of griffith from berserk holding a behelit

2021 jun 04

sketch of giorno resting on a stone wall

c. 2021 jun — paintover of a piece from 2020

sketch of tiziano from jojo's bizarre adventure

c. 2021 jun — paintover (kinda?) of a piece from 2021

sketch of johnny and gryo having a drink in the snow

c. 2021 jun — paintover of a piece from 2020

c. 2021 jun — paintover of a piece from 2020

c. 2021 jun

a sexy man, a girl with yellow eyes and piercings, and a girl with freckles and red hair

2021 jun 01 — first drawings of dagon and scar, and a fourth unnamed charater that i want to revisit

a girl with blue beads in her braids, a man with braided purple hair, and a man with blonde hair and a hat

2021 may 23 — fun fact: vitas was originally a jojo's bizarre adventure oc and his first design had purple hair. the other two never evolved into ocs.