The more I work on my #DigitalArt the more I start to believe that personal "style" is simply what comes out of the pen when you listen to instinct instead of inspiration.

It's the things that crop up in every illustration I do without my really thinking about it.

I guess that's chunky blacks and bright colors, in my case. XD

I did this #Zin as part of the show's overlay to go with the Persona 3 Portable port review stream.

Edit: Though Mastodon defaulting to a black background until you click on something really buries some of those chunky black lines. lol

The new batch of double-sided Zins arrived! Blue hair on one side and black hair on the other.

I had a very small batch manufactured and now I get to figure out how to move them.

It only took 9 years to produce #merch from the show. LOL ​

Size discrepancy is because the one on the right is from the previous test batch. I didn't want to unwrap two of the new ones.

Dirk De Wachter: "We denken dat het leven altijd leuk moet zijn. Volgens mij is dat een vergissing: het leven dat altijd leuk is, is een illusie. Het aardse leven, zo noem ik dat, is bij momenten een beetje lastig en dat is geen probleem, dat mag, het is normaal. Af en toe is er een lastigheid met uw lief, met uw kinderen, met uw ouders, met uw familie, met uw baas, met uw vrienden. Dat is het leven."
#DirkDeWachter #leven #zin

The community requested #Zin for our Demon's Souls challenge run that starts today so I decided to do some legwork in char-gen beforehand and...uh....

The test merchandise for #Zin looks pretty good in the right company.

I want to do some minor revisions but it turned out pretty reasonably, all in all.

Definitely learned a few things for the next design.

It's been an interesting week. After nearly 9 years of broadcasting on #Twitch, I finally bothered to test batch some merch.

It was a long time before anything particularly caught my eye and made me think "yes, that's it. That's what I want made."

Turned out an acrylic standee was what I was waiting for. That, and generating some art I didn't hate. ​

I think it turned out pretty reasonably, overall, for a first shot. Shame my phone camera doesn't capture the colors as well as I'd like.

I edited my intro to include this but I thought I'd do the same thing here that I do on Cohost, which is keep specific kinds of content under specific tags so that people can more easily control what kind of content they see from me.

If you want to filter out specific content by tags:

#Design, #Art, and #Illustration are pretty self-explanatory.

#DarkestDungeonII for anything to do with my day job.

#ZeroLabs for anything to do directly with my show.

#Schedule for show timing and plans.

#GoLive if I'm announcing a show start.

#Zin for illustrations/etc. of my show's mascot.

Hope it helps people curate their feeds a bit. :)

#Introduction time!

By day, I'm a game designer with 18+ years of experience, currently working as a senior game designer on Darkest Dungeon 2.

Prior projects include Jade Empire, Dragon Age: Origins, Mass Effect, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Skylanders: SWAP Force, and sundry other titles I don't really care about.

By night, I'm a Twitch partner who's been streaming for ~9 years, presenting games from a designer's POV. It's a chill environment and sharing games with people is something I greatly enjoy.

If I'm yakking here, it's likely going to be about one of the above two things I do in a relatively stream-of-consciousness fashion, or art posting because I still occasionally do that.

Nice to meet you all. Have some art of my show's cute mascot!

Other socials in bio.

If you want to filter out specific content by tags:

#ZeroLabs: anything to do directly with my show

#DarkestDungeonII: the day job

#Schedule: show timing/plans

#GoLive: I'm linking my show start

#Zin: art of my show's mascot