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Her: Hey, wanna go out for a drink?

Me: One drink?

Her: Yes, I’m giving sports lessons tomorrow I can’t be hungover.

Me: OK, I believe you because I trust you as my friend.

Her: Aw, I appreciate it.

several hours and an uncounted number of drinks later, early morning hours.

Me: What happened, why is the sun rising?

Her: I think one of the beers was off.

Me: I trusted you!

Her: To be fair, that is totally on you. You should have known better.

“Arboreatal Realization.”

VT-AGR-344 sometimes slips away into the arboretum for a moment of quiet to do something rather unusual for a Vitruvian … think about things she wasn’t supposed to be thinking about. If her masters of the Agrigen corporation ever found out, she’d be in deep trouble, but there is so much about all their lives in this colony, that just doesn’t add up.

Vitruvians are the big game changer in every corporate military force that Chimera gave the galaxy. No one can afford to lose out on the lab-created super soldiers that can topple a tank, break through walls, move with superhuman speed and shrug off most physical attacks. They’re the backbone of every corporate infantry or security and Chimera graciously “shares” this technology with the whole Concordance. Their minds are meticulously planned and designed during their creation, making rebellion or ideas of disobedience basically impossible. Well, basically. But it shouldn’t happen, because a liberated Vitruvian, infused with ideas of protection and service, seeing the galaxy for what it really is would be a dangerous thing. And we can’t have that, now can we?

#art #drawing #scifi #voidfront #ttrpg #worldbuilding #writing

I tried a new brush for colours this time and it was an adventure. But I think the end result turned out fine. Making the background felt positively ecstatic with this brush. And, yes, I like painting mock foliage. This picture was done in Procreate and touched up a bit with Glitch Studio.

I remember my art teachers from school to art college being very against anime-like styles, because it's apparently "derivative, unoriginal, promotes bad drawing habits, destroys your ability to find a proper style" and a host of other sort-of-reasons.
They would hate everything I did in the past 10 years or so, I guess.
Not to mention being completely disappointed that I branched out into writing as well.

But not being popular kinda is my thing. One of the few good things about getting older: You stop caring so much what others think of you and just do your own thing.

And I am happy with most of my creations. They're fun to make. And that is what counts, after all.