SB 🌱

Helen! Character Illustration | Available for contract | I tag my work as HES. art | Do not reupload or reuse my work in any way | she/they, 30+

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I'm Helen, aka SB, and I make art and characters! I like illustration, vis-dev and video games. Patreon & Ko-Fi are where I post my original illustration projects.
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[SB 🌱 @SBeep_]

Wake me if theres TES news

[local goblin @_sphynx7]

The little garden maid #rote

[Sara Alfageeh @SaraAlfageeh]

Get behind me.

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Illustration for A Tapestry of Fate by SA Chakraborty. Wanted to capture like the feeling of the exact moment fight music turns on in a video game.

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quick study of Madame X with my character

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Working up the nerve to email a local stable or equestrian centre to find out if I can go and draw horses. I don't know if thats odd or not but ya girl doesn't have the capital for a sketching holiday on a Wyoming ranch u feel me

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Never let anyone convince you not to buy that art material, because 16 years later you might find it again the very day you think "damn i could really do with a middle pthalo blue pencil".

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Shoutout to the small slices and select side questlines of Starfield that really did slap.

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please excuse the sci-fi posting but i am a sucker for space marine armour #Starfield

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We Didn't Start the Fire by Hildegard von Blingin' would be a great theme tune for my never-to-be medieval history podcast

[໊ @boomihoor]

behind every hot girl there is a deep history with the sims

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Save me 1am babybel

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What do you suppose you have to commit to to get £400 worth of art supplies like those artists on insta

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@_camberry So right, making our living off what is essentially an optional luxury makes it feel sensible and kind of prudent to keep it accessible and/or save-up-able.

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I consider these thoughts every 4-6 months and in the end I haven't raised my prices for maybe 2 years? 3? More??? I think I've hit a sweet spot of fair wage vs affordability options. It took a good while to get here and cheaper sketches still play a huge part in my income stream

[cam 🌙 vgen c•mms @_camberry]

big tip for anyone starting out: don't do full illusts yet.

start with lower priced icons or sketches. you can be accessible AND not starve to death. most people just want to use their beloved ocs (from ff, dnd, etc.) as a pfp actually!

the market for full illusts is smaller

[rune sword @runesword1]

brigands, we are breaching academics

[SB 🌱 @SBeep_]

Dir. Of photography, production designer and costume designer: who are you

me, through tears of joy: i'm your worst nightmare (writer who is also a visual artist)

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If I ever create a famous IP that gets adapted for the screen, every clause in every contract will stipulate that the lead actor MUST commit to the truly awful but textually accurate haircut. If not the whole thing's off in perpetuity.

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For Venus I aimed for a featureless wash but that's not fair to her, she's got so much going on. And my washes always end up a bit eccentric.

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I decided to paint some planets in watercolour and its been very meditative. Trying to keep a swirl going is fun

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Some are better than others but 5/8 planets!! Maybe I'll do dwarf planets and moons too. Io my fiesty beloved.

[+ lurrlonde + @lurrlonde]

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