Art, blog, and project repository of digital creator Lukas Stormskull
I review monster designs, spotlight creative efforts that I like, share art-making and creative resources that I’ve found, and ramble about monsters and dragons.
SAD UPDATE: As of March 2024, Manyland has shut down permanently due to budgetary issues. I wasn’t paying attention and had no idea this was coming, and only found out when I excitedly logged on to continue working on my own areas.
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So I only recently learned about Prodigy, but it appears to be a math-based educational game that actually features interesting story and artwork. It has a Pokemon-style pet raising, battling, and evolution system, and all of the pets have an elemental alignment.… >> Keep Reading <<
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I’m thrilled to finally announce the alpha release of my custom dollmaker game, Dragon Builder!
This tool lets you customize a dragon with different wings, colors, horns, markings, and tons of other parts.… >> Keep Reading <<
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For the better part of my entire 2000’s, I was absolutely, utterly, and completely obsessed with a furry graphical social game called Furcadia.
Furcadia isn’t really a “game” – there’s no stats, no goals, no HP or leveling, no win or loss conditions.… >> Keep Reading <<
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I am excited to be working on a collaborative project to create a dragon-themed tarot card deck! Different artists will be assigned to work on each of the 78 individual cards in the deck, and then the final deck will be available to purchase via KickStarter.… >> Keep Reading <<
[wbcr_snippet id=”4890″]I took a look at my favorite pet site designs, including Neopets, a while back. However, the pets themselves are often only a small fraction of the delicious graphical content to absorb in any one of these games.… >> Keep Reading <<
In the late 1990’s and early 2000’s, the virtual pet adoption scene was booming. Neopets was king, Pokemon was new and exciting, and everyone was excited to build a website for the very first time now that it was finally becoming an accessible medium.
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To honor the spirit of giving, here is a completely free piece of art that you can use and modify however you wish. Use it as an original character’s reference image, use it to practice coloring, use it as a base to design clothing or accessories, go nuts.… >> Keep Reading <<
Let’s talk about color! I don’t have a lot of color intuition, and as an artist, I tend to work in black-and-white first without much consideration for colors. I definitely rely on setting a palette to help guide myself. Here are my favorite free, web-based tools for creating color palettes for my art and designs.
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Continuing my highlighting of favorite Pokémon from Generation 3, let’s take a look at my favorite Pokémon designs from Generation 4, Diamond/Pearl/Platinum.
CricketuneI love that this dapper little bug simultaneously looks like a musical instrument and an orchestra conductor.… >> Keep Reading <<