Fantom Flash

@fantomflasch.bsky.social

I do art as a hobby

Once again, #swordtember is upon us! This sword-themed creative challenge takes place across September and is intended to be very casual. Join in as little or much as you'd like! I personally am too busy to participate this year but I've made a prompt list for the month.

Swordtember prompt list! Here's the full list typed out:
1- brush
2- harvest
3- wax
4- comedy
5- tragedy 
6- circus
7- gamble
8- crane
9- mandrake 
10- crustacean 
11- bake
12- surgical 
13- nest
14- ship
15- seed
16- portal
17- monkey 
18- serpent 
19- game
20- amber
21- bovine 
22- vegetable 
23- fruit
24- tidepool
25- pearlescent
26- seal
27- lily
28- acidic
29- kelpy
30- unicorn

Tunic. I think the "insists upon itself" is pretty accurate. First off I absolutely hate the title. "Tunic" is a lifeless reference to the least interesting feature of a protagonist of much more interesting games. Might as well call an indie platformer "Overalls", which is actually way funnier.

Kristin 🇨🇦🤓@faierius.bsky.social · 2w ago

No hate, no dogpiling, just curious. For me, it's Skyrim. Don't know why, considering it should be exactly my kind of game, but it just didn't click for me.

what's you "I did not care for the godfather" of games?" written above a screenshot from family guy of the family being drowned by sprinklers in their panic room.

Expanded upon the Beatkage idea by making her part of a group of ninja thematically based upon the elements of Hip-Hop: The 4のBeats (Shi-no-Beats). These character sheets were finished a while back, but weren't actually posted (with the exception of the first). Descriptions in the alt text. (1/2)

Character sheet for the Beatkage. A diminutive woman with black hair and blue highlights. Wears a short red sleeveless kimono with gold obi, and stockings that only cover the right leg. The left leg holsters several kunai. Also wears an oversized tek jacket with exposed shoulders and orange triangle patterning that fades around the hips. Each pocket of the jacket has equalizer bars that react to whatever sound is being output from her severely oversized noise-cancelling headphones. Additionally wears a large turntable kasa.

Each 4のBeats design is an homage to various styles of videogame shinobi/ninja  -- and this one is an homage to Kurenai from Red Ninja. 

Being the first of the 4のBeats created, the Beatkage represents the hip-hop element of DJing with a color scheme that evokes autumn. In a grander scheme, she is meant to represent "feeling" with each other member after her representing what follows from feeling. Where, if you look at her as the leader of the group, there is a progression. 

I aimed to make an energetic character with this one.Character sheet for the Flowkage. A black woman with white hair with icy-blue highlights. Proportionally, wide hips and thick thighs. Wearing a ninja-like near-black bodysuit that has white hexagonal patterning fading halfway up the abdomen and leaves the right leg exposed. Also wears a puffy white chest-high jacket with fur collar and blue panels on the sleeves that end in fur cuffs. Additionally wears a thick gold chain that terminates into a "4のB" branded piece of diamond-studded jewelry; and an oversized pair of sunglasses decorated with diamond-studded shuriken on each side.  A harness worn over the jacket affixes a pair of straps used to carry her scroll of lyrics. Her exposed skin is covered in cyphered lyrics with a hexagonal seal on her thigh and back. Her weapon is a kusari-gama microphone with a gold head. As she raps, the icy sickle-blade of the kusarigama manifests. 

Each 4のBeats design is an homage to various styles of videogame ninja/shinobi -- and this one is an homage to Taki from Soul Calibur.

The Flowkage represents the hip-hop element of MCing or Rapping with a color scheme evocative of Winter. In a grander scheme, she is also meant to represent "thought, writing and speech."

I wanted to make her the "effortlessly cool one."Character sheet for the Tagkage. A tall woman (about 8 feet) with black hair with blue highlights. Proportionally, slender and lanky with a really big bust. Wearing a navy uwagi with extended loincloth that fades into a pastel blue adorned with geometric shapes meant to  somewhat mimic sakura petals; and a white obi. Also wears a long, open tek jacket with unfastened straps that she has decorated with  4のBeats graffiti on the rear. The top portion of the jacket is patterned to look like storm clouds while the bottom portion is black with blue pinstripes to kind of look like rain. Jacket is equipped with a harness that holsters her spray paint cans. Covers her face with a half-oni mask respirator. Her weapon is a pair of spray-paint-powered tonfa. When the nozzles at the top of the handle portion are pointed in the direction of the indicator, she can use them like cans of spray paint. When the nozzles are pointed away from the indicator, she can blowout the cans for a spray-paint-powered rocket punch. 

Each 4のBeats design is an homage to various styles of videogame ninja/shinobi -- and this one is an homage to Kasumi from DOA and Mai Shiranui from Fatal Fury.

The Tagkage represents the Graffiti art element of hip-hop with a color scheme evocative of Spring. In a grander scheme, she is also meant to represent "vision, aesthetic and propaganda."

I wanted her to be "the creepy one." Character sheet for the Breakkage. A toned woman with wild black hair with vibrant blue highlights. Wears a tied bandana, a sports bra with a ninja-mesh boob window, and oversized hakama shorts with sunflower decoration affixed with a tied belt that holsters three kunai. Her limbs are wrapped in green cloth, and she wears geta. Also wears a light tek jacket with "4のB" decal on the right sleeve.

Each 4のBeats design is an homage to various styles of videogame ninja/shinobi -- and this one is an homage to Ibuki from Street Fighter.

The Breakkage represents the Breakdancing element of hip-hop with a color scheme evocative of Summer. In a grander scheme, she is also meant to represent "praxis."

I aimed to make her "earnestly joyous."
DashXero@dashxero.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Last month, I decided to try my hand at VTuber design again -- as it could be a lucrative way to expand my current commission business. This was the best one I'd done, I feel. I may decide to make this design adoptable in the future... Though, I couldn't just sell it to anybody.