I'm working right now on an island of adventure called Stormfallow, where shipwrecked mice adventure in a land of arcane ruins, fascist legionnaires led by an aging Cat, pirate critters resisting the legion, and mysterious wizardly ravens up to some shit.
For the Mausritter rpg!
New blog post! I run a weekly #Pathfinder2E Kingmaker #TTRPG campaign; and we’ve been fine-tuning a system for “squad-level” mass combat to simulate war in our fantasy setting. Read all about it below!
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The rewrite of my #sapphic #fantasy A DEMON'S NAME continues:
To arms! Chapter IV sees our protagonist Lucia help Talia deal with a highway robbery!
(I’ll be posting the entire rewrite free on my blog below!)
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#writing
Hello Folks,
I stumbled upon this novelette yesterday and it let my live shine brighter! 🌠
It is such a beautiful and heart warming story. I want to share it with you! 🥹❤️
I recommend reading it. And I'd like to support Madeline. She is a queer artist from US.
The cover of a book entitled A DEMON'S NAME UPON YOUR LIPS. At the bottom is the subtitle: A Sapphic Romance of Melodia, by Madeline Konrad. A woman in a red flowing corseted dress, on the right, looks longingly upon another woman in blue military dress. The woman on the left bears a hardened expression. Surrounding them is a border of various specific flowers.
The rewrite of my #sapphic #fantasy *A Demon’s Name* continues. Chapter II has our freshly-summoned demon take a peek at the world she’s been summoned into!
(I’ll be posting the entire rewrite free on my blog!)
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#writing
I took a break from my novel re-writing to write about #Silksong and its themes! SPOILERS abound at the link below:
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#essay #writing #VideoGames
Old sketches I thought were fun. I should do more buckwild full pages like the first two again, get real weird with it.
#sketchbook #myart #surrealism #tarot #sketches #drawing
Drawing of a young man before and after an arcane transformation. On the left, he has dark hair, wears a long hooded coat and fingerless gloves, and carries a messenger bag. On the right, he appears more confident, his skin more saturated and his hair white. His coat is more tattered, but is covered in sparkling star-like dust. He holds an arcane jar in one hand that he is looking at with a somewhat cheeky expression.
I found some old fan art I did of October Santerelli's story Glimmers in the Night. This is the main character Jeth, the witch's son, pre and post the events of the story. Go check out October and their excellent work at: @okwrites.bsky.social
#fanart #magic #witch #characterart #transauthor
Drawing of Mae Borowski from the game Night in the Woods. She is an anthropomorphic cat with dark blue fur with red highlights in her hair, and big red eyes. She is holding a knife.
Drawing of Mae Borowski from the game Night in the Woods. She is an anthropomorphic cat with dark blue fur with red highlights in her hair, and big red eyes. She is waving, and has a friendly lil smile showing a single fang
Made these for a friend a while back. It's Mae Borowski from Night in the Woods! Two facets of her, at least. Really oughta replay that game at some point, especially now that it's autumn... 🍂
#art #nightinthewoods #maeborowski #knife #weirdautumn
The rewrite of my #sapphic #fantasy *A Demon’s Name* continues. Chapter I moves from third to first person as the demon Lucia steps onto the page!
(I’ll be posting the entire rewrite free on my blog below!)
madikonrad.me/posts/2025-10-14-Demon-Rewrite-Chapter-I.html
#writing
His has always been among my favorites in the game, though it's hard to choose. I didn't nail the looser painterly style of those portraits, unfortunately, but I reckon I learned a lot.
3/3 More profile pics. I rocked another elfy looking one for a while that I edited down and recolored from a fuller illustration. I like where I landed recently, will probably keep it a while until I get indecisive again. Ever evolving, ever elfing ahead.
#profilepic #avatar #selfportrait #elf
2/3 More profile pics thru the years. As you can see, I did variations on a theme. Girl girl, elf girl, devil girl for Halloween. Oughta do one of those again sometime. 🎃
#profilepic #avi #selfportrait #PortfolioDay #Halloween #elfgirl
1/3 Thought it'd be fun to do a retrospective of the various profile pics I've made for myself through the years. The first is the oldest I could find, then I tried something vaguely Disco Elysium-y before settling on a comfy standard I kept for years.
#profilepic #avi #selfportrait #PortfolioDay
A giant armadillo-dragon steps over the hilltop, bathing the land in bilious fire. A tiny spearman is rushing in to fight it while an archer takes aim nearby. A civilian cowers beside a knight with their shield and morningstar up, and an elven wizard in the foreground takes a break from reading their tome to look at the viewer.
The last of these pen and ink experiments I'll share for the moment. Had an idea for an armadillo dragon and just went nuts. Tried to make this look a lil vintage, like something you'd find in a weird ttrpg zine from the 80s.
#PortfolioDay #inkdrawing #armadillo #dragon #fantasyart #vintagestyle
Two would-be bankrobbers hold hands before an open vault door, one consoling the other. Behind them in the vault, a pedestal is empty of its treasure. Someone clearly beat them to it, but at least they have each other, and some leftover dynamite.
Two gay bank robbers coping with the disappointment of a heist gone wrong. They'll get 'em next time, probably.
#PortfolioDay #penandink #bankrobbers #gaydudes #gayart #inkdrawing #theinherenthomoeroticismofabankheist
A match struck in the gloom. Another foray into digitally-colored pen & ink.
Also, apologies if I'm flooding your feed with this big ol' backlog. Figured I'd strike while the iron's hot on Portfolio Day, but I promise it won't always be like this. 🙏
#PortfolioDay #penandink #plaguedoctor #spooky
Drawing of a girl sitting on top of an upside-down triangle, looking through a rectangular window at a surreal landscape. She wears socks, jeans, and a sweatervest, and is smoking a cigarette. Its smoke wafts up through the window, out of which we can see a heavily-wooded hillside with a radio tower in the distance. An enormous cigarette lighter the size of the hillside rises into a sunset sky, its flame blazing to the heavens.
Another old depiction of my OC Mal. Had a little fun getting vaguely vaporwave-y with this one. When the world's on fire, might as well smoke up and gaze wistfully into the dusky distance.
#PortfolioDay #penandink #OC #vaporwave #surrealism #cigarette #lighter #characterart
Line drawing of a girl standing in an arched doorframe through which bats are flying. Her back is to us. She wears a backpack and carries a nail bat over one shoulder, and is looking to the side thoughtfully.
Line drawing of a girl standing in an arched doorframe through which bats are flying. Our view is from behind her, down a strange corridor. She wears a backpack and carries a nail bat over one shoulder, and is looking to the side thoughtfully. She has freckles and winged eyeliner, and her dark hair is kept up in a half-ponytail, a streak of grey running through its front. Beyond the doorway is a hazy expanse of green and sky, swarming with clouds of bats.
One of my favorite traditional ink and digital color experiments I ever did. This one depicts my fave OC Mal, a trans girl embattled in a world that serves up nothing but battles.
🏳️⚧️🦇⚔️
#PortfolioDay #inkdrawing #OC #transgirl #bats #penandink #nailbat #fuckshitup
Drawing of two teenagers running away from something offscreen. One is dressed like a greaser, with a ratty lil mustache, a slick pompadour, and a leather jacket. His friend is dressed in a button-up shirt, has big boots and a bowl cut, and is flipping someone the bird.
As with the drawing I posted before this, this was from when I did more physical pen & ink drawings and colored 'em in digitally. Hurts my hands to do much P&I these days, but I cherish these stupid things all the same. Gonna post more shortly.
#PortfolioDay #penandink #inkdrawing #characters
A drawing depicting a group of teenage kids gathered around a tabletop game. Miniatures are scattered across a grid and the table is littered with notebooks, dice, and snacks. Behind the GM screen, the GM evokes a scene that appears behind her. In the scene, a gargoyle grabs a character by the cape and drags them away, while their traveling companions struggle to help. The game's players look nervous, communing among themselves about what to do.
An ode to tabletop gaming, a hobby that's forever shaped and bettered my life. It brings people together like no other, and I can't think of a better way to spend time than pretending to be wizards and elves and shit with my friends.
#PortfolioDay #ttrpg #tabletop #roleplayinggames #inkdrawing
A drawing of a goat from Skyrim, wearing a cute lil pack saddle with 7 wheels of cheese strapped to it. The goat nevertheless looks content, standing on a hill overlooking a wooded valley.
A lil pack goat I drew for a Skyrim-themed 'draw this in your style' challenge a few years back. He brings me joy. 🧀
#PortfolioDay #animalart #goat #skyrim #cheese #fanart
Figured I'd also post my banner image, the same one I've used for years. It contains the sigil tattooed on my right hand - my first tat, a promise I made to myself when I turned 30. It's called the Eye of Nyx, representing a hope for safety and rest in the long nights to come.
#transhope #tattoo
An interior scene of a witchy space cast in the gloomy blue light of a rainy day. A progress flag hangs in the window over a cabinet, atop which sits a Baphomet plushy, an open book, a teacup, and a cat gazing out the window. To the left is a shelf stocked with tomes, a dog skull, a potion, and a vintage cassette player.
A witchy background for zoom that I never ended up using, back during one of my shittier jobs. It's a space I'd like to inhabit during rough times under late-stage capitalism. I hope you like spending a lil time here too. 💙
#PortfolioDay #cozyvibes #witchy #queerart #rainyday #lgbtq+
It's #Portfolioday!
I'm Niko! I'm a freelance illustrator. These days I mostly do TTRPG art and creature designs. Mostly visuals for streamed games.
www.patreon.com/c/Nikodraws. It's kind of a mess right now.
A drawing of the embodiment of Virgo, represented with angel wings, demon horns, and flowing hair. She wears a shoulderless summer dress, and carries a stalk of wheat in one hand and a bunch of grapes in the other. Throughout the drawing is a subtly written quote by Julien K. Jarboe: "Why does God create grapes and wheat, but not wine and bread? God does this because God wants us to share in the act of creation". It's a quote that's always resonated with me, and has meant a great deal to me in my transition.
This piece is very important to me. I completed it to mark my 30th birthday - freshly freed from an awful relationship, on my own for the first time in a decade, and fully embracing my transition. I hope to carry on this energy for all my days. 🏳️⚧️❤️🩹
#PortfolioDay #transart #zodiac #transhope #virgo
Art I made for my fellow players in an old tabletop campaign. I adored their characters and wanted to do a lil piece for each of them. L to R, we have a swashbuckling artificer gnome, a highly secretive warlock, and a good, good sun boy.
#PortfolioDay #ttrpg #artificer #warlock #monk #characterart
Art I made for an ex who definitely didn't deserve it. I was nonetheless proud of it. Was supposed to be me on the left and ex on the right. Nowadays I prefer to think it's just some random furry trans gals. Careful who you give your heart to, y'all.
#PortfolioDay #furryart #transgirls #lesbians
Sketchbook drawings for my project depicting all the D&D classes. Take a look at the art I've posted yesterday and today to see how these all turned out in the end!
#sketchbook #characterdesign #d&d #conceptart #characterart
Line drawing of an artificer that looks vaguely like Dr. Robotnik. He wears a suit of heavy blast armor with technological pieces - including a tesla coil backpack, a power glove with a gem in it, and a power core at the breastplate's center. He holds a ray gun. On his head is a helmet and goggles, and his face is dominated by an outrageous set of muttonchops.
Also, here's some bonus art I did for the artificer class. It was based on a character a friend played, inspired heavily by Dr. Robotnik. It was simply too silly to finish, but let's consider it an honorable mention.
#PortfolioDay #linedrawing #d&d #artificer #characterdesign #drrobotnik
