Lenses

Mirrored art of a bat like creature, Mr Lenses, looking directly at the viewer with its two glowing yellow eyes, draped in brown and yellow robes. Its left hand is raised upwards, placing a magnifying glass in a hand reaching to it from below, while with its right hand it reaches for a knife being placed on its palm. The mirror image underneath, is Mr Lenses with its hood up to look enigmatic, however 5 eyes are now visible, two yellow, two orange and one red. Mirrored art of a bat like creature, Mr Lenses, looking directly at the viewer with its two glowing yellow eyes, draped in brown and yellow robes. Its left hand is raised upwards, placing a magnifying glass in a hand reaching to it from below, while with its right hand it reaches for a magnifying glass being placed on its palm. The mirror image underneath, is Mr Lenses with its hood up to look enigmatic, however 5 eyes are now visible, two yellow, two orange and one red.

Anyway here’s some weird bat (based, loosely, on a Spectral Bat/False Vampire Bat!) who is obsessed with lenses. Be it magnifying glasses, spectacles, telescopes, โ€ฆcrystal balls!? Anything that acts a a focus like a lens does! The fun thing about this character’s past still being in development is I get to do things and go “Oh! Yes… ha ha. YES! >:3c”

When I was showing this off to people as a sketch, people said it did have a “tarot” feel to it, which was unintentional, but welcome!

Explaining what this is! Kind of long!

Y’ever start playing a browser game, and then learn that these mysterious Masters might be batty and then you do this whole “Destiny” thing and you get this?

A sketch page featuring snippets of journal pages from a Fallen London character The first sketch, two wings of a creature that has been scribbled out, as if unfamiliar with its own shape. Above it is captioned: "A conversation on the road... wait road? My... WINGS!? And fondness???" "...year of your journey. Your wings have never been spread to their fullest extent, and as you approach..." "You shrug. Your wings ripple like the skin of space." The second sketch, looking directly at a pair of clawed hands, flexing, with the captions above "My talons... my. Talons. Yes. Yes you're right, Hearts. Thank you W..." "...Spices." You flex your talons. "We are what..." Underneath another, but full, journal entry: "Like it? But it's right. Why wouldn't I like my form, my wings, my talons... my beaing 10 September, 2026 (a Long Road) - You have seen a possible future; perhaps you even like it." The final sketch, loose and scribbly, of a humanesque form, sitting bolt upright in bed, all of it scribbled in dark. It looks at its hands, faint white claws emanating from them, along with a faint wing off it's back, implying they are not physically there any more. Another entry follows: "A start. A panic. Where are they!? Where are my talons!? Where... WHERE 10 September, 2026 (Your Lodgings) - Were you dreaming?"

And thus a fan character is born. Or well, its future after the game’s events is divined at least~


Former former human (who became so obsessed with solving a lover’s murder it lost almost everything before trying to get its teeth stuck in every strange and interesting thing to solve in the Neath) โ– โ– โ– โ– โ–  sees a dream of destiny of them as, potentially equals, with these mysterious robed figures they grew accustomed to since coming to the Neath, and thus their course (and internal view) changed forever.

…But that’s boring. You’re here for the good Mr Lenses of course! Not some creature of lower origins! No, instead a creature that is deliberately of mysteries and one who seeks them out! While it habitually hoards lenses, that is not its true calling.

Its calling is to solve.

It would argue that solve life’s mysteries, to find one’s truths, is one of the most pure forms of love. To hunt down a killer of a loved one with nothing but a few petals to follow, to understand words that should be beyond one’s own comprehension, to drown yourself in secrets, and to transform yourself to what you know you are. These are what it argues those that follow its steps should learn for themselves.

And sometimes to find a truth one must focus through a lens, thus its collection of lenses isn’t always obvious. Sure there is magnifying glasses (it likes them a lot because detectives), telescopes, microscopes and other similar lens based objects in there, however there’s also things that most people wouldn’t consider a lens at all. Crystal balls and magical foci and other such like are in there too. If it can act as a lens for something then it can’t help but want to get its talons on it.

(insert DO rambling more here…)


But yes, on the 10th of September when I first got that destiny for my character I was just “Look there’s no way you can say that my character had a dream where it is told ‘you flex your talons’ etc. while currently being a human without me going ‘it is ฮธฮ” now'”

The Masters in question, are enigmatic beings who are totally normal cloaked figures and totally not weird space bats that obsessively hoard a specific kind of item (or even concept).

And Lenses here, a former human of mysteries, found itself very attached to that which focuses as it became its true self. I bet it hates that it couldn’t ever hoard a gravitation lens, RIP.

“Those robes look very… Sherlock Holmes, DO”, Lenses is a DORK okay? It wanted to look cool like that detective.

“What’s with all the EYES though, DO?” ……Well, what’s in an eye~? As a creature that transformed, it might have…

Decided that it needed… more

Sketch art of a batlike creature, finger up against it's snout as if to go "shhhhh" while holding a magnifying glass up to it's left eye. On the right hand side it's the same sketch, but it's grinning now... but the three lines on its head that looked like eyebrows and a line down it's forehead have opened up revealing that they were actually 3 more eyes.

 

And the knife? Well. It’s entire story was truly started by chasing down who killed it’s lover… a knife is fitting… no?

…

It’s also related to the symbol of the ambition my character has, “Nemesis” lmao

The icon used in Fallen London for the Ambition: Nemesis.

Though I went more with a kitchen knife than a dagger.

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Bloody Alt!

A Jack-of-Lenses

Mirrored art of a bat like creature, Mr Lenses, looking directly at the viewer with its two glowing yellow eyes, draped in brown and yellow robes. It's left hand (likewise in the mirror image) is covered in blood, with some on its face too. It's unhooded eyes are unnaturally focused, wild even. Its left hand is raised upwards, placing a bloodied magnifying glass in a hand reaching to it from below, while with its right hand it reaches for a bloody knife being placed on its palm. The mirror image underneath, is Mr Lenses with its hood up to look enigmatic, however 5 eyes are now visible, two yellow, two orange and one red.

The cry goes up, “a Jack!”

The human that would become Mr Lenses wasn’t simply satisfied about merely solving the Jack case… even if it just washed its hands of it for the constabulary (and technically the Masters too) to deal with…

It had to know just exactly what the mechanism that caused it, how it felt. The feeling gnawed at its heart to understand exactly every part of Jack… even if it meant taking those knives in hand and losing itself for a while…

Those almost 3 weeks may have changed something about them… it’s not as unsettled about some extra smiles any more.


I might’ve actually spent a little Fate on doing a… murderous… story option uwu

But even if I hadn’t… the human that would become Mr Lenses has willingly killed its lover’s murderer… so.

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Donation Bust – Daniel Ferris

Art of a brown squirrel looking to the side, but side-eyeing the viewer as it holds up a hand, glowing purple-pink dust swirling around it. The eyes clearly not natural and gemlike. He wears dark armour with a purple cape blowing behind him, his large tail swished behind further.

Daniel was one of the donators in the drive at the end of 2026/start of 2025 that donated over the upgrade amount

I’d hoped to get this (and the others!) done WAY sooner but we’re feeling in a place where we can finally work on things again without either feeling we have a load of things I need to, or events, or just feeling physically in pain. So here’s to getting back on this!

I had a LOT of fun doing this piece, a really rad character!

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Simon Rickson – 2026 Reference

Reference sheet for a red anthropomorphic hedgehog and vampire bat, Simon Rickson, who is also a vampire.

AKA v2.1 :B

The ears were a key reason I needed to update the ref, what with the bat-like ears now being on the hedgehog. But also, obviously, a tweak to the colours, pulling some of that bright saturation Simon had out of it (or I guess you could say “Simon’s mortal colours are fading after almost three years of being a walking corpse”)

Though this was in part from talking to another vampire about things and kind of getting their input on things because really everyone will set out their own path on these things but external input is useful. However it’s also from IRL I’m kind of going greyer, even if I’m not happy about that, so figured I’d update Simon’s ref too.

It also meant I could fix up the colours on the old reference. The 2024 one didn’t have the pawpad colours on the colour pickers, and also the shoe sole colour was completely wrong.

That’s the claw colour!

I also adjusted a couple of the annotations too, mostly for clarity, but not much as the rest of the sheet I felt was pretty correct.

Thankfully as this was just an update to the existing sheet and not a COMPLETELY new thing it didn’t take too long to sort out. Tbh most the time was figuring the colours, drawing in the new ears for the hedgehog and watching my PC scream as the ref file happily takes up 17GB of RAM when I had the final reference image (with the text etc.) open (I promise next ref sheet I do I won’t be that dumb and have a 18,788 x 14,350 canvas that I’m just going to shrink down to 15% >_>;;;)

Fun Fact: I was tempted to let Simon now summon wings in its hedgehog form and to be fair I might still do that but I didn’t wanna make the ref even busier lol. But it DOES look cool

A red anthropomorphic hedgehog and vampire bat, Simon Rickson, who is also a vampire. But with wings on its back

This was just an accident from leaving the bar form on behind the hedgehog when I was doing layer stuff lol

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18+ AKA there’s a dick.

NSFW Reference sheet for a red anthropomorphic hedgehog and vampire bat, Simon Rickson, who is also a vampire.

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Toys in Town

A pool scene involving two inflatable dragon toys The red western dragon toy, DarkOverord, looks excited while pointing to the pool in the background. It has a navy blue shirt on while carrying a pink inflatable ring while saying "It's summer!! It's pool time!!!" An off screen voice responds "Oh wow that blue toy sure is... a lot.", talking about the long blue eastern dragon toy floating on the pool, looking cockily as he leans on his left arm and is gesturing to at himself while being partially obscured by DarkOverord. In the lower right is a smaller panel where the off screen voice continues "I didn't realise it was that kind of pool!" as DarkOveord looks surprised saying "...ah!" A pool scene involving two inflatable dragon toys The red western dragon toy, DarkOverord, looks excited while pointing to the pool in the background. It has a navy blue shirt on while carrying a pink inflatable ring Floating on the pool is long blue eastern dragon toy, looking cockily as he leans on his left arm and is gesturing to at himself while being partially obscured by DarkOverord.

Time for the yearly summer pic of DO! And I’ve not drawn Rigel in a while so wanted to throw him in the background too. For reasons ๐Ÿ™‚

This took longer than I expected. I started it before the heatwave, and other than streaming I was kind of 100% on it almost all waking hours >_> I know the inking took me about 7 hours, and I got through about 3 albums worth of music finishing today so. Yeah. I wish I put an actual timer on this >_>

Well time blindness is an ADHD trait…

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I apologise for the near radio silence for the past couple months. It’s, a bit shit honestly! I’ve been struggling to really sit down and actually do art for the past couple months. I don’t think I could give a concrete reason, like for a small period I absolutely was hiding in minecraft, but it doesn’t really explain, the rest. I’ve honestly struggled to keep up with a lot of stuff in general, lil daily things, etc.

My only assumption has been a reluctance to both accept I’ve had burnout but also for the past few months I’ve finally been titrating on ADHD meds and I think I finally hit a dosage that works well for me. Of course my current prescription ran out and I’ve been struggling again so who knows maybe they’re related.

Well whatever, no-one likes to listen to someone whine that they finished at the last moment and offered excuses. I’m busy tomorrow but I’ll try and actually get things properly archived etc. to you by Thursday evening (BST) and start working on a plan on getting my owed stuff done finally.

Thanks for sticking around, especially given the whole Event in late 2025, I know it’s not been, easy.

2026 Badge

DarkOverord's badge for cons etc featuring its vampire hedgehog.

The badge I’ll be wearing to Confuzzled, done very quickly (or as quick as I can) so I have a new badge but unthemed because A: , B: , C:

  1. I’ve been struggling actually drawing the past month
  2. I’m like, so un-musical cultured
  3. I did need a new generic badge to be fair, I’ve not had a generic one since uh… …2017

If you see this vampire about, say hi maybe!

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A shiny red rubber bat standing on top of a pole with it's wings almost completely outstretched, looking hungrily at the viwer

Shiny Bat

A shiny red rubber bat standing on top of a pole with it's wings almost completely outstretched, looking hungrily at the viwer

I’ve never done art based on my shiny bat VRChat avatar so I figured to do it for once, and maybe some of these changes will transfer to the regular bat too like wow maybe I’ll finally include the propatagium, the membrane between the hand and body on the top side of the arm, on the regular bat ‘cus that looks REALLY cool and cape-like. (Technically I should be drawing it on any creature that flies, even DO, but it’s an extra detail that can make things a little messier to work with etc. and is also kind of easy to forget lol)

The propatagium is also kind of based on how Morghus has it on his wyvern and bat with it connecting more along the chest than completely running along the top and hooking over a bit.

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Same bat as the SFW one, but with one extra :3c

On this alt ver I had the realisation that the shiny bat is just 90% the rubber fetish pride flag so why not lol

A shiny red rubber bat standing on top of a pole with it's wings almost completely outstretched, looking hungrily at the viwer Also there's a sheath and the background has the rubber pride flag

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