drawn throughout March 2025, mirrored here on the 3rd of September 2025
All the art I did during Rain World Art Month 2025. This page is long, but not image-heavy - I'll just link the pieces as they're listed!
1 - Noodleflies
As stated in the caption, this one was based on the time I saw a single noodlefly take down a king vulture. The palette and composition are very important to this piece, which you'll see a lot of as the month goes on.
2 - Swim
One of my favourite pieces. I am so glad I got the effect I wanted with the colours. Technically Downpour fanart, as base game Monk would not have colourful pearls.
3 - Pole Plants
A somewhat darker one, subject-wise (is that slugcat dead or did they just give up? who knows!). Very proud of the curved perspective effect, although the colour scheme took a few adjustments.
4 - Dropwigs
Possibly the simplest one here in terms of concept - especially when placed between 3 and 5 - but I still like how I did the iridescence.
5 - Looks to the Moon (Region)
This is the point where I actually started trying to use perspective tools. Probably one of my best 'landscape' drawings! The imagery of a city in this kind of turquoise-yellow phase of dawn has always been compelling to me, and I think the lonely moon up in the sky really completes it.
6 - Jellyfish
For the record, no, you cannot ride a giant jellyfish like this in-game (without significant struggle, at least). I had to kill the Saint just to get a size comparison.
7 - Expedition
I love my murder expeditions. Spearmaster + Rivulet movement + Artificer jumps is so overpowered and so much fun. Actually the second drawing I did for that prompt - the original was posted later and features the many slugpups I typically end up acquiring.
8 - The Rot
I love this kind of limited palette - it really forces me to focus on silhouettes over lineart, which I think went well here. (More saturated and eyestraining than any other drawing here, so be careful!)
9 - Echoes
And here's a third thing I love: symmetry. I'm not sure why this one is 'misaligned' - between cycles? metaphysical damage? incompleteness of something? - but it definitely made for an interesting composition.
10 - Gourmand
Although this is arguably a problem with the actual character concept, it always frustrates me when the Gourmand is reduced to 'big slugcat eats a lot'. That thing is an engineer! Arguably more of an artificer than the actual Artificer! Let it make its bombs!!!
11 - Sky Islands
The prettiest bird for the prettiest region.
12 - New Lizards
I remember this one super clearly because I was alternating between drawing it and reading about someone else's worldbuilding project. And eating.. slices of cheese? Oddly memorable experience. Another pseudo-risograph kind of drawing, although the effect is more subtle.
13 - General Systems Bus
This is my MOST POPULAR piece of art, not just of my RW Art Month drawings, but of all my art on the internet. Thank you, objectum people.
14 - The Nomad
The golden centipede here is, of course, referencing the golden centipede from 'Pursued' expeditions. The regions shown are roughly intended to be Metropolis/Five Pebbles, Shaded Citadel/Underhang, Shoreline, and Subterranean/The Depths.
15 - Mushrooms
High slugcat. You can kind of see the ripple effect here, although I wish I had made it more obvious.
16 - Precipice
This was drawn before Watcher release, so I wasn't sure if the tone should be more 'new visitor' or 'traveller returning'. I suppose it fits either. The blue-red-yellow colour palette was very fun to use.
17 - The Chieftain
Purple + yellow is just the best colour combination. It's a known fact.
18 - Moon
One of the ones I struggled more with, but I think the texturing went well.
19 - Drainage System
A normal brush at partial opacity is my favourite way to do digital painting. I'm still really proud of the atmosphere here.
20 - Scavenger Chieftain Mask
I wanted to keep the composition centred around the Mark of Communication here - although who can say how the king themself feels about it?
21 - Karma 4 (Gluttony)
The Spearmaster can give into the urge as much as it likes, yet it might never feel full. With the tail tendrils obscuring the legs, I used its arm to reference the pose of the Hanged Man card.
22 - Danglefruit
Shiny. I was aiming for something that looks bitable, and I think it worked.
23 - Outer Expanse
Another fun 'landscape' drawing. I especially like the focus here; you can see the can of a dying god over there, but hey, look at these lesbian yeeks.
24 - Slugpups
At first the slugpups were all going to be different colours, before I realised I really didn't want to deal with that. So they're all monk-flavoured. I think I got the slugcat squishiness down pretty well here.
25 - Elite Scavenger
I'm not sure I have anything to comment on here. It's a scavenger. It's green.
26 - Explosive Parry
More symmetry! The composition here obviously references the in-game Karma 5 mural. 💥.
27 - Past Garbage Wastes
The perspective here took more energy than I'd like to admit but it was so worth it. And I still think that acid looks tasty.
28 - RW 8th Anniversary
This is it! The Big Piece! Clockwise, we have Survivor in Filtration, Monk in Sky Islands, Hunter suffering, Artificer in Garbage Wastes, Gourmand in Outskirts, Rivulet in Submerged Superstructure, Spearmaster in LTTM, and Saint in Chimney Canopy. There's a very slight stained glass effect to this drawing!
29 - The Watcher
From a crossover-of-all-DLCs point of view, I consider Watcher and Inv to both be Nightcat, but not the same slugcat. Somewhere between 'alternate universes' and 'different slugcats in the same role'. More symmetry! And this is the second time I've drawn Inv curled around a slugcat like this!
30 - Memory Conflux
This one comes down to 'eeh i dont want to deal with too much today, let's tilt some perspective grids and leave it at that'.
31 - Leviathan
While this one comes down to 'YAYYY ART MONTH OVER, TIME FOR SO MUCH TEXTURING !!'
...And that's it! That's Rain World Art Month! The first time I ever managed to complete a full set of art prompts! im probably not doing it next year. good bye