Cyrus encounters a Volai in the Lyra portal.
Author: BogusRed
Cyrus prepares for the Elemental Festival
Promotional art for Elemental Festival Art RPG event.
Cyrus has harvested some herbs and is making a special meat seasoning for the Elemental Festival. His hair is up in a manbun while he prepares the food to avoid getting hair in the food.
Willow | The Star
PaperDemon Art RPG weekly prompt #57
Draw or write your character as a card. Are they more of a regular card from a playing deck? How about a tarot card? What makes them that card?
I rarely participate in a weekly prompt challenge, even though a lot of them are fun. I just don’t have enough time to play my own game these days.
But this prompt I really got excited about and had a ton of fun doing.
The colors are kinda too bright but I dig it a lot.
Sometimes I wish I could take a break from website coding so I could focus on creating art and playing the game.
Cyrus Skyllo
If I recall correctly, I created this character during a livestream in the Amaru discord server that I helped host about creating characters.
I actually have gotten quite attached to this OC and have drawn him in several other illustrations. I’m not totally happy with his clothes so I’ll probably redesign him later.
Minimaid has helped develop this character further by roleplaying him as the investigator in our first Guild Night RP event.
Character Name: Cyrus Skyllo
Character Age: 28
Character Species: Paperdemon
Hair color: Purple
Eye color: grey
Skin color: grey
Wing color: greyish purple/pink
Biography
Cyrus likes to be alone. He has trouble connecting with others and often is misunderstood by others in his life. He experienced trauma in childhood, something he doesn’t talk about. So he’s often very cautious around other people because he finds it hard to trust him. He likes to spend a lot of time researching and gathering information before taking on a task. The more prepared he can be, the more comfortable he is. If he doesn’t have enough information, he can get really agitated or fearful and run away from the situation.
It is unknown which portal is his homeworld. But maybe one day he’ll feel comfortable opening up to others about it.
Razor Leef Beetles
Boss art for the Aridin Boss Fight Art RPG challenge
Willow and Jerle investigate the Rootways
Art was created for the Decra Drain Art RPG challenge.
Jerle and Willow rappel down to investigate the rootways underneath the city. They discover a portal underneath the city is draining power away from Aridin’s orbs. Adrian, the Black Bandit is nearby and Willow suspects he’s behind all this given how suspicious he looks. But Adrian is just there to investigate the situation too.
Thank you
Minimaid for lending me your character Adrian!
Prompt #3 – Rootways
You trace the energy drain to its source– somewhere down in the city below. The roads themselves feel rich with energy, and you discover that the power has sunk beneath the surface of the city down into the roots below. To your surprise, you discover intricate, recently grown tunnels of roots that stretch under the city in a complex labyrinth. Who has built them? Why? How are they taking the orb’s power? Draw or write about your character investigating the root tunnels below the city. Your piece must include your character and either the root tunnels or those responsible for them.
Traveling Merchant
Here’s a new NPC I’ve created for the PaperDemon Art RPG. Her name is Keziah Amin. I still need to flesh out her personality. I have some basic traits written down but she’ll probably get more fleshed out through role play in some upcoming PDARPG events.
We’re going to introduce a new traveling merchant mechanic on the site soon where you can get discounts on some featured items for a limited time.
Aridin, World of Rain Forest Temples
Greetings friends. Here’s the most recent illustration I completed for the PaperDemon Art RPG.
Here’s the thumbnail sketches and early sketch.


Color comps. I didn’t actually try anything too different in my comps this time. I had a pretty good idea what direction I wanted to take the color.

You can watch a time lapse of me drawing/painting this on my YouTube channel below.
Want to earn rewards for drawing your original character in Aridin? Check out the official Aridin Art RPG challenge.
Art redraw 2001 -> 2022
I decided to redraw an old artwork.
I made this art to craft a new weapon in the PaperDemon Art RPG.
This is the original art I made in 2001. Back then my art had a lot more Akira Toriyama influence. You can see the basic concept I had for weapons in the game exited from a long time ago. The background in this art was generated by Kais Power Tools if I remember right. I wasn’t very good at making backgrounds back then.

And this is the redrawn version with a background I drew and painted myself. Jerle’s clothing was redesigned a couple years ago to look a little more interesting by having tails and an asymmetrical design. Usually I don’t draw his hair this long though.

I rarely do redraws. I’m really happy with how this turned out and may do another one.
As for life updates, I had a baby in February! I should probably make a post about that. I’m also struggling with postpartum depression. Need to make a post about that, too.
Some day I’ll make a good habit of posting to here more consistently.
Back to livestreaming and youtube
I’ve just published a new video where I cover 10 steps pro artists use in their art process to create professional art.
This is a condensed version of a Livestream I hosted a few weeks back.
After nearly a year of no streaming or videos I decided to come back to livestreaming.
I originally stopped for a few reasons. I found the process of creating YouTube videos quite time consuming to make them at the quality I really wanted them to be.
Livestreaming was a bit of a mixed bag. When I did “chill streams” where I just hung out and did art, I felt it didn’t really provide value to the PaperDemon community so I ended up not promoting the streams, this getting very poor engagement. I also found it was not so great for my anxiety because I was needing to be social, rather than having planned content to talk about.
When I did educational Livestream I felt more comfortable because I planned the content ahead of time and was confident that the content was valuable educational art content. But doing these streams regularly was also time consuming due to the planning involved.
Interestingly I found that even though I hadn’t posted to YouTube for a long time, we were still getting new signups to paperdemon and the discord from these videos compared to our other social media marketing efforts.
I think this is because the content is more valuable and more evergreen. On twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, posts typically only get seen for a day or two, then are forgotten about. But content on YouTube is continually searched and discovered even years later.
Because of this I decided to come back to livestreaming and YouTube videos in an effort to market PaperDemon.
But to be more realistic I’m only planning on one Livestream per month with quality educational material and demos along with an occasional extra video here and there. This is a pace that feels reasonable to me.
I’m also experimenting with YouTube shorts to share shorter advice stuff.
I may have to take another break when the baby comes but we’ll see. I may be itching to do videos. Livestreaming might be hard to coordinate around feeding and nap time.
I decided to stream on YouTube going forward instead of twitch because I’ve heard so much from the experts in this space that twitch has poor “discoverability” compared to YouTube. Plus it makes things so much easier. If people subscribe to my stream, they’re also subbed to my videos and vice versa.
My next stream will be this Saturday 11am pst and I’ll be talking about composition, a topic requested by a member of the PaperDemon community.