"Krad's Art Dump 2.0" is here with all of my art from the past five years minus ~100 pieces of NDA artwork. I started this gift last decade as a way to give back to the old internet that mentored me, and it ended up a very poignant way to archive my work.

Before you download, please be aware there are many NSFW/R18 pieces as well as potentially disturbing artwork. You are welcome to save/delete whatever you want, all I ask is you do not reshare, or use it for AI training*.

Download link (1.1 GB)

Previous 2011-2020 dump: https://www.mediafire.com/file/3hqo6ltoui8mkt1/

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it's fascinating reflecting back on my art situation and seeing how much has improved since 2020.

not even stylistically, i'm actually mostly thinking of project management and general peace of mind.

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also doubles as the 'what has krad been up to this summer' post ~

* Gaze an Eagle Blind - Environment Design Assistant - For the past few weeks, been working with chira for the backgrounds of Gaze aka a black comedy action webcomic by Little Foolery. I've been a fan of LF's work for gosh, 15+ years now? and Gaze really was the perfect intersection of an extremely compelling story-project with teeth and real soul plus the chance to help out in some pretty uniquely synergetic ways! We'll save the announcement post for other socials for later but this collaboration has been a literal dream of mine for, not kidding, a decade plus. :D

* Like Fine Wine - guest artist - LFW is a creative anthology featuring older men and their significantly younger partners :3c run by some dear friends with an absolutely all-star contributor selection, it's a delicious mix of classy with real honest to goodness bite. the strip i have in mind is something i've been aching to do for a few months now too, and just -- going to be real good for the soul.

* "Summoner Support", a short Karel/Summoner Mark/Volke R18 fire emblem selfship comic for

karel :3 working unashamedly on FE selfship work in the last few months has been really healing, and everything about this strip was total guilty pleasure territory from the characters involved to the Vibes, to the meta-ing that has spun out from this ~ should actually be finishing this up pretty soon!

* Nazine II Spot Artist for

idal_waves 's story - I've wanted to work with Idal on a creative project for years now and so, so glad we got to collaborate here. :D Idal went above and beyond writing his characters Petr and Bruno with both real historical nuance and incredible id, and he really let me go ham on some cool mid-century smoky-masculine art style here with the 3 pieces.

* in the background, ashes & ghost doujin shipping is going (most likely for the next month), actually packing the second large order right now in between writing this post; once these are out, 20/66 of the doujins are shipped. I'm going to save the retrospective/actual closure-celebration once when all of these are shipped and once when i figure out what itch.io is going to do with the payout since this is uh. An Ongoing Interesting Event, to put it mildly. :D;

... believe it or not there is Even More (non-art) Stuff happening behind the scenes lol, but that covers it for now; the back half of this year will most likely simply continuing to work on all of this ~

i don't think this post-YRMR epilouge/(breeding) fic is going to Actually Happen, alas.

that said i found a decent chunk of it written and throwing it in here under the cut for y'all to enjoy. :) keep in mind that it's an obvious draft, chunks of paragraphs are not written, etc. it's not the fun sexy stuff proper, but y'all might enjoy the lead-up to it.

    (set roughly a year after Revelation, YRMR version)
    Gunter/f!Corrin find a new game in the tomb of Anankos, rekindling old ghosts. implied spice (sexual hunting/CNC). sequel to YRMR.
    (crossposting from tumblr if/when it goes)

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so i'm doing my research for the 'can you host a (kink) artist's personal site on a a rasbpi' idea. the "why is this necessary to self host?" is documented in this post.

this post is me sketching out the architecture(?) and the tools necessary for the plan, but if you really want the short details:

hardware: vitros raspberry pi zero w
SD card: this card, 64GB (?)
operating system: Raspberry Pi OS Lite
webserver: nginx
file manager: filezilla
security: UFW

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(crossposted from the art tumblr)

the tl;dr

IRON CROWN as a free comic is now off of wordpress and can be viewed by a neat, robust HTML/CSS/JS comic template called rarebit! effectively nothing has changed for the reader, beyond expecting a little more reliability of uptime over the years.

all comic pages and previously paywalled patreon posts can also be downloaded in this art dump for free, as mentioned in the new author's notes.

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( it may come as a surprise i find it very hard to be proud of creative projects. )

jdwrites and myself curated another nazisploitation anthology with over fifteen contributors that is open for pre-orders! We just got the final proof and it's truly decadently, pervertedly gorgeous ~ cover art by the exceptional K.M. Claude.

A beautiful, refined, and uniquely unsettling full-color collaborative work of both art and prose delving into the fantasies of those who find particular joy in the aesthetic of Nazisploitation--a genre long misunderstood and abhorred by the uninitiated. Are you ready to be In The Know?

Rating: Explicit
Themes: Anti-Fascism, Nazisploitation, Revenge, Forbidden Desire
Additional Tags: M/M, Nazi Uniforms, Military Imagery, Guns, Violence, Death, not an all encompassing list.

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Print - 124 Pages + Cover (Full Color)
Size - 6.5x9.5in
FREE digital DRM-free low-resolution PDF included

If there's any questions, happy to answer in the comments, email, or via DM.

Grab a copy at https://jdriley.itch.io/nazine

... so the good news is my bum wrist hasn’t affected typing or the ability to work on non-drawing projects. The even BETTER news is I made the 125k gunter/f!corrin fic I finished into a (limited time) physical softcover book!

you can buy it here; link to purchase: https://www.blurb.com/bookstore/invited/10213522/9505662283de6bea6b3dc8b0fc4e6c28fa87b0f4

the fine print:

price is the absolute lowest I can set (I earn $0; every cent goes to blurb for printing).
you do have to sign up to blurb to check out fully (i know, its dumb, just delete your account after you get it).
this listing will be up for a limited time (two weeks?) as I honestly don’t intend it to reach a broader audience than… basically y’all following me here. 🙂 this one’s for the gunter die-hards.
if you gotta have the fic and have major issues ordering for whatever reason, reach out to me at overlord@kradeelav.com and i can ship you a version, though you’ll have to be willing to give me your address and paypal over something to cover shipping if necessary.

Title: your ruin, my ruin
Rating: Explicit / ~130k
Series: Fire Emblem: Fates (Revelation)
Relationships: Gunter/My Unit | Corrin

..... so I finished YRMR \o/

I'm going to copy/paste the notes "chapter" here since it's what I've done for other fics, and it feels fitting.

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Forgot to mention it here, but I started posting my 120k fic that i've been hollerin' about since august! :D

Title: your ruin, my ruin
Rating: Explicit
Series: Fire Emblem: Fates (Revelation)
Relationships: Gunter/My Unit | Kamui | Corrin
Additional Tags: slow burn, psuedo-incest, age difference, mutual corruption, seduction of authority, redemption, hurt/comfort, medical C-PTSD, recovery, canon divergence, possession, dubious consent, bad parenting, porn with plot, codependency, caretaker daddy and his little amnesiac dragon girl, older man/younger woman, fix-it fic, sex fantasies

up to ch5's posted already (out of 20), but I'm done enough with it that I've been consistently posting twice a week. no author's notes crossposted here as they'll be added as the last "chapter" of sorts on ao3 itself to keep from spoiling folks ~

leigh over on tumblr also created the absolute best bingo board for the fic >:)

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title: rose bloom and sword
rating: M
pairings: gunter x f!corrin (fates)

"It'll make an exquisite view for me, riding behind you. Excellent morale raiser, milady."
It wasn't the first time Gunter had appreciated her surprisingly curvaceous and revealing armor; he had never been blind. A beautiful pert ass held appeal no matter the years.
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some real one-handed sad romantic porn and pillow talk afterwards to break the cherry on writing this (redacted). Conquest route, post S-support.

(Ao3 link, mirror on the website coming later.

after me whinging about it for a week on the gunter tumblr and calling him a wrinkled nutsack, he started letting me in his head with fanfics; here's the first one. to be honest it is definitely not my best work! i fully intended this as a crash course, and it is absolutely more of a crash than a flight. :P

( author's notes as always )

i was inspired by

queenlua and

neotula and recent chatter about making your own tarot deck off of a fandom, and somehow had the energy to make both a major and minor arcana set for tellius! aka all of the playable characters and a handful of major antagonists :D

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the actual chart (warning, it's big). there's a few typos where my endurance ran out towards the end. if I ever make this into a bigger project I'll clean it up. for now, have at thee.
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Introduction

this is not a guide on “how to make a handmade zine”, as there’s plenty of fantastic (free!) tutorials on it - such as this, this and this. This is also not a guide of choosing a specific printer for indie creative work or work meant for the convention circuit, as that would likely go out of date quickly. What this is:

documentation on how I personally print & sell zines on a small scale painlessly, within the US.
documentation with specific tips for kink, controversial, & NSFW artists who face additional and unique payment barriers versus “vanilla” creatives. for example, my specific process does not show my real name to the customer, further blunting any impact a harassment campaign would make.
useful tips on how to sell physical merch on itch.io since it’s not exactly advertised and requires some set-up.

This is not the only way, either, mind; but I’ve done this for a while and like sharing resources. You may repost on other sites (tumblr link tba), but I would encourage you to credit me & link back to the dreamwidth link. (thanks!)

Without further ado ...

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title: at the mercy of
characters/tags: non-con, dead dove: do note eat, Captor!Naesala+(begnion senator) / Prisoner!Leanne, Prisoner!Stefan / Prisoner!Vika, Prisoner!Leanne / Rescuer!Volug, Captor!Izuka / Prisoner!Micaiah, Captor!Zihark / Prisoner!Lethe, clipped wings, masturbation, sex fantasies, prisoners being used publicly, degradation, bruises, pregnancy, restraints, forced stripping, prisoner’s power stripped from them, amputation, prisoner being purchased, mindbreak, sex magic, experimentation
summary: for rachniRose in the 2023's prisoner exchange
website mirror: https://r18-log.kradeelav.com/archives/768
ao3 mirror: https://archiveofourown.org/works/47786557/chapters/120466

( cw for fictional noncon-ish discussions )

i threatened a week or so ago to write muarim/zihark slash and ...

happy pride bitches. :D

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had an 'eureka' moment last night figuring out the concept for both WHAT GREATER SIN and KILLING EDGE doujins!

thanks to chira, i've been playing with some ways to ""think"" more (and track) the birds eye progress of both of these so it's not just 'a collection of pretty images printed' in a random order; the best doujins imo have some sort of underlying meta-story that's never quite explicit (unless if the author mentions it in the intro or something), but still ties it together in a continuing series of 'yes, and-'

( WHAT GREATER SIN )

( KILLING EDGE )

pre-orders for THE BOX OF DOOM is live, and open until June 20th! The cool part? you get a free copy of LIVE WIRES with it too! ~*2 for 1 deal*~

What’s THE BOX OF DOOM about, you say? “you ever feel like identities put you in a box, and you'd rather be a feral cat that shreds them? yeah.”

While the zine is free to read online I’d like to have it physically -- both for myself and those who prefer print as well. Also: there’ll be slightly more than estimated just to take care of people who naturally find out about it afterwards, but there will not be a re-print, so if you want to get a guaranteed copy, please go ahead and do order

title: FEALTY

summary: a gift Sir Integra Hellsing gets for her sixteenth birthday, and what bootblacking means. illustrated fic.

website mirror: https://log.kradeelav.com/archives/1725

ao3 mirror (with transcript): https://archiveofourown.org/works/47494354

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so I started playing around in godot today ~ (link is to a screenshot posted on my SFW log site. I'll probably keep the cool visual gamedev updates over there but sparingly, whilst the longer meatier thoughts go here in the journal.)

godot is an open-sourced game engine that's rapidly approaching the level where it can challenge unreal and unity on smaller indie 2D/3D games. other than about a week in college messing around with unity, I've got no experience in this arena. I have no desire in making a fully fleshed out game (yet?); right now this is purely to scratch a different visually creative itch, as I'm finding out games consistently haunt my dreams for decades far more than illustration, animation, or comics do. I've mentioned before here that I still, quite literally, "dream" up extra levels of radiant dawn, SW:Starfighter, and Majora's Mask ... wouldn't it be neat if I could bring those to life?

speaking of, i bounce around a lot with potential mediums, and it's more intentional than it probably comes off. kind of a less destructive 'move fast and break things' mindset? a lot of visual mediums Look Cool from the abstract but you only know from getting into the nuts and bolts if you got what it takes to stick it out. (learning i actually hate doing comics and animation lmao. i think it's the sheer repetitive-ness of it. once when you learn the basic loops, it's a lot of drawing the same fucking stuff over and over again.)

versus ... zines, one off illusts, 3D modeling in sketchup (go figure), and html/css coding, on the other hand: i loveeee.

tbh, i'd rather play to my strengths.

ideally i'd like to find a "long term" visual medium i can do bigger projects in vs zines which feel short/mid-term. (meaning, size/scale of an experience, scene idea, or a story.) it'd be cool to have the variety of tools available, as mentioned above with the dreams. that damned bird-man level is another one that still haunts me, clear as day.

in either case, even just dabbling a tiny bit into $random_visual_medium to know you like/dislike it still gives you a hell of a broad base of knowledge. my measly sketchup learning is *still* paying off dividends at work a decade later.

( first two goals )

krad

Krad's Art Dump 2.0

art health

cool exciting things happening, dreamwidth gang edition :D

fe:fates fic, YRMR sequel

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the tl;dr

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SPECS

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tellius tarot: all characters

how 2 sell zines online, by krad

at the mercy of: author's notes

sweet dreams (are made of this): author's notes

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gamedev 101?

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