Amanda Lien
@alienfirst
She/her. Extremely anxious creature. Seattle, WA area based and working freelance artist. 📧 alienfirst@mac.com 🍵 ☕
I can’t wait to see the custom animations for lalas playing as the new Bastion job in #ffxiv. (Credit to @steveglover.bsky.social for the brainworm.) 🎨
New YouTube videos coming as soon as I finish this sucker. And I’ll be getting at least one acrylic standee made of Space Marine AlienMom and Chaos Marine Alienfirst. B/c I think my mom would just die to have it. 🎨
Anatomy is a bit off, but I forgive myself b/c this was an unfinished demo for the art class I teach. Trying to finish it up in my spare time. (Alan Wake 2 has the best DLC I’ve ever experienced. Hands down. Also, Rose is a queen.) #remedygames #alanwake2 #control 🎨
Looks like we have a juvenile robin that is sitting above our car in one of the crossbeams of the covered area we park under. He hasn’t moved for six hours now. He also shit all over the back side of our car. He’s too high up to catch, so I set a towel and water on top of our car. Hope he’s okay. :(
And the cat tax. My dad has two cats, a grey tabby named Jasper who I never see b/c he is elusive and only comes out when he thinks no one is around, and then the orange boy, Cooper, who is a little dog and loves being loved on. Cooper brought us a bird for breakfast. Very considerate.
Babysat my little brothers (my dad’s cats) on Monday and Tuesday. The drive to my dad’s place was gorgeous. We had such a stellar view of Mount Rainier for a good chunk of the drive.
Mom and stepdad return today, so it is time to say farewell to Mischief. She was an excellent host as we stayed at my mom’s place. 10/10 would recommend and will be staying again.
Digging out art I did for Battle Nations back in the day! Thanks to someone finding ME and asking about art, I found out BN got resurrected! I didn’t do a LOT on BN, but here’s four Boss Strike illustrations I got to do. Mostly happy still, but that sergeant (cigar guy) is a bit wonky. 🎨
Anyway, her name is Mischief and she is a tiny little thing. I love her.
She wouldn’t turn around, then she sat and watched my husband while he talked on the phone. I was ignored.
When in Rome (or in this case, North Bend), go visit Twede’s (Twin Peak’s Double R Diner, Alan Wake’s Oh Deer Diner).
Watching a mindless YouTube video before heading to bed, and instead of scrolling endlessly on my phone, I scrolled a little bit for references to sketch a few poses. Much better use of scrolling. 🎨
I have not stopped thinking about mister Carl Thonius from the Warhammer 40k Ravenor series. Here he is looking sad and pathetic (a common state for him). I swear it was gonna be a sketch and then the hatching happened… The hatching is always my downfall. 🎨 #WH40k #Warhammer40k #WarhammerCommunity
I’m so glad I don’t have space on my computer, otherwise I’d immediately be back in Overwatch thanks to this skin.
It's finally done! First VOD up on Youtube! Pt one of Alan Wake Remastered! I only did minor editing (didn't fully rewatch as I know I'd find something embarrassing and then not post it) so hopefully it all works nicely (except for one section Twitch blocked audio on). 🎥 youtu.be/IR85BZW2NEY?...
She's hoping to get back into crafting and cosplay again (life kinda did what life does and she's had to focus on not as fun things lately), so go here: linktr.ee/airbubblesco... (and especially her Insta) to see all the cool shit she's made in the past.
I spent like a whole hour making this little fairy outfit for my lala. Anyway, enjoy the video I felt compelled to make.
This was fun, but the crosshatching became Too Much. Thankfully I duplicated the line art layer, so we’re enacting a do-over. 🎨
Did I text @airbubbles.bsky.social to buy this for me at PAX East the moment @steveglover.bsky.social texted me about it? Yes I did. (My love to whoever did the bun, that’s some good bun art.)
I STILL believe in Tad Cooper. And you should too. I remember drawing this the day the Galavant soundtrack released, before I’d even finished all the episodes. If you haven’t watched Galavant and you like a good musical, it is an absolute delight. 🎨
I would love to get Steve the Yarrick model from the 90s (far left in picture) at some point. There’s just this weird charm to the old models.
My husband (@steveglover.bsky.social) is an Astra Militarum guy, so as you can understand, he was VERY excited for this announcement. Also this model is just COOL.
The second half of The First Heretic is body horror heaven and I need to know what other Black Library books give me that. Gimme da body horror. Like, ugh. Plz.