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Have a dragon-skulled Commander Xisuma Void for day 2! In Horizons, the Commander is the ruler of the Dragon’s Spine, dealt the last blow to the dread Ender Dragon, and has existed for as long as any of the other civilizations can remember. There’s nothing but darkness inside his head, and his body, if he has one, is clad entirely in armor.

#hermitaday #hermit-a-day may #hermitcraft #xisumavoid #traditional art #horizon to horizon au #art for my fic

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And so Hermit-A-Day May begins! Doing my Horizons designs, once again, because I somehow never get around to fixing up actual designs… heh. Here’s Vintage Beef, the local innkeeper/tavern owner/designated quest giver/good friend of Joe Hills over in Elsewhere. His fare is simple, always fresh, and guaranteed not to give you nausea and/or temporary blindness.

#hermitaday #hermit-a-day may #hermitcraft #vintage beef #traditional art #horizon to horizon au #art for my fic

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Going to try and pull this one off. No promises, but if I can match my 30/31 record for last year’s Hermittober writings, I’d be quite frankly astonished.

WELCOME TO HERMIT-A-DAY MAY 2024!

I'm thrilled to bring this challenge to you all for the second year in a row! Hermit-a-Day May is a challenge inspired by Hermitober, but with a twist: instead of theme prompts, we focus on a specific Hermit every day!

THE RULES: 1. Any type of fanwork is welcome so long as it features, or is otherwise inspired by, the Hermit of the day. 2. Tag #hermitaday to have your fanwork reblogged, or submit it directly to the blog (Please note that while I recognize the value of fanworks involving more mature themes, and they can certainly count toward challenge completion if you're keeping track for yourself, content on this blog will be kept "PG-13" so that all may enjoy.). 3. Fanworks for one Hermit posted after the day rolls over to another Hermit's day (per the US Central time zone) will be reblogged in a big queue in June. 4. I am not interested in seeing captions or tags in which you disparage your art/skills. We're all improving all the time. Be kind to yourselves.

WHY SHOULD I PARTICIPATE? To show love to every Hermit, from the most to least subscribed, from those who have been on the server from day one to those who only joined this season! And because challenges are fun! And because, this year, there's an extra dimension to the event: a fundraiser for Gamers Outreach, featuring art incentives by @rendiggitydog and @belmarzi.

GRAND TOTAL INCENTIVE: For every $150 we raise for Gamers Outreach, belmarzi will make 10 seconds' worth of animatic, featuring as many Hermits as she can fit into the time frame.

INDIVIDUAL DONATION INCENTIVE: For every $65 you personally donate to the fundraiser during the month of May, Rae rendiggitydog will draw you a shaded flats commission of a Hermit of your choice.

WHO’S RUNNING THIS? Hi! My name is Luna! You can use she/her, he/him, ze/hir, or ro/ros/roseself pronouns for me. My main blog is @as-if-unreal. Yep, before you ask, it really is just me, but to be fair I've had a lot of help.

BONUS SUNDAY PROMPTS EXPLAINED UNDER THE CUT

TFC - May 5th While he may no longer be with us physically, TFC left behind him a legacy of quiet care and good humor, and Hermitcraft would not have been the same without him.

FRIENDS OF HERMITCRAFT - May 12th There are plenty of shows, podcasts, competitions, other servers, and more woven into the internet ecosystem around Hermitcraft, and plenty more people involved in them: just as a small number of examples, Season 9's Rift opened up to a whole server of Emperor friends, and there are always allies to be made in MCC and enemies to be made in the Life Series. Today is for celebrating all of those who, while they may not be Hermits themselves, exist and entertain in proximity to them.

FAVORITE "ALT" HERMIT - May 19th HoTGuY and Poultry-Man. Helsknight and Evil Xisuma. Renbob and - look, you get the idea. This server is full of theater kids ready to toss on an alternate skin and play into a brand new character at the drop of a hat. Who's your favorite?

GROUPS AND COLLABS - May 26th This month is all about one Hermit a day... but what we really love is when they interact with each other. What does your favorite duo or group of Hermits get up to together?

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Some Third Life duos in four pencil colors for funsies and lore reasons.

I’ve sort of started a fic in the Saints of Eyes and Ears au, except that it’s also a fic for my Horizon to Horizon au, since I linked the two for kicks and shiggles and why-notsies. The basics are that the Saints of Eyes and Ears lived in a semi-mythical, religiously-significant past time, and inspired the faith known as Livolutionism, the religion of the ancients who built such structures as strongholds and trail ruins before mysteriously disappearing. Livolutionsim similarly disappeared, and now all that is left are fragmentary manuscripts of the books of the faith, which tell the stories of the various Life Series SMP installments, and a few prophecies buried deep in oral storytelling and local folklore.

Top to bottom, left to right:

Ren, Red Winter King of Dogwarts

Martyn, Hand of the King of Dogwarts

Jimmy, Canary and Beloved of the Flowers

Scott, Widow and Beloved of the Flowers

Grian, Loyal Debtor of the Desert

Scar, Last Fallen Dead of the Desert

Close ups under the cut

#saints of eyes and ears au #rendog #martyn itlw #renchanting #jimmy solidarity #scott smajor #flower husbands #grian #goodtimeswithscar #desert duo #life series fanart #third life fanart #3rd life fanart #traditional art

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Practicing colored pencils with all six life series winners, and, by correlation, all six designs for the Saints of Eyes and Ears. It was really fun figuring out how to crosshatch with four times as many colors as I’m used to using.

Top to bottom, left to right:

Grian, Saint of the Desert Sun

Scott, Saint of the Endless Stars

Pearl, Saint of the Shadowed Moon

Scar, Saint of the Blooming Earth

Martyn, Saint of the Stained Mars

Cleo, Saint of the Fleeting Comet

Close ups below the cut

#saints of eyes and ears au #life series winners #life series au #grian fanart #scott smajor fanart #pearlesentmoon fanart #gtws fanart #itlwart #zombiecleo fanart #traditional art #trafficblr

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Banging out a design for a life series jacket patch but mostly just having fun with straight lines and sharp angles and only two colors

#trafficblr #life series fanart

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More portraits of the Saints of Eyes and Ears, those who followed the word of the Watchers and became martyrs.

Aka me worldbuilding a religion around the life series winners for unclear reasons

Left to right, top to bottom:

Grian the Debtor, Saint of the Desert Sun

Scott the Loyal, Saint of the Endless Stars

Pearl the Betrayed, Saint of the Shadowed Moon

Martyn the Betrayer, Saint of the Stained Mars

Scar the Trickster, Saint of the Blooming Earth

Titles are written in Standard Galactic, which I am quickly growing fond of as a script

I’m going to loop Cleo in somehow, maybe as a debated Saint from a book with unknown authorship or something

#saints of eyes and ears au #life series au #life series winners #grian #grian fanart #scott smajor #scott smajor fanart #pearlescentmoon #pearlesentmoon fanart #inthelittlewood #itlwart #goodtimeswithscar #gtws fanart #watcher lore #traditional art

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The Sandman himself, Dream of the Endless!

Draw someone wearing the fabric of space-time.

#the sandman #dream of the endless #traditional art #prompt response

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Another Horizons au lineup, just emperors this time.

Left to right: Joel, Ollie, Jimmy, and Shubble

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#horizon to horizon au #empires au #art for my fic #smallishbeans fanart #theorionsound fanart #jimmy solidarity fanart #shubble fanart

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A lineup of Horizons character designs

Left to right: Docm77, Mumbo, Gem, and Lizzie

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#horizon to horizon au #art for my fic #hermitcraft au #empires au #docm77 fanart #mumbo fanart #geminitay fanart #ldshadowlady fanart #traditional art

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Weapons pose practice with Cub, Cleo, Gem, and Impulse, and with poses taken from @/robinswords’ videos on YouTube.

Clockwise from top right, there’s Cleo with her dagger-axe polearm, Impulse with his tachi cavalry sword, Gem with her rapier, and Cub with his longsword.

#horizon to horizon au #hermitcraft au #art for my fic #cubfan fanart #zombiecleo fanart #geminitay fanart #impulse fanart #really loving my new brush pen right now #go give robinswords a look-see if you want good weapons pose references and also fun sword fighting #traditional art

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Fiddling about with how magic should look in horizons, featuring X, Stress, Ren, and Scar

#horizon to horizon au #hermitcraft au #art for my fic #hermitcraft fanart #xisuma fanart #stressmonster fanart #rendog fanart #gtws fanart #goodtimeswithscar fanart #just fiddling with these sketches and having fun with poses

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the vast

#my dearie vastard himself #who doesnt like the sky? #that wild blue yonder far up above? #mike crew #tma

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A few more fixed up Horizons designs

Clockwise from top left, there’s Jevin, Tango, Cub, and Cleo

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#horizon to horizon au #hermitcraft au #art for my fic #hermitcraft fanart #zombiecleo #zombiecleo fanart #ijevin #ijevin fanart #cubfan135 #cubfan fanart #tangotek #tangotek fanart #emperors are next on the ‘actually draw them properly and solidify their designs’ list

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Inking done :)

This lot represents 3/7 of the magic types in the Horizons au: Void for X, the source of all magic; Fae for Bdubs, the playful magic, and Animal for Impulse, the passionate magic.

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#horizon to horizon au #hermitcraft au #art for my fic #xisuma fanart #xisumavoid #bdubs fanart #bdoubleo100 #impulse fanart #impulsesv

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A few sketches that will probably get inked. Solidifying Horizons designs for Commander X(isuma), Lord Bee Double Oh, and Emperor Impulse Esvee. X is probably just sentient void in a suit of armor, Bee is a moth or butterfly like fae, and Impulse is a cat-folk.

#horizon to horizon au #hermitcraft au #art for my fic #xisuma fanart #impulse fanart #bdubs fanart #character design #xs armor is complicated as hell so they can have the most human like dexterity possible #bee is short even by fae standards #and impulse is the fourth most competent in a fight after x false and gem

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someone put this man on the cover of vogue