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Hero of the Kharlan War

#art #digital art #fanart #tales of symphonia #tales of series #mithos #mithos yggdrasill #making my inner 15yo proud once again by drawing the fanarts he didn't have the skills to realise back then #I'm sorry I'm a kharlan heroes fanboy #i've always been fascinated by the idea of who they were before Cruxis #when they were a bunch of ragtag heroes together against the world to save it #when Mithos was actually a hero and not the overpowered heartbroken kid ruling the world and depicting himself as one

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A page from my sketchbook where I was exploring some cultural aspect of the elven culture Luin & Aela are from. Specifically the use of hairstyles (here braids) to show social status

Here's it's mostly about showing elven & human heritage (which determines whether someone has elven or human citizenship, since both people cohabit on the Arvor Islands), and showing marital status. There would also be specific styles for children at specific ages, nobility status, civil servants, etc. but I haven't thought about these. Yet

#art #traditional art #original art #Songs Project #original character #fantasy art #fantasy oc #elf oc #worldbuilding #and yeah Spartha isn't human so Luin isn't half-human either #but elves only allow interracial relationships with humans so Spartha pretends to be human #and no one outside of Aela and her family knows what he really is #Luin doesn't even live on the Arvor Islands after the turns 5 #he wears his braid at the beginning of his story in a way to connect with his mother and birthplace and nothing more #he'll stop wearing it later when he realises how dirty his elven family did him #and also how fucked up it is to basically have to display your ancestry for everyone to see #baby discovers privacy is an option lol

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I often frankenstein a bunch of refs together (both mine and from other people), but I have a few where the original photo is still recognisable

(The manta ray got kind of an upgrade in the final art xD)

it's all old drawings (2021), my most recent ones were done either reference-less, or with more complex frankenstained poses

Show me a photo you took to use as reference and the resulting art you made from it.

does not have to be of you

but it does have to be a photo that you took.

could be a landscape or an object

but I do REALLY want to see the ones of you I know how you artists are. Let's see it. 👀

#behind the art #art challenge #some really cool stuff in the notes go check them out #wtf I just realized I drew one of the panther's sword in the wrong orientation #well that's something else to fix when I'll redraw it ig

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Experimenting with Spartha's design at the beginning of his story, which is also the earliest story in the Songs projects chronologically

At that point he's barely an adult, and still pretty shy and struggling to assert himself - pretty far from his future strong and (over)confident persona he'll develop in the latest stories He just wants to hide in some remote place to make his little paintings

#next week rebagel

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the most recent exercise I did

A pretty useful technique (allowing you to reproduce an image at the same or even a different scale), that I really, really hope I won't ever have to put into practice for anything over than lineart, because oh gods does it take forever and ever and is boring as fuck. Like, I know why it's important to know it but please

#art practice #art exercices #traditional art #coloured pencils #markers #image id in alt text

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Experimenting with Spartha's design at the beginning of his story, which is also the earliest story in the Songs projects chronologically

At that point he's barely an adult, and still pretty shy and struggling to assert himself - pretty far from his future strong and (over)confident persona he'll develop in the latest stories He just wants to hide in some remote place to make his little paintings

#art #digital art #original art #original character #my blorbos from my shows #Songs Project #fantasy art #fantasy oc #I went for bronze age mediterranean influences since his culture is inspired by mythical ancient greece #except for the shoes those are still mediterranean but more recent since they're basic catalan espardilha

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Last week's art practice, some small still life studies I had to stop doing my regular art exercises when I moved, but now that I can do them again I'll try to take the habit to post them a bit more often

#behind the art

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I made a new fursona for shit and giggles*

(*for my furry friends bc some of them want to draw me something sometimes)

#rebagel

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I made a new fursona for shit and giggles*

(*for my furry friends bc some of them want to draw me something sometimes)

#art #digital art #animals #fursona #furry art #wolf #italian wolf #wolf art #fun fact I started as a furry artist at 13 #even though I don't consider myself a furry anymore I still have a lot of furry artists friends

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I will not leave Tumblr, but if anyone wants to follow me on other places, I have a Carrd I keep updated regularly with all my other socials

Right now I'm not being very active on either Mastodon or Bluesky, but I'll start posting some of my old art on them. Inkblot is mostly a portfolio website with only finished art. I'm also keeping an eye on Cara and Cohost, and I'm seriously considering opening a Patreon with a free tier, where I would post unwatermarked images and longer worldbuilding/project ramblings

I'll keep posting here because that's where most of my audience is, and I love you guys too much, and also I'm tired of running. i'm not fleeing anymore. But since my laptop is way too old to run Glaze or Nightshade, I'll put bigger watermarks on my art for now on. Sorry, the tech bros are why we can't have nice things u_u

#using this as my pinned post #also I'll keep this post updated as well

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I did the Hiveworks' kiss challenge with my blorbos! Kisses aren't really something I'm used to draw, so it was a nice challenge

From left to right and top to bottom, we have:

Luin and Spartha. Luin is not a very tactile person and Spartha can be a little of a mother hen sometimes, but Luin will take being embarrassed by his dad in front of his friends over not having a dad at all (a situation he was well too familiar with for way too long)

Stefan and his wife (still unnamed). Their marriage was purely political, and Stefan is aromantic anyway so there's never been any kind of romantic feelings between them. They did however develop a strong friendship over the years, and despite the centuries since she died, Stefan still calls her his best friend

Sasha and Tristan. Their romance (along with Marietta and Sasha's -not it's not a love triangle, it's a polycule kind of situation) is the only one that unfolds through the story, as all the others are already established. It's not a central part of the story, but it still has a non-negligible influence on their respective characters' arcs (centering around self-acceptance for Tristan, and learning to question authority for Sasha)

Safiyah and Tanith. They were originally planned to only appear for a short story, but I grew fond of them and now they're recurrent characters. I need to draw them more often (especially I need to design Tanith's soldier/bodyguard outfit and Safiyah's maned lioness form)

#art #digital art #art meme #original characters #my blorbos from my shows #Songs project #fantasy #kiss challenge

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Home

Lakkmir (wookiee), Valmora (twi'lek) and their adoptive daughter Zer'aya (togruta) are some of my favourite characters from my friend's @jackdaw-kraai 's fic The Guides Verse, living their best lesbian coffeeshop AU-like life after being freed from the horrors of Hutt slavery

It's more of an elaborated sketch than a fully painted picture (I rushed a bit because I wanted to finish it before leaving on travel, and now I see a LOT of stuff missing or I could've done better), but I finally got to draw the three of them, like I've been wanting to do for a while!

#art #digital art #illustration #fanart #star wars #star wars oc #star wars au #togruta #togruta oc #wookiee #wookiee oc #twi'lek #twi'lek oc #fanart of a fanfic #the guides verse

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PSA: it is Appreciate a Dragon Day

Here are some dragons I drew these last years for you to appreciate

Thank you for your attention have a good day!

#art #dragon #dragons #dragon art #digital art #traditional art #appreciate a dragon day #flight rising #pokémon #monster hunter #skydancer #ultra necrozma #rathalos #guides art #original dragon character #dragon oc #the skydancer is my random progen on FR and I love her

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I didn't think I'd be able to fill in all the months, with all the looking for a flat and then moving from May to August, but I'm really glad to see I did manage to draw even a bit every month! Let's keep this pace for 2024!

Each piece's post: January February March April May June July - no post for this one since it was done privately for family ^^ August (posted on my main) September (I accidentally deleted the original post thinking it was a reblog... oops) October - Tumblr forbade me to post it =( November December

2020 art summary | 2021 art summary | 2022 art summary

#art summary #2023 art summary #I just made a censored version of my october illustration that should not trigger the tumblr censorbot #and even if it does it'd be very easy to appeal #so that'll probably be one of the first things I'll post in 2024 #some good ass #(wait no it's the censored version so no ass visible sorry) #also if anyone's wondering what language I wrote the months in #it's occitan #I want to practice occitan again so i'll try to use it more often when I can

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Art vs Artist 2023 edition

I did not produce a lot overall, but I am very satisfied with what I did this year. There are a lot more people in this one than in the previous years, and especially a lot more of my original characters! I finally feel confident enough to draw them now and that's a pretty big milestone for me

#artvsartist #artvsartist2023 #art meme #tumblr pls don't flag this post for the tiny bit of boobie that's barely visible u_u #drawing my ocs is a lot more complicated for me than drawing other people's ocs or fanart #because I never manage to draw them exactly as they are in my head #and it frustrates me so much! I look at the person on paper and I know who they are supposed to be #but they look like a completely different person and I can't recognize them #but as I keep getting better I can finally get a result close enough that I don't feel that dissonance anymore #it's not perfect obv. I still have a long way to go. but it's good enough. and it's important to recognize when it's good enough

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Unrestrained Summer Fun

One of Colette's chakrams at the beginning of the game is described as "perfect to play fetch with Noishe" and I love the idea of the kids enjoying a nice sunny afternoon playing with their giant immortal dog Colette deserves it so much

#art #digital art #fanart #tales of symphonia #tales of series #colette brunel #genis sage #noishe #should I also tag the two idiots in the background? alright let's tag them #lloyd irving #kratos aurion #I started this one back in May and I wanted to finish it in time for the 20th anniversary in August #but I was busy with moving to the other side of the country and art lessons so I only finished it yesterday =(

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Athena

Fourth and last painting of a series with a Greek mythology theme

The little owl as been the symbol of the goddess Athena, and later her Roman counterpart Minerva, for a long time and in some European languages their usual name still reflect that link. In many places in southern Europe, the owl is still considered a symbol of wisdom and knowledge, and people often gift little owl figurines to students for good luck in studies and exams

#rebagel