After 1 million years, I have finally finished Mourynn's hair timeline!! I intend to do the same for her outfit(s) later as well (as it changes to match her hair bc she wears customized cultural armour) but I'll do those one at a time.
Tbh I'm just happy that I was somehow able to achieve the hairstyle I had originally been planning for her since her creation (side-swept/half "shaved" hairstyle) and doing this exercise filled in her character progress changes and eventually lead to what I originally wanted! (also the default swept back hair is surprisingly hard to replicate so uh, I had to figure out something easier for myself
Anywho, I have some abridged summary details for each hairstyle/story chapter under the cut to give these a bit more context
Edit: I MESSED UP SOMETHING WITH THE TEXT ON THE ICEBROOD SAGA BIT. NOOOOO
Some silly posts!!
Just thought these were funny ideas LOL
Caira @floral-necromaniac
Mourynn @manasurge
Marcell @otvian (Marcell biting idea was theirs! LOL)
Mabaki @ me YOU KNOW DA RUUULES BIG UPS MAH DUDE lmao
Got my stuff from this month's NA art party done! No colors this time but I liked with doing the lines and mostly monochrome shading. I had fun with these and I'm very proud of how they came out!
Guild Wars 2 OC stuff:
So I finally figured out the full body design for Vallotash (Mordremoth's Scion a.k.a. who Mourynn actually is)
They're more or less the same person, but it's complicated, but leans more to Vall believing she's Mourynn and kind of is since she inhabits her body and memories, but is technically an imposter and is very depressed and in denial about it. Inspiration from Jahai Bluffs: "Are you a dragon dreaming that it's a hero? If you were, how would you know?" (also it's my tumblr banner lol)
I'm still sketching out the origin story to explain how this happens, but for now here is this sketch bc I am happy with how this turned out and wanted to post it early. It's basically self preservation turned to parasitism to accidental death of host to unintentional identity theft out of guilt/tribute + memory absorption to make her think she's the sapling + amnesia about the whole event taking place over the span of a year stuck in the dream (to super condense her origin lore).
I'll finish these sketches once I'm done her origin story pages, or if I get possessed to do it earlier bc I'm still happy with how this turned out and might want to keep working on it sooner, hehe.
Here is more sketches of Mourynn/Vallotash under the cut:
She has some simpler looks for when she's flattened down. She looks SO SILLY but I love it. Beware the Scion of Mordremoth: This freaking wiggly silly noodle thing. A terrifying menace!! Beloathed parasite daughter vine of the mighty Jungle Elder Dragon!! /does a snake blep
(Also the first two head sketches I did of her from last year when she still didn't have a body designed yet lmao. I still have to figure out how large she actually is, as well as her colouration. She'll have to match Mourynn's, so she's gonna be a funny mix of the colours in the cool spectrum, which doesn't look very plant-like, but sylvari can be all different colours, and she has the whole poisonous/hallucinogenic thing going on, as well as some Soo-won influence bc she's based off a leafy sea dragon and is very attuned to water, so it kinda works yeah????)
I also have no idea what her large chin whisker things are supposed to be. I just kind of made them up on the spot and fell in love with them, so they're STAYING, even if they make no sense. I mostly just love that they'd look so cool underwater and while glowing in the dark, and they are vaguely alien and jellyfish-like.
Dusty Wanderhorn - whom I kept reading their name as Dustpan for some weird ass reason. I do apologize. bc I loved the design.
Has Seen Things [Rest] - the unspoken popular horror of the party!
Gleaming Vlast - I still love the design and colors you chose for him. ;o;
Qlanenn [DCR] - I wish I'd gotten a better shot, I really do like your blueberry.
Rhowan Soldottïr [LSBN] - I still think Rhowan needs to be whatever the equivalent of a K-Pop star would be for Tyria... She'd have the biggest fan base.
Bargain Bin Cthulhu [PUNK] - Every time I see you, you bring me joy. Especially with the creepy ass Springer mount.
Mourynn [UWU] - Another I wish I'd gotten better shots of. ;o; Purple Island forever!
Lyrondil Verilyns [XTRA] - Goodest kilt-wearing bean I saw all night. That hair and those sunglasses? Chef kiss.
Lucretia Naissance - I loved the spook factor for her so much.
Chreibhe Croile [Star] w/ Glaw Stormcaller [BUS]'s cape - The "backdrop" of the cape really sold this shot to me. :)
Dietrich Lee [SOC] - His look just has to be shared again, okay?
Darius Sunstep [NERP] and (I think) Faehrnem [DraW] - Pink and teal handsomes!! Inspiring thoughts for another character.