#the clothes are inspired by F/A War!Alshain's design while incorporating Altair's general barefoot nature

[altairtalisman]

First ever drawing on Clip Studio Paint and an overhaul of my persona because I'm tired of drawing both Alshain and Altair, so I decided to combine them to form a new design! I'm calling this default version Blue Supergiant (BSG) for obvious reasons-

Modified Alshain's Star Sword (original design by @just-jammin found here) to a Chinese Broadsword (also called a dāo)

Calling it Xīngdāo given that it's a direct translation, plus it even comes with a scabbard that I drew by checking whether the dimensions allow Xīngdāo to be pulled out and kept...

Design inspirations will be in the tags to allow people to ignore my thought process when designing my new persona

And below the cut is... I guess I'll call it Collapsed Form (CF)? I mean, those who know me long enough know that I tend to include astronomy as a design theme...

Left Drawing: CF with all glowing effects

Right Drawing: CF without glowing effects and dark layer

So... differences between BSG and CF are:

- Hair turns from blue to white while eyes completely turn white, both the hair and eyes glow

- Weapon changes from a dāo to a disassembled yǎn yuè dāo, the latter is named Spica to reference my actual horoscope sign (Virgo) even though Aquila and Virgo constellations are basically in a three o'clock position...

Spica is held together by three neutron stars, all of which their magnetism is controlled by CF and thus Spica's reach varies. The blade glows blue because... look I just think it's fucking cool okay? It's my persona and I can make a weapon named after a blue supergiant glow-

- Cloak is slightly tattered compared to BSG's

- Blue floaty fire thing (I call it a star bomb because I don't know what else to call it) to white floaty glowing thing (I... guess I'm calling it an ultra-compressed star bomb?)

- Ability focus leans more on magnetism and gravity rather than heat (though CF is still extremely hot), hence the word 'intensity' in CF's quote

#current colour scheme is based on previous Altair’s colour scheme #the clothes are inspired by F/A War!Alshain's design while incorporating Altair's general barefoot nature #the exception is the pants which is inspired by Wushu uniforms #the cloak is actually a paludamentum with a magnetised clasp that allows a magnetised pauldron to be attracted to it #Xīngdāo is a dāo because it is a weapon used in Wushu which I’ve learnt during primary school #Spica’s original design was a plain méi jiān dāo but I changed it to a disassembled version to make it look grander for a celestial #then I changed it to a yǎn yuè dāo as Spica’s blade was too large for a méi jiān dāo #all I had to do for the weapon change is to draw an additional point on the blade #fun fact: BSG's original size was 32.9 but I compressed it to 8.5 MB so as to fit within Tumblr's 20 MB limit #CF’s size? 3.5 MB without compression #the amount of things I looked up is astronomical #pun intended #blazing remnants #celestial demon's descent #Altair draws