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XII - The Hanged Man, Upright: surrender, sacrifice, faith, perspective

#hsr aventurine #Penacony #2.1 spoilers #honkai star rail #fanart #everyone's new favorite sad boy #i am no exception #i haven't had the fanart bug this bad since Zhongli #what is it with hoyoverse and creating men perfectly tailored to my tastes?? #i can't #i had no plans on drawing him or his intricately complex outfit #but then i had a thought #on how well this card fit him #and then i was doomed... #tarot cards #tarot #the hanged man #(no he's not dead. i really dont get why so many people think he's dead) #my art

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Reunion

#my art #sketches #the traveler #Kael #teeron #Mitch #blood #tw: blood #it's ok they can both regenerate #Mitch just has a lot of emotions #and suddenly discovering his best friend is hjs peopke's missing leader he's been looking for for two thousand years does something to him #justified imo #they talk it out later... after escaping the police #and Kael explains about his lost memory which makes Mitch feel a little better #though his grievances stand #it's spicy

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finally gave this man his cape

Magician, lord of the dreamways

how he looks irl (he's just disfigured, not evil)

I used so many references for this, google is now convinced I wanna buy gothic clothing

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Magician, lord of the dreamways

how he looks irl (he's just disfigured, not evil)

I used so many references for this, google is now convinced I wanna buy gothic clothing

#dreamed this guy up one night #dream tried to make him scary spooky untrustworthy scarred might help mught fuxk you over sort #and i was so immediately captivated by his utterly sexy allure that i went "nah #he's not evil just neutral and actually really hot and now the love interest #sadly the dream ended before it could get ~*spicy*~ #but i need ro draw this ostentatious motherfucker in one of his many ornate and overblown outfits #he has many #he is known for them #and his potent command of magic and control over the dreamways that make him a powerful but potentially risky ally... #i still have soooo much worldbuilding to do for this damn story #but i felt compelled to draw him #i still need to add his cape too... man has so many layers #but im tired and this i what i have

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close up because detail

Northern Lights - Aller and Breich

Ever just do a whole painting in one night? I had the sudden, dire need to paint space and well... I've only had this image in my mind for a decade...

"...we swam among the northern lights, and hid beyond the edge of night"

#Aller #Breich #Source #northern lights #my art #painting #thirty seconds to mars #space #reblob

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Northern Lights - Aller and Breich

Ever just do a whole painting in one night? I had the sudden, dire need to paint space and well... I've only had this image in my mind for a decade...

"...we swam among the northern lights, and hid beyond the edge of night"

#Aller #Breich #Source #my art #northern lights #painting #space #thirty seconds to mars #completely noncanon #no lakes left in their world (at least their part of the world) #but its just one of those images that never left my mind #i actually drew the sketxh of them a long ass time ago #never really wanted to attempt thr full thing until now #sometimes you just REALLY gotta paint space #it's the symbolism #... i really need to finish editing their story #the back half of it is just such a mess... #and this year has been... a lot. not even bad most of it... just a lot.

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Two thousand years and hundreds of horizons. A myriad of dawns, red-stained with blood- they said you could see an eternity within his eyes... and that it was as cold as the void that awaits us at the end of time- a legend who never wanted to be.

Did you convince yourself it was right at the time? When you lost count of all the lives you claimed? It was more than you ever named... oh fallen angel, lost soul who could not die.

You never found the one you were searching for. Where did you go, one who cannot die? The void will not take you... so whence did you hide?

A story not over, only paused for a time. Breath not taken, suffocating inside. One who holds eternity within his eyes, cold as ice.

Stranger's child, never born, with eyes as cold as ice and eternity veiled just behind...

#kael #the traveler #my art #blood #swords #been awhile since I drew him during his murder arc #as i call it #he's mostly fighting for what he hails as good causes #but it still gets.... kinda out of hand #goes a bit off the deep end there #slaps Kael on the roof: this immortal can fit *so* much trauma in it #why do i keep using blue light and soace motifs for him AND Aedan? #they're not related stories at all #i just... hrrrngh space #its metaphorical only for Kael #i just seem unable to help it >_>;;

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Mitch really is just a big puppy...

Kael is less than amused by people in his physical space, but he lets him get away with it.

#kael #the traveler #mitch #just a silly doodle really #Mitch does like to show affection like an overgrown puppy tho #he's just like that #his most common form is a quadraped which contributes #but also he's just like that lol

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Teeron head studies, finally approaching something I like, the right balance of "not-quite-wolf" and human-like intelligence.

I'd like to personally thank Bloodborn and Vicar Amelia for this breakthrough.

#teeron #creature design #the traveler #semi arboral mammalian alien with human like intelligence that looks like a wolf at first glance #I do NOT draw enough animals to make any part of this design process easy on myself

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Coulda sworn I posted this WIP already

--- memories of a life I left behind

#skip #kael #the traveler #blood #ice #WIP #tw: blood #and one gnarly scar

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revnant heart

#brought to you by Kael's neutral-evil arc #Kael #the traveler #blood #eyes of ice #tw: blood

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note: Skip doesn't actually work for British Airways, I just feel a strong affinity for their callsign. He's only 32, so while in-story he flies domestic within the US, I can't say its not his goal to eventually work longhaul with British Airways someday. Or well, would, if he didn't get subsumed by 8000 years of memories and trauma once the story starts....

And after, well, what's flying a plane to an 8000 year old shape-shifting alien anyway?

Its not like one of his forms doesn't have wings. The skies always belonged to him anyway.

No wonder he felt such an affinity for it.

Edit: I forgot to mention he's British

#Skip #the traveler #Kael #pilot #I do love a man in a pilot's uniform #mmmm

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Idk what they're doing; just hanging out, I guess.

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Yiron and Ahri

#Yiron #Ahri #Tarvalian #Tarvalas #nonbinary #whatever flavor of queer Yiron is #it's just not that big a deal in space #they've more important stuff to worry about #like a war #and in Yiron's case everything that's going wrong with his home planet #invasions subterfuge super weapons betrayal a manhunt genocide secrets more secrets #i really need to rename the first book.... #yeah it's set during the war but it's not *about* the war. not really #it's not like I'm close to writing this one yet tho... I've got time #queer

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Me (sorta) figuring out Ahri's face

#Ahri #my art #character sketch #mood #nonbinary #some flavor there of #gender: dangerous #what's in your pants? machinations #love like a lightning storm #they eat suitors for fun #luckily Yiron enjoys flirting with danger #man's addicted to living on the edge #dating Ahri sure counts

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Edit: added his beard; he looks better now.

#adam watcher #my art #Flameborn #Watcher #sons of the In-Between #adam #with a saber #the swallow #why does this look off to me but i can't tell whyyyyyyy #bleugh

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the part of me I made to protect you - Fechín

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He's known as the White Raven for more reasons than just the tattoo he hides on his body.

#it can't do that much more than an actual raven would be capable of #but it holds part of his consciousness and is thus useful for watching over places #or on this case people he cares about #it's Leto. is Leto #the Sun and his Knight (of cups) #as much as i love this story concept #basing it on tarot with an emphasis on potential alternate universes and thus versions of the story #is really screwing me over in the world building department #sigh #we all know I'm just here for the gay #my art #Fechín #white raven #heavy on the symbolism #(I realized I'd never drawn this man with his clothes on and that needed rectifying) #the tattoo is on his loins. it's hidden because otherwise he'd be showing his dick lmao. #(hint: i've drawn it before)

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Zhongli- Zhongli, your moves, sir.

#zhongli #genshin impact #fanart #rex lapis #morax #genshin #his moveset.... i swear #god of war #god of pole dancing 👀 #geo daddy can GET IT