AikaRoseThorns

Digital Artist, FFXIV and Kingdom Hearts enjoyer. Crystal/Diabolos as Aika Darkwing

[wtevrthefkiwant]

So how did your fight go?

[willgrahamscock]

[theebbestboy]

[a-sentient-cup]

[virtualgirladvance]

[sausaged-rat]

[necromeowncy]

The end of an era. 🫡

[existentialqueer]

The best photo I took at Dashcon 2

[meanbossart]

AAAA YOUR ART IS AN INSPIRATION FR 🥹🩵🙏

Do you happen to have any tips on drawing Astarion? You draw his eyes and lips beautifully but are also so good at capturing the shapes and contours of his jaw and cheekbones!!!! I’m enraptured ;O;

Thank you so much!

Well, the key to drawing Astarion (and any character, really) is to pay attention to the facial features that make the character unique - and their proportions in relation to each other. It's all well and good to take nose/mouth/eye shapes by themselves, but how they fit together is an important part of making a character recognizable - AND an often overlooked step of drawing faces! It's the sort of thing you develop an eye for with enough practice.

Note the distance between features, parallel lines, what parts sink in and what sticks out. After that, it is up to you to stylize everything however you please. Here's a few quick Astarions as a bonus to hopefully further illustrate what I mean

[grosnaturels]

YKshelter

Shadowheart - Baldur's Gate 3

[dgalerab]

the thing about astarion is that i do think that he is COMICALLY his own worst enemy but i also recognize that the reason for that is that he hit a sharp genre shift at 100000 mph. one second you're the hot and kinda tragic but expendable minion of a d&d boss and the next you're the romancable companion in the party. this little man was built to have his lore discovered in a notebook while looting his corpse after you've killed cazador and all the sudden everyone's like hey astarion. do you want to sit by the fire and tell us about yourself :) we all like you and want you happy :) and he's like what the fuuuuck. what the fuuuuuuuuuuuckkkkkk????

however i do still find him funny about it, sorry man

[dashconhellpit]

3 weed smoking girlfriends 💚

[sabertoothwalrus]

I was sitting on the ground eating a #salad when the strange aeons vs muppet joker fight happened so I could not see the duel itself, however I DID get this excellent video of the aftermath

[raccoonmilf]

Dashcon 2

[littlehenrikehd]

This is yuri, methinks

[fluoriteflygon]

To be loved

Is to be changed

[pocket-dragon]

giving karlach a milf for pride month

[b0tster]

im gonna cry 🥺🥺🥺

[b0tster]

the cab will be at wonderville nyc 'for the forseeable future' outside of being temporarily shipped to events so definately swing on by whenever u have a chance! super big shoutout to the non profit Arcade Commons for manufacturing the cab!!

[dashcon-two]

Virtual DashCon 2 Tickets are Live!!

Tickets for our virtual component of DashCon 2 are available now on Eventbrite! Now you can watch Strange Aeons and the Croaker beat each other up live in 4k.

Busy July 5th? No worries! You get permanent access to VODs of all the live and virtual-only panels.

15% of ticket sales go directly to cancer research with the Canadian Cancer Society. Learn more about your donations’ impact here.

Why Buy Early?

For the first two weeksof VirtualDash sales, DashCon 2 will be absorbing all fees incurred from Eventbrite. Your donation won’t be affected. Win-win!

BUY NOW

Oh yeah - we have more merch too!

As promised, all of DashCon 2’s merch is available now! Buttons, t-shirts, stickers, shoelaces, and more!

We can confirm: DashCon 2 shoelaces fit perfectly on a pair of platform Doc Martens.

YOU WANT OUR MERCH SO BAD

[nights-at-crystarium]

earring

[sintiadaria]

Coffe date

Inspired by their outfits in the patch 8 animatic