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Hello Everyone!

I know right now is a tough time for all of us but I am tentatively opening commissions! If you’re looking for Apprentices, Fanart or other OCs, I’m happy to accept commissions for them - please email me so we can talk art!

I currently have 2 slots open to start.

#commission #commission info #art #the arcana

jilljoycearts

Let’s talk about art theft (yup, again)

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dreamyarcana

ok y’all

i’ve been talking a lot about this, but i heard a friend of a friend actually had the background on the right side and my other friend (and myself) had the left side of the picture. has anyone also gotten the right side and can show me a screenshot??

handy-dandy-apprentices

so, correct me if i’m wrong, but there are no arcana apprentice-specific inktober prompts. i don’t even care if this doesn’t catch on. i just wanted there to be one, so i made my own.

the background image belongs to @thearcanagame. Happy Halloween!

elkelein-art

Portia, Portia, Portia 💖💕💖💕

onceuponaprime

This was the only thing I could think of during that entire scene.

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Writing Body Language

How to Improve your writing

This is something that happens every day in your life. A shift of your eyebrow in skepticism, or the way your lip may twitch to a half smile cause you’re trying not to laugh. These behaviors are vital for writing in character, because not only do the allow you to visually see what is happening but it is also reaffirming whatever emotion your character is showing.

So why should you write it?

Much of human communication is non-verbal which means you need to also translate this non-verbal reaction in a post. It allows you to greatly enhance the emotions of another character and always another person to ‘visually’ see how they feel in a post. Most of all, this will add depth and volume to your post to make it feel more real. IT will make your character feel like a human instead of just another fictional person you look at from above.

Below you will find a list different type of emotions and what sort of body language can be exhibited to them.

Three ways to accent an action.

When writing about emotions, there are different ways to verbally write them out. Each one is unique in their own way, allowing you to show more about the emotion.

Emphasize the Emotion. But doing this, you are expressing both the emotion and the body language. We’ll use a simple example. It’s short and simple yet you can sense he is happy. John felt so happy that he was humming a tune while walking down the hall.

Complicate the Emotion. Sometimes, even when you are feeling one emotion, deep down rooted underneath the facade of it all, there is actually an underlining emotion they feel. This is something you have to truly express otherwise no one will know. John felt so happy that he was humming a tune while walking down the hall. However, it was obvious by the way his nose crinkled that he was disgusted by the actions beforehand. Instead, John covered it up by appearing pleased today.

Contradict the Emotion. This is a little different than complicate. Contradicting means that you are claiming one thing when in fact its the other. In many ways, this has a variety of uses, from inner depth of the truth to what you see in person, or someone creating a wall. It could be considered a lie, but when is anything that easy? John felt so happy that he was humming a tune while walking down the hall. In truth, once he was in the classroom, his shoulders slumped and a pout crossed his lips when no one was around, showing just how displeased he was with the situation.

Remember that you do not always have to contradict or complicate anything. Sometimes all you need to do is emphasize and that will be just fine. You don’t always have to have an underlining complicated for an emotion to make it more enhanced.

Do be afraid to use the Thesaurus to also improve an emotion. Such things as “happy” is a nice emotional word, but think of how much more powerful it is when you heard some is “overjoyed” or “content.” She how these emotions matched up with a body language can give two different styles of happiness? Mix and match to find what works best for your character at the time.

More In Depth Information

What I’ve stated above is more of a simplistic overview. IF you truly want to improve yourself, go to this

LINK HERE

To see just how much body language can reveal about a person. You will find things such as how a person lies, how the eyes reaction, the positioning of a person in personal space, mouth, and head body language and so much more.

Use these resources to greatly increase the reactions of your character to another and create a more life-like world.

temperant-hierophant

The Arcana behind the scenes twitter account just gave me another brand new reason for living

possumrightsbabey

Also this one, this one is really good.

lazyvoyager

How long can illain sleep for? Ajii tends to not sleep at all.

Forever. Someone needs to wake him up.

junkpilestuff

SPOILER ALERT (Kinda???? If you dont play the game.)

Originally:

A playthrough comic, aka my thoughts & MC (supposedly funny) reactions in the game.

Ends up:

A play-by-play of Prologue Julian Devorak (the easily missed Bar Scene) feat the blandest mc Rupikoña aka Toad

IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE SHITPOSTS BUT MY HAND SLIPPED AND JUST YEETED THESE PAGES INSTEAD.

take it. take it away from me.

Credits: the arcana backgrounds image from the game (unless the ones that look shitty which means i drew it lol) and Julian’s dialogue are (mostly) verbatim from the game.

portiathestar

An Arcana themed Inktober for all those apprentices who want to give it a shot!

dreamyarcana

The Baker: You were stabbed. Do you remember anything?

MC: Only the ambulance ride to the hospital

The Baker: That wasn’t an ambulance, I drove you

MC: But I heard a siren

The Baker: That was Asra

Asra: I’m sorry, I got nervous

confusedapprentice

OH MY GOD

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cicadako

Those are gonna be some TALL kids.

Fun fact: Julian’s daughter grew up to be very lanky and very gay

confusedapprentice

When you’re so gay it brushes onto your kids as well

lazyvoyager

@fanapprenticetarot The Three of Wands. Preparation, foresight.

Oh. My. God. That was so fun!~ Someone give me more things to do!! I loved doing this~ It challenged me to do more than I thought I could, and I love to learn~

waterinyournewshoes

Matching colors with the Magician ?? Rays of light shining over the land like the Fool ?? Here you are baby with an Illain arcana card !! I love that it’s look like he’s in Asra’s realm !! Waves washing over him, strenght growing out of these waters, he stands for himself now. Reminds me a lot of this scene in book XVI - The tower, when you fall into the ocean. BEAUTIFUL !!!

lazyvoyager

AHA! And I meant to do that! Haha actually, I did a tiny bit of research and found that the three of wands was supposed to be facing away,looking out over the sea as a representation for foresight. The fact that it meshes well with the book XVI scene is a pleasant surprise~ I was also trying to match the colors and style so that they could fit with the rest of the cards.

Thank you so much for your kind words! This was so much fun, and I hope to do something like it again! Now I’m pumped to see the rest of the cards! There’s a ton of other artists working their butts off to shine a light on their own awesome apprentices, and I’m super excited!~