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all spoilers for Secrets of the Obscure will be tagged #soto spoilers, but i am not excellent at remembering to tag, so be wary!

[sleidog]

next themed artparty is upcoming!

This one is themed on the Asura, so bring your dressed up rats for a chill few hours of chatting and doodles :> location map below!

we'll be looking to meet up at wildflame caverns in metrica province, this is very close to rata sum and is accessed through a little cave directly south of the scout on the map. just like the charr themed art party, it'll be hosted on a sunday [14th april] at 10pm BST ! I highly recommend checking your local time against BST :> We look forwards to seeing you there, and will post an update with the squad to join 15 minutes before the event starts on the 14th!

and a reminder to use #drawasurartparty when posting your finished works so that folks can find them :D many thanks to @dalennaugw for supplying the screenshot for the header!

[sleidog]

tonight!

[what-the-flux]

New goblin just dropped! Lorr "the Hawk," Ex-Whispers Lightbringer who got an early midlife crisis post-Maguuma who is now a racer, piercer and overall adrenaline junkie and leader of the mercenary group The Silver Arrows.

[astralarias]

here is the picture I MEANT to use in the valentines poll for Kioro so *hands you a free rat of dubious quality*

[ratasum]

A bunch of Valentines I've made so far featuring my characters.

[skrittkicking]

murpp (@the-emdash) and wixxi (@rytlockdripstone) are the asura couple of all time

[miss-oranje]

fancy pepa

[spiderfeathers]

alga doodles because their face is tricky and i'm hardly ever happy with it after the inks are done. they aren't outwardly emotive most of the time.

hmmm this is the obnoxious captions zone so let's do some facts.

mainly used their mesmer abilities for magitech engineering before HoT, rarely fought with magic-- only for emergency escapes and the like

"knives" first manifested in verdant brink as wonky shards, refined in shape/stability over the years

weaponsmith of the group (and also my actual weaponsmith lol)

prolific and extremely chaotic notebook-filler

frog-lookin mfer

[urlocalllama]

"This sassy thing is the Champion of Aurene?" "Be careful, her bite is worse than her bark."

eydis ru in something more casual, likely explaining to someone why their idea is inferior

[bookahlogy]

Someone's been partaking in spiced cider.

＼( ͡° ͜/// ͡°)／

I'm a bit late, but it's taxes season and I'm having hard times at work and some health problems catching up after ~10 years...

I was fighting with myself here, but finally took his hands off her butt, because that sorta disturbed the weight centre. Didn't know how to do shadows too, when I am in this map during the season, it appears to be all drown in shadow.

Another thing is the shoulderpiece from this year. I could've draw the fur fluff by hand now that I think about it.

The construction of the mesh suggests ANet did something like shell-based fur here. It's a technique using layered meshes for fur material, but unfortunately I'm unable to reproduce that effect.

Oh well, just another feel good fluff for me, that's all.

[rytlockdripstone]

what is this creature?!?!

[ratasum]

Meet Sidera "Sid" Hackwrench.

Found in the ruins of a merchant caravan heading to Meatoberfest when she was only a year or two old, Sid was taken in by the Wrench warband and raised amongst them... though mostly by Calix Quickwrench.

Spending her whole life climbing all over charr war machines, she's pretty well accepted by most charr, and she hasn't the slightest clue how to get along with other asura.

[strieh-art]

how my 'twili' asura looks in my brain versus how ne looks ingame... a screenshot trace that turned into an actual expansion

the tattoos are magical runes by nir adoptive mom with various effects (the one on nir chest is for nir heart palpitations, for instance)

nir name is Gorm. and ne wants to be a politician because ne's weird

[callistoe]

Mira the Dynamist - finally made an asura, I'm love her sm..

[brahamapologist]

tbh having a forceful asura commander p much looks like this to me

[zlidestuff]

Whenever I look at my pile of random sketches & scribbles, I wonder if people care about being spammed by those :D

Here's one of my feisty asura!

[otvian]

My bestie @monochromexz made a pin of my drawing and I love him for this <333