aura-idalia ~ hello!

this is probably going to be an archive of my WoW thoughts/ I do art sometimes/ I like discussion and analysis/ I write prose and poetry

[aura-idalia]

Draft from earlier: traveling. Got food poisoning for the second time in three months and am now bedridden. I’m being cared for but it’s still not fun and I keep asking myself why this happened.

Now, many hours later: I’m still not hyped but I am so glad I have my family with me, they’ve been so kind to me. Genuinely being cared for is always hard for me because I don’t like being helpless and I have a personality that’s always trying to help people. Doing things that make others happy is one of the only things that affirms my own value, even if I know that everyone has inherent value. It’s made me pretty emotional to realize how loved I am even when I’m not doing anything. I hope I’m better tomorrow; I still can’t walk easily because of fluid loss but I’m slowly getting stronger. I hope a good night of sleep will lay some of it to rest.

[evanreichel]

Wanted to draw Rommath for a long time

[aura-idalia]

lambs & happy pride!

[aura-idalia]

losing my mind from irl things so birds

[aura-idalia]

read witch hat atelier in 2 days and I have myself to blame for my 3rd art derailment of the past two weeks. I made an inkdip pen on krita it’s already too late for me.

[aura-idalia]

it is done. Or rather, these are the portraits and the other full bodies are in progress-

[stitchposts]

I just found your blog and my goodness, this is one of the coolest things I've ever seen!! It's so interesting to see as someone who's still getting a grasp on embroidery - do you have any tips for lettering consistently? Whenever I've tried I just found it incredibly boring and impossible to get neat.

Also an extra- for mirrorwork (like shisha) do you think silver glitter (the larger kind) would work instead of glass, or would more rigid sequins be better?

(also sorry if any of this has been asked before!)

Hey there! Lettering is basically just lineart. I was doing really intricate lineart stuff before I started doing text in earnest, and then realized how it transferred as a skill. Don't think of them as letters but as shapes. Do not freehand it, follow guides. You're still training yourself on how to do lines and shapes. Even now I hate freehanding text because it's going to be messier and I'm not cheating by following the pattern I've created, y'know?

I don't do shisha style stuff but my way to learn it as you're suggesting with multiple options would be to do a project that uses the different types you want to trial out, and seeing what result you think works best for the effect you want to go for.

[starangel96]

tag game!

tagged by: @auntarivia <3

tagging: @justpent @julia-beatrice @vibinggerb

rules: make a poll with five of your all-time favourite characters and then tag five people to do the same. see which character is everyone's favourite.

Five of my all-favs who I don't have a crush on (I hope)

Scrooge McDuck (Ducktales 2017)

Shrek (Shrek)

Cinderpelt (Warrior Cats)

Vin (Mistborn)

Tigress (Kung Fu Panda)

Voting ended onApr 27

[kayenti]

Five of my faves

Anduin Wrynn (World of Warcraft)

Alistair Theirin (Dragon Age)

Allen Walker (D.Gray-Man)

Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd (Fire Emblem)

Sister Argenta (WH40K: Rogue Trader)

Voting ended onMay 3

Tagged by: @/ratkaiju

I'm an open, no-pressure tag, tbh. But rules are rules, unlucky you who gets an annoying notif. Eenie, meenie, minie >:^) @luremak-silvonel @fiyomio @nightfaeded @so1arsal @lightsfeather

[luremak-silvonel]

Five of my faves

Maiev Shadowsong (Warcraft III & World of Warcraft)

Serana Volkihar (TES V: Skyrim)

Triss Merigold (Witcher, Witcher II & Witcher III)

Freya (God of War & God of War Ragnarok)

Indoril Nerevar (TES III: Morrowind)

Voting ended onMay 3

Tagged by: @kayenti

No pressure tags:

@fatal-fruit @moonalexa20 @unaarista @lorbitele @ashes-of-a

[fatal-fruit]

Five of my faves:

Maiev Shadowsong (Warcraft 3 & World of Warcraft)

Nynaeve al'Maera (The Wheel of Time)

Sailor Jupiter (Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon)

Goliath (Gargoyles)

Louise Belcher (Bob's Burgers)

Voting ended onApr 30

Tagged by @luremak-silvonel

No pressure tags:

@emblazonet @forgedobsidian @themeanbunny @thewritingof-therose @lightsfeather

[lightsfeather]

Five of my faves:

Darion Mograine (World of Warcraft)

Isaac Clarke (Dead Space)

Mileena (Mortal Kombat)

Guts (Berserk)

Zatanna (DC Comics)

Voting ended onMay 4

tagged by: @kayenti & @fatal-fruit

No pressure tags ofc: @fugue-feast @mousterian-writes @aura-idalia @suliyaka @klins2021 @millawanda-art

[aura-idalia]

five of my favs!

Kael'thas Sunstrider (World of Warcraft)

Jinx (Arcane)

Phainon (Honkai: Star Rail)

Qifrey (Witch Hat Atelier)

Grizabella the Glamour Cat (Cats)

Voting ended onMay 4

tagged by @lightsfeather

no pressure tags:

@hummingbee57 @ashes-of-a @scourge-lover --I actually don't know enough people here to do a full 5 tags kdljsgl

[aura-idalia]

read witch hat atelier in 2 days and I have myself to blame for my 3rd art derailment of the past two weeks. I made an inkdip pen on krita it’s already too late for me.

[aura-idalia]

have I been playing warcraft? no. Have I been drawing a lot? yes. ...Has any of that drawing been related to WoW? Absolutely not. I feel like a pingpong ball since I'm always working on a minimum of 3 drawings at once

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Uhh well technically not the next part of my OC writing for Andiel but! I need to post some expressions.

These were actually the first drawings I did of him - exploring the face from various angles was really helpful when it came to figuring out his proportions. I'd say that until this point I couldn't for the life of me draw the same face twice, so the observation practice I got in here has helped me with a lot of my art moving forward.

There's also this, an extremely low effort and extremely silly comic based on some danishes I baked, featuring @lightsfeather's Rosabel.

And then this, which is my first Rosa expression; I think her proportions look a lot better in the full piece I did of her, but I quite like the hair and body here.

In retrospect I don't know if I would have been able to draw characters if it weren't for my sudden fixation on Andiel; I've avoided drawing portraits for quite a while now, but in recent months I find myself drawn to them more and more frequently. I'm excited to see where all this practice brings me.

[anxeious]

[aura-idalia]

pulling my hair out. I decided to go through the entire BC campaign (loremaster+relevant attunements+quel'danas) a few months ago and finished loremaster today.

I cleared Serpentshrine caverns today as well. Should be fine, right? Nope. The Black Temple attunement begins with a guy in SSC who despawns about an hour after killing Karathress, and because I am spoiled by modern instance resets, I didn't realize that the lockout wasn't just for loot.

So now I have to wait until next week to start questing again. Sigh.

[aura-idalia]

I forgot that every time I research something I end up with a ridiculous number of tabs. On a directly related note, I now know way more about microglia than will ever be useful to me

[aura-idalia]

Technically this is my hard launch of this character! This is Andiel Sunfall, my blood elf paladin. The blue design is canon but the red and gold looked too good to pass up!

Before the third war, he lived peacefully with his mother, a priest, and his younger sister, an aspiring mage. His father was a traveling merchant who unfortunately passed when he was young. He used to have grand dreams of seeing the world beyond Quel'thalas, something he perhaps got from his father, but after the loss he began to see those dreams as childlike fantasies that he would have to leave behind. He stepped up to support his mother and sister, and became a city guardian, which is how he's depicted here.

As a guard his life was relatively boring - he had always been a good athlete and proved to be a fine swordsman, but those skills were rarely needed. Silvermoon and indeed, all of Quel'thalas were safe. His most valuable asset was his ability to communicate, and over the years he came to know his people as he watched over their lives and helped them. It seemed a good thing, that he never left home. He believed he had no regrets.

At home, he spent most of his time with his family. His mother had long taught him and his sister to worship the Light, and even imparted her wisdom of inscription to them. At the time, his sister always proved to be more successful in her studies than him, though he did earnestly dedicate himself. She wanted to be a mage ever since she was a child, and her convictions had not changed as her study of magic became increasingly advanced. Her ambitions worried him some, as their family was not of note in the courts of Silvermoon, something that would stand in her way of getting better mentors.

Eventually, those concerns would be validated - but that next part is a story for another time, and one I'll hopefully have more art for. Far down the line, Andiel joins the Blood Knights and sees the world in circumstances he would have given anything to not live through, but that's not how these things go, is it?

[aura-idalia]

Happy International Women's Day!

[aura-idalia]

I'm not playing midnight yet but. I'm hearing exciting things about Arator. My two cents on his being 37 but acting like someone in his 20s is-

-just look at him. He thinks his hair is why people are swooning over him. No reasonable adult would decide to grow a goatee and shave their beautiful long hair without a shred of uncertainty. He thinks he looks awesome.

Honestly, I can't argue with that smile.

[aura-idalia]

HAIR RETCON

and no I'm not sane about this and will not be at any time in the future jesus christ I think they're trying to kill me