Ghostwhicks & Foxtrots

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Today is the day, regardless of how Maia feels. Chapter 3 begins! Special two page update for the cover and continuation of events.

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Had the strong desire to share this headcanon scene about Audric and (unknown)'s rumors:

Audric:"I have been hearing a lot of rumors about me lately."

Elias:"Oh."

A:"You wouldn't happen to know anything about them?"

E:"Why would you think I do?"

A:"Because various people have told me their source of information was YOU."

E:"It pains me that your first reaction is to doubt me."

A:"So it wasnt you?"

E:"I never said that."

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Starry night

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Hello

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Head breakdown and facial construction for Elias.

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Dug up all of these first/early sketches of this forest pup

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Audric M’boy….

I’d like to thank Batman TAS for brain washing me at a very very young age into loving art deco and wish it a very pleasant Aesthetic.

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Two alt sketches for our bright eyed lad for you!

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Partial hand bank for Maia hands hands hands

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Today is a sad day, so instead of that, here 🫴 a clean cap of one of my absolute favorite panels/gutters/bleeds from chp 3

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has Audric ever found Willow on Elias's person when they were at school and had to send her to the principal's office for law breaking ?

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[factual-fantasy]

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This is atmospheric lighting. Studying how the sun (warm light) or the moon (cold light) will affect your environment and how the bounce lighting (grass, sky, nearby street, cars, etc.) reflects will inform the color palette you go for your final result. There are easier ways to do this with modern technology, using color overlays and color balance adjustments in programs that have them, but learning how your warm light source vs. cold light source vs. warm bounce vs cold bounce creates color will inform the overlay colors you use when doing this the easy digital way. You can train your eyes to see "true" color. Like, looking at the objects on my desk, I know "my glasses holder is black. my monitoor is black. my desk is brown. my keyboard is green" but because I can see their true colors, because i'm really looking at what colors are there

"black" glasses holder: a deep blue (shadows of my desk) with bounces of deep browns and red (bounce light from the lit area of my desk). highlight flecks of orange (my overhead light) and rim lighting of green (green decorative lamp on my desk) and purple (my grow lights)

"black" monitor: same base colors as the glasses holder, but there's all sorts of little flecks of bounce lighting on the rim from what'[s on my screen. It's also a much more reflective surface, so those greens and golds are much brighter than my glasses holder. It's also slightly reflecting *me*, so now we add in some bits of a peachy orange wher my arm is showing on the faint reflection "brown" desk: this joker has all sorts of colors in it, everything i'v elisted above, but now there's a soft cream from the skulls on my desk, the xbox behind my monitor, the "brown" is more a mix of navy blue grain and several shades of brown, purple, red, a bit of muave where the light is hitting it just right my "green" keyboard: it's a sort of soft gradient from blue to cream to mint. blue in shadow, cream in transition and finally mint where it's being lit by its cool (so blueish) lit LED key lights. all the shadows on it are a range of blue to purple. the normally "white" keys are a gradient of heather to cream to light green. seeing colors truly lets you look at characters and scenes lit by atmosphere and stop thinking "Pearl from Steven Universe is Cream/Oranges/Teal!" but to understand that, in a moonlit setting, Pearl would be cooler skewed Lavender, pale pink, blue and pale yellow. divorce what you know the color palette to be logically in order to see it for what it truly is in its environment. (this is also why color picking yields wildly different results depending on the lighting of the scene, time of day, etc. and why character designs often have a default base color palette that is them in flat lighting so that the color designer can then adjust their colors to be what they need to be in the required settings of the show scenes)

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Partial hand bank for Elias from my files. Some flats and some finished/lit ones, so good stuff with light differences!

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Onion for Elias!! Onion for Elias!!!!!!!!!

🧅 [ONION] What is surefire to make your OC cry? Who knows of this information? hmmmmmm

I do wonder...

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Will answer asks (esp since one of them is a fun one, but needs an attentive brain to answer[!!]) when I can! One of my elderly ratties came down with a pretty nasty URI and taking care of her *while* I work and *while* I try to recover from sleep debt is taking up all of my mental energy but please and thank you for waiting because I love thought-provoking Soli asks, SO! even when I'm busy readers are more than welcome to send them in. Gives me something to think about and plot out until I can sit down to properly type up a reply.

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Did an edit of the website background as a sorta warmup bc my brain has been molasses lately… so here, why not share it?

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Happy Halloween 2024!! Sweet little Moth Witch blessings upon ye