ok so turns out changing the colour palette and composition was the key to actually making me wanna finish this piece YIPEEEEE
Artist's Notes;
IDK why but I tend to really struggle with using bright fuchsias and hot pinks in art. Maybe it's just because I tend to gravitate towards certain colour pallets or I just don't like using super bright cold colours. I had this issue with the last piece of Deltarune fanart I made where I just didn't like how the pink of Kris' cape stood out, and my one gripe about that piece is how monochrome it looks. I think improving on my colour range (like, the kinds of colours I use, IDK I just made the term up) is gonna be my next thing to work on because I do wanna try branching out to colours and pallets I normally don't use.
I was also listening to Penumbra Phantasm a lot while working on this piece, and while a lot of people thought it would be the final boss theme, idk I always saw it as being Kris' them weirdly enough. Maybe because the original version of it is played on the piano or I just really like Kris and think they deserve a cool-ass theme lol. I do think they'd take after their father and include the game over leitmotif in "Faint Courage" because I think it really fits them. I was even humming it at certain points while listening to Penumbra Phantasm and it actually works really well in the key of the piece. If I were to ever compose a musical piece for like, a battle theme for Kris, I'd probably throw in a leitmotif or two from Heartache to represent their connection to Toriel, using Penumbra Phantasm as a base, and then using the Faint Courage leitmotif as well. The main instrument would probably be a piano because I think their love for playing the piano should be reflected in any potential boss theme they get.
You'll also notice some changes in how I designed Kris' armor. Like many aspects of my art style, the way I interpreted Kris' in-game armor was inspired by Yoshitaka Amano's work on the Final Fantasy series. My headcannon is that Dragon Blazers is the Deltarune equivalent to Final Fantasy, and the aura that Amano's works give off just feels like the kind of aura Kris wants to exude. Like, they'd fucking love the fact that their armor looks like it came straight off of some Dragon Blazer's box art, so they have every right to aura farm.
I like how the blockyness of their cape ended up contrasting with how intricate their armor turned out, and I also loved rendering their hair. One thing that I've started doing when doing the lighting is having it almost reflect off of the armor to emphasize how shiny it is.
So the process of figuring out Kris' armor started in my sketchbook. I found a bunch of references of how Amano designs armor and tried to sort of capture the vibe they gave off while drawing Kris' armor (also Noelle as a bonus, I'll be honest I'm still trying to figure out how to draw her in my style as well). I also wanted to give them some silver hoop earrings because that just feels like something Kris would wear all the time.
In some of my initial drafts for Kris' armor I gave them long sleeves but found that the short sleeved look just worked better for Kris (also is more accurate to their in-game sprite) and also fit the vibe I was going for (I'll put some of those initial sketches in here too). The one I did in colour was like, one of the first drawings of Kris' dark world form I did. You can also tell these are old because of how wack the anatomy is (also bonus Ralsei, Frisk, and Friend). In these older sketches I gave their cape this collar that I stylized by making it a triangle, and even tried giving Kris some chainmail but I was never 100% happy with them. You can also see where I started trying to take some inspo from Early final fantasy designs with Kris' armor. I'm also really really bad with markers so please pardon the shitty colouring. Weirdly enough I have an easier time with Kris' in-game palette traditionally than digitally idk. Originally I was going to give them a heart-shaped chest plate but I'll be honest I couldn't make it work digitally. Also, I do not CARE if the long ass cape is impractical, it's fucking cool as shit and it lets me have fun with Kris' silhouette when drawing them so SHHHHH-
AU where two chips broke off the museum memory statue. One used for hatchy's ship, one for Gabbro's. When the hatchling visits Gabbro, they would share every detail of what they learned, what they've found, what they think is going on, described the photos they were saving in their ship's log.
After a while, though, these excited stories become more scarce, more subdued. They start withholding details. The optimism turns to anxiety to guilt.
Gabbro says nothing of it, not wanting to worry their friend. But when they stop sharing new discoveries at all, just remarking on the weather, or a 'fun' death they had recently, then stop visiting altogether, Gabbro puts the flute down. They strap into their jetpack, fly into the deep, and seek out their ship. Power it on for the first time in what feels like months, boot up the computer, and find that it'd been syncing with the hatchling's ship's log. All their discoveries, everything they've found. It doesn't take Gabbro long to filter through to where the hatchling had stopped sharing details.
The sun station, and the Ash Twin Project. The death of the universe, the Vessel awaiting a core, and the power source waiting to be plundered.
The thing keeping them both alive.
They know there's not enough space in the hatchling's ship for two, not without spending at least half an hour rigging up a harness to prevent Gabbro getting brained the moment they lift off.
The sun explodes.
Gabbro stands on their island, hammock ties in hand, wondering if the hatchling ever intended to tell them the loop would soon be over, that any death might be their last.
My favorite difference between the champions from botw is how almost all of them gave up. Even Mipha admits that she thought she was going to be trapped in her Divine Beast forever.
But when you go to Vah Rudania, the first thing Daruk says is that he never stopping believing in Link. 100 years and Daruk never gave up hope that Link would come to save them.
hornet thinks that by refusing ascension and living with mortal bugs she is refusing the divinity her father represented but she doesn't realize that he too shed his larger form to be closer to the ground
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