Your eyes are not deceiving you, your friendly neighborhood Bloo Wisp has gotten a shiny new look and is ready to be used for target practice.
It's been over 2 years since they originally approached me to contribute a creator glyph for the game (which coincidentally was with the Duviri Paradox update); the poor ol' gal was showing her age and wasn't representative of my evolving art style anymore. After working with DE on the Wisp Community Glyph (that dropped /w Techrot Encore), it was such an incredibly fun experience, I wanted to use what I gained from it to revamp my personal glyph!
And now the lil' Darvo Mote has an actual look and isn't just a beige bowling pin.
If you don't have it yet, you can redeem the glyph using my creator code, FINLAENA, over here on the Warframe site.
(and as before, if you should happen to pop up in a random group with me while using this, be sure you have a wishlist ready...)
If you have my glyph already, don't worry, you won't have to go through any extra steps and it should show as updated when you login next.
Again, thank you so much DE for this incredible opportunity and an extra special thanks to the Warframe community for supporting me over the last close-to-5(!) years.
Yanno, if you were to put Norbert and Dagget noises/lines set to Sirius and Orion fighting, it actually makes perfect sense.
Angry Beavers is a childhood favorite of mine and one of the foundational pillars of my sense of humor, so I couldn't help but think of this when I saw Sirius-Orion's #4.
Super, super quick rough doodle. I'm debating whether or not to refine this one but it's too much of a shitpost to put too much effort into. But maybe once life settles down later this week, I'll clean it up or smth.
Also, to better help set the mood for you:
if the "I brought a copy of your birthing video" doesn't sell this to you...
Even this early on (and a lot more headaches to come), this foray into 3D has been oddly refreshing on a creative scale.
One of the pieces of advice that has always stuck with me over the last couple decades was from Gabe of "Penny Arcade" and how working on paintings (with actual paints on canvas) helped push his digital art forward in a lot of ways. I think it can be said for working on 3D art too, since you have a lot of moving parts to work with. How certain shapes and shit work from different perspectives: when I used to draw a shitton of Green Lantern fan art, I always had a vague idea of how to draw Salaak's head, but now that I'm putting it into 3D it's really made me rethink how that sorta thing works.
Hell, I’m learning more about Blender than a donut tutorial could ever teach me lmao.
I gotta be honest, after the last few drawings completely flopping on social media and being told my art style was not appropriate for Legacy of Kain, all of that left me feeling incredibly burned out on 2D art in general; to the point where I'm not using "the Marvel Method" for an original graphic novel I'm working on like I do for all my other sequential attempts. (If you know what the Marvel Method is, you get a no-prize)
This, though? It's really helping get the creative spark back a little.
tl;dr: it's not a bad idea to try a new medium when you're burned out or just not having the motivation to work on something from time to time. If you're able to, anyways.
>watch one YouTube video on how to sculpt a stylized character in Blender (part one of many)
>immediately go for doing a 3D model of a complex character with four arms
Well, I’m nothing if not an overachiever…?
While I’m going to practice first with more sensible choices (either my take on Arisia Rrab from Green Lantern as well or one of my Delta Caeli OCs), a 3D model of my take on Salaak is now my newest passion project for the remainder of the year lmao. Partially for my own reference in future 2D projects and partially because I want to. XP
Have not decided on an outfit for him at this point: not a fan of his modern era armored look for the most part, so it’ll either be my redesign/interpretation or his late 1980’s look. :V
… Yanno, I think I might eventually do Ch’p, too. IYKYK.
Now that's what I call progress. Still a lot to be done, but it's going in a good direction, I think.
Honestly, after the last 2 drawings (the Showcase entry and the failed Cyte-09 deluxe), I'm just plain burned out on 2D art in general. At least this is something new-ish.
Everyone's asleep, quick, post some Salaak or is it Salakk?!!
I scraped my brain trying to remember how I used to draw Sal from Ye Olden Times and ended up coming up /w something new lmao. The designs from the 1986 Green Lantern Corps comics (everything but the head) and the 2011 movie (head) imprinted on me as far as he goes because he has n e v e r been consistently drawn ever. But I rarely ever go with canonical designs insofar as capeshit goes lmfaoooo.
Think the reasoning behind this was his being Mission Control so he doesn't necessarily need an armored look per se. The visor is there because personal taste.
Sal is probably my favorite Green Lantern character when all is said and done because reasons. I have a soft spot for the pessimistic, grumpy, and high-strung ones, I guess.
Oh, and this is intentionally rough and not great looking because I'm trying to not do so many polished drawings. I'd say I'd do something more refined or w/e but... I'm keeping the vast majority of my Green Lantern fanworks to myself. >T
... Now I kinda want him to say "Change of plans, ignore your original objective" at some point. If you know, you know.
Inspired by Quincy's KIM conversations regarding Parvos Granum, I wondered what it would be like if Cyte-09 had a Corpus-themed skin. What started out as a TennoGen concept quickly exploded into something more elaborate and far beyond the scope/limitations of TennoGen itself.
It took a year -plus some tears, three crashouts, and at least one nervous breakdown- for this to fully be realized, but it's finally finished.
(A Tenet Neutralizer will come Soon(TM).)
More details below the Read More.
Specific inspiration:
> do kinda wanna meet this parvos guy tho
> sound interesting. if kind of like a dick. but all major corpo r like that at the end of the day
> b/c thats how u get ahead, innit
The concept was originally called "Son of Parvos", because the whole family theming between the Sisters of Parvos and Protea as his "daughter", why not have a "son"? (Quick, someone check on Nef Anyo after he sees this!) Which is why his color scheme and overall motif is based off of Parvos himself.
Another inspiration was the look of a priest, seeing as Parvos' hat evokes a mitre and all; the belt in particular as well as the collar (if you look hard enough). That said, I owe CaptainTagada a big one, as they suggested going with a military angle for Cyte-09's helmet. Ended up inspired by the Brodie —doughboy to us burgerlanders— helmet from around WWI-II.
What really made this all come together was the legs: Lua Luminary, iirc, suggested using the legs of the Jackal/Hyena proxies and once a quick visual was cobbled together, everything fell into place scarily quick. It's quite amazing how something like that can be the catalyst for an idea to be realized.
Of course, I couldn't do a Cyte-09 deluxe without a very special element: Quincy Isaacs himself. Normally, I wouldn't have bothered because I'm not a fan of Protoframes on the whole (I do like some of them as NPCs to a point), but considering it was Quincy's KIM convos that inspired this, it was only right to include him.
To seal the "Son of Parvos" angle, I gave Quincy a prosthetic, golden forearm + hand, as I realized while working on this that Quincy has a prosthesis on his left arm. I don't use Protoframe skins personally, so I confess I didn't know. And it has a layer of irony if you remember Deadlock Protocol and how Nef was contemplating self-amputation for a golden hand of his own. I could very well see Parvos giving Quincy a golden arm, tbh.
As a design choice, I gave him regular human legs. Cyte has the Hyena legs, Quincy has the golden arm. Balances out.
As a final note: The belt and Quincy's left arm are intended to be on the Attachments channel, as the belt could potentially be an auxiliary item to mitigate clipping.
Submission for the TennoCon 2026 Community Showcase: Titania and Father (Vilcor) Entrati
This is a special one to me, as it intentionally is meant to evoke the first ever drawing done of these two together near the tail end of 2020. Rather than being a straight-up redraw, I wanted to do a reimagining with a happier, fun and light-hearted bent opposed to a melancholic one, as a conclusion of sorts (more later).
I suppose it's time I finally explained why I like drawing these two together, so I'll keep it as brief as possible: ... I have a huge thing for "giant person + tiny person" dynamics, lmao. Ever since I was a little kid for reasons I can't explain. Titania can shrink to small size and while Wisp became my main, Titania became a secondary because I absolutely love Razorwing, fight me.
One day, the brain synapses fired a certain way and I thought it'd be neat to draw Father, who was -at the time- my sole favorite member of the Entrati Syndicate, with smol Titania. What was supposed to be a one-off turned into, quite honestly, a drawing that would unwittingly change my life going forward in the years following.
I like the idea of this diminished, broken man who's been rejected by his family (through... a good amount of fault of his own, lbr) befriending a very capricious, unpredictable pixie. She may intentionally misplace some tools or play some tricks on him from time to time, but she genuinely loves to hear his stories and advice, because he's the only one in her life who is actually honest and, in his own way, looking out for her, rather than throwing her completely to the wolves as a child soldier. ("Let's go over your arsenal once again. Look, I'm sorry, but I could not have you going out there without the best weapons I can offer.")
Anyhow, now you know the whole story. While this might be too niche/specific for the Showcase, it's a nice capstone to 5 years of this nonsense, ahaha. Will there be more after this? Well... hard to say. One of Vilcor's recently added quote ("You've got people looking out for you, right? Watching your back? Well you better, 'cause there's only so much we can do while we're grounded on this rock.") has given me pause. Maybe it's time for Titania to spread her wings even further and find others to pester. You never know.
Continuing the 2011-2012 Memory Lane Walk, here's another Fan Lantern: a male Star Sapphire! He's a rather cheerful bloke, eh? His name is Meshu'lm. Call him Lem for short.
Lem is best described as exuberant, somewhat prideful, and and extremely odd bird with eclectic tastes, and part of those tastes includes pessimistic, four-armed Green La---nah, not getting into it 'cause it's a personal indulgence for art and fic that's reserved solely for my proverbial drawer. :V
Made him a Tamaranean because why not? My knowledge of them comes from the Teen Titans cartoon, but his backstory is that his family were nomads, so he never really grew up on Tamaran. He was chosen because of the love he had for his mercenary crew and was willing to put himself in danger for their safety. He longs for more permanent connections and companionship, not really having any due to never staying in one place for long.
Before you ask... yes, Star Sapphires are an all-women group, but it's fun to speculate and quite a few people did back in the day, too.
I actually have a fairly elaborate standalone AU that I'm slowly remembering (forgot how fun it was, tbbh) & adapting it for select recent-ish stuff carte blanche, but the gist was that Lem -and 4 others dudes- were part of an auxiliary/pilot program. The best comparison I have for this concept is they'd be like the Star Sapphire's equivalent to the Specialists from Winx Club, if anyone is familiar with that series.
I'd get into it more, but... not going to get into it because no one would care, it'd take too long to describe, and all of it is for me and me only lmaoooo.
Out of the blue the other day, I randomly remembered some old Green Lantern Corps. fan characters of mine from Ye Olden Times of 2012-ish while I was out running errands. So, I decided to take a break from a bigger project to revisit one of them.
And yes, the pun is intended, because she's a Blue Lantern!
tbf, cannot fathom how the Fin of 2011-2012 drew this character often, considering four arms (she's Salaak's race, fwiw; their design was never ever consistent so I drew inspo from the 1980's GLC run) and whatnot... but I was also unmedicated and suffering the worst period of my mental illness, so... :V Something about her just makes me happy, probably because she's unconventional for a fan character, ig. I mean... who chooses a Slyggian for a character? Someone who isn't a masochist of an artist, of course.
Ah well. Much as I cannot bring myself to care about the state of the Green Lantern comics -I swore off capeshit about a decade ago- and reading the occasional storytime on /co/ has reaffirmed that choice, part of me will always have a soft spot for the Emotional Spectrum.
Hell, Green Lantern is why I love the Duviri Courtiers in Warframe so much! Personification of emotions that are also color coded? Sign me up! And looking at this sweet alien lizzer lady of Hope, I think I know what also subconsciously influenced my choice to pick Wisp's Gaoth helmet AND color her blue...
ETA: Finally remembered her name! She's Sister Tairiro. :>
... Gosh, has it really been 5 years since I started drawing these two together?
A lot of headcanon has evolved over the years depending on the game's story, most of it no one will ever know and not that anyone should know, either. It's a mentor-mentee relationship. Sometimes, Titania's progenitor personality takes the lead and causes mischief around the workshop.
(I've often thought about splitting them up at various points, fwiw.)
Have no additional cutesy or clever caption other than that this is a redraw of something from 2021, which you can see below the read more.
Here's the original:
.... wow lad, this is not great.
Was trying to find my footing at the time (and had just discovered the model discord server, too); a lot of the earlier drawings Titania had her default color scheme; the first couple had the default head; Aurai first appeared in this one. It wasn't until 2022 that she started using Zell's color scheme of Green/Grey/Black/Copper.
Coming soon™️: Darvo Mote... in _pin_ form for TennoCon 2026!
Much like the Netrafae Razorflies like last year, this year's pin will be passed out as a freebie and will be a familiar face to those who've seen my glyph in-game.
As always, they will be 100% free!
(Will try to have a pin backing card that has said glyph on it, btw)
Turel and Evolved Turel. Wanted to do something kinda... idk how you'd describe it.
Quite surprised how he became a favorite character of mine and not solely because his color theme is green lmaoooo.
(... and hopefully I don't get sent into naughty jail despite this being non-sexual nudity... Please don't be weird about this otherwise I'll cry and not do the other Lieutenants similarly)
