Itzelchy

Hi, I'm Itzel I love draw, paint and cats. I'll use this space to share my draws and paintings and hopefully if I'm confident enoght, my thoughts and more

[laurelindorenan]

I love how different forms of art are all obsessed with each other. A book tries to capture the feeling of music, a painting tries to depict a scene in a book, a song tries to paint a picture. And it's always insufficient. No single form of art can encapsulate another form of art and capture the essence of it – but it tries, and its attempts are impossibly compelling. All the forms of art are in love with each other and spend so much time trying to express what makes the other kinds of art so lovely.

[itzelchy]

En las nubes This one is from some days ago when i was feeling into the clouds

I dunno if “into the clouds” is a proper translation to the expression “en las nubes”, maybe i must check my english books.

I'm trying to improve my painting and drawing skills but sometimes it is so hard because i’m super lazy and school don’t help  :(  I need to focuuuus

[itzelchy]

I posted this on instagram a week ago and I forgot doing it here. So let me introduce you Miss Alga 💕 In this one i tried to challenge myself to use just five colors.

[arlenianchronicles]

Throwback Thursday to a small painting series I did for Aurelydan!

The first painting shows him and his sister, Soulynia. Soulynia is the Heiress Apparent, due to become empress when the time comes. Peonies are Aury’s chosen flowers for her: they are special in certain cultures, and have many good meanings, like good fortune, honour and compassion, and prosperity. As a child, Aury grows them for Soulynia because she is special to him, and he holds her in high regard. As for Aury himself, he wears yarrow flowers in his hair; the meaning I found for those is everlasting love.

The second painting is technically the first one I did in the series, featuring Aury and his bodyguard, Avoran. Their relationship is complicated given their positions in the emperor’s court, but deep down they share a parent-child bond.

The last two paintings are Aurelydan and his father-figure, Talevar (whom I already introduced to y’all XDD). Both paintings show Aurelydan at the height of his power, which in-story is called the Firebird. The physical Firebird you see is more of a representation of Aury’s power. The scars on Talevar’s back come from his business in the Empire, which I’m currently writing about in their story XDD

[itzelchy]

This is gorgeous, i love it

[arlenianchronicles]

Another OC painting! Here’s one of my prophets, Hamehtan, and his patron god, Jevere. 

I’m still developing their story (which is on hiatus lol), so my notes might change XD The backstory I have so far is that Hamehtan is a prince who’s into alchemy. His father’s kingdom is situated in the desert, and Hamehtan lives there with his elder brother. As a child, he frequently talks to Jevere and is sometimes visited by him, but the story technically takes place when he’s an adult. That’s when there’s conflict going on between his kingdom and others XDDD

The pantheon of my fantasy world (Omniaa) take on different forms whenever they appear to Omniaa’s denizens. The common option is an earthly form; for example, Jevere would appear as a human man from Hamehtan’s culture, dressed in breathable, embroidered fabrics and woven sandals that one would see in Hamehtan’s home.

The not-so-common option is an otherworldly form, like the one Jevere’s taken in the painting (and also like my designs for the Valar). For this scene, he has an oasis look since Hamehtan lives in the desert. And even then, since he’s the god of the elements, his otherworldly form can focus on fire, or air, likely depending on his mood XDD

[itzelchy]

Happy halloween!!! 🌕🐺 Auuuu

Who's your favorite character from Monster High? Mine is Clawdeen Wolf 😂💕 It's been a while since i wanted to draw her, posting this tonight is perfect because she's a wolf and today we have a full moon haha

In your country you celebrate Halloween? In México we adopted the tradition of asking for candy but instead of doing it on Oct 31st we do it on Nov 1st or 2nd. However this year we won't go out and ask for candy :(

Stay safe everyone!!!

[itzelchy]

Which Hogwarts house you belong to? Some digital drawing practice from references. My little bro is my model. I think he’s a slytherin.

[arlenianchronicles]

A party hosted in Tirion, whereupon the Finwëans gather together … only that they’ve split up, as you can see. Findekáno and Arakáno hide behind a pillar while Maitimo and Tyelkormo walk around; Tyelkormo’s drinking some nice wine, while Maitimo pays only half attention to what his brother’s saying. I wonder why that is? (More in the tags loll)

I wanted to try a simple background with this one, so I went with the pillars and chandelier XD As for which characters to draw, I wanted to do another interaction piece between Findekáno and his siblings. Remembering my headcanons for him and Arakáno, I decided to draw them together.

(If you wanted to read up on my headcanons for Fingon and Argon, you can find them in the tags of my drawing for them! Also, please don’t tag this drawing as Russingon if you were planning to. Thank you.)

(ALSO I updated my Inprnt shop with most of my recent work – despite the sketchy-ish lineart XDD This drawing will be added to my shop too!)

[itzelchy]

I'm crying, this is so beautiful

[bramblewing-deactivated20210119]

“reblogs aren’t important you’re just whiny”

yeah because when you see this

tell me you don’t get annoyed.

tumblr’s algorithm only cares about posts that are reblogged, it doesn’t count likes. posts don’t get promoted or circulated when they only have likes (the way instagram functions), only reblogs matter for increasing reach on tumblr as a platform.

support content creators.

[bramblewing-deactivated20210119]

like y'all are fuckin killing tumblr (& content creation) but okay

you think that’s not a lot of notes? that’s cute.

but yeah, tumblr’s system definitely doesn’t advantage non-popular artists, but there’s a big problem from within the community too. i have over 400 followers and i consider myself lucky when more than 2 people reblog my art, so imagine how much worse it is for people with even less followers.

reblog content creators, guys. liking posts doesn’t do anything.

[fallnangelcreations]

THIS!

[vex-vexey]

Reblog art and writing.

[jonundead]

Seriously if you like something, SPREAD IT!

[9lunarseas6-deactivated20240914]

Sorry to break it to you but they’re all right. Tumblr isn’t Instagram. Likes don’t get us anywhere. Everybody’s “drop a heart and keep scrolling” mentality has murdered all of my original content sideblogs. Each and every one of them.

[anref]

don’t like this post. spread it

[arlenianchronicles]

Young Findekáno and Turukáno in Valinor, a companion piece to the ones I did for Írissë and Arakáno :) And with this, the Nolofinwëan siblings are complete!

For this piece, I initially imagined that Turukáno would attempt to weave the ribbons into Findekáno’s hair, or at least hold one of them to put it in place. But then I changed it to him holding one of Findekáno’s jewellery; either it’s a gift from his brother or he’s putting it in place, I’ll let you decide :)

I also added a closeup of Findekáno’s braid because I found that it’s hard to see far away loll

[itzelchy]

I just love this 💚

[arlenianchronicles]

Prompt 3 for Namotober: Nienna

So far I haven’t seen much sibling-interaction drawings of Nienna with her brothers :( So here’s my piece! I ended up drawing them in their “humanoid” forms; I imagine these are their forms that are closest to their non-humanoid ones (the designs I’ve been drawing for them). But after meeting the Elves, all the Valar adjust their otherworldly forms to look more like them. You know, so they don’t frighten the Elves so much XDDD

[itzelchy]

The colors are so beautiful 💕

[itzelchy]

Hey!

Happy spooky season!

What kind of traditions do you celebrate in this season?

In Mexico we celebrate Día de muertos from ~Oct 30th to Nov 2nd. In those days the air smells to colors, incense, candy and cempasúchit flowers.

[arlenianchronicles]

Aegnor and Andreth sitting in the warmth of summer. I couldn’t help but add a closeup of Aegnor’s hair in full, so here we are with his floofy hair XDD And it took three tries at the background to finally find one that I liked; I’m not that good at backgrounds (like nature or buildings), which is why I prefer to use simple colours and glowy glows.

This piece was initially inspired by “Miri it is while sumer ilast,” the same song I listened to for Fingon and Aredhel’s painting. I think the lyrics fit this one more though, given that it takes a sad turn at the end. You know, like Aegnor and Andreth’s story ^^;; All in all though, I just wanted a little romantic setting for them <3

It was quite refreshing to draw them, too! I hardly draw any Elves (or Edain) outside of the Feanorians and twins, and recently some Fingolfin fam. I ought to branch out more! But I don’t have any sketches planned at the moment save for some Namotober prep, so I’ll think of something :D

[itzelchy]

Omg, i love the expression 💕

[symphonysiren]

The Girl from the Other Side (とつくにの少女)

[itzelchy]

Omg the brush strokes 🖤

[reimiart]

"𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝔾𝕚𝕣𝕝 𝔽𝕣𝕠𝕞 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕆𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕊𝕚𝕕𝕖: 𝕊𝕚ú𝕚𝕝, 𝕒 ℝú𝕟" I wanted to draw them a long time ago. While the story is really captivating with its gloomy dark atmosphere and unique characters I like the special inking style as well💜

[itzelchy]

Lovuly 🖤

[itzelchy]

I'm super excited about sharing this little one (it does not have a name, though) as you can see it looks as is cut... is it.

This is just a part of the whole work. I'm not sure when i'm going to share the entire piece but i really liked how it looks from this perspective.

[itzelchy]

That moment when you realize the result after all the “what if...?”, this boy borned because of that... At the beginning i was drawing a guy with a cute sweater from pinterest but i started thinking about gestalt theory ajsjasj