kurizeria

Kuri • Adult • she/her 🇨🇦 • Artist • OC enjoyer

[kurizeria]

Eulogy of Starlight chapter 6, "Dator Vitae", is out now!

While Emrys anxiously waits for news, Naymora's path crosses with someone bound to a similar fate as her...

➤ Read on [Tumblr] or [AO3]

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On Team Tragedy this year! You can find me here! Also check out Mari and her OCs! 🥰

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I love every part of you. 🧡💙 Zagreus belongs to @mariquitascadoodles ✨

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Fareeda's birthday was yesterday (30th), so of course I had to draw her!

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MERMAYY! omg i finally Made an artwork for mermay! after all these years of being online , i having made a doodle for it >O< BUT OF COURSE ! I had to draw Zagers ! Ateris belongs to @kurizeria ❤︎⁠!!! extra doodles -

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I did something for mermay for once!! Zageris but mermen! OOOOOO they're still so in looove 😚

Zagreus belongs to @mariquitascadoodles! 💕

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DREW SOME OF @kurizeria 's OC ! WAAH THEY ARE SO CUTE !!! QWQ! EVERYONE GO LOOK AT HER PAGE ! RIGHT NEOWWW!!!! also if you guys are interested in having this as lil decorrations for your artfight page/ character page , let me know!

ill draw them for 20 USD !

[kurizeria]

Have u ever designed a Tidebound elf before? And do u have any tips for adding details to elven designs in general?

I have! I'm gonna waffle a bit so I'll put it under a read more.

I never finished her full front/back reference, but I have Mira who is sea dragon inspired albeit very simplified:

I had a second one who was more jellyfish inspired so her "horns" were instead droopy and more like the oral arms of a jellyfish, but I don't have her file anymore since it was a SAI file and I lost all of those. I have to redraw her (and her adoptive father) but I'm so lazy AAAA I do still have this rough concept that survived though! Her final look was pretty different.

As for tips, I guess it also depends on how much you want your elf to blend in with the crowd vs giving them a more individualistic appearance? The vast majority of elves of the same species tend to have the same fashion going on, save for a few outliers OR those from different factions (Bloodmoon elves, or the Dawnbringers from the mobile game).

In a lot of the designs, sometimes adding extra detail to them can be as easy as adding a few curved lines to the clothes, or a subtle/repeating pattern to make an otherwise simple design look a bit more intricate (such as the subtle pattern on the red of arc 1 Callum's shirt). If you aren't sure about what pattern could be nice, maybe looking at things like the details on more intricate pottery/vases, or the patterns on embroidered wall carpets could help?

Unfortunately since they aren't present in any Tales of Xadia campaign, there isn't much for Tidebound elves to really reference from outside of the old male & female concept arts, Akiyu, and Finnegrin. The latter has that outlier kind of design since he doesn't swim as much as others and is supposed to look like a sea captain though. But even between those select designs, we see a lot more variety in their horns and fins than we've seen in other kinds of elves so far! So I guess if anything, it might be worth looking at real fish for inspiration? Especially tropical fish, many of them have some interesting striped or spotted patterns and some pretty colour combinations! You might be able to apply them to your character or their outfit(s).

I'm not sure how helpful any of this is, but if you find yourself stumped I'm always happy to help when I've got the time! Feel free to contact me here or on discord (same name as my username, but my dms are friends only so I need to be added before messaging)

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How do you manage to draw faces so consistently?

Same face syndrome (it's only slightly a joke bc I struggle with that a lot oop)

Otherwise for things like uhhhhh for example my comic where I have to draw them over and over and consistency is kinda important (especially for characters who purposefully look similar like Emrys and Valko but still have some notable differences), I have 3d heads with more or less the correct proportions if I run into any trouble! You know, like those 3d head models you can personalize in CSP! They're such time savers, especially for those wonky angles GODDDD but obviously they won't help with different expressions But I think if there's like ONE character you fixate on pretty hard, eventually muscle memory builds up? At least it did for me, so that's more of a personal experience rather than a universal one, but still!

It might also help to make a reference like this for your character! If you lock in and make it as accurate as possible, it'll help you out soooo much in any other art you draw for them 👇

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⋆｡°✩ [ It was always you ] ⋆｡°✩

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MORE CHIBI ZAG ATERIS ! >O<! wanted to doodle them in space ! Ateris belongs to @kurizeria !! CHECK OUT HER BEAUTFUL ART !

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I really like that little eye trend so I finally got around to doing one hehe Zagreus belongs to @mariquitascadoodles 💖

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MOREEE ZAGERIS! i wanted to draw them all flowery ! QWQ! Ateris belongs to @kurizeria 💕💕

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Something to hold onto 💖

MORE OF THEM OOOOO Zagreus belongs to @mariquitascadoodles 🥰

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Pssst!

Hey, guess what...??

You... are... awesome!!

Whaaaat :0! AWW thank you!!❤️

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my love, my light 🌟

Zagreus belongs to @mariquitascadoodles ❤️

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Updated night version because Zagreus went to the hairdresser hehe 😚

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🏮 ~ A night to remember

Art trade for @mariquitascadoodles

I had so much fun drawing them again! MAKE SURE TO CHECK OUT MARI’S SIDE OF THE ART TRADE IT IS AMAZING!!!

Ateris belongs to @kurizeria