Finally finished (and posted) arts of my OC's in VK, don't really like second page, but whatever
Also horned dude selebrates his birthday today, so... I made a cake. Was quite fun, had not а bad taste
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One Nice Bug Per Day
Sweet Seals For You, Always

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"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"

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he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
trying on a metaphor
Jules of Nature

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Show & Tell
YOU ARE THE REASON
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
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Finally finished (and posted) arts of my OC's in VK, don't really like second page, but whatever
Also horned dude selebrates his birthday today, so... I made a cake. Was quite fun, had not а bad taste
Надо же, интырнет снова работает
Ла креатурики
Нарисованные на дни рождени картинки относительной недавности (arts for birthdays)
Как бонус скетчи рисунков
Qunlat Post Index
This is a list of the posts I've made on canon Qunlat. Once I've had a bit of a breather, I'll also start adding in posts expanding on the grammar for my own fan project to make Qunlat a more functional language.
Did an art style analysis of Reverse:1999 which has some of the best character portraits, hope it’s helpful to others
А похуй пусть здесь тоже лежит. Драгонейдж ос аск инктобир пикчерз
long winded meta about the qun (sorry)
The Qun is very interesting fascinating to me, in a philosophical sense lol. But what's weird is that compared to what we see in da2, I don't find a lot of Bull's dialogue about it nearly as compelling, I'll be honest. Personally I think some changes/inconsistencies were made around the Qun in DAI to accommodate Bull's character-- and don't get me wrong, I do love Bull as a character, I find him interesting and funny and endearing as a character in his own right. However...
How are the the dead handled/funeral rites performed throughout Thedas?
ANDRASTIAN
Cultures under the Chantry practice cremation just as Andraste was burned, and to prevent the bodies from becoming walking corpses (that is, hosted by spirits). The bodies are cleansed and dressed in white linen. In Ferelden (it is unknown if this is a unique thing or also practiced elsewhere) the deceased wear special jewellery meant to survive the cremation process, which are then passed down within a family line–though this is an older practice that is not as commonplace in current times.
Funerals are typically held in or outside a Chantry. Attendees who were close to the deceased wear mourning garb of black cloaks. The body is placed on a pyre with oils and herbs around them if a noble, and stones if a peasant. When a person of great importance dies, it is a massive affair with public attendance for the burning. Choirs sing and priests pray to the Maker. Then a Chantry mother swings a censer with incense, described as spreading dense blue smoke in Last Flight, and torchbearers light the pyre.
If there’s been a great catastrophe with many deaths, the mass burning of bodies is sometimes resorted to, as the longer the deceased is left the larger chance for a spirit to take the body.
It’s also interesting how in DA:O after the battle in Redcliffe, villagers are seen placing the fallen on floating pyres and sending them out into the lake on fire.
NEVARRA
The only Chantry-dominated culture that is an exception to the above is Nevarra, which has held onto their unique practices and beliefs about death. Cremation is taboo for Nevarrans. They believe that when a soul passes through the Fade to go the Maker’s side, a spirit is displaced, and needs to be hosted in the deceased’s body. As such, Nevarrans do not burn their dead, but mummify them. The mummified bodies are then placed in tombs with their most valuable possessions, in the Grand Necropolis outside of Nevarra City. Nobles may begin building their tombs at a young age, and make them more and more elaborate over the years, to the point where they can be comparable to a palace.
TEVINTER
In ancient times, Tevinters believed that holding black pearls in the mouth at the moment of death prevented souls from passing through the veil. In doing so, a person became a wraith. It is unknown if this is still practiced/believed in present day.
AVVAR
The Avvar believe in an afterlife controlled by the Lady of the Skies, where the souls of the dead gather. The deceased are given “sky burials,” where the body is laid out and prayers are given. Birds come to pick at the body and will carry the soul to the Lady of the Skies, then most bodies are disposed of. However, it is believed that some rare people are favoured by fate; the Augur reads this from the birds and determines that a piece of the soul remains. These people are given special burials with offerings from three fade-touched animals to Korth the Mountain Father below them, that will enable the remaining piece of the soul to be reborn. Those reborn have no memory of their past lives, but are subtly guided by their past selves. The offerings must be made by blood kin and given to the Huntmatster to prepare, and should the kin be unable to complete the hunt for these offerings, they will loose their family name and familial ties are considered severed.Whether the Avvar of current times still practice or not is unknown, but the Avvar of old had crypts where their dead were kept in sarcophagi, as seen in the ruins below Vigil’s Keep.
DALISH
The Dalish bury their dead with an oak staff and cedar branch to help them stay on the path to through the Beyond, and to keep away the ravens known as Fear and Deceit. Merrill says this is returning them to the earth, and it’s important not to leave bodies unburied. Trees are planted above the grave(s)–known as a vallasdahlen (”life trees”). The Dalish elves do have sacred burial sites with multiple graves, like Sundermount in DA:2 or Var Bellanaris in DA:I; “where hundreds of our ancestors are buried, where those of us who can, still lay our kin to rest.” Otherwise, clans on the move will bury their dead wherever they can.Funeral services are prepared by Hahrens, and prayers are said so that the Creators will know to guide them to the Beyond: “O Falon'Din. Lethanavir–Friend to the Dead. Guide my feet, calm my soul. Lead me to my rest.”
DWARVES
Dwarves that believe in the Stone consider the dead returning to the Stone by burying them in tombs. Nobles and Paragons are given fancy, large crypts, while those of lesser Castes are encased in stone cairns. If this is not possible, they are buried in the dirt, though this not ideal and only done with no other option. The Stone’s blessing is recited: “Atrast tunsha. Totarnia amgetol tavash aeduc.”An honourable dwarf will be embraced by the Stone, strengthening Her, and will join the Ancestors in guiding their descendants, while those that are seen as a shame will weaken Her. The people of Orzammar believe that the Casteless and egregious dwarves are rejected by the Stone. The spirits of those rejected are left to wander the remote caverns as rock wraiths. The deaths are recorded in the Memories, save for the Casteless.The Legion of the Dead have special funerals before venturing into the Deep Raods, in which afterwards they are considered to be dead and have their deaths recorded in the Memories in advance. The unique Legion facial tattoos are applied, they are equipped with gear, and all other material belongings are given up to family.Sigrun describes the funeral to have chanting and toasts, before a final farewell to loved ones. When a Legion member finally dies for real, those who remain wrap the fallen up in cloth and carry them high above their heads, as they sing a dirge in Dwarven. Then they entomb the bodies so the darkspawn cannot get to them.
THE QUN
The Qunari believe that when someone dies, their soul goes to the Fade (which they call the Land of the Dead) and leaves the body as a husk. They don’t have any known special funeral practices, probably because of this. There is a known Qunari Prayer for the Dead, however: “Shok ebasit hissra. Meraad astaarit, meraad itwasit, aban aqun. Maraas shokra. Anaan esaam Qun” (“Struggle is an illusion. The tide rises, the tide falls, but the sea is changeless. There is nothing to struggle against. Victory is in the Qun.”)
SOURCES:
Dragon Age: Origins + DLCs
Dragon Age: II + DLCs
Dragon Age: Inquisition + DLCs
Codex entry: Nevarra (DA:O)
Codex entry: The Holy Brazier (DA:O)
Codex entry: Falon'Din: Friend of the Dead, the Guide (DA:O)
Codex entry: Legion of the Dead (DA:O)
Codex entry: King Maric’s Helm (DA:2)
Codex entry: Rock Wraith (DA:2)
Codex entry: Third Legionnaire’s Journal (DA:2)
Codex entry: Corpse (DA:I)
Codex entry: Vallasdahlen (DA:I)
Codex entry: A Nutty Affair (DA:I) *Warning: This codex is transphobic
Codex entry: A Tradition of Rebirth (DA:I)
Item Description: Fenced Ferelden Jewellery (DA:O)
Item Description: Elven Prayer for the Dead (DA:O)
Item Description/Use: Qunari Prayers for the Dead (DA:O)
World of Thedas Vol 1
World of Thedas Vol 2
The Stolen Throne
The Masked Empire
Last Flight
Per anonymous request, here’s a little look at Qunari fashion. All this comes from examining the artwork in World of Thedas v1, Heroes of Dragon Age, and in the comics–Those Who Speak, Deception, Blue Wraith and Dark Fortress. Also, some information on vitaar from Tevinter Nights.
[Similar Tevinter post here]
Iron Bull mentions how qunari rarely wear shirts, as it’s so hot in Seheron. Shirts they do wear have loose collars as to get them on over the horns. He also mentions that the only time qunari warriors dress in full armour is during war. Otherwise, they’re pretty light
Common elements include:
In line with what Bull says about shirts, qunari tops are either vests or wraps, rather than your typical shirt
Pants are made up of strips stitched together in a crisscross pattern - this could be part of the whole “qunari waste nothing,” meaning their pants are made of scrap fabric?
Shoulder pads… so many giant shoulder pads
Waist sashes, either tied in a knot in the front or clasped with a buckle
Bell-shaped metal hangings are decorative pieces on clothes
Decorative rope around the forearms, upper arms/shoulders, chest and waist
Some qunari decorate their horns with rings! It’s also mentioned in Tevinter Nights - Three Trees to Midnight that one qunari replaced their horns with little dragon head caps
Red, black and gold is the most common colour scheme
Vitaar:
Different designs hold different meanings!
Huntmaster’s black and white stripes symbolize sight and finding
The Antaam’s undescribed vitaar symbolizes battle and power
Meme group made me remember about NSR so... Here we go?
Sketches of one the Rooks, Berkut (Golden Eagle), other Rook's sisters and Some Guy ™ (stepfather of Brosca's daughter)
The Blooming Rose
Картинка с проститутошной на инктобер
Here, take these
jail collab :D whole pictures under the cut✨
Camellia: threw the Fade experiment out of the window, hit the crowd
Assan: made the Fade experiment
Hivel: Fade experiment
Mei: crowd
-Sh*t guys... He doesn't fit on the canvas.
-Ugh, fckng qunari.
Camellia by meatchips, Hivel by nespyofire, Assan by rorych-ka, Mei by me
Taash sketch
Skintones for POC companions in Dragon Age
Whitewashing is a huge problem in every fandom, and DA is no exception. All of the characters above are whitewashed and have their skin lightened on a daily basis.
There is no excuse when someone whitewashes a character. Take your appropriate swatches if you must, and make sure you are staying true to the characters actual skin tone. Use these colours if you’d like - they were more meant to prove a point. You are certainly welcome to use them as a base.
Stop whitewashing POC. Stop lightening skin, stop slimming down features, and stop blaming whitewashing on lighting. You know better than that. You can do better than that.
Do not take swatches from the lightest part of the face - all the light colours shown here are meant for highlighting purposes. They are the highlights of the face, to be used to display light bouncing off the surface of one’s skin.
Every image of the characters except Josephine was taken from the dragon age wiki site and was only altered to fit and blend with the pictures. All other graphics are mine.
Okay…so if you know me you know that whitewashing is a HUGE pet peeve of mine. And normally I’d be all up on this post screaming “YES, THIS!” Because I agree with a lot of points in this, mostly the “ Do not take swatches from the lightest part of the face - all the light colours shown here are meant for highlighting purposes. “ however…it’s not this cut and dry. I want to make it perfectly clear that I agree with the majority of this post and while I’m not excusing this I would like to sit down and explain why people blame this on lighting.
Skintones are HARD to replicate accurately. Especially if you haven’t put a lot of study into it. Color theory takes a long time to learn and most fan artists haven’t spent that kind of time trying to master it. Hell, even most professionals can’t do it perfectly. Most aren’t intentionally whitewashing. In fact, most are probably swatching from game stills to make sure they don’t whitewash and yet they still get called out for it. Why? For several reasons. 1) Photoshop tends to desaturate swatched colors. Darker skintones are pigmented therefore usually more saturated, therefore if the artist doesn’t realize this is happening they don’t realize the color has changed so they don’t consciously boost the saturation or shift the value. 2) Monitor discrepancy. For example my Dorian pic is significantly lighter on my pc than on my phone. Different monitor settings have a tendency to change color. Some of us like bright displays and some of us can’t handle that kind of light. Mine is turned down therefore sometimes when I paint things look TOO dark when in reality they’re not so what the artist sees on their computer and what you see on yours might be different. Digital art makes it hard to get colors perfect across the board. But lighting does factor in a great deal.
The examples shown in the post above are all shown in similar lighting, but what happens when an artist wants a non-neutral light? Maybe they want a super bright sunlight or cool toned white light. What then?
I took a few POC models in xna lara and lined them up. Notice how the skintones change. (In reality they’d shift a little more than this because xna lara is terrible at lighting) The “flat neutral” is the most accurate with their base textures.
Can I just point out how light Fenris actually is in comparison to everyone else? Yet people get absolutely pissed if you paint him lighter than Zevran who is actually several shades darker. And if I had painted Fenris ANY of the colors in any one of those pictures I would have gotten called out for whitewashing. In fact when I painted him (and as a rule in general) I took him at least two or three tones down from his actual color and boosted his saturation and still had a few comments about it.
Now, this is all relative, but I’m just trying to illustrate why this is a complicated matter and why you can still follow all the rules and still get called out on whitewashing. The lighting and color scheme WILL completely shift color.
To better illustrate this, may I invite professor Idris Elba.
Same man, four skintone shifts. Four different lighting scenarios. Different swatches.
This is a problem because when finding references we think “Which screen should I should I try to match? Well, let’s say my lighting is similar to the second picture. Okay, great, I have my reference and I’ve swatched and compensated for the discrepancy. Fantastic, but WAIT, I still get called out because he’s not as dark as he is in 3 or 4 even though he wouldn’t be because my lighting isn’t neutral or dark, and the ambient color is different. I think “well fuck, I did the best I could and I matched my reference.” But the person criticizing thinks “he’s darker than that so you didn’t make him dark enough” and while, yes, that point is valid, it’s also not applicable in this particular situation.So you do another picture, this time in darker lighting, replicated picture number 3. Another person says “he’s more the color of number 4, you made him too light and too red.” Eventually you just don’t know how to approach without criticism anymore and what happens? A lot of artist then give up on learning dark skin tones. Which is the complete opposite of what we want, isn’t it? That’s not progress.
In closing…while I’m sure there are some people out there intentionally whitewashing and they SHOULD be fucking called out for it because I can’t think of many things that piss me off more than that I absolutely have to point out that probably a ton of artists who get constant hate about this are probably just victims of lack of color theory knowledge and swatching from screens without realizing how inaccurate it can be sometimes. And that may be giving some of them too much leeway, but is that better or worst than automatically assuming the worst? This is why a lot of professionals tell you that it’s better to mix colors yourself,but can I reiterate again that SKINTONES ARE FUCKING HARD AS A BOG FISHER’S BALLS! Most of those artists are already kicking themselves because they don’t know how to do everything perfectly, tearing them down over something as complicated as this only makes them feel like absolute shit. Educate them, by all means, but make sure your information covers all, not just one aspect.This kind of thing takes years and years to learn, (I don’t even know it well and I’ve been doing it for more than 10 years) it’s unrealistic to expect a set of swatches to have much effect when color and light come into play.
EDUCATION goes farther than CRITICISM. Please, if you have a problem with the way an artist is painting skintones educate them, don’t just assume they’re purposefully whitewashing unless you know for a fact they’re a complete bigoty douche. I realize I’ll probably get a lot of hate for this, but…as an artist I can’t get behind “lighting doesn’t actually change anything” when I know for a fact that it does. Does it always change things as drastically as people paint them? No. Does it excuse turning a brown person into a white person. Fuck no. But it is not some bullshit excuse artists use to hide racism. That idea is just as dangerous a misconception as the people who purposefully whitewash and just breeds contempt across the board.