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A massive thank you to @leavesandbounds for providing image IDs and posting things to this blog when I don't have the spoons to!
A new god and His favorite disciple meet an unexpectedly familiar duo: themselves, from a universe where their roles are reversed. Surely nothing could go wrong with such a scenario~
Evipo (it/they/he) is the sona of @luminull-space
Alstroe (fae/he) is the sona of @leavesandbounds
Separated duos and rambles beneath the cut!
Evipo (Goat):
It wears the cosmetic Fleece Of Fragile Fortitude (paralleling His follower form's blue pangolin scales), but its underside and the carving in the blue-heart bell give away the fact that They actually use a different fleece's abilities entirely~
His relic of choice, Beak Of The Fowler, is perfect for His spell-heavy crusade strategy- namely, throwing as many spells as It can and dodging until It can throw more
They prefer to use poison, ghosts, demons, and immobilization to wear down opponents from afar, rather than be in the thick of the fight Themself, seeing combat as a means to an end and frankly just wanting the business over with so It can reap the spoils of success
None in the cult knew Evipo before It donned the crown, but His eyes have since taken on a distinct purple hue- much like the pupils of Their indoctrinated followers~
This most certainly has no implications for crown bearers, none at all~
Alstroe (Rabbit):
While it may seem from the necklace as though Alstroe has yet to gain full favor with faer leader, that couldn't be further from the truth: in the realm of the Goat, silver and gold have their price and use switched
A silver skull necklace is the highest honor a cult leader can bestow, granting the wearer immortality just as a golden skull necklace does in the realm of the Lamb
How fae has gained so much favor is a mystery to most: faer pacifist nature, penchant for poetry, and staunch celibacy make faer rather useless to most cults, but Evipo seems to be oddly pleased with faer, and was quick to grant faer the title of disciple long before a silver skull necklace was found
He is also free to decorate himself in as many flowers as he pleases, and so his mossy shirt has replaced the standard cult garb, with fresh flowers tucked behind his ear every day; the largest, of course, is always a vibrant purple~
Alstroe (Lamb):
Don't let His adorable smile, short stature, and daily fresh-picked flowers in Faer wool deceive you: Alstroe is no less a Lamb than the fearfully-whispered legends say~
It seems physically impossible for Him to wield such a massive weapon, and yet Fae does so with ease and delight, putting Faerself in the thick of battle to relish in the blood on His hooves
Because of this bloodlust and getting up-close-and-personal in the carnage, Fae prefers a vampiric axe and makes frequent use of Fleece Of Fervor's Favor, replenishing Faer health with the magic He doesn't bother to waste on curses
Only rarely does He remember His access to powerful relics, and in those moments, Ala's Teeth decimate Faer opponents long enough for a quick pickmeup
Evipo (Pangolin):
Evipo is something of an odd-duck in the cult: he's a sickly night owl, and celibate to boot, so they don't spend much time with the other followers
Perhaps because of this isolation, it has caught the attention of the cult leader Faerself, and become His most favored disciple
It dutifully prays at the Empowered Shrines, and paints red on his face to mimic the blood the Lamb regularly returns home covered in, in an effort to be on the crusades spiritually; if only there was some way they could come along in a physical form as well, without the Lamb having to worry about its safety...
[ Image ID: Two otherwise-identical images, the first with a brown background and the second with no background. They depict two fat brown bovine fursonas facing each other. The bovine on the left is a yak with a forehead mark in the shape of a heart and long curly hair in a ponytail. He has a gold nose ring with a bead, a cane, top surgery scars, and several retro-palette rainbows across his design. His posture is open and relaxed, with an understanding expression as he looks to the other sona. The bovine on the right is a slightly-shorter cow that has similar markings, sans the rainbows. He has a bronze nose ring with a bead. His posture is defensive, arms crossed and looking away with a dismissive "tch". The yak is telling him "It gets better. I promise." in white text. "Better" and "promise" are in the yak's rainbow colors, and underlined. End ID. ]
@isa-ah posted here on tumblr as requested- with a higher quality upload than the one on AF, plus a bonus transparent version to boot!
Big thanks to my partner for help with the image description!
[Image ID: Two images, identical other than the fact that one is done in greyscale, while the other is in rainbow colors on the same grey background. It depicts a script that meanders about the canvas, flow guided by simplistic messy line drawings that reflect the text. The images start with a person and their speechbubble within a thoughtbubble, transitioning through comicbook-like pages, a spotlight, a river of blank papers, and a large dividing vertical pillar through the center of the image. Atop that pillar is the same person's silhouette, tiny and calling out, before the flow continues to an hourglass, a brain, a battery, and a collection of various shapes surrounded by the word "AND" repeatedly. At the end are two more silhouettes: the first is standing and looking upward at a large nearby "AND", with a capital "I" to their right, almost like a measuring marker; the second silhouette is sitting hunched over their knees, another smaller "I" to their left, and positioned in a similar way as to imply further-diminished measurement. /. End ID]
Transcript:
I've always WANTED to make COMICS
But I kept
Looking [Hoping] [Stalling] [Waiting]
FOR SOMETHING to justify
TRYING
... and failing...
A LOT
to make things WORK
Because it's all so...
MASSIVELY DAUNTING
It takes a lot of TIME
AND
FOCUS AND
ENERGY
to figure out...
[begin 12 "AND"s filling the space]
Panel SIZE
Story
Drafting
Polish
Negative SPACE
... FLOW...
SHAPE
AND I...
I
(Very long and numerous) thoughts under the cut!
I made this almost a year ago now, and I kept telling myself I would clean it up and post it one day
I might still clean it up eventually, but I'm done waiting to post it
I can't begin to describe how proud I am of this, I keep reading it over and over and finding little surprises I left for myself:
The way the orange arrow makes a nice circle with the bottom lump of the thought cloud
The way the tail circles of the thought bubble curve to make an arc to that circle with "COMICS" bridging the gap, moving into an image of a comic being drawn
The way the blank papers not only represent the paper I used to burn through, but when colored in all those shades of green, they remind me of the money that's gone into all of the projects I've ever attempted
The way it starts with a trickle and quickly becomes chaotic, costing more and more
The way "MASSIVELY DAUNTING" lists to the side, threatening to fall over
The way it's pushed from the side of Everything Art Requires towards the flow of "money", and looks about ready to squash "TRYING" and "WORK"
The way it somehow furthers yet intensely interrupts the flow of everything
The way that the river of papers has three potential origin points:
The taper in the middle of the arrangement under "TRYING", the drafts and attempts that happened
The comic panels from the left, the theoretical comics I would have made, flowing through "TRYING"
The pages and the panels from the right side of the canvas- and arguably the battery of "ENERGY" driving the flow- pushing through the practical aspects and hitting the wall of "MASSIVELY DAUNTING" before returning in a small trickle that has to pick itself back up
The way the first comic pages seem like an extension of the speechbubble, or new speechbubbles ordering themselves like stacked pages
The way the comic panels on the orange page match the illuminating yellow of the spotlight, match the phrase "But I kept Looking" and getting so close to "FOR SOMETHING to justify TRYING"
The way "... and failing" is green as the pages/money
They way I personally identify with cool colors, yet in all of this, the character that represents me is painted in pinks and struggling
The way the "I"s look like they're measurements, with the taller one almost seeming to prop up some of the "AND"s while the smaller one seems to be weighed down heavily by the "..." above it
The way "Polish" seems to absolutely dominate the space as just a single word, which is fitting since it's probably the step I get hung up on the most
The way all the things that go into a comic seem all over the place, both flowing and a disjointed jumble
Augh there's just always more to find, and I'm the one who made it!
As for the process behind all this, it was actually totally freeform: I sat down with the urge to make a comic, or at least vent about making comics, and I just...
Started drawing
The flow of the picture really follows what got made in what order- and in fact, I originally was just going to leave it as a single chunk once I wrote "WORK"
But it felt unfinished, so I added a little more: I added "Because it's all so..."
And I sat on it for a bit, before deciding on "MASSIVELY DAUNTING"
It filled up the space well enough, and it was accurate, but...
Again, I had to figure out What Else I needed to add
I decided I was going to do a vertical arrangement- which, you may notice, didn't pan out
Everything after the Leaning Tower Of Doubt was supposed to be made off to the side where I could see it when my canvas was zoomed to fit my screen, but in a way where I could easily move it into place later where it was supposed to go
And then I got attached to the horizontal spread
Whoops
It worked well on so many levels, so I couldn't really bring myself to rearrange it afterwards
But you might notice that the left side is very rounded and full of stuff flinging off to fill space, and the right side just has a relatively flat wall
That's right, I decided I was going to do a third section: this one was going to be the Optimistic Conclusion, the cool nifty message for myself and others that if you give things a go anyways, you can succeed eventually, or maybe learn something in the process- I dunno I had ambition not thoughts
Clearly, I Ran Out Of Time, Focus, And Energy
So it's "finished" on a rather dreary note, that side shut down above a retreating shutdown
But it still brings me a lot of pride, even though it's messy and unfinished
It's redefined my standards when it comes to making comics- or "comics", depending on your own definition
And not only that, but it looks an awful lot like how my thoughts feel, especially with color
That's something I have always longed to be able to show
[Image ID: A circular pixel image of a jumping quadrupedal creature floating in space. It has a black body with starry speckles gradating from blue near its front to more pink along its tail, a pink-purple underside, shimmering pink-purply goop along its back in a short flowing fin, two light-blue forked-tip feelers curving back from its forehead, blue fingertips and toes, and light-blue eyes with bright pink irises. Around its head are a set of five opalescent light-blue gooplike protrusions- the topmost being the largest and the bottom two being the smallest- which form a kind of "frill" shaped like a star. This mirrors the general color of the brightly-shining goop star at the end of its long tail, which it is reaching for and leaping towards, causing its body to stretch in an unclosed vertical loop. To the left of the creature is a vertical "2023", while to the right of the creature is the artist signature, "luminull". /.End ID]
(First time writing an image description, hope I did it right!)
I've never had much luck with keeping up with art blogs, but I think a large part of it was the urge to only post finished products or have a consistent style
This maybe isn't the best example of the former, since I'm considering it finished, but I know for a fact that this blog won't only be pixel art: I like to dabble in lineless, painterly, clean-sketch, and even some really basic animation, though I hope to try out comics one day and get back into non-digital art again
Here's to a new year, and a hope to put myself out there more, even if it's messy and inconsistent (and more than a little scary)!
