Drawing Among The Stars

A very slow activity art blog for the scribblings of a small pomeranian content to stick pawprints all over a sketchbook page-

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Another updated!Sera~! While the outfit may not stick - I do love her original outfit still a little too much to go replacing it anytime soon - I am having fun with her new design, enough so that I used this to try and do a 'version one' so to speak of Aria's appearance and colors along with the normal look for Sera/Aria... Ignoring I can't draw wings to save my life and those are not indicative of Sera/Aria's actual Fenix wings~!

At current, the primary difference between 'Aria' and 'Sera' is the hint of icy blue to her hair and the flecks of blue in her eyes; I wanted the change to be subtle given Aria and Sera are the same person, though I'm not entirely sure if I'm completely happy with it enough to call it a final design, hence the 'version one'. Aria's design is still one in progress, but it's a good first step, I think! <3

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My half of an art trade with @kaisertiger! <3 I had an urge to give one of her OCs a human form on seeing some of her art and bio, and after a quick chat with her on it, we decided on a trade - So this is Aztec's human form~! I had an absolute blast working on her and designing this look, and I'm so eager to see more of Aztec and her desert adventures! <3

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Another Sera update- And this time it's a bit of a redesign with a new hairdo! Sera hasn't changed much in the over a decade I've had her around, and recently, I got the itch to redesign after realizing as much. Though I initially didn't want to - Sera is my baby among my OCs as well as one of, if not the, oldest, and changing things for her in general outside of her colors like I did previously was a kind of scary undertaking - I ended up rather enjoying the ideas I had for her, and a new look was thus born!

I've also been slowly learning how to color my lineart rather than just making it solid black, so this was both practice for that, and to get down a colored version os Sera's new look - Test it out, so to speak, and see how much I liked it with her colors. There still may be a few tweaks coming in the future to the design, but for now, one snow Fenix has a brand new look~! <3

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Fireflowerpom -> Lunabyssdraws

I'm still in the process of rebranding myself, so please pardon the dust around here, but a rebrand was actually way overdue, in my opinion. While I do still love my previous name and vibe with it, I don't quite as much as I used to - And personally, I feel like I've outgrown it! So after discussing with close friends about things, I'm rebranding myself to Lunabyss~!

This year, I want to improve my artwork. I want to draw more and I'm doing everything I can to hold myself to that, and really working at it. OCs are getting new designs and rehauled for their rp blogs and logging elsewhere off Tumblr, and I want to have pinned down references done by me, even if it's just for the sake of slapping on a rp blog to go 'Hey here's how the muse looks!'. I want to get better at my art, and this entire rebrand is my first step, with a bunch of art to post later!

As always, my inbox here is always open, and this will remain a slow activity blog, solely because my focus is elsewhere still - not updating this blog the moment I get a piece done, proud of it or not. As much as I want to improve and share, I have a dozen and one hobbies, and I've gotta get to them too! <3

Here's to more art~! <3

~Pom

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A surprise for @kaisertiger! <3 While I may not be as good at drawing fluffy floofs as she is by a MILE, that wasn't going to stop me from attempting to draw Ren, the sweet dork he is! I tried a headshot based on his sitting fullbody in the bottom left of his ref sheet here, as a big love you and everything you do to Kasa! <3

Thank you for so many years of friendship, Kasa - And I swear, someday I'm gonna learn how to draw your fluffs better! <3

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I've been trying to get back into art recently and learn a few new tricks while designing a few OCs, and one of those attempts resulted in this: Pomberry the Astral Wolf, a result of a kind of collaboration between myself and @kaisertiger! The art itself is all Kasa's brilliant doing, but the coloring and design of Pomberry, version one as it may be, is my own~! <3

Pomberry holds a few links to a massive world and lore Kasa and I share, and serves as a guardian guiding light hailing from a distant lupine-based constellation. Each of her steps leaves stars and stardust in their wake, and when fully dressed up and decked out in accessories I'm still not sure how to draw, she carries a lantern that holds her Astral glow - her starlight - to help guide those souls she guards forward and through their troubles. She's also learned how to shift herself into a small, pomeranian-sized form for the sake of fitting in on the surface a bit better, and might just love to ride around in baskets and on her friends' heads as a hat-

If it's not been obvious from all this, Pomberry has become something of my mascot since this, and I do have plans for her going forward as my fursona/mascot/the face of me as the artist! Of course, Pomberry herself is also 100% an OC with a few elements similar to me, so not exactly a self-insert, so I'm gonna be calling her my mascot, for sure! <3

All the thanks again to @kaisertiger for the lineart/base and permission to do this! <3

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Been working on a few projects aside from writing of late, and one of them has turned into a log of my current characters and muses - A log that full on has gotten me back into art when I can't be by my laptop so I have something to pair with it! It's been slow going, but it's giving me a chance to update muses who have loooong since needed it... And one of those is my Sera.

Personally, I don't think I've ever quite been happy with her old colors, and I realized that when taking to my tablet for this headshot. They were too bright, too saturated, too... Bold, I guess? And while Sera is a bright kind of person, her previous colors were just a bit too bright! So with her new lore that's come into play these days, it was time to do a little changeup in the art department to better match how she's written - And better match her twin/older brother, too!

Her scars might go under a couple changes as I learn how to draw them better, for one, but also while I settle on exactly how they look, but for the time being? One Sera update I'm more than happy with~!

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Also just as a note that's partly unrelated to my art, and yet also related to it - I do have my ask box open for anyone curious about something! I might take a bit to reply - This is a side to a blog I'm not on as much as my other RP blogs - but I'm more than happy to answer, even if it's just to say hi! <3

~Pom

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Of course, Sera ALSO got herself a Genshin Impact verse! A snow leopard hailing from Snezhnaya, she's fled from her birthplace and gotten tangled up in the life of Zack, a Fatuus who later breaks away and runs with her to settle in Mondstadt. Not much changes about Sera between her usual info and GI aside from the fact she's a snow leopard here, and just in a whole new setting, with her ice magic now in the form of a cryo vision <3

Her network of contacts is greatly expanded here, and she's got a hand in more than even she's aware of at any given point in time. Inazuma, Snezhnaya, Fontaine, Liyue, Sumeru... She's made friends and even gained found family in each of the nations, and in Inazuma specifically, discovered her eldest brother, Thoma, is alive and well (and is her brother, not her cousin - A discovery of a 'gift' given to her and Thoma by Childe at her wedding ceremony). The harbinger that had been sent to hunt her down has even turned on his eployer for the job and sided with her, and Sera's not sure how she's gotten herself in the middle of this awkward little found family, but hey - She's not complaining! <3

Weapon: Bow

Vision: Cryo

Constellation: Pardus Caeli (Sky Leopard)

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Another Genshin Impact OC, this time the Fatui Operative, Kagota!

Born and raised in Morepesok, Snezhnaya, Kagota has always been close to Childe - Then known better as Ajax - and the two have been utterly inseperable for most of their lives. Unfortunately, his falling into the abyss is just the beginning of a nightmare neither of them see coming, and Kagota joins the Fatui at 14 after feeling like she's lost her best friend so something she can't understand when he's finally found after his three days away.

However, Kagota remembers very little of her year of basic training, much of it empty space and gaps that brings with it pain and overwhelming emotions to get near, prompting her to try not to. Her memory doesn't returning to being a solid, secure thing until she's well into the age of 15, armed with an Electro vision, and killed a man, dealing with heavy trauma from a battle she can't remember. The once bright and bouncy child she'd been no longer existed - She was now a cold, snappy, lone wolf of a woman who had locked away her emotions to deal with the world around her, pushing everything away.

Everything, that is, aside from her stubborn childhood friend, whose determination to stay by her side no matter what leads to him being the first - and only, really - to settle back into her heart and begin unlocking her emotions, little by little, as they tumble into a relationship, a shared dream to take over the world, and a willingness to face the world together.

Now well into her 20's, she's been through more than most, fighting through several years under the command of Signora with none expecting her to survive, leading a unit of misfits, the loss of her harbinger, and being taken in along with her unit by Childe. She's happily married to her harbinger and, as of the end of the Fontaine archon quest, they have twin daughters and she's recieved a promotion to operative, making a name for herself as deadly force on the battlefield all on her own as a swordswoman.

Those who know her best, however, know her nickname of Heraldic Tempest might just be more than a nickname when her shadow seems to have touches of the abyss held deep within...

Weapon: Sword, Dual swords, scythe (polearm)

Vision: Electro

Constellation: Tempestas Caprae (Storm Goat)

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With the Genshin Impact brainrot has come falling so deep into things regarding it for the last year - Including several muses coming out of the woodwork from ages past! This girl here is Astra Fellheart - a woman from Fontaine whose family is a giant in the nation's mining industry, as well in ore and gemstone sales. She's the younger of a set of twins, and, along with her brother Apollo, was raised by aides and attendants rather than their overly busy parents, who had started and grew the family business into what it's become, with the express desire to be nothing more than future heads of the company. A raising that was done completely wrong, and that Astra seeks to correct and grow from after her 18th birthday, when she finally speaks up to her parents and sees the employees at fault fired and replaced, and her freedom from the strict, overbearing life she'd been leading granted.

She's now nearing 30, and still learning how to navigate things as a regular person - A process easier to learn and navigate with the help of her husband Wriothesley, the Duke of Meropide and the one to give her a place to belong within Meropide's walls. The title of Duchess of Meropide takes some getting used to, but... Hey, who says she won't eventually~?

She uses a hydro vision when she fights, and is armed with a polearm. Her coat is also a modification and redesigned guard's uniform coat, a means to help her fit in a little better while not putting herself on the same level as the Duke despite her title stating she is. She's not. She's just a person, and she wants everyone to see her as such, even if she will make herself on the level of the friendlier guards. <3

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Things I haven’t done n like, a year: Upload here. XD Time to fix that with one summery Sera! <3

I actually went out and got myself a new tablet and discovered apps to draw on - So that obviously meant snapping pictures of art in my sketchbook to tweak, clean up, and color digitally. I have a small handful set aside to give this treatment and another handful I’ve already done, but I’m proud enough of this one to be the first! <3

...Now if I could just remember to add in the scars on her shoulders consistently. XD

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After doing a ton of plotting with @kaisertiger​, we’ve gone and done a swandive back into an older game (and fandom) we’ve both loved for a long time: Final Fantasy 7. And with the swandive came blogs to match, and the rehaul of the OC I usually had for FF-related things, Sera - Who now sports a new look for her Remake verse! <3  This isn’t the full outfit, she has a jacket that usually goes over it and there’s been some edits to her jewelry since I lined and colored this, but that just means I need to do a fullbody of this look, methinks~

At the point she’s switched this outfit, Sera, who was originally in Midgar to follow her hopes of changing the world and eliminating pain and suffering through kindness, has fled the city and moved to Gongaga with her son. It’s a long story I might elaborate on more when I eventually  do that fullbody, but for now... A flowerdork. <3

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A month late for the holiday, but stress and offline life takes priority, so this gets to come up late. XD I actually did this last month and didn’t get around to coloring or anything until after the holiday, but I definitely couldn’t let Christmas go by without Mako and Kiku preparing for company aroung the homura household, ‘cause they’re definitely the family that holds all the get-togethers~

<3 Hope everyone had a good holiday, and here’s to a hopefully much better new year~!

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Day three of OCtober is ‘A friend’s OC’, and this was the perfect excuse to get in some animal practice and make some gift art for @kaisertiger​! <3 This is Marcellus, one of her fluffy OCs that I definitely can’t do justice to, but I had to try anyway. <3 He’s an amazing caracal and I’m looking forward to seeing more of him in the future - actually eagerly waiting for more of Kasa’s art always, it’s all so good and her OC’s even better! <333

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Decided to jump on the bandwagon and try out a challenge as something to do aside from preparing for NaNoWriMo next month, so here’s my start to OCtober, the prompt list and creator found HERE on Twitter!

Day one was ‘First OC’, and for me that was a tossup between Sera or Mako - And since I’m pretty sure I had Sera already when I met @velveteenlop​, it had to be the sakura blossom herself. <3 Sera may not be my first, but she’s the oldest I can remember, and one I actually still write; I’ll never not love my sweet and kind flower and her gentle nature, even i she has come a really long way since her creation. <3

For day two, the prompt’s ‘Latest OC’, and if we wanna get technical, the last OC I made from the ground up would be Kasumi! Kiku and Takeru’s daughter, Sumi’s a soft and sweet, quiet girl who has a reason for being as quiet as she is, but refuses to talk about it simply because she doesn’t want to drag anyone down, or for anyone to feel bad. Nicknamed Firefly, she really a gentle girl who wants to see everyone around her smile as bright as they can. <3

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Expressions practice ft. a Mako and an Alanna <3