Heya! I'm Nyx (he/him)
Main: @trans--galo
Art : @nyxxtar
I've been playing for six years now and you can find me lurking on NA (nyxxtar.5378). Feel free to say hi if you see me out in the wild!
TAGS + CHARACTERS
#art - if you just want to see my art without everything else in the character tags
#lyhil - pretty much the main one you'll see LOL. Eager Newbloom Sylvari to Priory Scholar (Archon-in-training) to Inquest Test Tube Experiment to Modremoth Casualty to finally Commander's Unusual Soldier (and maybe lover?). He's linked to Harukehn (@harukehn) who you will also see a lot on here.
I've got always 1 million things to say about him.
#arseaz - My commander OC....he's still in the brain cocoon but he'll emerge one day
I AM FREE AT LAST
Finally updated his AF page too right there
Now i can FINALLY catch up and revenge everyone so far sobs
Also shoutout to @nyxxtar as I used his attack on Drosera of last year (which you can see here ) as a reference for this upgraded ref for him, since I really liked the extra details added,namely the leaf-brow thing, as well as that killer eyeshadow :]
Tysm Nyxxtar, also please keep an eye out on your AF, I havent forgotten about you one bit 👀
(also if anyones curious about what Drosera looked like before, his design didnt drastically change that much but you can see his old ref here)
Deannach Reference Sheet
Wanted to redo the ref of my oldest sylvari character and whoops I made him more complex.
Many thanks to everyone I threw this at to help with the anatomy. Took me over two months to get this done as the first month of working on this burnt me out (managed to work through it by just redoing the whole base sketch). But, managed to get it done with the help from some incredible people!
Harukehn is a very private person and not naturally loud and proud about who he is. I like to think that as he gets older, he stops caring what people think and finds his own subtle ways of expressing himself (FOR himself!) but, until then, the love and acceptance of the people he's closest to is more than enough for him.
I try to remember you and I see smoke. Why is that?
GORK guild did a drawalong which I SLEPT THROUGH so I drew it on my own today. Glaz from Bourbon's memory... trying to tie each panel into bits of his life and death and afterlife... Lots of fun and really happy with it in the end!
"Well? What are you staring at? Do I have something in my teeth?"
Eyyy it's the long awaited Mael skeleton form ref! How many refs does he even need? Yes. The answer is yes. You can tell my main syndrome is terminal.
Additional design notes ⬇️
I've actually been trying to figure out how his signature furnace would work in skeleton form for quite a while, considering the notable lack of skin and therefore lack of his chest scar to channel it from. I was just about ready to concede defeat and make him lose access to that particular power in full lich form, when I was hit by an epiphany~
I spent a while scrolling lich/undead character artworks on Pinterest for inspo when I came across a picture of a skeleton with its sternum broken off, making its ribs look sort of like teeth, and I was like, HOLY COW WHOA bingo. Still, the issue of Mael's scar remained, and then I had an idea:
What if the infernal stigmata - his cursed scar(s) - was literally branded into his very soul, not only his flesh? It does make sense in hindsight. It's why his Departing scars remain despite his regenerative immortality, after all - what with him having bound a demon's soul to the wounds sustained from a God. It's something that will manifest on Mael even if he were reduced to just a ghost, a literal inescapable curse that follows him through any and all forms he might take.
Thus, the furnace remains more or less unchanged, manifesting out of the central spark of magic within Mael's ribcage and burning away his sternum to create the signature fanged look of the Soul Eater's brand. The bone around it changes color to black to stand out better, which I explain by localized Shroud magic. You would be able to see a subtly shifting shadowy texture, strongest at the tips of the ribs.
I think I neglected to mention that his portal teeth actually move, did I? Well, yes. They do. Imagine the subtle motion of centipede legs, and you're getting close to what I have in mind. Likewise, his ribs-teeth will do the same, further emphasizing the unnatural factor of everything he has going on. (And evoking the imagery of a snake's ribs. Yes, snakes "walk" on their ribs. You're welcome.)
Trying a cute dessert-themed icon set for this month's vsartparty, featuring @lost-wayfinder 's Rein as my first subject! 🤗 also, happy Pride to my favourite purple mender
