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this is an art and doodle blog! have been art blocked since 2023, but i'm slowly figuring out what i want to do with myself and my art. Yayyyy i use a mouse (2009-present), a screenless tablet (2022-present), and an iPad (2025-present). i bought a new tablet (rip my old one 2022-2026), but i'm still mostly just doodling with my mouse currently. (please do not reblog any of my old sketches -- the pencil ones, usually but not always on lined paper. i really don't want my old stuff getting passed around & they are too old for me to disable reblogs.)

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Got my iPad repair completed & in honour of the holidays & amidst packing I want to try getting back to my art studies because I really miss art and also having actual hobbies, so if anyone can do me a favour and please send in palette suggestions (just the palettes, I'm not taking character requests in this case I plan on using these for OC practice) I would very much appreciate it.

Palettes as always are my fav PMD Palettes by @.defendglobe.

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messing with my wol again

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oh hi i appreciate the attention she's getting but i would like to note for everyone perceiving her emmy is technically not a viera! i use the miqo'te model for her, she's a cabbit

#mycabbit. she is half viera though

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practicing proportions with my freak

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turns out after some digging that i did actually have enough linnets for this lol

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congratulations to celice fireemblem for being one of the most inconsistently-drawn characters ever in the entire history of my hobbyist artist career

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messing with my wol again

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accidentally created the most autistic mii alive recently

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put lara on my tomodachi life island and realised i haven't drawn her since 2022 so i sketched something out with my mouse

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not 100% on this and i might redo it again later but... nowi redesign.... when warriors came out it confirmed tiki was still a child at 1000+ because she'd been frozen in stasis for most of her life. so as someone also 1000+ nowi should very much be an adult designwise by that point... i wanted to give her a new look with that in mind...

design notes under the cut:

my idea for this was effectively the vibe and whimsy of like... a college extrovert. she has a bright personality and takes on the self-imposed role of the Shepherds' moodmaker and i think that needs to be emphasised in her design. i wanted something fun and cute that still offered breathability (the low heels, the flowy top, the poofed shorts);

i did look at both her & Nah's halloween alts for Heroes because i really liked a lot of concepts from them (particularly the long sleeves & pumpkin shorts, and the ankle boots). these ended up being by far my heaviest reference;

i also looked through my own fashion compilations because i bookmark a lot of clothing references but uhhhh. most of mine lean towards lolita stylings or like... nice ffxiv glams because those are what show up most for me on twitter so LOL not much of it was handy. i did find a very nice jean jacket though that i used because i think it suits her;

because she has this in canon i did want to implement scalework. but considering these are her own scales she's using... if the coverage area is too wide then that means she's losing scales at an alarming rate (as is noted in her supports with Gregor when she tries giving him a sweater she lined with her scales) so i think it's best to keep the area limited. makes the shed seem reasonable. originally this was going to be the trim on the jacket thing but at my roommate's suggestion we swapped it to giving her dragonskin belts;

palette is ripped entirely from her canon outfit. i am not good with colours and i shuffled things around a lot but i think at least for now this works

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i lied when i said i was done editing nah variants i did one (1) more set at a friend's request

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set 2. Farming sim

row 1 - 2021, 2022.

(2021) picture of Lily from Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny based on a line she had about watching snowfall. was an attempt on foreshortening & perspective i think i did pretty decently with for the time;

(2022) Ludmila from 5 in her swimsuit. i actually did start lining this i just never finished

row 2 - 2022. Alice & Ares from Rune Factory 5 dressed in various play costumes for Homare Arisugawa from A3! because together they make the Arisusquad and also Ares shares a seiyuu with him

row 3 - 2023. very happy to see this one because i thought the file corrupted lol Sofia / Shara from Rune Factory 3!! i think they'd be cute

row 4 - 2025.

Cecilia from Rune Factory 2 based on the Kanaria song Identity. was going to have Mana on the other side, inspired by conversing with my friend Rory about their similarities in personality / self

Why Ondorus got socks in da jacuzzi...

row 5 - 2025. Eve from Harvest Moon SNES & Magical Melody. i was replaying MM and i like her

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posting these in groups. group 1 of old doodles & scrapped pieces i found: fire emblem & fire emblem ocs. years & descriptions under the cut

row 1 - 2021, a handful of 3 Houses doodles (a protagonist AU Flayn design, Cynthia + Annette because they were two of my favs, Annette/Claude because they're quite cute)

row 2 - 2021. two Hitman AUs:

Lucina/Cynthia one where Lucina becomes an assassin tracing the last steps of her long-missing father and Cynthia, the daughter of her father's handler, steps in to act as Lucina's);

Severa one that has no actual explanation to it other than "once in like 2020 after getting into Hitman i had a dream where Severa was 47 and it stuck with me for a while after that"

row 3 - 2021, 2022.

(2021) a Fire Emblem OC. was originally designed as a Stahl fankid, reused as a 131000 cast member. her name is Evelyn she's a troubadour;

(2022) Cordelia / Lissa doodle. was toying with post-timeskip designs for them because i've thought about the Awakening timeskip more than Intsys has

row 3 - 2023. Colette as always

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ok first of all have this from 2022

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would anyone be interested in a quick wip wsunday dedicated to old / scrapped pieces. I'm finding pieces i don't remember ever even doing and then scrapping in the vault that is my art folder while i finish up transferring files to my flash drive

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quick mana doodle. using the mouse per usual

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one last nahpost but i did make some variants for both designs for funsies to mess with hair colours yesterday so i'm sharing. i meant it when i said in my og post a lot of hair colours do Not work with her / her palette very well so i only did a handful

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a future Nah again, but this time the playable one

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the full outfit btw. if anyone car