Smile and Wave, Boys...

Hardcore Valenwind shipper. Beware, there is yaoi/slash in this blog. This is a dumping ground for my artwork, dribbles and shit. Will be reblogging other artists'. Mainly Final Fantasy 7, Supernatural, Avengers and anything else I enjoy.

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Nanaki and Cait Sith taking a nap on the bridge of the Highwind for @lowflyingidiom!

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Inktober Day 10

A half-ass doodle of my favorite pilot! Love this guy!

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I love this, that apron, lol.

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Been a while

Hey all, I disappeared again. I have LOTS to catch up on with all your beautiful work, my followees. (Hope you all remember me, lol)

Quick run down, I’m at uni studying animation now, but it was a hard decision to make. Because I hate education, but I’ve always wanted to learn animation. The opportunity just never presented itself to me before. So, been busy with that, been busy with a lot of things. Moved home, too, no longer at the lake.

Missed Valenwind like WHOA, I haven’t managed to draw/read/write much at all, but still planning to. That remake is getting nearer, yessssss 8 )

Hope everyone has been well!

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So… here’s a thing. A LONG awaited art trade with @sawako1826 who will hopefully forgive me because my hand hurts after this, lol. I completely binned that first sketch I showed you, there was just no umph in it. Hope you like this one, I will neaten and colour it one day, but I really wanted to end your wait and show you now.

So the artist’s prattle: Redesigning Cid’s outfit for KH style really threw me, because all I could see was what he already has. But I tried to keep it to plain clothes, since he is a plain-clothes guy, but incorporate his mechanical side. Also, I head canon Cid is left handed, so he wears a protective bracer on his one arm, and fingerless gloves for dexterity and fighting - since KH is overridden with bad guys.

Vincent is sans cape because obviously Cloud stole it, the theiving bastard. BUT I added all the tendrils of Chaos essence around his body because Chaos’ power is reacting to all the Darkness, and manifests himself in wispy shapes. Also, I bet he’s harder to control in KH. I gave him a smaller pair of wings which he can’t retract, too. I bet he gets attacked a lot for looking like a Darkness creature, haha… I do love to torment him.

Umm… anything else…. The boots were fun to draw, even if I did do the buckles the wrong way round. Oh, and yes, I totally cheated and used my own older gun lineart. Copied and pasted that sucker right in there.

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So, moved home, got internet working, have the family Mac indefinitely and now it's time to get the art I owe done. This is for someone I'm not gonna say, so it'll be a surprise. On another note, I haven't drawn Vinnie is way too long and I had such a hard time even with the sketch stage = =

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Steps Back onto Tumblr

Hey, everyone. I’ve been missing from Tumblr for far too long and I’ve just been trying to catch up lately. I still owe the amazingly patient @sawako1826 an art trade and KorNaXon a commission. I’m so sorry, guys. RL got in the way.

Be coming back into yo’ lives soon, kus kus kus kus.....

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I just remembered that these were a thing I did years ago, and I wanted to see them in one place.

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So, a week ago I got back from a few weeks holiday in Australia. It was AMAZING. I didn’t think I’d be able to hold up much ‘cause of the heat, but I survived - hah! I loved it so much, but the only thing that puts me off from going again is the torturous flight length.

My friends and I managed to cram in so much. We went to Kalgoorlie where one of them used to live, so we met the Australian family, and then back to Perth to explore. Then on to Cairns for the Great Barrier Reef. Holy shit was that awesome. I can’t find my underwater camera, though = = it’s gotta be in ONE of our cases somewhere… And finally, for the last of our trip we went to Sydney for a few days. Spectacular holiday, would go again in a heartbeat if they invent teleport machines.

Got a lot of catching up to do on Tumblr.

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Welcome back! The photos are stunning :D  We’re only getting sun back now here, so I envy the sun you’ve had!

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@thrasirshall It was ALOT of sun, not used to it lol : D We came back to ‘good old’ cold and snow (we felt that, brrrr).

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So, a week ago I got back from a few weeks holiday in Australia. It was AMAZING. I didn’t think I’d be able to hold up much ‘cause of the heat, but I survived - hah! I loved it so much, but the only thing that puts me off from going again is the torturous flight length.

My friends and I managed to cram in so much. We went to Kalgoorlie where one of them used to live, so we met the Australian family, and then back to Perth to explore. Then on to Cairns for the Great Barrier Reef. Holy shit was that awesome. I can’t find my underwater camera, though = = it’s gotta be in ONE of our cases somewhere… And finally, for the last of our trip we went to Sydney for a few days. Spectacular holiday, would go again in a heartbeat if they invent teleport machines.

Got a lot of catching up to do on Tumblr.

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hello I can eat solid foods again (sort of). I’ve spent the last 4 days either passed out or reading really disgustingly old FF7 fanfic because I was too heavily drugged up on pain medication to remember what I was doing in my current save file lmao

At least i finally started to draw the charms I was itching to do (the first one spawned out of probably 80 valenwind fics I trudged thru)

I have a whole set planned out for some of the cons I’ll be at this summer :0  In the meantime I’m gonna try to get some more orders packed between now and thursday, work permitting, because I need to go back and have my other 2 wisdom teeth extracted, and another broken tooth on the 10th

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These are looking so good.

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Okay, here’s the WIP Silver Elite Secret Santa pic (that is super late, gosh) for @mintflavour! :D I’m still not finished ‘cause I’m going to color it, but I wanted to post how it was coming along!

The gang is all hanging out at the bar, and Papa Bear Barret decided to take a pic. Some people in the pic didn’t get the memo. Actually, Tifa looks like she’s the only one that actually heard him say “smile, dammit”. Yuffie WANTED to be in the picture, but Vincent’s hair is being… Vincent’s hair. There is a bit of subtle Valenwind going on because that is @mintflavour‘s ship of choice. :)

And look, the daughter Aerith is still alive here, yay.

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*takes deep breath and expels it in loud incoherent noises*

This is AMAZING - holy crap, so awesome! I can’t even say how much I love it, lookit the family! Barret’s crafty photo snapping skillz, lol. Yuffie’s expression - lmao, she and that hair spike will have words later, hahah. I love Aerith’s laughing, LOOOOVVEE! And of course, Cid and Vinnie both smiling (especially Vincent, day-yum!), and Cloud at the back smiling in a Cloud way. Tifa is gorgeous, love her pose. Wow, okay this has made my day, so happy - thank you so much : D

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@mintflavour

8D  THE NOISE I MADE WAS NOT HUMAN. it was the sound of fangirling all over the floor. Thank you. Honestly. This is just gorgeous and I really wonder how is it I deserved to get such a beautifully done piece.  I went to the front door where there was natural lighting, and admired all of the little details. It’s so smooth I swear it was printed! Your penmanship and shading is incredible. 

I want to get a frame for it or get some sort of protective sheet for it so I can hang it up and admire it for the rest of my life ~  Trying very hard here not to just keyboard smash but I’m also like… vibrating with utter happiness and want to act like a child on a sugar rush >.o THANKYOUSOMUUUUCCCCCH

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I’m so glad it got there - and quickly, too. Royal Mail don’t hang around when you threaten them 8-D 

But I’m so happy you like it! Really I am : D

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The belated gift for TheShinraHeir. I’m so sorry it took me ages, but I hope you like it. I had difficultly drawing lol. And it may not be apparent, but Rufus is sat on Tseng’s lap. The original sketch was clearer but I suck at enlarging.

(I regret putting them in all white, I didn’t think the color scheme through).

[princekarkat]

art takes hours to produce and seconds to consume so dont act suprised when artists get upset when their posts only get likes and no reblogs

similarly a piece of writing that takes a few minutes to read could have weeks of work behind it… dont take creativity for granted when ur getting it for free

[theshinraheir]

otp rambles: Rufus & Tseng

ooc: I was asked what drew me to Rufus/Tseng by @mintflavour as they were my Secret Santa, so it’s I thought it was going to be interesting to ah…. how long this possibly may be! To be honest, after spending an hour on this and only just finished with writing about Tseng -  I’m not even sure if I can summarise this properly without going into novel-length reasons.  Essentially - I love Rufus & Tseng as polar opposites that once they stop tearing each other’s throats out by the end of the OG - a balance is struck between them.  SO, I will break my favourite dorks down to some points:  Tseng: Controlling, Spiritual, Morning Person, Black Suit, City-Born (Midgar), life-experience.  Rufus: Manipulator, Secular, Night Person, White Suit, Mountain-Born (Icicle), book-smart.  Both are in very different yet significant positions of power and they (imo) actually cannot function without the other.  There is also serious power play aspect in that I thoroughly enjoy, but that’s just a preference on my part when it comes to these two.  They’re also both incredibly flawed in the aspects I listed above, which is why they balance each other. For example - Rufus’ secular views are slowly more opened by Tseng’s spiritual ones, while Rufus shed light on Tseng’s blind faith.  Before Crisis:  For the current timeline I roleplay - Tseng was tasked to pretty much be at Rufus’ side almost 24/7 because the blond was starting to basically file down the bars of his very big shiny cage in the tower. He was a teenager with a lot of power, and an expectancy to know exactly what to do with it despite being a very sheltered individual - which a rather horrible pressure to put on someone so young.  The Turks also wanted Rufus on their side because he was the future of ShinRa - and of course, other departments would love to get their hands on him, but the Turks were there pretty much from the start.  I am much too fond of the idea that Tseng also slept with Rufus as a means to keep him from wandering. 

Doesn’t stop Rufus to be honest because he gets what he wants himself.  Tseng also reported on it because the Turks (generally Veld and a handful of long-term Turks) were the ones pulling all the strings to keep the company going, and they were very focused on Rufus’ future as president. For Rufus - this of course leads into something of a cruel pretence at the start. Rufus had an idea that Tseng was doing this because it was his job, but he got rather addicted, and very used to having someone actually paying attention to him as a person.  He would never admit how much it really, really tore him up discovering all those reports Tseng had written about their nights together, and being reminded that he, at the end of the day, was a job. But of course to Tseng, Rufus was much much more then just a job.  Tseng also fell into this trap because he started to put a lot of faith into Rufus, and really felt that he was steering him into what the Turks hoped was a good direction, except, ahhh, it pretty much went hurtling down a cliff instead.  He blames himself for getting too close, and also mourns that he may have potentially ruined what could’ve been a good working balance between them as once Rufus found out about the reports, the blond pretty much cut him, and the Turks out of his personal business almost completely.  This still ended up being something of a long summary, but I hope you liked it!  Thank you for asking!  I do have a ridiculously detailed version for Tseng now written if you’d like to read that too via fanmail, as I don’t want to clog people’s dashes up with my rambles ^^; 

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Aaah - this is intriguing : ) I haven’t delved into BC much, but I know the gist of the story. Rufus was a vague character to me, I didn’t know much of his role, and I guess I didn’t pay much attention to him in the whole compilation. But I really like your headcanon and Tseng’s involvement, and I find myself more interested in these two. I’d love to hear your Tseng version : D

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Surprise, theshinraheir ! I am your Secret Santa, and it’s been fun getting to know you - although I suspect my last message didn’t reach you = = (curse Tumblr’s appetite for messages)

I have to apologize, for all I have is a sneak preview of your present. You have to know that, 1) I take way too long drawing, 2) I’m my own worst critque so I will change and change a picture until it looks right, hahah (Tseng’s lazy eye will be corrected, but do have a laugh), and 3) I was delayed, unfortunately. I really wanted to get it done for you today = = So, please forgive me, but you’ll have a present soon 8-)

My last message had asked what it was that drew you to Tseng/Rufus, I was very interested, so if you still want to answer, please feel free, your answers have been great to read, I’m a nosy bastard. I admit, my appreciation for Rufus’ character has increased since doing a lot of browsing (as it had for Tseng last year, thanks to Argent-noir, lol), trying to get ideas for your present. I hope it will be worth the wait.

Hope you had an awesome day,

your Secret Santa.

[theshinraheir]

-SCREAMS-  HI I HAVE LOVED YOUR ART FROM DAY ONE THE WAY YOU DO HAIR YOUR PENMANSHIP AND AND AND EVERYTHING -  ahem. Allow me to compose myself. I definitely had a message likely eaten, because I was checking my messages a lot the last few days to hopefully hear from you!  But, aaahhhhhh, thank you so MUCH for this preview!! Please don’t feel under pressure to finish it, I completely know the feeling of taking ages for drawing myself - because I REALLY appreciate it either way! I pretty much just flailed my arms upon seeing who my Secret Santa was! NOW, to answer your question - I will actually write a separate post for you!  THANK YOU SO MUCH AGAIN!  -covers face and rolls around the floor like BB8- 

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I can follow you now :D (though I’m sure I’m following your other account - EDIT, no I wasn’t 00 *clicks*. I love your Rufus, especially your gif sets, they’re brilliant 8-)

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Surprise, theshinraheir ! I am your Secret Santa, and it’s been fun getting to know you - although I suspect my last message didn’t reach you = = (curse Tumblr’s appetite for messages)

I have to apologize, for all I have is a sneak preview of your present. You have to know that, 1) I take way too long drawing, 2) I’m my own worst critque so I will change and change a picture until it looks right, hahah (Tseng’s lazy eye will be corrected, but do have a laugh), and 3) I was delayed, unfortunately. I really wanted to get it done for you today = = So, please forgive me, but you’ll have a present soon 8-)

My last message had asked what it was that drew you to Tseng/Rufus, I was very interested, so if you still want to answer, please feel free, your answers have been great to read, I’m a nosy bastard. I admit, my appreciation for Rufus’ character has increased since doing a lot of browsing (as it had for Tseng last year, thanks to Argent-noir, lol), trying to get ideas for your present. I hope it will be worth the wait.

Hope you had an awesome day,

your Secret Santa.