Kingdom of ashes

Original character archive.

[mykingdombuiltonashes]

"You should see the other guy" I've literally had this WIP sitting in my folder for almost a decade at this point and I'm totally over it now.

[mykingdombuiltonashes]

Fife and Water Forget-me-not

[mykingdombuiltonashes]

Ciana and Pyracantha

[mykingdombuiltonashes]

Belial and Persian Shield plant.

[mykingdombuiltonashes]

Liang and Bird of Paradise.

[amaranphixart]

I really like how this one came out. The colours... the flow of the sketch... the simplified and confident lines. Happy with this one.

[just-redhair]

[nikoisme]

Being obsessed with your own ocs is so so good for you i seriously can't recommend it enough

[nikoisme]

The only downside is that you have to do Everything around here

[mykingdombuiltonashes]

Moodboard for Liang.

[exuberantocean]

You know what I think its grossly under-rated in fandom? Second loves.

What it's like to love and lose and then love again. To suffer through either the death of a loved one or the death of a love you used to share. To know that loss, to know that hurt, and to still make yourself vulnerable to someone again. To love scared, to love wounded, to love anyway.

[exuberantocean]

By under rated in fandom I mean so often past loves are either erased completely or downplayed like "oh yeah they weren't really in love.". I think it flattens the character. Humans are capable of so much love. Each relationship is different and you can learn from each one! And yes, there's something brave in learning to love again, something incredible romantic, why pass it by?

[rubyleaf]

You know, when I see fictional characters who repress all their emotions, they're usually aloof and very blunt about keeping people at a distance, sometimes to an edgy degree—but what I don't see nearly enough are the emotionally repressed characters who are just…mellow.

Think about it. In real life, the person that's bottling up all their emotions is not the one that's brooding in the corner and snaps at you for trying to befriend them. More often than not, it's that friendly person in your circle who makes easy conversation with you, laughs with you, and listens and gives advice whenever you're upset. But you never see them upset, in fact they seem to have endless patience for you and everything around them—and so you call them their friend, you trust them. And only after months of telling them all your secrets do you realize…

…they've never actually told you anything about themselves.

[rubyleaf]

Adding onto this: characters who are so deeply repressed that they don't even realize they're not fine, or at the very least not supposed to be fine. Characters who do tell you about a situation they're in that should be bad, but instantly laugh it off saying they can handle it (spoiler: they can, in fact, not handle it). Characters who laugh with you and listen to all your woes and much later you learn that they were actually going through something at least equally bad at the time, but they wave it off and don't want to speak of it. Characters whose main coping mechanism seems to be "don't think about it" on endless loop.

Basically, the fictional embodiment of the "this is fine" dog.

[amaranphixart]

A kinda redraw of an old piece from a project that I never finished (surprise /s). I felt compelled to draw cartoon dogs and it's a nice way to compare how I've come along since my last try at freehanding an animal I don't often draw. I'm definitely more comfortable with pushing shapes and simplifying. My lines are more confident and smooth. I add more texture in my colour these days too. Overall, I'm quite happy with what I'm seeing here.

[mykingdombuiltonashes]

Liang by Kaisisles.

[amaranphixart]

"Good Morning". It has been far too long since I did a major piece of art, and I am so glad I did. Really pleased with this one.

[mykingdombuiltonashes]

Bill, by Kusreg.

[sweetcherryblossomswrites]

[amaranphixart]

It’s been a hot while since I did any real art of my characters and I recently moved from Corel Painter to Clip Studio Paint, so I thought I better check I can still draw. Turns out I can. Clip Studio is really user friendly and I’m loving the brushes. I don’t feel as overwhelmed or frustrated by it as I did with Corel. So, here’s Liang. Probably the best and most accurate piece of art I’ve done of him to date. And now back to conserving my artistic energy for game assets and programming.