Just another trashy art blog, apparently.

Don't take me seriously at all. Seriously, it's mostly Sylvaina brain rot, which keeps me sane though. Abandon hope all yee who enter here. Also home of random other shite. Discord Nachtee#2077 don't make me regret that...

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Jaina / Sylvanas - Guarding from the Nightmares (100% recommend zoom)

Jaina will always suffer from the nightmares brought on by Theramore, and Arthas. Having a body sized icepack combination / dream catcher helps. As does the purring (From the cat, and maybe Sylvanas, too.) 

This is a semi prompt piece (well, it was requested i draw kittens, but i am absolutely awful at animals so i agreed to a cat, as part of a larger piece) and was going to be part of a prompt requested by @lunasleepwalks but, alas, my attempts to draw any kind of arcane draw came out looking... hm... well not like arcane, lets go with that. I’ll work on the visuals in another piece though! 

I did want to work on this more, but honestly today has been... A strange day. And by strange, I mean THE GOD DAMN SUN NEVER ROSE in my part of the world. It was dark as night the entire day, save for at like, 3pm where there was a little bit of an orange glow. And that tends to be a little distracting. 

Anyways, enjoy, reblog if you want - i’m still getting this art blog off the ground so everything helps.

PS - there’s an easter egg for the detail oriented ;)

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War Wives - Catharsis 

Aaah it is done. I struggled with the composition for this one for two days. Basically an AU - I always thought Arthas got off easy, and being yeeted into the Maw is a continuation of that. Bastard ought to suffer, slowly. 

Really though, this was an elaborate excuse to explore the idea of Jaina impaling a bastard with her staff. 

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Just a quick reblog of this to show I’m still alive, I swear. Haven’t replaced my tablet yet; waiting to move to a new apartment first. But I’m here, lurking.

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Sylvanas - Ode to Klimpt

You ever get an idea in the middle of the night that drives you absolutely insane until you get it out in one form or another? Yeah that was me at 1am when the idea for this smacked me upside the head like a bowling ball thrown off a building. I gave up on trying to sleep at 5am and loaded up on 3 nitro cold brews, and well, here we go. 

Loosely based on Gustav Klimpt’s “Judith and the head of Holofernes” 

I did this in one sitting. My ass is very unhappy about this fact.

I like to imagine she played soccer with the head off the top of Icecrown Citadel, maybe punting it towards the Argent fairgrounds to give someone a good scare.

You know what’s funny? In college I adamantly REFUSED to use Gustav Klimpt for any of the “masters studies” or similar projects on the sole grounds that literally everyone did it at some point. Welp, guess I’ve joined that club now. 

Maybe I’ll do a Caravaggio version and get the Sylvaina in hahah (… probably… won’t do that.) 

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Just throwing this back out there, because fuck Arthas. And fuck blizzard for trying to make him relevant, for using him as a poster boy for their own sins, seasoning everyone to think “hey maybe it is okay to forgive the unforgivable.” Nah, fuck that.

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After reading the newest chapter of “The Measure of The World” by the lovely @adavellis , me and @thronebreaker-dorne were joking about how Alleria is probably just going to have to step in and end the suffering of those two poor suffering girls, and that resulted in this dumb ass meme. Uh, Enjoy? Hahaha

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Alright I’ve felt absolutely _horrid_ about not drawing anything in... forever (or fixing my tablet, for that matter.) So, have this really stupid gif I made in appreciation for all of the other content creators out there who are you know, STILL CREATING LOTS OF AWESOME SHIT. Like you know, @thronebreaker-dorne and @zellkabellk to name two. 

(and yeah i know text is wibblywobbly crappadoodle but you try hand tracking in photoshop without driving yourself insane)

[khanlusa]

*blows a kiss to my fellow vampire fuckers*

A thought occurred to Jaina then. “What about my blood?” she asked.

Long ears shot straight up at that. Sylvanas blinked at her as if she’d grown three heads. “What.”

“Would that work?”

“I could have sworn you didn’t take a blow to the head in that little scuffle.”

Jaina sighed forcefully. “That isn’t an answer, Sylvanas.”

A scowl crinkled Sylvanas’s long brows. “Offering your life essence to an undead isn’t the behaviour of a sane individual, Proudmoore.”

Rolling her eyes, Jaina fixed her with a flat stare. “I’m offering it to you, specifically.”

“And why ever would you do such a thing?”

“Because you’re hurt.”

-

Sylvanas is badly injured in the process of killing a frost giant in Icecrown Glacier, and the lack of living creatures in their near vicinity leads to Jaina offering an alternative solution to mend the Banshee Queen’s wounds.

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Alright I don’t normally reblog (someone once put it in my head you want to avoid that when creating an “art blog” - have no idea if that’s accurate) BUT since I am apparently to blame for this, I’ll make an exception ;) if only to wear that blame with pride hahaha.

Seriously though, I am internally screaming, eeeeee!

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Discord

I may have put my discord tag in the blog info. Only time will tell if this was a regrettable choice. But, It would be nice to have some people to talk to! Be it WoW, Sylvaina silliness, art, or just really anything in general to help me keep my mind off, ya know, everything.

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Sylvanas - Ode to Klimpt

You ever get an idea in the middle of the night that drives you absolutely insane until you get it out in one form or another? Yeah that was me at 1am when the idea for this smacked me upside the head like a bowling ball thrown off a building. I gave up on trying to sleep at 5am and loaded up on 3 nitro cold brews, and well, here we go. 

Loosely based on Gustav Klimpt’s “Judith and the head of Holofernes” 

I did this in one sitting. My ass is very unhappy about this fact.

I like to imagine she played soccer with the head off the top of Icecrown Citadel, maybe punting it towards the Argent fairgrounds to give someone a good scare.

You know what’s funny? In college I adamantly REFUSED to use Gustav Klimpt for any of the “masters studies” or similar projects on the sole grounds that literally everyone did it at some point. Welp, guess I’ve joined that club now. 

Maybe I’ll do a Caravaggio version and get the Sylvaina in hahah (… probably… won’t do that.) 

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Reblogging because, being perfectly honestly this is probably one of my favorite pieces i’ve done of Sylvanas, and always felt it was a little underappreciated.

PS - THANK YOU ALL for your words of encouragement. They have been massively helpful for me getting through things today <3

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Jaina / Sylvanas - Entanglement 

Anyone order an extra helping of softvanas / general fluff? Also if i could illustrate purring, trust me, it’d be in there too. 

(I spent way too much time drawing and redrawing the faces, i swear I did and redid them probably 15 times each.) 

PS - You are all Amaaaazing. 

[nachtee-art]

Hey all. So uh, it’s been awhile? Sorry this is just a dumb reblog of an old piece but I figured I ought to write “I’M ALIVE!” at some point. 

The long and short of it: My wacom got fucked (Massive rain/wind storm broke a window, water leaked into the tablet from broken window and I didn’t notice until tablet was ruined because I was pre-occupied by flying glass), California is... Not doing great, esp Los Angeles, i’ve had two dear friends pass from COVID, January 6th was a thing, and I’ve been fully escaping the depressing reality of life by working too much, playing WoW and reading FanFics. (PS - AO3 Authors: I am sad when you disable non-account commenting because I don’t have an account and they keep disabling registration, and then i forget to check if they’ve turned it back on ):  but I understand why you do it!!!!) 

:breathes: ANYWAYS. TL;DR - I live, 2021 is just 2020 continued, but we had to pause to slide the 2nd VHS into the tapeplayer. RIP Wacom Tablet, and Anti-maskers and COVID can go fuck themselves with plasma cutters. 

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Face Study - Nachtee

Was doing face studies/practices and went overboard, ended up drawing my infamous rogue (who at least in head canon land is, a forsaken nelf, until blizz gets their crap together and lets that be a thing in game.) It’s been awhile since I’ve given her some art love, and it’s fitting it’d be today’s post considering...

I HAVE CHANGED THE NAME OF MY BLOG. I think this only affects @catfirebrand but if anyone else has directly linked to the old coffeecore77 blog, please update your links :) (I went ahead and reserved the old URL as a sub-blog as a precaution.) 

I changed the name because when i first created this account 5, 6 years ago, It was mostly just for communicating with like 3 people. Then I abandoned it for 4.5 years, and then this August decided, hey, why not start posting art (okay okay, technically @wrong-constantine not only goaded me into posting the art, but to also start doing art again in the first place. So y’all can blame her haha) 

Now it has become an ‘art’ blog of sorts i guess, and figure a name change was in order to reflect it. 

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personal piece

When you gotta stop everything and do a 10 minute pure fucking RAGE drawing to prevent an HR incident, because your job seems to love crediting the men in your department for the work you’ve done, meanwhile you’re fucking invisible. ARGHHHH.

(will probably delete later but jesus christ i am full of every bit of rage right now. The election and lack of sleep probably is not helping.)

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Sylvanas / Jaina: Temporary Goodbyes

Ah back to my safe place of sketching in black and white. Quick lunch time doodle of a minor (if not slightly sad) head canon where Sylv needs to say good bye to Jaina for awhile during Shadowlands. 

I don’t want to go into actual lore spoiler content, but they’re reunited pretty quickly there. 

Side note - i’m trying to delete less sketches. This is probably one that would have ended up in the recyc bin (and I am battling HARD not to private/unpost the color doodle from the last post), but i’m reallllly trying to let go of that “EVERYTHING MUST BE REFINED, it must be more refined than the last piece!” tendency, cause that’s part of the reason why i didn’t post for like a month. 

Also blog name will probably be changed in the next week-ish as an FYI. 

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Sketchhhhhh. Sylvanas / Jaina - those damn rangers

It’s...Been awhile and I AM SO SO SORRY. Been in a bad headspace, but i hope this really silly stupid bad quick 20 min sketch help makes up for it. Head Canon: All the Dark Rangers are basically cats. Especially Anya who loves leaving “gifts” for Jaina.

Tagging @catfirebrand since this kind of goes back to prior conversations about Anya haha. 

On an unrelated note - has anyone changed their blog name before? When i first made this blog I just picked out a stupid name like 6 years ago because I wasn’t going to turn it into anything other than stupid posts about various raid shinanigans and character RPs. But, time changes, and I pretty much exclusively go by the “Nachtee” handle online and kinda want to figure out if i should change my blog name to match? Is there any weirdness with that that anyone knows of?

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I'm sorry you had to struggle with depression and those fire problems. Don't worry about new sylvaina art, take your time, take care of yourself.

I appreciate it, oh dear mysterious person! 

Seriously though, it’s hard to put this to words, and this may sound really silly, but with just how isolating 2020 has been (I haven’t seen a friendly face since March, ahhhhhh!!!) it is... oddly grounding... To have someone that has like zero personal stake be like “hey you ok?” - like it’s a nice yoink out of the self-deprecating dissociative headspace I’ve been in. 

Anyways, this is probably far more than anyone wants to read so - just a reminder to take care, everyone. Be kind to others, but just as importantly be kind to yourself. 

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I hope you are okay. And thank you for the amazing Sylvaina art.

Anonymous: this means far more than you’d ever know <3

I’m.... mostly okay. I’ve been going through the ringer with depression, which has dried up my well of inspiration a fair amount, and caused a crisis of self confidence. Also since my state is on fire, the air has been kinda toxic to breathe for a few weeks which hasn’t helped. For now, most of my energy has been going into my day job, which while I absolutely love, is also quite draining.

I hope to post some more Sylvaina soon - I’ve got a couple of rough sketches that need some love once I have the energy again.

Anyways, keep being amazing people everyone.

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Alright sorry it isn’t anything Sylvaina related, but i just finished Gideon the Ninth and finally had some inspiration to do a quick crappy doodle of her with her goofy aviators. Since inspiration is in short supply these days... I’ll take what i can get. 

(I started the 2nd book immediately after and feel so immensely uncomfortable reading it. Gonna stop and start reading it again in a few weeks so it isn’t so startling.) 

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Jaina - 

Quick and dirty crop and color of my previous post, cause I actually liked how it came out, and I am awful with colors, so it’s probably pretty bad.  Generally i rule out doing an entire piece in color except rare occasions. SO. This is a crop. And the coloring is just stupid and lazy brush and layer options.. layered. 

Ahhh why am i even posting this?!