while i'm certainly cooking up some stories, the issue here is that i'm trying to juggle three meals at the same time. not sure what to do about it except write like I will literally unexist without this Google doc in my face
Dragonborn are honestly my favorite fantasy race to play around with. anyway have this prototype design for an astronomer girl. she will not have tits in the final iteration, giving reptilian characters those has always been a mistake imo. my brain just turned off and went into human mode bc i've been drawing too many normal people lately. first designs are always mostly fun stuff mixed with a bit of what I actually want for them lol. anyway just know her entire head except for the sail (frilly thing that goes down her neck) is final. drew her on a whiteboard at school and doomed myself to months of obsessions with her and associated characters (expect to see them eventutally.)
also experimented with infinite painter for this one? gotta say I won't do that again. I don't have fun when I can't have 15 freaking layers for free (they give you 3 on the free plan.) anyway, I just had fun with the pose and perspective on this one. first side view i've actually made the body look good on:D
also, sorry about the crop. had the screenshot her bc I couldn't figure out how to export in infinite painter. i'm an ibis paint x person, it's where i started. i'm 99.8% sure Photoshop would actually just kill me.
gotta love dropping off purely bc these new OCs have got me vibrating. I love them all so much and I swear I didn't mean to make their childhoods so traumatic. I have literally only drawn one of them. exactly one time. and it's just his head. man I really gotta draw them.
sorry that i blew up my entire fantasy world. it's still happening and i'll probably do it again when i'm done.
note: delinia is actually dead tho. felt like chains, so i'm killing it and looting the body. it was just getting too hectic bc I was piling everything i made onto it with little consideration for what already existed. rip the pantheons ig, they're not coming back even remotely similar. list of stuff that still exists:
brielle! (she was originally delinian, ik that i never said it but she was) also ethel, carrion, rialla, marjory, flora. maybe jin with a name change and quetzal with a species adjustment due to the lack of dragonborn in this new world. if I feel like it.
the fire queen/elemental rulers characters. boy they were messy back in the day, they were begging to be fixed. so i'm doing that. in a bit. alexander, my boy. he deserved so much better.
the gods. only sorta though. the pantheon as it was is dead, though Manosena (elder war) will be inspired by my previous war god raziel and his successor ajax. they come back as these colonizer self-deifying guys called iluminar. the one art post I made a few weeks ago depicted one of them, joven. one of the mcs of the book, will learn that his people are awful oppressors. his outfit ain't final, I just dressed him however for fun since I didn't have any particular uniforms or styles for iluminar at the time.
ajax! I love him too much to get rid of him. one of my previous delinian war gods. delinia's pantheon was a revolving door where gods could retire or be essentially fired by the founders, high gods that don't have the same choice as the others. but anyway he was batshit insane. drank blood, lotta chaos. you gotta have some of those sprinkled in for funsies. surprisingly sane at the meeting table and very sweet with his husband. still eats despite not needing to, a bit of a habit due to still feeling hungry three times a day. normally wears off for gods but he hasn't let it yet.
might bring the aquatica kids back. I already tried once before, but with more species-building experience, I think I could actually do it this time. rip Luca thao though, his original iteration could be coming back and he isn't.
Roma! she's another character from mesahearth, and I absolutely have to find something to do with her. well-read, not afraid of demons. could make her a summoner of a sort?
the glimmer, though they're now the maiza. hated their original concept almost immediately after I made it, and decided to scavenge them for their parts to make the maiza, a tribal forest people currently fighting tooth and nail for their homeland. the iluminar are absolutely false gods to them. their gods give back, but the iluminar keep for themselves. still more parts on that glimmer wreck (shapeshifting, water activated markings) that I could use later in other species/races.
all those dragons I made years ago probably shouldn't go to waste, huh? yuna's probably gonna get her knucklebones used for fortune-telling, though. don't care for her much.
and everything else I've made since the death of my first world has been pretty new, as far as I can tell. I never had a werewolf in any of my past stories, right? /s
so I don't really wanna just drop off, but my hyperfix on fireboy and Watergirl absolutely has. ik that I said i'd try to do at least 90% of the art challenge I made, but I'm also not for forcing myself to do things. i'll likely do a few prompts if the ideas return to me, but the inspiration left before it could really do me any good. i'll still be checking the tags, likely every few days since I'm not really expecting that many participants to flood in from my small account. have a good time, everybody. I'll be cheering y'all on from the bleachers.
So, to everyone that gave a shit, I finished up the prompts. I tried to get it out on the 23rd, but it's the 26th now and I hope it's enough time to take a look. The prompts list has not been fully reviewed, so I have comments turned on in case there's any issues. Have fun!
When is the challenge timeframe? The entirety of November 2024, as November ‘09 is the narrowest date we have for the release of Fireboy and
Also adding this to my pinned post so it's easier to find in the future!
okay, i've got a bit of an idea for the fb&wg art/writing challenge formatting. please do not vote until you've ready the below propaganda.
Which format would you prefer?
Art challenge classic
Divided by temple
Both seem fine
Voting ended onOct 18, 2024
Propaganda
Art challenge classic is just daily prompts with a few free days, what I'd assume most people are used to doing.
My idea is dividing the prompts by which of the fb&wg games/temple they're related to, allowing the participant to mix and match. No set order to them. Each temple will have a free day. There are six of them, 30 days in November, so 4 prompts per temple excluding free days. That's roughly 24 prompts total.
There'll be the same amount of free days regardless.
how would y'all feel about a fireboy and watergirl art and writing month for the first game's 15 year anniversary? the closest we got to an exact release date is November '09 so it'd make sense. still gonna make, share, and complete at least 90% of it regardless. I wanna make all the prompts both artist- and writer-friendly so most of the creatives who wanna participate can do so. also gives me a second good reason to boycott nanowrimo. was originally just gonna say f u to the official platform but honestly, after some thought, the allowing ai works thing is so bs that i'm doubling down.
well here I go thinking up fireboy and watergirl angst again (thanks to melly vuong on youtube making absolutely gorgeous designs for them and reminding me the game exists)
I have gotten so irritated with the mc movie that I have been propelled backwards into the game's default skin pack. I might paint Kai? I have a paint pad I def could.
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