I'm Nita, she/her, this is my art account. I don't really post in other places so anything u see mine somewhere else I didn't post it there.
I try my best to keep a normal tagging system, I stuff that isn't mine is taggen as #not my art.
I mostly post cats the musical, paleontology stuff and sometimes even some locked tomb stuff (#cats the musical, #paleoblr and #the locked tomb).
I'll either be really active or dissapear for weeks/months, it really depends on how life is going.
Requests are open, but I can't promise to do anything fast.
I created a bluesky! It's also under Nitadraws
Anyways! Dunno what else I should write on this, I'll update it when I finish setting everything up on my etsy shop (right now doing cats stickers, excited to expand to other stuff)
Listen, listen, I know she's not weaving, I know what weaving looks like, but she's embroidering the fate and I think that's close enough for a portrait
I sometimes go back to my notifications and filter them by reblogs with comments bc i live off the nice things people have said about my art even if that was months to years ago
Anybody that wanna hear my thought process for everything in here feel free to read below
So, first the background: I wanted to go with the "main" and "secondary" place, and for Ludmila those would be Gath and Zern (the Queen of Zern version I have to this is the other way around), and the different characters/objects in the circles are things that are important/greatly changed her.
The circles - they are paired up this way:
The heart and Kočka - I always liked to think of Kočka as also representing the type of person Ludmila was, in a way where her heart was, and it was in adventure and helping others
Marya and the Straka - do I really need to explain my thought process here? Both her past and her future, the person that took her to the skies and the monster that brought her down to hell
Olethra and the Automata - both honestly the characters we've seen change her the most through the series, Olethra is the one character that keeps pushing to save her even though she's never met her, they're quite literally the same type of person and maybe that's why she's so bent on saving her; while the automata is who tricked her into falling deeper and deeper into despair, with sweet words that were all planned, just to use her to get themselves into absolute power in Zern and, by the end of it, discard her when she (the human her) wasn't useful anymore as a tinkerer
Everybody that knew her as a human is looking as her, they see Ludmila, the other one's aren't. For the Automata she's just another chess piece they will use and throw away and the Straka may be her invention, but it's not hers, it's a weapon.
The scrap she's sitting on is mostly made of Straka but with some of Sandy's parts scattered around (she did make both good and bad things during her time in Zern) and the pipes connecting the parts are running with her blood already (her whole destruction is in a time loop, even now she's already nothing more than fuel)
The pose: I wanted to make her in a softer type of pose, she's making herself smaller but still sitting comfortably on top of a pile of scrap (well, she's from scrapsilvania after all), I though of making her happy (to destroy the baseless accusations that I only draw ludmila suffering) but she isn't happy, she's sitting on top of her literal destruction, one she'll make herself. She's looking slightly up, since I wanted her to still have some sort of "hopefulness" in the pose and expression.
So yeah! I have thoughts and opinions and so many thought! Gotta wait the Queen of Zern version of this drawing and then the differences will be even more interesting!
Hello have any of you ever stop to think how aunt Zuzana definetly knew Ludmila as a kid? And how she probably became a small local celebrity with all the sky eyed kids?
Anyways I refuse to belive that any kid that would end up becoming a capitan was at any point well-behaved, imho Ludmila was a troublemaker
Originally, I went in worried the opposite would happen. Growing up, I've been taught that Nigeria, the country, is homophobic. (I was born in America.) But over time, I learned that there's tons of other queer Nigerians; some are out, and some are in the closet 😭.
