Prosper Draws

I draw a lot of cartoon stuff, which is weird when the rest of my aesthetic tends toward the gothy and Victorian. I have fun and crave validation. This is Prosper's art blog.

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so I read the princess scene and thought it was real cute, but I hadn’t actually seen it bc I’m crap at climbing

but when I actually saw the sprite of Ralsei spinning in the dress. Idk. I got really emotional.

so here have a quick dress doodle

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Even though in canon they’re probably all variants on the same species, since the sprites are identical except in colour, I thought it would be fun to pick flowers for them to be, based on colour and meaning!

Green gets to be basil, which stands for good wishes as well as having culinary use

Orange is nasturtiums, which mean conquest

Aqua was chosen for me— occasionally you can get the flavour text “smells like hydrangea” in her battle, while everyone else just gets “smells like flowers”! Oddly enough, hydrangeas mean apology in Japanese culture and excess or vanity in English, neither of which suit her that well, but… NEVER MIND SHE’S BACK TO HYACINTH WHICH WAS MY ORIGINAL PLAN. I PULLED THE WRONG REF IMAGE. I FEEL VERY FOOLISH. anyway hyacinths mean constancy which was close to patience I’m gonna go hide in a hole

Flowery is buttercups even though he’s presumably Golden Flower because… well, in Undertale, the Golden Flowers are explicitly edible (Asgore drinks golden flower tea!), and Flowery’s seeds are covered in warning labels, and buttercups are very poisonous both in UT and IRL. The symbolism between golden flowers and buttercups are kinda blurred around the edges anyway…

Seth gets violets for faithfulness, which felt about as close to perseverance as I was gonna get

Blue has larkspur for grace and a beautiful soul! This one was the WORST to draw holy shit lmao

And Yellow gets black-eyed susans, which do straight up mean justice!

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cover for a playlist agaaaaain

(text is from Strangler Fig by The Crane Wives, a song which… does not describe either of their situations, but does imo describe how Qifrey might imagine Olruggio feeling about it, to torment himself.)

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not totally satisfied with how this came out but I gotta stop futzing with it

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that scene with Ralsei praying on the bridge really hit, idk

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I am so happy about Ralsei getting to let loose a bit in this chapter

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we were rewatching this ep and when I commented on how pretty Alaira is my gf said “all the apprentices having their Suddenly I See by KT Tunstall moment”

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I haven’t even finished this boss fight yet but I’m having such a good time. Super innovative mechanics, a character I already adored, and a theme song that slaps? Hell yeah.

(I haven’t tried to draw anything this straightforwardly Anime in a hot minute it felt weird lol)

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sorry about the big-ass watermarks but eyyy two more designs for glasses cloths

new printer I found is way better at centering the images so I can do more fun stuff

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blue clad blonde magic users from some of my favourite manga of the era

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Witch Hat Atelier animatic! Big manga spoilers in this one, but I'm real pleased.

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the absolute most spoilery frame from this animatic I’m working on, but also my favourite

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Ballister as Olruggio and Ambrosius Qifrey

...huh, that's an odd thought.

I mean, they'd rock the outfits for sure, they would slay in those. But their dynamics are so different I'm struggling to try and draw comparisons. Qifrey's constant lying to Olruggio to keep him distant and torture himself (gaslight gatekeep girldad), Olly's desperate refusal to leave Qifrey's side...

Compared to-- wait. Let's take comic blackloin first. That Ballister does NOT allow Ambrosius to lie to him, he was betrayed and he's not letting it happen again. That Ambrosius, too, is definitely a liar but he's lying to himself above all; he doesn't have the kind of cunning Qifrey has.

And then the movie version, Ballister *does* keep trying to go back to Ambrosius, which you can compare to Olruggio's sticking forever by Qifrey's side, but that Ambrosius is pushing Ballister back, he also feels betrayed here (after the death of the Queen), which is very different from how Qifrey idolizes Olruggio while simultaneously manipulating him.

they would rock the fits tho

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I’m going to see the finale in the theatre tonight. I’m staying off the internet all day— scheduled this to post last night— but I’m so much looking forward to finding out how this goes. I don’t know if I’ve been so completely in the dark as to how a finale will go in a while, I have no clear expectations besides that it will be fantastic. I have faith in these writers and I’m so excited to find out what’s happening.

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Thought it would be fun to try and draw teen and grown designs for the girls… notes under the jump (some manga spoilers in them)

I figured when you get a little older you get more free rein in what goes under your uniform cloak.

Teen Coco turned down a new/longer apprentice cloak when she hit her growth spurt. She just let her original one out at the shoulders. On the one hand this is because she’s treasuring the skills her mother taught her; on the other she still feels like an outsider and like she doesn’t deserve nice things.

As an adult she’s really enjoying different fabric embellishments and textures. The ribbon roses at the sides of her hat are in honour of how her mum used to wear her hair on special occasions.

I think she’s probably a teacher.

It’s important to me that her scar from Silver Eve persists.

Teen Agott had another shitty interaction with her mum and cut her hair even shorter. She doesn’t actually like it this short but whoops, gotta wait for it to grow back.

Her blouse is one of her uniform dresses that Coco hemmed shorter for her and dyed purple when it got badly stained and torn. She is much more moved by this than she’s willing to admit, but Coco does notice how often she wears it.

They’re doing more outside study/work outside the atelier, so she likes tall boots for practical reasons.

Adult Agott is letting go of a lot of her childhood need for control. Dressing a little more fun and comfortable.

She grows into an hourglass figure like her mum’s, but she doesn’t have to hate that she resembles her anymore because she knows who she is.

She’s a librarian, but not at the Tower of Tomes; she’s at a city library near where Coco teaches where she can actually interact with people and help them find resources.

Teen Riché’s design was based on an idea I had where she leaves the atelier for a while to travel with Alaira and Euini. She still wears her Qifrey hat to show her loyalty, but her clothes are much more practical for wilderness treks.

She puts on a good bit of weight but barely gets any taller. Short queen.

Grown Riché made her hat embellishments out of her crystal ribbons and they’re very shiny and impressive. She runs a contraption shop.

Unlike Olruggio, who works on commission, Riché makes whatever she feels like and sells them when they’re done, meaning her shop has surprise drops of fascinating new concepts and people come back a lot to see what she’s made lately.

She has a very flat affect but she’s so happy.

Tetia was the hardest for me to design but I’m quite pleased with the eventual result.

She’s the only one of them we haven’t seen as a wee thing, so I made her hair a big old poof because I love that.

Teen Tetia is putting on a brave face but whatever ended up happening with Eoleo really messed with her views of magic and people and friendship. She’s having a harder time trusting people.

Teen her is less different from tween her; she’s mostly just fluffed up a bit and is hiding in her cloak more.

Girl has the hugest of growth spurts and becomes long and lanky and strong.

Adult her is me trying to find a balance between her hyper-femme, lacy, ruffly tastes and the practical necessities of a traveling public servant who does a lot of physical work.

She’s travelling around helping people like she always wanted! A little more wary, refusing to be taken advantage of, but she’s not letting it stop her from doing good.

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Was looking around at stuff at artists’ alley and kept going ‘I wish I could look at that drawing online later” so uh here’s a bunch of the drawings I did to make double-sided WHA charms? I might go back and post some of my sticker and charm art that I did a while ago but that never found its way online? idk. Here they are.

Back sides for Qifrey and Olruggio under the jump due to major manga spoilers (and a little blood)

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been thinking about her cute lil dress

(other possibility is that Riché lent it to her)