2 slots open for now! It's my first time doing these so I'm still ironing out parts of the process. Hope to make great art for any who order, let's make something great!
I was talking with some friends last night while working on calculus and decided I'd take a short break before bed to draw Emmet for morale. The original render of this got finished in under an hour and a half! Since then I've decided to do some more tweaking and messing with gradient maps, so it's just a little over 2 hours elapsed for this iteration.
This version has a yellow/brown gradient map over it since I like to see what different versions I can use as overlays for extra lighting effects, but it ended up good enough to work on its own. The original looks like this:
more in line with his blue based colour scheme and Zekrom's blue lightning š definitely not as striking as the yellow though.
also, a bonus doodle! pov you are a plasma grunt that just felt the light of heaven shoot into your central nervous system and haven't gotten up from the ground yet
this got finished in under 30 minutes! Not bad for a 1 am sketch with no underlayers š I think the fun thing with drawing Emmet for this AU is how different he is when he's locked in for fighting vs the minute after the conflict is resolved and he acts cool again. I have some draft comics talking about that, The kind of fighting Champions are made to do will turn you into someone else until you're done.
Thought I'd post an old doodle while I'm preparing for coming evaluations! It's not much but I remember first listening to record red and seeing the two covers, I wanted to try drawing them with Ingo and Emmet, especially considering the hands
It's just a simple edit, but I do like how Luka and Rin sound together when the songs sync up
Finally a break! I've been so swamped with calculus and physics I haven't drawn in literally 3 weeks. I was chatting with a friend and got an idea to draw part of a magical girl transformation with Irida, so here's the result of that!
In Mahoumas, divine particles are quite literally everywhere in the world, to the point that seeing the world through a Champion's blessed sight makes everything look like it's glowing with holy light. When Champions undergo transformation to form their weapons and regalia, they pull loose particles from the environment to solidify into what they need using their soul stone.
I thought it would be fun if Irida's transformation pulls particles into a liquid form before they solidify, since Palkia is pearl themed and water type. It matches her actual Champion form too, with her flowing sleeves and obi.
Also bonus doodle! Divinities are varied in personality but Palkia has historically been very eager to have Champions unlike Dialga.
Hey,
For discussing on potential art commissions, do you have any other contact alternatives? At best I can do is Discord but I want to see if you have any other options.
Hey, thanks for asking! Iāve actually done commissions before just using the Tumblr messaging system to talk and sort out the commission itself, then used Discord to send the final file so thereās little to no compression. Consider it like a secret third contact option after Discord and Instagram; I usually prefer the other two because the notification system on Tumblr often bugs out for me, but I can handle it if it comes down to it š«”
Honestly Iām down to work on an email chain if thatās what works for people š if it can send written messages and images thatās good enough to talk š
I went to hang out with a friend over the break and that finally gave me enough motivation to draw again! I wanted to draw one of the scenes from Ingo and Emmet's fight in Hisui. Like I've said in the past I work on this all out of order, so this was mostly just to draw a really tense moment. It's also a good moment to demo the change in Emmet's eyes after being captured by Volo, to show the excessive dilation in them that makes them look black. Volo put pins in him to help control him and part of that is messing up his visual processing, which is how he convinces him to associate Ingo's appearance with himself so he'll attack him. He also has more trouble focusing his vision and seeing in general, things tend to look overexposed due to how wide his eyes are and the fact they stay dilated even in bright environments.
I'll probably talk more about Volo's conditioning process to make Emmet more amicable and willing to fight once I flesh it out a bit more. You guys let me know if you'd be interested in hearing about that. Anyways I hope you guys like the art and I'll see you next year ^^!
also bonus unrelated doodle from my loose work bin:
this was from november I think, I had to wring this out of my hands
I tend to work on Mahoumas in bursts where I am able, and since I'm working everywhere at different times, I might focus more on the backstory, beginning, middle, end, epilogue, such and such in random order. Adaman and Irida only start serving a greater purpose in the story around the second half of the story when Ingo starts to remember more of his past and realizes how much worse his current problem is. It's also around the time Sinnoh's Divinities decide to pick up some champions to handle the rift problems before they get out of hand.
I had a lot of fun designing these guys! I think my favourite thing to work on was their new clothes (especially Irida's, it was so fun to mess with the transparent aspects of her clothes). The main thing with the regalia in Mahoumas is that they work off what you already wear, they just build them up into your divine armour, so it was fun to look at how I could convert different articles for their champion designs.
A short note on the major design inspirations:
crowns/hairpins: both of their headwear are based on the metal frames around Dialga and Palkia's faces! They're a little exaggerated to be sharper/curved but the general shapes come from them
hakama: both of them are wearing hakama, with Adaman wearing tattsuke-bakama in place of his baggy cuffed pants, and Irida wearing hakama that have been clipped at the crotch to match her usual shorts
Adaman's fans: these are based on the shape of Dialga's tail! I wanted to give him an obscure weapon since he's usually not the one directly attacking (Irida is), but they still have their uses in battle. Iron tessen were also actually used and they match Dialga's steel type
Irida's naginata and tasuki: when I was drafting, I wanted to give Irida a naginata just because Palkia's origin form is built like a horse and polearms were the standard weapon for horseback thanks to their reach. I also wanted to try something like a hagoromo for her made of clear silk to look like water. While researching for references and related design elements, I found out about onna-musha, who specialized in using naginata. Of course for fighting you need to tie long kimono sleeves back and out of the way, so they had tasuki for that. In the end I decided to giver her a clear silk kimono almost as an overcoat, with the tails of her sleeves floating around
I hope you guys like these guys as much as I do! also sorry about going MIA for a few months but my classes this year are super heavy so I'm gonna be posting less often (I only get to draw one thing per weekend due to time constraints š), so see you later!
also bonus shitpost. Fun fact Irida's bracelets and anklet become her armour pieces which is why she only has three.
I'm lowkey releasing spoilers for my own story since I don't draw all of the little slow paced moments between bigger action scenes, but I just had to draw this scene!
If you go back down my page, you'll see a comic where Emmet and Volo have a face-off on their first meeting. They actually have many more fights like that, happening whenever Ingo gets too close to shooting Volo out of the sky which causes him to portal away. He doesn't play fair in the fights he has with either of the twins, which is inevitably what leads to him being able to beat Emmet. He doesn't follow Divine Code, nor does he have the biological or physical limits humans have. The sheer volume of corrupting energy that comes off him makes Emmet sicker and sicker in every fight until eventually his body collapses. It splits him clean in two, pouring blood and divine energy out like water in a cracked vase. Volo takes Emmet's body to Hisui for his divine energy, so he can use it to make himself stronger and to use him as a destructive weapon.
He's barely conscious in there, which is for the best considering what he's been put through. The world looks blurry and unfocused to him, only sharpening when he's forced into battle. The red pins and shards Volo put all over him are meant to keep him immobilized, with the pins being dispelled once Volo needs him to fight. The shackles however are meant to be felt, piercing into his neck, wrists, and ankles in order to aggravate him. They're like the prods for bull fighting, they get and keep him aggressive enough to start lashing out at random.
If you guys want to hear any more of the details, feel free to ask. I'm trying not to make this post too long, but it's nice to get this stuff out!
I sometimes think about late night conversations I've had with my sister and wonder how to try portraying that in sibling characters I like. There were a few different colouring/render versions for this, but I think I like this best. The fountain moat around Nimbasa seems like a good place to sit and talk, even if it's not accessible in game.
There are some things I feel can only be talked about when it's quiet outside, when everything falls asleep and it's just you two. I like to think for big talks, for stress or worry or pain, they will go somewhere dark and quiet, not work, not home, and walk until it's settled. There might not even be much said aloud at all, but it still helps. Emmet is the one calling Ingo to talk in this one.
As a bonus, I wanted to draw their coats when they hang off their shoulders. It's a long running headcanon of mine that you can even see in art from 2 years ago that the twins have jacket straps for their coats. When they don't want to fully wear them, they use the straps and hang it on their backs and shoulders. I thought it'd be fun to add details about how they wear them: Emmet keeps everything back for the most freedom of motion, while Ingo lays the sleeves up front as an accessory (and also to keep the contrast and framing his coat usually gives him).
I've been busy like crazy lately!! I just got out of culminating projects, exams, and graduation, so I haven't been able to draw anything finished for a while. It's been a few weeks of not having time or energy to draw but the gears are turning again!
Of all things I've been playing Delusional by Simon Curtis on loop, and it gave me an idea for a sketch to do. Usually for pieces like this I'll put the key lyrics in, but there were so many lines to choose from and nowhere to fit them so this one doesn't have any.
This took just about 6 hours total to finish. I remember starting the sketch like "there's no way I can line this" but only two of the Emmets took longer than 20 minutes, some took less than 10. All the colouring and shading happened in around 2 hours.
My brain is a bit fried to work on AUs lately, but hopefully I'll be able to get more sketches done in summer. I hope you guys are having a great start to July, I'll see you later!
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