arcane crew craft night/artsy hcs
viktor: tries to do the “draw for 2min then switch with your partner” with jayce but ends up stopping like two rounds in because every time jayce gave it back it wasn’t going in the direction he’d planned originally. switches to drawing him and jayce and everyone else as portraits (love language). insane with anatomy like actually professional level but needs to find references if he wants to branch out into stylization. he loves using the background as scratch paper and putting in random snippets of whatever calculations him and jayce have been working on recently when they pop into his mind, but it just adds to the pencil sketch style of his pieces. fantastic at detail work and loves to step in when jayce wants extremely small things on whatever minifigures he’s working on but also struggles a little with planning the bigger picture of a composition without any collaboration because when he draws it’s very to-the-point. i also like to think he gets into tattooing at some point but i’m biased. it's the perfect medium when it comes to feeling more at home in himself, especially when his shit flares up. him and jinx would absolutely swap tattooing ideas with each other and both are the designated main artists of the group.
jayce: was absolutely crushed when viktor stopped the swapping activity but he's fine about it and it doesn't bother him at all whatever. moved on to drawing the two of them in different animation/cartoon styles and started adding everyone else when people started to peek and wanted to see them in his style(s). struggles sometimes to find motivation to draw if it’s not about whatever/whoever he’s fixated on at the moment. usually sticks with pen or pencil, sometimes uses acrylics if he wants to add color with paint but goache and watercolor send him into a genuine crisis and he HATES working with them (less control over the way the paint works). he also loves painting minifigures but doesn’t do it as much because the time and amount of hyperfocus he usually slips into usually can’t make it into his day-to-day schedule (his windowsill has everyone's dnd figures he's been meaning to gift at some point). loves adding cute details and embellishments here and there which takes the most time out of the work and he has a million WIPs because he loses track of them after adding all the small stuff. he adds little doodles onto everything he works on, especially when he's stuck on work and goes into distraction mode. he also tries out jewelry-making during the group craft night but gets annoyed after a while (those goddamn jump rings keep flying out of the pliers) and huffs that he can just make one solid piece that's way better in the forge later.
mel: paints the most insane incredible landscapes you’ve ever seen. she’s completely locked in throughout the night, quiet, at peace, and completely in her zone which is rare for a social outing. which just goes to show how comfortable she is in the environment with everyone she loves. it’s a perfect blend of realism and stylization and she knows she’s got the skill, she’s been developing it for years and she’s done a lot of work to stop feeling inadequate about her work. painting is the one thing where she knows without a doubt she loves and is good at. she also does a bit of sculpting, especially for small ornaments or magnets and the like but prefers the painting segment after it’s been baked/dried. she has like a bajillion different kinds of paint in one big cabinet and it takes her a good while to find the types of paint she needs or the exact shades because there are so many. it’s also why she’s so great at makeup, to her it’s like another form of painting. she's also recently gotten into henna after sevika suggested it and during craft night she concedes to giving everyone a henna tattoo once she’s mostly finished with her main canvas comp. it's a huge hit and everyone is obsessed. jinx and isha in particular end up absolutely covered in her drawings and their own once they get ahold of the applicator.
sevika: prefers making the sculptures or ornaments for mel to paint later. along with whittling, she likes that it gives her hands something to do. it's also a point of pride for her that she's been able to build up the coordination with her prosthetic enough that she can add most finer details like she used to years ago. everyone in the group has a bajillion tiny pieces from her; she doesn't really express affection outwardly but it really comes through when she gives everyone little gifts and a flat "don't mention it." her and mel's place have shelves absolutely cluttered with their joint projects. other than that she doesn't tend to gravitate towards art as a hobby unless it can be used practically. through the years she's gotten great at fiberwork like clothes alteration/mending out of necessity and recently has taken up crocheting (peer pressure) even though she always scowls and gripes that it "makes her look like a grandma." but for all she complains about during craft night she's sat comfy on the couch working on a massive blanket for jinx and isha "because they're always stealing my goddamn blankets" and occasionally chiming in to give mel input on her painting. jinx has been begging her to give her a tattoo but she hasn’t given in just yet (she knows the day she agrees is coming very soon unfortunately). by the end of the night though she ends up with the most intricate and beautiful hand and forearm henna pieces from mel. she had to continually fight jinx and isha off until mel was done so that the work could be finished, but hers also came out the cleanest because she absolutely refused to move until it dried.
jinx: she brought her entire tattoo setup over for craft night. all her doodles are perfect to put together a little flash sheet, though for people she’s close with she pulls out the bigger and more intricate pieces. while viktor is drawing she’s busy trying to make sure the lines on his new tattoo come out clean, sometimes snapping at him to stay still (he’s barely moving). after she’s done for the night, she’s busy drawing new designs to put on herself and some pieces that ekko mentioned wanting at some point. isha keeps begging her for a tattoo and she keeps telling her “not until you’re old enough to hotwire and then drive a car.” she's initially in charge of the music until the hyperpop and guitar riff queue sent several people into overstimulation. she dips into whatever pool of art medium she has access to, it really helps with bad mental health days and urge surfing when she needs it. for her it's not exactly what she's "worse" at but more what she find boring. jayce once invited her to the forge with an offer to help her make a few pieces for her gadgets and jewelry pieces, but it lasted about twenty minutes until she instead started walking around trying to find what she can disassemble into something more interesting (jayce found out later she'd managed to somehow stain the projects that were air cooling to feature various graffiti). she also LOVES doll customizing and making the dolls look more than a little off-putting. ekko does NOT fuck with them as much as he encourages her interests. isha's frankly ridiculous doll collection at this point has at least three "middle aged divorcees" (nobody really knew what she meant when she said this but when they saw the finished piece they immediately knew what she meant) and like five genuinely haunted pieces that everyone swears move when they aren't looking. HUGE fan of tagging, she tries to get ekko to come with her and isha but he usually stays back or offers them a ride there and back to make sure they don't run into any trouble. at home she uses the spray paints to decorate literally everything. clothes, walls, furniture, even windows aren't safe. she tried to get into piercing along with tattooing but after "a few mishaps" she agreed to put the diy kit down for the time being.
ekko: HUGE proponent of art therapy. he got more familiar with the concept through jinx but realized he could also branch out to community programs and events. along with that he does a lot of fiberwork and upcycling for old/thrifted clothes that otherwise would have been tossed. him and sevika have a secret (by sevika's insistence) chat dedicated to swapping inspo and ideas with each other, and from time to time he takes a huge haul of upcycled clothes to the donation center. he started taking commissions for it too, but doesn't do it often because it usually gets in the way of the pieces he plans to donate. he also got really into graphic design and printmaking to make community organizing posters to either canvass or wheatpaste throughout the city. a lot of his clothes feature these designs too. he also does a lot of 3d modeling on the computer. he isn't really into the 3d-printing part of it because in the end that's just more plastic, but he either uses it for fun little animations or references for making actual sculptures and minifigures (jayce commissioned him one time for a little wizard character that looked extremely similar to a certain someone). when he's not doing that he also does a metric fuck ton of drawing and doodling, it helps clear his mind or keeps him from being bored. a good chunk of jinx's tattoo designs either has a piece he's input or something he's drawn himself. his style of drawing is a little similar to jinx's, but tends to be more organized and precise in terms of layout. he's also FANTASTIC at his own unique stylization and started working more on realism while drawing jinx and isha from time to time. in terms of personal projects just for him, he loves customizing his skateboard; it has a new cover every month unless a design really sticks with him and stays for a bit longer. he's found a way to save the covers and find thrifted frames for them to reduce waste and preserve the work he's spent hours and hours on. there's a wall at his and jinx's place that is absolutely covered in these frames and it's definitely the centerpiece in terms of decor.
isha: the kid is a goddamn art prodigy. obviously since she's young sometimes the work comes out looking a little funky but for the most part when people see things she's done (mostly drawings/paintings/tags) it's the kind of feeling where you're like why am i competing with this little kid who barely comes up to my hip. absolute menace too there is nothing within her reach that is safe from her drawings. jinx gave her a whole wall at their place to just go ham and draw whatever she wanted without worrying about a mess or someone else butting in; because of her height it's only like the bottom third of the wall covered in her various doodles but they are in fact incredible doodles. sometimes because of her past her drawings are a little fucked up but for the most part they're funny as hell and almost everyone loves when they find a new thing of theirs splattered with colorful paints. it's also a great way for her to get her feelings out without having to verbalize them or write lengthy journal entries which she thinks are a little stupid and sappy anyway (she snuck a peek of jayce's journal when jinx swiped it and decided things like that were for the most part not her cup of tea).
vi: like cait, art isn't really something she gravitates to when she has free time. she never really got into art other than some minor and hastily done sewing/mending for jinx until recently because she thought that sitting for hours working on some kind of piece could be better used doing something productive or helping her loved ones. now that her life is a lot slower and more peaceful she got insanely restless and didn't understand why she was so anxious and angry all the time until jinx mentioned how much art helped her regulate and she reluctantly joined in a art session. for the most part she sticks with drawing because she still has that part of her that whispers in the back of her head that it's a waste of time to do anything more, that she could be doing so many other things that "actually matter," etc etc. she also gets very easily frustrated when she can see where the gap between her skill and what she wants the drawing to look like is, though she can't really tell how much she's improved and how much it's actually helped her to just sit down and do something slow like this (cait is very good at reminding her all this when she gets in her head about it). she preferred to appreciate everyone else's art and hearing each person in their little group talk about technique and how much they like doing their activity. she's a huge supporter of jinx's tattooing and always asks for her advice/art for her next new tat. at craft night though cait offers they work on a collage together and she has the most fun she's had in a long time with this stuff; something about just grabbing pieces she finds interesting without any expectation of it "looking good" and sitting in a huge organized mess together just hits all the right buttons and suddenly she has a new favorite hobby for the time being.
caitlyn: art isn't really her go-to hobby like vi, but when everyone needed supplies for craft night she and vi came in their gay little subaru with a trunk absolutely packed to the brim with various supplies for pretty much every basic craft under the sun (they had to buy most of them that night because there aren't many supplies at their place). more than anything else she would say she draws, but she isn't like GREAT at it; she's good enough at it to get the job done and that's enough for her for the time being; she has other things to fill her time. but once she sees how much vi enjoyed the collage activity though she started secretly collecting old magazines and stickers and bits and bobs for vi or both of them to do together. because of the circumstances she was raised in she definitely did some kind of instrument (i headcanon piano because i was in fact a victim of the wasian piano upbringing) but does it only very casually now because the way she was taught was so serious and stupidly strict it basically killed whatever interest she would have had in it on her own. jayce keeps trying to bring his guitar over to her place and begging her to do a joint jam sesh but she's always conveniently busy during the times he proposes. the only person she'll maybe play for is vi and that's only after asking and asking. she considers herself a victim, not a recipient, of jinx and isha's impromptu diy projects. she also thinks jinx and viktor's tattooing is cool as fuck but personally can't stand to sit in watching them tattoo themselves or everyone else despite her tolerance for blood (i.e., her job) because it's just SO up close and there's just something about it that freaks her out.
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