I am Grace In Flight. My people were the Forerunners, once colonizers and rulers of over three million worlds. We destroyed ourselves - but, ultimately, salvaged the remaining sentient life in the galaxy in the process. I still live, however, now freed from my imprisonment within the shield-world known as Onyx by Doctor Catherine Halsey and her "Spartans." [The character is from an RP/fanfiction called Echo of Hope that my friends and I are writing. This blog's canon breaks off from the "canon" Halo timeline after the end of Halo 3 in order to maintain Bungie canon; that said, 'verse hopping via slipspace shenanigans means I have no issue with interacting with 343i-based blogs - although the muse will probably not be impressed if you're carrying an H4 Forerunner weapon. Non-Haloverse RPs may not be taken as seriously unless discussion is had and hows and whys are figured out beforehand.] [[Slightly under construction - needs some About/Rules/General Information pages, since the mun actually knows how to work those now.]] [Mun's Timezone: CST -6:00]
if you ever think about sending me an ask and decide not to cause “oh she doesn’t care” or “oh I don’t want to bother her” literally I’m the loneliest piece of shit you can find and would still love you if you sent me the word nuzzle over and over again
[ One of a handful of AI assigned to specialist Spartans aboard the UNSC Echo of Hope. A quick(ish) sketch of his overall design, sans fancy extra detailing and whatnot. His "base" appearance, though it varies depending on his whims. He'll usually change it every couple of weeks. It's rare that he won't have his hair or clothes moving in some invisible wind, as the AI does not like to be "still".
Solaris is assigned to PFC Alexander James "Jamie" Grayson. Both tend to take...unconventional...approaches to things, and as such, they are very good at getting around any "lock" they find in their path. ]
Felt the need to share the details of the armor without the drapey stuff obscuring it. Still needs its proper colors of course, but I found this way too aesthetically pleasing to not share.
Still streaming here, by the way. Done streaming for the moment. ]
((It sounds ok, just my computer might not be that good tbh, it’s optimized for gaming and graphics works, not really about multi-tasking either, at least I try to avoid such occasions. QuQ))
[ If it's a gaming computer, you're probably fine, tbh. My roommate does most of his art in PS and likes to keep three to five projects open at once, and he runs that on a gaming computer that needs some upgrading. Hell, I do everything on a freakin' laptop xD If it has trouble running, I'd be very surprised. ]
stellar-architect said: [ I’ve always found it easier to work on things that I’m supposed to be working on if I have company that’s also arting. If you ever wanted to do a Google Hangout and art together, I’d be more than happy to do so :3 ]
[ It can be a little confusing the first time or two you use it but once you learn which button does what, you're good. It's basically Skype but better (depending on how much your computer does or does not like Chrome, granted, but it's usually well-behaved) and has the advantage of being able to have a simultaneous screenshare. In Skype, if you want to show your work to the other person in the call, you have to manually swap back and forth between who's doing the screensharing, which can be a bit of a pain in the rear. Also, Hangout allows for more than two people to talk and/or screenshare at the same time, so group artjams are a thing that can happen. Back in ye olden, my art group was a bunch of Minecraft OC blogs that liked to work on panels together and chatter about story things. It helped us be motivated to work on the harder and more complex things 'cause there were people around us doing the same thing. Really nice support group type of setup, honestly. There were five of us so sometimes we had that many people at once, though usually it was just two or three. The hangouts tended to not get hideously laggy, either, unless Google itself was crapping out.
Hangout also has better quality screenshare, usually has excellent sound for voice chat, and is generally about as reliable as your internet connection. Really the only downside (aside from having to have a gmail account) is in needing to have a browser up to use it, but if your computer can handle running 30 browser tabs and Photoshop at the same time, you're probably good. ]
[ Making some more progress. Lined the main portion of the armor and applied the darkest color as a placeholder, which the fuzzy/unfinished overlay also is. After the head, helmet and drapey bits have been lined and their colors blocked in, then I'll start fussing with the specific color scheme of the armor.
I probably have a good 72+ hours of actual work time invested in this, but even though I still have a long way to go, I'm excited to finish it - and then move on to his actual combat skin(s).
I can only begin to imagine how many tragic bitchtears I will shed trying to render those things. ]