hi, i’m not sure if you still draw them but a few years ago (like maybe 4 yrs ago at this point?) i got SUPER obsessed with your sylvaina fanart and i wanted to say that they still inspire me when i draw 😭 i just wanted you to know that i think your art is SO beautiful !!!
Omg thank you so much for your kind words ! ;;;;;;;;
I don't draw them much anymore but I still think about them from time to time and I DO have a few WIPs of them I'd like to finish eventually someday / still poke at ever so slowly...
So while I can't really promise new art of them I can't also say /for sure/ that it will never ever happen x,)
I wish you the best on your art and creative journey !!! And I am sure your art will inspire people in turn.
Thank you again for this message ;;;; means a lot
Is there a distinction between this and watching/consuming harry potter works
Or am i being a cop if people still distributes the problematic authors work
Personally I have nothing against people that like Harry Potter as long as they steal this shit from JKR and don't give her money by actually buying HP products.
Yeah the world / story of HP is flawed, but so are many others. You can still enjoy something while being critical of the bits that aren't really good (either in quality or morality) about it.
So I just started my Karlach romance and god, her line of "I want to ride you till you see stars," is like a combination of super hot and super cute!
I love how flustered she gets when you decie to be more forward! And haha it was fun getting burned over a kiss 😂
How has your Karlach romance been going so far? Are there any particularly memorable moments for you?
Thanks again!
GOD RIGHT ???? She took me by surprise with that one (good surprise though hehe)
If you like her flustered, you haven't seen the end of it my friend... I'm gonna keep it as spoiler free as I can, but I got to her sex scene (or cuddle scene depending on your choice) and I picked a dialogue option where she was soooooooo flustered and embarassed but smiling about it, it made my cheeks hurt istg I was smiling SO MUCH from how cute she was being 🥺🥺🥺🥺
To be honest so far my memorable moments are how Karlach and Lae'zel are the ones that do 80% of the damage in my group and GOD do I love to watch her beat shit up without restraints 😊
(more seriously, the moment I spoke of just above... it made me learn things about myself...)
Hi !
Oh man haha, my paracosm is just where I bundle my oldest OCs (in a world that has been called "Symphonia" because when I first started making OCs when I was like... 12 years old I REALLY fucking loved Tales of Symphonia :,^) )
The OCs that I still draw the most from there are, of course, Lana and Rena !
For the past few months I've been reworking their story in my head (when it comes to me... mainly when I walk to and from work) and I'd say I have reworked about 80% of their "story beats"...
Their relationship is very rocky and tumultuous and grows from a toxic abuser/dependant dynamic to two people who grew into respecting themselves and the other person too and (re)discover each other through that new lens.
There's also a bunch of older lil guys (Felyx, the previous main character ; Edhel, Zero, etc etc) but I haven't gotten around to reworking those (though I'd say I did develop Edhel's family and little corner of the world more than anything else haha)
And of course there's also Rena's family, but that's also under the reconstruction work because, well.... I grew up and I realized a lot of the initial choices I made at 15 years old were wonky at best and shady at worst :,^)
Hopefully I'll be sharing more about all this little thing living in my head in the weeks, months and years to come as I try to reconnect with drawing and creating and having fun through art !!!
what traditional pencils/mediums and sketchbook brands do u like to use? i really like the recent sketches!
I'm answering a bazillion years late BUT !!! First of all thank you for your kind words !!! Now about the pens and sketchbooks.
- Pens :
I tend to draw a lot with fountain pens and even more with ballpoint pens. For the recent Arknights sketches I used on my "4 colours" Bic ! I have a few of those and I love them because it's really handy to have multiple colours ready on the go to make doodling fun
- Sketchbooks :
Most of my sketchbook are either Moleskin or Leuchtturm sketchbooks because I enjoy knowing they can take a beatup (and let me tell you that one survived being completely drowned for multiple hours so yknow (the drawings inside didn't but that's another matter))
BUT I also buy any sketchbook that I find nice / pretty / that seem fun ! I recently bought one when I visited a store in Sweden while traveling etc
So I'd say... try different sketchbooks and find the papers you enjoy most !
I also have a sketchbook with thick paper designed for watercolours !
My question is about Qalaa! She’s got an amazing design in every iteration so I wanted to ask what were your main inspirations for her? Also could you tell us a bit more about her story?
Hi there ! Thank you so much for your kind words about my babygirl ;A; !!!
Everything started circa 2014 when I started to play Wakfu again with @shuuzaar and decided to make a red-skinned osamodas. She also now exists in multiple universes (a minotaur or tiefling in DnD, a demon/oni, a dragon, etc etc).
It wasn't a very conscious & willed thing but since I put a lot of 'myself' into her (more than all my other OCs, who have more... handpicked bits) so her build started to grow towards the larger / bigger side naturally. I'm definitely not as big, nor tall as her though (I am short and she's like, 209cm tall or sth).
Her general themes / traits are : A kind, soft & gentle soul in a body that is 'made' for killing / hurting easily because of it's size and strength. Feeling inadequate / dysphoria / struggling to accept her body because it doesn't fit what she likes (petite and feminine girls). Struggle to control flares of emotions & physical strength.
And being very, oh so very gay about girls and feminine people (this is a very important part ok).
In time I've been slowly collecting pictures of athletes and people that make me think of her and trying to refine how she looks in my head ! Though, like many of my characters, the specifics tends to change depending on how I feel on the moment... sometimes I want her nose a bit more like this or like that... don't be surprised if her gallery isn't the most consistent in terms of facial features :,^)
One thing that definitely DID inspire me for her though are the marks on her body ! They are inspired from scarifications of the Chambri tribe in Papua New Guinea https://bodyartforms.com/blog/sepik-river-scarification.asp)
As for her story, well, my current DnD group where I play her has given me a lot of opportunities to flesh it out a little more >:^D
I'll try to keep it short.
Qalaari was born from an unplanned pregnancy. Her mother, Aamira Molandine, was someone with a very weak health due to a blood curse running in her family (more on that later) ; but despite her health she decided to keep the child and see the pregnancy through.
Her father, Temhos Croquelune, is a member of a tribe of "beast folk" (this is tweaked and adapted to fit in various universes when I can) and, while enamoured with Aamira, was really not ready to have a child, and to potentially have to raise it alone should Aamira die while giving birth. After yet another argument with her about getting an abortion for her sake and the sake of them both, Temhos ran away during the night and never came back.
~6 month pregnant Aamira found refuge in the Croquelune tribe under Temhos' sister roof, Olgha (who also had a crush on Aamira & both her and her brother tried to court her). The travel took a heavy toll on Aamira's already weak health and yet she somehow miraculously survived the delivery of her (very) big and healthy baby girl Qalaari.
Qalaari was raised in a very loving home by Aamira and Olgha, but developped a big resentment towards her blood father, especially since after giving birth, Aamira remained a very sickly person with a broken heart.
Aamira died when Qalaari was 13, which kind of forever scared her and worsened her struggles to control her emotions.
Remember the Cursed Blood thing ? Well basically, it's a curse that either 1) eats you alive if your body is too weak to handle it (Aamira's case, which is why she had a weak health from the beginning) OR 2) enhances the physical potential of your body, but tends to make you lose control and become little more than a beast (Qalaari's case).
So yeah... she's trying to get better but she has a lot of healing to do with her inner child and that's not easy... especially with the layers of self hatred the cycles of her life are bringing in :^) !
EDIT : I FORGOT TO ADD that Qalaari is currently exiled from the Croquelune tribe. The circle scar on her clavicle is the mark of the exiled, who are sent away from the tribe for 3 years before they can come back.
The practice exists to try and get people to grow 'outside of the community' before coming back in it as a slightly different person. The once-exiled people are reintegrated in the tribe when they return if possible.
Olgha, Qalaari's aunt-in-law and adoptive parent, has a mark like this!
This exile is definitely not the best solution ever but it's been done for so long in the tribe that it's hard to yknow... challenge the system of it.
Anyway if you've read to this point, thank you for listening to me fail miserably to keep this short... Qalaari is one of my dearest OC, so it's really hard not to gush about her in a 3 hours TED Talk everytime...
Thank you for this kind ask ! Hope you'll have a good day :> !
Hey there. I love your art and I saw a tiktok that I can't stop thinking about. Between Jaina and Sylvanas, which one unabashedly wears crocs and which one is appalled by them? Have a great day!
Hi there !
Oh god - after taking some time to think about it, I figured there would be two different timelines :
- Ranger-General Sylvanas / Dalaran Student Jaina -> Sylvanas wears the crocs without shame. She owns it, she knows it infuriates some people, she makes it work (somehow) (it makes all of it even more infuriating). She has a shit eating grin everytime.
Jaina tried to teleport the cursed shoes away but somehow Sylvanas always finds them again or gets new ones.
- Undead Sylvanas / Archmage Jaina -> Jaina is so done with everything, she is tired, she hasn't slept in 40 hours, she is going to wear these crocs, she has so much shit to take care of, she just wants easy shoes to put on and to get going.
Sylvanas wants to burn the damn things away (she doesn't) (still everyday she tries to see if they can spontaneously combust under her glare).
Speaking of Hades II, who do you ship Melinoë more with, Eris or Nemesis?
I am a pro multishipper so I ship her with everybody hahahaha
I also haven't played enough of the game to properly grasp her respective dynamics with all the other npcs, so I'm still holding my horses for now on 'who I ship her most with'.
But it will come in time >:^D
