#bronzar

[nyxdruid]

Lightning and thunder dragons. Aster and Bronzar

[kavrillia]

Security Chief Bronzar and Empress Vazali

Behold, my first formal attempt at art since 2003.

I didn’t bother to dig out my old Prismacolor pencils or other art supplies, so this was just done on printer paper with a felt tip pen and Crayola colored pencils.  Still, I was pleasantly surprised to find my art skills hadn’t atrophied as much as I thought they had.  

With fan art, there’s always someone out there who can draw X character better than you, so it’s easy to get discouraged.  But (barring commissioning other artists, which I did a couple times a loooong time ago) if I want to see my own original universe come to life, I have to draw it myself.  So I did.

I was never a serious artist, but I doodled and drew my entire life until I graduated college, then lost my motivation.  There were lots of reasons for my giving it up:  comparing myself unfavorably to better artists online, being tired of my RL artist friend being more critical than supportive, the lack of doodling time when I wasn’t in school anymore, choosing to concentrate more on my writing, the trauma of losing a close family member after a long illness, and the timesink of MMOs.

I don’t know that I’m going to suddenly get back into drawing like I used to, but for whatever reason I felt like picking up colored pencils again for the first time in over fifteen years, and this happened.  :)

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P.S. If you’re a mediocre artist and you’re designing your own species, give them hands with only a thumb and no fingers!  Boom, no need to learn to draw hands properly!  *insert devious laughter here*

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[Characters, art, and design belong to Katie Sullivan and are not to be used without permission.]

[bronzar]

“love”

By @bronzar

[nyxdruid]

Aster and Bronzar dragon forms

[bronzar]

Look what @gossamergloss made for me!!

[kavrillia]

That last one made me cackle out loud and rush to my paint program, because it's too perfect! Bwahaha!

[kavrillia]

Kavrillian text memes

[kavrillia]

Kavrillian memes

(The autocomplete one with Vazali and Bronzar is raunchier than I usually post but it was too perfect to pass up.)