Used my final day of vacation this past long weekend wisely to draw silly arts! My Eclipse gal, Kalara, imploring @theserestlesshands' Shame, to come to her happy hour meetup for Eclipsoids using the most powerful persuasion tactic in her toolkit:
I commissioned the incredibly talanted @viktormaru to draw @beautheexpositor and I’s Solar Exalts from our Exalted game! Just how many times am I going to pay new people to draw these two idiots? A billion, mind your business. Anyways I love love love this piece and I love these two. A beloved socialite and a dumb jock.
She had heard stories of the Solars. She was raised on nightmares of the anathema like the rest of the kids her age. But the stories quickly lost their power the first time she actually met one. They were imposing, but beautiful. Kind, even. They kept their distance and held their arms close so as to not scare her. She did the same, so as to not scare them. They waited like this, the both of them, content to watch each other until her patience had finally run its course. As the last of the nightmares faded from her mind, she took a hesitant step forward and held out her hand. Perhaps she could tell a different kind of story about the Solars someday.
My own progress with this year's Exalted Art Challenge has been painfully slow while I've been prepping for my first time back at cons in 6 years...but slow & steady wins the race right? 🥲
For Favorite Caste, I'm redoing my old anima wallpaper of Prince Diamond. (Ref on the left by @artphobos). These new pens in Procreate have some really nice texture!
Here's my old wallpaper for reference. I wanted to make it more polished with more of a sense of the form underneath. This old wallpaper of mine was ok, but I can do it BETTER now! -hopefully not famous last words-
For more about this year's EAC:
💬 0 🔁 10 ❤️ 8 · Tis the season for the Exalted Art Challenge! I've refreshed the weekly Quick Challenge this year to keep you all on your
Don't worry about the flames! I'm sure if you keep evil away from them, they'll burn themselves out quickly... <_<;
My try at a mini comic for the topic "Fave Charm" for this year's Exalted Art Challenge. I really just wanted an excuse to draw a Righteous Devil doing really cool anime things which I barely ever get to draw my gal doing!
My Eclipse, Kalara, wouldn't hurt a fly while she is working towards peace between the Guilds (she has people who do that for her). However, what most people don't know is that she has an alternate gunslinging Righteous Devil persona that most definitely can shoot the wings off said fly!
Kalara meets a group of 'fans' on her way to a meeting. Enjoy the fallout and guess how many and which charms she just popped!
Drawn in Procreate with word balloons/text done in Clip Studio Paint. I have renewed respect for my fellow comic artists! Even doing this rough comic was a TON of work. Hat's off to my buddies who do this regularly!
Week 3's Round Up + Community Feature
For week 3's art roundup of community picks, plus a timelapse of the comic's process, go check out the blog roundup here:
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