#embersthefox

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"The fox will remain trapped, as long as they feel they deserve it. The flames, usually suffocating, have dissipated, and will not reignite, not until their mindset changes."

i feel like the Hanged Man fits Embers' personality much, much more than it ever fit Patch's.

we are halfway through now. tried some new ideas on this one, i feel like it half worked, could be much better with some refinement.

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The reflected image, impossibly resistant to change, will eventually succumb to the ever turning current of the stream and strip away the flame,

only then can i move forward, and leave the warmth forever behind.

"all it will take is a bit of patience."

Redraw of this post Used a much larger canvas and spent a good chunk of time getting clean lines. I feel that both of those changes heavily contributed to the much better look of this one.

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assorted sketch pages, mostly experimenting with giving the three of them actual hair instead of what i had been doing.

i really like how Patch's turned out, and i feel like i could have done better with BT0Z but such is life.

if anything these serve as mini ref pages for all of them so that's nice <3

Individual pages below:

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just barely finished doodling this one out, i forgot that uploading more regularly meant invariably decimating my already fractured facsimile of a "sleep schedule"

still worth it tho <3

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[New Banner!]

finally finished this!!

spent about a month constantly working on this off and on, refining it.

i figured if i didn't stop working on it now, i would never finish it.

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redraw of old art

somewhere between having a better conceptual base for Embers as a whole, and the chosen medium being digital, i can proudly say i improved upon the original.

it was also mostly a style experiment, going for a mix between the styles i have been using

as always, it feels like a step forward.

yay

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21 years! yipeeeeeeee

Originals beneath cut

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experimenting