#frozen wilds

[pavora-art]

Thank you for the support and kind words this year 💕 a cozy and restful holiday to you all ❄️

[photomodes]

now, my father was a great man, mind you, but dead wrong when it came to choosing a rubric by which to judge delve quality. to find yourself stuck, then unstuck. to fail, then to succeed. to get lost, and to find yourself - that’s what makes a delve!

- gildun

[aron-mp4]

Ikrie <3

[meridiansunrise]

So… this is a little preview of a larger piece I’ve been working on. A much larger piece. 🤣 The background is not part of the larger piece, I made it just to showcase the figure in a setting that fits the style of the larger piece. This was the first figure I drew in this style, so it is not as dynamic as some of my later ones, but I think it is still kinda cute.

If you would like know more about the bigger project, I’ll include more under the cut:

So a while back I fell in love with the art style of Joey Chou and his inspiration Mary Blair. In particular I had found a storybook version of the it’s a small world song/ride with art done by Joey Chou. I thought it was an utterly adorable and visually interesting an art style, so I got the book even though I was at a rather higher reading level than the book’s intended audience. 😉 Ever since then I’ve wanted to do something inspired by that art style, but my own art skills at the time were woefully insufficient.

But now I feel my skills have improved enough to give it another go, because I loved the idea of doing a series of pictures representing the different tribes of the Horizon games in a style like the one from my old book. So I’ve been having fun playing around with making my own version of this art style!

So the big picture plan for this series is to make one picture per tribe, each showing either their capitol or their most “representative” settlement, filled with characters from that tribe/settlement. Aloy will be in every picture too, wearing an outfit from that tribe of course. I decided to start with the Banuk, using Song’s Edge as their settlement. I figured their simple tent architecture and triangle motifs would translate well to this art style and make it a good place to start as opposed to something like Meridian.

At the time of posting this, I’ve finished making the main background (I still need to add a couple details like the cheiftain’s tent), Aloy, Aratak, Ourea (though I may rework her headpiece), Ikrie (my fav so far), Sekuli, and the storyteller Shaman. I’m currently working on Burgrund and Naltuk, and I’m planning to also include at least the Hunters Three, preferably also Laulai, Inatut, and possibly Gildun. Oh and possibly Varga as well, even though she never shows up at Song’s Edge. But she is cool, and then I have a good way to slip all three of the special Frozen Wilds weapons in as well.

However, I have also distracted myself working on other parts of the project in advance, including the Nora/Mother’s Heart. I’m replaying HZD now so I thought it might be nice to work on that while the Nora characters and settings are top of mind. So there is the chance Mother’s Heart could end up completed first.

(And I also had started on Hidden Ember for a while, because I couldn’t get Morlund off my brain, even though that isn’t supposed to be part of the main project at all because Hidden Ember isn’t very representative of true Oseram settlements… but I love it so!)

[berezkaone]

Happy New Year!

this is Sylens when he was a Banuk shaman. I love this man too much.

[specterhuntress]

Into the Frozen Wilds! HZDR

[kotalloma]

this is what's on my mind every time I play Frozen Wilds

[niinakaniin]

Frozen Wilds, part 1