this was so fun to make!!!! i love being able to put my ocs into different situations like this instead of them just standing there in a void. basically, the lore for this is that semathet (grey/black one) is helping its sibling sothylat (white one) out of the waters of the void. they're both gods, but they don't know that yet, since they've literally just started existing.
i think i would've been okay with just the greyish pencil background, but i wanted it a bit darker (since it's meant to be the void, and the void is supposed to be pitch black) but the marker i started using was threatening to give up lol. the lineart was the best part of the process, especially with drawing the ripples around the two characters! the coloring for the border is so so shit but it was fun in the moment so i don't really mind.
I usually don't post WIPs (I literally promised not to on here bc that usually means they don't get finished) but this one is taking a while, so have the unfinished version for now!!
Idriosra wanted to turn away, to close their eyes, to escape the Incarnation of Chaos’s infinitely powerful presence. They could do little more than shield their face with a hand, but Sothylat’s potence was overpowering, practically forcing the mortal dragonet to stare back at it.
“Who are you?” they fearfully called out, hand gripping their staff as if they could stand a chance against the divinity if this bizarre confrontation escalated to a fight. “What do you want from me?”
It laughed, cawed, barked with a thousand voices. “I do not want, little vessel,” Sothylat roared yet whispered, like it was murmuring right against Idriosra’s ear and bellowing loud enough to fill the endless void at the same time. “I need. I need to access Terlei, and I need you to do it.”
“Why?” Idriosra asked, slightly more confident. “Why did you choose me? And why does my being a Fragment matter?”
It lowered its head, getting even closer to the white dragonet’s face. “Look at me! Do you not realize this already?!” it roared, the air around the two crackling with the Incarnation’s potence. “You were not simply chosen. You were made, made to be my eyes and ears in the mortal realm, made to be my vessel, made to be the catalyst that will let me remake the realms in my image!”
Idriosra lowered their arm and faced it. “I… I refuse.”
Sothylat grew closer, its energy buzzing and humming around it. “What did you say?”
“I refuse!” Idriosra screamed. "I said that I refuse!"
I've finally done the line work! I was able to get smoother lines this time, but I messed up a bit on the main set of wings. I'm also really proud of what I did with the tails, since I don't usually draw my Solacian dragons with that kind of tail.
