#nlu art

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OC sheet: Ali / A-01

This started as doodling/sketching

I still suck at drawing cybernetics but damn this design has come far. Just like imagine it's more complex in the finer details. Ideally I'd like it to look akin to Alita's Berserker body (in the 2019 film) ..... This OC totally isn't heavily inspired by Alita: Battle Angel, idk why you would think that.

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Redraw! Lord Kalith as The Hierophant, 2022 vs 2026

Kalith is a lot more developed now and I've been thinking about them a lot so of course I had to try to redraw them. Even if the face didn't turn out as I'd hoped. Damn faces.

Pondering whether or not to tag these posts with my OCs names....

And pondering whether or not to make an art dump of this character.... I have quite a few pieces here and there, even if they are old....

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C'lycio got a new arm!!

This is set sometime post-story, after C'lycio is freed and his brothers remove the cybernetic in favor of a custom claywork prosthetic. I'm unsure of the way it operates as of now, don't want it to boil down to just "magic", but at the very least I imagine the hand can lock into certain positions. C'lycio has a lot of therapy, of all sorts, to go through, but at least now he can look at his arm and see love instead of pain.

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I don't love love this piece but I was just listening to Allies or Enemies by The Crane Wives (which inspired this piece) and I do indeed very much love the hand-lettering itself, it's more the figures that didn't quite turn out as I'd preferred

Lore below cut

The top figure is Queen Stella, deity of space/infinity, and the bottom figure is her past lover, Faru/Fara, the Helionian deity of death. There is... a lot of mess, with them. Basically this is Faru finally scolding Stella for her foolishness.

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OC sheet: the Wolf twins

I posted Brianthia earlier, well now I've finished his twin brother, Teric! These two are some of my oldest OCs and it's so exciting to see them all grown up! Crowned and knighted! Yeah Teric doesn't have a theme song yet but in due time. Hopefully.

Info/fun facts below cut

Teric's padded armor is inspired by the Aztec ichcahuipilli and yes he uses a 1916 Ross rifle even though they're not very reliable. He's probably carved Gemian glyphs onto it to make it more reliable and useful. ("Gemian" is a conlang of the Gemheart species.) Yes he tattooed his hand himself, and has many other tattoos.

Brianthia is more connected to his P'ral side (the cause of the white eyes), and I like to think that he hand-stitched the cuneiform on his coat hem himself. The brianthia, which he is named after, is a plant on the planet of Helion, often used as a spice. Brianthia is pyrokinetic, and Teric is electrokinetic. His shoes are definitely American Duchess.

SHIT I didn't add Teric's height but uh anyway he's like 5'6" / 167cm.

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Some of my favorite OCs, to the tune of that Arkansas Daughter song (you know the one). Plan to make this into a YT short.

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"Oh they're adorable" *separates them for 15 years* "Oh they're traumatized"

OCs: Arthur (smol) and Falknyr (tol)

I'm still really proud of this piece, even though I did it with very minimal supplies (might actually be more proud of it in that regards). The one thing I don't like is how Falknyr's tattoo... doesn't look as it's supposed to. It's supposed to be this amber hourglass. Oh well. Still love it.

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I made this piece earlier this month and I'm still so proud of it

Gonna start this off by sharing some pieces I'm really proud of, I guess