#paramount warriors

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Ok yes I know I've drawn them in a similar pose before but fuck man, it's been ages since I drew my girls and I miss them so damn much. I miss drawing too. Just used tissue to blend the shading. It actually looks a lot better irl than the picture I took here.

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Ok, I’ll color it later on, but I really do love the progress.

Y’all, Nzinga is so effing badass! She doesn’t often fight on the front lines because of her position in the tribe, but she ain’t afraid to throw down when the time comes. 

I think one of the biggest things that yall will notice is that I changed Nzinga’s almost everything. Her hair changes from down to up, she has WAY more piercings that before, lips, nose, etc. The piercings have a lot to do with her position as a youth growing up Geomae as a merchant’s daughter. I also stepped away from the ways I had been drawing the others and wanted to make her look more unique.

On a personal note: drawing has dried up because of all the stuff going on right now. I hope I’ll be able to gain some sort of normalcy to start drawing again. 

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Alrighty, added color to it. I think I definitely made a mistake using TWO light sources when I’m still trying to learn one (WTF was I thinking?). I just wanted to finally finish a piece after it’s been quite a while since I colored something. At least I think that’s the case, yall know me with time lol.

ALSO, I made a ton of mistakes in here and they actually ended up being happy mistakes so I kept them.

Anyways, yeah, you’s bout to get fucked up by Lady Ambassador Nzinga and it won’t end well. Her fire balls aren't anything to play with... at all. Just know better by staying on her good side.

Ok, hopefully more to come soon!

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Finally finished that ink piece I showed some of yall last night. I got kinda lazy at the end (but I knew that was going to happen). My OCs, Nzinga and Margie. 

So yay on doing more clothing, boo at how much GD detail I put in it (I didn’t even do all the designs that I wanted tbh). 

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Ok ok ok, I planned on pumping out an Eycis piece, but come on! Looka him! Just look! Ole sexy ass. 

I missed him being naked so yeah, ole nakey Franky.

Oh yes and I'm working on emphasis lines. Think I went a little overboard but eff it yo. I like how he came out.

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So I realize that I’ve posted a lot of Margie and Nzinga or Eycis and Frank. I’ve even said a little about Nzinga and Frank’s friendship, but I realize that I haven’t talked about Eycis and Margie’s friendship at all.

At the start of the book, these two women have been friends for eleven years, meeting on the battlefield when Eycis (and Mahri before he became a douche nugget) was wounded by a poison tipped sword. Margie, who’d just arrived to the country, was assigned to them to ensure they healed properly. Since then, she and Eycis have been inseparable. (And for those who read) Even after the prologue -_-. 

Eycis can be a pretty stoic and inexpressive person, but not around Margie. Not around people she cares about and would be willing to die for.

Hey, look yall! Eycis is actually smiling! LOL! And why TF did I do this angle for Margie?

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Frank has been inked and colored. Now that I’ve colored it, it could totally work as canon. 

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A flash of light stopped Eycis in her tracks. Kneeling, she ordered her soldiers to do the same with a hand signal. Not a word was spoken between them; the only sounds she heard were the howls of the summer winds, even the surrounding brush stayed silent. 

Another flash of light had her focus in on the area. Tents, lots of large tents. Fires, and one large bonfire in what appeared to be the center of the makeshift base. It was quite a distance away; ten kilometers if she had to guess. From the maps and the scouts’ reports, that had to have been an enemy camp. Even from here, Eycis heard joyous yells. Idiots, she snarled. Thank the Fate her soldiers knew what they were doing.

A rustle in a bush to her right had her reach for her sword. Eycis looked behind her to ensure that it wasn’t any of her own, but there they kneeled, still as stones. She only brought three soldiers; it was all that she needed to take the enemy unawares or, at the very least, spy for more information.

The rustling grew louder and closer. She looked again behind her to signal her telekinetic corporal to retrieve whatever it was compromising their position. He nodded her command and placed his fingers to his forehead. A steady glow of purple came from his amethyst and he gritted his teeth as he concentrated on this unknown target. 

Leaning forward, Eycis readied herself for the attack. The bushes parted and gave birth to a massive man surrounded by a purple aura. His irritated grunts turned into shouts as he flailed helplessly in the air. Eycis ran towards him, sword unsheathed.

 “Found you bastards!” His husky voice sounded familiar but she couldn’t remember where she heard it. It gave her only a second’s pause before resuming her attack.

Eycis’ sword dug into the earth as she lifted it to strike him underneath. The purple aura disappeared when she attempted to land her blow. The man was suddenly gone and she felt an unnatural pull on her body. 

She backed away and fell to the ground before she was able to catch herself. “Who was that? What did he just do? Where’d he go?” 

“I don’t know, sir.” One of them peeped as the others shrugged. They didn’t seem to care; they were looking back at the enemy’s camp.

The shouts from the distance turned from joyous to angry. “Let’s go,” She scrambled to her feet, re-sheathing her sword. “We’re compromised.”

Yay, ok, so I totally just wrote that on a whim to go with the thingy I drew up there! I’m pretty sure it’s super shitty because I totally edited NOTHING!!!! It’s not much combat or excitement going on in this. I really was trying to see if I could write a different type of scene. Anyways, back to the thingy thingy, I rarely color and even less so watercolors. I was just painting because I hadn’t done art in SOOOO LONG! This is her (incomplete) armor that she wears while in service for the king.