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Rival Hearts Prompt 15 - Telling the Truth This was taking me too long to finish, so I decided to not finish it. I did want to complete coloring Vinny, though. I’m not sure I’m happy with her actual appearance as I’ve drawn it here, but I wanted to get her coloring set. I’ll try some other attempts at redrawing her in the near future. For the image itself fitting into the prompt, Ria and KD spent a good deal of time with young Vincenza, teaching her the fine arts of healing, while the pair worked on (re) gaining skills of their own in this little, remote village. After a while, Vinny had begun exhibiting some odd behavior. Ria eventually confronts her, and Vinny admits to having a little crush. :)

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Rival Hearts Prompt 7 - #100 Writing

This prompt gave me a perfect excuse to draw Erik, a character who has been through several incarnations, but always came back to the same concept: historian - specifically a small, meek and mostly untalented boy, except his knack for language and knowledge retention.

He’s always enjoyed reading old book, as well as writing things down.

Erik hasn't yet made an appearance in the comic yet, but he is due to show up later in the current chapter. He works for - and has been adopted by - one of the primary advisors of the Stormwind family. Erik prefers to remain more in the background, usually seen at least carrying some book or another - if not writing in it. He records everything he can.

He does actually have some of his own secrets as well, but I’m not revealing those. :) ------------- Art notes: I hate hands! The final results aren’t as bad as I’d feared, but I kept redoing them. Particularly the front hand. adjusting the lines of the fingers and the back and trying to get the right balance of size and proportion and feeling like I’ve completely failed.

On the other hand, I learned a new use for brush options and I’m quite happy with the shading and background. And the book, I think this is the first time, I’ve really pulled off book and it looks pretty proper. And maybe all of the rest except the hands.

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Rival Hearts Prompt 17 _ Big Guy, Small Girl

I didn’t have an actual pairing like this, so I decided to take my reverse and see what they would look like in reverse. And then it turned into a magic change, I suppose. Dealing with suddenly being each others’ size....

I guess I cheesed out on Rik’s legs. Oh well. It was a rush job anyway. Maybe I’ll redo it some day.

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Rival Hearts prompt 16 - Singing

Little Ria singing, and Little KD is watching. He always enjoyed listening. Maybe one of the few things they were never equal on. I haven’t figured out what he counter balance skill might be. Maybe instrumental. Maybe something else. All about the character development. :)

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Rival Hearts Prompt 14 - Villain

When I think “Villain“ in Rival Hearts, Damien comes to mind first. He’s misogynistic, power-hungry, egotistical, and clever enough to use what he has to his advantage.

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Rival Hearts daily prompt: Day 6 - Arguing

This was a lot harder than I thought. Well, I expected a bit of a challenge, but more in trying to figure out which of the  6many characters to have arguing - okay that was the hard part, but I thought I’d have too many to choose from. Turned out, I had a hard time figuring out how most of them WOULD argue. Or, at least, if they did argue, it wouldn’t be as easy to draw...?

Long babble short, I wound up just sketching out a pair of poses face to face and that was when I figured out who they were: Riktor and Jasper. A friendship with long history (which we haven’t worked out all of yet) but it’s clear they have very different personalities, so naturally they would argue in different ways. Riktor is ever the passionate one about his thoughts, while Jasper is usually calmer, more logical, and very prone to lecture modes.

Quick thoughts on my art: Actually, I’m really quiet happy with the results, for having been mostly borne of a quick sketch that didn’t have much thought in it. Jasper’s face and Rik’s arms seem a bit off proportion, but not enough that I'm bothered by it.

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One more art post for the day. Went back and finished the color for Monday’s prompt. I think the background back out far better than the coloring job, while I was playing with textures and whatnot. And I now want to go back and tweak the shading to match the light source better. But overall, I still like the more finished product. :) ‘k bye.

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Finished RH Prompt 1 (41. Wind) One down and in the nick of time, so to speak. :)

(I think I’m going to take these as a bit of personal critique as well, but with the parameters that I must include one positive with each negative. These are not for me to squash my artistic attempts. All in the intention of making myself better. So, that said...)

I’m overall happy with the results of this first image, though I’d been hoping it would be smoother. But I’m a bit out of practice with the characters. The shading was fun and nice... I’m surprised at the definition I’d managed in the clothing.  My overall goal with this first image is to show the characters. The main characters, to be exact: Ria and KD, our Protagonists, in a lovely little moment, on a hill.. and in the wind, yes. Heh... too easy, maybe, but at least here we have a nice basic drawing for the rest to come from.

In future ones, I’ll probably go into some character details as well. This will be fun!