#river winters

[l1111y]

First post on Tumblr and I'm already liking it here whatt i should've discovered this app sooner idc if this got no attention truly a passion project ദ്ദി◝ ⩊ ◜.ᐟ

[winterstellium]

You know what I love? Looking at other writers’ blogs and getting a sense of nostalgia (especially when they haven’t updated in a long time) for their work, and also for your own. You soon realize just how far you’ve come since the very beginning, the simpler times, of your fic.

@winchesteralex does that for me. I don’t know what it is about River’s blog, but Song Remains the Same instantly makes me want to work on my fic again. They were the one to spark that inspiration for my fic series, and I can’t get enough of these characters and the world around them.

[l1111y]

TAMAVER VERSION of my darling Tamarack 💖 I could've went harder w this like how I did with Qiu's but oh well 😭 it's the furs guys

[l1111y]

Qiuver heh I forgot to upload this to Tumblr 💖 it looks kinda weird now that I'm seeing this in the morning but who cares and of course y'all know what the next post is gonna be

[l1111y]

Updated ver, but for real this time 💖

I am safe to finally say this is how my River will look like in each step 🥹 (made it height accurate too). Previous arts are pretty much random because I haven't made my mind up on River's actually design so I kinda just draw him however I want.

⚠️ Actually I kinda want to yap a bit so if you ain't interested skip to next post please 😭⚠️‼️‼️‼️

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Ok so River's design had always used color symbolism but I pressed it further into this art. I'll make this quick, so for River, red represents his uh 'real' self, his courage and whimsiness 💔 (further info is in the pinned post 😭) while I chooses blue but not as in calming, but as sorrowful and emotional coldness. As you can see in step 1, colors are pretty much balanced here and there, black and white represent neutral emotions. And addition! Yellow, you might not see it, but his eyes are yellow, kind of golden, but it's originally yellow. I took yellow as representation of deceit and hypocrisy, not as in joy or cheerfulness.

In step 2 though, River is completely washed out with blue and neutral colors, no red in sight and his eyes seemed to be yellower than ever. You can guess it, he masks his real self even further because he's sure people would stray away from him if he just acts however he wants, and River doesn't want to be disliked, he want people to like him and to not worry about him no matter what it takes, he wouldn't even care if the person is just using him and doesn't genuinely want to be with him. He just wasn't sure if anything could change anymore and he managed to convince himself no one could help him get better. The amount of black and white (neutrality) made him 'plain' and numb. He just acts cheery and joyful so yeah, people wouldn't worry.

But in step 3, red basically overtook the color palette, even his blue hair was intertwining with red. A new color was added, brown, his boots are brown, yes. This time I took the positive symbolism of brown, which is stability and warmth (assumption...) because well, River clearly had found it. The neutral colors are pushed down to almost none, River wasn't afraid to show who he's really is. Yet yellow still makes it to the frame, in the buttons and even his eyes still, of course. He's still a hypocrite in some ways or another, but maybe it's just because deceit had always been one of River's nature in his heart.

I will definitely make updates about this man's personality gosh.

[l1111y]

Turns out the one I posted back then is NOT the 'official' design for him... 🥰 I realized that I was infact not making his design colors correctly, but now I put that shit to work, and yes I kept his step 3 design I kinda like it. I'll just explain the new colors that aren't here before.

Also @divineshelter and uh maybe you too @coconutjamwastaken 💝

Orange (yes) - While to some people it can mean warmth, energy, yada yada I took the negative part as in the immaturity, arrogance, overbearing (and from some sources it can mean cheapness too!).

Pink - Pink! Pink CAN mean love, playfulness, confidence, but it's also a color associated with feminity which River hates back then.

Yellow (on the clothes) - Of course, it's just a fake display of happiness he shows off, it still means facade.

Green - the one on his step 2 design is actually a jade bracelet (for canon I like to imagine somewhere somehow Qiu gave that to him) but for meaning I'd take the classic negative meaning of green- Envy, but the envy is not big enough to corrupt him.

[l1111y]

Oh my darling Tamarack I hope my handwriting is readable enough lol 💔 idk why I keep changing brushes

But I feel like I've been pushing Qiu aside much for the fact that i'm poly route ughh I'll definitely make Qiu comic first and then QIUTAM COMIC DEFINITELY 💪💯

[l1111y]

Don't look at the same time!

THE Qiuver comic has arrived oh finally as my apology for kicking Qiu aside too much I made an entire 10 slide of comics for them 🙏💖 i honestly don't know why I chose this I was randomly playing ts with my sister and I was like wait this is a great idea 💔

But also oh Qiu I'm so sorry for casting you aside 💔 I ALWAYS SAID I'LL ALWAYS CHOOSE TAMARACK BUT I'LL CHOOSE YOU TOO QIU GIVE ME A CHANCE PLS