Amazing art by @little-leech-boy of Rubari who looks so good! I'm blown away by the talent and art and everything is just so perfect 😍💖😭
Hi! I just was drawing my MC and what I interpret Ahlf and Salrya to look like, and I wanted to show ya!
MC’s name is Rubari! But I’m gonna talk about his and his parents design under the cut if your interested, so yeah!
So firstly I wanted to design an MC that could believably be mistaken for both Cyrian and Ishari, so hopefully I succeeded in that, but I also added small scars that he probably got from being picked on, and moles to make the skin look a bit more busy. I also made sure to make him resemble his mother a bit more than Ahlf, to drive home the whole “you were your mothers child more than mine” thing, but I also wanted Rubari to seem more like his father in terms of personality.
For Salrya I didn’t really know what her eye color was? So I picked an amber color to make them pop a bit more, in reference to her eyes being able to glow, and to give them a warm but fiery feel to em. I also gave her moles so that Rubari could inherit them from her. In this picture she looks younger than Ahlf because I drew her before she split.
Ahlf is more up to date in his design, I made sure to grey his hair and give him some developing wrinkles, at first I didn’t want to make him seem older than he actually was but then I realized he’s had a shit life so far, so maybe him looking old as hell is a given. I made his eyes look a bit darker than Rubari’s to drive that home a bit more, and made sure to give him a few scars to reference his old life. I gave him a tan and freckles since he goes outside to fish a LOT, and again to make his skin look a lil less boring. I also gave him shorter hair in an attempt to vaguely mimic Ancient Greek haircuts men had, but it’s a rather loose interpretation.
Speaking of Ancient Greece, I did a small doodle of Rubari wearing what he would have worn while living in Cyre, at first I gave his lil cloak the colored stripe like in the picture, but then I remembered dye means you have cash, so I scrapped that and replaced it with that darker tone to make it look dirty/old. This is just the first draft of it, I might change it up a bit more to diverse itself from the reference picture, but I wanted to get an idea of what that looked like first. You mentioned before that Cyrians have usually have an Ancient Greece inspired name, idk if my assumption is correct, but I went ahead and kept that in mind when thinking of these Cyrian characters.
Lastly is the lil doodles of Rubari in the corner, I drew them to further explore his personality a bit more, and seeing how that came through in his facial expressions. He’s a very reserved person, and honestly pretty melancholic too, usually any emotion he feels isn’t expressed that much as he reigns them in, something he learned to do when being around his father. But when in comfortable company he is less afraid to express his emotions and thoughts, but admittedly he is still unused to doing so, so he usually doesn’t really know how to go about that. Because of that he can get flustered rather easily, he’s usually scrambling to either understand his feelings or get a grip on them during these times.
So uh, there it is! I hope it is at least semi accurate, and thanks for the cool story!
