#tzoria

[jaelynb]

Bunch o art from like, 2 years ago that I forgot existed.

Ive been feeling pretty incompetent lately artwise. I miss the interest i used to have. But looking at this stuff just reminds me of what ive already done. Its not a skill issue, its an inspiration/mood issue.

Some of this is fanart some is original stuff, some is fan characters.

[fromdarknessproject]

Rise and Shine!

[fromdarknessproject]

Some doodles + mini yabberings about each one.

Inspired by Coldplay's "Yellow". I don't consider myself that much of a music nerd (might have an auditory disorder tbh bc most songs I can't follow the lyrics to to save my life even if I really like it) But Yellow is one of those songs from childhood that I heard rarely but always fell in love with. Something about Yellow nearly makes me want to cry, and one of the few songs I can actually sing along with without effort).

As for the subject matter, I was feeling really indulgant. As time goes on I adoreboth of these character's perspectives on eachother. Mar and T'zoria love eachother with all their hearts, but that love manifests very differently between them, and their respective "worlds" eventually drive them toward the worst versions of themselves.

Mar was T'zoria's calm, and T'zoria was Mar's joy.

Nowadays, thinking of how they turn out just makes me sad, but as their characters develop they went from a coldhearted relationship held together by political benefits and sex appeal and now they're like:

"I would be besties with you but you'd bake my friends alive at the drop of a hat" and "I would be besties with you but I don't deserve to be happy and the longer im around you the more I want to marry you bone, and start a whole family and you don't want that"

Also some Yin/Yang imagery

This here was just a design exploration, going for more simple, but still lanky/heavy look that's distinct; something that doesn't make me think of other characters and isn't so reliant on a specific outfit to look like a distinct character (as opposed to a bkgd character)

The tiger tail comes from an increasing prevalence of the tiger in Mar's theme. Before she was heavily wolf themed bc of the whole "Mars" thing, so I was trying to make her look wolf-oriented-- I was having problems doing that without either making Mar's hair a different texture or pulling out Inumimi design choices that felt like it would actually mislead or distract people toward thinking she's an edgy inumimi girl) but since I've become more comfortable with the Tiger as a Yin symbol (before a tiger just didn't seem to sit right with the Yin concept), now I'm trying it out in her design, and honestly I feel it's doing wonders for her silhouette and shape language-- and now I have an excuse for her big round HUMAN ears besides "I like the way it looks".

Idk, I just feel like it's important to minimize overtly animalistic traits to avoid miscommunicating that Mar's character is animal-themed rather than the animal traits being symbolic of a different theme.

The tiger tail not only communicates her personality better but also flows better with design traits that existed long before she took on any particular themes.

Face scar may be getting a change too. Before it was a literal physical scar, but everytime I draw it it leans further and further into a supernatural mark.

CW: Spooky eye contact imagery below

hahah-- this was just me being a little neurotic, whenever I start to have a good thing going for me, or just a really satisfying moment, an argument starts in my head over my general unhappiness and frustration-- specifically over the fact that all the good things seem so few and far between.

Ironically I drew this before the "Yellow" doodle and was gonna call it "I hate the color of Piss" or something like that-- bc i keep ending up in places with pee-yellow walls. Big mood whiplash going on tonight.

This was going to be a self portrait, in a way it kinda still is, but Mar fits here too what with her... issues :,D If my mom ever asks about this I can just say "oh it's just a character being crazy".

[fromdarknessdev]

Umbr tries to give T'zoria an earpiece for some sneaky business, but as usual, the sorceror's excitement is getting the better of em and he's not paying attention.

I like to think this not long after they reunite, T'zoria feels compelled to help Umbr with her Patroller problem, but is all Rizzed up from when they first met a decade ago.

or something like that

[fromdarknessdev]

From Fracture to Antirr- I mean T'zoria

Once again! Fracture started out as a minor Transformers Prime OC, just a placeholder as a Mob Boss whom Thunderhoof would eventually overthrow. When I humanized my OC's for an original story, this dude was struggling for clothes that didn't look exactly like Voltron clothes, so e was naked in my head a lot of the time. It didn't help that Fracture was meant to be a scheming seducer (Starscream style) many characters inspire Fracture's human incarnation. From Dr. Drakken (Kimpossible) to Hitoshi Shinso (My Hero Academia). I also experimented with dark skin, as I realized I had a bias for using lightness as a prettiness trait.

One big struggle was making Fracture's appearance eye-catching and bragsome/indulgent, but deceptive and under-the-radar/quiet somehow.

The character eventually adopted a Venus (Flytrap) theme. Adorning the symbol of the Goddess of Love (Roses) while being a trickster snake (As flytraps lure flies with nectar) This inspired me to use a copper color scheme since copper wasn't super flashy but still warm and eye-catching, and gave me and excuse to litter this boytoy Twink-the-Terrible with flowers.

Later I'd explore masculinity as suggested by the Yang concept too, which I personally found interesting in the way it was almost an inverse of western ideas of masculinity. Dude went from generic schemer to an almost blind and deaf, undead, chaotic, dragon-possessed seductive wizard Emperor with anxiety.

[fromdarknessdev]

Ghosts

Something I started the other day after discovering a new song ("Stuck" by Thirty Seconds to Mars-- it made me think of being really high up in the air and some nostalgic sadness or something, I paid more attention to the melody than the lyrics??? lmao)

Anyway it's T'zoria and es cousin, Garin, fighting again. I don't know how Garin has survived in my head or in the story this long but e presses T'zoria's buttons and kinda serves a reminder of T'zoria's sensitivities. Drives Tzoria a little crazier than e already is.

Garin's a normal dude, one of the few who knew T'zoria personally when e was still called "Claudice".

I think some part of T'zoria still clings to Garin. As much as it hurt, it was a time before e became an empty shell. i think "Shake Me Down" by Cage the Elephant is a goodvibe for this one too.