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Back to the intermittent trend of throwing my guys into other settings, this time with Nine Sols, pretty heavily based off of the types of Solarians and clothing we see in-game.

I've been watching a playthrough lately, and it compelled me to design some cats. Behold: many dead people. It was a fun exercise to put the main characters from my setting into a setting where they are inevitably relegated to unique enemies who still get destroyed instantly by Yi at best and part of the sea of Tianhuo casualties at worst.

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Some future Umbrafall characters as bugs in Pharloom. Messing around with different designs and styles has been a great exercise, and Ari Gibson's style in particular is beyond fun to play with.

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It's Aromantic Awareness Week! I'm an aroace artist and writer currently releasing a prologue for my original comic Umbrafall. If you're interested in fantasy worldbuilding, the interplay between myth and history, and multimedia storytelling, check it out!

(...and hopefully by this time next year I will have actually introduced some of the arospec cast!)

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Happy Pride from Umbrafall! Here's some familiar faces and some unfamiliar ones.

Last year I challenged myself to draw a character for every day in June and to include their respective pride flags. For some reason I decided to use the rainbow flag for gay characters instead of the blue and green one, and looking back on this there are a few characters who are absolutely missing flags that they should have.

This was a fun challenge and definitely a turning point for me in terms of deciding to launch my comic. While the original idea was one character per day, I would sometimes draw several to build up a buffer, and this lead me to realize that I was getting confident and efficient enough in my process that doing something larger scale might be possible. And it was!

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You might remember the Dark World talismans from a while ago. They've finally achieved their intended final form, with some extra lore and a silly quiz to appeal to the human need to sort oneself into arbitrary groups (despite the inaccuracy of such a thing to the actual lore).

Check it out here and if you want more context, you can read the setting's introduction here!

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A month and a half's work, finally done and all in one place! Only took a week longer than I thought it would. Death and Temperance are showing off the designs for the back of the cards, as they veer into spoiler-adjacent territory and I haven't decided if I should show them off yet.

I will be revisiting with some kind of coloring (at the very least I think one or two greys would add a lot of clarity on some of these), but it feels good to be done for now.

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Got hit with the inescapable combo of needing to take a break because of other work for a few days -> not quite burnout -> artistic brain coming back online only to lock onto other parts of the project, so just two more cards for now.

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I've had a busy week, so the last batch of tarot cards won't be up until Tuesday.

Continuing on the trend of behind-the-scenes work from earlier this week, here are some of the very early concepts for Act 0 from 2024 when the idea for telling multiple versions of the Dark World's creation myth to introduce the setting started to solidify.

I hadn't quite decided on the multimedia element of Act 0 yet, but as you can see from the different styles on display, I wanted to make sure that each had their own distinct identity even in the early stages of the project.

(Check out the final version here if you're interested!)