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Day #2 - Wisp

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SO Since M!A's are allowed here: my first victim is Brian :3c. Brian is toy sized for 10 asks!

“Well, guess I’m stuck here now.”

M!A: MINI ME! - 1/10

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The third installment of my tarot set - The Empress. Tranquil is a very old and dear character to me that survives a major catastrophe - and then lives long enough to raise a large family.

The Empress - in this deck, represents rebirth, creation, and a nurturing soul. How lucky am I to have the perfect character for her?

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On the end of a pretty bad cold, I've finally finished the art secret santa exchange for my Neopets guild! So last night I started a project I've always wanted to do....a set of the Major Arcana cards with our characters! I love playing around with the meaning, and incorporating bits of the classical cards blended with character clues from our writing.

My first card (I'm waiting to do The Fool for last) features Aqua's character, Set - a strange man who lives quietly in Ingraed's home. Unlike most in his posse, Set is mysterious and quiet - a Clairvoyant in our plot that features technology and magic. His cards have very special qualities - I wonder what they mean? Aqua, you need to write more on him for us. If you're interesting in finding him on Neopets, you can find him under the pet name "Uninviting"

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Oh my goodness...I started those emotion practice sheets in the prior weeks and I really wanted to flex those new muscles in a proper portrait. Well, that turned into a full body, then that turned into a background, then that turned into rendering and trying out new brushes and...well anyway, meet Bahal Ciid. This is Aqua's character on Subeta, and his character is in our And When They Called plot. He plays opposite of my Sabra. Here's a blurb from the author herself: "Bahal Ciid, so named by the explorers who previously stepped foot in this realm, is a sea serpent - and perhaps the most dangerous of them all. Rumored to have been "so cruel that he was cast out by the sea itself", Bahal Ciid is forced to live the remainder of his life on an isolated, sandy bit of land...until newcomers arrive. Released from his prison, but still under the control of a mysterious horn carved of his own, detached one, he has no choice but to behave himself. Unable to escape into the sea, he has found himself a new prison: trapped on a boat alongside the humans he once despised and forced to interact with hundreds of dangerous, cute, odd and just plain annoying creatures such as the gnome (featured, in hand) until the humans can return to their rightful world.

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It was so exciting working on the character workshop!!! After lots of time and work, I finished with the 'exalted' familiar. How exciting! The prompt for this little drawing was "a selfie style picture", and I took the meaning quite literally. Alex would be the type of character that would really enjoy taking selfies, if they existed in her world. So, I had some fun with it!

Also, here is a more formal draw up of Alex, including her wires this time....her wires are paramount to her transfer of energy, but they're so intricate to draw that I had never made a proper reference picture for her. Also, her hair!!!!

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A little bit of emotion practice! I'm so exhausted of having my pictures look like fascinated dead fish with longrange stares. This is Matt, a character I created probably around 2005, and has been created and frozen so many times that I don't have him on any petsite. I need to fix this - he's truly a jewel of a character that goes through so much character development. I begin his story when he is around 13, and in his current story arc he is in his 40's with two kids and a much better life. Honestly, it was nice to see him laughing after what I put this poor man through!

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Say hello to another character I created about 15 years ago...Rene! I drew her last month as well, but she is an excellent character to get emotion practice with. A little more background on her as a character and her world: Her plot takes place in an alternate timeline to ours, one in which over-medication had led to the American population being unable to feel on our own. Rather than live a life with no emotion, pharmaceutical companies have put their heads together to formulate new and improved medications: ones that literally make you feel as you wish to feel. This is an extreme over-simplification of a very complex plot, but the basis of this world can be summed up to a few types of people: consumers, harvesters, and producers. Rene is a producer - meaning, she was born feeling in an unfeeling world. She was turned over to the asylum at a young age, a place where sick, sick people such as herself might find some kind of relief. She grows up here, but even for a patient she is a little...different. Obsessed with stories of revolution and civil unrest, Rene goes on to do great - but terrible - things in the name of justice. The rest of her story exists out there somewhere on the internet!