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This is Tega's old artblog!

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I'm surprised there are still followers left on this blog after it's been unavailable for..... uh, seven years give or take. But yeah this is now just going to be left up as an archive I suppose, since right now I'm not sure what to do about it. deleting the posts isn't going to stop their corpses from being reblogged from other sources.

Ah well. I got the blogname back, that's what I wanted in the end.

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On top, the girl I know well and am fond of! I saw @arkilliandragon post up a character profile thing for their OC and I wanted to do the same, but I have a hard time putting up words for my characters when all my storytelling is to myself in pictures, haha. But anyway.

I just did some rough sketch ideas about that.

And then on the bottom! My brief foray into DnD character, Lynara. I can’t remember her race or p much anything else about her, but she was a tree creature and I liked making her. But I also didn’t like playing DnD through an online medium, so I left the group after the first story arc. ^^;

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Here are some scribbles from my past livestream.

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I gotta draw an art banner for my posts, don’t I? /sigh

Anyway, I’m gonna stream. Hopefully for a while. Come in and hang with me if you like.

Just give me five minutes to set up properly. I’ve got the chat window open already, so I’ll see you there.

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TabeaBD graced me with a commission, and it only took me most of the year to complete it hahahhaa..... But no seriously, it was fun to do this after so long. I like drawing for people, but I'd also like to be paid for it so this was the best of the situation. I have learned quite a lot of things since the start of this, on top of that. For example: I need to draw about 900000000000 more flowers. I am very unskilled in that area whoops. and he looks kinda wooden but I was fighting with myself over the pose for a good long while so I just said screw it. Anyway, I did the very best I could with the flowers considering my inexperience, and I think staring very tirelessly at the references I picked up off the internet helped a lot. /thumbs up! I'm just proud of myself for finishing at this point. It's been a while! Now, on to the ridiculous large commission for my brother, and then art for my datemate's video game.

also I don’t care that I just copy/pasted this description from dA, I’m feeling particularly lazy today. o7

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@heartw0rms replied to your photo: inktober #6 AH YES, THE SHIP. THE ONE CLOUD SHIP I...

Love it! You captured this scene wonderfully! This is so great <3

Thank you for saying so. I was hoping I could capture it for others to see. I love this scene so much.

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Avel post part 2: the AU Boogaloo

I probably have more AU stuff I didn’t scan or decide was worth posting, but well. /shrug!

I think I’ve put enough content back on my blog to make up for a month maybe? I’ll get better about this, I swear. I know I keep promising that, but I really do mean it.

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Avel gets two posts because I love her most of all

But also because I’m breaking it up into “what’s technically canon” and “what’s clearly a spinoff AU”

So all of these deal with her home in FF7 universe. Not all the ideas are things that would happen in her official story if I ever wrote it, but all of these are ideas I had involving her life on the Planet at one point or other.

or, in the case of that fourth image, just a silly polyamorous ship that made me happy for about a month at work.

(I removed most of the written stuff because that’s more for me than it is for an audience. and a good chunk of it was in Al Bhed because I don’t want people reading over my shoulder)

(consider: I learned the Al Bhed cipher like a nerd to keep people from reading over my shoulder. amazing.)

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hey, you know who’s got no shame about self-inserting oneself into final fantasy 7?

this kid right here.

It kept me happy and sane while doing exhausting work with terrible boy coworkers to think of shenanigans on the Planet. Still does, but at least now I can think coherently.

Drawing myself honestly was a good shorthand for “I need to draw but I’m too tired to think of what to draw”. I know me pretty well, and I certainly know the FF7 world makes me happy. Well, happier than my terrible job did, no contest.

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It’s Silas, yo

I’m honestly surprised no one looked over my shoulder and mentioned how I was drawin the boy naked so much, but I guess I dissuaded people looking over my shoulder by writing notes to myself in MOSTLY AL BHED.

also featuring some headshots of Arrow because I’m still trying to figure out how to draw them.

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EVERYTHING I draw tilts to the left omfg. Tega pls....

also featuring my adherence to continuity: there’s a doodle in this set of pages that is on the other post with Fah Mel. GOOD JOB.

also also featuring my inability to double-check myself: I had some Jak and Daxter doodles from SGDQ when I was watching bonesaw run TPL 100%, but apparently I forgot to add them in. there were only three, but mostly I wanted to add them in for my scratched out commentary about that run. oh well!

Anyway, here are the amount of fandom-y things I did while at work. Seriously, like, doodled during my 10 minute breaks or my 30 minute lunch. and if I was very lucky, during the four hour wait between the end of my shift and the end of my brother’s. So it’s safe to say I worked on these over the course of days/weeks at some points.

When you have motivation enough, you’ll draw pretty fast. But then, I guess I knew that from figure drawing. >>

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And now finally some sketches I did over the course of... January through August. Or more or less that amount of time. I’ve got quite a few sketch pages I’m gonna post, and a lot of them were mixed around to keep like with like via photoshop. I just don’t know if I’m gonna post them as bunches or like, one by one. I’ll decide as I get there.

This is just a bunch of stuff from my old Crystal Chronicles story. I drew my Selkie kids for a livestream right before this and it got me to thinking about the idea again. Mostly though I focused on Fah Mel, because she was my main character and I never really worked out what she’d look like. Still working on that, especially what she looked like as a young girl out on the caravan journey.

(featuring some brief doodles of my ear and me while I was waiting for my brother to get out of work on that third image)

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Inktober #23

And a quick concept of colors for my bvoc, Arrow. I still haven’t decided, but I do know more about them now than I did when I first started designing them I guess!

So, their day job is as an optometrist, because tbh even the future needs eyecare. They love going dancing/clubbing on the weekends. They like warm colors (or warm cool colors, like those reddish purples). Uhh. I don’t know what their CHIPs would do, or if they’d have more than whatever that’s gonna be on their arm. But I don’t think I understand enough about CHIPs and what they can/can’t do to make that call anyway.

Everything I draw slants off to the left hahaha whoops

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I guess it’s fair to say that Lije picture is probably my biggest inktober success. XD

aaaa I’m glad people like it. Thank you for such nice words about it.

and even Mudora said A plus what is my life right now???

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Inktober #22

obligatory tag of @rosezemlya because this is her character

I’ve never gotten around to drawing Lije before but I’ve always wanted to. And to add frustration to my life as an artist who doesn’t draw backgrounds, I decided “hey, why not that general scene I just read while editing my Warden’s Return table of contents? you know, with all the rubble and the Sentinel Sword? that’d be cool!”

verdict: I do think it’s cool but I certainly am not appreciative of all the work I had to do for it. XD

I used a lot of pictures from mudora and blu as reference, though with a bias towards blu’s art because there happened to be more of it lying around at my particular moment of need. I love how many layers of stuff Lije is drawn wearing, tbh, so I tried to make that apparent.

by the way, the green scarf is tied around her waist because I remember that being in the scene. and admittedly I’m sad I couldn’t wrap it around her neck like I usually imagine it, but for the sake of continuity!

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Inktober #21

I was having a lot of Homestuck feelings, and I’ve never really drawn all the beta kids before, soooo I did it for myself just now.

And realized how few pictures I have of Jade compared to legit anyone else....... whoops........

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Inktober #20

And now we’re fast approaching the amount of inktobers I did this year. XD I just couldn’t end up doing more than one drawing every two days or so. My last one is sitting at my work area unfinished, sooooo.... y’know.

Anyway, this! This is actually a thing that cracks me up in retrospect. you see, a few years ago I was in a character design class and so I made up the lady on the right. I still haven’t decided her name, but tentatively I’ll just call her Detective Cerauno She was going to be the detective in an adventure-ish game design I never actually made. There was gonna be mystery, future things, and a Big Bad mayor of the city (who in my head looks a little bit like Moriarty in Elementary, but that aside).

THE FIRST funny thing that happened is that the TV show Almost Human came out like right after I submitted my rough draft to the class shell. or maybe right before. Regardless, the final draft was done really early into Almost Human (over the course of twoish weeks I think). So, I had to try VERY HARD not to have that color my growing idea for the sake of the class.

Over the course of pretending I had a game idea for like three different classes, I decided that the setting was around 2050~60ish, that new technology (mostly the google glasses/HUD that my detective is wearing) was still in the newish stages, so the world was transitioning into the future where those kinds of things would be commonplace, I had to cut out the ideas of AI/androids because I didn’t want things too close to Bladerunner or Almost Human. And loosely, I guess I decided it’d have a bit of Radiata Stories (as far as time/schedules went) and Phoenix Wright influence (re: detective work in a visual novel).

The second funny thing is that Bilvy came out with ideas that eventually became Rechargeable. And iDroid is HILARIOUSLY SIMILAR to my lady detective. they were both at least part african descent (my lady is a mix of latina and african-american), their color motifs were close to the asexual flag while they both are in fact asexual, and they had cropped jackets. It was honestly a coincidence, and not the first coincidence that’s happened to me re: character design, but still.

If anyone’s curious and has read up to this point, here’s my final submission for that assignment in class way long ago.

god it’s old, haha.