The Art of Blossoming

Mostly blogs about Fallout 4 & 76 with some Fo3, Horizon Zero Dawn & Forbidden West Watch my gameplay on Twitch! https://www.twitch.tv/theartofblossoming Art commissions CLOSED: https://ko-fi.com/theartofblossoming! ~♡~ Fallout 4/76 Art Swaps, ASK! One Holistically minded Geek, Growing through experience, learning by living, gaining emotional understanding through living with chronic illness and disability..and posting about my interests! Avatar by myself, header by @galoogamelady edited by myself (She/Hers)

[theartofblossoming]

Fallout 4 Fanfic Series: Vincent, Redefined

The Masterpost:

Mature, explicit in a few places, game violence and themes. Please read the warnings in the front notes relative to each chapter. Only one chapter (The Longshot) is presented in a milder version with a link to the more graphic non-con version posted seperately as an opt-in read. Much fluff. 223k words...

Links to each part of the series, in order.

Vincent, Undefined

...is now finished! (92k words)

This is the prequel to the main fic series, overlapping and expanding on VR Part 1.

26 chapters (Holotapes A-Z), the latter of which overlap with 'Vincent, Redefined'.

Next Fic WIP: "Blue Sky Beneath"

Vincent, Redefined - Part 1

Vincent, Redefined - Part 2

Vincent, Redefined - Part 3

Through A Man's Eyes

I'll Carry You

MacCready, Redefined

Valentine, Redefined

Hangovers - Part 1

Hangovers - Part 2

Hangovers - Part 3

(Derailed - a one shot taking place in 2295)

Epilogue

Please, if you read, leave a comment!

If you enjoyed what you read, or saw of my fanart, I'd love it if you'd buy me a coffee!Click here for ko-fi link (Or a nice cuppa tea, ta.)

Commission Fan Art from me!

#my own art

#by theartofblossoming

There's also my other OC, Skyler Woods, whose fic masterpost can be found here: Blue Sky Beneath

Other places you can find me:

• Twitch Channel - livestreaming Fallout and other games (mornings, UK time)

• YouTube Channel - archived Twitch streams and settlement tours

• Instagram - @TheArtOf_Sal

• Linktree 🌲

[theartofblossoming]

"Smoke Break"

Another quick pencil sketch, this time with no reference!

[Edited to add this Pixlr edit; I don't use the AI, just the original tools & filters]

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

MAY YOU NEVER LOSE YOUR HYPERFIXATION

[theartofblossoming]

#fallout

[theartofblossoming]

Honestly wondering where the Fallout fan artists I used to follow have gone. Are you still here, admired mutuals? More to the point, are you still drawing Fallout?

[orbitpuddingsagan]

[theartofblossoming]

Can you guess what film I watched today that inspired me to draw a quick Vin & Mac in this pose?

I love my bi guys 🩷💜💙

[theartofblossoming]

Blue Sky Beneath

A canon-divergent Fallout 4 fanfic.

What if the person to break into the Institute wasn't the 'Vault Dweller'?

What if the Sole Survivor didn't survive long enough to take down the bogeyman? Who would step into their place?

Based on an actual playthrough with some added canon-twists.

Links by chapter below cut:

"The thing about following in someone's footsteps is that you get to notice all the imprints they leave behind. Bars, guard stations, fields, markets; wherever people gather, those impressions ripple out, farther and farther until they reach the edges. Unlike water though, the ripples don't get smaller, they get bigger, less cohesive. What was that game? Oh yeah, Chinese Whispers.

So every time I get close to a non-threatening populated place, I hear about the man in blue. 'Seven feet tall, had to chip his way out of an ice block with nothing but a pen, he can go invisible at will and leap over a radscorpion in a single bound, without getting stung in the meatsack'. You know, shit like that. Some deny he even exists or that he is actually a whole Vault's worth of men out there, sneaking around, all bearing the same name. The rumors get wilder as the booze and chems get stronger.

They're all looking at a distorted, after-vision of him, not seeing the growing wedge of supporters, companions, settlers-in-arms and the occasional oddity following in his wake, doing a large portion of the work. Don't get me wrong, I admire the man. He does a helluva job with very little. He can make just about anything from all manner of junk and he knows how to survive. I hate the distorted reflection of him, is all. Really doesn't do him justice.

Image by solid-shapes

PART ONE

Sanctuary

Abernathy

Starlight

Hangman's

Diamond

Fort

Goodneighbor

Jamaica

Independence

(r)Egret

Catacombs

North

South

PART TWO

Image by Eluvisen

Island

Buried

Tested

Empowered

Shaken

Misplaced

Juiced

Loaded

Distracted

Switch-Hitter Part 1

Switch-Hitter Part 2

PART 3 - WIP

Reconnaissance

Gambit

Chameleon

Perspective

Relations

Sparks

Mantle

Coalescent

WIP (title TBC - Final Chapter!)

Thankyou to everyone who has read and left comments so far! There is still a bit to tell in this story.

Meanwhile, you might catch Skyler's Survival Mode playthrough live on Twitch (check schedule) or you can find the exported vids on my YouTube channel!

[theartofblossoming]

Readers, if you get through 32 chapters and there's no 33 yet, flood my inbox 😅. At time of posting, I have started writing it and have a rough outline. It's hard to start the end!

[theartofblossoming]

'Lucky' Ricky Gee had a friend pop by:

That's 'Bad Brad' on the right (go and check out The_Bradstick_ on Twitch!)

I'm just imagining Ricky's tales of these days gone by to my Fallout 4 OC that he lives long enough to meet.

"Yeah, I was a giant hotdog, once. Man, Appalachia was a crazy place but some folks really knew how to party!"

It's amusing that the ones mostly throwing parties are robots: Ned at the Moonshine Jamboree and the Fasnacht bots, though sometimes all kinds of 76ers will get together for some fun, like the many people that supported Fallout for Hope (which is currently in its cocoon, waiting to emerge as something bigger!) I'm really grateful to @chadfallout76podcast for hosting those excellent fundraising get-togethers! I'm looking forward to what comes next.

Here in the UK, we have NukaCon to look forward to in November and we're collecting members for Fallen Britannia, who also aim to run UK based Fallout conventions. Find them on Discord and Instagram. As an 'Eyebot', I'll be sharing updates here as they put them out.

Hope you're having a good August, folks!

[joannascribblesfallout]

🚀❤️✨️

The space suits in Nuka World are just recolors of the hazmat suit, but hopefully this looks a wee bulkier- nowhere near like an actual spacesuit, but is okay.

[theartofblossoming]

Adorkable. 🥰

[theartofblossoming]

I think that wearing this mask counts as a self-roast...

[liberty-prime-rib]

rainy weekend means time for a Mac sketch

[theartofblossoming]

I love grumpy Mac.

[valeriarts]

Character study of Lucy MacLean in my style because:

1 She has unique & gorgeous features & I adore her

2 every time I draw her in my comic, she has a different face WHY I needed to create a graphic reference

[theartofblossoming]

Lovely! Would you do a ref with different expressions, too?

I find comic styles the hardest to draw because you are making reality abstract. (My best Lucy art is my icon btw)

[1slushy]

my affliction so bad that i audibly squeal and giggle & have to go 'SO CUTE' and whip out the camera when i notice him ingame

[joannascribblesfallout]

Started something but now I gotta get ready for work. I thought his face looked good! Still need to grab a reference though. I kinda am thinking of him in an astronaut suit and Michelle dressed as Nuka Girl 🔭🪐

[theartofblossoming]

It looks great! Don't put him in the Nuka Girl rocket suit - in Fallout 4 it removes beards. My OC Vin was furious that he lost his glorious horseshoe 'stache!

(Please tag me when you have a progress pic :)

[theartofblossoming]

~ "Self-Portrait in Sanctuary" ~

"by Vin Hudson, 2289"

@wolfsregard I had a go at an 'oil painting'!

My Fallout 4 OC, Vincent Nathaniel Hudson ('Nate' pre-war, 'Vin' post-war) is an ex-Staff Sergeant who happens to be something of a painter! He would have spent his youth riding his motorcycle, reading comics, making and fixing things, becoming a semi-pro gymnast and exhibiting his art... but he got drafted. Good thing too, or he never would have met the love of his second-chance life.

Previously, I've used a photo edit app to create 'paintings' from my screencaps with a filter or two. This one I did myself.

[theartofblossoming]

I think about Vin every now and then. I also think about drawing but it hasn't happened for a while, so here's one I drew earlier.

I really need to do more backgrounds, too. Maybe I'm just waiting for inspiration.

[randomthoughtshere24]

First Fight 💢

Paladin Danse learns that Diane isn't afraid to speak her mind! A trait he would later be thankful for, but now it's just another headache.

In my game I had sent Nick to Goodneighbor before getting Danse as a companion so I imagine Danse didn't know anything about Nate and Shaun before this conversation, Diane had only mentioned being from a vault.

Been working on this sporadically the last few months but decided to spend this last week really focusing on it, all that power armor had me terrified lol I know the Pipboy doesn't make alert sounds for settlements but let's just pretend it does lolol

[theartofblossoming]

You tell him, Sole!

[theartofblossoming]

Part 3: Chapter 8 "Coalescent"

Read it here on Ao3

Skyler has redefined the Institute and gathered friends and factions together against a major threat to everything that she has begun to build.

The penultimate chapter.