My name is Soul! I love to draw, so I post my art on here! Iām in many fandoms, including Undertale, RWBY, Cookie Run, Vocaloid, and so much more! ~ COMMISSIONS ARE OPEN ~ ~ thesoulbonder.carrd.co ~
Attacked @thesoulbonder's Belladonna and Aleira for Art Fight 2026! Actually, your Belladonna content on your Tumblr has caught my interest for a while and I always wanted to try a comic style attack at least once
Well, keyword being 'try', it certainly doesn't follow traditional comic strip flow-
Oh my gosh, how is ArtFight already over?? This isnāt fair! I was having so much fun!! But Iām ABSOLUTELY gonna be participating next year, so look out for that!
And Iād like to give a HUGE thank you to everyone who drew my OCs!! My Summer hasnāt been the best, but every time I got something in my inbox I dropped everything and started FREAKING. OUT. Those are my babies!! My brainchildren! Someone took the time to read through their profiles and lore and decided to spend even MORE time DRAWING THEM??? THATāS INSANE!!!!! AAAH!!
So thanks again for making my July something wonderful. I hope I mightāve done the same for you!
Most of these are for my mutuals and irl artist friends that Iāve been planning to attack! What will I draw in the future? Who knows! But Iām having a LOT of fun :D
This Weekās Characters Are:
SpiderHeart by @carofb3
Butterfly Pea Milk Tea Cookie by @/ProfoundKnight117
Look, art school was busy, and so is my summertime, but I NEVER forget my Dolts! Thatās my OTP right there!
Anygay, Happy Pride Month! Take some domestic dolts based on an Al Parker illustration I learned about in school a few months ago. Isnāt it so dang sweet?? I adore this posing, and I hope I did the original justice!
Ironically, for someone who has an OC group based on DnD, I havenāt actually gotten to play the game too much! I really struggle when it comes to meeting people Iād want to play with, and I am nowhere near qualified to run my own game.
The two months in high school I did play actually resulted in a MASSIVE falling out with that friend group, but in that short-lived campaign the entire structure of the world was just a mushroom themed Underdark which led to another Underdark (aptly named the Under-Underdark), and we just kept going deeper until we were five layers of Underdark (an Under-Under-Under-Under-Underdark) beneath the surface
So I guess that? But idk Iām hoping to find people to play with now that Iām in college :P
So, do you ever sit back and realize that youāve given your OCs different fragments of your own mental issues, and how their character development is a thinly veiled attempt to manifest a better mindset towards yourself since if they can solve their issues, so can you, and you're not actually broken after all?
Yeah, me neither
But hereās a silly drawing if I were to have hypothetically done that
Hereās a tiny break from commission-posting with another RWBY ref sheet!
This time itās the weapon of my lovely OC, Kaldera Avant of Team KOHL, whoās based on the idiom āPot Calling the Kettle Blackā
I heard pots and kettles and wanted to make a witch themed character wielding either a broomstick or cauldron-esque weapon, which eventually evolved into Gravitas, a combination pogo stick/rocket launcher Kaldera can swing around with reckless abandon
Itās taken me a WHILE to make a weapon design that feels somewhat adjacent to the show proper, but I think Iāve finally done it, and Iām so happy!! Now, itās onto the rest of my main OC team in hopes to get them all developed enough for ArtFight :)
I was approached by the lovely LocalCipher on Instagram to draw these two characters doing something cute, so here we are!
As you can see, my art styleās a little bit different here, but I donāt hate it! Iām just gonna blame the anatomy and gesture classes Iāve taken recently and keep on keeping on :)
Thank you so much for commissioning me!
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ā¬ļøIf youāre interested in commissioning me, go to this post!
Iām back at it again with some more commissions!
This one was a bit out of my comfort zone, since Iāve only made ref sheets twice before now, and never for someone elseās character, but I got super excited when I heard that this was for a RWBY OC!
I study the RWBY turnaround sheets RELIGIOUSLY so getting to make something in that style was super fun!
Thank you so much to theangelicemo on Instagram for commissioning me! Your character has a great design and I hope I did her justice :D
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ā¬ļøIf youāre interested in commissioning me, go to this post!
I decided to be extremely self-indulgent with it so Iād actually get everything finished in time, so hereās one group of my blorbos debating their relations to another group of my blorbos <3
wow those bellas do be rocking! call me curious but what is the drawing process in getting bellatorās armor to have that delicious 3d appearance?
Howdy!! Thank you so much! Let me try to take a swing at explaining
(Although donāt take this advice word-for-word, this is my first time doing an art tutorial so a few things might sound confusing or be under-explained. Sorry in advance!)
For me, getting armor to look 3D really comes down to knowing simple shapes, perspective, and shading
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Bellatorās armor is made up of Rectangles and Diamonds, two simple shapes!
Letās start with the rectangles :D
I want this to be her leg armor, but just pasting a flat rectangle onto her body wonāt look too great. Itāll be flat! Legs curve, so I want the shape thatāll be on her leg to curve as well. It offers more protection that way, too
So here, you bend the 2D rectangle like itās a piece of paper, or like itās made out of foam, and you get some depth! Thatās a 3D object!
Thatās the shape I was looking for. Onto the knight it goes!
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Next is the Diamond shape
Again, I want it to cover more of her body, so we arenāt gonna paste a flat shape. For this shoulder armor, the center point of the Diamond should line up with the center of Bellatorās actual arm and shoulder, outlined above. The position of her arm is tilted, and this guideline helps when drawing the 3D shape
We just draw a line up from the center arm line, draw our center point, and can branch out from there to make our Diamond
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Lastly is shading!
I really like big blocky shadows, and they can be a huge help in adding depth to your shapes.
A bonus side to the Diamond is that theyāre normally divided up for you into a top side and a bottom side. So I usually just shade the entire bottom half for funsies :3
You can add more shading and highlights should you see fit, btw. Whatever suits your style!
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This is a very basic explanation, but hopefully it helped a little bit?
If being at an art college has taught me anything, itās that understanding art fundamentals is so so SO important when it comes to art improvement.
Iād highly recommend looking up some YouTube tutorials on art fundamentals or 3D forms or anything else like that, because those are guaranteed to explain things better than I can!
I had a class project last quarter where weād design two āodd coupleā characters - basically two characters who are total opposites but work together anyway - and I immediately thought of my lovely ladies, Bellator and Belladonna <3
These designs are their current ones, and Iām EXTREMELY happy with them. My professor really liked them too!
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