Art by Welgan

I'm Welgan (ae/they) and this is the blog dedicated to my own art ! - My original characters - Fanarts - Artfight - Human made - Digital art - Traditionnal - (Note : I'll also post drawings of my characters by my friends or from a commission sometimes, so that they all get to hang out together !) I don't do commissions and I don't sell my art (if you ask, I'll have to assume you're either a bot or a scam and block you).

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Last of my showcase of Mistral Jamboree Foddart art : Belladona, dragon belonging to user Fujiko18. Thanks for commissioning me !

This one was the big piece of the set. It involved a full colored portrait with a skin and apparel I had to figure out how it would fit the dragon as Sandsurges are Ancient dragons and can't wear apparel so I did not have a direct model.

It took a long time, as I was inspired for a full lineart, and I think the result looks great, but I did not have the most fun I could with it, it took too long. I itch for developing a quicker, more efficient, more textured way to do my digital art : something to develop for later ?

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More Flight Rising foddart ! This adorable Guardian lady is Nimue, from user FelineHearted. Thanks for commissioning me !

Fun fact : Guardian dragons are canonically huge. Apparels are scaled to the dragon picture. The cat is an apparel. So when I showed the drawing to my friend @stupefox she said "but ... this cat is HUGE !" :p

(she was right but also the customer and I were happy to ignore canon sizes)

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More Flight Rising foddart ! This lovely lad is Kas for user Kasarian. Thanks for commissioning me !

For this one I had fun with a more textured brush for the shadows and highlights and enjoyed it very much ! I liked doing the scales effect too.

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I have finally taken the opportunity to post my Mistral Jamboree foddart art ! (yes it was in march, but I live to a very slow time frame lol)

This traditional art piece was for a dragon named Red, belonging to user AppleSentry. Thanks for commissioning me ! This one was hard because I'm not used to drawing fierce-looking dragons but I fought hard and I'm proud of the result !

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Some of my Flight Rising dragons in traditional media !

From top to bottom, left to right : Nerubi, Nethyn, and my favorite couple of eldritch horror enthusiasts, Reibos and Oshari ! (I had a lot of fun writing their bio and even now I sometimes take a re-read and chuckle :p )

This was done in preparation for Mistral Jamborre : I participated in the foddart event for the festival and wanted some examples of traditional art (:

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Inktober day 31 - Wizard (using @eldibujista 's list from 2023)

And lastly it is here ! A sketch of Hauru from Howl's Moving Castle in my inspiration journal (: on the right page is a sticker I got from artist Aadorah ( aadorah.carrd.co -> go check the amazing artworks ! Also I forgot the H in the notebook credits and I'm only noticing it now) along with an Hauru print. It inspired me to make a Howl's moving castle themed spread with quotes from the french version !

Aaaand that's it folks ! A whole Inktober done (finished a bit late but still) ! I have never completed the challenge before so I'm very proud of myself (: granted, I'm still missing 2 days, 18 being delayed because I want to reread a book before, and 27 because it's a long-term crafting project but I'm on it, it's looking good and it's very fun !

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Inktober day 30 - Robotics ( using @eldibujista 's list from 2023)

This is the one that too soooo long to complete. What a beast. So many details. Some of them are spaced wrong. I had a hard time committing to this because backgrounds and tech are not my strong suit, but I'm glad I did because I really like how it looks !

Spoilers for Outer Wilds under read more line !

It's one part of the ship's interior in Outer Wilds. I wanted to highlight an element I really really love as commitment to detail from the devs : the nomai tech in the ship computer, taken from the memory statues, which explains why it's retaining its log between loops. 💜

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Inktober day 29 - Ghost (using @eldibujista 's list from 2023)

(yes we're in November but I struggled to finish the last piece so it delayed all last three to be posted ^^)

No long story this time I just felt like designing a ghost OC ! I really liked how he turned out and I'll think I'll keep him. I picture him in a dark academia setting (aesthetically at least) as a ghost librarian

I used my sparkly watercolor again but very diluted so he just has a nice discreet sheen (:

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I'm skipping inktober day 27 ( Grimoire ) because I have had the stupidest, funniest idea for a craft project that will take muuuuuch longer than a day to complete, so let me keep that on hold. In the meantime, have a sneak peak at the work in progress 👀

(I sacrificed a blank notebook I had for years without knowing what to do with it but I think I have found its calling ! It's from the time I did an internship in a big publishing house and one of the upsides was that I got to take home some dummies, blank books or pack of cards the printer sent us so that we had examples before ordering. )

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Inktober day 28 - Mutation (using @eldibujista 's list from 2023)

Look a special sparkly peeper (:

On a teeny tiny paper because drawing everyday is hard and small paper makes it easy. And now look at him ! He sparks joy (with golden glitter gel pen)

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Inktober day 26 - Ritual (using @eldibujista 's list from 2023)

Hecate from Hades II doing a ritual with the cauldron ! I've been playing the game when I have time since it's release, completely blind (safe from my knowledge of the previous game) and oh boy what a great game. What a piece of art. Truly masterful ! And sooo beautiful! I love so many design ! Hecate is very very cool (but Chaos is cooler, objectively).

This one took forever to make because I layered layer upon layer of diluted ink so I needed to let it dry and it was never the right shade (I did it on several days)

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Inktober day 25 - Wand (using @eldibujista 's list from 2023)

My DnD wizard Ulrich and his very normal, very unsuspicious spatula (:

This character is one of the pregen characters in the Pax Elfica campaign (a french medieval fantasy campaign for DnD or Clé en main). Ulrich's design and backstory come from the author, Claude Guéant, and I'm using the official art from Elvire de Cock as reference.

The story takes place in Brenhaven, a town that's been saved from the Necromancer army by the elves, only to then be militarily occupied by them. They forbid all usage of magic and wood cutting and they take magic-gifted children to their forest to train them in the respect of nature (or that's what they say !). We play as inn employees at day, resistants at night ! And Ulrich, as a wizard, was forcefully recruited in the Necromancer's army back during the war, where he learned all his magic knowledge... Now not only magic is illegal, but if people new he's specialised in necromancy, it wouldn't go well for him ! He works at the inn as the cook now.

So in order to stay as inconspicuous as possible, he coded his grimoire as a plain old cook book, and carved his wand into a spatula. So yeah. If magic needs magicking... He casts it with the spatula. (This backstory bit is from me !)

I don't usually play pregen characters but for this campaign they are very interesting and we've been playing for two years now so I made him mine in that time. I just love my brooding illegal mage (: he's got great dynamic with the other player characters (who now about the necromancy bit and it spawns countless jokes at the table :p )

The pose was drawn using one of Kibbitzer's reference poses from her pose reference book !

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Inktober day 25 - Hunter (...?)

Look at this fierce hunter beast ! The call of the hunt in its pose, the intelligence in its eyes ! Surely this must be the "kpop demon hunter" everyone talks about ??

Jokes aside, I just love his design , so I stretched a bit the extend of the day's word to draw him because I wanted to since I watched the movie !

This a watercolor pencils base and watercolor accents over (quite a lot)

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A little work in progress picture (: next inktober word is Hunter :3

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Inktober Day 23 (yes I got confused again on the drawing lol) - Power (using @eldibujista 's list from 2023)

For this one I tried a young Ganondorf, with the mark of the Triforce of Power ! Preoccupied. Unsure of his role in all this. Already crowned king by virtue of being born.

I used Breath of the Wild / Tears of the Kingdom's Ganondorf as a reference (hair, clothes, and I used the Gerudo kids in these games as reference to shape a younger face). Some parts like the head piece is inspired by Ocarina of Time's Ganondorf (also the pointy ears :p) and I believe the Triforce mark on the hand is more of a OoT thing anyway.

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Inktober day 22 - Prophecy (using @eldibujista 's list from 2023)

A little game prop for my DnD ("Dragons" setting by Studio Agathe) character Nephrys , who's a divination mage (and a dragon) and as such, as a perk allowing them to roll a dice at the beginning of each turn and is allowed to replace the next roll with this result if they want. Which is very useful and also I forgot to use it every time, so I hope that with a cute little card prop to use as a pedestal for the rolled dice I'll remember it more :p

Using my game notes notebook and some of my prettiest dice for background (: (featuring the terrifying creature we battled last session)

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Inktober day 21 - Dispell (using @eldibujista 's list from 2023)

This one was though but my friend I have been travelling with gave me the great idea of Sophie lifting Hauru's curse ! So I copied a screenshot from the film (: I love this movie very much and this scene is great.

(using my french copy of the book as background prop)