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A Different Story

Sorry I haven't posted in a while, I was helping my mom assemble an electric fireplace she bought. We just finished it this week, and now I'm back to drawing. This time, I wanted to make another fan art for yet another obscure indie gem I finished last week called Bloomtown. It's an extremely endearing turn-based pixel art RPG heavily based on Persona if you want something for reference :p

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Renee

Art of the videogame Afterimage, another Metroidvania I recently finished playing through. The story was a bit hard to follow but the gameplay and art of the game was absolutely amazing, quite potentially one of the best Metroidvania games I have ever played, which shouldn't be such a surprise since from what I saw, it was consistently rated as one of the best metroidvania games and always put into the S tier of games. Which makes it all the more strange that there was such little guides and help of it on the internet but oh well, I won't hold that against the game :p

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Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween everybody!! I wanted to make a quick drawing to celebrate the holiday. It's a bit sloppy and minimal since I wanted to make sure to finish it before Halloween was over, I hope you all have a great Halloween ^w^

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Stairway to the Stars

More fanart for Aeterna Noctis, I already finished the game last week but still had one more drawing I've been sitting on posting. This time, for a zone as beautiful as it was frustrating to navigate. This game did a really good job with its space area, a mix of beautiful and haunting. Around every planet there was a ring showing its gravity and it was always a leap of faith going from one to the next with the fear you might miss your jump and slip all the way back to the bottom, down onto the earth. There was a strong backlight around the edge of most of the planets and spheres. brilliant shining beacons from the background making their mark on all the shapes. And flowing streams of asteroids and particles going through the area everywhere. The game really upped its atmosphere and visual presentation towards the end, again, it was extremely beautiful to play through, despite the control challenges ^,^"

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Infinite Sea

Have some Aeterna fanart, based off a region in the game. I remember when I entered the infinite sea area for the first time in the game, I was absolutely shocked with how beautiful the biome was, especially compared to the dilapidated towns and gray, muddy skies and enviorments of the first areas of the game. The game absolutely has the potential to be beautiful, and I feel like this area marked a turning point in the game where you start to encounter more open, vibrant areas of the game. 

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Cyclical

Just finished Aeterna Noctis tonight and have been sitting on this drawing to finally upload. The game was great for the most part, albiet it has a major issue with its arrow weapon and there was a massive difficulty spike near the end of the game that tried my patience quite a bit but setting those aside it was a great experience. I wanted to make some more fanart for the game since I'm trying to get into the general habit of using the games I play as inspiration for drawings. This was just based off of official artwork of the game's two main characters, the kind of darkness and queen of light, eternally stuck in an infinite cycle of going to war with each other through endless cycles (and also they love each other, but that's spoilers >:3)

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Noctis

I've been playing a new game recently called Aeterna Noctis that I saw a lot on youtube videos and recommendations, its been fun for the most part despite some glaring design flaws in the game and its been an absolutely beautiful game. I was lucky to get it on discount during the Autumn discount. I'm still really bad at drawing humans and I ended up having to sketch over their face because I kept erasing so much that it left a huge dark smudge I had to cover up, but somehow, I think it worked out alright. It looks kinda cool to have that black fire on their face, haha.

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Child Bearing Needle

I just realized I beat Silksong and never made any fanart for it and just felt the sudden need to correct that. It was an amazing game and definitely deserving of it, and I wanted to make something quick for it, almost as a way to just signal to people that I do have the game in the first place. Even for a simple small drawing like this, it was a bit hard to figure out what kind of background to include for it, I'm always struggling to fill up space in my drawings since I often feel uncomfortable just leaving large swaths of it empty. It's especially hard when using reference from 2D games, haha.

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Second Path

Another drawing, very similar to the last one I just posted. I've had this idea for a while now, since before the summer if I remember. I've been sitting on these for a while, inspired by a pair of paintings I saw in a clothes store while I walked vored through the aisles. A lot of my drawings are like that actually. I think if I had any kind of identity, a drawing like this would be more close to what I normally draw, what my normal even is. Right now, I feel pretty accomplished that I was able to do these nearly back to back, haha. I started working on this one yesterday and was planning on stopping after finishing the sketch, but I still had some free time so I continued and shaded the lower portion of the picture. This morning, I came back to a drawing that was mostly done and that was a huge relief, and yet still, something about how I worked on it this morning felt more sluggish compared to last night, like I didn't have the same energy for it. Maybe I was still tired from yesterday and didn't realize it. Still, I usually don't have the motivation to upload consistently so I'm taking it all in stride. Don't expect another drawing again so quickly, haha. Also, aah, drawing flowers is so hard and tedious like this, I don't know why I do this sort of thing so often XD

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Recollection

It's been a long time since I've drawn anything, I decided it would be best to take a bit of break for personal reasons over the summer but something inspired me to finally start trying to come back to this. Despite not drawing for so long, I'm pleasantly surprised with it.

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Our Truth

The final of my Nine Sols fanart. I couldn't think of something as good as the last one so this ended up being a bit sewn together but at least its done. After this, I'll probably be taking a break for quite a while.

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Grotto of Scripture

More fanart for Nine Sols, this time more decidedly focused on the background rather than character. It turned out really well this time, but this was definetely quite stressful to get through and my arm was hurting a lot by the time I was done, so don't expect anything like this again any time soon -w-

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Our Passion

Continuining the Nine Sols fanart after a bit of a break. I was a bit more apprehensive about this piece since its exponentially harder for me to draw two characters together instead of one and they have long, flowing clothes that I really struggled with. Still, I don't think it came out too badly all things considered. 

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Cursed Dream

Lady Ethereal fanart. The sketching phase of this one was surprisingly painless, but it was the shading that actually took the most time. Of all the bosses in the game, hers is probably the one with the most horror elements surrounding it. I hope people don't mind me posting something quite a bit scarier than my usual stuff. Sorry if I end up jumps caring anybody lol. 

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Easter Basket

Easter Doodle :3

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Ballad of Warriors

Another drawing for one of the bosses of Nine Sols, I've been continuining with making one for every boss just to tell you how much I enjoyed the game (and also just to give myself something to do >,<). Of all the ones I've drawn so far, Jiequan's design has probably been the one I've struggled with the most, partly because its just more complex than Goumang or Yanlao's but specifically because I struggled with the shape of their head mane. I always end up struggling with characters who don't have round heads since I'm so used to starting off a charcter drawing with the circle for the head. I had to do a couple practice pages just to feel comfortable with his mane shape, but I think I got it well enough. I wanted to try to do a bit of forshortening with the spear they used, having it held from with their back arm and jutting forward, but eh, the effect didn't really go as planned and I probably could've tried to push that forshortening further but didn't since I was already struggling with his pose as is. I know I wanted to have some kind of jumping pose with him charging down at the viewer with their spear as a reference to one of their attacks in the game, but I don't think I can really draw characters from different angles like that really well since every time I tried to in the practice drawings, it looked extremely clunky. Also, the background is admittedly just slapped together. I know I wanted to include the hammer statue that's also featured in his area of the game, but everything else besides that was just making stuff as I went to fill in space. I'm realizing a major problem I'm having with all these is that I often have to use the game itself for reference, but its difficult because the game itself is in 2D and that makes it harder to translate things into a drawing. Big example here, I literally had no idea what the floor would look like here and kinda just had to make something up lol. 

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Imperfect Machine

Continuing my streak of Nine Sols fanart. This one was especially hard since this guy's gotten almost no other fanart from the community outside of ensemble pieces, so it was really hard finding reference for him xd

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