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[yanavaseva]

I’ve seen what’s on your mind. I know it well, a tale as old as time. You’re infatuated with what I represent to you. You'll eventually find something else to obsess over. At least the view is great. I... appreciate the moment.

(I was at it again, torturing myself with insane amounts of small details. Why do I draw heavily textured or intertwined details on most elf outfits? I just imagine it's something they'd culturally have because of historical and psychological reasons.)

[yanavaseva]

Ahh. I still like how this looks but *someone* kept telling me how much he dislikes every picture featuring this lady (he said she has "capitalist lips"!) and it ruins my incentive to include her anywhere :( In case anyone was wondering (probably nobody).

I guess I'll give an in-universe explanation of her absense as "yeah the situationship was complicated".

[rhube]

Fuck that guy; sounds like misogynist nonsense to say a shape of lip is 'capitalist'. I would block for the sake of your mental health. I hope you're able to find joy in this character again. I know how hard shitty comments like that can hit, even if you know them to be bullshit.

[yanavaseva]

To be honest, the comments stuck out to me more because the guy actually likes my art and most of the characters I draw, he wasn't a random internet commenter. So it felt like I must've really messed up somewhere. He would later bring up the mean girl boss babe character he'd imagined whenever I drew her, doing cartoonishly mean girl consumerist things. Eventually he apologized for insisting on this hypothetical persona and said that could be some different character and not the one from the paintings, but at this point the jabs had sapped a lot of the joy out of putting her in pictures.

But people left very encouraging comments so it's nice to see that there's nothing wrong with her vibes.

[yanavaseva]

What does capitalist lips even mean. What does that mean. Monkey at a keyboard moment that is a nonsense phrase and your art is sick

From how I understood his explanation (because I also was confused), he was getting a sort of "ruthless, employee-exploiting MLM-owning boss babe" vibe.

[yanavaseva]

that feedback about capitalist lips is bullshit? She looks incredible and your art is amazing, don’t let others tell you what to do ❤️

Thanks, Anon! I feel a little more confident in potentially including her in something in the future.

[yanavaseva]

I’ve seen what’s on your mind. I know it well, a tale as old as time. You’re infatuated with what I represent to you. You'll eventually find something else to obsess over. At least the view is great. I... appreciate the moment.

(I was at it again, torturing myself with insane amounts of small details. Why do I draw heavily textured or intertwined details on most elf outfits? I just imagine it's something they'd culturally have because of historical and psychological reasons.)

[yanavaseva]

Ahh. I still like how this looks but *someone* kept telling me how much he dislikes every picture featuring this lady (he said she has "capitalist lips"!) and it ruins my incentive to include her anywhere :( In case anyone was wondering (probably nobody).

I guess I'll give an in-universe explanation of her absense as "yeah the situationship was complicated".

[yanavaseva]

Commission for @delborovic

Interrogator Morgan Rhalls and Inquisitor Lucius Valentyne as they appear in Agents of the Inquisition, a 40k TTRPG liveplay podcast.

My favourite detail about the inquisitor (who used to be a commissar) was this sentence in his character description:

"His biggest “quirk” is that he believes it is a sin to feel or display any negative emotions."

I like how this can be a problem in so many ways.

I also did a picture of Morgan a couple of years ago, when she was at a lower level.

[inkary]

OPEN FOR BIZZNESS!!!!! (still)

deets in the pinned post if you are interested, dm if there are any other questions etc etc. You give coin = i give art, that's the gist.

[yanavaseva]

Those prices are a steal

[yanavaseva]

The Guy Not To Worry About

This guy is actually one of the players from the sword dance picture. He’s really into bladed weapon sports and historical reenactments, in part because of the advantage in hand to hand combat due to his precognitive abilities. Well, at least against opponents that don’t also have them.

Design-wise he started off as a “someone with higher socioeconomic indicators in regards to Stabri” and so he’s got some common themes to previous pictures. And to some I sketches with notes I haven't posted because I would have to organize them better for showing.

He doesn’t hold any particularly important position (evident from all his free time) but can trace his ancestry all the way to at least one person found in a textbook and several people with titles. Through millenia of selective pressure, precognition and similar abilities (such as thought sensing) have become very common among the upper classes (as they're very useful for staying in power). He seems to do everything with effortless grace.

[yanavaseva]

The Guy Not To Worry About

This guy is actually one of the players from the sword dance picture. He’s really into bladed weapon sports and historical reenactments, in part because of the advantage in hand to hand combat due to his precognitive abilities. Well, at least against opponents that don’t also have them.

Design-wise he started off as a “someone with higher socioeconomic indicators in regards to Stabri” and so he’s got some common themes to previous pictures. And to some I sketches with notes I haven't posted because I would have to organize them better for showing.

He doesn’t hold any particularly important position (evident from all his free time) but can trace his ancestry all the way to at least one person found in a textbook and several people with titles. Through millenia of selective pressure, precognition and similar abilities (such as thought sensing) have become very common among the upper classes (as they're very useful for staying in power). He seems to do everything with effortless grace.

[yanavaseva]

Commission for HobbesPrime.

A pleasant morning walk near a waterfall, in Skyrim. It's pretty cold and there is snow and lots of icicles, but that's normal for the region so they aren't too bothered.

[yanavaseva]

Stars above, stars below. A traditional elven sword game. Follow the music. Cut the opponent’s ribbons during the window of time when your moves aren’t mirrored.

Over the centuries the ritualized sword dances have evolved into complex performances and also given rise to an entire category of sports with significant rule differences, and their own major leagues and events. In many of those the overall style points of the performers are more important than the hits. In some variants the ribbons have inscriptions with gameplay significance, such as requiring them to be cut in a specific sequence, or a cut changes the rhythm and tune of the music so each of the opponents can try to set their preferred pace.

Wounding the opponent incurs a major penalty, so the armored costumes used in contemporary games have special dyes that change color on impact with the blade. They still retain visual callbacks to their ritualistic origins. The traditional player/team colors are green and blue. Purple is used for accents.  

Humans stumbling upon strange, smooth-surfaced, unnaturally well preserved, fractal structures in the woods usually lack the context to know that they’re open air stages for just such dances and festivals, which tend to take place at night.

(About half of the background audience in here are not my characters, included them as a bonus, so the weird little guys and the individual climbing down the column would require their own separate explanation. Also, questionable decision on my part to include onlookers in the distance in a dark night scene)

[yanavaseva]

Stars above, stars below. A traditional elven sword game. Follow the music. Cut the opponent’s ribbons during the window of time when your moves aren’t mirrored.

Over the centuries the ritualized sword dances have evolved into complex performances and also given rise to an entire category of sports with significant rule differences, and their own major leagues and events. In many of those the overall style points of the performers are more important than the hits. In some variants the ribbons have inscriptions with gameplay significance, such as requiring them to be cut in a specific sequence, or a cut changes the rhythm and tune of the music so each of the opponents can try to set their preferred pace.

Wounding the opponent incurs a major penalty, so the armored costumes used in contemporary games have special dyes that change color on impact with the blade. They still retain visual callbacks to their ritualistic origins. The traditional player/team colors are green and blue. Purple is used for accents.  

Humans stumbling upon strange, smooth-surfaced, unnaturally well preserved, fractal structures in the woods usually lack the context to know that they’re open air stages for just such dances and festivals, which tend to take place at night.

(About half of the background audience in here are not my characters, included them as a bonus, so the weird little guys and the individual climbing down the column would require their own separate explanation. Also, questionable decision on my part to include onlookers in the distance in a dark night scene)

[inkary]

another rat for @sallllltywater

[sallllltywater]

Good-good

[yanavaseva]

That pillow turned out surprisingly good

[yanavaseva]

You have info for commissions?

Been meaning to put up something eventually, but I'm kinda slow, so by the time I finish my waitlist there's been someone to ask me in private messages.

But for the record, I use Paypal, and my rates for character illustrations are (depending on detail and complexity)

Bust: € 150 – 220

Halfbody: € 230 – 320

Fullbody: € 320 – 400

and ranges for the background/environment are

portrait                 + 20-90

halfbody              + 40-120

fullbody               + 60-260

[yanavaseva]

In short, it's a commission of this character in the same portrait format as this one .

Also, yeah, I'm not dead.

[yanavaseva]

I could feel myself losing sanity points while doing the background for this.

For the regular viewers of my paintings these characters will be familiar. I even included items and accessories that they've had in various older pictures but not all of them together.

But in previous pictures one would get the impression that she's a sort of haunting presence. I wanted to make one where he's consciously and deliberately interacting with her.

Well, that and also I got prompted because I got asked whether they have ever done any strange dance-like arcane rituals (oddly specific question but I liked it).

So the new items here reflect a more occult context. The body chains are more of a playful nod to the idea of arcane binding since clearly they do not actually impede anyone. The chain around her neck would be more substantial if she didn't trust he wouldn't misuse it (it's a callback to an older one where it was on him but she didn't look humanoid in that picture).

I might have mentioned it in an older picture but her prismatic wings can refract not just light but other types of waves too, so this was my reasoning behind sometimes having a ripple appearance on objects in the environment.

The new elements like the talon gauntlets/jewellery have bits of similar shape to the centerpiece of her crown, he's wearing these because it synchronizes their appearance.

Ah, and I imagined that she's always had a resemblance to statues like the ones in the background (and can camouflage among them to pretend to be one during the day) but I hadn't drawn and of the multiple places that have them before.

[yanavaseva]

(wasn't sure if the tag comment meant you don't want me directly reblogging from you, so that's why I'm not @ your username)

Thank you, I like drawing them! There's something of a scope creep with pictures of recurring characters, once I'm happy with how they look, since I want to draw them doing things at places, and so it takes me longer to do the background because I have to form a concrete image of what the place looks like. In my head the environments are largely vibes but when I actually start drawing them I have to have some idea of where things are in relation to each other.

Currently drawing something that was supposed to be fast but of course I started adding a background.

[yanavaseva]

I could feel myself losing sanity points while doing the background for this.

For the regular viewers of my paintings these characters will be familiar. I even included items and accessories that they've had in various older pictures but not all of them together.

But in previous pictures one would get the impression that she's a sort of haunting presence. I wanted to make one where he's consciously and deliberately interacting with her.

Well, that and also I got prompted because I got asked whether they have ever done any strange dance-like arcane rituals (oddly specific question but I liked it).

So the new items here reflect a more occult context. The body chains are more of a playful nod to the idea of arcane binding since clearly they do not actually impede anyone. The chain around her neck would be more substantial if she didn't trust he wouldn't misuse it (it's a callback to an older one where it was on him but she didn't look humanoid in that picture).

I might have mentioned it in an older picture but her prismatic wings can refract not just light but other types of waves too, so this was my reasoning behind sometimes having a ripple appearance on objects in the environment.

The new elements like the talon gauntlets/jewellery have bits of similar shape to the centerpiece of her crown, he's wearing these because it synchronizes their appearance.

Ah, and I imagined that she's always had a resemblance to statues like the ones in the background (and can camouflage among them to pretend to be one during the day) but I hadn't drawn and of the multiple places that have them before.

[yanavaseva]

I could feel myself losing sanity points while doing the background for this.

For the regular viewers of my paintings these characters will be familiar. I even included items and accessories that they've had in various older pictures but not all of them together.

But in previous pictures one would get the impression that she's a sort of haunting presence. I wanted to make one where he's consciously and deliberately interacting with her.

Well, that and also I got prompted because I got asked whether they have ever done any strange dance-like arcane rituals (oddly specific question but I liked it).

So the new items here reflect a more occult context. The body chains are more of a playful nod to the idea of arcane binding since clearly they do not actually impede anyone. The chain around her neck would be more substantial if she didn't trust he wouldn't misuse it (it's a callback to an older one where it was on him but she didn't look humanoid in that picture).

I might have mentioned it in an older picture but her prismatic wings can refract not just light but other types of waves too, so this was my reasoning behind sometimes having a ripple appearance on objects in the environment.

The new elements like the talon gauntlets/jewellery have bits of similar shape to the centerpiece of her crown, he's wearing these because it synchronizes their appearance.

Ah, and I imagined that she's always had a resemblance to statues like the ones in the background (and can camouflage among them to pretend to be one during the day) but I hadn't drawn and of the multiple places that have them before.