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Some Third Life duos in four pencil colors for funsies and lore reasons.

I’ve sort of started a fic in the Saints of Eyes and Ears au, except that it’s also a fic for my Horizon to Horizon au, since I linked the two for kicks and shiggles and why-notsies. The basics are that the Saints of Eyes and Ears lived in a semi-mythical, religiously-significant past time, and inspired the faith known as Livolutionism, the religion of the ancients who built such structures as strongholds and trail ruins before mysteriously disappearing. Livolutionsim similarly disappeared, and now all that is left are fragmentary manuscripts of the books of the faith, which tell the stories of the various Life Series SMP installments, and a few prophecies buried deep in oral storytelling and local folklore.

Top to bottom, left to right:

Ren, Red Winter King of Dogwarts

Martyn, Hand of the King of Dogwarts

Jimmy, Canary and Beloved of the Flowers

Scott, Widow and Beloved of the Flowers

Grian, Loyal Debtor of the Desert

Scar, Last Fallen Dead of the Desert

Close ups under the cut

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Practicing colored pencils with all six life series winners, and, by correlation, all six designs for the Saints of Eyes and Ears. It was really fun figuring out how to crosshatch with four times as many colors as I’m used to using.

Top to bottom, left to right:

Grian, Saint of the Desert Sun

Scott, Saint of the Endless Stars

Pearl, Saint of the Shadowed Moon

Scar, Saint of the Blooming Earth

Martyn, Saint of the Stained Mars

Cleo, Saint of the Fleeting Comet

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Banging out a design for a life series jacket patch but mostly just having fun with straight lines and sharp angles and only two colors

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More portraits of the Saints of Eyes and Ears, those who followed the word of the Watchers and became martyrs.

Aka me worldbuilding a religion around the life series winners for unclear reasons

Left to right, top to bottom:

Grian the Debtor, Saint of the Desert Sun

Scott the Loyal, Saint of the Endless Stars

Pearl the Betrayed, Saint of the Shadowed Moon

Martyn the Betrayer, Saint of the Stained Mars

Scar the Trickster, Saint of the Blooming Earth

Titles are written in Standard Galactic, which I am quickly growing fond of as a script

I’m going to loop Cleo in somehow, maybe as a debated Saint from a book with unknown authorship or something

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The Sandman himself, Dream of the Endless!

Draw someone wearing the fabric of space-time.

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Another Horizons au lineup, just emperors this time.

Left to right: Joel, Ollie, Jimmy, and Shubble

Close ups under cut

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A lineup of Horizons character designs

Left to right: Docm77, Mumbo, Gem, and Lizzie

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Weapons pose practice with Cub, Cleo, Gem, and Impulse, and with poses taken from @/robinswords’ videos on YouTube.

Clockwise from top right, there’s Cleo with her dagger-axe polearm, Impulse with his tachi cavalry sword, Gem with her rapier, and Cub with his longsword.

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Fiddling about with how magic should look in horizons, featuring X, Stress, Ren, and Scar

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the vast

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A few more fixed up Horizons designs

Clockwise from top left, there’s Jevin, Tango, Cub, and Cleo

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Inking done :)

This lot represents 3/7 of the magic types in the Horizons au: Void for X, the source of all magic; Fae for Bdubs, the playful magic, and Animal for Impulse, the passionate magic.

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A few sketches that will probably get inked. Solidifying Horizons designs for Commander X(isuma), Lord Bee Double Oh, and Emperor Impulse Esvee. X is probably just sentient void in a suit of armor, Bee is a moth or butterfly like fae, and Impulse is a cat-folk.

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someone put this man on the cover of vogue

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Proper Cecil and Kevin design references and crosshatching practice. Close ups under the cut

A few notes:

- Kevin also has arm tattoos, which StrexCorp tried to cover with cuts and scars. He usually just covers them up.

- The symbols above their head only show up when they’re on the air

- Both have black hair at the roots; Cecil’s fade to light purple then silver, and Kevin’s fade to reddish then gold

- Kevin’s Voice of Desert Bluffs Eye on his forehead got sewn shut by StrexCorp; when he was under their control, it leaked blood

- Yes Cecil’s socks have cat faces

- No don’t ask why I gave them tails, it just seemed fun

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A sketch I may or may not ink. From left to right, there’s Skizzle Man, Mini Muka, and Salem Lady, the leading rebels of the Red and Gold Uprising. In the Horizons AU, all three are parrot-folk who would eventually follow Grian across the Sea of Guardians to the Land of the Sunrise, alongside the rest of the Evo crew.

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