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Kaya you’re so sweet 🫶🫶

Thank you @contravictoire—and the rest of the lovely team—for putting together PearlescentZine! There were some bumps along the way, but you did fantastically, and I’m glad to have been part of the project <3 Plus, your own piece is so cute!

@contravictoire !!!

The piece is here!

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“ You are a child of the Stars,

Shout what has been unsung ”

— Dustan "Fish in a Birdcage" Townsend, Rule #9 - Child of the Stars

Vic posting art two days in a row? Crazy I know. This one’s actually recent lol

Does this fandom exist on here? I'm not sure. Frankly, I'm not in this fandom either - I actually can't get myself to play the game. But Anaxagoras is just Su (HI3) with a gun and I love Su and therefore I must love this guy

Dissection of this piece and the process below the cut

I forgot his hand tattoo thing till about half an hour after I finished, oops

In total, there were 68 layers and it took me 3h 45 mins. This was ever so slightly inspired by something my wife North norrthie made a while ago

Closeups!

Below you can see my lighting guidelines (in red) and the layer separations for the skin. Separating it like this makes it easier for me when I'm doing something lineless. I typically do it for hair as well (I'll demonstrate this eventually lol), but for this piece I decided not to.

These are the base colours. For the clothing I did use two slightly darker blues (which I shifted slightly more toward purple!) because of limitations, but otherwise all the shading was done with the colours here. In some parts I did play with the opacity, though. This is why it's slightly less shaded than I would normally do, especially when it comes to clothing and skin. Usually I would do a lighter colour for highlights, but for the skin there wasn't exactly a lighter colour to use, and so for consistency I didn't add highlights to the clothes.

For the extra glowiness, I had four different layers of the same yellow colour (lol). Two in the middle, one at the bottom, and one on top of the smoke. In the middle, I used a Saturation layer at 42% opacity, then a slightly smaller area on max opacity set to Hard Light. At the bottom I used Multiply (covering about 1/4 of the image), and finally for the smoke I set it to Linear Burn at max opacity.

Here’s the piece without the overlays!

All my art is done on Procreate unless stated otherwise. For brushes, I mainly used Inka. I do, however, often use Syrup for small details (such as the eyes and hand tattoo), and Soft Brush at 69% for any airbrushing (which, mind you, I do a lot of lol). For the smoke, I used a custom brush - it uses Kunanyi as a base, but I made the shape rectangular and did some minor adjustments.

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My piece for @pearlescentzine

I partnered with @kayawolfhorse on the Boatem prompt! This drawing is from a scene in her fic, Stars Below, which features all of Boatem and some void shenanigans they get up to ;)

silly progress stuff and initial ideas under the cut!

aaaaaand the outfit i stole from an old drawing

Bye bye 👋

AGAIN GO CHECK OUT KAYA’S FIC SHES AN INCREDIBLE WRITER

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“ You are a child of the Stars,

Shout what has been unsung ”

— Dustan "Fish in a Birdcage" Townsend, Rule #9 - Child of the Stars

Vic posting art two days in a row? Crazy I know. This one’s actually recent lol

Does this fandom exist on here? I'm not sure. Frankly, I'm not in this fandom either - I actually can't get myself to play the game. But Anaxagoras is just Su (HI3) with a gun and I love Su and therefore I must love this guy

Dissection of this piece and the process below the cut

I forgot his hand tattoo thing till about half an hour after I finished, oops

In total, there were 68 layers and it took me 3h 45 mins. This was ever so slightly inspired by something my wife North norrthie made a while ago

Closeups!

Below you can see my lighting guidelines (in red) and the layer separations for the skin. Separating it like this makes it easier for me when I'm doing something lineless. I typically do it for hair as well (I'll demonstrate this eventually lol), but for this piece I decided not to.

These are the base colours. For the clothing I did use two slightly darker blues (which I shifted slightly more toward purple!) because of limitations, but otherwise all the shading was done with the colours here. In some parts I did play with the opacity, though. This is why it's slightly less shaded than I would normally do, especially when it comes to clothing and skin. Usually I would do a lighter colour for highlights, but for the skin there wasn't exactly a lighter colour to use, and so for consistency I didn't add highlights to the clothes.

For the extra glowiness, I had four different layers of the same yellow colour (lol). Two in the middle, one at the bottom, and one on top of the smoke. In the middle, I used a Saturation layer at 42% opacity, then a slightly smaller area on max opacity set to Hard Light. At the bottom I used Multiply (covering about 1/4 of the image), and finally for the smoke I set it to Linear Burn at max opacity.

Here’s the piece without the overlays!

All my art is done on Procreate unless stated otherwise. For brushes, I mainly used Inka. I do, however, often use Syrup for small details (such as the eyes and hand tattoo), and Soft Brush at 69% for any airbrushing (which, mind you, I do a lot of lol). For the smoke, I used a custom brush - it uses Kunanyi as a base, but I made the shape rectangular and did some minor adjustments.

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Responding to some of the tags because I have a lot to say

@kayawolfhorse ; I use the inka pen on procreate in basically all my work! I’m obsessed with textures lines like that haha

@maggymations ; MWAH MWAH MWAH I will post more art I promise, I just keep forgetting to and recently it’s been different fandoms I’m not sure even exist on tumblr HAHAHHA

I totally didn’t forget to post my piece for @pearlescentzine

I made this within the first week of the creation period, so my style is a bit different from what you’ve seen here

This was also my first ever full piece with a background! I’ve been drawing for a long time, but it was always just doodles and oc creation. Up until this point, I had never made a fully finished piece

This was back in January. Since then, I’ve made at least one full piece (with background) a month - though I’ve been inconsistent with posting here. Considering we’re almost halfway into the year (crazy…), I’ve definitely improved a lot since this point. But honestly it’s still one of my favourites she’s so cutie

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I totally didn’t forget to post my piece for @pearlescentzine

I made this within the first week of the creation period, so my style is a bit different from what you’ve seen here

This was also my first ever full piece with a background! I’ve been drawing for a long time, but it was always just doodles and oc creation. Up until this point, I had never made a fully finished piece

This was back in January. Since then, I’ve made at least one full piece (with background) a month - though I’ve been inconsistent with posting here. Considering we’re almost halfway into the year (crazy…), I’ve definitely improved a lot since this point. But honestly it’s still one of my favourites she’s so cutie

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Pearlescentzine out now !

Featuring 7 writers and 27 artists, Pearlescentzine is a free downloadable fanzine with almost 100 pages dedicated to Pearlescentmoon. Please give some love to all the creators who worked hard on this project, and look out for their pieces on their Tumblr blogs !

Pearlescentzine download

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SPOT THE MINECRAFT GRIAN

THATS RIGHT I hid some grian skins in here for funsies, let me know if you spot them!

My drawing is for the cover of @hermitszine !!! Thank you to everyone who gave me advice while I was working on it. I genuinely don’t know how this would have turned out without it.. and it’s not perfect but eahhh what is

owners of the designs I used:

@banditblvd , @titsoutfortntduo , @meelkiewee , @melouthechalk

Silly extras and chapter cover stuff I helped with below

screenies of the timelapse because it won’t export

S9 cover: I whipped up a quick sketch for the artists to draw their parts on and edited it together!

Alter Ego: made some boxes that Meggle fixed up (since i don’t have a symmetry tool lol..) and then edited it together with the help of raffi-cat at the end

Grultiverse: I drew my guy then raffi-cat and viveronski did sm work editing it together (seriously it was rough..but turned out beautifully). We also all drew someone else’s grian and the one i got belongs to @angeart !

bye bye 👋

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I had the lovely opportunity to work with so many amazing creators on this project. Thank you all so much for your support (and patience…) while I worked my way around creating my first zine.

@pearlescentzine releases tomorrow (May 26)!!

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@contravictoire Thank you for all you did to help ITLZ run smoothly! Good luck with the other project you're running!

@contravictoire !!!

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for the ask game !!! 67 :3 i hope i get a roomies heh (i wont but its okay ill just send 18 other asks until i get a roomies) (no i wont thats insanity sorry)

ROOMIES!!! ILY! uhmm the only thing i must say is this ended up unrelated to the song entirely.. mb

Cool Kids by Echosmith

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We got a #1 VICTORY ROYALE yah fortnite we bout to get down (GET DOWN) 🙏💪💥💥

ahem. my piece for InTheLittleZine but for real this time

I had so much fun on this zine 🥹 and im so thankful i got to be a part of it!!

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My final piece for @inthelittlezine !!

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InTheLittleZine Is Here!

Happy Birthday @inthelittlewood, and welcome everyone! You can find the link to download and view the zine below!

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After the eggnappings

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My HC Season 10 Cleo design, RobotCleo! 🤖 🧟

Inspired by all the robots Cleo has created this season, as well as all their armor stand work!

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Oh my god?? 300 notes is wild, thank you guys sm

I’m not used to posting my art online so seeing people enjoying it is really encouraging honestly. I’ve always been pretty eh about showing people my art but I’m glad people are liking it

A Zombiecleo inspired by a statue I found on pin

Bluesky post