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snATCHed

its sexualizing that old man o'clock !!

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I am HEEEEEEERRRREEEEEE!

He's telling the wisps about his date with Rook.

Pspsps Emmrich girlies where are yoooouu??

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✨Adoration.✨

I didn't sleep for two days because I was working on this drawing ✌🏻😔

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Here’s something I’ve been working cuz I played the original Mass Effect trilogy again and I’m coping (I’m not 😭😭😭) also I’ve been listening to this song by Linkin Park and it fits so well iykyk 😪

This isn’t officially finished, but I thought I’d share it half done cuz I slapped some random colors on there and I thought it was cool lmao ✌️😏

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<3

happy birthday to THE bitch of all time

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Listen, I just really like staring at him from this angle

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We're so back

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happy birthday, shepard 🎉

wish you to see less cuttlefish-shaped creatures in your dreams

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PSA:

1. If you are not silly, it is vital you become silly

2. If you are silly, you must stay silly

2. If you used to be silly but have stopped, you must make all efforts to return to silliness

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if you play video games long enough you see the fandoms treat black characters the same way over and over and over again (wyll ravengard, felix iresso, preston garvey, vivienne de fer, etc etc etc)

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HOW DARE YOU jk i love this

Dragon Age fandom once again concerning itself with the important stuff:

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Death's loosened its hold on this place.

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The Lovers

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literally gorgeous and perfect simply amazing i'm in love

“What a day of unexpected splendor”

Some process and inspiration stuff under the cut!

So, this one was quite different for me, technique-wise. Very experimental and I think it paid off. I essentially did everything in three layers first: a midtones layer, shadows, and highlights. For the background, I pretty much left those layers as I made them, with some minimal cleanup, alpha locked the layers, and then painted those locked layers with a focus only on lighting.

It was surprisingly fast to do (not that I didn’t still spent a couple months picking away at this.) And I think the result ended up better than if I had sat there and painstakingly detailed the whole thing.

I initially painted Emmrich and Rook in the way I normally do (layer for skin, layer for hair, layer for clothes, etc, and detailing each individually. But when I finished all that, I realized the foreground didn’t mesh well with the background. The lighting was wrong and it clashed stylistically. Even though it had taken ages, I decided to “kill my darlings” and painted over them with… yes, three layers: shadows, midtones, and highlights.

Once I was finished with that step, focusing only on simplified shapes, I then merged the three layers and painted details directly onto to layer. So they ended up just being one layer. Once I did that, I was able to step back and focus more on shape language than on small details, adding on only the necessary small details towards the end and I was *much* happier with it.

Is it perfect? No. But I learned more from this piece than probably any other thing I’ve worked on in the last few years and that was very gratifying.

The reference for the pose and having the statue in the background comes from this romantic postcard (moving the link to comments because the link is taking priority over all the text lol)

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