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This is almost like a throwback now haha but when the wonderful Baewatch tale/charms happened I absolutely had to participate. Each of my three girls have charms that’ll slowly be posted ;D but Evelyn and Lucio are so special they get their own drawing in my style! Maybe I’ll do the other 4 at some point but this one did give me a little trouble so we shall see.

 For now, have this memory of summer as, in some places, it starts to get chilly!

P.S. Evelyn is trying to get Lucio’s attention away from watching their doggies/wolf play on the shore long enough that he doesn’t accidentally dump his drink on her head lol 

P.P.S. go to my insta for closeups and an alternate BG if you’d like! We just moved to a place with so little wifi I can’t upload more than one pic on a post at the moment :C

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The first DTIYS I’ve ever done! fresh_bobatae’s art over on Instagram is so beautiful and fun, I couldn’t resist taking part to draw this peachy girl. Peaches are one of my favorite fruits after all! Click for better quality ^^

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Oop this one hits a little different now because the person that created the female character has ghosted out of my life but I still like the pic so it is what it is! 

This is Connor and Mina enjoying a little cuddle in a comfy corner after what I thought would have been some sort of chilly autumn party. 🍁

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Whoops I have been posting way more on my Instagram than on here ^^; so time to catch up!

This was actually drawn a while ago for a lovely person over on insta, so if you want to know more about them go check out Noahxgail on instagram and give their wonderful Zazel more love! <3 

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Sooo as soon as I played the new Harvest Festival tale I knew I had to make the full picture. So I really hope this doesn’t spoil it for anyone but here’s the entirety of the final scene all put together!

Edit: they put out an official pic for sale! Go get it if it’s your desire! Shared their pic here now because it’s much better and clearer than my splice together ^^

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35. Art is Hard

Ever go through those phases where you don’t like anything you create?

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Any tip for choosing colors? Is just, i really like the color palette that u use :3

I mainly try to remember the colour wheel and different palette types you get from it. It’s usually in the back of my mind when I’m thinking of what colours to use.

You should limit yourself to a maximum of 5 colours, at least as you’re getting comfortable with colour schemes. Less if often more with colour.

In my art, I lean towards analogous or split-complementary colours and they’re the most common. For Isha and Tashi I use only 3 or 4 distinct colours plus a neutral. Neutral colours like white, grey, black, and brown can be worked into any colour scheme and it’s good to use them to balance the drawing.

Complementary colours schemes work best when used as an accent. You tend to want the majority of the drawing to be one colour and use its opposite sparingly. For example, the majority of the drawing on the left is dark and purple, with the light green used only for the highlight.

Also, when it comes to chosing colours for light and shadow, it works best when one is warm and the other is cool, even with analogous colours. I wanted to keep the drawing on the right mostly warm and pink, but for a more diverse pallet, I used a cooler purple for shadows to contrast the warm orange light.

It helps to keep the different hues in a drawing at different brightnesses. This helps keep them distinct so they don’t fight for attention. Even when you want a piece to be bright or dark, keeping the values distinct is still important. For example, on the left, I kept the reds darker to better contrast the light yellows and mid greens, even if the pallete is overall bright.

In addition to the hue wheel, you can look at the brightness and the saturation of colours in quadrants. To balance a colour palette, I’ve found it’s best to choose from multiple quadrants.

I’d say the second pallette looks better than the first as, despite having the same hues, they have different brightnesses and saturation in contrast to being all heavily saturated and dark.

I hope this can help and if it doesn’t, there are some great resources on colour theory you can find around on the internet and I highly recommend looking those up.

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So so beautiful thank you so much again!! 😭❤️

My submission for the @fieldsofvesuvia event for @erratic-inspiration! Your design for Evelyn is lovely! I hope you like it!

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A bit of a whirlwind at the end due to a switch up, but overall this was a very fun piece to work on! So here you go @rhombea / @thecardsimagine ! Susanne seems like a lovely woman, and I really love her style and personality ^^ I hope you like it!!

Thank you to the creators of @fieldsofvesuvia !! It was a wonderful event as expected and I’m glad you decided to host it again this year <3

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Blue’s Feathers and Wings Compendium: Standard Wing Shapes

Part 1 [Standard ]| Part 2 [Atypical] | Feather Markings | Tail Feathers

I have expanded the traditional 4 types; Highspeed, Elliptical, Low Aspect and High Aspect ratio, because they were very narrow and vague categories for the most part, adding High Energy, Thermal Soaring, Night Glider, and Passerine wings. I feel that these extra types make it easier to understand and visualize the differences and similarities between wing shapes.

I’ve renamed Low Aspect to Powered Soaring, and High Aspect to Dynamic Soaring for the purposes of the fact that names made it hard to understand purpose and were easily confusable. 

A lot of these wing types are also affected by tailfeather shape and size, and that will change their agility and energy expenditure as the tail also generates lift.

Disclaimer: This is in no way intended to be an academic dissertation or proposal, do not treat it as such. It is purely for art and writing references for others, to aid description and inspiration.

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25 Arcana OC & LI Lore Asks

I.) How did your MC and their LI first meet? II.) What was your MC’s first impression of their LI? What about their LI’s first impression of them? Was it accurate or did them getting to know one another change how they saw each other? III.) Where in the Arcana world map does your MC come from? What was their life like there? IV.) How did your MC and their LI first profess their feelings for one another? Was it a slow burn? Love at first sight? V.) What would your MC do for their LI after they come home from a long/bad/hard day? What would their LI do for them? VI.) Is your MC combat proficient? Where or whom did they learn from? VII.) What is your MC’s favoured element to cast with? VIII.) If your MC could take their LI anywhere in the Arcana world, where would they take them and why? What about in the real world? IX.) Does your MC ‘borrow’ clothes from their LI or vice versa? If so, what is their favourite garment that they’ve ‘borrowed’ and won’t ever return? X.) Does your character have any holidays that are important to them?  XI.) If your MC or their LI was going to whisk the other off on a weekend away from their responsibilities, what would they do? XII.) What is your MC’s favourite type of weather? Why? XIII.) If your MC was feeling down, what’s one meal that would lift their spirits? What about it brings them positive vibes? XIV.) Does your MC hog the sheets? Does their LI? Is it a battle for sheet dominance? XV.) What does your MC do to get ready for the day? Do they have a routine?

XVI.) Who are your MC’s closest friends? How did they meet? XVII.) What Tarot Card do you think best represents your MC? XVIII.) What is your MC up to in the ‘present’ time of your canon? Do they have goals they’re trying to achieve? XIX.) Does your MC have a familiar? How did they meet? How do they communicate? XX.) What is your MC’s love language? What does their LI do that makes them feel loved? How do they reciprocate that with their LI’s love language? XXI.) Where do you see your MC and their LI in 10 years?  XXII.) Will your MC and their LI ever get married? Who is in the wedding party?  XXIII.) What is your MC’s theme song? 

XXIV.) What is your MC and their LI’s romance theme song?

XXV.) Freebie. What’s one piece of lore about your MC that you’d like to tell the world about?

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I’ve been using your Arcana tutorials as a reference for a self-insert character. But I’m having trouble coloring the tulle bathrobe, the see-through cloth as well as it’s general texture. Any advice?

What luck. I literally just finished redrawing Isha’s bath sprite.

Note: I use Clip Studio Paint but this method works with any program that has layers and layer styles.

First off, some things I noticed when deconstructing how to draw them.

My Process:

Note about the bottom half: Despite being more opaque, there’s a slight gradient and transparency to it. This can be achieved by airbrushing a very light eraser on the edges of the base colour layer

As for the texture, you can use a worn paper texture on top of this colouring set to “overlay”

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They work out

BG belongs to @thearcanagame​ . Version with a simple BG under the cut ^^

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Best friend reminded me Nagas exist the other night and I couldn’t resist doing a relatively quick drawing of one of our couples doing some cute interspecies flirting~ Even managed to do a background for once! These cuties deserved it

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Evelyn needed a major revamping of her outfit to better fit her lore so here we are! I’m horrible at outfit design so forgive me ^^; Also some quick info of this feisty gal

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So hyped to go through the next Assassin’s Creed journey with this badass! Fem!Eivor is love, although Male!Eivor doesn’t look too bad either~

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artist culture is saving hundreds upon hundreds of highly useful and educational tutorials and then never actually looking at them once you sit down to draw