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Horizion Comics - Vulcanite Issue #59: Revelations.

Artfight attack for @vin-ill 's character Vulcanite.

The dangers of bleeding while stumbling home to the place you share with your hero friend/roommate(/enemy?) when you're a masked villain, is that you could be followed by them.

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Heya I'm gonna try and do artfight again this year. Repping Team Crystal!!

You can find my profile here 💙💛

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WIP when its actually Wednesday.

Specifically waited to post this so it would tic over to wednesday, btw. For once.

Tagged by @sidesteppostinghours (their post here).

I'm mostly using this to post an assortment of things I otherwise wouldn't have been compelled to do so late.

@b33tlejules requested for Maelstrom design progress on the new design. Sorry for getting to this so late, I forgor. (also consider yourself tagged for wip wednesday 🫵).

It's a long one so strap in:

The original idea, when the inevitable urge to improve on the (frankly lackluster) previous design came knocking on my door, was to do something with old diving suits. This was to stay in the theme of the Mysterious suit tag that was canon to River since his inception.

An idea I quickly abandoned not even 2 doodles in.

I quickly landed on the Hydroid Deluxe Skin (from hit video game Warframe) as a design and aesthetic I wanted. And maybe try to have some kind of homage to the last suit. Thus, the first doodles in my sketchbook:

As you can see, I was trying out shapes for the helmet that were maybe a little too similar to the Hydroid skin. Though the main body elements that stuck in the final design came together quickly.

I digitalised a sketch I liked, cleaned out some details. Covered his crotch (but that tang away). Decided he should have a cape. After not having a cape since his proto-river days.

I mean. you can't be a pirate without some kind of cool jacket.

For about a week, the design sat at this stage (not shown are the several color combinations I went trough for the main body to get there).

It was good. But it looked too much like Hydroid (deluxe edition) Warframe to me.

So what did I do to fix this?

Take a different warframe for helmet inspiration. Of Course.

Say hello to Sevagoth Lucifuge helmet (pictured in the middle), but a little to the left. I know Sevagoth's design philospophy is surrounded by the idea of "ghost ship" - so it's no wonder I looked at the alternate lucifuge helmet and said "that looks like a seashell to me". It's not rendered as such in game, but it has the shape. And the point bits I could easily imagine as harpoons.

I didn't quite like the face of the helmet - besides it being pointy - and changed it in a way I liked. But the eyepatch was too funny not to include, considering River does lose his eye to Argent. I even kept it on the same side because while River loses his own right eye, it's more fun for the eyepatch to be on the wrong side. Where people might assume he has a blind-spot. He does now, but not on that side :)

After the helmet - and more color palette debates - came even more color palette debates. For the Cape(tm) specifically.

I was fighting for my life in the trenches. Nothing was quite hitting.

But as I was bemoaning about my artistic woes to my friends, @cigarettesandinevitablebetrayal came with the genius idea of mixing in the teal and white in the cape, to make it look more like water. (also hi cigs, consider yourself tagged for wip wednesday)

I mean. Fucking look at that. Doesn't it slap? It goes so fucking hard. This is when I truly fell in love with the design.

After that it was beating photoshop into a pulp trying to make a nice ref sheet. And the rest is history or whatever.

Thanks for getting this far, as a favor to me, kill the guy calling yourself cringe in your head. That's what I did while convincing myself to write this post.

ANYWAY. wow. If your name isn't Jules or Cigs and thus haven't been tagged yet, you're tagged now. Right here. Bam. @heartbreakincident, @vahingoniloinenlapsi, @ehlihr, @reverendlazarus.

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What having an Argent-Rivalry is like with a tall!step.

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Listen. There's no way Arthur is suddenly that tall and towering over Drifter in the new year's kiss. Don't lie to me DE animators. All Excalibur's are short kings. We all know this in our hearts.

It's either a soapbox - or the more logical solution, uppies.

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RIVER VILLAIN SUIT REDESIGN BABY. HE IS DONE.

Maelstrom. The ocean and pirate themed Anarchist running wild in Los Diablos. He cuts an imposing figure wherever he goes to terrorize the ones pulling the strings in this city. And looking damn good doing it.

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Taking a break from thinking about Veilguard and my own Rook to draw the Rook's of my friends 💜💜.

Featured Rook's

Corentin Laidir • @veilkeeper Vabyn Aldwir • @dorkousloris Garry Thorne • @swordsandspectacles. Red Thorne • @froggods Kione Ingellvar • @swordtit Turab Mercar • @wardencommanderbrosca

Template by @ndostairlyrium, which can be found here!

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forgot to add the eyemod closeup lol.

Lost an eye, womp womp. (argent when I get you argent) When blinded sidestep briefly mentions getting a replacement mod in the future, so ofc I had to draw that too. (eyemod inspired by his suit helmet)

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Lost an eye, womp womp. (argent when I get you argent) When blinded sidestep briefly mentions getting a replacement mod in the future, so ofc I had to draw that too. (eyemod inspired by his suit helmet)

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Anime eyes River. This abomination is @the-cooler-sidestep's fault.

If I have to suffer to look at him, so do you.

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Collection of comic cover pages i've done for the characters in the Masks: a new generation game I play. Most of these were done for birthdays.

Tried a little exercise of changing the style up a little for every cover, to give the feel of it being different comic runs. Though this is mostly in how I did shading, its hard to change your whole artstyle ha.

Still need to make one for a returning player and their new character, and maybe update Saber because he changed playbooks and is now known as 'Echo Knight'. Oh and Carry was retired to a new character... Not to mention I blew my own character, Starbright, up and am also playing a new character...... man I have a lot to catch up to actually.

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There's a slim chance you've seen the original Dane in a similar post. I've since updated his design, and have edited the original file to match. So I'm posting Warden-Commander Dane Tabris outfit progression/line-ups once more!

Outfit details under the cut.

First image his hist gear progression trough Origins. Going from recruit -> kit-bashed gear during travels -> landsmeet + final battle.

Second image is Dane's full Warden-Commander/Arl of Amaranthine gear, including circlet, cape, and weapons.

Last image is a breakdown of his Warden-Commander outfit, showing the layers and how they work. This was mostly for my own benefit/sanity.

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Its all fun and games being the Warden-Commander of Ferelden and Arl of Amaranthine.... Till you have to sit trough hours long meetings with the local nobles.

(why does Carver have to suffer trough this meeting too? Well he's the Commander's boyfriend right-hand man, and sign-language translator for the nobles ofc.)

[ as inspired by this tweet ]

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the Tabris twins trough the ages.

Dane Tabris (left) and Calen Tabris - later known as Mirevas Lavellan - (right) as kids(10), during origins(19), and after trespasser(33).

I have a lot of feelings about these two, but I won't word vomit right now. you shall be spared this time.

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WIP Wednesday

Tagged back by @cigarettesandinevitablebetrayal for this. [you can find his wip post here]

Tagging @heartbreakincident, @groan-taire, @swordtit, and @swordsandspectacles. (and you, the reader🫵)

You're right cig's i do indeed have some wips lying around.

I am neck deep into my custom DA worldstate, and specifically my twins Dane and Mirevas. So here are the sketches I have of them rn.

Pictured left is a rough (no dialogue) for a little Dane and Carver comic I was toying around with. On the right is a fullbody of my inquisitor Mirevas, which will be the base for an outfit spread I want to do with him.

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here to push my HoF x Carver agenda. you can't stop me.

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If you don’t have a functional brain after impromptu invasive brain surgery by sibling, then storebought is fine.

(Warped headband of intellect save me, save me warped headband of intellect)