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Famine & Lucerna

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Famine & Lucerna

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I’m sorry for posting here but ;;; my little baby broke her leg. We’re not sure how or when it happened but she’s been splinted. she’ll have a recheck in three weeks and I’m thankful she’s OK but the bill really took a lot…

any help or boosting would help so much

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I’m sorry for posting here but ;;; my little baby broke her leg. We’re not sure how or when it happened but she’s been splinted. she’ll have a recheck in three weeks and I’m thankful she’s OK but the bill really took a lot…

any help or boosting would help so much

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you have an excellent eye for stylish and fashionable designs. you make really good use of bold, limited palettes. you're able to set mood effectively in a way that conveys gravity of character! i think there are specific strengths you could bolster, but your personal style also has a lot of ways you could expand on elements you don't do as often - detail shots or landscape, playing with zoom, exploring more diversity of anatomy, or exaggerated action and foreshortening and stuff. you make some really cool art, and i like it for what it is, and there's nothing wrong with sticking to what you like of course, i just you've got the skills to make a broad array of expression shine!

Hello anon! I really wanted to thank you so much for your kind message. I think the biggest thing I appreciated is the helpful direction you also gave me. It makes me happy that people can see I can push the strengths of my style more and it’s definitely something I want to work on! I did want to share that I actually… used to do a lot more background work. A lot of the pieces are from 2020 and I experimented a /lot/ to really push myself. I lost the drive after I started my full time job so I never had the same energy or time like I used to back at the end of 2020 but I wanted to keep trying.

This is old work but I thought it would be fun to share, just to show that I really do want to revisit this stuff and even redraw some of them too!

Diversity in anatomy is another thing I’m working towards slowly improving! Did you know I actually couldn’t draw aged characters or even cis male characters well? Bloodborne really helped me out with that and I want to return back to playing around with it. I did actually buy the dungeon meshi daydream hour that was recently released to study and see how the mangaka approached diverse body types. It’s extremely inspirational to me. The design I’m working on for Agares is me pushing to draw a cis female body type differently as well as in age! Caesnig is the other character I wanted to push with working on in terms of body type and face since his was a goal of mine to reach that I want to continue developing as well!

I hope to return back to experimenting when I can because I know I can do it! It comes down to finding the inspiration that kickstarts it and the energy as well. I really do appreciate what you told me today and even the ways I can further push my work and what would really make it shine. It made me so motivated to try again and work at it ❤️

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I’m sorry for asking here ; ; but I’d really love a bit of positivity.

For those who follow me, can you tell me what you enjoy about my work? It can be a reply to my post or even an ask

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I should probably say you’re free to ask whatever you’d like!! It can be about OCs or just general stuff!

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Am I just imagining it, or does Vassago's hair seem to get longer with each iteration of her design? Makes me wonder if she'd ever grow it out from before she ever cursed herself.

Yes!! She actually used to wear her hair VERY long!! Some of my first art had her with hair down to her back. She cut it after she was taken into the abbey!

Old drawing from 2020 of her and beleth:

I wanted her hair to slowly grow out as a sign of time passing too!

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I gotta know how Caesnig and Vassa developed their found family father-daughter relationship. It feels like one of the most prominent elements of the story: How does someone so misanthropic come to terms with Vassa's love for humankind?

There’s a lot to really do in depth for this because of the relationship. While Vassago wants it to be very much a found family father-daughter type… it comes across in a controlling side from Caesnig.

CONTENT WARNING FOR SUICIDE

The story is, when Vassago helped the watchers escape the Abyssal Prison, she resigned herself to her own fate and wanted to take her own life. She felt that her use as an angel came to end and there was nothing to live for. Caesnig was intrigued by this fallen and how fearless she was in the face of death. As Samael, his true name, of course he took an interest in her. He was the one that rescued her from taking her life by falling into the abyss despite how much she begged to let herself die. He wanted to see that resolve and fire burn and he decided to become her guardian.

He didn’t realize however that she held such strong empathy for humanity and it disgusted him. He never revealed his true name to her until there came a point in time where he had to rescue her by ripping apart from within his monstrous shell.

He refuses to accept her love for humanity and even brings up how it was humanity that caused her fall. The dynamic I took inspiration from for this was with Alucard and Seras in Hellsing. There’s a point in the series where Alucard kills humans that came to attack them at the hotel and Seras brings up tearfully how they’re humans after he scorns her but then has that slight understanding that she still sees humans as just people they shouldn’t kill. “It has to be this way,” is something that’s stuck with me for Caesnig’s character.

He doesn’t understand empathy or positive human emotions well but he’s trying. He ends up as over controlling and abusive due to his protective nature to keep her from harms way but also to ignite the passion she has in the face of death. It’s how she ended up associated with the Angels of Death.

Narratively it’s going to take time before he can truly understand through her eyes why she loved them. Thats the reason they’re also an antithesis to each other. He truly does love her as a daughter and even if he doesn’t openly admit it, deep down he’s afraid that her love for humanity will be her undoing again.

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Which Final Fantasies would you say you drew the most inspiration from for Keeper in Tartarus?

Without a doubt Ivalice Alliance, especially Final Fantasy Tactics and FF9! Those were also two of my biggest final fantasy games growing up ;_; there’s some bits from FF7 too as well! But honestly, I would say the older games up until 7 and then 9 really did give me the biggest inspiration.

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Thank you so much for this!!!! 🥰❤️

Guest Artist Spotlight: Goetia

If you've been looking for the Vassago pin from Rainbow Demonology, you can find it in @lesserkey's Kofi shop!

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Hobonichi painting 1: Dragonheart

Gouache, watercolor, ink, and gel pen

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Thank you again so much!!! He really came out so well in your style ❤️❤️❤️

Chibi commission for @lesserkey of their Browbird, had a lot of fun working with him!

If you like my work please consider checking me out, all my commissions information can be found in my pinned post. 💖

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Hobonichi painting of @tancelot ‘s character Thanatos

Watercolor, ink, gel pen

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Hobonichi painting 1: Dragonheart

Gouache, watercolor, ink, and gel pen

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Omg the recent anon ask I just got… holy shit I REALLY have to think on that LOL it’ll be sometime before I can answer!!!

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I’ve finally put my enamel pin left overs from the Rainbow Demonology campaign hosted by @ultrainfinitepit up for sale in ko-fi!! https://ko-fi.com/s/48321346c5 Right now it’s just a small amount to just get a feel for handling the shipping and such since I’ve never done this before!

PLEASE NOTE: I CANNOT SHIP TO THE UK OR GERMANY DUE TO VAT. Thank you for understanding!! If everything goes smoothly I’ll add more up for sale since I have quite a few left over!