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Professor Fheirdhris :)

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Happy March, everyone! I hope the Winter blues don't have you too down, because Spring is just around the corner! And what's even closer than that is the first Saturday of a new month, which means it's time for another art party hosted by my guild, [VS] Verdant Shield!

For those not familiar, art parties are a concept carried over from Final Fantasy XIV: in-game get-togethers for artists of all kinds to hang out, chat, and create together! For GW2 parties there’s more of an emphasis on hanging out and gathering references during the party itself, and then in the days/weeks following to work on your creations at your own pace and then post to the shared art party tag. We’ve used the same one (#VSArtParty) since the very beginning so you can go allll the way back and explore what people have made! The most important thing to keep in mind though is this: the ‘goal’ of an art party isn’t to be drawn, but to draw others, and share with the community!

Time and /squadjoin information is below the cut, but will also be posted again on the day of the party as squads go up!

Location Information:

It's not exactly the aesthetic you'd normally think of when you think of Fireheart Rise, but Haymal Gore is that frosty little kodan settlement up in the Northwestish corner of the map! Rustbowl Waypoint is the one just beside the zone portal to Frostgorge Sound - you can take that one and head north, or take Icespear's Waypoint and head south (though I think north from Rustbowl is a bit closer)! As far as I could tell by hanging out there for a while, any events that could disturb the peace are restricted to the water, so we should be pretty relaxed out here!

Time & Squad Details:

As is customary, we’ll be having two parties - the first one on EU servers and the second on NA - with an hour break in between for those who may want to attend both!

The EU server party will begin at 9pm Central European Time (aka 3pm Eastern Standard Time or 4 hours before in-game reset). I’ll be hosting this one on my EU alt account, so please either /whisper or /squadjoin Runa Gravemourn for a taxi invite if you don’t end up on the right map!

The NA server party will begin 1 hour after the EU party’s official end, at 7pm Eastern Standard Time (aka 1am Central European Time or at in-game reset). I’ll be on my main account for this one, so please /whisper or /squadjoin Khina al Amiri for a taxi invite if you don’t see my customary white cat tag hanging around on your map!

Closing Words:

I'm dancing on the edge of being summoned back into work for the season (I work in a greenhouse), but as far as I can tell this shouldn't interfere with this specific Saturday's party since they like to divide everything by calendar week! If anything does come up though I'll be sure to let you guys know who the stand-in host will be until I'm off work and can take back over!

I say this every single time but it's also true every single time so I'll keep yapping about it: thank you so much to everyone who comes out to these things, you guys are what make them special! Take care of yourselves, and I'll see you this weekend! ♥

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ONE MORE WEEK!!!!

The Elder Dragons Zine is open for applications for only ONE MORE WEEK!!! We're looking for folks as artists and writers for our free zine. If you're interested in learning more, we have a carrd with much more information!

Our Carrd

If you're looking to apply, here are the forms!

Artist Form

Writer Form

We'd love to see you there! Thank you in advance for reading and applying if you so choose. These close on February 28th! Applicants will be contacted via email with their results during the following week.

I have also updated the carrd to answer more of the questions we got in the forms!

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VS Art Party 2025 - FEB 1ST. OOPS ALL SYLVARI (and one human)

This time I just drew four because I am God's laziest artist. I'll do my best to tag everyone I drew this time because at least I should do that much this time around.

Characters featured:

Maple Sutori - @spinnando

Adoerak - @legionnaireintraining

Mouse The Pleasant - @anteaterisland

Nentres - @dukevindication

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this is what opening 250 Divine Lucky envelops looks like

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"I've been getting better at managing the magic inside me. But, sometimes it becomes quite apparent when I've got too much magic stored up. Daxx sometimes jokes about using me to charge his energy cells…"

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If you had to go on a date with one of my characters, who would it be and why?

You can pick more than one if you want :3

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To be fair I always wanted to show how much he changed since Core (Personal Story) until the most recent expansion (Janthir Wilds).

Bro was a late bloomer sort of. He was 5'7 at the age 16, then he ended up 6'4 (final height) when aged 18. (To be fair it was tricky to get the proportions right since being taller or shorter isn't just scaling up/down everything evenly but more like head stays usually almost the same size but the rest of the body gets more elongated or is shorter xd; hmmm anyway when he was 18 he wasn't buff yet, basically looked like when he was 16 but 6'4, so he was super lanky and he hated it lmao)

Anyway,

Michael during Personal Story wasn't the Commander yet. At the time the other Commander - Minerva (gotta... draw her more, but here is a a drawing a did of her before) was his mentor but also basically a mother figure.

Since he was 12 years old he lived among norns in Hoelbrak with her. Minerva took care of him but also trained him to be an elementalist. At the time he was mostly a healer but also quite capable at fights/self-defense too but done it in a more "traditionally mage" way.

Things changed during Heart of Thorns, in which Minerva died and Pact was left without Commander... temporarily. It was Michael who was selected to be Minerva's succesor way before that but none of them expected it'd happen so fast - at the age of 19.

Also did some other art of his young self.

Question: are his eyes blue or green? XD

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Anet made Valentine day cards again!!

Instagram vers

Bsky / Twitter vrs

seems the bsky and twitter versions of Isgarren's got typos lmao

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In drizzlewood north meta jormag's blood is canonically described as "smelly"

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:v

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Have some sharkrat and junkcat smoochies too :)

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Art party sketches are here again!!

Sorry if this time they're very sketched! I wanted to try keeping them like very chill doodles (also drawing more characters than the previous time) >u<

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finally drew my charr mesmer after yrs of playing her LOL

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do not trace or use for your own personal projects, dnd campaigns, stories, or otherwise. not for personal use.

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Slowly losing my mind as I finally try to figure out the timeline of Aurelia's hairstyles, and cursing myself for giving her braids in the first place.

Few notes to expand old ones and older ones:

- In the Legions, efficiency beat style, so she kept her mane short outside of the year and a half that she spent recovering from a mission, being pregnant and then nursing Adamas (they weren't in battles anyway, due to Ardea needing that long to fully recover). Little braid was first made by baby Adamas, and it stuck for sentimental reasons. - She stays 4 years in the Mists (Tyria time, she has no way to know how much time passed for her) and her mane grows out while she's in the Fractal, having a grand ol' time with the corruption from [redacted]. Back in Tyria she shaves the whole matted mess off, but keeps the braid. - Keeps it short in the Vigil, but attempts at hair-care are few and far between as Pact Commander in Orr, so it grows. She wanted to cut it after their victory, but eh, might as well keep it since Adamas and Ellara insist it's a good look on the Commander. - Starting s2 she begins to braid it/others do so for her (think mane styling for horses) as it keeps growing. Usually simple styles she can quickly do on her own or last long enough, mainly ones that keep her mane compact and out of places where it can get stuck/dirty, though on big occasions she is convinced to (let someone else) do something more elaborated or even decorated. - As it grows longer and downtime lessens due to s3 events, she starts braiding it in less and bigger braids, till it becomes a big one by early PoF. - Balthazar is a shitty hairdresser, but most of her mane is saved. The little braid is severely damaged, but it gets salvaged using a lock out of Adamas's mane as extensions. She asks for it to be tied back (around her horn and into the rest of the mane) for safety, since she will have to fight Balthazar again and doesn't want a repeat. - Aurene getting stronger boosts her powers, which includes her already prodigious regeneration... and a boost to her mane's growth (horns can't regrow, but they get replaced with crystals). By IBS she has the fullest healthiest mane she ever had, it even shines like never before! - She was not in the mood of dealing with haircuts and was told it'd be good for her image at the Rally, then it was comfy while dealing with the icy weather. After becoming finally official with Ellara, she actually asks her to take care of her mane for her (instead of waiting for her to offer help with it), and the volume gets regularly reduced to a manageable level. Sometimes she even lets Ellara braid it all fancy for no particular reason. - Not pictured, but when the little braid is long enough, she can easily tuck it behind her side horn to keep it out of the way.

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Got the Vegabond set from the 68th chest. I've been wanted a hood with long hair for so long... Ty ArenaNet.