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Watching The devil wears Prada again reminds me how much I like Emily's character design and style ~

That red head x gray eyes combination is sooooo Violette 🥹

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Boy too shy he couldn't even look at Meli ahhhhhhhhh

HAVE MY PRAYERS BEEN ANSWERED??? IS IT REALLY YOU SITTING THERE IN THE HOT SPRINGS???

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✨🪄 One Year in the Hogwarts Legacy Fandom 🪄✨

Just noticed that it's already been a year since my first-ever Hogwarts Legacy post, and I honestly can’t believe how wonderful I feel since then ✨⚡

What this fandom has brought me was sooooo much more than just "Ohh this game is fun and I want to find the joys of drawing again". I’ve met the kindest, talented and creative people here. This is the most supportive fandom I've ever been to and I've enjoyed all the interactions, events & collaborations 💖💖 I also feel that I've learnt and improved my painting skills so much since last year thanks to all the nice tips some of you have shared.

To my mutuals, followers, artists, writers ... and all the beautiful souls who liked, reblogged, commented, or messaged me - Thank you so much for being a part of me and my little redhead Hufflepuff's journey!!!! I love you all🕯️💖!!!!

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THE KISSES OMG!!!!! 💓💓

Pride Week: similar to this post a doodle dump of Nfy x Chris @diana-bluewolf

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Introverted socially awkward Raven and Puff ~

A small & surprise gift for @tiarpopdind I'm soooo in love with short hair Tris 🥹🥹

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Thanks @tiarpopdind for the tag 🥹🥹 Always in awe of your artworks and hope to see more, have fun experimenting with the new brushes and art style though I think your style is already so unique and recognizable 🥹🥰

Although I finally have some free time to draw again but I still can't let myself spend too much time on drawing bc the Japanese skill test is coming in 3 weeks aahhhhhhhh and I'm panicking 🫨🫨 But hey I will have some WIP to share (and god knows when I'll finish them ) 😖

The new Hierophant card of my Dota 2 tarot pj

First page of the next "Shadow of Study" comic (I find it more difficult drawing Ominis's hair than Seb's tbh :(((((( )

and 4. Violette's portrait in my "manga" art style 🥲 No pressure tag the trio @itsame-domi @diana-bluewolf @traceyc-uk you guys have fun!!

IT'S WIP WEDNESDAY: post a sketch or the first few lines/the summary of as many WIPs that you care to expose to the reading public. Send this to others if you are curious to see what they are working on. 💛

Hello‼️♥️

I waited until Wednesday to post this🤭 I don’t have any writing wips at the moment because I FINALLY posted that oneshot🫠 but I have so many art ones🤲

1) Eloise family portrait for my fic (she is SO happy to be reunited🙂🙂🙂)

2) idk probably Eloise being annoying😆

3) ballpoint pen thing & I’m almost done🙏

4) I was bored so I started drawing Samuel L Jackson eating a hamburger & playing around with my colored pencils🫶

No pressure tags bc I always love seeing your wips🫶: @tiarpopdind @anto-pops @sloanesallow @anomalyaly @bookie-bookdust @sage-pages @bassicallymaestra @kay9leo @lamieboo @okeydokeylackey and anyone else who wants to!!♥️

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Pride week Prompt: Modern AU - its hard not to have “modern au” and not think of the Mooncalves 🥰 a doodle dump of some really early sketches (The Moo>ncalves: Sunan on guitar @itsame-domi, Chris on bass @diana-bluewolf and Nfy on drums)

Those cats references

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This!!!!

"I did it for you" has gotta be my favorite form of betrayal. You gave me a gift I never asked for, and now I have to look around at the world you destroyed with the knowledge that it was gift wrapped and addressed to me.

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Meet Glenn Gauze !

GENERAL

Name : Glenn Gauze

Gender : Female

House : Gryffindor

Age : 15 yo, 5th year

Zodiac : ♉ Taurus

MBTI & enn : ISTP 9W8

Temper : Phlegmatic-Choleric

Blood status : Half-blood

RELATIONSHIPS

Orientation: Aroace

Besties : Nellie Oggspire, Amit Thakkar

Fine : Poppy Sweeting, Garreth Weasley

Opponents : Ominis Gaunt, Imelda Reyes

Barely tolerable : Sebastian Sallow

INTERESTS & FEARS

School subject : Arithmancy

Life's purpose : Stability & Wealth

School activity : Gobstones

Main fear : Mermaids/Thalassophobe

BACKSTORY

Glenn lost her family by the natural catastrophe caused by mermaids in the lake near her village at night, so almost everyone died in a sleep or gone mad bc of evaporation the lake gave.

Glenn was saved with the very few residents of the village, but their mind was damaged, including hers. So she became paranoid about sleeping and she fears the most to suffocate during the sleep.

AT HOGWARTS

That's why she's most of the time unfocused and clumsy, her sloppy behavior causes her casual bruises, plus the lack of sleeping makes her irritated and hostile.

Nevertheless she's nice towards peers who are nice to her first, she isn't agressive in general except when someone obviously tries to violate her peace.

Glenn is friends with Amit and she just likes to listen to his stories about the stars.

She's also friends with Nellie and sometimes they both sneak out from the Gryffindor common room to climb the roofs of towers at night. Of course they won't miss a chance to wave to Amit while he does his research in Astronomy tower.

Glenn literally decided that the water and soil are lava.

GLENN & IDA COMPARISON

Despite all the dangers in Hogwarts' life, for Glenn it became "sudden easy mode" meanwhile for Ida it's "sudden survival mode". Unfortunately, Glenn is too aware of all dangers you can meet in a wizarding world.

Both are coming through opposite arcs. At the beginning Glenn reacts too harshly while Ida is too dreamy and naive. Glenn learns to live steady and calm in society but Ida learns the darker side of it.

Glenn is a Hogsmeade shop owner. She strives for ordinary, calm & boring life. The Hogsmeade shop is almost the last Glenn's hope for earning money so she will clung to it as insane.

Glenn's story is about finding peace right from the beginning.

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In the shadow of the study

Previous part

Just retelling what happened in the first part of "Study" quest plus a bit of Vi's previous AK flashback.

At this point I think Vi already felt bad for bringing up aunt Nocture's death to "convince" Ominis to enter the Scriptorium. She really wants to help Sebastian and Anne after visiting their house in Feltcroft, but she also finds it difficult asking Ominis to cast an unforgivable curse, especially since she was almost killed by AK days before.

But what else can she do? They are all being trapped.

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Warmup with new painting brush + that one eye trend

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I am trying not to vague-blog when I say this, but at the same time, I have been on tumblr for over 15 years and think people need a reminder in fandom etiquette:

If you don't like the "content" you see within a fandom, don't engage. The effort it takes to complain about something you dislike can be turned into something you do want to see. Misery begets misery.

We can coexist without bringing each other down.

To add to this, the people behind accounts are that. People. We are entitled to our opinions and our values regarding fandom. Healthy discussions/debates can occur if people are open to listening and reading. Be empathetic. Also, use common sense. A few bad apples sending hate do not speak for everyone in the fandom. Just because I don't like something doesn't mean I am actively bashing the people that do.

Also, if you find yourself feeling alone in fandom, reach out. There's a common misconception that fandom circles are impenetrable. They aren't. Every friend I've made in fandom is because I engaged and made an effort. Does it work with everyone? No. Are there going to be people that you don't really vibe with? Yeah. You can't be friends with everyone. But there are friends I made over a decade ago that I'm friends with now because one day I started yapping at them about the stuff we liked. You find your weirdos and never let go.

There are always going to be tighter circles here and there, but guess what? It's like that in real life, too. But you'd never know unless you try.

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Repost this one cuz the next Shadow comic is coming soonnnn ☺️☺️☺️

In the Shadow of the Estate

Sebastian invited his new friend to Felcroft....

OMG I finally finished it 😭😭😭😭😭 Now I seriously think about learning digital if I want to continue drawing manga like this 😫

VERY LONG yap below the cut ~~~

I've just purchased a dip pen & ink like 10 mins ago bc apparently my Micron inking pen set is not very ideal tool to use :"( I've been drawing short comics for a while but holy cow I have to admit making manga is so hard, especially when I only have less than 2 hours per weekday to draw.

But I'm happy with the result hehe (except the handwriting makes it look so unprofessional ...) 😩

Ok here comes the real yap....

I've been thinking alot about how family background can shape each character's personality and their the way they act. I don't really like MC's neutral react in this scene (or almost every other scenes lol), they just didn't show much personality and pp around were just cool with whatever MC did haha.

Vi is such an ordinary girl, she was very well-raised in a happy family with loving & supportive parents and even she's a half-blood her parents didn't really care if she was a squib as long as she's happy. All that made her a very caring and compassionate person. She's also the one who (initially) always chooses to believe in the good sides of people. This made me question myself if this personality would lead to her mild conflict with Sebastian - who's already going through a lot.

Until now Violette is still too naive for this world, she still needs to be tougher and more determined...

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Violette's first Avada Kedavra encounter ~

Bonus:

...they completely forgot what just happened....

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Hi!!! I don't know if you would remember me, but my old blog was rose-apprentice and I drew the first fanart of your arcana OC! :) I just wanted to say that I came across your blog again, and I adore all of your hogwarts legacy art, and also how far you've come since all the way back in what, 2020? Best of luck on all of your future creative endeavors! 💖☺️

Hiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!

I still remember you!!! 🥹🥹

Can't believe we have the chance to connect again! I still remember how happy and grateful I was when I received your Daerlynn fanart. The fandom was so big and crowded back then and you were the first one to notice me 😭😭 And yes you're right it was 2020 🫨🫨, omg it's been 5 years already, time flies so fast huh?? I still keep all my Arcana artworks in my lap, including the Darelynn and Rose one🌹🥰

And you too! I wish you the best of luck in your upcoming endeavor💖☺️ Thank you for getting in touch and supporting me !!!

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Someone's back shouldn't be that interesting, Tristan 😌

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Art evolution tag game

Thanks so much for tagging me @diana-bluewolf !!

Her is the evolution of my art. I actually started drawing very early, from third grade as long as I remember, and since then drawing has always been my hobby. It's always so fun to see how my style and drawing theme have changed throughout the years.

Unfortunately, I don't have access to my earlier drawings from primary and secondary school, but I remember it was mostly fashion sketches (I once wanted to become a fashion designer haha) and manga fanart (Naruto, KHR, Inuyasha...) .

HIGH SCHOOL

2010 - 2012 I was obsessed with Hetalia and FMA. I also learned Tarot and drew my first original tarot deck (it never finished). And maybe that time was my rebellious period so my drawings were usually (a bit too) dark and bloody. I drew mostly with pencils & ballpoint pens.

UNIVERSITY (2013 - 2017)

It wasn't until my first year of university that I truly started taking my drawing seriously. My artwork was still abit personal and reflected some of my unstable mental health (probably bc I had just moved to Japan). After creating an Instagram account, I began learning watercolor more seriously (I had actually worked with watercolor earlier but never cared about how to use it correctly).

In my second and third years of university, my paintings became more colorful and covered a wider range of themes. I only made fanart of Dota 2 and Sound Horizon. Aside from that, my artworks usually focused on personal experiences and magical creatures.

At this moment I realized that I LOVEEEE drawing full-background arts.

POST GRADUATION (2017 ~ 2021) I made lots of game fanarts (Don't Starve, Transistor, Borderlands, Genshin Impact...). Especially the Arcana, I'm a huge fan, I created my Tumblr account just to join The Arcana fandom.

Then something terrible happened to me, and I fell into art block for two years...

2024 AND NOW

Hogwarts Legacy inspired me to draw again😭💜

And I'm also making my own Dota 2 Tarot deck, it's actually my 4rd attempt trying to finish a whole deck but I'll try my best this time :"(

No pressure tag: @itsame-domi @traceyc-uk @tamayula-hl san @tiarpopdind