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AAAAaAAhh yes, I was hoping you'll share this! It's perfect!! 😭❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 I love the idea of them getting to meet again and how they immediately notice the change (or the lack of it) in each other. How the thought "I should've been there" still plagues Osiris all these years later. And how he undoubtedly is determined to fix their friendship, because in the past he was terrible at it; while Colovance finds this whole idea ridiculous, they're already friends, what's where to fix, what does he even mean by that??? Their interactions are always so fun to think about!

"I can't believe you've grown so old and still didn't learn how to hug properly."

(it was @zalia's idea for baby Colovance to meet older Osiris)

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"I can't believe you've grown so old and still didn't learn how to hug properly."

(it was @zalia's idea for baby Colovance to meet older Osiris)

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Hoi!

Quick question, are there any pens/other drawing equipment you have been wanting really bad lately?

I have like... A five miles long list, you have to be more specific 🤣💀 In all honestly I really should just draw more instead of buying art supplies...

Behold my most recent 110% necessary drawing equipment purchase:

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I absolutely love the way you draw furs and hair! Felwinter's Fur coat looks so soft and comfy. Radegasts beard looks so fluffy and hug able. Even Timur beautiful blond hair looks silky smooth.

I can only imagine how difficult it is to draw things like that. It certainly can't be easy, but you effortlessly pull it off every time.

Aaah thank you so much! 💙 I love drawing hair and giving it different textures (? conditions? feelings? not sure how to call that properly OTL) is something I'm learning to do. Like, I love when you can tell by a drawing alone that this person's hair are silky, this one's fluffy, this one's coarser, etc, and I want to be able to do that too. Good to know my efforts pay off!!

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Not sure if you're into Epic the Musical but imagine an au where Cayde is Odysseus, Andal is Polites and Shiro is Eurylochus

Had to google the thing, then remembered I heard about it from a friend before. Musicals aren't really my thing, but maybe I'll check it out... I'm always up for Andal & sailing though, seems to me like he'd love to travel on a ship 👀

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After spending several hours looking at your latest work of art I now have the headcannon that Osiris getting taken hostage is a regular occurrence that happens at least once or twice a year.

And unfortunately Colovance happened to get dragged into the latest iteration of this trend.

Ajhkasdjkfg that's funny 😂

I only thought about 3 scenarios so far though, varying in mood from very dark to almost comical. I guess I just like this trope in general

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[🚧 WIP] Last time they've spent ~10 minutes without getting in trouble, unacceptable; so here

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I love your version Radagast so much! He looks like he’s give the best hugs ever!

Thank you and yes, he absolutely does!!! Proof:

(experimenting with opaque gel pens. Texturessss)

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hi, fountain pen nerd here (also destiny nerd). different materials question from all the ink ones you've gotten, but if you don't mind me asking, what paper(s) do you use for your art? it takes the ink like a champ while still seeming to preserve a lot of the ink's qualities and crispness, and i'm deeply curious. btw, the sense of mood in your pieces is consistently stunning and on point, no matter what exactly it is. your works are so, so cohesive

Hello and thank you so much! 💙 Aaah, the right paper is always the toughest to find, yet - imo - the most important... I'm always in search for it and I like to experiment and use different papers.

For now my favorite paper to use is in the Rhodia Pen & Inkwash A4* sketchbook. It has a rather shitty binding (it literally fell apart in my hands, lmao), but it handles both inks and markers extremely well and is a pleasure to work in mix media. Hahnemühle Nostalgie, Fabriano Accademia 120gsm or 160gsm** are also okay to work on, but not as good as Rhodia, especially in terms of showing off inks' chromatography.

For artworks done purely in ink (or those that require too much water or layering) I use Arches hot pressed watercolour paper (before getting Arches I used Baohong S8, also hot press - it's the best out of less pricey 100% cotton papers imo).

As for the toned paper - both Clairefontaine Paint'ON Naturel and Stilman & Birn Nova beige sketchbook work equally well with inks and markers. Talens Art Creation sketchbook is also nice (but only those with yellowish paper).

* - it's A4 sketchbook specifically. I also have 21x21 cm sketchbook with the same name, however it has awfully bad paper that is almost impossible to use for inks. From what I've seen, a few people also had similar issues with their square sketchbooks.

** - NOT 200 gsm! Despite having the same name, 200gsm is very different from both 120 and 160, both in texture and in behavior. Which is sad, I hoped to get the same paper, just thicker :(

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I'm intrigued as to Osiris's tattoos, from what I've managed to read up is that he was resurrected with them? but they're absolutely fascinating in design and I love how you make them even more prominent on him with your artwork! It's truly beautiful!

Aaah thank you, and I agree, they're gorgeous!! ❤️‍🔥 However, in canon I think it's safe to say he doesn't have them at all - at least in that only cutscene where we've seen his hands without gloves, he didn't. He only has them on this concept art (which btw Bungie uses quite often):

So the rest of his tattoo pattern (as well as him having it at all) is purely my headcanon. And according to it - yes, he was resurrected already with them and thus has no idea neither how he got them, nor what their meaning is. He didn't think much of it for the longest time, but I'd say that this choice of shapes and colors is too pointy to be a simple coincidence.

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hi hello!! I hope it's ok to dm but I've been going around circles trying to find more destiny 2 players in order to play more raids and other endgame, but it feels like the player base is dwindling. 😭 I was wondering if you still play D2 and if you’d be interested in joining our little group of artists and writers who still want to enjoy the game together! 💖 we're in dire need of new players u_u

Hey, sorry for the late reply! Thank you, that sounds cool, but unfortunately I myself barely play at all these days ; u ; I log in the game every now and then, but sadly nowhere near as much as I used to.

BUT I think gameplay-wise Destiny 2 is super fun, so I hope you'll find more people to play with! Maybe even someone here will be willing to help you out?..

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Hey its cool if you don't feel like answering this ask but I've been wondering, If given a chance how would you handle designing a 3rd Darkness subclass.

What sort of textures would you try to use?

How would you decide on a color scheme?

What theme would you want this class to embody?

I guess given the next Destiny expansion coming up I've begun wondering what a 3rd darkness subclass would look like (if one is ever implemented) and given how absolutely Beautiful your art is in general I'm curious to see what your take on such a concept would look like.

Again you don't have to answer this ask if you don't want to.

Thank you! I think I got a similar question before and I'll probably repeat myself here, but I'd really like to have something, well, Dark for the Darkness subclass. Yes, I'm boring like that 😅 I'd love to have something visually similar to SIVA Taken perhaps - mostly black and not too flashy, or to SIVA the Witness' pyramids stuff - with waves and particles. So far to me personally SIVA Void is the best Darkness subclass both visually and in mood, I'd like to have something equally edgy and cool like SIVA 🤣

But I haven't thought about it in much detail other than just let us use SIVA please that, so I don't have much to say here, sorry ; w ;

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The brightest of them all

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If you’re willing to say, what inks do you use?

I’ve recently taken up writing with a glass dip pen, and while I love the inks I currently have, I’d also like to find more options. The ones you use are so richly coloured!

Hey! I use fountain pen inks of different brands - Diamine, J.Herbin, Pilot, Sailor, Fanyantan, Waterman, etc. I don't have a certain brand preference, mostly I just pick up whatever colors I like or look for the ones I need. Though I think the majority of my inks are from Diamine - they have a huge variety of colors, both "simple" and chromatographic, and were relatively cheap and easy to get back when I was just starting. Places like Mountain of Ink and InkSwatch are very helpful for choosing and comparing inks too.

I also answered similar questions here and here, you can check out these posts too for some recommendations as well!

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I need u to know that I love purples and blues in destiny and that your lord felwinter is the coolest piece of destiny fanart ive ever seen I would buy two prints of it so I could put one on my wall and eat the other. I hope you have an amazing day

Asadkjhgasjd thank you so much! ❤️‍🔥

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Hey do you do commissions?

If not do you ever plan to do commissions?

Hey! For now I don't and can't say for sure when I will. I'll make a post about it beforehand in my social networks tho!

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For those who like sketchbook photos p■qω・´)

This is my "new" sketchbook (new because it's the first thing I drew in it and "new" because it's been laying empty for months before that) that has this yellowish paper I easily get tired of. It gives everything a very clear warm yellow undertone that's not always wanted, but fitting sometimes - like for these two, with their earthy warm "spiced caramel apple" color scheme 🧡

(There's seriously too much stuff glued in there, but over the years I've gathered so many cool paper things that I honestly can't stop adding them on the page alsjkdhflksa)

Nerds (affectionate)

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