#some of my favorite artworks I've completed are cell shaded

[loregoddess]

...I might have to make peace with the fact that my current artstyle and energy levels lend themselves better to cell shading than to painterly shading

[plaguelily-art]

Before the heavy rains take their toll, young women hurry to pick the last of the white roses. The ivory buds are woven into garlands and given as gifts to close friends or potential lovers.

(FE Three Houses, Chapter 2: Familiar Scenery, opening quote)

Artwork completed for @ferarepairweek. This was for Day 1, and I went with "Celebration".

For some reason I had it in my head that the garland-weaving was part of festivities for Garland Moon, but apparently the quote from above is actually for Harpstring Moon, and there wasn't an entire celebration associated with it but eh, a celebration is a celebration (also ignore the fact that I did not draw garlands in favor of flower crowns and necklaces). Anywho, this is actually my favorite pairing for Byleth (F!Byleth specifically, but I won't get into my headcaons about the two Byleths), which figures given that the Gatekeeper isn't one of the S-rank options...and doesn't even have any supports in Three Hopes, haha.

I've been experimenting with a new process of sketching, coloring, and shading, and trying to complete all the artworks for this fandom event really helped me test it out. I have to say, cell-shading is so much easier on my wrists (I had a minor wrist injury earlier this year, making art very difficult for a few months). I'll probably be doing a lot of cell-shading from here on out.

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2023, Fall Digital (Adobe Photoshop) Byleth and the Gatekeeper are characters from the Fire Emblem series, and belong to Intelligent Systems. Artwork belongs to me.

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