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Children of Zaun (+ two Pilties lol 🤭🤭🤭)

I have so many random headcanons for them mayhaps I'll share later

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rare occasion where I get to draw Vi's girlfriend

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can you also show the back of the charms examples? The physical ones, on Twitter I only saw the front and how the CD part look? I want to get them but I usually buy things if I can see a physical version if that's okay c:

I'll take proper pictures of the front and back once I get the actual charms! Like I said on twitter the pictures were just of the sample ones so there will still be minor edits made, so I don't want to take a picture of merch that isn't the final product (since it does take time getting the photos to look nice!)

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curious if u have a tiktok acc?? just saw ur siren silco art on my fyp with the same caption as on here and was wondering if it was actually u

ahh i dont have a tiktok... if you still have the link can you send it so i can report it?

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Arcane character designers rlly love their shoulder length hair huh

(not that I am complaining lmao)

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Blisters and Bedrock

a bunch of new arcane refs got posted on artstation including the s2e5 ghost version... the kelp rlly made him look like a mermaid so. mersilco it is.

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A little less than 24 hrs left for preorders!!! Bc of the number of orders manufacturing time may be extended so I'm adding a free 3.5in x 3.5in Jinx sticker for everyone!!

Thank you everyone for the overwhelming support!!!

🥁🥁🥁 aaaaand they're here!!!!!

ARCANE CD CHARMS AVAILABLE FOR PRE0RDERS NOW!!! ✨🎵👏👏👏 link will b in the replies!

Please read the FAQ carefully before purchasing, ESPECIALLY THOSE IN THE EU!!!! then u can head to the main website to find everything!

would rlly appreciate yall sharing w/ any arcane fan you know, since these are especially expensive to manufacture!!

and here are all of the charms for yall's viewing pleasure 😌

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Hi Erio, I love your Arcane comic fanarts and was inspired to make my own! Do you have any advice on how to make one?

omg haha I'm honored! Unfortunately I am really not the person you should b asking because I've never really made comics until Silco brainrot hit me like a truck

I guess generally what I keep in mind is

it's a comic, not every panel has to be a masterpiece. Maybe spend 100% of your effort on one or two standout panels that are the star of the show, and like 50-70% effort on the other ones

don't burn yourself out trying to do like 30 pages at once. For me I lose patience after like 4 pages so I try to keep all my story contained within 4 pages.

DRAW THE DIALOGUE BOXES WHILE YOU ARE DRAWING THE OTHER STUFF. NOT AT THE END. DO NOT LEAVE THE DIALOGUE BOXES TO THE END

look at other people's art for inspiration. I absolutely love this video on Witch Hat Atelier's paneling, it's something I rewatch quite frequently bc its so eloquently done https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDQrr9OkimQ&

I guess that's the limit of my comic making knowledge LOL but good luck have fun!!

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I rose too high, loved too hard, dared too much. I tried to grasp a star, overreached, and fell.

some last fleeting thoughts on an independent zaun

(original quote from asoiaf)

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Doing a giveaway for a full set of these! Please fill out the google form if you’re interested!

Also doing another separate mini giveaway on twt if you wanted to check that out

🥁🥁🥁 aaaaand they're here!!!!!

ARCANE CD CHARMS AVAILABLE FOR PRE0RDERS NOW!!! ✨🎵👏👏👏 link will b in the replies!

Please read the FAQ carefully before purchasing, ESPECIALLY THOSE IN THE EU!!!! then u can head to the main website to find everything!

would rlly appreciate yall sharing w/ any arcane fan you know, since these are especially expensive to manufacture!!

and here are all of the charms for yall's viewing pleasure 😌

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It took me an embarrassing amount of time to realize that all of my favorite pieces of arcane fanart all came from the same artist, you 😅❤️ amazing work!!

Aahhhh tysm!!! 💞💞💞

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Your art is so lovely, it makes me happy everytime I see it <3

tysm anon!!

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Happy Valentine's Day!!! 💌💌💌 ft everyone from arcane lol

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twt put me up to this lol its arcane crackship season

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you're not alone, look at my shadow I'm behind you like a ghost

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🥁🥁🥁 aaaaand they're here!!!!!

ARCANE CD CHARMS AVAILABLE FOR PRE0RDERS NOW!!! ✨🎵👏👏👏 link will b in the replies!

Please read the FAQ carefully before purchasing, ESPECIALLY THOSE IN THE EU!!!! then u can head to the main website to find everything!

would rlly appreciate yall sharing w/ any arcane fan you know, since these are especially expensive to manufacture!!

and here are all of the charms for yall's viewing pleasure 😌

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What are your thoughts on what Silco was like before Vander tried to drown him? I'm seeing these takes on the Silco tag that he was always a bad person and not a real revolutionary, but I don't think that's true. The flashbacks suggest he was coming from a sincere place but became selfish, paranoid, and power hungry (controlling) post-fallout.

LOL I mean you're asking a Silco artist (who specifically likes drawing him in domestic settings) what they think about Silco. so like. no he's not a bad person to me haha.

Of course I'm in the camp that his actions were sincere, perhaps I'm a being a bit generous but I think his actions in s1 are still consistent with that sincerity of wanting undercity independence. We never know exactly what he was going to do once he got his nation of Zaun, so that can be left in the Schrodinger's box of interpretations, positive or negative. But he pretty much agreed to all of Jayce's non Jinx demands like stopping shimmer production and giving hextech back to Piltover. You could even argue that he didn't push back on the blockade that much because he knew he was close to getting independence and could temporarily stop shimmer trade. He specifically says "Jinx will deal with [the blockade]" which is a bit strange bc its not like Jinx is known for her diplomacy LOL. But I think it's because he knows Jinx is currently building a hextech weapon, and the blockade truly won't be an issue once they can just blast through it with Fishbones. Also, that entire scene was clearly there to indicate that unlike the other chem barons who can only see temporary solutions to fix their trade issues, Silco's underlying motivations are still Zaunite independence, not selfish capitalistic gains. Like, Finn clearly did not fucking understand how much power Zaun now has with the hex crystal, he was only focused on blockade hurting his own business.

Honestly calling Silco selfish is the weirdest take to me because the only selfishness we see him display is in relation to Jinx, and his possessiveness is more of a fear of abandonment than actually wanting to control her imo. I guess makes sense ppl might think of Silco that way since we see Silco most often in relation to Jinx, so that colors ppl's opinions. But if you take in account all the scenes that have nothing to do with Jinx… idk I find he's more lenient than the non-Silco fandom makes him out to be. Act 1 his ill will towards Vander was because of ideological and not personal reasons- he was willing to take Vander back if Vander supported Silco's ways. like. thats kind of insane to me. Silco already forgave Vander for ATTEMPTING TO MURDER HIM but was like "you know what's actually unforgivable? you becoming an enforcer bootlicker" idk how much more you can do to show that Silco isn't really motivated by personal selfish reasons (until Jinx came into his life) but revolutionary ones. And honestly I think he himself did not realize how much he loved Jinx until she nearly died, I don't believe for a second he was trying to manipulate her at any point in time. He's just a broken person trying to fix another broken person but like there's a reason why you gotta wear the oxygen mask first before helping your kid, I don't blame him for unintentionally pushing his trauma onto Jinx since it's not like there's therapy in Zaun

So yeah like. I see Silco in a very sympathetic light LOL, flawed and misguided perhaps but doing what he believes is necessary for success… you could argue that under Vander's leadership they would've just continued to be under Piltover's heel forever and Silco at least got something done idk. so I definitely see flashback Silco as someone who's even less culpable of whatever crimes he commits later on, he probably still has a bit of that youthful naivety and hope before the bridge incident fucked everything over lol. and I mean. as much as s2 was a mess, it unfortunately is canon. s2e7 Silco is clearly a well adjusted individual, if he really was a "bad person" I don't think the show would bother showing him in that AU.

Ultimately though I think people see what they want to see, if they already have a bad impression on him the flashback won't do him any favors, they'll just fit his actions into the box they've already given him.

Slight side tangent, there's a visual novel called Umineko (WHICH I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD READ, IT SHOULD BE REQUIRED READING), and a big theme in the story is "Without love, it cannot be seen," and that has really influenced the way I interact with characters in fictional narratives.

Obviously I love Silco as a character, I wouldn't be spending all this time drawing him if I didn't, and I've probably spent more time thinking about him than the average Arcane viewer. If a person watches Arcane and doesn't like Silco, I won't be surprised they come out of it with a surface level understanding of him without really diving deep into his motivations and actions. It's actually pretty funny because the friend that got me into Arcane was one of those Vi stans whose perception on him was on the more negative side but bc I yapped about him so much they've switched over to seeing the more positive side of him. And I mean same with me and Vi, I don't think I would like her as much as I do if it wasn't for that friend haha