#// crow responds

[a-library-ghost]

david kostyk is the most under-appreciated book boyfriend in this essay I will

[poltergrease]

I binged the Crow Strider au comic in one night and I feel very very normal about these three.

Panel inspo:

[crowliphale]

Hii your art style is soooo lovely!

I have a question

How do you learn to draw the witch light crew especially Gideon and . The reason I ask is because I don’t know how to draw masculine or muscular characters and I think you do a great job at it.

Thank you for reading!

Eek okay so I mainly focused on Gideon here because I think your muscle question works with him best

Basically just use a TON of references! Stare at shirtless men for 300 hours! I got most of my muscle knowledge from drawing TF2 characters and super buff samurai for like 4 years

As for the rest of the Krew, my advice is similar to what I said for Kremy. I take a lot of inspiration from other artists in the community, while also adding little unique features of my own to make them feel distinct. Just play around with it until you're happy with how they look!! 👍

(Side note: Gideon isn't skinny to me by any means, I just draw his waist smaller than his chest to make him feel HUGE and top-heavy, it gives him a really strong figure! He's still plenty chunky compared to his friends hehe)

[mohntilyet]

i read the wigmaker job recently and there’s an idea that really stuck with me, which may well have been discussed before, but it’s really been itching at me. it came from this exchange near the end –

“i don't want to quit.” / illario sat back. the distance between them suddenly felt much wider than a table. / “even if it kills you,” illario whispered. / “death is my calling,” lucanis stated, matter-of-fact. “just as yours is to become first talon.”

(the bits before and after this give important context, too, but these specific lines are what gnaw at me)

i. really wonder if this conversation – and the long-standing beliefs held by both of them that it’s indicative of – contributed to giving lucanis to zara.

like, illario coming to terms with the fact that lucanis really just will. not. stop. for ANYTHING. his cousin WILL get himself killed doing this and lucanis won’t have any regrets. he’ll leave illario to go this alone. (no one to follow after anymore.) combined with the envy of knowing that lucanis is and always will be caterina’s favorite, and she will likely pick lucanis to be first talon even tho lucanis does not want this At All…

i wonder if he thought that, well, if lucanis is going to die anyway… maybe it’s better to have it happen sooner, rather than later. why put off the inevitable? especially if this is the one thing that could shift caterina’s gaze to illario and give him what he’s wanted – what he’s earned.

lucanis wouldn’t be happy as first talon anyway (honestly, illario seems to see that what lucanis is NOW isn’t so much ‘happy’ as it is ‘obedient and content to accept the scraps that gives him’), and he’s GOING to get himself killed doing this, anyway… and sure, they COULD wait it out. wait for lucanis to do something foolish enough that he can't just walk away from it. maybe he’ll even last long enough to be made first talon (if caterina can ever bear to loosen her grip from the title) and be miserable for a while. years even, maybe. before he, again, does something he can’t walk away from.

OR. or. or illario could cut through all the pointless waiting and get right to the point. go straight to where this was always going to end up.

(and maybe part of it is an extension of anticipated grief, too – the loss will be agony. if illario controls when and how it happens, he can control his grief. …except he hasn’t accepted the inevitability of lucanis’ death quite as well as he’d thought and when he gets sloshed at the wake, real grief seeps through the cracks)

i dunno. something about both of them viewing lucanis’ death as a foregone conclusion and how illario Might have had that shape his decisions.

YEAH . YEAHHHHH. i do also think the “to reason” exchange is what solidifies it in illario’s mind. lucanis is like 'this has been a productive if tense talk with my cousin. surely he sees sense now.' and illario is like ‘what the fuck. i think he wants to die’ <- okay im exaggerating a bit but i do absolutely see the end of wigmaker’s job as the start of lucanis-illario’s downward spiral. there’s a reason that it’s something lucanis is stuck on during inner demons, and the exchange that you have very nicely broken down is what he hears echoes of, this is where he knows it started to go wrong

probably the worst part is lucanis WOULD have worked himself to death and it takes the series of events in veilguard for lucanis to see other options for his life, and still he ends up being shoehorned into first talon by the end of the quest. i thought his quest would parallel iron bull’s, in that rook shows them that living outside and away from crow influence is possible, and that he is much more than the weapon they turned him into, but it ofc doesn’t go through like that. it’s genuinely a bit heartbreaking that lucanis finally has support and like. FRIENDS. but with the way the game ends he’s pulled back into the crows and to a life that will be about protecting a cousin that the organisation he runs hates, and for as long as caterina lives, unable to say no to her. and meanwhile after lucanis has made connections outside of the crows, illario has absolutely nothing left (prison of his own making i get it but i still want to get his ass out of there. 😭) so the codependency that they used to share is gone as well. maybe lucanis has a foot out the door but i genuinely have no idea how illario goes on after this

[kanejbr3kker]

so last night i was thinking about that line where matthias (i think it was him? probably) tells kaz he has nothing holy in his life and kaz is just like "no you're wrong" and we all know he's thinking about inej.

and then there's that scene in the show right before they kidnap alina where kaz is in the church and that guard guy is trying to kill him and then inej matieralizes on the balcony above him so she can save his life and they're in a literal church and she's appearing above him to rescue him, basically just being the "something holy" in his life.

[monstrousvoice]

Asked my friend for a random word to participate in the tumblr ask culture. Was given 'claws'. Too easy, I said. After the earlier posts I saw. Hope this is cool to send, it's kinda nsfw

So. Husks claws. Hmmmmmm. Thoughts, feelings? He uses retractable claws to give nice gentle scratches during lovemaking, rougher scratches while fucking hard, and has a strict rule about not startling him or finishing him off while he's got them retracted while givin a handy or fingering just in case, he wants to be careful

Anon, any nsfw stuff about Husk (or even other hazbin characters) is cool to send

Feelings on Husk's claws? Good. Very good.

Perfect for grazing over your skin in light, tickling touches that give you goosebumps - he laughs when you give him a light smack for doing it to your neck.

The feeling of them digging into your hips or back as he moves you around during sex, sometimes he grips a little too hard and pricks your skin. As beads of bright red blood well up he licks them away, whispering sorry against your soft skin. If you tell him to do it more, he's happy to oblige, within reason

I don't know if they are actually retractable or not, it seems like everyone in Hell has claws of some variety, but it certainly would be useful for sexy times, as you said. I could see his first time being with someone after his transformation, without retractable claws, being pretty nerve wracking cause he doesnt want to cause damage to such...delicate equipment. But if he can simply tuck them away into the soft fur of his paws, then its a huge relief X3

[unriding]

EVIE !!!!!

I SAW U USE MY ART AS UR THEME SO I WANNA DO A REMAKE !!! mostly cause the other one was full of mistaks hurrrrr orz

keeping the color palette the same so itd still fit + use softer shading so convey how soft u are + moze is now IN UR HAND !!!! >:3

oh nick :’)

[childofthestone]

veilguard doesnt let you assume or hypothesize ANYTHING by yourself bro...i hate it. immediately after presenting an idea it will provide you with all the possible avenues of thought there is no subtlety to this game

[crow-with-a-pencil]

[crowkip]

just discovered you and your art and i'm going feral like aajsjfkfk it is gorgeous i could almost live off it

anyway you have another lesbian supporter <3

[gyrovagi]

davrin and dak-wai are so besties it really makes me smile. sometimes you just need two grey wardens

[val-of-the-north]

Send this to all your favourite moots and pass the pumpkin round! KEEP THE PUMPKIN TRAIN GOING 🎃🖤🎃🖤🎃

The first one is from Crow!!

Thank you so much for dropping this by. I was just in need of one.

You see, that poor scarecrow over there is in need of a new head, so this pumpkin does just the thing... although...

Wait- right you guys are crows. You a-aren't gonna take that the wrong way, would you? Uhm...

Ah, tell you what. I'll just carve you something nice, a peace offering you could say! Besides, that old scarecrow works without head t... uh?

N-No matter! Here, bring this to Crow and send her my best regards!

[crowliphale]

Crow i have a small request, could you explain how you draw kremy? I have a hard time figuring out how to make him look cute

Good question!! I uh. Kinda don't know how to explain it so I made a video

I guess my main thing is don't be afraid to break his lizard proportions a little, and also USE REFERENCES AND TAKE INSPO FROM OTHERS!!

I HEAVILY referenced @/mischieviem and @/paesthethyc when I was initially figuring out how to draw the guys, and then I worked my way from there!

[rintoki]

can someone give me a quick guide to liking sylus bc it’s been a like good month of me unlocking him and i just .

[noodlesoup1819]

*crawls slowly out of cave*

so, uh, hey it's been a minute since i've been at all active here. not sure when that's gonna change but life's been happening

finally finished finals and passed all my classes with A's (yay 🎉) finally got into see the specialist i've been needing to see and that appointment went really well (yay). but i have to go off some medications, get some different tests done, and at least for the moment am not feeling the greatest (not so yay). but! at least i have no school till almost half way through january!

i'll also probably be busy with family over the holidays, but i'm hoping i can take a little time to catch up here over the break too.

(hopefully) see you guys after christmas! 👋

*crawls back into cave, slightly less disheveled*

[twilight-zoned-out]

“Seems we both share an appreciation for life’s beauty.”

-Tolya Yul-Bataar

Shadow and Bone, ‘No Funerals’