#Ares (kheprriverse)

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Link "I'm gonna put a saddle on that dragon" Ares.

Ignore the quality instantly changes after panel 1. I went from "funny haha doodle" to "oh I wanna make this one look nice" the moment I finished sketching panel 2.

He's so lucky Volga is letting him do this tbh. If it were anyone else he probably would've torn them apart.

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Ko'jin in a braid ko'jin in a braid ko'jin in a braid--

Current (post-totk) Ko'jin in his outfit from his early years as a deity. He looks so silly with it but in a good way lmao. I definitely think he still has it around and wears it when he's feeling like wearing smth lighter but still relatively functional.

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With the results of the recent poll I decided to give y'all the updated design of Ares (HW Link)! There's more I probably need to add but I'm happy with him for now. Maybe y'all will get to see more when it's added or maybe I'll keep it to myself :>

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His main roles in the group happens to go: strategist, combat medic, second in command. All of the roles the group has usually come to each hero naturally based on past experience, but Ares making it clear what his roles and experience in Zelda’s military are pretty much solidified where he stands in the group.

While a few members of the group know varying degrees of magic and healing magic (Legend, Hyrule, Mini, and Ballad), Ares is the only one that has in-depth training as a combat medic during the War of Eras.

He was also one of Zelda’s top strategists, and his experience with groups of soldiers has helped convince Ballad enough to allow him to lead if he weren’t around. Though, I’m sure if Ares hadn’t noticed Ballad’s ranking then he would have been more than comfortable leading everyone himself.

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Self indulgent doodle for my birthday :]

Character refs: Ares || Volga

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New Ares doodle that's been sitting around in my files since I updated him. Wanted to work on more doodles of him but ended up drawing volga on the same canvas instead lol

-> Ares's new ref

Peek at Volga's wip design below the cut as well :>

I haven't fully decided on him yet, these were just to figure him out while he happened to be on my mind. Anyways he'll most likely get some changes as I work on him.

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Some Volgres doodles, mostly wanted to do some older Ares content for my fav side au (the wargod au) but decided Volga deserved to be silly too. Also I just enjoy drawing dragons and wanted to draw a thicc fireboi.

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More doodles of the fire dragon variety :D

More details ab him and just general dragon behavior. And also a silly little doodle at the bottom right.

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Been thinking about my wargod au again for a while, Gave Ballad a test outfit. Which I'll probs make a ref of eventually and mess with it more.

Anyways context, fucker decides to terrorize Ares WAY after the main story coz he's silly-goofy and bored. There is an actual reason he's around he's just not gonna say no to being a pest and hijacking the poor guys room.

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Just a stupid thing that's been on my mind. Plus Linkle (Apollo) being silly and harassing Volga. This was actually supposed to be way smaller and not take me a day to make but yk... Sometimes the brianrot comes in full force.

Hope y'all enjoy the random dragon lore :'D

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I'm not sorry.

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Really needed to get lore out of my head, but also wanted to draw a silly thing because I can’t escape these two.

Plus it’s good practice for me to work on random events. And maybe next time I’ll mess with csp’s tone layer feature more, see what I can do with it, or at least see how it works with my style.

Also the higher resolution of these two pages is gonna be what you can (hopefully) expect for the main comic. Its a much larger canvas size than I usually work on (at least two times as large I think). Just so I can fit in more details and also still be able to use my fav brush on smaller panels. Even if it kills my poor laptop lmao, it’s a small price to pay.

Also more about this post, I wasn't sure if I wanted to officially drop info on Ko'jin's family so this is the closest I'll get to showing how he feels. Feel free to harass me about it though.

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I spent WAY too much time on this one, sometimes dragon anatomy just hates me so I just winged it until he looked decent.

Character refs: Ares || Volga

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I didn’t think I was gonna post today but I was so happy with these I just had to.

Some miscellaneous FD, Time, and Wars doodles. I plan to delve further into FD and Time’s relationship eventually, like why they swapped eyes and how that came to be and how this connection between them affects them both.

Bottom right was drawn last night (with he extra detail beside it done just a minute ago) coz I was messing with the swapped eyes idea at the time.

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So many designs, so little time.

Below is the full sheet!

I've got a few of them to rework. Otherwise most of what you see will stay. ALTHOUGH, I plan on adding other AUs (hence Tekoha), so I will either update this post, reblog with updates, or make a whole new post when the time comes.

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UPDATE LOG: 7-14-23: Renamed Wars/Warriors to "Ares". 7-23-23: Updated Tears' ref and renamed to "Spirit". 7-31-23: Updated Time's reference.

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You incredible person *holds you by the shoulders* I wanna kiss you! That art of Bunny is EXACTLY what I needed to see today (for an unrelated reason) and I'm screaming here and showing to a friend. I love you, keep being great 💕

Yayyyyyyyy I’m glad his presence has helped some 🥰🥰!!

Here’s some more bunny doodling for u, hope ur able to have a good day/night

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With the second page of my what-if mini comic on kofi, I've decided to share some doodles of Time and a look at Malon's redesign :)!

These images are designs that take place near or in the beginning of my au since its gonna probably focus on him a lot and were primarily made to get the design down in my head. Hence the lack of FD markings.

I'd show the full version of the second image, but I'm still figuring everything out. So things are still subject to change in the future.

Mini-comic peak below the cut! (I'm also primarily plugging my kofi so feel free to ignore it if you want)

Pages can be viewed every Monday where they're released early on kofi! This page will be released here in about a week, but do feel free to support me if you like my work and wanna see stuff before tumblr does! It's $1/month and you get early content, shop/commission discounts, and WIPs/progress pages.

Page 2 will be uploaded here (Tumblr) on the 11th, which is my bday! Hopefully you guys like it :3