#Dusk Caste

[theuncrucified]

Happy Calibration to @comedygoldatragedy for the Exalted Secret Santa 2024 event! Here's my take on The Boy with the Seven Word Name's royal attire. Looks like there was yet another assassination attempt at court today. Man, what a drag.

I thought a blood-splattered lion theme would fit the adopted son of the First and Forsaken Lion. I hope you don't mind the extensive artistic license I took with this!

Also, enjoy a timelapse and preliminary sketches so you all can appreciate my unwise decision to redraw his crown at a very late stage as well as the poses that could have been. All done in Procreate.

Thanks as ever to @shiftingpath for organizing us again this year! I always look forward to this event every time.

[dkniade]

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Fan art of @kianamaiart’s characters from I Don’t Want To Be A Magical Girl! (with glasses, ft misc glasses characters & two IDWTBAMG universe fan characters)

I’ve been following this project from the start so it’s been great seeing interactions between the characters and how the fandom is so excited for it. ^^

I tried to draw the cast from memory and, while Miss seems a little different from canon, at least I got the dark hair roots and strands sticking out lol. But details aside they’re all recognizable! Which means they’re lovely designs that are unique from one another✨

Eclipse’s shades are a combination of his usual eye mask and the shades from this artwork, and Hoshi’s glasses are inspired by this one!🌒⭐️

Designs… (I don’t have a name for her yet but) the pigtails girl’s shapes are a combination of curves pointing downwards and curves pointing upwards. The idea ended up being that she’s on Eclipse and Lady DeVoid’s side so (after reading this post by Kiana about how most of the characters had Aika’s design as the springboard and are designed to complement eachother) I wanted her design to complement those two’s, with some influence from Zira. I like that the strands of hair on her forehead and the shape around them mirror both Zira’s hair and DeVoid’s horns haha. Plus, I was trying to figure out how to design her glasses and they ended up being kind of the inverse of Eclipse’s eye mask, which is very nice. Eclipse and DeVoid seem to be associated with sharp curves and circle shapes; maybe her outfit could be a lot fancier…

As for what her role might be in the story… I dunno, if she works with Eclipse and DeVoid, and Eclipse is all ~theatric and grand~ then maybe she could be like… his assistant… or something? Who knows. Or, I say “observer from afar” so perhaps she actually gets along with Zira well and they’d watch on the sidelines while Aika and Eclipse duke it out…?

Eclipse… Moon… Umbra… man what if I just name the pigtails girl Yueshi (月食, lunar eclipse)(for both the moon motif that Zira and Eclipse have, and the darkness motif that Eclipse and DeVoid have haha)

Shooting star and telescope don’t feel quite right, but with the circular shapes and the lunar eclipse, I could kind of see her having some star trail motifs with her sweater…

I guess Umbra would be the same type of elf (? darkness/concept personified?) as Lady DeVoid but I’m not sure haha. We don’t have much information on DeVoid other than the fact that she is darkness itself and that she lost most of her powers which she can’t remember how to use. Banished by a Star Guardian, revenge, recruiting Eclipse to help spread the darkness particles to destroy the Star Guardian… If she has a similar backstory to MLP:FIM’s Princess Luna then does that mean she was originally Aika’s teammate or something? haha

About Umbra’s hair… (Feel free to correct me for any inaccuracies.) I think from the reference photos I was trying to draw box braids but got so focused on also making the braids look like moon phases that I’m not sure if it’d still be box braids in the end? They seem more like cornrows now, at least for the side ones?

Here are some earlier versions of the OCs! and more rambling about designs

Well, initially I scribbled down Yueshi so I could experiment with values because I was thinking about how light-coloured pants draw the eye too much if the outfit or the top half of the character is darker. (Half way through she ended up looking like a IDWTBAMG character so I tried to match the proportions with Aika’s turnaround.) But I suppose if there’s enough contrast for the upper half (and IDWTBAMG’s stark black design style gives a lot of contrast) then it works out better. I think the combination of making Yueshi’s hair and the top half of her sweater black and the circle shape white worked out okay. Initially she had large round eyes so I tried giving her round glasses too but since she ended up being a fan character in the universe, it was too similar to Aika and Zira.

Umbra’s design kind of popped into my mind today so I tried to scribble it down and experimented with hairstyles. But green and purple are already associated with Zira, and that shade of lavender is more like Eclipse so I guess I’ll fiddle around with her colour scheme more. Maybe there’s not enough of the signature black there, and both could use some more details to match the level of details in the canon designs… (If Yueshi works under DeVoid then she’d probably get a fancy outfit too.) Then again, Umbra is more like Miss in terms of detail so it seems she’d be a background/supporting character or something…🤔

(I can’t seem to escape the puffy sleeves/cone shape silhouette🤔 Gotta diversify. Also, not sure if it’s ‘cause of the project’s style or if I just really love circles in character design haha)

[taxlikesmarsroverz]

I present: the nemlei character tier list on whether or not they can say slurs

[sjofn-lofnsdottr]

Farron hates Solution 9 (he was a technophobe already, and all the Goings On did not persuade him to be less of one) but is a big fan of the gear the Arcadion's piled onto his husband so far.

[kt4747]

"And now begins the ancient word. The sun sleeps below the sky and we make our feast. And the world turns upside down." - Santanico Pandemonium

"Here's to getting rich and fat. And dying in the arms of a beautiful woman." - Seth and Richie Gecko

"You know who I am. I'm El Rinche!"- Freddie Gonzalez

"They are bullies and assholes. They don't deserve to win!" - Scott Fuller

"True love is loving the unlovable." - Kate Fuller

"Good & Evil? I have been alive for 500 years and I still don't know the difference. It's never that simple." - Carlos Madrigal

[laurenlaveras]

ENDLESS GIFS OF KATE FULLER IN FROM DUSK TILL DAWN: THE SERIES || 6/∞

[abigail]

my mom who says she hates horror and violence in movies made me watch movies like from dusk till dawn, seven, pulp fiction and saw when i was a child and now she wonders why i love horror and violence in movies as an adult like……. ok.

[sorunort]

hi i haven't posted in a hot minute because i've been drawing full bodies of my OCS all month long thus far (except Dusk, she's just a sketch because i hadn't drawn her since uhhhhh idk 2021? maybe less?)

[lara-prism-light]

The banner is complete!!

Thanks for waiting.

[bentcoppers]

Happy 43rd birthday to this beautiful talented man! Aging like fine wine.......

[hexxgirlthorn]

closed starter @partialdarkncss location: evermore park

Ever since Thorn found herself back in Evermore she had done all she could to not be inside. Sleep was a foreign concept; she didn't even like closing her eyes for more than a minute because each time she saw that cage. She honestly had no idea how long she'd been trapped, how much she screamed, or why she was suddenly let out. She didn't eat much because everything tasted like that horrible slop they fed her to keep her alive. She really didn't understand why they kept her alive...

The park was one of the only places she felt like she could breathe at right now. She just sat on a bench and stared into the night sky, grateful she was even able to see the stars again. She figured it was only a matter of time before one of her girls found her. She hadn't really been saying anything to either of them. She didn't even know what she could say. Feeling the warmth of Dusk next to her, she sighed, crossing her arms over her chest and leaning back. "I'm fine, V. You didn't have to go looking for me."

[dkniade]

The thing about Childe’s dim and highlight-less eyes standing out is that it only works if the usual artstyle has sparkly/shiny eyes by default (contrast of course)

So if Childe was a Soul Eater character, it wouldn’t work as well since at least half the cast has non-shiny eyes

Then they’d have to do something else with Childe’s eyes, like with Crona… Usually their eyes are dark/navy-coloured but I think when they’re feeling particularly strong emotions (determination, fear, ….dissociation*…?) it changes to pale grey/blue, and when they’re feeling particularly positive emotions there’s at least one little white highlight in the center

(I think that’s how it works. It’s been years since I first watched SE haha..)

Note: after these images I talk about child abuse and abusive parents (and like, grim reapers, but comedically)

*They’ve got a neglectful mother and they’re forced to follow the goal of becoming uhh an entity who eats evil human souls not on the shinigami’s list…? In the SE universe weapon-shapeshifting people usually eat evil souls that are on the list. …I guess the characters kinda like grim reapers but not really? White stripes suit kid up there is the actual son of the grim reaper (he’s known as “Death the Kid” or just “Kid”) so technically he can use “ascended” (?) weapons (shapeshifting people) known as death scythes, but like, he wants to prove his ability to work hard and ascend his weapon partners (the cowgirls) himself

Pupils are kinda a cool thing in Soul Eater’s artstyle… Maka (pigtails) usually has dark green eyes but when she’s showing strong emotions they turn grass-green and with a visible pupil

[kadenkilljoy]

oodles of doodles

I've been drawing on paper for the past couple months since my migraines have gotten too bad for me to use my tablet consistently

[big-star-x]

From Dusk Till Dawn (1996 vs 2023) All Cast: Then and Now 

[magic-is-something-we-create]

in other writing liveblog news: yesterday was my day to talk about dusk

today im gonna talk about lakia because HOO BOY. she is. god. she's got So Much going on and i literally don't get to put it on the main stage for another BOOK AND A HALF.

[laurenlaveras]

MADISON DAVENPORT as KATE FULLER in FROM DUSK TILL DAWN || S1E03 - mistress