#GUH I MISS THEM

[sparkdoesart]

(YOU CAN'T LET THEM GO HOME.)

[mccallhero]

favourite ouat scenes: 74/?

[palossssssand]

Reconciliation

Old dome squadmates Trito and Kinoga get together at Trito’s place to catch up after years apart and a meeting by chance on the surface.

⚠️Warning for suggestive content below + implied chest trauma

After several weeks of chipping away at this, the comic is finally done! Very happy to have rendered a full 7 pages of oc stuff. Please give it a read!!

read the full 7 page comic on twitter! <-please do not click if you are a minor and view at your own discretion, this link contains explicit 18+ content. Thank you!

For the lore, includes stuff from splatoon Octo Expansion: Trito and Kinoga were a part of an octarian military squad living in the domes, Kinoga being their squad leader that many looked up to and admired. There were 6 of them who considered each other to be their closest friends. Upon hearing about the tests from Kamabo Co. and the allure of the Promised Land, Kinoga wished to seek it out in order to find a better life for their squadmates. A difficult decision, since it meant leaving them all behind, promising to come back and take them there.

Kinoga enters the metro trials and soon realizes that the Promised Land isn’t what they expected, their hope crumbling when they encounter one of their sanitized squadmates Agara, who followed suit to the metros soon after. Kinoga narrowly escapes, eventually making a break for the surface, carrying the shame of unwilling to return for their squadmates with them (it’s justified, of course, there might not be an easy way in, they might get caught again, Agara is gone)

Trito enters the Metro not too long after Kinoga does, wanting to catch up to them, and an accident that occurs in a test early on results in Trito’s near sanitization, giving him his scar. Terrified, and realizing what happens to his fellow octolings, Trito is unable to return to his squadmates, not wanting to break the news of their loved ones’ untimely fates. He hides away on the Metro until the events of OE happen and Agent 8 dismantles Kamabo, opening an opportunity to escape to the surface. Unwilling to face the possibilities of going back, Trito takes his chance to leave, starting a new life and feeling that it’s for the best if he doesn’t acknowledge it, though he missed his friends dearly.

Years later, Trito and Kinoga run into each other on the streets of Splatsville by chance, and the implications of them both being on the surface and alive hit them, having to carry the burden of leaving their loved ones behind and finding out the truth, knowing the other felt exactly the same, not knowing the fate of their squadmates and not wanting to think about the possibility of them being gone. They have a tearful reunion about it, and set up a meet later, to sit down and really talk, and get into a brief argument when the topic of returning to the domes comes up. Trito’s in disbelief that Kinoga never went back down to check on the rest of their squad, wanting them to have been a better person than him, who was too cowardly to do so. Eventually they do reconcile, and end up at Trito’s place to hook up, where the above comic takes place :]

[viriborne]

Do u think Grim gets cat zoomies

[seawing-vibes]

Sum oc doodles <3 Light-Pink gal is Sundog & Red-Toned fella is Fraga!! They are siblings <3

Fraga’s lovely design comes from @/avianreptiles !! Go check them out their art slaps

Extra Info about them & their (very very loose) story !

Their parents were both soldiers in the War of Sandwing Succession, they lived on the outskirts of the Ice Kingdom, but were often sent out to other areas of the continent, so Sundog & Fraga were left to be raised by the town a lot. The town was a temporary place for Soldiers and Soldiers family’s to stay while they were enlisted

Despite this they still had a loving relationship with their parents, it wasn’t their parents choice to be sent out so far and during their brief periods home they would spend all their time with their dragonets

The word of the war ending didn’t reach to the army’s far out and their parents never caught word of Thorn becoming queen, resulting in them dying to a fruitless battle out in the Mudwings Territory’s after Peace treaty’s were signed

After the war many dragons moved back to their old homes, leaving Fraga and Sundog in the town, waiting for their parents to return. Instead a General by the name of Hail came to take them in. He had visited the town multiple times and had been trusted to care for the newly orphaned pair

Hail had been a trusted royal general for years, but after the war he retired, mainly out of anger at the monarchy and the political turmoil that their kingdom was pulled into during and after the war; these ideals become shared by Sundog and Fraga

They spent the rest of their growing years on the outskirts of the Icewing Palace and lived comfortably. They were close as siblings, but life naturally had them drift apart as they aged out of their shared home

Fraga became a Caribou Herder and has watch over his own herd who he loves dearly

Sundog took on many odd jobs around the castle and stayed within the First Circle’s company, she held resentment towards them but enjoyed her work around them, eventually sparking a fiery friendship with the Royal Advisors son

Things went south though, after a night of loud argument Sundog found that she had killed the Son, and she had to flee, so she went back to her Brother

Fraga was distraught with this and desperately wanted to protect his sister, but knew the best option for her was to get out of the kingdom. He encouraged her to run away and that he would lead dragons off her trail. This is exactly what they did

Fraga still resides in the Ice Kingdom with his caribou, often using their fur for knitting projects, but his mind weighs heavy with worry for his sister and wishes to one day find where she had gone.

[nguyenfinity]

Another project, a dozen drawings based on 3 rules you set for yourself!! mine were flower heads, shows the sky somewhere, and they're all different times of day

[janearts]

How do you get your art/character interactions to be so expressive and organic? I've loved your art and ocs for years and keep coming back once in a while to skim through your Dragon Age and Elder Scrolls art to get inspired, so I wondered if you did specific art studies to get to where your art is right now?

Thank you for the compliment! I've got three answers (or exercises) for you and you can take them as you like 'em underneath the cut.

They are in order from Most Annoying to Most Pleasing.

The Noble Still Life

My parents threw me into art classes at around 6 years old. I don't mean to imply that that somehow makes me a better artist out of the gate--it truly doesn't--but it does mean that I've been doing still life studies for a sad but significant portion of my life. And as much as I hate drawing stupid fruit arranged with other stupid shit on stupid pieces of fabric, still life studies were really helpful across the board and especially with developing a sense of how shit works. ... Even if I go on to blissfully ignore what I've learned and draw fabric folds however the hell I want and put shadows wherever I damn well please.

The Ye Olde Master Study

As part of secondary school, we were also trotted out to local museums and parks and whatnot and told to just... have at it. So a lot of my sketchbooks from that time are filled with studies of library-lion-this and portrait-of-supposedly-important-man-that. Then, back in class, we were asked to imitate the old masters. Old Masters studies are really fucking fun and some of my favourite commissions have started out with phrases like "Can you recreate this Benjamin Constant painting but with my character as Empress Theodora?" or "How about a different Constant painting of Theodora?" I also do master-ish studies with my own digital paintings, like this one of Samson and this one of Bree. I think it's a fun exercise because it pushes me out of my comfort zone even if the end result doesn't look all that sophisticated or much like the original.

The Desperate Scribbles of the Human Form~

I should put gesture drawings and anatomy studies before master studies because in theory you need to know how to draw bodies before you start trying to paint in imitation of Caravaggio. (Now that I think about it, a deep knowledge of fruit is also essential to Caravaggio... but I digress.) In my art class, gesture drawings were more about flow and movement than it was about your unnerving ability to draw an elbow. Our teachers broke us using the Boiling Frog Technique, which was to say that they lulled us into a false sense of security by allowing us to sketch the person modelling for 10 minutes. Then 5 minutes. Then 3 minutes. Then 2 minutes. Then 1 minute. Then 30 seconds because they were sadists. It is unfortunately an effective way of teaching 1) how bodies move and 2) how to capture the essence of a pose rather than the strict reality of it.

But I really like anatomy studies and I really, really like drawing hands. And more hands. And even more hands. And then some more hands just in case. And then, just to shock and surprise everyone, a torso. A good chunk of my sketchbook is just me drawing faces and hands and eyeballs and hands and faces and sometimes feet when I can't remember how ankles work.

Other Weird Tips That Don't Quite Count As Studies:

If you don't wanna sketch in a museum or go to a park or stare at a stranger's ankles to figure out how ankles work, then go pull up fantasy stock photos on DeviantArt or take a photo of yourself and then get to sketching. That's what I do!

Watch a shitton of animated films. There's a fluidity & theatricality to how characters move in animated films that I love. Sometimes it seems like every inch of the character is expressing the emotion they're feeling. I find it personally inspirational even if I feel like gnawing off my own hand every time I attempt to draw my own frame-by-frame animation.

Study film. I studied film very, very briefly and a wee snippet of that was studying storyboards (as in: in library, with book) and doing some storyboard art projects (as in: at desk, with sketchbook). I treat every comic I do as if I was storyboarding the animated scene from the disjointed animated film in my brain and then polish it up to make it more readable/enjoyable.

Hope that helps!

[skrunksthatwunk]

FINISHED GAIDEN

[proxythe]

akishiji

[raspberryzingaaa]

Thinking about going to World Most Boring Bible Study Ever. Idk yall. Idk. Idek.

[hailtothebubble]

girl who's having to pass QTEs to not say regretable things on main

[nimue-hidden-lake]

... Is there even anyone around remembering my Natsume era?

We uh... Might have a comeback... Maybe... Erm... Anyway, all it took was one ten pull on CN. WHY WEREN'T YOU SO GENEROUS BEFORE!?

[jayjamjary]

Missing my wives again. (Fictional grown ass men)

[poltergeist-coffee]

everytime i see someone talk about how qforever might react to qcellbit rn i feel like tearing up i need to get off this stupid island

[catcatb0y]

I have so much respect for people who just put their blorbo into every interation with other characters, as if everyone loves their blorbo and it's SO fun until half the fandom is blorbo-inserting with that one character you just can't fucking stand and every time you try to look for stuff of your own blorbos, they are THERE, HAUNTING.

[toestalucia]

the last story rly did do a number on me