#I’d like to do a digital ref but refs are SO HARD when ur on a phone. maybe I’ll digitalize this

[nightcorecarseatheadrest]

@blazersparker asked ab my oc in the tags of a post and because I’m thinking about him a lot I need to post. His names pepper !! He rides a timberjack named fogcleaver! His design includes a lot of chain mail esp as a cape and on his shoes ^_^ he’s also an archer and gets a sleeve tattoo of a timberjack and nightmare on his arm in between 2 and 3. I made him a year ago and I’m still fleshing out the lore :< he transitions during the end of Rob/dob and I love him so much and can’t stop thinking about him

[dragonshoard]

Shdhf here’s most of the other drawins! M gonna be workin on sm digital ones tmrw probably but these are the traditional ones i did in my free times :>

(Btw these were all done yesterday morning/afternoon, so more visible/harsh scarring than i’d now draw with the new info u gave me)

Honestly, since u havent posted a ref/in depth description i jus went with whatever i thought might be likely(shoeless because grew out of them+couldnt get any in the pits, tho im guessing she likely has shoes in the au shfg- also scarring on the chin cause i thought ‘damn what if she smacked her face into the floor while trying to get away’) tho obv i’d draw it differently with any new info. The ‘Jinx’ carving into the collar was also jus me being like ‘damn dont they smtms do that to dogs in fighting rings?? Thatd be fucked up lol’ so like,, feel free to ignore it shdhf

Anyway! Away from the doodles! I am jus,, fuckin burstin with questions mate- ur au’s so cool!! U dont have to answer any of em tho dw sjdjf

So does vi show up well post!pits or do her n cait investigate the pits n see jinx? Im assuming its post based on ur comment of them takin a while to show up since things happen differently, but i felt like askin anyway :p

Does fighter!jinx still tinker/build stuff?? Ik u said she would never touch bombs n such(which, understandable. That sounds like jus askin to be triggered tbh)- but if/when she meets up with ekko does she maybe help with buildin them stuff? Makin/repairin hoverboards, makin guns- or maybe knives n such? Idk what skills u’re givin her dhdgdb

Oh, and with ur first post on this au, im assuming jinx escapes at 15? Can i ask how old she was when silco first gets her? Does she spend a lot of time after escaping just hiding out and ekko happens upon her by accident? Does she gain any injuries while escaping? Does she stay with the firelights when she meets them or does she only visit so as to not draw silco towards them too much? Does silco have specific people hunting jinx down(say, her handlers from the pits, or sevika?) or is it jus like,, everyone in his empire is on high alert for her n everyones to go after her if they see her?

And speaking of sevika- whats her opinion of all this? I mean, obv im guessing shes in favor of whatever silco wants, but do u think she ever felt guilt/regret over tossing vander n his kids to the wolves(literally, in powders case) or does she jus,, not care??

And a final thought(im so sorry i jus realized how many questions this is dhdhdhv)- with jinx’s seeming penchant/willingness to bite anyone n everyone(jus based off the mention of biting the animal-turned-shimmer!monster she fought + her desire to bite silcos hand) does she ever get muzzled?? Or nah??

kjnkdjfnkj i love the pics!! Nah any creative liberties you took are cool to see! I’m still having a hard time drawing Jinx so I was practicing before I could actually post any art refs. 

“Jinx” would be inscribed in the collar if Silco was a pure asshole, but as cruel as he seems in this AU, he doesn’t actually see her as a dog or a pet despite what everyone thinks. He wants her by his side eventually and sees everything that he’s done (towards the last year or two) as a means of “freeing” her. Oh and she does have shoes. They’re falling apart, but they exist xD Not the best idea to fight barefoot on metal. 

And I can totally see the logic behind the scarring. It doesn’t help that she is malnourished, especially in those first few years, so her healing wasn’t very efficient. But, surprisingly, her face is not as marked up as you think it would be after 5-6 years. It’s the rest of her body that’s got an impressive collection. 

(He visits her pretty often towards the end, talking to her and braiding her hair, and it sucks because Jinx naturally wants to not be alone, but also hates the bastard with everything in her. She’d have Stockholm syndrome in this au if it wasn’t for the voices)

Vi is gonna have a straight up heart attack the minute she’s close enough to see the scarring. It’s pretty extensive on her upper body, despite how most of it is pretty faint (barring a few bigger scars) and it’s enough to tell Vi that Jinx has had a rough couple of years. 

I’ll be honest, when I first posted about this AU I thought Powder was 10 in Act 1 and 16 in Act 2-3. Apparently she was 11-12 and 17-18, respectively, so that ruins things a bit xD 

So for sake of keeping it mostly canon, she is roughly 11 when she’s captured by Silco and 17 when she gets free. It won’t be Vi and/or Cait who comes to save her though (I’m actually writing her escape right now so I think I’ll keep quiet on the ‘how’. It’s gonna be appropriately tragic xD). But she does get about a year of freedom before Vi and Cait go into to the undercity. And they show up because she’s messing with Silco’s stuff and leaving a very noticeable trail of destruction behind her. The firelights may or may not be getting caught in the crossfires of her crusade. Ekko is desperately trying to find her (take her in), but for a long while she is absolutely convinced that he’s working with Silco so avoids him like the plague (but doesn’t seriously hurt him or his out of respect for who he used to be to her). 

Speaking of Silco, he absolutely is having multiple people hunting her down. Everyone in his circle has a “report if found, do not engage” order while a select few lead capture attempts. He’s very aware that, as her target, she will eventually come at him so he fortifies himself the best he can. He’s ALSO very aware that she is much stronger than most of his lackies, so knows not to attempt a “capture on sight” order.

As for Sevika... I’ll be honest, I don’t think she gives a damn what happens to the girls. She was perfectly fine with a bunch of kids dying for the undercity, so I don’t see why she would care about Powder being put into the Pits.  Personally, I think Sevika is in favor of getting rid of her and makes her opinion to Silco very known. Jinx was a danger to them if she ever escaped and Sevika was well aware. She also knew that Silco was soft enough for the kid that he would give her leniencies that might lead to said escape (she’s not wrong). 

On another note, Jinx does eventually learn to love building things again. She’ll start building at first out of necessity (her guns aren’t gonna come from thin air, ya know), then because she remembers her passion for it. She is going to be very scared for a while, but eventually learns to get that part of her back. No explosives, but there are plenty of other things to make. In the future, she does spend a lot of time with Heimerdinger once he comes to the undercity/Zaun and he sort of takes both her and Ekko under his wing. He understands she’s been hurt for a very long time and there used to be a part of her that loved to invent, so he does his best to support her interest and catch her up on what she’s missed over the years. 

Personally, I think he’ll encourage her to go back to the basics and start her off on small things like those butterflies/animals before moving onto bigger things, but Jinx would probably try to jump right into the deep end (she would be building guns at this point, it couldn’t be that difficult - said Jinx). Not sure if that works out for her yet. This post is a bit long, so I’ll talk about her skill a bit later (but it does change over time). 

Ekko... I’m on the fence with him. There’s going to be so much guilt and anger there for a long time. Once she realizes he’s not with Silco, Jinx just wants him to forget about everything that’s happened and go back to the way they used to be (desperate to re-claim the very few good things she has left in this world), but that just can’t happen. 

I’m a timebomb shipper. I want them to be together if Jinx is shipped with anyone in this AU, but I don’t know if I’ll actually put her with anyone. She’s got a lot to work on personally (not even looking at her mental health issues) and I’m not sure if pairing her with Ekko is what’s best for the both of them. 

-- oh no you’re giving me ideas with the muzzle ahh. But really, I could see it happening the first year or two before she’s permanently fitted with a shock collar. By that point, I think she’s learned when to bite and when to punch or kick. 

[queenofnohr]

Do you ever run into color issues when doing digital art? I feel like sometimes when I look at it on a different screen the hue/saturation entirely changes.

yes 🥲 which is why I’ve been losing my mind at the color of Miserere’s hair recently.

Even when taking screenshots on my XIV the color and especially the brightness can wildly differ even though when checking monitors the color fidelity was supposed to be pretty good 😔 which is sad because I’ll take screencaps I’m really proud of then go to post on my phone or laptop and be like whyyyyyyyyyy and then have to edit them to be brighter or whatever. It also means taking refs of Asha and Aias is Kind Of Hell since they’re both dark skinned and obviously I don’t want them ending up too light in ref pics but what’ll end up happening is I’ll take pics that look perfect in preserving color while still being visible only to look at it on my phone or laptop when I’m actually linking ref pics and them looking wayyyyyyy dark making me have to be like “I promise I can take other ref pics if these are too dark” which is embarrassing and you think I’d learn to overcompensate regarding screenshots but it’s so hard bc sometimes it’s like. Okay you brighten it but now for some reason Aias looks less purple. Or too cool-toned or too warm-toned or the purple of his skin looks okay but his hair doesn’t appear the right shade of red

I know that my phone and laptop are similar-ish since screenshots show up similarly between them vs my PC monitor but I guess they aren’t actually that similar because of what’s been happening with Miserere’s hair 🥲 I think I once read something that said you shouldn’t trust ur phone screen for color bc most phones have some sort of vibrancy setting as default, but insofar re: reactions to hair color, my phone seems to displaying things the most “correctly”

on another note though, perhaps it’s just my own inexperience wrt art and color? Commissions usually look fine between screens so 😅 I dunno……..

but it’s one of the reasons I rly don’t like coloring 🫠 and practicing to improve ends up being a frustrating endeavor

[seungmic]

I’ve just started digital drawing ((I can barely draw irl lmao)) and I’m already in pain from sitting in the same spot and my shoulder is killing me from the actual drawing. I’m also just tracing rn, do you have any advice for someone trying to find their style?? I can draw eyes and mouths but literally nothing else whOOPS

bro. 

i feel u!!!! make sure to take breaks n stretch if ur drawing for long periods of time, also pls stretch ur hand! carpal tunnel is a real Bitch! braces can help too :D 

hmm if ur finding ur style i’d suggest getting a ratty sketchbook and just. drawing a whole lot!! i know it’s kinda a ‘well, duh’ thing but hard work is rly important. i have over 60 sketchbooks in my art cabinet from like. grade three and even if it turns out shitty? keep it! ur learning and u gotta document that stuff.

 find artists whose style you rly admire and decide on specific parts of what u like about their style�� like ‘oh xx draws eyes like this, i like that” and “yy draws hands like so” and try to merge them together and work from there? experiment! have fun! u don’t have to be super neat just go nuts! make it fun

i drew floating heads for like 4 years bc i didn’t wanna do anatomy hhfsdjfdsjhf so. i’d also suggest studying anatomy/drawing people from life! i hate anatomy but u gotta do it bro. u gotta. it’s gonna help you so much! if ur able to take still life classes/ anatomy classes, do it! youtube tutorials are also a Blessin. 

break down bodies/faces into basic shapes and then build on it! art is like how ogres are like onions- it’s got layers and u need to steadily build it up ;)

if ur gonna trace i’d suggest using shutterstock photos/random photos from the web and then tracing over them and changing them into the characters/people/features you have in your head? try not to trace everything tho! what i did when i was startin out was going from tracing directly to printing out the image and taping it next to my computer as a ref

im so happy that you’ve started drawing!! i rly wish you all the best and if u ever have any questions about anything lmk love!