#also I really need a proper fullbody ref

[timethehobo]

Can’t wait for companions to judge Rook like hell.

[kyaruun]

if i don't pick a pen this weekend and start doodling ocs i swear i'm going to die

like i'm putting at least 5h per day into the thesis and then i have finals (last one.... today) and asignments and the impending stupid graduation that's stressing me beyond belief and of course. the actual presentation for the thesis :))) and i won't be done until the 20th.... july......

eternal sleep where you at

[kheprriverse]

Ballad's new design! Can't wait to design every other forms he has as well. But that'll come later. Regardless, I really like how the design looks now compared to the others.

Masterpost | Lineup | Ko-fi - Extra details/thoughts under the cut.

The sword sheathe is a little crunchy, its part of a redesign idea I had that I scrapped. But the sheathe itself I liked, so I pasted it into his ref page before blocking in the new details. But it's crunchy because I had to resize it and didn't want to redraw the whole thing <- ultimately just laziness on my part.

Green cloth is totally optional, so here's a look underneath in case it's needed.

No colors for this version tho. I didn't really plan for it to be in the ref. Maybe some other day.

Regarding other forms. I may include either some of his mask forms but that'll require some thinking and concept art. I WILL be making a proper fullbody of his Fierce Deity form tho along with Forest (oot) getting a good ref as well. (Forest does have a ref I just don't like it so I never posted it lol.) And ofc once that's all done they'll get their own lineup page. Feel free to probe me for any details till then. It'll be kind of a long process since I'm also working on FD's origin.

[dirtyoldmanhole]

@/damoselcastel was kind enough to show me a bunch of the FE:Fates visual works artbook pages the other day!

and because i am continuing to be .... brain rotted (lol) ... grabbed a copy since there was more than a few relevant pages/official artworks, and wanted to have a high res/color corrected version of these pages for art refs to slap on my reference boards! if i'm looking at them every day now for the past three months they better be accurate!!!

anyway! it came TODAY!!! :D :D pakidge

IT WASN'T EVEN SUPPOSED TO COME UNTIL THE END OF THE MONTH AAAAA

god dang this thing is THICK, now this is what i call a proper artbook! a little hard to see here but you can see by both the front and the spine that it's a chonker -- the two tellius artbooks combined are thicker but they're also a bit smaller elsewhere.

rest is under the cut b/c it's me promptly going feral :P

(and seeing who's on the spine ahhh!!! honestly that's really cool and super appropriate given his subtle plot/character relevance?! super fucking cool to keep seeing nintendo nod at him in symbolically relevant places, but not too overtly )

SPEAKING OF I SHIT YOU NOT GUESS WHICH SPREAD THIS THING FELL TO FIRST

I SHIT

YOU

NOT--

stone cold, swear to you, straight up didn't intend that but this was literally me irl then:

:')))))))))

(also HE GETS A WHOLE SPREAD???? and a turnaround?!!!!!! even freaking corrin's nohr noble design gets like an EIGHTH of the page

gunter gets treated SO WELL in this artbook i'm on the floor trying not to sob like i'm sixteen again and begging for any zihark scraps

also this is so much more high res than what's on my reference board the nitpicky artist in me is literally crying for joy about FINALLY HAVING A HIGH RES REFERENCEEEEEEEEEEE

also what the fuck the architecture is so cool???????????

THE WORLDBUILDING I AM WILDING

for real tho i remember my first conquest playthrough my jaw was on the FLOOR being genuinely amazed at how cool the worldbuilding was especially on the nohrian side with the gothic vibe and y'all don't know how useful this is going to be to replicate nohrian motifs in all of my drawings/probable comics/doujinshi/etc.

[foams at mouth]

this artbook also covers EVERYTHING

like there's a healthy amount of character work , but there's also enemy designs (always thought fate's enemy designs were unusually kickass, like some of these folks could be outright characters themselves), the architecture stuff above....

my room lines....

OH MY GOD THIS MEANS I HAVE A THIRD SET OF TRANSLATIONS I CAN CROSS REFERENCE TO FUCK YES

sorry for shitty blurriness it's just me vibrating in excitement lmao i'll upload it in the high res chunk

.....

hellooooo sir~~~~

(you knew i was going to be posting that shot >:D )

his possession CGI gets a full fucking page too ajlsjsjkskjhhjshjg

HE GETS TREATED SO GOOD HERE Y'ALL, SO MANY FULL PAGES???????????? is this what it's like to be brain rotted over a major character i will never know the feeling lul

(there's actually at least two other gunter fullbody artworks in here, those have already been scanned/uploaded properly by others so i won't post 'em here unless y'all want em!

and then lastly!

to finish it off, god this cover progress is so cool, kozaki knows what he's doing.

and i'm pretty sure gunter's linework gets changed halfway through, his expression's somewhat different than on the final! and i'll be posting that along with the other high res/cleaned up scans! just need to figure out if my scanner's gonna do a better job than my phone or vice versa.

[tries to stay composed] [fails]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[petrichorvoices]

How many OCs do you have? Any favourites?

a lot!!! a lot. so many. our main and favourite project is called Indie, which we've been developing for.. six years now, off and on but mostly on. it started out as an experiment in creating unique and interesting characters in a realistic fiction setting, as well as playing with character relationships. basically, we're filling out a fictional university in Florida with characters. Walton Hall is a dorm with the bulk of the characters. it has roughly 80 people in it. there's also Stotsky Hall, which we're working to fill out {though most in there are very underdeveloped}, a handful in Ford Hall, a couple of family members and coworkers, and then a gang that i don't remember why we added but hey! it's there now!

our favourites are definitely Phyllis Smith, Martin Smith, Zachary Seth, and Opal Jeanne. they're by far the most developed out of all of them, and the main characters for the WIP we have in this project. they're not our only faves though!! beware, old art incoming

[Image ID: a reference sheet for a character named Evelyn Bangarden. she's a Vietnamese woman with tan skin, brown eyes, a gray bob, and a mole under her lip. there's a drawing of her standing with her arms in front of her stomach, and she's wearing cargo pants and a shirt that says, "You had me at pizza". a headshot of her in the bottom left corner shows her with brown roots in her hair and a pair of round glasses. text above the fullbody reads "Evelyn Bangarden", and next to her is "5'". other text on the image reads, "she/her, Vietnamese, 20, bisexual, Walton room C3, Education major, long eyelashes, mole under lip, cheesy shirts, cargo shorts, optional roots showing, optional glasses". end ID]

Evelyn's a very fun, cheerful character to play around with!! she's hoping to become an elementary teacher, she has a succulent collection, she's very in love with her boyfriend Daniel Wieland, and she's figuring out that she's asexual. she's roommates and friends with Ingrid Elkins

[Image ID: a reference sheet for a character named Ingrid Elkins. she's a Black woman with dark brown skin, dark blue hair in a bun, and blue eyes. to the right is a fullbody piece of her with her hands in her pockets and her tongue out. she's wearing a ribbed gray tank top, a baggy pair of jeans with gold astronomical art on one leg, a chunky brown belt, and tie-dye flip flops. on the bottom left is a drawing of her face, showing she has a silver eyebrow piercings, small earrings, and a tongue stud. text on the reference sheet reads, "Ingrid Elkins. she/her. Walton room C3, forensic science major, RA for her floor, bisexual, 22, piercings, always has her tongue out, not thin, 6'2"". end ID]

please, please ignore the old ref. we've had a long art block, most of our OCs have really bad refs that we've needed to redo for some time now. i don't know why she always has her tongue out, we made her when we were like, 12, and we're too attached to her now. if we redesign her we will never stop thinking of her current design

she also needs a lot more development. she's Opal's best friend, she's Evelyn's friend and roommate. she runs a studyblr, she's very generous and helpful to people, she likes writing but isn't great at dialogue, she's a morning person, and the ref is wrong. her degree isn't in forensic science, it's marine biology. we changed it

the exhaustion is Fucking Hitting Us:tm: so i'm just gonna post more refs and hope you appreciate our OCs even without a proper explanation of who they are

[sagesilentfire]

Happy 200 watchers (on dA) to me! My, that was quick. Doing another raffle right after the first because you guys really seem to like them, huh? Is it because of my excellent spreadsheets, or is it because of the free stuff? Well, you'd better get excited about free stuff, because if 50 or more people join, I'll start giving out one free fullbody ref sheet (ala this one) per 10 people that have joined. So, basically, at 50 people I'll give out five ref sheets, and then one for every ten after that. That's one in ten odds, and more chances the sooner you join >:3 This is added to a reduction in the amount of tickets required to get a fullbody for these guys, too! And I've given you until January 12th, three whole months! And I'll do my best to promote your art if you draw for me, in this post and in a status update!

I will use random.org to determine the winner.

ADOPTABLE DRAGONS

Calandra(Sky/Hive/LunarWing(my fantribe)): 9 tickets

Spinetail(Pure Sky): 8 tickets

Cypseline(Pure Sky?): 10 tickets

Monal(Sky/Rain): 0 tickets

Rutilant(Sky/Sand): 8 tickets

Deadfall(Sky/Leaf/Night): 2 tickets

If any dragon gets more than 50 tickets, I’ll include a fullbody reference of them. Though be patient as to when, as with the fullbody refs, but I’ll try to get at least 1-3 out by the end of the first quarter of 2023, depending on how many are needed.

HOW TO GET TICKETS

Note: Because this is a big milestone and I want at least some free art, I have reduced the amount of some non-art tickets and added a 2x increase on all your tickets if you design me one of my characters who doesn't have a proper ref yet! (CW: Birds)

- Comment here to enter and choose the up to 3 you want (3 tickets automatically)

- Tag up to five people on this post (+0.5 ticket/tag, up to 5)

- Advertise my work or this journal on your page, whether through status update, journal, or reblogging on Tumblr (+3 tickets)

- Critique my art! (+1-1.5 tickets per critique, depending on quality of critique. You can do multiple critiques, do one for each piece in my gallery if you want.

- If you don’t want to critique, go to any piece that has multiple dragons (such as these pieces) and tell me which one you like best. (+0.5 ticket for each)

- Find all the code words (+0.5 tickets)

- Have commissioned or adopted from me, just give me the link to the piece (+5 tickets)

- Gibe me… FR currency (account)

- 10 FR gems = +1 ticket

- 10,000 FR treasure = +1 ticket

- Gibe me… art of my characters (character lists at the bottom)

- Fullbody base fills: +5 tickets, +7 if hybrid

- Headshot: +10 tickets

- Bust: +15 tickets

- Halfbody: +30 tickets

- Fullbody: +60 tickets

- Full Scene (background+foreground): +75 tickets

- And of course, the big ones. Watches/follows.

- Follow me on Tumblr and get 115% your of tickets

- Watch me on dA and get 150% your tickets

- Double your tickets by designing, through any medium, a character on my list who doesn't have a good design. Marked by a *

- These might seem like small numbers, but it gets you +1 to +3 tickets on just the entry tickets.

And remember, at 50 people joined, I'll give out five free ref sheets, and then one for every ten after that.

My dA is Silentfire99, my tumblr is sageoftheuniverse, and my FR is SageSilentfire (ID 440528)

BUT SAGE, HOW DO I KNOW HOW MANY TICKETS I HAVE?

A spreadsheet, of course! Go here, and you’ll see how many tickets you have overall. They’ll be under “Total,” next to your name. Ignore everything else on that sheet unless you think I've stiffed you, it’s to calculate the total.

Then, at the bottom of the spreadsheet are tabs you can click on to see the statuses of the dragons you’re in the running for. Each page has everyone displayed, but the only ones that have the “Count” checkbox checked will be your competitors. You can also see the total number of tickets for that dragon, and your number for tickets. CW: of

Don’t worry about the numbers to the left of your name. That’s just for me to help keep track of how many participants I have.

Or you can ask me, and I'll tell you.

RULES

- If you have questions, don’t hesitate to ask! Don’t worry if they sound stupid, I’ve asked stupider questions, I guarantee you.

- Please tag me in any art you make of any adopts you get, I want to see them all grown up uwu

- Please credit me for the design! You can tag me in that so I see your designs, easy.

- If you think I made a mistake in my calculations, go ahead and tell me.

- Please no stick figures. If you draw low effort stuff I won’t count it. I love low-effort art, I make it all the time, but I don’t want people to crank out a ton of low-quality stuff while artists who actually put effort into it are left behind.

- Please don’t try to make me feel guilty for the results of the random generator. By entering you are hereby forbidden from being mad at me if you don’t get picked.

- Please don’t pay real-world money for FR gems or other stuff. I don’t know how strict dA staff are about the no-real-world-currency rule, and I don’t want to find out the hard way. CW: prey

- Art/basefills must be your own. Commissions can only be mine. Do not commission other artists to do work for you, no matter how much money you have available to spend. (Spend it all on me )

RAFFLE ENDS ON JANUARY 12TH AT 7:00 PM (19:00 if you do that thing) CDT YOU HAVE THREE MONTHS TO GET AS MANY TICKETS AS POSSIBLE! GOOD LUCK

(Yes, this is longer than the last raffle! Please take that time to draw stuff! I want art!)

My Characters:

WoF Pt 1

WoF Pt 2

OPS

FR

Please draw himb