#alyssa cousland-theirin

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In Peace, Vigilance

(Davrin, Assan [the Griffon] & Alyssa Cousland-Theirin)

What if our Warden met Davrin in Weisshaupt & fought Darkspawn side by side? :D Do you think they could have found a cure to the Calling since Inquisition?

Sketches below:

3-4 hours in 60 seconds <3 I was practicing textures and composition with that one !

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Tfw ya’ need a list just so you can keep up with yourself

Wardens -> Hawkes -> Inquisitors

Fae Surana: Elven mage-He/Him-Shapeshifter/Spirit healer-Romance: Zevran Arainai (main)

Selena Amell: Human mage-She/Her-Shapeshifter/Spirit healer-Romance: Alistair Theirin

Galahad Mahariel: Elven rogue-He/Him-Ranger/Assassin-Romance: Zevran Arainai

Veri Tabris: Elven rogue-He/Him-Ranger/Assassin-Romance: Zevran Arainai

Gael Cousland: Human warrior-He/Him-Champion/Templar-Romance: Morrigan

Hessian Aeducan: Dwarven rogue-He/Him-Ranger-Romance: Zevran Arainai

Aidan Amell: Human mage-He/Him-Arcane warrior/Spirit healer-Romance: Juniper Surana

Nadia Mahariel: Elven rogue-She/Her-Ranger/Assassin-Romance: Zevran Arainai

Kimiko Cousland: Human rogue-She/Her-Dualist-Romance: Zevran Arainai

Juniper Surana: Elven mage-She/Her-Arcane warrior/Spirit healer-Romance: Aidan Amell

Amari Tabris: Elven warrior-They/Them-Champion-Romance: Zevran Arainai

Roxanna Cousland: Human warrior-She/Her-Champion/Reaver-Romance Zevran Arainai

Asher Surana: Elven mage-He/Him-Blood mage/Spirit healer-Romance: Morrigan

Devante Tabris: Elven warrior-He/Him-Berserker/Reaver-Romance: Zevran Arainai

Paisley Brosca: Dwarven warrior-She/Her-Champion/Templar-Romance: Zevran Arainai

Zelda Surana: Elven mage-She/Her-Arcane warrior-Romance: Lakyle Aeducan

Artemis Tabris: Elven rogue-She/Her-Dualist/Bard-Romance: Alistair Theirin Leliana, Frieda Cousland

(+ a handful of unnamed female counterparts to my original male wardens)

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Adam Hawke: Blue/Green-He/Him-Assassin/Shadow-Romance: Fenris

Aimee Hawke: Blue/Green-She/Her-Templar/Reaver-Romance: Fenris

Robin Hawke: Blue, Purple-She/Her-Shadow/Dualist-Romance: Isabela

Aloysius Hawke: Purple-He/Him-Assassin/Shadow-Romance: Isabela

Apollo Hawke: Red-He/Him-Blood mage/Force mage-Romance: Merrill

Alyssa Hawke: Blue/Green-She/Her-Spirit healer-Romance: Sebastian Vael

(+ a handful of default Hawkes)

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Terra Lavellan: Elven rogue-He/Him-Assassin-Romance: The Iron Bull (main)

Venus Trevelyan: Human mage-He/Him-Blood mage-Romance: Dorian Pavus

Helena Adaar: Qunari mage-She/Her-Knight enchanter-Romance: Sera

Aurora Cadash: Dwarven rogue-She/Her-Artificer-Romance: Blackwall

Alvara Lavellan: Elven mage-She/Her-Necromancer-Romance: Kaytlyn Trevelyan

Kaytlyn Trevelyan: Human mage-She/Her-Spirit healer-Romance: Alvara Lavellan

Lilith Trevelyan: Human warrior-She/Her-Reaver-Romance: Vivienne De Fer

Eos Lavellan: Elven rogue-They/Them-Tempest-Romance: Blackwall Josephine Montilyet

Blayke Lavellan: Elven warrior-He/Him-Templar-Romance: Dorian Pavus

Malark Adaar: Qunari rogue-He/Him-Assassin-Romance: Amorette Lavellan

Kashmira Adaar: Qunari rogue-She/Her

Amorette Lavellan: Elven mage-She/Her-Rift mage-Romance: Malark Adaar

Coriander Lavellan: Elven rogue-He/Him/They/Them-Artificer-Romance: Dorian Pavus

(+ a handful of siblings)

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DATV — Soutern Thedas be like

The state of southern Thedas worries me to my core, I'm not kidding.

A tiny/quick animatic featuring Sulevin Lavellan (Inquisitor), Alyssa Cousland-Theirin (Warden/Queen of Ferelden) and Eleena Amell Hawke (Champion of Kirkwall)💚💙❤️

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DA:A — Reunion Hug🌹

"He left me no choice, Nat—" "I know, Lys..." (Nathaniel Howe & Alyssa Cousland-Theirin, meeting again in Awakening)

Their families were friends & they grew up like siblings qWq

The fear of seeing each other again after what happened to their respective families was hopefully less powerful than the joy of seeing each other, safe and sound, despite it all. Too much blood was spilled to remain angry. Too much death to tear them apart now.

Nathaniel always looked after Fergus' little sister, considering Alyssa as his. And she always aspired to become as strong as them both.

In game, I free him and let him choose to become a Grey Warden of his own will, Alyssa would never force that fate unto anyone, especially people she cares about. But she respect his decision and understand why he's doing it.

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The Battle of Denerim (Dragon Age The Veilguard time)

Alistair, Alyssa [my Warden] and their son, Aaron Theirin feat. Fergus Cousland and Edmund their loyal mabari, escaping Denerim during The Veilguard events:

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My Dragon Age OCs Tarot Project

Almost 2years of artworks compiled for Dragon Age Day 2024! All of the OCs presented here are mine♥ (If you're curious, feel free to ask me anything about them!)

The Fool — Tabata Formenti of Orlais, self-insert. The Magician — Taam-kas Asaaranda, Blacksmith. The High Priestess — Levi Hawke Vaël, mute Templar.

The Empress — Deirdre Surana-Arainai, blood mage. The Emperor — Farron Mahariel, Dalish hunter bard. The Hierophant — Yun & Sumu (Monkey), Fog Warriors.

The Lovers — Aisling Cassius Vatia & Lusacan Vatia, Magister & shapeshifter liberati. The Chariot — Meivis Alansen, Avvar hunter. The Strength — Alba de Riva, Antivan performer who became a Rook.

The Hermit — Callathian Gamordan (Lavellan) Pentaghast, elf-blooded not so dalish poet. The Wheel of Fortune — Rory Kestrel, former Ander merchant who became a pirate and Lord of Fortune. Justice — Alyssa Cousland-Theirin, Warden-Queen.

The Hanged Man — Eva Hawke Tethras, salacious writer. Death — Aster Lucia Aurum Trevelyan Rutherford, Tranquil mage. Temperance — Talitha Cadash Rainier, tavern waitress.

The Tower — Rokko Vegrandis, fisherman & cook. The Star — Gaatha Adaar Montilyet, Adaari artificer. The Moon — Sulevin Lavellan, dalish tempest thief.

The Sun — Eleena Amell Hawke, spirit healer with a kind soul. Judgement — Visham Brosca, dwarven rogue who committed the ultimate sacrifice. The World — Chantal De Montfort DuBois, an Orlesian cheese maker.

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DATV - Aaron Theirin & Ser Pounce-a-lot

Aaron Theirin & Ser Pounce-a-lot, sometime around 9:52 Dragon Age, Ferelden

Aaron is Alistair and Alyssa Theirin's son♥

I headcanon that Anders' cat has been given back to the Grey Wardens of Amaranthine and my Warden swore to take care of him for her friend <3

Also Ser Pounce-a-lot is probably 22+ years old at this point but animals in Thedas are immortal, I don't make the rules sdfghjkl 🙈

[loustica-lucia]

Heroes of the Dragon Age

An animation I've made for Dragon Age Day 2023, featuring my main Warden (Alyssa Cousland-Theirin), Hawke (Eleena Amell Hawke) and Inquisitor (Sulevin Lavellan)!

It's to this day one of my best artwork and I thought I should share it here too! 90+ hours between the original sketch, outfit design, the rough animation, rotoscope, inking, flat-colours, background shading and even the audio :')

Interested in the process? I detailed it below since it was my first time doing something like that:

I would like to start by saying I'm not a professional animator!Everything you've seen here is the result of experimentation and a lot of practice to learn and understand how 2D animation works.

My first idea started in May 2023. I just finished rewatching DA Absolution for the X time, and wanted to analyse why I loved the intro so much. (Even after countless rewatch, I never skipped it once.) I was inspired to study it with my main three protagonists!

Then came the first test with Alyssa Cousland-Theirin, my Hero of Ferelden! I tried to understand which part to separate for the animation. Mainly the hair and cape because it flows a lot more than the rest! If I recall, my first idea here was to make her counter flame attacks (?). Then, as the camera turns around her, I tried to add a grid to know how the camera would work around it.

I ended up making the clip longer, so she could position herself to the further left and leave space to the two other protagonists.

Now it was time to try to animate Sulevin Lavellan, my Inquisitor. I really kept that quick doodling style just to capture the vibe without putting too much time/effort into it! The background would be static to contrast with Alyssa's. I also loved the idea of a rogue sneaking!

Instead of working on Eleena Amell Hawke, my Champion of Kirkwall, I went back to Alyssa and started working with Clip Studio Paint 3D models (this entire animation has been done on the EX version of the software!) It helped for rotoscope animation and maintaining likeness! That's when I got the idea to make the background swirl around the character to let the eyes be guided by the rest of the screen!

After a couple more hours, I planned the entire animatic with 3D models and quick doodles! I finally found a cool pose for Eleena Hawke, which was honestly the hardest of the three to imagine for some reason? I tried many other poses but ended up picking an animation from the game!

This whole time, I was studying a bunch of background ideas and how studio Red Dog Culture House (who made Absolution) work! Thankfully, they have a YouTube Channel where they shared some BTS content so I could analyse it!

Then, I simplified my character and their original designs in the style of the studio! These outfits are how I imagine them after Trespasser. Alyssa as the Queen of Ferelden, looking for a cure to the Calling, Hawke following Fenris to Tevinter & Sully as a Red Jenny Inquisitor!

The idea for Sulevin's animation actually came from a piece I doodled on a live stream, when I was drawing pose studies and turning them into finished artworks haha As for Alyssa, I wanted to draw the fight that got her facial scars!

Once their designs were ready and the background ideas too, I made the rough version of the animation! Basically a sketch done on top of the 3D models to add the details, staying pretty rough just to capture the idea and movements.

Then it was time to start the lines! I decided make a folder per frame, so I could separate all he main elements and draw them one by one. It helps keeping the likeness of a character in the different frames without having big "jumps" between frames! In fact, every parts were coloured differently to recognize them, and then I used vector erasers and masks (Ah yes, the entire lineart is done in vectors of course! It's easier to adjust and save time when working on similar frames!)

At first of course, everything overlaps! But I find it easier to draw too much and erase after, just to make sure everything is coherent in each frames! The cool thing about CSP is how you can change the colour of the layers in one click! So all the coloured lines turned into black in one second, and I could reverse it just as quickly to double check!

Then I started working on Sulevin! I made a blue line to mark where her feet were, as the sketch in the background wasn't perfectly straight! (Like Sulevin's sexuality 🤭😂) The silhouettes were very quick to do, but I had fun adding more & more details as she came closer to the foreground!

I really wanted to add that little dagger trick, but I remember it required me to change the pacing of Eleena's apparition, as it was recovering her arm too quickly! I had to change the pace of multiple frames quite a lot during the project, to make sure the flow was right! For Eleena, most of her animation remained around her arms and the staff itself, as magic would be the most difficult part! That way each character has their own focus: Alyssa has a very animated background, Sulevin got the grappling hook and Eleena the ice!

Then it was time to start adding colours! Just like for the lineart, I separated every colour on it's own layer, so I could easily adjust the colours later if needed. I added one colour at the time, going through all the frames, and then another colour!

I made full palette tests with the colours I would use for their background at this point, checking if the details remained readable! Alyssa was the most challenging in terms of clothes, because I made her a very detailled armour! I had to simplify the Theirin heraldry, vectorize/redraw the Cousland, and make a brush for her cape's pattern!

Once I was done adding the flatcolours, I started the background, and oh boy it was a wild ride. For the cave, I painted multiple tests. I imagine was to use CSP panorama tools, which transform a texture into a 3D sphere, so each corners must match to look good. Sadly, it made the background very blurry, so after hours of testing, I changed ideas. Instead of the random fire balls (?) I originally imagined for Alyssa, I made three simple frames of a Rage Demon to attack her.

I ended up using the cave as a repeated pattern to make it turn 360° around the character. For Eleena, I mixed inspiration from the comics, Dreadwolf & Absolution, using warm colours matching Hawke's signature red. Just like I made the cave very grey/blue to match Grey Wardens. For Val Royeaux, it was more complex because I wanted to make it green, matching the Inquisitor's signature green. But bright green couldn't work, and the original colour during day time was blue/white/gold. So I added more leaves, played around the design a bit! After adding the rage demon, I made the shading! It was surprisingly easy and quick to do now!

I clipped a white layer on the flatcolours to not be distracted by the colours, and made thin lines to separate the light/shadows, then simply filled everything with the bucket tool! Then you set the layer to multiply and remove the white layer, and you have celshading shadows! Now the character looks out of the picture, so I added layers of blue in color burn, saturation and substract blending modes to make her look like she's in the right setting! Of course, I did the same with the other two, giving Hawke a red overlay and Sulevin green shadows!

Then I added the details, it went from white irises, to sword/staff smears to earrings and smaller finition that goes on top of these layers. To add the lights, I simply selected the shadows and reversed the selection! Using warm and cold tones to create contrast with the purple/bluish shadows! I also added more ambient light layers for Alyssa to reflect the Rage Demon fire. Now it was time to add ice magic! My first attempt had too many frames, making it look weird! Sometimes it's better to lower the frame rate to make things less bumpy!

Then I downloaded some cool ice brushes on CSP assets that made it look less like blue magical flames! But when I covered the screen in ice, I realized "Oh wait, I could make a cool transition from the ice, to blue lyrium turning red?"Red Lyrium truly links these three games and The Veilguard somehow! I spent the next hour painting over the idol and putting it in a black background, with lyrium and then the golden Dragon Age title text.

For the SFX, I used free youtube libraries sounds & "Darkspawn!" comes from the violent human female voice set (iconic for ""Can I get you a ladder? So you can get off my back!"😂🤭) After editing all that, the animation was finally done!

Here's the final math:

About 15 hours for the sketching/rough/animatic phase, 30h for the lineart, 25h for colours, 10h for backgrounds, 5h for details & 5h for music & SFX, for a total of 90 hours. Aka the same amount of time it took me to finish Baldur's Gate 3 the first time lol

If you have any question regarding the animation or the softwares etc. do not hesitate to ask, I'll do my best to answer!

[loustica-lucia]

Dragon Age — For Ferelden!🛡️

For Ferelden!🛡️ (Alyssa Cousland-Theirin, 9:52 Dragon Age)

Veilguard spoilers:

#VeilguardSpoilers As a Grey Warden, queen, wife and mother, she wouldn't let Denerim fall to Ghilan'nain's Blight without a fight! Will the Calling finally catch up to her or will she perish in battle to protect who she cares about? :') ... both, probably.