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alteredphoenix · 2 years

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Very belated drawing done for Michelle’s birthday meant for 9/10.

I wanted to include kinds of flowers in the composition that would have specific meanings pertaining to Michelle’s character. The hibiscus was an easy first choice (in fact, this pic was inspired by seeing the pink hibiscus flowers one of my aunts grows in her front yard), and in the general sense mean “love and femininity” (because let’s be real here, she’s the Girly Girl to Celia’s Tomboy).

The white lupin came second after a bit of searching around, and in the language of flowers they mean “forgiveness”. However, of all the beasts in her spell kit the wolf is the most prevalent, and though there really isn’t anything concrete to go by besides my own headcanon I always got the impression Michelle embodied the wolf - and had a very tangential connection to Lazui - more than the game let on, and that’s where the second meaning behind the white lupin comes from, and that is “admiration and a voracity/hunger for life”. The original plan was to make the wolf Lazui, but I thought it would be better to make it a standard wolf (”assault beast”) instead. Michelle’s Embleo was another part of bringing the piece together, and apart from Leo’s hers, in my opinion, is the only one that has a very specific shape (maybe a little too specific) but no definable meaning behind it like most of the other Federation players, so to round it off I put the wolf on top, Michelle at the bottom, the hibiscus flowers on the cross part and the white lupins in both the foreground and background.

So there it is! Happy belated birthday, kid!

#tales of luminaria #armi's art #traditional art #traditional sketch #drawing #i'm surprised the composition came out as well as it did #considering the wolf's head took at least 2-3 hours over 2-3 days to get it to the position it's in #and once again michelle proved to be a pain in the ass to sketch #she's not 100% perfect on here but it's passable #one of my markers dried out coloring the wolf in #and while i think it's a bit too bright green it's of a similar tone #some of the pastel rubbing i put into it mitigated the brush marker bleeding #that and it makes the wolf stand out among the lupins and hibiscus plants #i wanted to put in leaves in this #but by the time i was getting ready to ink this the piece itself was getting way too busy #so i opted them out at the last minute #of all the fan art i've seen i don't think anyone's done one w/ just michelle and a wolf #i thought about putting in the butterflies and polwigle and demons in there too #but i thought to myself 'no we're going full doggo on this!'#give it three months and i'll do a companion piece with celia because That's How I Am

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