#day 4! in a row! of drawing!

[gosteon]

Mira!

[blaithnne]

Local big sister experiences emotions, more at 6

Been wanting to do one of these with Lauren for AGES, but I never got round to it. Then I saw the Lydia and Phinium expression sheets on @littledigits’ website and I felt inspiration like never before.

The funniest struggle I have with Lauren’s design right now is that she nose too big for she got damn face. Literally, Hilda characters noses take up a fairly small portion of their faces, and her’s took up WAY too much, leaving little room for her to make facial expressions. But I struggled to find a fix because when I made the nose smaller it just didn’t look like Lauren anymore, so I took this as an opportunity to work on that!

She still has a larger nose than most characters, starting higher up (like her grandad!) and ending lower down (but not quite as low as before). I also made her eyes a little smaller and with a shape similar to Lydia’s (though you can see in some of these I hadn’t quite landed on that yet and her eyes are a bit too big), which works both as a nod to her parentage and because I think it makes the nose look bigger. This still doesn’t leave as much room for the mouth as most other characters, but that’s okay — Lauren is a very private person who keeps her feelings close to her chest, I think it works for her to have subtler expressions, adds to how guarded she is! Oh and I also updated the shape of her hair slightly, just to make it a bit more style accurate.

These changes are pretty small on their own, but I think combined they work well to make Lauren feel a lot more…alive? Far less stiff, anyway. I think she also has a more unique facial structure now, instead of just “what if Johanna was 90% nose”. She’s still got a big old nose and I love it but now she can emote, yay!

This is really all just concept stuff, I’m hoping to get a new fullbody style-ref for Lauren out soon! Now that I’ve improved the main issues I had with her face in the last ref, now it’s onto the silhouette! I want her to read as more of a strong character (though it comes across decently in her current ref, I wanna push it more without being as exaggerated as Ahlberg, which is. A challenge for me lol), streamline her silhouette, and finally make her taller than Johanna like she’s always meant to have been <3 I made her shorter for so long because I thought it would help her read better as her daughter but you know what? That’s dumb actually, she’s tall.

ANYWAYS, thank you for listening in on the annual Lauren redesign, and to the artists behind the show for posting so much amazing inspiring show stopping concept work for free because it makes my autism worse /pos

[tigerr-cherry]

Here's some sillies I've been hoarding. Narinder is like really easy to draw

[galaxygermdraws]

could i get a Joe please

Final request, this felt appropriate. I feel like I had to do the glowy rainbow checkmark thing. He is going to launch them at you.

(Reblogs with tags/comments are appreciated. I am no longer taking requests. Thankyu)

[dailykoffink]

koffin k drinking a slushy but gets a brainfreeze

day 73 (of drawing koffin-k daily until ts!underswap fully releases): he is spared + extra thing

[bakathief]

Mood.

I feel like chatting about DC might lift my mood so if you have opinions on certain cases, movies or fanons feel free to hit me up or leave something in my inbox. Can‘t say when I‘ll get back to replying but I‘m always happy to gush about DC or KaiShin. ✌️

[death-by-uwu]

1/?

What's up linebeck nation I've recently been inflicted with phantom hourglass brainworms that's now passed

HOWEVER during that time linebeck fell into my pathetic girlfailure bbg pile and I had to act accordingly by making an oc so now I'm dumping all the art I made here

[aibouart]

anyone got the latest monthly challenge thing artists do (like goretober or whatever)

am out of the loop on everything ever would love to take a gander at upcoming or ongoing ones

[albatris]

bruh I'm super excited for art fight

[ohmaerieme]

I CAN FINALLY SLEEPPPP FUCKKK IMFINALLY DONE WITH ARTFIGHT REFS

[shane-moriarty]

I know I haven't posted in a while, so I might as well just show the few sketches I've done

[gosteon]

TWO! OF! THEM!

[pumpkinwastaken]

[yael-things]

i HATE being sickk !!!!!!

[ruins-and-rewritez]

DAY 4: SUGAR: Nina

Celebrations are few and far between. Birthdays are a collective. The Feast of Saint Nikolai is always meager. Saints Day is a day for reverance and prayer. Adoption days, rare.

There have been only two since Nina stepped foot in the orphange. There was a third, only to be cancelled when the boy acidentally set his bed on fire during a nightmare. He still smelt like ash when the Grisha came to take him to the Little Palace.

Today is special, Nina knows, because the staff in the kitchen is busy at work. A special vistor perhaps? An adoption? She isn't sure of the details, but she sits eagerly on her stool watching Baba Inessa kneading the bread.

Fluffy, white flour bursts up in little clouds with each rotation of the dough. Steaming seas of boiling water spit out puffs of steam. A kettle whistles and one of the ovens clinks when the door closes. The room smells buttery and sweet like the Feast two years ago when everyone got their own minature pastry to enjoy.

Nina's was filled with a dark jelly that left little pinpricks of flavor along her tongue with every bite.

She giggles, remembering the pinched look on Tomek's face when he found his own filled with green apple jam instead of the strawberry he'd been expecting.

Baba raises a brow at Nina, confused about her strange outburst.

Nina just shrugs in response, stifling another giggle.

"Would you like to help?"

Nina jumps at the question, most of the time the women in the kitchen prefer that she keep out of the way. But on handful of occasions they've rewarded her good behavior with a place beside them.

She moves in front of the spongey dough, waiting for direction or instruction. She knows that this will be bread she just isn't sure how she's going to make it that way.

Baba Inessa's hand are soft and worn, though they are gentle are she shows Nina hows to spread and knead. She guides her attention to a mixture in the bowl beside them. How to work the light brown powder in evenly. How to twist the dough into an intricate knot.

She explains in calm, measured words why they have to give it rest before to goes into the oven.

Nina helps whittle down the growing pile of dishes while it sits temptingly a few feet away.

She dives in with gusto, given the task of crushing fresh walnuts for the outer crust. Sprinkling them carefully over the top, before stepping back to let Baba slide their creation into the burning oven

It feels like a long time before the bread comes out, golden brown and piping hot. Even longer sitting on the cooling rack by the open window before Nina can see the end result.

Pride wells up in her at the sight of it. Flaky and glistening, like the loaves she seen in the patisserie window when Nina helped carry supplies back from town. Her mouth waters from it.

Baba Inessa smiles at her young charge, expertly slicing the bread into squat browned slices.

When she's through she hands Nina the thin heels of crust before loading the rest onto a fine china plate.

Cinnamon explodes in her mouth after her first bite. The few walnuts clinging to the end give a satisfactory crunch. Nina is sure its one of the best things she's ever made.

She can taste the sugar of it as the older members of Ravka's Grisha Order lead her away.

[rusty-gloinks]

haiiiiii again I am bak now!!!!!!!! meow