#fyi this is all old art from around 2015 incase it wasnt stated

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a mass effect trilogy appreciation post 💕

so i completely forgot about trilogy appreciation week, and i haven’t had a lot of time lately to draw new stuff so i wanted to post some older mass effect drawings from about 6 or so years ago - drawn at the peak of my mass effect obsession when i was still in the middle of playing it so they are very dear to me (even if my art has improved since then lol). anyway read on if you want some personal thoughts & feelings on the series that has probably had the biggest impact on me as a person! <3

i think i can date this back to summer 2015 ish, before i even started my art blog! i always loved ashley and was very sad when i had to sacrifice her on my first playthrough as i was romancing kaidan :( i was studying english lit at uni when i played ME for the 1st time, and i was always inspired by ash’s love of poetry.

me playing mass effect for the first time also coincided with me properly getting into digital art, so a lot of my early pics are experimental lol XD the car chase in LotSB is still a favourite every time i play it, it has my favourite banter scenes from throughout the whole trilogy

i made this^ in response to playing mass effect 2 for the first time and being pleasantly delighted by the friendships you can make. i blasted through ME1 quite quickly and often forgot to talk to my crew members between missions, missing out on important info & bonding - this ofc led to wrex DYING (!!) and when i reached ME2 i was like. i Must talk to everyone. and i loved that even though i wasn’t romancing anyone in 2 (faithful to Kaidan), the friendships and bonds you create still feel as meaningful and good despite the lack of romance.

also an early 2015 pic, i was attempting to draw without lineart for the 1st time, and let me tell you this piece took SO LONG -_- I love Tali a lot though and the mission where you take her to Rannoch for the first time in ME3 has always stood out as one of my faves. Additionally, this quote has always stuck around in my brain;

"After time adrift among open stars, among tides of light and to shoals of dust, I will return to where I began."

can’t resist a cheeky samantha pic. i don’t need to go into tooo much detail about how much i adore samantha traynor but she really means a lot to me! her romance was one of the first ones i stumbled across, pre-mass effect playthrough, and it suddenly made me sit and think. hey samantha is gay and just wants a dog and a wife etc. maybe i can Also have that. maybe that is Me.

not to keep the serious introspection for last or anything, and also congrats if you read this long (apologies for the long post & the rambling) but. idk mass effect is still my favourite thing ever - even if i dip in and out and enjoy different things, mass effect is always going to be closest to my heart and i love it very much. ty to the people in the fandom that i’ve interacted with over the years, both on this account and my main @itsacuriousthing​ - again i havent been doing much of that recently but i am always grateful for the nice people making fanfiction and fanart. u guys are the best, truly 💕