#i love all narinder designs

[strawdool]

i love when people make narinder muscular but not toned but also he has a pouch asuibfiudsbfsd

[ninjasmudge]

cult of the lamb has some really cool visuals and the accent color is my fave so i really wanted to do some post-game designs and doodles to get out of an art slump

[that1notetaker]

I’m begging. Pls ramble about the cotl au. Pls.

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ON IT BOSS.

Okay SO the T4W (Time Doesn't Care For Waltzes/Time for Waltzes) AU STARTS 1000 years in the past, before Narinder got chained down. Both Narinder and Shamura start getting split-up prophetic visions. While Shamura gets dreams about The Lamb, Narinder learns about the betrayal(s). In the middle of it all, Leshy checks on Narinder during one of his less than stellar lucid dream sessions without knowing what's up and in the end, it's just Leshy, the youngest, that gets the worst for wear. It changes things in the long term. Or maybe it's just the start.

[donutfloats]

I feel like we missed out on Narinder being a dog tbh

I love the dynamic of a dog and sheep because of the whole dog herding sheep and stuff

Also Narinder could have been a Cerberus!!!!!!! That would have been so cool!!!!!!! And he could have worn one of those spiked collars that protect dogs from wolves

[puppyeared]

is this your card? ♦️♣️♥️♠️ it isnt but you dont wanna hurt his feelings

[bloos-bloo]

Apologies are a good start, don’t you think?

Bishop comic under cut!

Me trying to piece together the new update so it matches with my AU-

With their injuries finally scarring over, they all decide to have a brand new start. Shamura being the first to fully apologize for what they did to Narinder, the others all share their own together. In this AU, Leshy clearly had no idea what was going on- he took the chain because he was scared of Narinder. So I think Narinder and Leshy had a harder time trying to rekindle their relationship. There was barely any to begin with, so they’re almost like strangers.

Kallamar can only hear out of one ear, Heket can speak but talking too much hurts, Shamura’s head is clear but they still have moments of relapse- not as severe, Leshy can sometimes see out of the bloomed camellia, and Narinder uses blades to replace his lost claws. :) The injuries will always hurt- but at least they can get through it together.

[lagomorphics]

lucky card au thoughts..... smiles

i want the crowns to exist in some way (in this au the 'cults' are represented as the bishops influence over the specific area of Olden Faith Ave) + love it when theres magic going on sooo ive had a few ideas

i think the bishops 'god' status would be represented by something On their person (for nari; she has a pin on her vest that looks like the red crown! and has a giant tattoo on her back as well <3), and also theyre just straight up immortal/way stronger than a regular person

stuff like the mini bosses perhaps have a small accessory of sorts on them that is kinda like a statement of "more trusted/has more power", and definitely stronger than the average person (the witnesses would be even stronger) (hierarchy would be like. bishops > witnesses > mini bosses > lackeys)

these little accessories are also kinda like a 'bind' of sorts? kinda like saying to everyone that "this one has MY power and represents me", im also having way more fun and just saying that its kinda like the bishops are sharing a small bit of power directly from their 'crown'/'godlihood' (i'll find a better way to describe it eventually LMAO)

for Nari + Ines; she gave them a pretty big portion of that power in the form of a ring, did NOT tell them what it was for until they realised "holy shit, this thing can turn into a weapon. and i am Way stronger. what." and then later turned it into an earring because it being a ring flustered them way too much

Nari did this because Ines is the only person she has to deal with her siblings (still doesnt trust Jahel to not betray them lol), and so hes trying to give them a Massive fighting chance here.

"but what about Jahel?" well, they also have some of this power. wonder how they got that though 👀.....

[pluckybirdart]

Ended up redoing my reference for these two slightly because I liked this fleece design better and I found a tartan for the waist wrap!

My Lamb’s original name was Seph and they’re based on Shetland sheep! They/them pronouns primarily but they’ll accept any :3

Narinder is he/him as in canon and doomed by the narrative ❤️

[oflgtfol]

getting into a new game entirely bc im growing attached to one (1) character from it

[runningwithscizzorz]

Hiii, so, first of all, I LOVE your art, you're incredible and you're character design is just so GOOD aaaahhhhhh*insert more screaming*

Now, I wanted to ask about all that Narinder been gone for 10 years thing, what was Lamb's reaction when he came back??? It has been rooting my head, like were they angry, happy, messy soup of feelings? Are you going to include it in some minicomic?

There was certainly a concoction of anger, relief, spite, and definitely longing, haha!

[ninjasmudge]

feeds your narilamb yuri juice

dude i have great news about my regular narilamb

[ane-doodles]

Make it turquoise!

Cult of the Lamb Narindersona and Lambsona :D

Special thanks to @linkerbell for motivating me to draw, name and finally share them

Below information extracted from a conversation on discord:

Aneerinder:

(Using he/him for this occasion)

I wanted to maintain both the theme of the felines and the god of death but with a bit of the Japanese aesthetic that I like and other details that I usually use in my drawings.

First, the species is still a serval (like my Narinder) but in white. The stripes and spots they have are painted by him himself, except for the ears and tail, which are natural.

Instead of just making him the god of death, I wanted to base him a little more on the idea of a prophet, who receives messages from the future and teaches them to others if you ask in the right way. He is considered the writer of destiny, even though as such it is outside his area, how someone lives or dies is outside his power, he only receives them and archives the stories of their life.

Based on this idea of a writer/illustrator, the idea was born that his hands would function as a writing instrument (similar to this character in the movie 9 who had pen(? fingers to write). Constantly gushing ichor from these using them as ink…

Jumping to the moment of imprisonment hehehe

He is partially blinded using a paper talisman behind his head. To prevent it from being able to write or create something with the ink/ichor, it is surrounded by water, so that the ink always runs.

He also ends up being immobilized with red ropes as an allegory to the "red thread of destiny", especially his right hand is especially tangled to prevent him from continuing to "write the destiny of the gods". To prevent the ropes from breaking there are also paper talismans hanging from them.

In short, prevent him from writing/drawing in any way in order to keep the destiny of the gods in his hands. He ends up becoming dependent on other senses, little talking, much listening.

He loves stories, after all his job as a god is also to record the lives of mortals.

Their followers could ask for glimpses of their futures, which were considered predictions.

When someone dies and reaches the other side, they are given a scroll with a copy of the record of their life.

I'm still thinking about how to draw him, but if I design a shape for him as a follower, I'll most likely end up wearing glasses to see.

You will never in your life get him to close the haori he usually wears.

Aniki:

Ok lamb, she/her this time

The lamb genocide occurs during an expedition trip. She coincidentally returns to her village the day it is destroyed. Easily resigned, once she finished digesting the idea that she was the last of her kind she had no choice but to move on.

She's not built for combat, she's even terribly bad at dodging (like me qwq) which is why she dies often.

[Here I have an inside joke in which the god tells her "I may be blind, but I clearly see a lot of death in your future" jsjsjs]

Their crusades mainly consist of collecting resources and trading with traders.

She is very good at managing the cult, to the point where in the first five years it was already self-sustaining. She is also usually quick to meet the demands of her followers and thereby increase the faith of the cult, avoiding at all costs giving sermons because she is too shy to do so. Despite this, in casual conversations with cultists he often talks about the god of death in a way that unconsciously raises their faith.

She never takes the cult on herself, because she couldn't be interested in the idea of taking that burden on herself, which is why all the cult's statues and decorations revolve around the cat.

Now, having a self-sustaining cult and a faith that is constantly growing, she ends up having too much free time, so she spends her time putting together a collection of objects she finds around, making decorations for the cult, playing and exploring.

When she dies she tells stories of common events that occur in the cult, and in return the god tells her stories of past lives that have reached his domain. They have a constant exchange of stories which is what allows them to get closer.

She changes over time (new design yipee) and the crown upon returning to the god grants her a blessing in which she becomes the "eyes of god"

The new design only has some minor changes from the original.

Since she never had the ambition to take power, divinity never affected her.

She only had small surges of devotion and power that made her possessed by the god and that way she was able to defeat the bishops (similar to what a writer would do with his characters)

[titosuarez]

He closed his eyes and kept them closed, fearing that if he opened them, he would find himself back there. Bringing in air was hard. He could feel the cuffs getting tighter and tighter around his wrist, no matter how much he tried to convince himself they weren't there. Chaining him again, chocking the freedom out of him. It was too much. Too much.

Distantly, he heard a voice gently asking him to breathe. It was grounding. In, out, in, out. The constraining feeling on his wrist was slowly fading, replaced by something more soothing and soft.

"You are fine. You are alright."

He finally dared to open his eyes to find a set of delicate eyes looking back at him. The Lamb had their hands gently tracing small circles on his wrists. Their face contorted with worry, sympathy, and recognition.

Narinder had a realization then. They knew what this was—this all-encompassing, suffocating feeling. And they knew how to bring him back from it.

Suddenly, he felt as if he could see The Lamb complete for the first time. The ever-present sadness they carried themselves with. The hurt in their eyes. Every scar marking their body, even the ones they wore before he met them.

He focused on the soft feeling of their hands gently rubbing on the scars on his wrist, like they were trying to erase whatever pain had caused them. He had the unexpected want to do the same for them.

Not today

He slowly pulled his arms out of their hands and back towards himself.

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Hello!

wanted to share my Lamb and Narinder designs along with a little writing exercise that gives a little more context to the story that leads to my previous post

For character design, I love making physical the pains and hurt that the characters are dealing with. It makes scenes were they deal with the hurt much more visually interesting.

Anyway, post is long enough. Hope you guys like it.

[acis-arts]

What's a fandom without a Swap AU?

I'll be talking more about the ideas I have so far down below!

I'm pretty sure this has been done before, since this is a pretty basic (but still fun) AU idea. I just haven't really seen any fanwork from anyone about a Swap AU, so if someone has actually already done their own version of a Swap AU, then I would love to see it!

For now I'll just be sharing my own ideas:

As you can see, I definitely want to swap the Lamb and Narinder as characters! The Lamb now being The One Who Waits and Narinder being the last of his kind, meaning there is no more cars :( It also makes for another fun ship dynamic between them, with the Lamb being a callous yet playful silly God and Narinder being their calculated little Vessel, not admitting to his softer side when helping his Followers.

For the AU bishops, I thought it would be pretty cool if they are 4 of the slaughtered Lambs and I REALLY want to create some cool Bishop Lamb designs! But then I remembered, wouldn't that mean that the original bishops are the slaughtered ones then? But they're not cats like Narinder, so the original Bishops could just be something like regular followers, who eventually grow close to Narinder, becoming his found family. For the sake of having fun with this AU, I will make Bishop Lambs, unless I suddenly realize/someone points out that it really doesn't make any sense.

I don't have a lot more ideas yet, but I just thought about this idea on the spot: maybe the NPCs from the Map Areas could be swapped with each other. Like, swapping Plimbo with the Fisherman and Sozo with Midas, since Plimbo and the Fisherman should probably stay near water while Sozo and Midas really just a swap their obsessions.

Also no idea who the Mystic Seller should be swapped out with, maybe with their Disciples(?)

That concludes all my ideas so far! I'm open for any feedback or suggestions, thanks for reading!!!

[7squidgy7]

✧.*100 follower celebration type thing*.✧

So, to celebrate 100 followers on tumblr, I decided to draw some fanart for people. This community is so sweet. Every one of these artists has inspired me in some way.

I'm really sorry for those I haven't made art for. I may make a part 2 one day for those I missed. Who knows.

This was a really nice way to try out different art styles while mixing them with my own.

Apologies for all the link later on. Want to explain the creative process a bit for those interested cause I put way too much effort into it to not mention.

Close ups below cut:

@donutfloats

Your arts so cute and soft, I love it. You have a great way of just expressing love through your art.

I was inspired by 2 of your pieces for this, the main one being the 3rd image for this post. The lambs dress is so pretty, I just knew I wanted to draw it flowy and dancing, and the second image I used is this post for the rendering style.

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@aniimoni

I really like your artstyle. The monochrome colours are delightful, as with the way you do lineart. while making this, I was thinking this is the perfect style to meld with mine.

I was inspired a lot by the axe and hammer drawings in this post. As a hammer lover, I decided to combine the 2 together.

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@teruuu

Something about your style is mischevios. Your rendering and lineart are just wonderful as well. You have a very distinctive style that matches mine quite well, i think.

I feel compulsion of the flesh Lamb and Narinder would give each other kisses on the hand but take a bite at the same time. They freaky like that. Based my rendering around this post and the previous draw you character here, I did. These are fun designs to draw.

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@poopylumpkins

I really like your vampire au something about it really spoke to me as a afab non-binary.

Lamb deserves to wear their own clothes and something about narinder helping with their makeup convinces me he'll help out.

if you're curious, i colour picked the background and shading from this post

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@olrinarts

This was a really fun style to draw. Something about how you draw these 2 is delightful. Love yuri narinder's eyes in particular.

Rock god yuri. What more can I say these are really good designs. Showed them to my friend, and they loved them.

Decided to have them dueting, while Narinder can't sing lamb can always pick up that role.

Used this post for the background and shading colours, and this is a kinda basis for the pose.

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@redcrowncafe

Really love you fic and art. I like to see the fic brought to reality through all the comics and art, which has a very pleasing look to the eye.

I have never struggled so much with an art style, fun challenge, but very different to my own.

Wanted to draw their Halloween costumes from this post. Lambert would definitely get too into the vampire costume and bite Nari at some point probably.

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@joffyworld

Just wanna say thank you so much for the reblogs and kind words. It gives me a lot of confidence in my work and is a genuine brightness in my day.

I wasn't sure what to draw you, so I thought I'd just show you a pic of my new one who waits figurine, that arrived recently. Its a little weird, I think an earlier design but cool none the less.

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[twooftheluckyones]

HEY YOU! YEAH YOU, WITH A NARINDER DESIGN.

We wanted to do something fun for the holidays this year and make a GROUP PICTURE! We would love to have you participate!

Here's what you have to do:

-REBLOG this post with a picture of your Narinder design. (full body/character sheet helps a lot!)

-BE OKAY with having your Narinder in a maid dress. He/She/They (I don't know your AU) will be in a maid dress for this art. If you're not into that, we may have group pics in the future without that!

-THE SLOT LIMIT IS CURRENTLY 10. We will probably expand this, so drop off your cat even if it seems like we have more than 10!

-DEADLINE FOR OPEN CALL: NOV 28TH (THANKSGIVING)

-WE WILL DO ALL THE ART, this is a gift from us to you and the COTL fandom! (But if you wanna draw us something on the side we will never stop you lmao)

-DELIVERY TIME: Sometime before the end of the year!

We hope to see some good triclops cats out there!!