#lol star guardians

[cherrysphinx]

I haven’t drawn them redeemed yet…. (At least I don’t think so)

[sketchyallstar]

I’ve been messing with this digital painting for actual years at this point. I think it’s at a place where I’m almost completely happy with it. So here, a splash art for my League of Legends OC Cora Baker in her Star Guardians skin. Background is a lil messy but it’s so intricate at this point I don’t know what to add or take away. Her familiar is a three headed raven that splits into three starlight ravens that can become her various tools and weapons, and their names are Rook, Jay, and Crow. She’s a bit of a detective, investigating the origins of the void monsters and their leader, Morgana.

[jm-chrome]

How bright do corrupted stars shine? ⊹₊⟡⋆

[guardian-angle22]

GUARDIAN'S GIFSET GLOWUPS ↳ S1E2 -> S3E5 [originally posted Feb. 2022]

[hexhomos]

random question (please feel free to ignore)... do you have any recommendations for where to learn more about League of Legends lore/worldbuilding? I'm fresh off watching the show, totally unfamiliar with the game and wanting to try my hand at writing fic but am finding myself a bit lost as far as learning more about the setting (specifically Piltover and Zaun). I ask you because I've been reading (and greatly enjoying) some of your fics and they feel really grounded in the setting. thanks so much for your time!

I'll always direct you to the vikjayce codex first (open this on browser so you can see the site tabs/better reading experience) so you can get a hold of their characters pre-arcane.

After that, try the Piltover page and the Zaun page on the league universe website! There are other tabs for champion lores and such. I recommend skimming through every region's summary pitch to get a feel of things and then reading whatever you like.

I recommend these roster champs for a sampler:

Kindred (death) | Brand | Camille | Blitzcrank | Singed | Irelia | Sylas | Bard | Lillia | Nilah | Orianna | Ryze | Riven | Vel'koz | Bel'veth | Zoe

The interactive map of Runeterra can give you a good sense of scale/positioning for things and navigating it will lead to more links. It's a pretty cool experience but browser only.

We also have ALTERNATE UNIVERSES with their own lore and different takes on the champs. Arcane implies they remain all canon simultaneously. Star Guardian is a magical girl universe & Odyssey is a space opera universe with their own pages, though there's far more based on skins. Every timeline every possibility etc you have freerange

There's also a 2021 companion book called Realms of Runeterra, I don't think its particularly game changing but it presents things in an organized way and you can.... find it in places where books are uploaded...

lastly, youtube has a lot of 'lore of runeterra' 'league lore summary of X & Y' videos - some of them pretty good! I'm not going to link any because I havent watched them in a while but it can make things easier for you. JUST KEEP IN MIND pretty often these youtubers will get details wrong and you should be double-checking on any assumption they do before internalizing it as hard canon, like read the short story or bio for yourself etc. A lot of people mischaracterized jayce/viktor for a while bc these guys kept conflating arcane with past canon and arcane changes up the world A LOT, the previous timeline is basically destroyed.

On the last point: writing Arcane verse gives you a little more wiggle room because the entire worldbuilding is up on the air, and relies entirely on what is most convenient or narratively sound for the story. Readers are totally willing to see your own take on things.

[artilite]

random sonic doodles after watching the movie 👍

[daeyumi]

i’ve started thinking about enemy types for my au.

i thought it would be fun to start by redesigning the patra from zelda 1, there’s a lot of potential in the design since it doesn’t have any modern appearances.

unrelated monster design scribble under the cut

not so much of a design lol as it is just an idea. the face of a goddess statue which lifts up to reveal a massive skulltula or gohma (or other monster). if i end up using it, i’d put more thought into the actual design of it tho

[parachuter]

wild rift star guardian team goes brrrainrot

[danimacaroni]

in hopes you're on the other side, talking to me too.

[misstakenme]

I NEED MORE STAR GUARDIAN LIGHTCANNON CONTENT!! PLEASE WRITE ABOUT THEM FINALLY REALIZING THEY’RE SO IN LOVE WITH EACH OTHER AND DRAW THEM BEING SWEET AND VULNERABLE!! I NEED THEM SO BAD!!

[ohnoitstbskyen]

Beauty in Splash Art 3

League of Legends splash art is, on the face of it, perhaps an odd place to go looking for beauty. These are JPGs whose first and primary function is to hawk video game cosmetics for a free-to-play game, it's not exactly the sort of thing you expect artists to particularly flex their creativity for.

And true enough, a lot of splash art is fairly rote. Here's a character, wow look at their cool pose, don't you want to spend dollars to own this, and so on.

But sometimes, one of the artists working at Riot, or at their outsourcing studios, seems to get a bee in their bonnet, or maybe they just get excited about an opportunity to practise craft, and you get splash art that tries to do something more than simply sell the product, or artwork which displays a real flex of technical skill, often in ways which are functionally invisible at any of the common resolutions that the art will ever be displayed at.

There is genuine reward to be found in those pieces, in zooming in close and marveling at the level of effort spent. So let's spend about an hour doing that!

Splash arts covered:

Odyssey Sona - by Kelly Aleshire

Victorious Sejuani - by Francis Tneh

Aurora - by Jennifer Wuestling

Redeemed Star Guardian Xayah and Rakan - by Ina Wong

Empyrean Vex - by Horace "Hozure" Hsu

Winterblessed Diana - by Bo "chenbowow" Chen

Porcelain Irelia - by Alsie Lau

Toy Terror Cho'gath - by Fortune "Fortuneee" K

[5-pounds-of-carrots]

every series is different and yet they all share 1 important thing……

[chomp-bomb]

Hello lightcannon nation what we up to

[jm-chrome]

Isha’s little box has Star Guardian Jinx’s back tattoos if you even care 🧎🏻‍♀️

[daydream4life]

They ended up going on that date. Ekko gifted a Pow Pow to his Pow Pow❤️⌛️💣🐇

[aeg2an]

Obsessed with this version of her

As much as I do like arcane and project jinx, a version of her that doesn’t have a “jinx moment” that makes her who she is and is just wild and rebellious without being traumatised is a nice change of pace for her I think