#she’s finding her own style 🥹💛

[savoryangel]

Our first date has gotta be at the the limp bizkit concert but instead of going in, we’re breaking in

[thatonemariofangirl]

Princess Peach standing in front of some Cherry Blossom trees with a calm lake outstretched behind her. 🍒🌸🌊🩷💞

I love pretending that Mario was on a trip with Peach (most likely in Japan), and he took this cute photo of her because she kindly asked him to! 🥹📸❤️🩵🩷💛 (And of course, how could Mario ever refuse her or the opportunity? 😌🥰)

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Anyways, I finally finished this art piece of mine on the 14th of November after months of working on it. (I think I started back in April or so... 😅).

Either way, though, I absolutely LOVE how it turned out! (Even if I was heavily procrastinating and had a lack of motivation for it, especially for the background, but we don't talk about that. 🫣😂).

Hope it still looks decent, at least, and the references for Princess Peach and the Japanese-styled art for the background are shown on the last two slides. 🇯🇵🍙🍡⛩️➡️➡️➡️

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🎨🖌️Art Credits🖌️🎨: Speaking of the references, I cannot find the original artist that drew Princess Peach, hence people re-uploading the image everywhere and claiming it as their own. So if I can find the original artist or anyone tells me, I'll credit them for sure. (Just wanted to point that out so people don't think I'm an art thief because I promise you, I'm not... 🥲).

The background photo just claims to be uploaded for anyone's personal use, so it does not have a particular artist to credit. (But if I'm wrong, feel free to correct me).

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Anyways, hope you all like it and I'm so glad this is finished!!! It's been quite a while since I've uploaded art and I've got plenty of more left to come! (Some art is already finished and just hasn't been uploaded, but most I have to work on, sooooo... yeah. See ya! 😵‍💫✏️🖍️✍🏼 💜)

[auranovabloggers]

Rise of the Corrupted Xiāns

Happy Halloween as I present to you this incredible art that I made for a Darkstalkers Tribute Fanzine that I was honored to be a part of. 😈 As Cryas Darkstalkers is my thing, I had to find a way to represent my designs of the characters. So, what better way than to draw these dangerous, eerie forms of the Shao sisters? But now, with some touch ups! I have gone through the effort of fully redesigning the markings that adorn their bodies. I actually have a reference for the markings:

The scripts you see are ancient forms of 仙 or xiān. Considering their training was around the practician of Xiānshù and their village was named Xiān Mén Cūn, it stands to reason that the Xiān play an important part with Hsien-Ko and Mei-Ling. And considering their long-life spans after becoming jiangshi, one could say they are 'immortal'. And with these forms coming from influence of Corriyami, a substance that can 'corrupt' life forms, one could say they are like corrupted Xiān in the flesh. So it works together to give the sisters unique markings that are more specific to them both and their heritage.

This piece also serves as further practice into my take of basically the MvC2 art style and I am extremely proud how this came to look! New layer tricks and simplifying the sketch lines in the shaded areas. Some lighting stuff here and there. And another update to their designs to add natural lip colors to them. Hard to see a bit, especially on Hsien-Ko, but they are there! 😄

I just adore the way both sisters look. Hsien-Ko looking like an absolutely feral, battle hungry warrior ready to absolutely tear those who oppose her and her big sister. Mei-Ling calmly, yet menacingly commanding the shadow that flows from what was her arms. And with the way I composed the flow of this piece, it even looks like she is commanding Hsien-Ko with just a simple gesture... maybe even controlling her? Ooooo!

Speaking of Mei-Ling's shadow, I fully updated it with a brand-new look. While the blue/purple colors are still there to represent the Corriyami that flows in her veins, there is now this shimmering yellow energy that coats the flowing form. This energy is meant to be her own qì, as the original intent I always had was for her shadow to be a mixture of both her qì and Corriyami. With the color choices, it better reflects that and even has some fun color theory going on with complimentary colors. 😄

At this point, I am basically waffling on. Honestly, I hope you adore this art and can feel the passion I put into this. I truly thought I wasn't gonna be able to make the deadline for the zine. But then the motivation kicked in. The motivation to make incredible art of the two characters I hold dear! 🥹🩵💛

I'll leave you with two last things. First, a grayscale version of the piece for maximum spooky factor!

And most importantly, a link to the full version of the Darkstalkers Tribute Fanzine of 2024!

I implore you to give it a good look and see all the incredible art and passion of every artist that contributed to this. 🤩

And have a safe and most fun filled night on this eve of Hallow. 🎃🦇🌑