#star guardians lol

[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

[parachuter]

Commission for @/sarabxth on twitter of Redeemed SG Xayah and Rakan ✨

[5-pounds-of-carrots]

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

[itsmadeofwaffles]

[cherrysphinx]

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

[halfchun]

doodled lightcannon in this twitter meme

bonus:

[mystar21]

Star Guardian Sona 💚✨

[animepopheart]

★ 【@jellieem // insta】 「 Star Guardian Orianna 」 ☆ ✔ republished w/permission ⊳ ⊳ follow me on twitter

[l0verseyes]

needed to make rhaast a little creachure

star guardian kayn concept by lopp!

[angry-jinx]

Starguardian lightcannon matching moodboards <3

[seraphfaes]

An ancient UNIFORMED ver. of Star Guardian Jinx- I imagined it was like- right before she transformed into the full fit. As with a number of my pieces I referenced. TBHKs art style when I colored this!!

[boorrger]

all of my favorite skins bc it's her bday today 🎉🎂🥹

[parachuter]

wild rift star guardian team goes brrrainrot

[116t98]

In the musicverse, Yasuo canonically reads Battle Academia and Star Guardian books (are they supposed to be manga? Bc those don’t look like manga books)

If the musicverse is essentially the “real world”, as I’ve seen it described by people more knowledgeable about LoL than me, then that would mean that Star Guardian and Battle Academia are fictional franchises within this music AU

Do these books imply that the champions featured in these two AUs are actors/celebrities in the musicverse, or are the “fictional franchise” characters completely unrelated to them and any resemblance is purely coincidental (eg. SG!Ahri isn’t supposed to be K/DA!Ahri at all)? If I’m assuming the former (which I am bc it’s more fun), does that mean that Ahri, Kai’sa, Seraphine, Ekko, Senna and Ezreal know each other bc they were all costars in Star Guardian?

And where the hell does Jinx fit into all of this?? Bc she’s apparently able to meet/hang out with True Damage and K/DA at events like the Grammys, but her position is never specified. Is she part of the creative team that makes the MVs for the artists, as HC’d by @jinxarchive? Is she an artist herself, and “Get Jinxed” was her debut single? Is she only a fan? Is she supporting the music careers of her Star Guardian costars? Did Riot just include her bc she’s Jinx? (most likely)

[ffluv]

2022 Star Guardians have a special place in my heart 🩷

[linalushka]