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Also a work in progress for dragon age next week. I won’t know who my rook is until at least four hours in so 🤷🏼♀️
#dragon age#dragon age veilguard#marian hawke#the champion of kirkwall#elissa cousland#the queen of ferelden#the warden commander#evelyn trevelyan#the herald of andraste#the inquisitor#Peggy voice:#and rook
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⁘ queen of swords ⁘
#oh yeah! my favorite kind of relaxation from drawing... drawing#dragon age#dragon age fanart#hero of ferelden#warden cousland#and also queen of my heart
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Heroes of the Dragon Age
An animation I've made for Dragon Age Day 2023, featuring my main Warden (Alyssa Cousland-Theirin), Hawke (Eleena Amell Hawke) and Inquisitor (Sulevin Lavellan)!
It's to this day one of my best artwork and I thought I should share it here too! 90+ hours between the original sketch, outfit design, the rough animation, rotoscope, inking, flat-colours, background shading and even the audio :')
Interested in the process? I detailed it below since it was my first time doing something like that:
I would like to start by saying I'm not a professional animator!Everything you've seen here is the result of experimentation and a lot of practice to learn and understand how 2D animation works.
My first idea started in May 2023. I just finished rewatching DA Absolution for the X time, and wanted to analyse why I loved the intro so much. (Even after countless rewatch, I never skipped it once.) I was inspired to study it with my main three protagonists!
Then came the first test with Alyssa Cousland-Theirin, my Hero of Ferelden! I tried to understand which part to separate for the animation. Mainly the hair and cape because it flows a lot more than the rest! If I recall, my first idea here was to make her counter flame attacks (?). Then, as the camera turns around her, I tried to add a grid to know how the camera would work around it.
I ended up making the clip longer, so she could position herself to the further left and leave space to the two other protagonists.
Now it was time to try to animate Sulevin Lavellan, my Inquisitor. I really kept that quick doodling style just to capture the vibe without putting too much time/effort into it! The background would be static to contrast with Alyssa's. I also loved the idea of a rogue sneaking!
Instead of working on Eleena Amell Hawke, my Champion of Kirkwall, I went back to Alyssa and started working with Clip Studio Paint 3D models (this entire animation has been done on the EX version of the software!) It helped for rotoscope animation and maintaining likeness! That's when I got the idea to make the background swirl around the character to let the eyes be guided by the rest of the screen!
After a couple more hours, I planned the entire animatic with 3D models and quick doodles! I finally found a cool pose for Eleena Hawke, which was honestly the hardest of the three to imagine for some reason? I tried many other poses but ended up picking an animation from the game!
This whole time, I was studying a bunch of background ideas and how studio Red Dog Culture House (who made Absolution) work! Thankfully, they have a YouTube Channel where they shared some BTS content so I could analyse it!
Then, I simplified my character and their original designs in the style of the studio! These outfits are how I imagine them after Trespasser. Alyssa as the Queen of Ferelden, looking for a cure to the Calling, Hawke following Fenris to Tevinter & Sully as a Red Jenny Inquisitor!
The idea for Sulevin's animation actually came from a piece I doodled on a live stream, when I was drawing pose studies and turning them into finished artworks haha As for Alyssa, I wanted to draw the fight that got her facial scars!
Once their designs were ready and the background ideas too, I made the rough version of the animation! Basically a sketch done on top of the 3D models to add the details, staying pretty rough just to capture the idea and movements.
Then it was time to start the lines! I decided make a folder per frame, so I could separate all he main elements and draw them one by one. It helps keeping the likeness of a character in the different frames without having big "jumps" between frames! In fact, every parts were coloured differently to recognize them, and then I used vector erasers and masks (Ah yes, the entire lineart is done in vectors of course! It's easier to adjust and save time when working on similar frames!)
At first of course, everything overlaps! But I find it easier to draw too much and erase after, just to make sure everything is coherent in each frames! The cool thing about CSP is how you can change the colour of the layers in one click! So all the coloured lines turned into black in one second, and I could reverse it just as quickly to double check!
Then I started working on Sulevin! I made a blue line to mark where her feet were, as the sketch in the background wasn't perfectly straight! (Like Sulevin's sexuality 🤭😂) The silhouettes were very quick to do, but I had fun adding more & more details as she came closer to the foreground!
I really wanted to add that little dagger trick, but I remember it required me to change the pacing of Eleena's apparition, as it was recovering her arm too quickly! I had to change the pace of multiple frames quite a lot during the project, to make sure the flow was right! For Eleena, most of her animation remained around her arms and the staff itself, as magic would be the most difficult part! That way each character has their own focus: Alyssa has a very animated background, Sulevin got the grappling hook and Eleena the ice!
Then it was time to start adding colours! Just like for the lineart, I separated every colour on it's own layer, so I could easily adjust the colours later if needed. I added one colour at the time, going through all the frames, and then another colour!
I made full palette tests with the colours I would use for their background at this point, checking if the details remained readable! Alyssa was the most challenging in terms of clothes, because I made her a very detailled armour! I had to simplify the Theirin heraldry, vectorize/redraw the Cousland, and make a brush for her cape's pattern!
Once I was done adding the flatcolours, I started the background, and oh boy it was a wild ride. For the cave, I painted multiple tests. I imagine was to use CSP panorama tools, which transform a texture into a 3D sphere, so each corners must match to look good. Sadly, it made the background very blurry, so after hours of testing, I changed ideas. Instead of the random fire balls (?) I originally imagined for Alyssa, I made three simple frames of a Rage Demon to attack her.
I ended up using the cave as a repeated pattern to make it turn 360° around the character. For Eleena, I mixed inspiration from the comics, Dreadwolf & Absolution, using warm colours matching Hawke's signature red. Just like I made the cave very grey/blue to match Grey Wardens. For Val Royeaux, it was more complex because I wanted to make it green, matching the Inquisitor's signature green. But bright green couldn't work, and the original colour during day time was blue/white/gold. So I added more leaves, played around the design a bit! After adding the rage demon, I made the shading! It was surprisingly easy and quick to do now!
I clipped a white layer on the flatcolours to not be distracted by the colours, and made thin lines to separate the light/shadows, then simply filled everything with the bucket tool! Then you set the layer to multiply and remove the white layer, and you have celshading shadows! Now the character looks out of the picture, so I added layers of blue in color burn, saturation and substract blending modes to make her look like she's in the right setting! Of course, I did the same with the other two, giving Hawke a red overlay and Sulevin green shadows!
Then I added the details, it went from white irises, to sword/staff smears to earrings and smaller finition that goes on top of these layers. To add the lights, I simply selected the shadows and reversed the selection! Using warm and cold tones to create contrast with the purple/bluish shadows! I also added more ambient light layers for Alyssa to reflect the Rage Demon fire. Now it was time to add ice magic! My first attempt had too many frames, making it look weird! Sometimes it's better to lower the frame rate to make things less bumpy!
Then I downloaded some cool ice brushes on CSP assets that made it look less like blue magical flames! But when I covered the screen in ice, I realized "Oh wait, I could make a cool transition from the ice, to blue lyrium turning red?"Red Lyrium truly links these three games and The Veilguard somehow! I spent the next hour painting over the idol and putting it in a black background, with lyrium and then the golden Dragon Age title text.
For the SFX, I used free youtube libraries sounds & "Darkspawn!" comes from the violent human female voice set (iconic for ""Can I get you a ladder? So you can get off my back!"😂🤭) After editing all that, the animation was finally done!
Here's the final math:
About 15 hours for the sketching/rough/animatic phase, 30h for the lineart, 25h for colours, 10h for backgrounds, 5h for details & 5h for music & SFX, for a total of 90 hours. Aka the same amount of time it took me to finish Baldur's Gate 3 the first time lol
If you have any question regarding the animation or the softwares etc. do not hesitate to ask, I'll do my best to answer!
#dragon age#dragon age origins#dao#dragon age 2#da2#dragon age inquisition#dai#da4#dragon age dreadwolf#dragon age the veilguard#animation 2d#original character#tutorial#warden#grey warden#warden cousland#alistair x cousland#alistair x warden#ferelden#hero of ferelden#queen of ferelden#hawke#fem hawke#eleena amell hawke#mage#warrior#rogue#lavellan#inquisitor lavellan#solavellan
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shout out to, like, 5 other people in the entire dragon age community who main aeducans + kill their stupid ass brother trian
anyway my floki aeducan :) she's an ass a rogue and a bastard (literally)
#dragon age#dragon age origins#dao#aeducan#warden aeducan#female aeducan#grey warden#hero of ferelden#my art#my oc#dwarf#female dwarf#killing that bitch ass trian AND making bhelen a king#also yeah she's a literal bastard and everyone knows it#but aeducan family is powerful enough to force people to not care lmao#as in dare to say it out loud and you'll get your head cut off#which contributed to floki's issues and hunger for power honestly#she'd make a cool queen but respect to bhelen she underestimated him#getting exiled made her realize that orzammar is for bitches#and she doesn't really want to rule anyway#being a paragon and roaming thedas is cooler#she smooches leliana and zevran and morrigan AND alistair btw#because i said so#makes alistair king and turns loghain into a warden tho#alistair and her would have a complex hatey spicy relationship#okay i just love every companion so they're all in a polycule for me
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1) Aeducan deserves much more love & attention 2) Oghren is a buddy fu 3) LET ANORA KISS A LADY DWARF GODDAMNIT!!
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#*opens a crumpled piece of paper* err... how many dwarves does it take to kiss a queen of ferelden..?#anora mac tir#aeducan#oghren kondrat#dragon age#dragon age origins#dao#art#ukrainian art#украрт#укртумбочка#арткозацтво#anora is a lesbian in denial sorry not sorry#i mean seriously who in their right mind would unironically want to fuck cailan??
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my grey warden saw you from across the town centre of recliffe and really liked your vibe
#she's my little weirdo#my neurodivergent queen#my own#grey warden#dragon age#dragon age origins#hero of ferelden#warden cousland#this is me compensating because origins won't run smoothly on my laptop and i'm sad about it
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an older queen anora artwork I’m still happy with
#dragon age#dao#anora mac tir#she is THE queen of ferelden there is no other correct option#I don’t respect this series enough to argue about it#my art
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btw my headcanon for sophia amell in veilguard is that she has been 'oh no... I think your letter got lost on its way to me first warden... too bad, I'll just stay here in amaranthine until I hear from you, then.... is this a letter I see before me...... a tragedy. I can't read all of a sudden. my eyes. you sent a messenger? my messenger now I'm adopting them. no message received sadly try again'-ed all summons to go to weisshaupt, so she's in denerim with alistair when stuff starts to go to shit and at least they spend the impromptu superblight together. they may both be right on the edge of the calling (? we just don't know!) and ferelden might be about to fall, but at least they're king arthur and merlin-ing (erotic and romantic connotations) it up together at the end of the world and kissing and holding hands about it. and what more could I hope for for them. that's what beating the odds looks like for wardens I think.
there's a particular incident where she saves his life through the power of spirit healing and. maybe the guiding hand of Something that seems to still reside in the petals of the rose he gave her that she's worn in a little glass vial around her neck and that have not withered all these long years, and it inspires actual myths and romantic literary traditions and folk ballads and all sorts of nonsense that outlast them both. neither of them care tho they're just. hugging right now. drenched in darkspawn blood like the old days. resting their foreheads together. taking every moment they may have left just to be together. whatever you do don't go without me. wherever you go let me go too. and with you let me be buried, and where you go after that let me go with you then as well. (of course. of course. after all of this, where would I ever go without you. the one good thing about the blight is that it brings people together. the one good thing is that it brought me to you.)
#head in my hands. anyway they were never married officially of course but like. no one is in any doubt after that point lol#dragon age#dragon age: the veilguard#dragon age: the veilguard spoilers#dragon age spoilers#oc: sophia amell#alistair theirin#warden x alistair#I think ferelden would also be so grateful to have one of the most powerful mages not only of her own age but of any#act as the shield of both the people and their mythically morale-boosting king that they're just like#'yeah I guess she's kind of an evil mage advisor whispering in his ear and everything. but she's our home-grown evil mage advisor'#('also she summons a MEAN thunderstorm. sweet andraste's fried nipples')#the *people's* eminence gris and honestly queen in all but name at this point why bother with playing it plausibly deniably cool anymore#everyone knows the king is a married man in all but law and foreign politics anyway let's dispense with the bullshit#for the duration of the blight double whammy at least lol#I've had the idea with her saving his life while he's king and there still being -- *something* in the rose (the hope the love)#that helps her do it for a looong time now but I could not have asked for a better opportunity than veilguard gave me#what's more romantic than this?????? nothing. nothing. love that has lasted a warden's lifetime and will last beyond#I don't even know if they eventually die during this I just know they're together no matter what. and that's all that matters
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to enrich the political landscape of denerim post-archdemon, leliana should have a hot, passionate, brief love affair with queen anora. the implications and layers it would add in a leliana as divine justinia world are also incredibly fun
#.da#the queen of ferelden rocking up to orlais. playing the long game: hello filthy casuals. i fucked your pope. i ate her hard
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The Warrior Queen, Hero of Ferelden. 🌹
#dragon age origins#elissa cousland#queen cousland#dragon age fanart#my fanart#hero of ferelden#dragon age
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warden tabris falling in love with king alistair? tired, done, old news. warden tabris falling in love with queen anora? THATS new. surely that can't go wrong.
#dragon age#dao#dragon age origins#da:o#queen anora#anora#anora mac tir#hero of ferelden#warden tabris#tabris#asharanni tabris#and obviously it DOES go wrong and doesnt last because of anora coming down hard on the elves when denerim faced a hunger crisis#my tabris became the bann of the alienage. you can imagine how that goes.#there was never anything offical between them it was just a lot of pining on ranni's end and tension between them.#kind of like how theres pining and tension between ranni and every other woman she meets but nothing ever comes from it#only this time its Worse
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so sad playing dao knowing i cant stage a coup this time. what's the point of anything if i dont get total maximum power in the end
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Queen anora and her advisors on a winter walk didnt like how this was turning out so have the abandoned version
#digital art#oc#anora mac tir#queen anora#hero of ferelden#dragon age origins#mabari#warden mahariel
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The Battle of Denerim (Dragon Age The Veilguard time)
Alistair, Alyssa [my Warden] and their son, Aaron Theirin feat. Fergus Cousland and Edmund their loyal mabari, escaping Denerim during The Veilguard events:
#dragon age origins#dragon age#fanart#dragon age fanart#da#dragon age the veilguard#datv#oc#dragon age veilguard#alistair theirin#alistair x cousland#alistair dragon age#alistair x warden#fergus cousland#warden cousland#queen cousland#hero of ferelden#queen of ferelden#ferelden#denerim#arl teagan#aaron theirin#alyssa cousland theirin#blight#lousticart#comic#comic art#mini comic#veilguard spoilers
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Queen of Ferelden, Evelynne Cousland
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We all know Alistair didn’t want to be king, but this woman was not about to pass the chance of ruling a country single-handedly while her husband sits in the back and sips hot chocolate. She might be a bitch, but at least she’s a powerful one now
#trashmouth fanart#dragon age#da:o#dragon age origins#cousland#medieval#medieval portrait#medieval art#cousland origin#grey warden#hero of ferelden#queen of ferelden#medieval aesthetic
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I drew the first image on October 15th 2018. On the right is the same character drawn today. I’m just amazed at the progress I’ve made in 6 years. Sometimes it doesn’t feel like it, and my skill is at the same level it always was, but it just goes to show you that if you keep practicing, keep drawing what you love, drawing your little guys and your OC’s, you can improve and be amazing.
#my art#Dragon Age#Dragon Age Origins#Cousland#warden cousland#Queen of Ferelden#queen warden#Art#Art improvement#holy shit#meddlesome art#dragon age veilguard
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