#those are nice combos

[brothwizard]

i cant find my slay test tile rn but here’s a piece with that combo on the frilly bits; variations of coats trying out how it would look more merlot heavy vs iron lustre heavy, then it was all dipped in ultra clear

and this is a funky little combo i tried out with albany slip brown on the dress and jug then dipped in some kind of celadon type?? idk it was at a place i worked at for .25 seconds but i got this baby fired there and also myself

hello! out of curiosity, what’s your favourite glaze combination? (mine is amaco iron lustre over smoky merlot)

oh man that’s a tough question

I think my favourite is obsidian with stripes of seaweed because it ends up like this

but I’m also fond of Oatmeal over Iron Lustre, which is the body of this piece

do you have an example of Iron Lustre over Smoky Merlot? I’m not sure I’ve seen that one

[5-pp-man]

hm.

[doodlingwren]

☝🤓 What if 🤨🤔! I was back 😨🤯 after some months 😞😤😲... ahahah jokes 🧐🤣😂... unless 😳👉👈

[deus-ex-mona]

remember when halloween aizo and white day yujiro had special gacha voice lines l m a o

[ghoulgeists]

super random gift art of @monstergirlclaws' adorable sona!!

very much shaking your hand as someone who is ALSO part of the purple monster sona club good taste good taste

[warpedwings]

[mewkwota]

Shoutout to my little Itsuki for pretty much carrying everyone during this ridiculous event, the Chrom Army will always be the strongest. :D

[chiropteracupola]

took the chance to scribble up a plague pigeon for @quezify's dtiys...

[gabbingwaves]

GRANDMA HUA???

You're out picking flowers and Grandma casually drops that she used to be part of that incredibly cursed cult village your most incessant stalker drew a whole entire picture book about and uses as a light moral bedtime story.

THIS LADY RIGHT HERE. Conversation under the cut.

Grandma Hua: Better than the past when you had to trade something just to get a bite to eat...

Rover: Exchange?

Grandma Hua: Hmm...When I was younger, in another village, they had the habit of exchange.

Grandma Hua: Exchange...What exactly are we exchanging...?

Grandma Hua: I can't remember...Every time I think of the word "exchange", I get the heebie-jeebies...

[flockoff]

(Happy belated birthday to me :) ) Thank you guys for the wonderful year. I haven't been able to post as much lately-but I just wanted to-well I wanted to take a picture of the beans with a cupcake. I'll do a more proper retrospective of the year in my main channel, but--this little devil may cry side blog, though small and less frequent in updates than I would like--has been really nice, and really encouraging honestly. I've actually made some progress on a possible webcomic, and I do think--part of that confidence did come from the support over here. So here's to the next year, and who knows, maybe we'll get something during the next game showcase. 🥂✨

[amararala]

im pretty new to actually playing yugioh and i hit diamond in master duel just now!! :)

[threewaysdivided]

Hobson Heckled into Historical Haute-Couture

Continuing the Dan Jones & Dragons gala parade with Hobson, the Flower Crowns' oft-harried Halfling Warlock (played by the ever-wholesome Dan Floyd). Is he trying to massage away the realisation that letting his literally-half-brained patron choose his gala attire might have been a mistake? Is Valse giving him a headache over something else entirely? Did he use Detect Magic in a room full of powerful items and accidentally flash-bang himself? Yes.

More Flower Crowns Gala Outfits: Morenthal | Gelnek

As always, design talk under the cut:

But before that, a short story: I've been following Dan's content on Youtube for... oh jeez, that sure is almost a decade now, both on his current New Frame Plus/Playframe channels and back when he was the primary founder and narrator for EC. His old games education videos helped me get one of my earliest jobs in project work and introduced me to a bunch of media production concepts (like scope management) that would go on to inform some of my own storytelling analysis posts. It was a startling little moment of artistic ouroboros to realise I was mentally running through key points from Dan's own Pose Design 101 video as I was drawing his DnD character. Never expected things to come full-circle like that, but if you're seeing this, Dan: here's to you 🫡 If you're not Dan and haven't already, do go check out his stuff - it's all super well-produced, informative, funny and he's just an overall stand-up guy.

Now: onto the tiny little nerd and his passé party attire

This was a really fun costuming challenge, with a bunch of interesting curveballs thrown in the mix. Unlike the rest of the Flower Crowns, Hobson didn't choose his own party outfit: it was picked out by his patron after Valse kibbitzed him into giving up and letting a heroism-obsessed Fey call the shots. Dan cited Valse as having the fashion sense of Stede Bonnet-as-depicted-in-OFMD, briefing a vaguely 19th century-style outfit that had frilled sleeves and 'would have looked gaudy even when it was in fashion a century earlier'.

Actually dating his outfit was the first challenge. D&D settings are kind of an anachronistic uchronia, with classic swords-and-sorcery fantasy campaigns potentially pulling inspiration points from anywhere across the Arthurian era up to pre-war modernity. Which leads to the question: how do you make something seem dated in a setting where most everything looks vaguely ye-olde-fantasy? The other challenge was that, IRL, the 19th century (i.e Victorian era) was when menswear started taking on a lot of the shapes that would eventually become modern suit and top-'n'-tails fashion. Since Trilby was already going to be wearing classic top-'n'-tails formalwear, I decided to set Hobson's style earlier in the 1800s-1820s and pull in some 18th century Stede Bonnet flourishes to visually set them apart. This article provided some great reference images, and once I hit on the figured silk waistcoat I knew I had a potential starting point.

Colour-wise, I stuck with the burgundy-and-gold palette the Dans gave Hobson in his official gala stream art, since those looked good together and matched up with Dan J's tendency to draw Hobson wearing greens/earth-tones and Valse in reds/jewel-tones. The combination is a lot more colourful and richly saturated than is typical for this style of Victorian-adjacent clothes, which felt appropriate for Valse's gaudy tastes.

Fabric-wise, I figured a fun way to gaudy things up even further would be to lean into the silks and satins that were fashionable at the time, but make all of his outfit shimmery rather than just a single feature piece. As a bonus, silk and satin clothes tend be hot, inelastic and have horribly itchy seams if worn unlined, which felt like exactly the kind of thing Valse's all-form-no-function sensibilities would inflict upon the small, long-suffering fellow. Both these fabrics also have a habit of behaving hideously and ripping themselves apart when worn wet, which makes this a great outfit to, say, accidentally fight an Aboleth in. Poor Hobson.

Some other details, just for fun: 1. Hobson's sketch layers include a drawing of his un-removable cursed left bracer. He's pulled the frilly, puffy sleeve over it but you might spot hints of the shape and the gem if you squint. 2. The reference waistcoat I used had floral embroidery on it. Had this actually been a Hobson outfit, I would have converted them to his garland flower (Forget-Me-Nots), but since it was a Valse pick I decided to make them Senaliesse chrysanthemums; a flower given out to friends of the Feywild's Summer Court as a sign of protection and favour. (It also adds extra layers to Pocket mistaking Hobson for a denizen of the Fey, which is fun).

Close crop on the details because I'm very happy with how they turned out:

[aroacesigma]

i cant wait for these fucking exams to be over im so sick of studying i just want to hurry up, be done, never have to do school EVER AGAIN, and party with my friends

[waitineedaname]

wild how having something weird with your brain will have your brain reacting weirdly to things that are nice and good

[delightfuldevin]

Alright so, I’ve always associated Bowser with the color red due to his eyes and hair, as well as his fire power. Nintendo associates him with yellow usually, most likely to differentiate him from Mario, and probably due to a majority of his body being yellow. (Though, Nintendo has also specifically used red and black for him and red and white for Mario as well.)

HOWEVER I recently came to the conclusion that both Nintendo and I are wrong! And that Bowser actually has a favorite color. Purple.

This is 4 separate instances (4 because two of the images come from the same game) of Bowser having the choice of a color for something and picking purple. He does not have control over the color of his body, nor the color of his hair and eyes (unless he dyes it/wears contacts but that’s beside the point). What he does have control over is the color of his throne, car, blanket, and wedding attire.

Mario’s favorite color being red makes sense, because he chooses to wear red clothes. In the same sense that Luigi chooses to wear green and Peach chooses to wear pink. Well, Bowser chooses purple.

[jils-things]

memoryshipping x studio ghibli: the masterpost ✨✨

see them separately: (x) (x) (x)

no need to rb!