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[thunderboltfire]

I'm afraid Inquisitor Lavellan won't be available for a while.

Good news, I'm getting the hang of how the pencil brushes work on my new tablet!

[wolfsong-the-bloody-beast]

what will you steal from my room?

I got tagged by @nerdalmighty. Thank you! <3 I'm totally stealing your dnd dice in cool boxes. :D

Tagging: @likeyua, @thunderboltfire, @celamity, @paladinsofqueer, @mikey-hunter, @illusivesoul. If you'd like. No pressure.

[daily-rayless]

10 Happy Things

Thank you for tagging me @thunderboltfire

I love making lists (let’s call this an eleventh thing I sneaked in) and thinking about this really picked up my mood.

1. Graveyards: I don’t mean this in any dark or edgy way. I feel like graveyards are extremely peaceful, reflective places. I love wandering through and looking at the headstones -- seeing the different sculpture designs, seeing the names, and inscriptions, making little guesses at these people’s histories. I like the newer graveyards where people make so many unusual design choices (an entire recipe on the back of a headstone! a stone that looks like an electronic device!) and I also like older graveyards where you can feel the passage of time. When my mom was little, her family sometimes would eat their lunches in graveyards on road trips, so I was never raised with the idea that it’s disrespectful to talk and laugh in a graveyard. They’re pleasant, welcoming places.

2. Brush-tip markers: Along with being smooth and velvety and blending so nicely, they let me pretend I’m a Master Painter Painting Masterfully.

3. Used Book Stores: This is a little similar to graveyards. Broadly speaking, there are two types of used book stores, and they’re both good. 1: Bright colorful bookstores with more recent used books, lots of paperbacks from the last twenty years, books you’ve been interested in but didn’t want to buy at full price and here they are. 2: Brown, quiet used book stores with much older books, lots of hardbacks who’ve lost -- or never had -- dust jackets, lots of foil-stamped covers and thick pages with huge margins and frontispieces protected by translucent paper, books you’ve never heard of, without Amazon reviews or back-cover blurbs, that you decide to take a chance on.

4. Finishing a journal and lining it up on the shelf with my other journals: Along with the sense of accomplishment and thinking I’ve made a bit of a record, my journals are mismatched, lots of them gifts from people, and they remind me of those people.

5. Really Old Stuff: This may be because I come from the States, so there isn’t a lot of really old stuff around me, and even the oldest stuff usually isn’t very old. Really old trees, old houses, old knickknacks -- I love these tangible proofs of the past, thinking about where they’ve been and the people who’ve interacted with them. This exact knickknack was sitting somewhere the day I was born. People were clumping across these wooden floors when they heard the Titanic went down. It’s a neat feeling.

6. Meeting Animals: I don’t currently have any pets, so meeting other people’s cats and dogs and horses and goats feels like a treat.

7. Character Building: Landing on just the right name for an oc, or drawing an oc and finally seeing their personality in my pencil lines. I can “see” the character in my head, but putting that on paper can be really hard. Some characters, like Arsen, still haven’t really “appeared” on the page for me yet.

8. Wandering around in fandom spaces and finding art of a favorite character I haven’t seen before. Extra points if something about the art is so good and so spot-on I want to incorporate it into my own headcanon.

9. Names and Words: I haven’t studied it very deeply, but I’ve been interested in name/word derivations for a long time. When I find out that two words, deep down, come from the same root, it’s magical. My dad once speculated that foal and pullet might have a common source, and I didn’t believe him, but he was right. The other day I learned that Lucy and Luna come from the same Proto-Indoeuropean root, and it means both “to shine” and “to see”. There’s something fascinating about the history of the very words we use, hidden meanings and connections we don’t even know.

10. Hot cocoa: I used to drink hot cocoa regularly, but not so much anymore. It’s the best hot drink, in my opinion, and I don’t take it for granted these days.

Please consider yourself tagged, especially if we’re mutuals. This picked up my mood, and I’d love to spread that around.

[captainofthefallen]

30 Day Watcher Challenge- Day 28

Prompt list here

28. playlist: share some songs that fit your watcher!

Here’s the thing. I’m not super great at making playlists, particularly seeing as most of my taste in music is instrumental. I’m going to do what @rannadylin did and leave this open to anyone who wants to contribute. There is no wrong answer! Seriously I would squeal with delight if any of you wanted to suggest a song. Or multiple songs. 

Bonus: here’s a link to art of Mara’s beautiful face, done by the excellent and wonderful @thunderboltfire!

[thunderboltfire-art]

I work on some horse models for a horse breeding game, Horse Fable, and the Thoroughbred is currently live in the game! The goal was a slightly stylised artstyle, with a healthy dose of realistic proportions and a pose which'd pay homage to the previous model of the breed in the game.

[thunderboltfire]

A sad, sad song is tuned for me A mess of words surrounded by dust Conceived under the sign of a black star Hurt and misery

- Under the Sign of a Black Star, Elvenking

I've finally launched a Durge run in BG3! Her name is Moth, and she's a human bard, who so far doesn't have a very good time.

[thunderboltfire]

Eleen is the one casting? Gods preserve us.

It's a kind of a draw-this-again to my 2018 Inktober piece - I've since developed a few aspects of Eleen as a character, so I figured she should get a new portrait, but I very much loved the style and composition of the old one, so I just remade it in digital ink. Side-by-side comparison under the cut!

[thunderboltfire]

High health | Low health

I finally got around to making my Lara a faux in-game portrait! I bent the rules that apply to the other portraits by changing the expression, and the low-health version turned out a bit too visually busy in comparison to in-game portraits, but on the other hand I though it's appropriately grievous and I didn't want to modify it further.

I also threw together some in-game mock-ups for fun (based on my screenshots from the game)

[thunderboltfire]

Another night of the sleepover at your mortal enemy's.

A sketch to get a hang of my Rook's bodytype and tattoos. (also I'm letting in the non-existent morning light into Rook's room, because I can).

[thunderboltfire]

It'll come from where you least expect and strike you down in one swift blow.

Happy Valentine's Day! >:)

Bam, straight between the shoulder blades. I think that when it actually got to Argo that he's in love, it definitely had to be a more painful than happy thing. Due to his personal problems, bad timing and awful circumstances, he's had a moment when he's had, objectively speaking, a really bad time.

[thunderboltfire]

I've got this idea that Moth, being basically a bhaalspawn v.2, is to some degree similar in appearance to Iwona at the height of her power. She was, after all, the most succesful of the Lord of Murder's mortal progeny, even if she rebelled succesfully against her foretold fate. It makes sense her traits were used as a sort of a blueprint, whether with intention of perfecting the original or as a way of cruel mockery.

It's evident that Moth, while in some aspects very similar, isn't her predecessor. Some of the difference between them could be attributed to the fact that Moth's a human (or at least, she looks like a human), not a half-elf, but many others are as if someone tried to draw a person from memory and while the effect looks eerily familiar, it's definitely a picture of someone else.

Or, You could also name it a familial similarity. I'm sure Jaheira will love this.

[thunderboltfire]

Related to this post, Sestna would be grandma's absolute nightmare.

Mechanically difficult to dispose of (maybe poison would be an option, but who knows if the Grey Wardens aren't weirdly resistant to toxins), politically difficult to get rid of, and not at all willing to consider her authority (especially not after the Inner Demons).

Sestna's definitely noticed that she's immediately fallen out of grandma's good graces. Unfortunately, she has lost her last remnants of a survival instinct three weeks beforehand and hasn't found it since.

[thunderboltfire]

POV: You're sitting on the floor

(a quick doodle of my dog)

[thunderboltfire]

Sir, you have to stop raising her visor like this, or you'll end up having to repeat yourself.

[thunderboltfire]

Igna: "I'm radically different than my mother" Also Igna:

[stevviefox]

Nice!

POV: You’re a Witch-King of Angmar and a tall blonde has suggested you leave her uncle alone.