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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!
#Dragon Age: Inquisition#DA:I#inquisitor lavellan#Blackwall#Thom Rainier#blackwall x lavellan#getting into Valentine's Day mood early this year are we#trivia - there's a minor difference between the simplified Sylaise vallasin in between DA:I and DA:TV#also I won't pretend I understand how Blackwall's gambeson closes up so I'm making it into buttons basically#thunderboltfire's art
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
#equine#horse#horse fable#thunderboltfire's art#Idk if anybody expected to see my professional work in here#but I'm proud and this guy is out of NDA so here we go!
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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.
#BG3#bg3 durge#durge#cw: blood#cw: violence#cw: self-harm#the anatomy is all over the place but I still like how it came out#When she's not actively grappling with violent urges she's a pretty cool gal#but it's clear something isn't right with her#thunderboltfire's art#I'm definitely going to draw more of her
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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)
#Dragon Age: Inquisition#Dragon Age#DA:I#Inquisitor Lavellan#that's why we wear helmets#Lara Lavellan#don't worry#she's a 2H warrior so not *all* of this blood is hers#but yeah she's had a rough day#thunderboltfire's art#CW: blood#CW: gore#I should do her companion card someday too#I have many gripes with DA:I but the art style is absolutely fascinating to me
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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).
#listen I had to give her some sheets and a blanket - she sleeps on a couch for weeks let her be comfortable#this was supposed to be a small sketch w/o background but it got out of hand#DA:TV#Dragon age the veilguard#dwarven Rook#Sestna Thorne#thunderboltfire's art
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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.
#BG3#bg3 durge#Moth the Durge#Iwona the Gorion's Ward#headcanon#Moth's cultist tattoos and fresh scars around the mouth make the similarity a bit less obvious#In my head Iwona's still alive and kicking during the events of BG3#and sooner of later I'll probably draw something on how she'd get involved in this chaos#Moth deserves to have two bickering scary old ladies as her mentors#thunderboltfire's art#sketch
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Igna: "I'm radically different than my mother" Also Igna:
#Isaldi#Of course Eberre and Argo are VERY different people#but this accidental paralell is still funny to me#Igna Sharille#Mila of Iseni#sketch#thunderboltfire's art
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Nice!
POV: You’re a Witch-King of Angmar and a tall blonde has suggested you leave her uncle alone.
#lotr#eowyn#sketch#you know how anytime you take any kind of helmet off the hair come out sort of tangled and sweaty?#i think of this a lot when i read scenes when people take off their helmets in a middle of a battle#i know i've cheated by having her shield obscure half of her face#but if you already have a shield why not raise it#also a curious fact:#operating a sword-and-shield combination requires way more physical strenght than a single two-handed weapon#my art#thunderboltfire#thunderboltfire’s cool artwork
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Hold tight.
#WIP#I just really like the framing#thunderboltfire's art#the only thing you can do when a starbound horse does its spatial jump is grab onto the mane and prepare for the landing
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Well-earned rest, 40x60, acrylics on canvas.
This painting of a "Victor" battlemech damaged in battle was commissioned by my long-time client for his friend. It's the first time I've ever drawn (or painted) any mecha, and I think it didn't come out half bad!
#traditional painting#battletech#thunderboltfire's art#it's a very dark painting and the photo deosn't reflect the colors fully#but also I should probably invest in a proper camera to do these shots bc the glare from a varnish is almost impossible to remove digitally
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Czasami ktoś powie ci coś jak masz 5 lat żebyś nie darła się nad rosnącym ciastem i nigdy nie przychodzi ci do głowy, żeby zakwestionować to wytłumaczenie.
(English:) Igna: A sourdough starter? You're baking bread in an alchemy lab? Eleen: Nooo, it's just a pasttime of sorts. Finding the best proportions for yeast growth is kind of fun. Igna (thought that the sourdough rises bc of house sprites): The growth of what?
Sometimes someone tells you something when you're 5 years old so that you stop shouting over a rising dough and it never occurs to you to question that explanation.
Bonus:
Bonus 2: ŻUREK
#doodles#Isaldi#thunderboltfire's art#sketch#Eleen of Kaldron#Igna Sharille#She was mainly in shock because she's got so much passive knowledge about the magical beings#she met some of them in person! Her mother is in charge of communication with them if any conflicts arise#and somehow it never occured to her to reexamine this explanation XD#Eleen is an electromancer#She has notably weak magical powers and is the only wizard who's chill enough to be friends with Igna#Eleen supports herself and pays for her tuition with alchemy#(sometimes barely)#Her weak powers can be considered a blessing - she's way too weak of a mage to ever become a battlemage#she used to have a parrot for an animal helper but I've decided that however troublesome it would probably be a fairly expensive bird#so she has a starling now#I decided to not make a separate language version of it bc it's only a quick doodle
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@thunderboltfire OMG of course I forgot about this request and I wouldn't dare to remind you, art can't be rushed! Thank you so much for completing this, it made my day and I can't stop smiling looking at HIS face. Always happy to see my favourite knight, lovely artwork and so detailed! Thank you again! <3
The right hand of Queen Meve
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This is a second sticker design I've made back in 2020 as a limited promotional material for a dragon-themed zine, 'Siarka'. As I'm from Krakow, it's based on the Wawel dragon, complete with a fake sheep!
#dragon#design#digital drawing#black and white#thunderboltfire's art#siarka zin#wawel dragon#oldie but goodie I still have the sticker on my laptop
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