#velinxi’s design

[supine-ly]

I’m a sucker for characters that get ruthlessly shat on by the fandom

[rowan-r-ridley]

Also a very strong inspiration in Velinxi's designs in her AU "Young gods". 👋✨

[comfortstars]

percy is rambling and annabeth doesn't get a thing he's saying. anyway another digital practice:) (the actual drawing is a bit bigger but i didn't like the whole thing so you get it cropped lol)

pls rb if you like!

[uh-pipeyna]

Do It For Pipabeth

all fanart used is by @velinxi

[eternalblizzards]

loveee her

[vlad-wakinyan]

Warm up 🔥

I really like Luo Binghe's design by Velinxi :3

[allpiesforourown]

Idk if it's just me, but I love this little tassel on @velinxi 's design of Luo Binghe

Whenever I see the vol 4 cover, it looks like a teardrop right under his eye and I imagine Binghe is crying from happiness

[joselyn565]

I love @velinxi fan character designs of OW x Alice in Wonderland. I also love their art style (especially their dva shipping with Ram art :3 ) Check out their amazing work! <3

[blanze]

So I play Dislyte pretty regularly and the design for the Poseidon character is just so... IHAD to do it!

The Hades one had to go through a more extreme makeover to make it feel more Nico-esque though (it has a couple subtle design nods to Velinxi's Young Gods AU too!)

This was supposed to be a take on @percico-nicercy-events 's fest btw, Day 5: Undersea Prince Percy and Underworld Prince Nico but yeah, I'm way behind;;

Next up is a 14 panel comic!

[dazzletwig]

A sketch based on the designs by Xiao Tong @\velinxi's from the seven seas translation of svsss!

[anyo1]

Annabeth doodle for now :) School is almost finished and I will have more time to draw over summer.

Design by velinxi! I really love how she draws these characters so perfectly

[supine-ly]

idk if I’m ever finishing this so I’m just posting it now

[kettle-co]

I know I usually do velinxi’s designs, but I need mustache mu qingfang.

He makes me think of a fish with whiskers, and I love love love fish with whiskers!

I know it’s very sloppy, very unrefined, but I’m working on something bigger than usual and it’s taking most of my drawing mojo 😭 I just want to say I HATE coloring so much.

[aroaceleovaldez]

the show chb logo was also ripped from fandom, like in the past decade all the official chb shirt had the logo without the circle and then the fandom started doing and the show went for it, sorry your tags reminded me of that

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Yeah, I know Delphi Strawberry Service has done more circular-based CHB shirt designs for ages, and I've seen the more circular-based designs floating around for awhile. I think Magicbysab's circular-based CHB shirt designs also predate the show design? Those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head. I understand on a level that if they did base it off fandom designs, particularly if they're basing anything on widespread fanon or fandom-based concepts, it can be difficult to pin down credit or may even seen unnecessary. But if they're going to be doing that I feel like at least they could hire like, a fandom consultant of sorts? Instead of just ripping off from the fandom, hire someone from the community who produces that already so at least there's some recognition and acknowledgement of where it originated.

Heck, in some instances if you ask around in the fandom it's not hard to pinpoint who specifically popularized certain concepts! I could talk for ages about Cherryandsisters being a driving force behind photokinesis!Will, or Saberghatz with plague!Will (tbh between the two they spearheaded a ton of early Will/Solangelo fanon), and I swear Drksanctuary alone is behind like 50% of Alabaster fanon, etc etc etc. People in the fandom know these things! Heck, we know ReadRiordan company knows how to do that kind of thing! They commissioned Viria for the official art, and the UK Riordan newsletter reaches out to fans all the time to feature their work (with credit, they're one of the better ones)! Though in Rick's book tours he did showcase Viria's art (at least with credit) without asking before she got commissioned, and during the Tower of Nero book tours they actually straight up stole a solangelo edit from Pervysloth with completely zero credit (link is to my canon url readriordan parody blog).

I think it doesn't help as well that Rick and his editor allegedly use the fandom wiki in place of a series bible. The PJO wiki is notorious for putting inaccurate information or fanon onto pages at random and having no sources. (What I wouldn't give for the PJO wiki to have frequent book/page sources a la Warrior Cats wiki...) There are what, now almost 18 books in the main series alone? Of an extremely renowned best-selling series that's 20 years old and now being adapted for TV? And they STILL don't have a series bible? That's like, step 1 of writing a series. This kind of reliance of the fandom for resources and concepts definitely isn't new for them.

It just feels so bizarre as to what it says about how the ReadRiordan company views the fandom and the creatives within it. I understand that trying to figure out how to give credit to the concept of "CHB shirt design, but circular!" is difficult, if you even can find out who did that first or popularized it. But if you're going to rip things from fandom, at least find somebody to try and credit? Show that you put in even the tiniest amount of effort? And if you get it wrong and people know, they'll correct you and that's that! But ReadRiordan just keeps trying to actively obscure these kinds of things, even with their own media, not ripped from the fandom, which makes it feel all the worse when it gets pointed out. And a lot of the time the whole reason those concepts get popular is because they're filtered through big names in the fandom! The fandom is a community! We know these people! We can point to them and explain exactly what they popularized! Remember how Velinxi popularized long haired Piper with the heart-shaped flyaways? Goodness only knows how many fandom designs are heavily influenced by Viria and Minuiko and Burdge (and Indigonite and Fuocogo and Ikimaru and Thecottonproject and Joker-ace and Sixofclovers and Vikingmera and Saber and Cherry and and and-). If you are in the community this stuff is easy to find. But Rick and the ReadRiordan company clearly being ~5 years behind with fanon pretty obviously tells me that they're not in the community at all, and aren't bothering trying.

[milktrician]

I'm just here to say that I love how you draw SQH :D

Truly Just Some Guy right there, the stubble was a choice and it was the correct one x)

thank you!

to be honest shang qinghua is probably the only svsss character where i had a design in my head for him while i was initially reading before i saw him in the velinxi illustrations.

i think most of it was because of shen qingqiu’s first description was something along the lines of “proper and handsome but sleazy” and thats where the stubble came from.

also in general, i really like drawing long hair lmao

[flock-from-the-void]

My design for Zhuzhi-lang! The hair was stolen from Velinxi's design and the rest is mine~

I chose red and desaturated brown for him for a couple of reasons. First, in Velinxi's designs (which I love) and from most of the descriptions in books, demons often wear red and dark colors. Second, I headcanon that red is Tianlang-jun's favorite color, so it's Zhuzhi-lang's favorite color too. Third, he is very attached to Tianlang-jun so I think he'd wear something that quickly brings his lord to mind. Lastly, I really wanted to avoid using green (because it's often associated with Cang Qiong Sect and it's not really working with red) so I tried to give him this white snake on a tree branch vibe.

On the other hand, yes, I ignored that he's a green snake, sue me. Also I gave him a bit of melatonin as a treat

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