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Creaturanuary Prompt 14 - Phoenix

I’ve been looking forward to this prompt for a bit. Depicted in this illustration is a Valkyrie Phoenix, a guardian species of Unina. This specific character is a Damis sub-variant, known as the ‘soldiers’ of the species.

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Major animation

This took months to complete but I’m finally able to share my major animation project. This piece is the primary reason I haven’t been posting any art lately because between this and painting, I’ve had no time or energy to work on other pieces

This was a behemoth project, with a lot of late nights towards the end. The total project has 51 hours marked on the canvas, just for one minute of animation.

I’m incredibly happy with the outcome of this piece, featuring my character Scarmartyr. I was very heavily inspired right from the start by the song and let that lead the story boarding.

Song: ‘Scylla’ from The Epic Saga by @jayherrans and sung by @kiwee05

This was a lot of work and a lot of grinding but I can’t wait to make the next one.

I tried to post this two weeks ago 😭

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Faebruary Prompt 2 - Mushroom

In Jaragornin, you can find mushrooms alive and running through the forests. These creatures range in size and shape, but all have the same ability to blend in perfectly with any non-magical mushrooms.

These little guys are found everywhere, and can speak the same language as other inhabitants of Jaragornin, however they are often so small they only sound like squeaks.

This is a random Mushroom Spryte I felt like drawing up, to avoid using all browns and tans.

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It’s taken me a month and a half to post this because I could’ve sworn I HAD posted this but y’know, better late than never

This was a very experimental and go with the flow piece. I wanted to focus on creating a different atmosphere than my other pieces I’ve created this year, which have had very airy and comforting lighting.

I really learnt how to use the magic wand tool in this piece and did a lot of shading/lighting on the same layer as my flat colours.

I’m really happy with the face and the glow through the hand. This was an impulse piece and I’m really glad I did it.

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I made an animation

I swear guys I’m not bad at posting (terrible at posting) but here’s one of my uni assignments where I made a cool 15 second animation of some characters all tied together in a story that I plan to share one day

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This is a simple-ish painting I completed a few nights ago, practicing my depth of field and more atmospheric skills. It started because I wanted to test out a wheat brush I have, it didn’t behave well so I changed it to grass. It quickly evolved into an illustration exploring weather and lighting.

Experimented with a lot of layer filters and blurring, plus a few different brushes to what I typically use.

Featuring my OC, Giranja. I’m on a bit of a hyper fix with drawing her at the moment.

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The biggest assignment of the year came to a close about two weeks ago.

I had to create a 40 second, hand drawn 2D animation this semester and boy, it was a behemoth of a task for majority of it. We could pick to animate anything we wanted, so, to keep myself interested and keep it aligned with my exhibition theme, I chose to animate one of my Alphaeus, Zariya.

I learnt a lot about animating and using various resources to make the project easier to complete, and learnt a lot of the program I used to make it (Clip Studio Paint).

I definitely plan to keep animating and learn how to do shorter, smooth ones and I may eventually offer them as commissions, but they will definitely be on the pricier side as it’s not the quickest project in the world.

I also want to keep working on this particular one until it’s lined and coloured. I may even continue adding to the transformation and remove the small flash entirely.

Anyway! Animating was very stressful under a time limit, but a lot of fun and you may see more of it from me down the line.

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The Uninan Triplets

I forgot to post this last week in my scheduled posting day. I created this artwork for an exhibition at the end of October that I orchestrated. This is a piece that I am extremely happy with the outcome of.

From left to right is Elmairuz, God of Balance, Wolffia, Goddess of the Beginning, and finally, Scarmartyr, Goddess of the End.

These are some of my favourite guys.

Elmairuz was designed for me by @suspeon

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Creaturanuary Prompt 4 - Sea Monster

This was a bit of a tough one! Sea/water based designs have always been a bit of a weakness of mine. I wanted to try and do a crab based design, but it didn’t quite want to happen. So instead I went with a rough fishy design.

I’ve been really enjoying drawing with this rough brush I downloaded a while ago. The texture adds a lot of a natural paper feel to the piece. Paired with texturing my stuff with canvas,

This design goes straight into Runavera, as a largely water based world. I will be building on this guy more, they probably hunt in packs. Their mouth splits wide open into four sections, allowing them to swallow large prey.

This one was more focused on sketching the concept, than colouring it and massively detailing it.

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The biggest assignment of the year came to a close about two weeks ago.

I had to create a 40 second, hand drawn 2D animation this semester and boy, it was a behemoth of a task for majority of it. We could pick to animate anything we wanted, so, to keep myself interested and keep it aligned with my exhibition theme, I chose to animate one of my Alphaeus, Zariya.

I learnt a lot about animating and using various resources to make the project easier to complete, and learnt a lot of the program I used to make it (Clip Studio Paint).

I definitely plan to keep animating and learn how to do shorter, smooth ones and I may eventually offer them as commissions, but they will definitely be on the pricier side as it’s not the quickest project in the world.

I also want to keep working on this particular one until it’s lined and coloured. I may even continue adding to the transformation and remove the small flash entirely.

Anyway! Animating was very stressful under a time limit, but a lot of fun and you may see more of it from me down the line.

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Art from January 2019 of my OC Oria. She is a part of a semi-opened species of mine, called a 'Zilariun'. She is a servant to Giranja Shousin, one of the Princes of the Chirnagon House. This was a 'what-if' type illustration where she would get to wear a nice dress to an event, rather than work it.

Would love to redraw and give the dress another attempt now that I'm trying to focus more on costume design.

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Creaturanuary Prompt Two - Undead

Doing better than I have in other years 😆 this is like a world record for me

Today’s Xarzengior focus with this prompt was the world Runavera, a mostly drowned, magically irradiated fragment of a former stronghold world.

Runavera is a combination of concepts from an old zombie world I had loosely built, and a new fantasy & sci-fi blend.

‘The toxic levels of magic radiation have seeped into the corpses of friends and family, rising them back up to attack and corrupt the living. The Runavera Undead are to be avoided where possible. They retain memories of their former selves, where some can still speak in fragments or function basic mechanism and tools. The magic seeps out of their body in high quantities, slowly eating away at them until they no longer have any ability to move.’

Time lapse tomorrow! So far these have been done using Clip Studio on my iPad since these are being done on my way to and from work 😆