So I totaled my car and this would help a lot. If you can, please boost this.
Opening up emergency sketch and light painting commissions. Prices will be anywhere from $20 for sketches to $40 for small watercolor paintings with a queue of five slots!
Work work work
Oh boy I need to sleep but tomorrow I will finish them both if it kills me #artistsoninstagram #artistsontumblr #jesibeans #wip #acrylic #javelina #skull
I was about to give up on this boy??? #lance #voltron
It was true that Nicaise's complexion wasn't quite as clear as it had once been, between his slight stubble, and the temporary imperfections that inevitably heralded the transition from childhood, and the way the Akielon sun had peppered his otherwise pale skin with constellations of freckles over years of exposure. His lips were also no longer quite as pouty as when he'd been fifteen. In general, Nicaise's youthful roundness had sharpened. It had left his jaw more angular, and his cheekbones prominent enough to cast slight shadows that sharpened his face. They emphasised his eyes, which were no less huge, or any less blue, framed behind long eyelashes that were dark even tonight, when he hadn't bothered painting them after the exertions of the hunt.
That was all just part and parcel of Nicaise now looking more like a man rather than a boy, in Nikandros's opinion. He looked different, but certainly not lesser than before to anyone who didn't prefer unripe, doll-like features. Nikandros knew that Nicaise was painfully aware of how men with such preferences did exist. Apparently, those courtiers might be among them. But Nikandros definitely wasn't. Nikandros kind of wished that he could claim that he didn't find the signs of Nicaise's maturity attractive, because it was Nicaise, but Nikandros wasn't a very good liar when it came down to it.
"You're more appealing now by far than when I first met you," Nikandros assured Nicaise.
Nicaise met his eyes, not quite hiding his surprise. Or his hopefulness. "Yeah?"
It sounded like he was asking for more than Nikandros's confirmation of what he'd just said.
Despite himself, Nikandros heard himself saying it anyway. "Yes."
From @justanotherdaylikeanyother's Inevitably Ensnared (Chapter 8 specifically,) which I enjoyed immensely from start to finish (and honestly, the entire Veretian Flytrap series deserves a read.)
I actually had a lot of fun illustrating a scene from here and just really love being able to illustrate an older Nicaise (I had a little too much fun with the freckles but whatever, it made up for screaming at rendering drapery. Chiascuro helped with the background though.) In person, the eyes were done with a bit of colored pencil to make the blues pop!
Plugging my friends' stuff, please read ♡♡♡
BODY&SHADOW 002: DRAGONFLY
Xueyu’s steps were brisk on the sliver-stone salvaged hallways leading him away from Jiling’s private chamber. He made quick work of the angled corridors, followed all their twisting and turning around sacred spaces until he hit the day in full. The large man stood in the main doorway of the mountain’s deeper recesses for a fleeting moment, watching the lazy rustling of the world beyond—its simple tuning so grand, its motions so slow that they were imperceptibly fast. A paradox, a puzzle: perfect.
The inner walls of Luanshi Sect’s mountain compound twisted some yards ahead of him, composed of stretches of dense rebar hammered into a more acceptable shape, metal bones of a fallen structure picked from her wreckage and reused to fit the purposes of a society built atop the echoes of former folly. Lungs full of the morning’s dewy air, he started down the broad stairs and down the path toward his training yard, turning just before the exit yawning before him. Xueyu dipped into a shadow-lined path between two smaller structures made of hand-mashed mud and steel. He emerged on the other side to his favorite sound—the complaints of one of his pupils being punished by the superior skill of a boy he considered his best.
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And finally stuff for #artistalley for @realmscon this year :D magnets, post cards prints and posters!
Drawing an older!Nicaise for a fanfic that I adore that recently ended 💖 hoping to get this done to work on paintings and get juices flowing for Big Bang stuff
Being secretive on which one bc I'd like to tag them/the fic when finished (but kudos for guessing)
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