I Call This "Improvise, Adapt, Overcome"

Hermittober Day 4: Woods

version without blood and ramblings under the cut vvvvvvv

Hermittober prompt list made by @collierose1 speaking of which WHERE WERE YOU WHEN I WAS SEARCHING FOR HERMIT OCTOBER PROMPTS /nm /lh /j

since I found it only now I'll have some catching up to do maybe I'll post the previous 3 prompts once I'm done with the whole list, who knows

anyway, now about the actual piece. not gonna lie, I thought it would take me much longer, but it only took about 6 hours at most (with me getting distracted occasionally), which makes me rather positive that I'll be able to see this prompt list at least halfway through. either way, I really like how this one turned out, especially my attempt at introducing more shades with the bluer parts. AND I'd even say that the background turned out decent, which feels rather new since I don't really do those usually. here's hoping the rest of Hermittober goes as well

a rare ZombieCleo appearance

also, I gotta say, going from Etho POV straight to Martyn POV is quite a whiplash (although I imagine it'd be much stronger the other way around)

like, team renwood mining session is chill, you know right away that they'll stick together, they talk about being old men, Martyn gives Ren a diamond unprompted (at least I don't remember Ren asking? either way it's very chill)

meanwhile there's the B.E.T. team. not only do Bdubs and Etho spend pretty much their whole time on the surface arguing like an old married couple (which also carries on to their mining session), but also their mining session is so wild. every time someone finds loot or, gods forbid, diamonds, they're on each other's THROATS. like, they're acting as if the SECOND there's back on surface they're gonna run off in separate directions

do you really believe scott “gave” pearl a win? like seriously? pearl got a quad kill on everyone else who was left but them. in any other series she won right there. she would have killed scott with her dogs. he didn’t give her anything except the headache of the fandom constantly invalidating her win. if letting yourself die so another person can win means you gave it to them, scar got given his win too. good art but ruined by that detail.

ah, I had a feeling my wording would be misinterpreted. I fully believe she deserved that win, through and through. the "gave" part comes in more in lore sense than anything I guess? every other winner took out the 2nd place themselves, but scott didn't give her the option to, so I just decided to put that as a detail, even gave scott a matching eye, which imo should indicate that "given" the win or not, they're ALL equal winners to me, I just liked the concept

but I struggle with wording in general and when I wrote the post I was very tired, so I can't really blame anyone for misunderstanding my ramblings lol

hello there! let me introduce you to the AU I'm planning on posting here! the name is "Something Is In The Water" or "siitw" for short it's a Gem-centric Hermitcraft (but really I think of it more as a MCYT) AU with the intended genre being horror as for the format, I'm planning on posting it in what I call EvoAU (by @solargeist) style, meaning that for the most part I hope to answer asks and post tidbits, but I am also planning on making sort of comic chapters (not a proper comic tho)

the premise of the story is as follows: One day Gem, who is rumoured to be the infamous pirate terrorizing many seas, arrives to a town where people call themselves hermits under the guise of just moving there, but the goal of her visit is to study the local water and its effects on the locals. For you see, there have been reports of memory issues and in some cases strange mutations, all threads leading to one source: the ocean.

and here's the piece I made to with this post! it was supposed to be just the cover for the playlist I made for this AU, but oh well

I do have a warning tho! this AU includes hermitshipping (gempearl), so engage with it at your own discretion

winner pearl design

closeups and explanations under the cut vvvvvvv

FINALLY managed to make a design I actually like, it took me months I think ;-;

anyway here's my insight:

mostly what's been bugging me about my designs is how the cape would make it less interesting, but there have been other on-spot changes too for example, the hairstyle. idk if anyone noticed, but the hairstyle I give to her depends on the context (so if it's siitw it's short and fluffy and if it's just hc it tends to be long and straight, but honestly it depends on the season lol). and here I was debating on what hairstyle to give her when I went "wait, why not AURORA's hairstyle since running with the wolves is the song I associate with her the most", but I made it wavy from other miscellaneous changes, she now has stars on the ends of shoelaces cuz I thought it'd be cool and moon hairpins for the same reason

this one will actually be relevant even beyond this post cuz I've had the winners have necklaces with their symbols for a while now, but I think I never actually posted anything that would actually show that ajhjdsjgsafkg

and last but not least, a headcannon I came up with pretty much on the spot: under certain circumstances (don't ask what those are) "freckles" that depict the stars in the sky show up and along with her left eye glow purple (normally for a winner both eyes would glow, but since the win was "given" to her it's only one (hopefully I'll make Scott's design soon, but if I don't - for him only his right eye glows))

Hermittober Day 5: Echo

version without chromatic aberration and some yapping under the cut vvvvvvv

Hermittober prompt list made by @collierose1

what do you do when you've tried doing several takes on one drawing and anything with details looks like shit? that's right, you make anything that'd have said details too small to have any and slap a bunch of texture brushes and effects on it!

"if I try making it perfect I won't make it at all" or something, so I'm just gonna accept my losses and move on

BAM!

who needs sleep when you have cubitos to overdesign

largely inspired by this post

no hermittober for 15th and 16th cuz guess what

I can't think of anything yet again

and if I do get a semblance of an idea I can't put it on paper

Hermittober Day 6: Horizon

"Mumbo, is the moon big?"

some thoughts under the cut vvvvvvv

Hermittober prompt list made by @collierose1

a bit of a smaller one today, but I like it nonetheless. the only challenge really was making the moon look minecraft-ey, but I think I managed to do that well enough