My Take On Tanith From The Skullduggery Pleasant Series!! She's One Of My Favs

please can we do inbox trick-or-treating this year. can we make that a thing on tumblr. please please please please please

Found this art meme and decided to give it a shot for some of my ocs. Warning for my really, really old art from when I first stated drawing lol.

Gonna be starting with Ebony Crow:

Ebony's stayed roughly the same over the years, with his main change being the vibe of his wardrobe. Death Omens was actually set in a completely modern world originally and magic users didn't lean into formal and/or old fashioned wear, so he got a simple hoodie and tall boots.

He's much more dapper now, which fits his serious and academic vibes very well imo, but he's always had his mainly grey color scheme, his eye covering, his long black hair pulled into a loose pony, and lack of smile.

The biggest change beyond his wardrobe is probably his staff. Originally the staff was meant to look like a twisty wizard's staff, now its design is meant to look like a cross between a magic staff and a white cane.

Also more red accents to tie into ✨Crow Family Colors✨.

Decided to redraw some old art! left to right, 2024 vs 2021.

Been editing and touching up some of my old OC references for my senior portfolio as opposed to re-drawing them. Mostly this includes fixing line art, adding proper clothing folds instead of the random ones I did bc I had NO IDEA what I was doing, fixing some anatomy stuff, and redoing some details here and there. And I figured I'd post the updated references cause why not 🤷‍♀️

As a quick introduction, this is my oc- the lovely Lady Salem Blair (she/her). Shadow witch, socialite and politician, smooth talker, magical prodigy, and lover of elegant things. She was quite a well known figure in political and well to do circles when she was alive, though that's not to say she was well liked by everyone.

Prolly the other two most important facts about her was that she did in fact do a lot of spying and sabotaging in her time, usually herself but sometimes with a little help. And that she was the mother of some of my other ocs, the Crow Triplets.

Quick run down of her runes (sigils)

Lock- Prevents anyone but the caster from opening or moving whatever the rune has been applied to.

Mute Sound- When activated, mutes sounds made by (or, within a certain radius, around) the wearer for a certain time frame. (thanks to @nicstylus for the suggestion with this one!)

Protection- Reinforces clothing against both (certain) magics and physical attacks.

Glamour- When activated, gives the wearer a shimmering flair. Not practical but very fun!

Disruption- Disrupts (low level) magical eavesdropping, locating, and otherwise spying attempts.

Shapeshifting- When applied to an object, allows a user to channel their magic into shapeshifting magic. Works best with masks or objects worn on the face.

Salem's headshot for her Artfight icon! She's also getting posted on her own cause again, I love how she turned out <3

Rough sketches of my ocs Ebony and Thorne being protective of each other. Cause protective siblings.

The original plan was to clean up and color these before considering posting them but. I decided I liked them as they are. so.

"Care to join me for a drink?"

Another redraw of my old art. This one got quite a few upgrades/added details as opposed to my usual redraws.

The concept behind the character design was the whole "Snow White's description makes her sound like a vampire" thing (though instead of making Snow White a vampire, I made a vampire based on Snow White). Skin as white as snow, lips as red as roses, ebony black hair- you get the idea.

Old art (made in 2021) below the cut, as well as a version of the drawing without the background/scenery elements!

Drawing I made of Kaeya when leaks of his new skin came out ^^

Prepping new character icons for artfight!! This is my oc Ebony, who's ref I've posted previously.

I plan to make a mass post with the all the icons I end up drawing later, but wanted to post him separately cause I like how his turned out <3

My oc Thorne! She's a scary lady.