Asha's Cadence

I've been wanting to run an experiment and combine graphics with ceramics for a long time. After a week of struggling, it finally turned into a plate with astral JVs~

Calling all alien romance lovers! Cozy, character driven slice-or-sixteenth century life book is dropping this fall! You can preorder on Amazon if you enjoy:

🐉 MMC with body image issues

👑FMC with something to prove

🐉MMC falls first

👑 Noblewoman in hiding

🐉Mental Health rep

👑 Religious struggles

🐉 Forced proximity

👑Found family

🐉 Open door romance

👑 Lots of spice and alien anatomy

For those who enjoy a slow burn with lots of cultural differences and alien anatomy, check out Damsels and Dragons, with cover art by the fabulous @ashacadence!

A marooned space-dragon who yearns and his sixteenth century baddie who masterminds. Preorder on Amazon if you like:

🐉 MMC with body image issues

👑FMC with something to prove

🐉MMC falls first

👑 Noblewoman in hiding

🐉Mental Health rep

👑 Religious struggles

🐉 Forced proximity

👑Found family

🐉 Open door romance

👑 Lots of spice and alien anatomy

Unless you're drawing explicit realism, in my opinion, expressions should be exaggerated to some degree. If you aren't doing a 1:1 recreation, the point is to get the FEELING across. Try making the expression you want to draw and feeling how your face pinches and stretches.

Skin doesn't just "disappear" when your face moves it around --- that's where wrinkles come from! Pay attention to where your skin creases when you emote, and use it to your benefit. It's a fine line between overdoing it and underdoing it -- find your own balance.

Ultimately, every expression has a little bit of push and pull, unless your face is completely neutral (and even then, there are still some wrinkles...). Learning to think of expressions as actions and reactions is VERY helpful in learning to draw them without needing a reference, and in learning how to stylize and push expressions based on references as well!

I think a lot of people end up with stiff or unexpressive emotions in their art because they're just trying to recreate a picture instead of understanding WHY and HOW the face is moving --- and it's a tough thing that takes a while to really pick up and learn. Hopefully is helpful in showing a way of thinking about it that can influence your process and approach to emotions!!!

Also, bonus: even without the lines, the planes alone still show a LOT of emotion.

I could list off the shit year we have had but with 2026 swinging in hot with medical bills for mom and also one of her rabbits dying too it has been a rough start.

I'm just so tired and overwhelmed with everything and I know things are horrible for a lot of people. Any little bit helps if possible and spreading the word.

Ooooh thank you for giving me a little moment to talk about my kids!

I'll do something of Blue since he's been at the forefront of my mind for a WHILE! Blue is a robot military general, one of the main characters from my headworld titled No Man's Land, where robots and humans co-exist alongside each other.

Blue is a special case in the world, he was found in an abandoned derelict facility, with no information on who built him or why, but he is strangely bio-mechanical which is very NOT normal for robots. He has various organic systems with no explanation for why he has them.

Blue is fully waterproof, which is not abnormal for the robots on NML, and often when his systems are overclocking and he can't get his temperature under control on his own he has to take ice water baths. So a little fun silly fact, he actually really enjoys drinking water. Given his biomechanical digestive make-up he is able to drink things and just really likes crisp cold water since it both cools his systems from the inside (which he likes the feeling of), but it also sooths/flushes out his bio-mech digestive system.

I could list off the shit year we have had but with 2026 swinging in hot with medical bills for mom and also one of her rabbits dying too it has been a rough start.

I'm just so tired and overwhelmed with everything and I know things are horrible for a lot of people. Any little bit helps if possible and spreading the word.

I could list off the shit year we have had but with 2026 swinging in hot with medical bills for mom and also one of her rabbits dying too it has been a rough start.

I'm just so tired and overwhelmed with everything and I know things are horrible for a lot of people. Any little bit helps if possible and spreading the word.

The killing time, unwillingly mine - Submitted by fairies-andphantoms

After I got work done I wanted to play around with these guys again. Not sure if I'm set on the mountain guy's palette just yet. Was looking at Harbor/Spotted Seals for ideas. Might play around with other arctic dwelling animal palettes.

Ocean guys are barrel/olympic swimmer chested so larger lungs/longer chested and also wider forearms with some webbing between fingers and toes. They aren't living in the ocean, but really good swimmers.