Bloomins Art

It's almost midnight, but I said I'd finish this today and momma didn't raise no liar.

Anyhow, one of a few fics that hella inspired me. This one is by @azurebluebell. Please give it a read! Didn't quite know what drawings I wanted to work on next after my last big one of the rival trio. Then I read this and was like OOOOOHHHH--

TIME TO YAP. Below.

Wanted to draw but the throat feels not great.

I play DnD on Friday nights and like to doodle traditionally. I thought i did a cute older Marnie and Hop and Leon last night. I tried making Marnie a little bigger, but she just looks... normal. I'm unfortunately not great at drawing bigger bodies on the fly. But I thought she looked nice still. :3

Also liked one of the galar rivals I did a whole back. The second picture is actually my first attempt at my version of adult Marnie, and Marnie in general. I tried drawing them all as adults, admittedly, but Bede still looked too young. And I just thought the Hop was cute, even though he wasn't exactly how I wanted him to turn out.

Oh, so apparently SwSh came out a few days ago (6 years ago)? Neat!

I wanted to draw the rivals older, too. I subscribe to long Bede, wide Marnie and bespeckled Hop.

Real talk, I just wanted to draw an older Marnie with a half shaved head, then it turned into this.

I used to really like drawing fashion when I was younger. Thought I'd give it a go here. I must say, British Punk is a very fun and wild aesthetic. As it should be.

Figured they'd met up after Marnie and Bede did some training and after Hop was done at a conference. Marnie's all dolled up because she's going to a concert (Piers', likely.). She has 2 tickets? For her and who else I wonder??? Hop's excitedly yapping about the conference and Bede's pretending not to listen.

I think Hop would only really dress like this for special occasions. Gotta look presentable for such big events. Everyone always has cool ideas for older Hop hair. I couldn't think of anything other than Beiber bangs, but I like it, haha. I feel like Marnie would get more confident and embrace the Yell punk look. Plus, the aggressive look helps to intimidate the competition/challengers. I feel like, despite likely being flashy on the field, Bede'd be happy with comfort and stability above all else, so still big soft, fluffy clothes. Nothing too flashy while he's just out and about. I think his hair'd just get curlier.

Close up cuz I'm pretty jazzed with how it turned out. :3

I always think it's neat doing some sketches, too, which I haven't done in a hot minute. So here's some below as well. :3

If you know, you know.

Alternative title: The Struggle

I had the thought that I wanted to do a lil Halloween drawing, but it's getting so close to it. But then I noticed I'm drawing a ghost type gym leader, so that kind of counts, right?

Hop honest to goodness beat me during the last post game battle. I was so angry that I was forced to beat him... He really goes through it and I wanted him to be the Champion so bad. Kid deserved to win more than anyone in the whole story.

Also, when did legendary Pokémon become so complicated? I have no idea what's going on around Zacian's head behind the crown stuff.

“Is that really how you all dance up north?!” 

Local grandma adopts outlander weirdo, gets stricken with a severe case of secondhand embarrassment.

Characters from my upcoming fanfic I’ve been working on where a Priory trip in Elona goes very, very sideways very, very fast.

I’d been agonizing over new designs for Nefes and desert clothing for Rin for ages, and finally came up with something that I think suits them quite well. This, of course, means that Nefes’s alternate form gets an update, too, which I hope to get to one of these days. 

My guildie decided to commission me to draw her a new icon. Aggrazi is having NONE OF IT. Based off a super silly meme of Oleanna from Pokemon SwSh being very intense. 

I’ve been feeling down, so I decided to draw something dumb to make me feel better. 

I can’t claim the joke. A page called Fangoddess on facebook posted this as a Mummy meme. I’ve never seen The Mummy, but thought it was hilarious and just had to do this. Plus had to learn how to draw Joko again. 

Commander Deorsa is a fraidy cat. I like to think he’s co-commander with my girl Torris, and being a sylvari, he had to go in to face the brunt of Joko and his forces, much to Torris’s chagrin. But it’s k. Deo and Torris ride the struggle bus together. No, they don’t get along. 

Instead of sleeping like a normal human, my brain likes to wander the dreary haze between waking and sleep for at least two hours, typically thinking of fictional characters and stories. Particularly as of late, it’s been Guild Wars 2 and Elona. And so last night djinn became the subject my brain would choose to chew on over and over and over. 

Qadim in particular popped up. He’s a cool dude, right? Super flamey and menacing and wanting to take over the world and stuff. But what stuck out to me was how he, as opposed to other djinn, didn’t have his face covered, right? Well. I mean, at first I was like GASP, YAS. But then I thought about it for a second. Aw, beans. Actually, it’s probably just a mask. But then my brain was like: 

HO LAWDY CRACKPOT THEORY TIME. I’m sorry in advance. What if. Djinn’s faces were actually like that? Pointy teeth and rigid jaws and everything. So I decided to see what that might look like. 

I decided to give it a shot. Lookat them chompers. Maybe Qadim’s face, even if it is a mask, is a reflection of what they truly are. I looked at how the faces kinda hollow on the sides, as well as what the bandages look like around their faces to kind of... see how it looked. 

So then I got to thinking, what if... These facial coverings were ALSO a part of the whole binding and enslavement ordeal that so many of them go through. I mean, who would want a spooky sharp toothed being like this floating around? Cover that up, that’s hideous!

That, and/or maybe they do this just to appear less threatening, hence attracting less negative attention and attacks from individuals thinking they are something automatically dangerous. Which might explain why Qadim might not follow the same standard. He is a proud djinn who does not look to make friends with the “lesser” races of Tyria.

BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE. 

How this theory is probably way off the deep end, but it’s fun to think about nonetheless. Okay, so WHAT IF. Joko possibly also took some of that toothy inspiration for his newer soldiers? To appear more threatening to the enemy? But, unlike the GW1 Awakened, which *did* have their faces covered, these do not, because these Awakened are more considered to be “family” to the locals (Vabbians in partiuclar), so covering their faces would in fact dehumanize them and make it more difficult for the citizens to empathize with? 

Eh? Eeehhh??? Yeah, probably not, but it’s fun to think about.

Did this challenge with some friends. I’m always hyper critical of my own art, but when it’s someone else’s characters, I feel like I can let loose a little more. 

Uploading some expressions I did for my gal, Rin Smallwood, a character upcoming in a fic I’m writing.~ She can be quite the goofball when in the right company, but that’s not something she often has. 

Feeling blue, so I decided to post some asura I drew for a guild rp mission 1.5 years ago. They're s wacky motley crew.

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Izza gravitated towards the Inquest when they first gained traction. She built her career up by tearing others down. One day, however, she crossed the wrong person, ending in her husband's death and a severe demotion. Now she works as the head of a Sanitation Krewe, cleaning up every other krewe’s muck and mess ups. She is strict and unflinching, but cares deeply for her daughter, Pasha.

Pasha is Izza's daughter. She followed her mother into the Inquest, enjoying her work there until an experiment gone wrong left her disfigured and blind in one eye. After such a set back, she stepped down to join her mother in Sanitation. To this day she still suffers from sicknesses related to the incident, often needing daily doses of medication.

Gotter rode the coattails of fame after his krewe hit it big with an invention of theirs. He got in with the wrong types of people, however, finding joy in the vices of life, particularly substances and gambling. The lifestyle took its toll and he eventually he dug himself into such a deep hole, he landed with the Inquest. Even then, he wagered every good opportunity he had until he found his way into Sanitation, under a begrudging Izza.

To kick off the new year, time to post my OC that I’ve been working on for a helluva long time. 

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Rin Smallwood, named after the fallen Ascalonian city, was born and raised in the outskirts of Divinity's Reach. Her life had been a mundane one up until she turned fourteen, when misfortune after misfortune seemed to pile up. She lost her parents, one after another. Her childhood friend got caught up with some questionable individuals, roping Rin into more shady shenanigans than she ever wanted. Betrayal of said friend after her lifestyle became too risky, and Rin became a skapegoat.

Now, after having paid for her friend's misdeeds, Rin decided to leave the Reach and start fresh. She'd always had an affinity for books and the far off places they promised. So off she went to the Priory.

Years laterafter playing catch up, Rin was able to worm her way into a once in a lifetime expedition to Elona, thanks to a very well written essay and a few bends of the truth. Finally, the chance to get away from everything. A chance to explore an exotic land so few ever visited!

There was a reason so few ever visited, and Rin would soon find out why.

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My friend told me to be the change I wanted to see in the world, and so I’ve been slowly working on a fanfiction with Rin at the center of the story. I’ve spent over a year and a half planning it, and can’t wait to get it further done and polished. IRL has been a terrible pain in not letting me draw or write as much as I’d like, but I’m going to try get more done. 

Uploading a very old charr bit of art I had done for a guildie. It was gonna be a commission, but then he left and never got paid, SO. 

Day 15 - “Haunted”

Anyone else remember Bria the necromancer from Iron Marches and how she tried to steal away charr children? That was always a really cool and memorable event. An old guildie of mine once showed me how to break into her manor, but I don’t know if it’s possible anymore.