The Titania

All twelve rulers of the Empires SMP! One 2-hr painting a day for twelve consecutive days—this was a really fantastic exercise and it was a nice way to relax and take my mind off things while I’m sick with Covid. Thank you to everyone who followed along as I progressed! It’s unfortunate that being sick prevented me from being able to take commissions this winter but I’m glad I was able to do these, if I go too long without painting I get all itchy inside 😅

Some take-aways from doing this series:

- I love painting faces! I feel like this is apparent, but worth mentioning.

- I’m very bi. I feel like this is also apparent, but also worth mentioning ;)

- Speaking of, Empires has a really fantastic gender balance!! This makes me very happy.

- The number of highlights that are visible in the eyes really affects how you interpret the characters’ personalities. I plan to speak more on this later :3

- There are only so many different angles of 3/4 view faces and I think I might have found them all

- While getting Covid is really awful on my body, it turns out to be amazing for my tumblr activity statistics. Silver linings!

I don’t often do this (and I can’t link it because tumblr hates links) but if you enjoyed this series, I have a Ko-Fi I can plug if you’re interested in supporting me that way! The link is in my bio ☕️ 🥰

Bonus reference image under the cut so you can compare my paintings to the original skins:

can we just talk about how the first time akaashi watches bokuto play, bo is wearing the number 12

and now we have adult akaashi watching bo play volleyball professionally yet again wearing the number 12

THE PARALLELS!

bonus: (some things just never change)