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Celestia of Sorrow

My first proper illustration of oc Celestia in very long time- I wanted to capture a much darker atmosphere with her serious personality. The horns took a very long time but were so fun to figure out where to render.

This illustration is where I felt a newer style really starting to take shape, and I'm happy with how the expression and rendering came out!

I hope to continue my experiments and document more of it in my upcoming monthly blog Developing Your Own Style coming soon to Patreon ✨

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Closing July 19th.

i HATE self-censorship for a lot of reasons, but being in crisis work makes it even more frustrating. who are you censoring for? like i am being so fr, WHO are you censoring for? have you even thought it through? people who have been raped know that they have been raped. if someone attempts suicide or is grieving someone who did, saying "sewer slide" isn't going to protect them from any of the feelings. a murder victim's family isn't going to feel better bc you said "unalived" instead of murdered. if anything, it's just extremely invalidating and othering. it's saying "what happened to you is so bad that i won't even say the word," which is NOT trauma-informed care. you are not protecting survivors/victims when you self-censor. the ONLY things you protect when you self-censor are the puritanical ideologies that are being encouraged by rich fascists who want your money and obedience