Lele 乐乐 5429

Based on an off-screen scene from Retired Assets 1-5 “Broken Things Can Be Mended Anew”

Process here and here

(The WIP name was Link Appleheart)

Alt version below:

FINALLY

finished the whole set

BEHOLD

My collection of LU front cards (in rainbow order 🏳️‍🌈<3)

@littlerit Would you be interested by this, by any chance? 👀

Actually neither pose will make sense until the end of Act 2?

Link: "We are going to go outside, lie in the grass, feel the sunlight on our skin, and then we will realize that everything will be okay despite everything. You wanna come with?"

Retired Assets meme (reference below), no context (yet).

Wait until Act 2 (maybe another 5-6 chapters from now…)

Courtesy mention: @lennsart I will call you whenever there’s a new meme.

Bonus: Retired Assets Ch1-4 as memes

defiance, in the face of the devil

alttp zelda from @cloverscry's suggestion! :]

In celebration of having come a long way, I’m proposing another DTIYS (Draw This In Your Style) event. This design features “Legend” (???) from my first and only long-term project, Retired Assets.

A visual description of this illustration is under the cut. There is no time limit for participating! If you’d like, please check out the absolutely gorgeous responses to my DTIYS 2025 event. The chapter that inspired this work is also linked below. Art process here.

This is the most technically complex stained glass design I’ve done so far. It’s also an adventure to translate the black-and-white paper cut /woodblock print style I’ve been using for this project into a much more kaleidoscopic rendition. I’ve never tried nocturnal effects, so here it is — a first attempt!

The sky is already a bleeding amber when the lake comes into view. The day’s last wash of gold floods the horizon, igniting the layered clouds that drift low and slow like smoke. The lake below is aglow in kind — still, seamless, burning with reflection.

Sky and water, fire and glass.

Two worlds, folded into one.

It’s the knowledge that the day is dying that makes its colors breathtaking. The knowledge that night is coming, that the cold will follow.

And still, it burns.

This is so sweet. We all need a friend to hold on to, whatever form they may take.

He was just learning stuff for a while.