The Spooky Fae Lady

3 Hades style inspired portraits for my three "main" characters (Their Steampunk versions to be exact) I did recently. I in fact finished Avane's today! Ava & Angus are close friends/ work partners for this story, and Alistair is their...slightly unhinged but powerful and influential benefactor/weapons engineer. Also Ava's honorary uncle.

Here's a comic about one of my main characters Angus and his love interest Vincent, who struggles with his self esteem and identity. There's a very specific meaning to everything (explained below) but honestly, I feel like this can be taken as kind of symbolic as well I suppose? About all the ways people sometimes feel/are made to feel like they were somehow born "wrong" so to speak. Feels appropiate for this month as theme I think(?)

The Lore explanation:

And tomorrow will be sunny, she said.

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Coupla pieces about one of my mc (Alistair)'s father, Harrow. He's a Soul eater like his son, but where his son's theme is spider (inherited from his mother who is a Japanese spiderwoman), his is water horse (inspired by Each-Uisge from Scottish/irish folklore)

i think i found my new favorite artist on twitter

I've been on bit of an animation practice kick lately, where I basically take already finished art and add some animated effects on top. (minus the last one, that is animated from scratch) I decided I'd want to share these here too:

Characters featured:

Avane (Spooky town version)

Angus (the OG Angus)

Shaell (He's the same in both stories he's in largely lol)

Alistair/Jurou (the latest Steampunk version)

Some style practice doodles of my my two main ladies Avane and Iris (Iris on the left has kinda become the "main" character for Ruska) and random one about my cat sith Cecil. (not my only cat boy, but favorite)

I really liked how Avane turned out in the Tangle Tower style, so I decided to make more of a full look version of her (with her actual palette, and shading and more detailed highlights to lean more into my own style a bit) as her outfit does often include a hat and that very story relevant talisman. The coat was to finish the look as it is not strictly attached to this outfit, she wears it over her other ones too!

Making this also made me realize there might be a color setting issue with my set up, as I realized the hues shift lightly when I save images as PNG which is annoying, as it ended up affecting only the most important colors with her....her skintone, reds and greens.

Honestly this game's design vibe fits her given in her own story she is sort of a detective too, (officially antique/magic artifact shop clerk) just trying to solve a more magical mystery that threatens her hometown instead of a murder investigation.

Here's her actual refs, I actually revamped them recently but had forgotten to post them here: (the skull masked figure is her BF in his Grimmhound form, he usually looks human)

Another story comic; my plan is to make a lot of these this summer to expand/explore my main setting and story, and to just learn to be more patient with my art.