Roland Latore Speed

hi! 👋

this is my first art post, so please be kind 😅

I'm not an artist, and I'm still learning, but I wanted to try drawing something for my fanfiction series, Demon Blood.

It's about six-year-old Spider after hearing people call him "demon blood." He's too young to understand what it really means. In his mind, if the blood is the problem, then maybe he just needs to get rid of it. Maybe if he spills enough of it, he can be a good boy again.

Maybe then people will love him.

The saddest part of Spider's story to me is the way children take words literally and how a single cruel comment can become something much bigger inside their heads.

I'm still practicing art, anatomy, lighting, and basically everything 😭, but I wanted to create something for a scene that has been living in my brain for a long time.

Grace goes swimming! Rocky is not thrilled.

Eridians cant "hold their breath" like humans do, their vents dont close completly so water can still get in, if they fall in water they drown and die. safe to say rocky is not a fan of when grace does it for fun xD

(i got the inspo for this from this fic: Enrichment by alatarmaia4, please check it out it is so funny)

Decided to design Na'vi!Payakan’s mother because *angst*.

I named her Rut'ani. D:

Someone mentioned this in asks but I love the idea that the Na'vi!Tulkun are tall. If regular Na'vi are 9-10 feet(thats in the Avatar Guide) then in this au Na'vi!Tulkun are 11-13 feet.

i read then watched project hail mary and i really like it.

I'm sorry I'm terribly too busy to make new fanart for my favourite. It's time will come. I just have too much I'm doing right now to justify time away too much for that. Here's me reposting what I've done before, though! :-)

Titanic (1997) dir. James Cameron

* New student, very small. Grace said it was pebble. Pebble is small Earth rock. Pebble likes name.

* He found out Eridians have no gender rules.

* Students brought him mineral sample. After he stopped crying he said he loves show-and-tell game. Human naming conventions oddly literal.

* I told him Earthsun grew bright.

* I took him up atop atmosphere bypass elevator to look at stars.

* He woke up from nap and found me still with him. I did not wait on his chest; he says I am heavy like “elephant” and he “couldn’t breathe.” I laid my arm over him instead, kept him close, feeling safe. He said “cuddle” was warm.

* Before class he heard younglings singing.

* He has plants in house from sprouts on ship. Plant grew “bud.”

* Engineers got seawater temperature right. He took off shoes and stood in water, sighing. He didn’t care about pants getting damp. Cried until shirt was also damp. Humans very endlessly wet.

* He missed “Doritos.”

* Adrian helped food scientists make taumoeba dried paste. Made it crunchy after heating. We fused it into triangle form. Told him it was Tauritos. That made him laugh-cry. Laugh-cry is rare and precious.

* He remembered Eridians have no gender rules.

* We made him celebration outfit. Used metals he calls pretty. He can see frequencies named “colorful” and “shiny.” These make humans happiest.

* I gave him hug when he wasn’t expecting it. Easier to hug close now with exosuit. Hug when Grace sitting down so he does not fall over.