#aaf art

drawing

Kaelía, Zhe'ārani, Līs, and Qatriong together after the Temple

[ID: a drawing of four older teenagers standing together.

Kaelía has medium golden-brown skin with a purple buzzcut. It has a burn scar on the side of its face and brown eyes. She is wearing a loose, long-sleeved tunic and loose pants.

Līs has medium golden-brown skin and coily blue hair. They have a thin scar on their cheek and brown eyes. They are wearing a long, loose dress.

Zhe'ārani has dark brown skin with vitiligo and is much shorter than the others. She has brown wings and short thick blue hair. She has brown eyes and small green horns that are almost hidden by her hair. She is wearing a purple dress made of a single long piece of fabric wrapped diagonally around her body and tied behind her neck, giving space for her wings.

Qatriong has light golden-brown skin and short green hair. She has brown eyes and glasses. He is also wearing a long, loose dress.

They all have indistinct black tattoos on their hands.

/end ID]

Notes:

Kind of a sad drawing because this scenario, all four of them together after leaving the Temple, can never happen.

Everyone's hair is growing out a little from the uniform haircut except Kaelía's because she likes hers that way.

I changed the shape of Zhe'ārani's nose to better match the common features of someone with achondroplasia, since people with achondroplasia often have a button nose. (This does mean it doesn't match Rovian's anymore.) I also changed her eye colour; they now turn ice blue for magical purposes and the eyes of the person her magic is acting on mirror that, and the rest of the time they are dark brown like her dad's (and Rovian's, and most Gharans').

Zhe'ārani's vitiligo patches are a little bigger in this drawing because some time has passed and they sometimes grow over time.

Zhe'ārani is wearing Gharan summer clothes, which are one piece of fabric that leaves a lot of skin bare; the others are wearing Rāmiq summer clothes, which are long and loose and don't leave a lot of skin bare. Different ways of dealing with the heat and sun. Zhe'ārani needs to wear a lot of sunblock because her patches are very susceptible to sunburn but she still prefers this style because it gives her wings space to breathe and doesn't trigger her sensory sensitivities (she is also the only one with bare feet, also for sensory reasons; conversely, for Līs, stepping on Things and getting Things on their feet is really unpleasant sensorially so they always wear socks and shoes).

ALT VERSIONS (just different Brightness & Contrast)

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Oh Andy's apple farm? Yeah of course I do! It was one of the first things I posted when I decided to show off my art.If you just search the Andy's Apple farm tag while on my blog, my old stuff will come up.I even made an au called Sanity!Au back then.

[ID: a pencil crayon drawing titled “Observing.” In it, Guodei is sitting in a window seat and lifting a mug to her mouth. She is a young woman with light golden-brown skin, short blue hair, and sharp silver claws. She has a prosthetic leg, scars on her arms and face, and indistinct tattoos on her hands. The lid of the cup, which has a straw attached to it, is sitting on the cushion next to her. /end ID]

Artist’s notes:

The cup is built with a straw but she doesn’t like straws so she took the lid off.

Set a few months after leaving the Temple.

Not totally sure about the shape of her nose; I’m not certain it’s consistent with the other drawing I did of her but I was sort of trying things out and tbh I think that because I’d been thinking about a different drawing I might do with Rovian who’s nose IS that shape and how I wanted to go about it slightly differently than usual I might have gotten a little mixed up. It’s not too far off what I think the shape of Guodei’s nose is but the bridge might look a little different? Not a big deal but I thought I’d point it out in case it’s inconsistent with other drawings (past or future). I did put the edges of the nostrils in this time which is what I was trying out and I think I’m satisfied.

I didn’t outline the scars in marker this time! I think that’s much better and more how real scars look.

Wearing her flower shirt, of course.

Trying out putting some more effort into shading and I think it paid off in some places and didn’t come across as well in others. This is good information for the future.

Gave her a hitchhiker’s thumb like me.

She’s so awkward and doesn’t really want to make friends, but she’s really starting to get used to being around other people and she’s interested in how “normal” people interact with each other, so she comes to the food hall a lot.

(warning for blood)

[ID: a drawing of Guodei, a young woman with golden brown skin and a buzzcut, kneeling with an exhausted/miserable posture. She is wearing dark blue robes and leggings and heavy black boots. There is a sword lying on the ground in front of her with the partial reflection of another, younger girl who looks a lot like her. There is blood on the sword and on the soles of her boots, and bloody footprints behind her. There are metal claws on her fingertips. /end ID]

Artist’s notes:

new sketchbook (made by me! In art class ages ago but I didn’t fill up my old one until now). This paper is so nice :)

redraw of this, which I drew for the transfember event last fall

just noticed that I forgot the red collar on her robes… FUCK. Imagine it for me okay

getting better at drawing people in poses other than “standing up facing directly forwards”. Now she can look properly miserable. Yay

sorry about the saturation. The photo actually came out pretty good this time until I put it through Glaze. I feel like it’s still better than last time though

[ID: a drawing of Maaziariitna, a Black teenager with dark brown skin and dark curly hair. Ffer hair has colourful streaks in it. Ffe has a prosthetic leg that uses ffer rotated foot as a knee. Ffe has pink glasses and several piercings. Ffer skin is covered in short, fine silver hair. Ffer lips and nails are painted dark blue. Ffe has one dark brown eye and one yellow-green eye. Ffe has scaly reddish plaques inside ffer elbows. /end ID]

Artist’s notes:

The main change here from the other recent drawing is ffer hair, but I also changed a couple other things with how I coloured it in that I felt didn’t really work with the other one. (I also changed ffer outfit somewhat just to keep things interesting for me.)

Maaziariitna’s pronouns are ffe/ffer/ffes and åddå/åddår/åddås, reflecting ffer Sarkja genders of fire and earth. Sarkja genders are based in their elemental system.

Maaziariitna often wears ffer hair in microbraids but not always and when I tried to draw the braids last time it went terribly, so. In this drawing ffe has ffer hair loose except for the bandana.

(The following are copied from the previous drawing since I like this one better and it’s more final:) Maaziariitna used to have blue skin but the situation as of right now is that ffe has fluorescent patterns on ffer skin that glow blue under UV light.

Maaziariitna had a rotationplasty when ffe was younger, which is a surgery where they remove your knee and reattach part of the bottom of your leg backwards to your thigh so that the backwards foot can later be used as a knee with a prosthetic leg.

Yes, ffe is wearing ffer stays as outerwear. It’s summer and it’s way too hot to put on a second shirt and ffe’s obviously not going to put the stays on ffer bare skin. They are purple instead of a neutral grey/white/beige or pale pastel or nude brown tone for the exact purpose of people sometimes seeing them because ffe does this most days in the summer.

PRESENTING

Princess Seitlēn Kēya Sulūbao-Rian of the Rāmian Empire!

[ID: a pencil crayon drawing of Sei. She is a slim older teen with bronze skin and very curly teal hair. She is wearing a gold tiara, silver glasses and earrings, long purple gloves, and an orange rubber necklace. She has a long face with big ears, and she has scarification on her forehead shaped like a partial sun. She is using a pink gait trainer and an AAC tablet. Her big smile is outlined in purple lipstick and her layered, embroidered dress has a slit in the middle of the skirts. Her dark brown eyes point inwards. /end ID]

This is circa Empires Always Fall, since she marries Yna at the start of The Fractures That Follow and married Feka wear headscarves.

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