#art thread

Here is 🧵of the tips I learned, might be helpful for people that want to dabble in character design

Since I deactivated my old DeviantArt account, almost all of my PATBWW art was lost. I found some art of PATBWW that I made on my tablet, so here is all the art! (will place content warnings where they are needed)

Since there's only room for 10 arts per post, more will be in the reblogs!

ART THREAD

I have had the very great pleasure of commissioning some beautiful art to celebrate the release of my new novel Nine-Tenths. I'm going to share them all in this thread (and hopefully add to it if I'm lucky enough to be graced with more) so you can appreciate the talent of these incredible artists.

by Christopher Winkelaar

Nine-Tenths is set in a world where all the nobility in Europe are homo draconis - shape-shifting dragons who have the ability to take human form. Every culture in the world have dragons living among the humans, but the European and Asian nations are the only ones where dragons were historically elevated to the roles of monarchs, nobles, and emperors.

In a world where the American Colonies rejected British rule, this meant they were also rejecting draconic protection--and so while they won their Independence in 1793, they were soundly trounced in the War of 1812, losing all of New England, including New York State, to the British. They were absorbed into the Canadas, except for New York City, which was reclaimed by the Dutch and re-renamed New Amsterdam.

The Canadian colonies expanded west, as they historically did in our world, through a series of broken treaties with the Indigenous peoples of the continent, and the reprehensible colonialist practices which put the settlers in power today. It also means they were able to expand further south, without the Americans to bump up against.

This also meant that the Americans were unable to expand as far south and west as in our world, coming up against Indigenous dragon-protected lands, such as the Oniagara, or Aztec and Incan empires, which grew further north after Spanish contact, and flourished.

Unlike in the current version of Canada, the land was legislatively divided into much smaller provinces than currently exist, each overseen by a hereditary draconic Lieutenant Governor, who report to the draconic Governor of the Canadas, who in turn reports to the House of Lords in England (also dragons). Each province is divided into Duchies, Earldoms, and Marquessates, presided over by a noble dragon family.

As dragons are long-lived, the current Queen of England is Elizabeth (the first one). As she has not yet passed, the Kingdom of Scotland as yet remains separate from England. Ireland too is independent, the Irish dragons having beaten back the English ones. However, Wales remains a satellite colony of England, as the betrayal which brought about it's subjugation and the trickery around the hereditary title "Prince of Wales" still occurred. (This an important plot point).

by @seancefemme

This is the first piece of art I commissioned for the novel, and you'll note it's now become the cover art!

Meet the heroes of our tale: barista and disaster bi Colin Levesque, stuck in the middle of his quarter-life crisis and crushing on his cafe regular, Welsh dragon Dav, the Marquis of Niagara (though of course, Colin doesn't know he's the Marquis, and thinks Dav is just some minor noble with nothing better to do all day than hang out and read).

by @ibrithir-was-here

Colin works at Beanevolence, an indie cafe in downtown St. Catharine's, in the province of Upper Canada (Southern Ontario in our world). It's owned by his bestie Hadi, and he was only supposed to be a barista until he'd graduated. But now he has his Sustainable Tourism degree, and no clue what to do next. He feels completely stuck. Luckily he has Dav to distract him.

Except that one day Dav distracts him too well, which results in a kitchen fire. As an apology for the inferno, and to help the cafe get back on it's feet while the repairs are under way, Dav volunteers as the new bean roaster, creating incredible and (and ultimately social-media viral) coffee roasts with his fire-breath.

by @ibrithir-was-here

Colin and Dav start a flirtation at work.

Which leads to...

by @teejaystumbles

Luxurious dates and late-night smoochies.

by @pinkpiggy93

Which also goes a little bit viral. See, it turns out that the Marquis of Niagara usually keeps a low profile, and his sudden romance with a human has the gossip rags and tabloids all in a tizzy.

But more than that, it puts Dav under the scrutiny of Francis Simcoe. He's the Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, a dragon with a hate-on for Dav, and the perfect ammunition to ruin his happiness.

Because, you see, it's against dragonic rules for dragons to be seen to be laboring in service of humans... and Dav's new gig at Beanevolence is about to--forgive the pun--land him in hot water.

Ivory and Valtiel from baphomimi

Claude "Sir Radish" and Lemon from Ritens

Aspen from Jotzin

TBN from deaddawgz

HELLO HELLO HELLO!!! I will start doing these art dumps whenever I have lots of art I haven't shared. This time, I will share some art I made for my Undertale Yellow Letsplay series!! (Note: This isn't everything I've drawn, mostly just the best of) ((ALSO SPOILERS TO UNDERTALE YELLOW ITSELF)) Who could this be?? This isn't Undertale Yellow!?!? Well...I can't say much at the moment since it pertains to the lore of the letsplay. I was going to make multiple little talk sprites for them, but they were taking too long. I do plan on making a revised design so I might do more talk sprites in the future.

Here are some Miscellaneous sprites for jokes or serious bits. Featuring @rotatingdynamite character!! (The green square). Probably my favorite one of these is the Clover holding the Arizona Tea cause I had like an obsession with Tea during the recording of this series. I no longer drink Arizona tea now. Shame.

GOD OK IM LIKE PROUD HOW MOST OF THESE CAME OUT! Ceroba is one of my favorite characters from UTY and I've wanted to draw her after I originally beat the game. Admittedly I haven't drawn fox's before so drawing the snout in certain directions doesn't...look right. BUT IM GETTING BETTER I SWEAR

Here were some early sketches of Ceroba I drew during Episode 2 development. Little outdated from how I draw her now, but I still love how these came out.

The remaining stuff here I can't..explain since I think it's best I leave you with the intrigue of what they could be. OOoooOOooooOO

THUS ENDS THIS LITTLE ART THREAD!! Thank you if you have made it this far. If you are at all interested, or even want to see what didn't make it into this thread. You can check out the series on my Youtube Channel

I am not really online much anymore as I am going through this or that. But I am trying to keep up with my art thread until Joony comes back if anyone wants to take a peek at that ♥