#my ref

Totally normal nothing weird at all happening small ref for Vio. In his 20s, he cast aside his job as a knight once it became clear he and the others couldn't recombine.

Unfortunately, too many people saw him with Shadow when they went to torment human villages, and word got around fast. Despite Zelda's best efforts to clear Vio's name, his image and reputation was smudged. He couldn't be trusted due to his "whatever means necessary" way of working.

He became her advisor, which people who distrust him assume was her way of keeping an eye on him, but he also puts together tactics for the guards and royal knights. He also researches dark magic under Zelda's permission, but due to experiments, his body changed somewhat. He has small fangs, and mild light sensitivity. Zelda believed in him, and in Shadow. And she allowed Vio to search for a way to give Shadow another chance at life.

Really quickly roughed this out for you but i have to say i actually consider ears to be a serious weakpoint of mine so this isnt really a reference so much as things i keep in mind — i basically have to adjust them every time i draw anything to get a feel for them! Ears are a part of a character’s design so i adjust pointiness and shape to match the character’s vibe.

I feel like the biggest pet peeve i have is that people forget perspective is a thing! Ears are aligned to the brow ridge and where the nose connects to the upper lip, yes, but a character facing any direction other than profile’s ears will recede in perspective and appear to align more with like, the cheekbone or the eye, depending.

Last note is when i say “suggest don’t tell” that’s really advice for anything — sometimes suggesting a structure is more important than getting it exactly right. It’s also jarring for a viewer to see one hyper detailed area of focus when the rest of the image doesnt have that and it’s not on purpose — is the ear more detailed because the artist wants you to notice it, the character is listening hard, etc? Or is it detailed because the artist was unconfident about which details to include and unintentionally gave a tell as to a weak area of their work? I feel like i can always tell when an artist used an Abnormal Amount of Reference for a spot of a drawing because they lacked confidence, correctly went to get reference, but then failed to pare down the detail to match the image. Ears can be a tell for me in my work anyway. And people facing away from the camera.

Hopefully this helps but i really dont know how to draw ears well i feel really unconfident about them lmfao.

Here's just a little post compiling how I will be using the Quaternary Language, if I ever actually put it into a fic.

A friend found a straight text-to-quaternary (or any other base) converter for me, and another friend pointed me to a site where I can actually generate sounds using this knowledge so! There's also a sound byte attached to this post of Zorah introducing itself. I have given the space robot a voice :)

More lore on how all this works to come.

Uppercase and lowercase letters all have different codes the converter IS case-specific, too!; I am using all lowercase because I do not think they would have different cases for letters!

I also do not have them using spaces or punctuation (individuals already have to read words out letter by letter, spaces would take too long imo) so everything said is formatted as such: iamsayingsomething

a - 1201 b - 1202 c - 1203 d - 1210 e - 1211 f - 1212 g - 1213 h - 1220 i - 1221 j - 1222 k - 1223 l - 1230 m - 1231 n - 1232 o - 1233 p - 1300 q - 1301 r - 1302 s - 1303 t - 1310 u - 1311 v - 1312 w - 1313 x - 1320 y - 1321 z - 1322 [space] - 0200 . - 0232 ? - 0333 ! - 0201 < - 0330 > - 0332 / - 0233

Sites I used for this:

Text to Binary x Binary to Quaternary

Text to Quaternary (or any base)

BeepBox

Ranger, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard, Paladin, Fighter

Dnd classes I haven’t played but want to:

Cleric, Barbarian, Rogue, Blood Hunter, Bard

Dnd classes I’m not interested in playing (sorry):

Monk, Druid, Artificer

Liked: Wizard, Paladin, Warlock, Fighter

-geno 2011 knee injury timeline

-sid’s 2011 concussion timeline

Yup! Here is my main one! I just finished it!

Reblogging is greater than likes! Please don't steal my art and repost it, and please don't trace, I worked very hard on this ;w;

Feel free to use! I can't wait to see if anyone makes fan art!