3/16/2024. No pencil underdrawings. Platinum Preppy fountain pen, using Noodler's Ink. Colored with Copic markers and ShinHan Art Touch markers. Clean up with white-out and digitally in Krita.

Well, if holding a European broadsword by the blade is as common a fighting technique, as this video explains, then it's possible that the Knights were all given gloves that could cancel or were impervious to the "laser" part of their swords. It would be reasonable to issue every Knight, specially protective gloves as part of their standard equipment. That way, the Institute wouldn't have to limit the types of sword-fighting styles that they could be taught.

Goldenheart Week 2024 prompts at https://www.tumblr.com/goldenheart-week/749067591128072192/goldenheart-week-2024-prompts Day 1 (6/27/2024) prompts: "Firsts", "Memory", and "Common Ballister AU".

I chose "Firsts". In this case, the first time Ambrosius came to visit Ballister, after Nimona blew up the Director, the wall, and herself.

For a while, I headcanoned that despite Ballister accepting Ambrosius's comforts at the moment he realized Nimona would not be coming back, Ballister still didn't fully accept Ambrosius back as his boyfriend. It would take some time, before Ballister would want to give Ambrosius, the second chance and forgiveness, that Ballister wished for himself with Nimona.

6/28/2024. Pencil underdrawings. Inked with Stabilo Point 88 pens, Copic Multiliner 0.35, Zig Clean Color Real Brush 054, and Copic Gasenfude. Colored with Copic markers and a ShinHan Art Touch marker. Text bubbles and background made in Krita. Ambrosius's dialogue used Candara font. Ballister's dialogue used Bahnschrift SemiLight font. I don't usually, hand-draw my bubble tails, since I can't digitally draw well with a stylus, but I wanted them frayed and unsteady to convey their fragile mental states.

2/19/2024. Drawn with Platinum Preppy fountain pen, using Noodler's Ink. No pencil underdrawing. Colored with Copic markers and Stabilo 88 pen. Corrections made digitally with Krita.