(Sorry for the reshare, I was trying to unshare a picture of my burnt grilled cheese and I accidentally clicked “unshare” on this one :’>) dtae... ╒═══════════════ •●• ═══════════════╕ “Nothing much matters when you’ve lost everything.” Her blue eyes glinted with what might have been tears, but she blinked them away as quickly as she noticed them accumulating, telling herself she wasn’t upset. Wasn’t scared. Wasn’t angry. Wasn’t feeling like her world had been flipped upside-down, and would never go right-side up again. Getting emotional would just make /it/ restless, so she did her best to bury her emotions. Pretending they didn’t exist. Had never even existed in the first place. It wouldn’t do to dwell on the past. Only the future mattered. There was no point in looking behind her. She just needed to focus on the road ahead. That was what she’d always been told. Just keep moving forward. Until your road ends... ╘═══════════════ •●• ═══════════════╛ (Small disclaimer! The short story thingies mention an /it/, and that will be explained in the backstory, jsyk ^^) Tap/space/arrow keys (the image quality’s kinda funky, sorry ;-;) ──────────────────────── 1.) I tried and kind of failed to draw a background :’) (not as big a fail as the next one, though xD) I decided that elesin usually live on cliffs/in mountains, at high altitudes, so that’s what this is supposed to be. (I also used a fun grain effect!) 2.) My least favorite. I didn’t use a reference for this, so the anatomy is probably really funky, haha. I didn’t flip the canvas, and I’m sure if I did, it would be horrendous, lol. I completely failed the background xD I blurred it out to make it look better, but I couldn’t blur it too much or you couldn’t tell it was supposed to be a road and little houses so it looks icky :’) And I wonder what she’s blushing about.. hehe (also, more grain affect) 3.) OKAY OKAY I KNOW THE ANATOMY OF THIS HAND IS HORRIBLE- I drew this at 2 in the morning, so my brain wasn’t completely functioning properly. I think the dagger is decent, though. I mostly just drew it because I wanted to draw her with a ✨weapon✨ 4.) Now THIS I’m proud of :D Probably one of my favorite pieces I’ve ever made. I actually used a reference, which helped a lot, as always, and the background looks decent! :0 I also had a lot of fun playing with overlays and stuff xD 5.) The traditional sketch for 2. I drew this in my French class, lol. 6.) Traditional sketch for 1. It took forever to get the anatomy right, even with a reference :’) And then the sock thingies were refusing to cooperate, so I yelled at them until they did >:) ╒═══════════════ •●• ═══════════════╕ She could feel it. Pulsing under her skin, the steady rhythm of the rise and fall of sheer power. Coursing through her veins, like adrenaline taken to the next level. It was always there, always part of her, but today it was more turbulent. More wild. More uncontrollable. Its mood tended to reflect her own, and right now she was angry. Boiling mad, you could say, even, though she wasn’t quite sure why. The power tended to blind her when it was like this, filling up her mind until she could hardly think straight. ╘═══════════════ •●• ═══════════════╛ Name - Arden (meaning: “valley of the eagle”) Pronouns - she/her (though she’s also fine with they/them) Sexuality - grayromantic heteroflexible Age - 2.5 in elesin years. In her early 20’s in human years. Height: 6’1” Backstory: see notes and credits (too long to fit in this box xD) ──────────────────────── I managed to pull this together in 24 hours, while still having school and going over to my friend’s house for one afternoon + evening afterward :’) I love this character so much, and I hope I get to keep her! Her design and outfit and color scheme are all so amazing! I’ve got some plans for if I do win her B) And please keep in mind that I wrote this description while functioning off 4 hours of sleep, so there may or may not be a lot of typos, lol. Credits: Art + short stories by me. Design by DTA hosted by ╒═══════════════ •●• ═══════════════╕ “When you’ve lost everything... you have nothing left to lose.” ╘═══════════════ •●• ═══════════════╛
Okay, you’re probably wondering what this /it/ is that I keep mentioning, so here’s your explanation :) ──────────────────────── Backstory: There’s magic woven all throughout the world. Everyone knows that. It sits in the branches of trees, swims through the water of rivers, burrows down through the earth. Some of the magic, for some undiscovered reason, split off from the rest and fused itself with Arden when she was very young. It wove itself through her body and spirit, and now is permanently a part of her. It’s always been unpredictable, its moods spiking and mellowing along with Arden’s. When it’s agitated, it lashes out, often with destructive results. She’d always been in enough control that no one got especially hurt, until one day. She was heading back after being away from home for a while. Something happened when she got back (not sure what yet, still need to flesh this part out), and upset the magic. Arden ended up accidentally killing her family, thanks to the magic. She was, and is, horrified at what she did, even though it wasn’t entirely her fault (but good luck telling her that). She ran away, away from her home, away from everyone she knew. She didn’t want to end up hurting them too. She came to a kinda sketchy town (lol). It was filled to the brim with what seemed to be an assortment of people from all around the world. She decided to try to make herself a life there, it seemed like she would fit in. Dangerous, unpredictable, just like everyone else. Fast forward about 6 months and she’s become a sort of a bounty hunter + assassin, finding that her magic comes in useful for those tasks. She isn’t particularly happy with this, but it gets her money, so it works. She tries to just focus on moving forward, trying to train herself to bury any emotions, trying to gain more control over the magic. And that’s all I have, but I’m planning for her to become a bit of an antagonist, hehe >:)
