#fanfiction art

A fairy tale of the Witcher and the Prince!

No, there is no story here, only my drawings, sorry to disappoint you. :,)

So I draw our favorite assholes again, and this time in the aesthetics of East Asia. I’ve always wanted to draw something with such elements, but also in a fairy-tale atmosphere. If you are interested in how this illustration was created step by step, you can see it under the cut!

It all started with finding the right reference to the pose. Under this link, you can see the illustration I was inspired by, unfortunately I was not able to find its original source, so please forgive me for the link to pinterest. If you have information about the author of the illustrations, I will be happy if you share this information as I would like to include it here.

I’m obviously not as talented as the author of the original, but I had a lot of fun sketching and adding more elements to the composition.

It turned out that flowers caused a lot of problems, because I wanted a certain symbolism, but unfortunately I don’t know anything about flowers. Kiyan’s flowers were initially supposed to be moon flowers, but it turned out that I cannot express their beauty in the drawing and I also found a new reference to other flowers, so modifying them several times resulted in a kind of hybrid of both.

With flowers for Adrien, I just went to ask someone smarter than me. And so @gavilansblogand@akilah12902gave me the idea to use hibiscus and after our brainstorming it turned out to be the perfect flower for Adrien. And luckily, I was even able to draw it!

Lineart is always tricky to me and always changes the look of the original sketch a bit. The drawing loses its delicacy, the lines sit quite heavy in the drawing, and it always makes me a bit sad. This is obviously a necessary step in coloring, but the realization that the lineart is of lower quality than the original sketch is always frustrating to me.

Coloring is the coolest part as long as you know what colors you want to use. For clothes, I knew - for some reason, right from the start, my default color palette for Kiyan was blue/navy blue and silver, and for Adrien it was black, gold and red. The flowers just had to match this aesthetic. But the background… the background was the problem. Initially, I tried to make it quite bright and neutral, because it seemed to me that this drawing already has so many details, I should not disturb it with an overly expressive background. But the bright background came out flat and boring.

So again I asked people smarter than me who advised me to use a darker green background. And this is how we got the end result.

Thank you for your attention and I hope you have enjoyed the whole process!

Advena

allegedlyanandroid:

New chapter of Metanoia(chapter five) is up! You can read it HERE if you want to, and it will include artwork from my lovely friend @anataarts​ 

Excerpt:
“It is not a question of what is owed.” Nines’ voice is hard as flint, his eyes piercing. “Those you love will wither and die while you remain here, changing so slowly it won’t be noticeable to the naked eye, a life so long it’ll feel like aeons. Your name will be lost to time, erased by it and by the tragedies that befall humans. Every sight you think you know apart from the stars above us will alter with wear, with the elements that wage an endless war upon all. Can you live with all this? The strife that follows peace like a shadow.”

The air, heavy with words spoken, is hard to draw into his lungs. It brings him no relief as the atmosphere descends into ruin, the opposite of their earlier banter, oppressive in the way it inhibits breathing. The circle on Nines’ temple bleeds black, the veins around his eyes stealing the same colour, porcelain skin laden with dark cracks. A twisted mirror of how he’d looked the first time they’d met where sorrow takes the place of rage. Yet the sight fills him not with fear but with determination.

“Hatred can twist even the brightest of souls and those with power, borrowed or their own, are dangerous when corruption takes root in their hearts“

Illustration for “Metanoia” by @allegedlyanandroid

Thank you, my beautiful muse <3<3<3

So, there’s this Fanfiction on the big german Fanfiction archives… an actual Epos.. the first chapter was posted in 2005… and the last update in the third instalment was posted 2018…

I started reading in 2011 and it became one of my favourite ygo fanfictions… it started out as a simple story about Yugi getting sent to the shadow realm by Bakura… and becoming friends with the duel monsters there. In the second story a former side character takes over and.. honestly the world building is some of the best and strongest I’ve ever seen.

Aber those hundreds of thousands of words I feel so comfortable in the world.. it feels like an actual anime.. like an actual book series and my first impulse after reading was to look up fanfictions about it. Which… isn’t possible obviously.

And since I needed to create something for this verse… I drew because I didn’t want to write without permission. I doubt any german ygo fan will see this… but I’ll still post a link…

Anyway, what I’ve tried to draw are the magicians Crimson and Soach… as well as the heart of their castle Lotusblüte, Catherine. But yeah, that was more an excuse to rant and do something productive than anything else.. oh well..,