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!
Did a Geralt and Yen fusion! Not a big fan of the design so I might have to revisit it at some point. But like. Aesthetic very cool. Also would probably take up the name Raven (after the Griffin Witcher who had the raven’s armour).
Guess who committed some fandom war crimes and made character fusions! *slaps table* ITS ME.
So uh this is a Geralt and Dandelion fusion. (Dubbed Jerral because that’s an actual name! It means strong and open minded which honestly fits.) Kind of got an emo bard aesthetic. The more you progress the more beta the design gets lol.
So I guess this is the Witcher Froston-equivalent. If you guys have better name suggestions feel free to smack ‘em in the comments
A little Witcher fan sketch. So glad we got a second season of this. Though I went with Geralt and long-suffering Roach because of their dramatic profiles, it’s Yennefer and Jaskier’s frenemy banter that I’m really here for.
It’s a little inspired by @lankygeralt ‘s wip Sugar Crush but I def don’t do it justice. I’d love to do more art for it in the future tho so think of this rather as a modern Witcher Au ;)
Def go and read Sugar crush!! Absolutely amazing piece of work and I can’t wait to see how it goes!!
and yes, I will never get over how we were robbed of even this small bonnet “cuz it looks sily” *internal screaming*, at least in season two he has a feathery hat , even if only for a short while :””D
ID under the cut:
[ ID start: realistic but sketchy pencil and watercolor study of Jaskier from the Witcher Netflix, he is shown from mid tigh up, he is a lighskinned young man with short brwon hair, he is wearing a small black bonnet hat with a black ostrich feather and some white skinny feathers, he is wearing a blue doublet (tudor era jacket) with red and yellow accents with matching blue pants, his expression is calm , End ID]
Been playing the first witcher game and it’s so good! (despite me being absolutely frustrated with the mechanics at first). How the Witcher 3 doesnt have the hairstyle from the first 2 games boggles my mind :(
Ciri (to Geralt) : “You never gave me piggyback rides at Kaer Morhen. Vesemir was the only one willing.”
Ciri was sitting on the bearskin with Coën, tucked away in the far corner of the hall, and both were busy playing a hand-slapping game…. (Vesemir) fell silent and looked at Ciri, who with a joyful glee, acknowledged she had the upper hand in the game. Triss spied a small smile on Coën’s face and was sure he had allowed her to win - Andrzej Sapkowski (1994), Blood of Elves
I honestly adore the parts where young Ciri were training, playing or interecting with the witchers in Kaer Morhen. It is so adorablee
