I don't even know anymore

So FE:A is slowly taking over my life. Again. (I say that like it's a bad thing or something, haha.)

So my usual daily wool-gathering got me stuck on the idea of Chrom having a ponytail after the hot mess that is Gangrel because who has time to get a hair trim, eh? Eh? I thought it would probably look cute on the royal dude with all his hair floof so I had to draw it out and see how it would seem.

tl;dr: I think too long about these things.

As for the drawing aspect, I am still side-eyeing that muscular arm in anatomical suspicion, but too tired to really care much about checking it with some muscle guides or something. I'm unsurprisingly a little burnt out from finishing each piece so far this week in one day, so now I guess I'm going to go on some longer term projects.

Hint: it's a fan comic (oh god, what is my life now).

So much pink….

So this was a fun, indulgent thing to draw.

It was fun doing the blur since I never get to use that, but I'm fairly sure I some anatomy stuff wrong. Haha, OH WELL. Also, it was surprisingly difficult to just let go and color in something simple. I'm so used to giving in full-color pieces that doing anything less makes me instinctively barf out something overdone. Hahaha. I had to delete three colored layers in PS to force myself to cut down the complicated stuff.

But yeah, there you go, fluffy Fire Emblem: Awakening fanart stuff because I am a closet romantic.

More fanart!

Haha, it's surprisingly difficult to keep up with all the small little details in the FE:A clothes, especially in the fashion disaster Chrom is and the little gold/purple detailing on the Tactician clothing. But at least I now know what not to forget and what to keep in mind next time for more fanart. I love these guys, I really do.

So yeah, I thought it was interesting and pretty darn cute that in the height comparisons for the barracks convos, Aisa could essentially be the shortest person in the royal blue-haired family and just lining her up like this makes me deliriously happy. Hahaha, she's so tiny!!! She can pretty much be swung around by her entire family, though she might not appreciate that so much.

I also thought this was going to be easy to draw off and post, but NOPE, forgot to consider the amount of people I was drawing in this group pic and the different colors and shading and ugh. So, yeah, once again I underestimated the time and it took a bit to finish this tiny thing. Still, I like how it came out, though I didn't do anything especially adventurous in my coloring.

THIS WAS ONLY SUPPOSED TO BE A QUICK DOODLE.

More fanart for Fire Emblem: Awakening. It's basically Atra literally twacking her love interest Lon'qu with inside jokes like the little brat she is. She really shouldn't be married. Or have a kid.

This took…longer than I expected to finish. I'm tired. *lies down forever*

(By the way, I…I hope those plants look like figs. Hahahaaaaa….)

Fire Emblem: Awakening! And another thing.

Haha, I'm finally getting around to posting fanart for Fire Emblem: Awakening. I pretty much played it for the story rather than the gameplay (thus remaining safely in Normal Casual) and just fudging around with conversations and appearances. STILL, it was really fun to play and I love everyone in this game. They're all so unexpectedly weird and the music is so wonderful and there's so much content and awwwwwugh it's a good game!

These two were my first characters. I played Atra first and had utterly no idea what I was doing until midway into the story while Aisa was the second play through, thus making me do the whole marriage chart shebang to get the best breed of kid for my Galeforce child army. 

Oh, Fire Emblem and your moral ambiguities….

On more relevant things, I tried out Kyle T Webster's brush set (I…I think?) for some pressure heavy lineart. Unfortunately I don't quite have a steady hand so I have to work more on that and being more sparse on making such lines. It was still very pretty to use, though.

This was a quick doodle to test out if my computer was all right again. This was a song prompt from Sleeping At Last by Saturn. Haha, not much else to say on this.

Aaaaand, I think that's it for today!

EYYYYY NEW BACKGROUND!

So this was simultaneously exhausting and fun to do. It didn't come out as seamless and I had wanted it (it's a bit top heavy with both the cat and the crow designs), but I'm pretty happy how it comes together as a wallpaper.

So the top represents an old alter-ego that my online name comes from--Rikaneko. It was a weird sort of sphinx thing, but I'm fond of the creature nevertheless. The creature is also a bit devilish so I put her on top of some thorns and a rose motif.

The bottom is my second favorite creature which is a raven. My favorite flora is also Lily of the Valley, so I combined the two to make the second part of the background. 

Now, here's the actual wallpaper thing that you're currently seeing. I inverted the wallpaper at one point by mistake and I ended up really liking how it looked it so maybe when my eyes get tired of looking at this color scheme, I'll change it to the first image below.

I also changed my icons according to what sites' I was replacing. The first was tumblr while the other was for any site that had the new background.

SO YEAH. WOO! GO INSOMNIA!

EYYYYY! Look who's back and…sort of rolling around.

So yeah, the lovely oxboxer started this call out to people on tumblr to create their own pokémon champion and it ended up being a pretty cool thing with all sort of designs that other artists came up with.

Since there's usually two sets of drawings for this (one being the passive and the other being the action), I finished up the sketches of both until my computer decided to quit on me. Sooo, after a bit, haha, I managed to finish up the first one while the second one still has to come along in a bit.

So yeah, Aegislash + knight + Wikstrom = CHAMPION RIKA, CAPTAIN OF THE ROYAL GUARD (which is kinda pointless since there’s no king or anything). Also as CHAMPION she is obligated to be a jerk and force challengers to go on quests before being able to face her in battle.

(Don’t worry--she says to get the Holy Helix Fossil, but any shiny rock will do.)

But yeah, I really like armor and Aegislash is so freakin' awesome so this popped up. Sketched a bunch of designs until I settled with the idea of European medieval armor compared to my initial decisions on samurai armor. Thought it would fit Aegislash a bit better on the former.

I also didn't want my self-insert to look like a gijinka (a humanized form to a not-so-humanized creature) so I thought that besides the era and color scheme, I would try not to follow too much on Aegislash's design to allow the usual Poké Champion individuality. As for the pose, I kind of wanted to make CHAMPION RIKA the sort of cliché cool chick that's always prepared to defend honor (with pointy sticks) and be really dramatic with her cape (which you'll see in part two). 

Not sure how well I succeeded overall, but I'm happy with the end result regardless. 

(I considered using the Shiny Aegislash color scheme, but considering my Champion's role in serving nonexistent royalty, I thought the purple and gold would fit better than the more malevolent black, red, and gold combo.) 

So yeah, gotta work on the second action thing. MEANWHILE, CHECK OUT OTHER AWESOME PEOPLE WITH THEIR CHAMPIONSONAS. (And you should totally try it out, too; the more the merrier.)