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.)

WELP THIS IS KIND OF ANNOYING.

Yeah, so moved the blog over to a new email and, SURPRISE, looks like all the images I had on this blog has now vanished to the oblivion that is the internet along with all my favorited Blogger sites.

Oh, maaaan. Replacing the bits will be a doozy. And a little bit painful.

So sorry about that, folks. Things will hopefully go back to normal on the next update.