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errezurera.bsky.social
💫 Commission for @nanometres.bsky.social ✨
A commission of Ayesha Altugle: a girl with long blond hair holding a bouquet of colorful flowers. She’s smiling and wearing a greenish/ yellow dress, gloves, a small flowered hat and platform shoes
November 17, 2025 at 11:52 AM
atelierasther.bsky.social
I wrote a journal entry about my frustrations with my sketch from yesterday.

I transcribed the pages into the alt text in case my writing is too messy for you to read.

300 characters for a post, and 2000 characters for each alt text was a hella wild decision.
Nov. 12 - 2025 I had written, or rather typed up a post on blue sky about why I had gotten so bummed out about my Corrin sketch yesterday. But as I was sitting on the couch typing it out, I thought it would be more fun to write about it in my journal that I've barely used and then post the results. So I got up and went out to a cafe to write this journal to have less distractions surrounding me. Also a funb chance to use one of my fountain pens for a bit of writing. I'll gas up my vehicle afterwards so I won't have to do it later. Back to the focus of this journal entry. I had decided to draw a sketch og my avatar unit from Fire Emblem Fates, I named her Merlin after my FFXIV character. (A sketch of my FFXIV and the my Avatar unit respectfully). For the sketch, I decided to draw her in a very old moleskin sketch journal I had laying around. I must have had this thing for over ten years. It's got some hella old sketches from back then, but otherwise it's hardly used. I laid out the rough sketch with a coloured mechanical pencil. Specifically it's my really old Pentel Graphgear 500, loaded with blue pentel enocolor lead. Normally it's loaded with Pink or Light Blue, the regular blue was the container I happened to find (at the time). After I was happy with the rough sketch, I started the line art using a dual tipped, 2 colour brush pen. I don't remember the name of the pen, but the brand is Tombrow. (It's labelled as a calligraphy pen, but the specific name is in japanese, so I still couldn't tell exactly what it is.) The brush tips are fairly stiff, so it took a little practice to better be able to vary the width of my pen strokes. One side has a black, the other side has a cool grey ink. The black ink leaves a fairly consistent line, only streaking when you try to put more into a longer stroke. The grey ink has problems with streaking no matter what you do. So I've only sort of been able to add shading details with it. So I finished the lineart and was really happy with it and was considering being finished with the sketch there. But I decided to colour it since I thought I should give my markers a spin more often. Since it was just a quick sketch, I thought it might be fun to try out some older, different markers I had laying around. These were a set of Prisma Color Markers, and a small set of winsor newton pigment markers. And then also copic markers since I have a good selection of skin tones. Before I go further, I'll mention that I cleaned up the rough pencil layer using a faber castell kneadable eraser, and a _ - Kokuya Resare Plastic Eraser, Black Premium type. The Kokuya eraser is extremely good, I highly recommend them. Just get a regular kneadable eraser, it doesn't need to be from a big brand like faber castell. Back to colouring the sketch. One other thing I was looking to see was how the brush pen ink held up to being coloured over. To my delight, it held up wonderfully. The performance might be different on a different type of paper however. I suppose I'll have to find out. Started the colouring process with (the) skin, using copics. I've been using copics since high school, so I approached colouring the skin with confidence, layering and using different tones. I was pleased with how the skin turned out. The I started on the hair and switched to suing the prisma color markers. I bought these on a whim a long time ago thinking it would be fun to give a different brand of makers a try. Prisma makes execellent coloured pencils, so that was a factor in choosing them. I was disappointed with how they weren't, or didn't work similarly to copics. I got frustrated with them easily and put them away, telling myself I'd give them another chance when I was more skilled. Now that I am more skilled, I can better articulate why I don't like them, especially after using them yesterday. It's mostly due to how strong the markers lay on the pigment when compared to copics. It's not quite possible to layer and blend the prisma colour markers the way you can with copics. The colours are vibrant enough that you have to plan out exactly... ... where each stroke of the marker goes. Not only that, but the markers dual tipped as well with a thin tip and a broad chisel tip. The amount of ink and pigment each tip applies is a stroke is different, which varies how the colour appears on the paper. It feel difficult to express subtle colours and details with the prisma markers, almost as if the markers are screaming to be heard. The eyes and cape were also coloured with the prismas, I used the chisel tip on the cape and it felt like colouring with a scratchy butter knife. (specifically with how the chisel tip applied the ink and pigment) At least the prisma markers flowed nicely across the paper. Then I switch to try out the winsor newton pigment markers to colour the armor. These markers I purchased even more long ago than the prismas. I came across them at the (local) art store back then when they first came out. They were the shiny new product put out on display, and I wanted to try them out badly. So I bought a set and tried them out fast. They sucked. How you see the result of the armor is how they performed out of the packaging all those years ago. It also feels like gritty sand paper when gliding across the paper, back then and yesterday too. It is hella streaky, intuitive to use. They were discontinued a long time ago. Yesterday's sketch was an exercise telling (me) to stick with the tools I invested in, and to do more research before I buy into a new set of tools. Thanks for reading. I feel a little better now.
November 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
atelierasther.bsky.social
I've been playing FE Fates lately and decided to sketch my avatar unit.

Gave her some eye bags because you go through some stuff in this game.

I really liked this sketch, but I got really bummed out when I decided to try using some markers I bought a long time ago and the colouring got all botched
November 12, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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oneemasan.bsky.social
back to drawing atelier girls i've been wanting to draw ayesha again ever since i started playing redwhite #atelier
November 4, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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kakiaoi.bsky.social
エスカ&ロジーのアトリエ ルシル・エルネラちゃん いつもバイタルチェックしてくれてありがとう…💊
November 1, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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hollowbel.bsky.social
atelier shallie ayesha in the stupid otaku bonus outfit
ayesha from atelier shallie embarrassedly wearing the "administrator suit" from that game.
October 18, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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qmmparabellum.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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meekashee.bsky.social
Happy Birthday Escha!!
I had a lot of fun with this, even though her sleeves killed me, I do wish the background was better but I couldn't find a full ref of their atelier so, welp. Anyway, enjoy~.

#EschaMalier #AtelierEschaandLogy #fanart #fandom #digitalart
October 10, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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kariavalon.bsky.social
「遠く遠く空の彼方
願い湛え流れる河...」

...I kept recalling the ending song "Altair," especially the above section of the song near the end... so I decided to draw my favorite alchemist Ayesha.

#アトリ絵 #アトリエシリーズ #AtelierSeries #kariavalonart #art
A half body portrait of Ayesha Altugle, the protagonist of "Atelier Ayesha." She is smiling upward at the viewer while being basked by the twilight. She is walking along the field. Admittedly, I drew this partly to learn how to use some tools in CSP, so I hope I can make more artwork using them in the future.
October 1, 2025 at 2:05 AM
atelierasther.bsky.social
This unlocked a memory for me lmao.

I remember way back when Circle K/a local gas station chain (known as co-op) ran an ad campaign aimed at teens where they appropriated "STFU", where the acronym meant "Shut the Froster Up".

I had a classmate who kept bugging me to say it to a teacher at the time
October 1, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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stellatiria.bsky.social
「binary star ~planisphere」

紅白レスレリ発売おめでとうございます! ⭐️
I hope everyone will enjoy playing the newest Atelier game!

#StellatiriArt | #アトリ絵 #紅白レスレリ #AtelierResRW
September 27, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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stellatiria.bsky.social
[The Scenery Over There]

A collaboration piece with @mirihawke.bsky.social 🌟

Photo: Miri
Nelke (drawing): Me

#StellatiriArt | #アトリ絵 #ネルケと伝説の錬金術士たち #アトリエシリーズ
September 17, 2025 at 7:44 PM
atelierasther.bsky.social
I always read "x cloves of garlic" as "1 to 2 bulbs of garlic".
August 31, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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luvmc.bsky.social
こちらからも……！！
はんさん( @gnmksei.bsky.social )からラフをいただき、線画と塗りを担当させていただきました！！エスカちゃんです🥰
すっごいかわいいラフをありがとうございました！！！ちょーたのしかった！！！！💗💗💗
August 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
atelierasther.bsky.social
(I go frequently enough to be a regular at a few places with a preferred seat, but that feels like bragging if I brought it up during a date so I won't)
August 15, 2025 at 6:42 AM
atelierasther.bsky.social
Dear Ion, I know that I said we're birds of the same feather in that we both don't get out of the house enough.

And I'm self aware enough to know that claiming to be an experienced cafe goer seems hypocritical, but I do frequent cafes enough to feel justified in claiming so.
August 15, 2025 at 6:42 AM
atelierasther.bsky.social
Yeah, my friends and I on discord occasionally open booster boxes of new yugioh product over voice chat and pop off whenever we get a good card or just random cards we like.

It's lotsa fun.
June 29, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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seraphspring.bsky.social
Early design Plachta eating potato stew
June 24, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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aquagon.bsky.social
The long wait has finally ended, everyone! We're pleased to announce that the Ciel nosurge Offline translation patch has been released for you all to enjoy!

t.co/YovWYDzEht
https://ateliertraduction.forumgaming.fr/t83-the-release-of-the-ciel-nosurge-english-patch-on-ps-vita-is-finally-here
t.co
June 14, 2025 at 12:13 PM
atelierasther.bsky.social
I started playing Ciel nosurge recently thanks to the fanmade translation patch that was recently completed!

So I sketched Ion the way my heart desired:
June 19, 2025 at 9:56 PM
atelierasther.bsky.social
A package from a friend arrived today.

Can't wait to get funny stares and questions from the people around me (as liquid death isn't available in canada, also I'm canadian if anyone happened to be wondering).
June 16, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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meekashee.bsky.social
"Sky Journey" featuring Ayesha and Juris on a hot air balloon, of course lolll (am I a broken record yet?)
Had fun with it, but it's not perfect there's a lot that I kind of want to fix but that'll be some other time lollll.
Enjoy~.

#fanart #AtelierAyesha #AyeshaAltugle ##JurisGruden #fandom
May 26, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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meekashee.bsky.social
Birthday art party 2 lol!
Wanted to do a companion piece for Nio and Pana and it makes it easier on me for bf comps lmfao. Also gave Nio her own outfit pfffttt.
Also recorded the entire process and I'll upload that shortly lmaooo.
Enjoy~.
#fanart #digitalart #AtelierAyesha #NioAltugle #Pana
May 21, 2025 at 3:44 AM
atelierasther.bsky.social
I finished Atelier Yumia earlier this evening, and my heart compelled me to get this sketch out before the idea was lost to the ether (or my spotty memory).

Yumia left me feeling many things.

I hope we get another Memories game that matures Yumia's themes and message

#アトリ絵
May 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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meekashee.bsky.social
It's my birthday, so what better way to start it than with my shippppp, Ayesha and Juris lol.
(With and without the glow effect.)
Enjoy~.

#AtelierAyesha #AyeshaAltugle #JurisGruden #fanart #digitalart #AtelierResleriana
May 20, 2025 at 5:11 AM