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Yuagiin
@yuagiin.diurnalstudios.co.nz
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Artist, Indie animator, and singleplayer gamer
25 years old

Discord Moderator for the Traditional Animation Server since August 2022
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not just because of the coiled sword, but
Andre of Astora from the dark souls franchise. This is a screenshot from Dark Souls 3 showing him at firelink shrine, where he serves the role of weaponsmith.
November 11, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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study at 4am cos ya boi couldn't sleep
#art #digitalart #semirealism #portrait #blackwoman #humanartist #colourtheory
Side by side image of my reference photo (left) and the completed digital painting (right). It shows a dark skinned woman in dramatic lighting that makes her skin have an etherial reflective quality to it. She has a broad flat nose, big lips and arched eyebrows with a small chin and rounded jawline and has a very prominent collarbone. She is looking to the left, and the whites of her eyes are the focal point. Her hair is short, natural and black. In the painting the skin isn't rendered completely, broken up into many sections of solid colours that create subtle hue shifts reminiscent of the arcane art style but more detailed.
September 20, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Changed my pfp. It's the same guy, just slightly younger
bg so it blends in with dim mode
#ocart #ocsky #digitalart #sketch
headshot digital sketch of my original character ioric. He has brassy faux gold eyes, fair skin and dark brown hair that's slightly lighter at the ends. He has a tattoo of the eclipse on his forehead, partially hidden by his hair. He is wearing a navy blue hood with a white undershirt and his hair is tied in a fishtail braid pushed over his right (viewers left) shoulder to be more visible. The front hair is similar to grown out hime bangs. This image is on a dark grey background to prevent eyebleed and blend nicely with dark or dim mode. Comparatively the colours look lighter but it's just colour theory. headshot digital sketch of my original character ioric. He has brassy faux gold eyes, fair skin and dark brown hair that's slightly lighter at the ends. He has a tattoo of the eclipse on his forehead, partially hidden by his hair. He is wearing a navy blue hood with a white undershirt and his hair is tied in a fishtail braid pushed over his right (viewers left) shoulder to be more visible. The front hair is similar to grown out hime bangs. This version is on a light grey background, the same exact colour as his shirt and the whites of his eyes. Comparatively the colours look darker but it's just colour theory.
September 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Photoshopping stupid ears on my bauldurs gate character
no shitty presets will hold me captive

I wanted to like this game, I really tried
Bauldurs gate john whiteguy half elf bodytype big with the 3rd face preset. Except, where previously pathetic little vulcan ears were, I have given him medium sized elf/tiefling ears for him to be self conscious about and cover up with a cool hat later Bauldurs gate john whiteguy half elf bodytype big with the 3rd face preset. Except, where previously pathetic little vulcan ears were, I have given him medium sized elf ears (or tiefling I forgot) because the lack of customisation in this game is a crime. This image is under harsher lighting, and is also upside down.
August 28, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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redoing character sheets for a project
don't want to post about it too early but things are (still) cookin

#characterdesign #art #animation #magicalgirl #wip #diurnalstudios
Front and back pose taken from a character sheet for a project I'm working on. The character is a light blue magical girl with blonde hair in long miku twintails. She is fair skinned and has bright blue eyes that aren't her natural colour and is wearing a halter top corset and fluffy skirt that is inspired by the german dirndl dress with long white gloves and thigh high boots. The bows in her hair are shaped like butterflies, and she has a large white bow at the back of the dress. The character is drawn in a simplified style for the full body, designed for ease of animation.
August 18, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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The wylder remembrance ending glitched for me and Heolstor stayed in his alive pose

They saw you from across the night and liked your vibe
Elden Ring: Nightreign screenshot showing the final boss Heolstor playing the wrong animation during the Wylder remembrance quest ending. Where he is supposed to be knelt down in the sand dead, her is standing and leaning slightly to the right, leaving a nice space for the player to pose next to him as though they are allies. The wylder is wearing the Lion Knight skin and holding Ordovis' greatsword and the twinbird kite shield with giant glintblades.
August 17, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Some limited palette nightfarers that I might render later
these two are my favourite so far

#recluse #guardian #nightreign #eldenring #fanart #wip #digitalart
Limited palette digital drawing of recluse from elden ring nightreign. The background is black with a royal blue stripe going upwards from left to right. There are small red accents around, a reference to both Recluse's remembrance skin and ultimate art. She is holding her staff and casting some kind of glintstone projectile, her hat obscuring her expression. She is wearing a black and purple witch outfit that is represented here in shades of violet, lilac, black, blue and a touch of pink to trick the eye into seeing more detail than there is. Her hair is light grey and her skin is dark brown, contrasting her light brown coloured staff. The drawing was started in the game passpartout and finished in medibang. Limited palette digital drawing of guardian from elden ring nightreign. The background is black with a royal blue stripe forming a dome above the guardian's head. A second shade of lighter blue is arced over the corners, in an attempt to emulate a skybox. There is are feathers floating around and the halberd seems slightly transparent, a reference to his remembrance skin and ultimate art. He is holding the halberd close to his body on the right side with a serious expression, always ready to defend the flock. He is wearing an almost completely silver armour set with a white tunic and leather straps. Black, light grey and medium grey are layered on the armour to distinguish individual shapes and three shades of brown are used on his feathers to trick the eye into seeing more detail than there is. His beak is in a gradient going from light to dark using cream, yellow, brown and a hint of orange. The drawing was started in the game passpartout and finished in medibang.
August 17, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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I forgot I did actually finish this one (left in quote)
two levels of brightness, my game settings are usually set as dark as possible for "immersions"

#art #digitalart #fanart #skyrim #elderscrolls #solstheim 🎨
saturated digital painting that depicts a nighttime camp scene on the island of solstheim from the elder scrolls games. The focal point is a lit campfire spreading light on two orange canvas tents, a spruce? tree and a small wooden chair in dunmeri style. In the background the lower part of the scene is completely blacked out by the ambient campfire light but gets brighter as you go up to reveal the stars and the red mountain can be seen still billowing smoke. In this version the lighting is "realistic" and therefore really dark. The two lanterns in the leftmost tent are much dimmer than the fire and the other tent on the right is almost completely shrouded. It gives the painting a dark and moody vibe. saturated digital painting that depicts a nighttime camp scene on the island of solstheim from the elder scrolls games. The focal point is a lit campfire spreading light on two orange canvas tents, a spruce? tree and a small wooden chair in dunmeri style. In the background the lower part of the scene is completely blacked out by the ambient campfire light but gets brighter as you go up to reveal the stars and the red mountain can be seen still billowing smoke. In this version the lighting is much more similar to actual video game brightness settings. The tents are a happy orange, the lights glow with a cartoony uniformness and the scene is overall much more warm and inviting.
August 16, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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I started a tarot deck of my ocs a while back, and none of the newer cards ever hit as hard as the first two did

just want to post the oldest so if I ever redraw them there's something cool to compare
#art #digitalart #tarotdeck #ocart #ocsky
The Judgement Card is the twentieth card in the tarot deck, shown as XX in the top right corner and the word JUDGEMENT in all caps at the bottom. The background is a saturated dark red and the character is completely in greyscale except for one distinguishing feature, her blue eyes. She is a young girl of no more than 20 years with long pale hair and matching pale skin. She is wearing a vintage styled black dress with short puffy sleeves and a white collar, and a matching black bow at the back of her hair. She has loose hime style bangs that look grown out. She holds a mask in her right hand (viewers left) and a white cloak in her other hand, the interpretation of the card representing her either donning or removing the disguise. The Hanged Man card is the twelfth card in the tarot deck, shown as XII in the top right corner and the words THE HANGED MAN in all caps at the bottom. The background is the exact shade of teal that was in the Judgement character's eyes, and the character is completely in greyscale except for one distinguishing feature, a ragged bite mark on his right arm coloured in the dark red. He is a young boy of no more than 14 years with medium toned hair that fluffs out at the sides of his ears. His skin is pale and he is wearing a sleeveless hoodie of medieval design. There is a bandage on his left arm just above the elbow, suggesting another injury. He is upside down in relation to the text, and gripping his throat with both hands. No matter which way the card is shown upright or reversed, his situation appears self inflicted and his serene expression is unsettling.
August 15, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Not breaking my posting streak, poison swamp time

#digitalart #conceptart #landscape #mushroom #toadstool #art
digital concept art of a green swamp on one point perspective with three bright red amanita muscaria toadstools in the foreground in various stages of development. On top of the fully developed mushroom in the middle is a praying mantis drawn from memory. The mushroom to the left is your classic button toadstool with lots of white spots and a deep red colour. The mushroom to the right is juvenile and mostly white with a little orange peeking through, and it's almost touching the ground. There is some kind of bug on the left side resembling a house fly, but its scale is completely wrong and almost distracting.
August 14, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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draw a horse from memory day 🐎

I'm both impressed and disappointed lmao
Digital sketch of a dapple grey coloured horse. This horse is drawn from memory, and the anatomy and line quality deteriorates the further away from the face I get. The horse has a white main, tail and muzzle which probably isn't possible, and grey hooves matching the shading colour. The horse stands with one front leg elevated, but the perspective feels off like the knee is bending inwards instead of straight. Lines to suggest muscles, tendons and the ribcage are there, but are placed tentatively in the general vicinity of the associated anatomy. Look at my horse, my horse is amazing.
August 13, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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Rare acyrlic painting ft one of my favourite ioric screenshots

Thumb for scale, this painting is only as large as my hand so details were a nightmare. Maybe some day I'll be brave enough to go back in and finish the mace, or repaint it on a bigger canvas 🙈

#eldenring #oc #traditionalart #painting
A half finished acrylic painting of ioric based on a screenshot of elden ring. The location is altus plateau so the background is a mix of several yellow and orange tones. His skin is pallid and slightly cool toned isolating him from the warmth of the background. He is staring at the camera with a slightly constipated expression and holding varre's red bouquet which is actually a mace. He is wearing the altered preceptors gown with the travellers manchettes (wrist guards). His hair is brown and half up half-down with messy sideswept bangs. The canvas is only the size of my hand, so the face painting had to be done with a needle. The aforementioned screenshot the painting is based on. Individual pine trees can be made out in the distance, as well as birch trees with golden leaves. Ioric's shirt almost appears pinkish in this lighting, and his hands are actually cut off from the bottom of the image. The bouquet is held forward in the two handing idle animation, but the perspective makes it look like he's giving it to the camera. He is also wearing the commoners altered headband, which is not present in the painting.
August 12, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Show off your #OC now and their previous design.

I love pulling up this image whenever people talk about getting into art, I was 15 when I drew the first one, and so fucking proud, you have to do A before you can do B!
A coloured pencil drawing from the year of our lord 2015 of my avatar the last airbender fan oc at the time named "Kara" She has an absolute unit of a neck on thin asymmetrical shoulders and a massive head with hair in a similar style bun to the waterbender Hama with bangs, and it's bright orange. She has purple eyes and 1920s red lipstick. Her shirt is black with almost all detail obscured making it look like a v necked thermal, which it isn't. It has a drawing of a moon on it like the water tribe logo, but with some yellow? smudged in the middle. Her skirt is a different shade of bright purple, and is meant to reference a mixed heritage of fire and water nation parents. She is posed with her arms crossed in a confident and slightly sassy expression. The pencil lines can be seen crisscrossing in random directions, demonstrating the complete lack of skill but determination to get the thing drawn. The same character vastly changed and redrawn digitally in the year 2021, which is her current design today. Her hair is a much more demure black and has a much tighter bun and the face framing pieces are shorter in a more fire nation style. She is still wearing a fair amount of makeup with blue eyeshadow and a more neutral lip. Her eyes are more of an indigo shade, but could still be described as purple. Her outfit is now sleeveless with a detached collar and long gloves. Her "skirt" is now just a loincloth extending from the top of her wrap shirt to knee length at the front and slightly longer at the back. She is wearing soft loose pants and the same military boots zuko does. Her colours are overall more of a burgundy, based on outfits worn by non royal fire nation citizens but with a touch of gold on her shirt trim, button on the collar, and hair decoration. Underneath her right glove (viewers left) is a bandage peeking out suggesting the gloves aren't just there for decoration.
August 11, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Seen a few people doing a "then and now" comparison so here is a 2017 drawing vs the same idea in 2025

This is one of my all time favourite pieces so kinda shooting myself in the foot with this one, but I think there are a lot of subtle differences
A greyscale digital drawing of a woman standing in a snow storm reaching tentatively towards the viewer. She is pulling down her scarf to show her mouth, but her eyes are hidden under the shadow of her hair. She is wearing a puffy winter coat that obscures much of her body shape with a poorly drawn braided cord at the waist. The trim of her coat is a dark grey, matching her gloves and scarf blowing off towards the right. Her hair is black and in two thin braids reaching just to her shoulders. In the background are many unique snowflakes based on random patterns such as arrows, circles, stars, diamonds and crosses. The pose is straight on and only the hand is affected by perspective, giving it a very still and serene vibe. A greyscale traditional drawing of a woman standing in a snow storm reaching tentatively towards the viewer. She is pulling down her scarf to show her mouth, but her eyes are hidden under the shadow of her hair. She is wearing a puffy winter coat that obscures much of her body shape with a braided cord at the waist. The trim of her coat is left white this time to contrast her gloves and scarf blowing off towards the right. Her hair is black and in two thin reaching just to her shoulders, also reacting to the wind. This time the background is left ambiguous with a subtle vignette border around her. There are also tremor lines around the right side of her body, showing movement in the cloak. The pose is slightly foreshortened this time, in an attempt to make the image more dynamic and slightly more threatening/urgent.
August 10, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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Shitpost magma/aggieio session with @sevfora.bsky.social
he drew Lorian (guy on left), I drew the others
Meme template of a character who looks dead inside holding an excited little guy on a leash with a firm grip. Drawn over the top of the creature on the left is @sevfora's oc Lorian wearing the pastel blue lazuli robes, white astrologer gloves and brown boots with ordovis' copper greatsword sheathed on his back. He has fair skin and grey-white hair that is shoulderlength and slightly wavy. On the right side of the drawing (my side) the person holding the leash is ioric in his "phase 3" look which consists of the silver scaled armour set mixed with the banished knight gauntlets and greaves. He is wearing no hood and has a 5'oclock shadow despite the template lacking any real facial features. He has exaggerated bags under his eyes and the tattoo of the eclipse on his forehead. His brown hair is half-up half down and shaggy. The cape and skirt are a faded blue colour, making him look washed out in comparison to Lorian. Behind him he drags a highly detailed ghiza's wheel in bronze. A loose sketch done by me of @sevfora's dark souls 3 character Armin wearing the dancer armour set and Lorian's crown as shown from the back view. His ass cheeks have been exaggerated to draw joking attention to his "best angle" and his face is totally out of view. The armour is silver with gold detailing and wispy blue veils near the waist. Dancer's ass really is completely unarmoured like that, and is wearing what look to be black leggings. Armin has pale skin and red hair tied in a short ponytail, and his sword is the most crudely drawn part with snowflakes coming off to show its frostbite affinity.
August 9, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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another graphite sketch, with some digital overpainting to change the fov

the moment I have to get out the ruler all my background drawing motivation turns to dust so these full pieces in my sketchbook are rare
#traditionalart #fanart #eldenring #oc #pencilsketch
My tarnished character wandering shirtless into the bottom of stormveil castle catacombs, where the cadaver surrogate is and the deathplace of a certain npc. The water is still and serene, the ulcerated tree spirit who guards the place long vanquished. The light barely reaches down this deep, but the archway he is walking towards has been left a deliberate mysterious blank. The archway is covered in twisted roots and there are rocks and skulls and other remnants of burial scattered around the place. He is wearing nothing but the sorcerer leggings, aka pants made of bandages. His hair is loose and reaches to his mid back, and he is slumped over towards the left, while the rest of the composition angles towards the right.
August 8, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Graphite drawing ft my epic pillowcase

The back of the sketchbook still counts as a page
since i keep forgetting the hashtags uhh
#eldenring #fanart #traditionalart #oc #sketchbook
Photo of the cardboard backing page of an a4 sized sketchbook that has been used as a bonus page. It shows a graphite drawing depiction of the Erdtree and the gate with fogwall just in front of it when you fight Morgott. The elden ring is carved out in glowing negative while the door to the erdtree is near-black in contrast. In front of the fogwall stands the tarnished of no renown, holding ghiza's wheel up as a silhouette. The character is wearing the scaled armour set worn by old knight istvan which can be identified by its distinctive torn cape. The wind blows dramatically to the right, while the tree bark is flowing in the opposite direction to give the piece movement.
August 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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This is actually the second iteration of this idea, as I didn't feel like I was getting the right vibes from the soft painted digital version

In pink, because I wanted to try out a more traditional underpainting technique
Monocromatic digital painting of the character Millicent from elden ring sitting with my oc ioric, tarnished of no renown. Her right arm (viewers left) arm is a metal prosthesis held on by straps at chest height. She is wearing the travellers armour set. His armour mirrors hers, with his metal-clad sword arm poking out from under the navy hood cape on the same side. Both of them have roughly collarbone length hair with hers having more of a wave than his. He is about one head taller than her, and twice as broad. He is wearing the cuckoo knight armour set. They are sitting against a brick wall, with the balcony next to them leading to a maroon abyss because I didn't finish the background. The painting is in shades of pink like a traditional oil underpainting, and also because of thematic scarlet rot reasons.
August 6, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Haligtree, Millicent and my tarnished

The scaling is based on my character's proportion to a very chill enemy soldier, before we had the benefit of nightreign's size diversity
Traditional inked line drawing of the character Millicent from elden ring sitting with my oc ioric, tarnished of no renown. Her right arm (viewers left) arm is a metal prosthesis held on by straps at chest height. She is wearing the travellers armour set. His armour mirrors hers, with his metal-clad sword arm poking out from under the navy hood cape on the same side. Both of them have roughly collarbone length hair with hers having more of a wave than his. He is about one head taller than her, and twice as broad. He is wearing the cuckoo knight armour set. In the rightmost upper corner is part of a frieren drawing I posted a while back, and the date is 24.04.25 Elden Ring Screenshot of my character blending in with the locals at the Haligtree. On the left using the feminine side sitting pose is the smaller tarnished character, and next to him is the larger default soldier enemy. They are both wearing the Haligtree footsoldier armour which consists of a helmet with a gold braided headband, white tabard with needle detailing and leather accents. The enemy's legs can't be seen, but the players can with bright metal greaves betraying him as an impostor.
August 6, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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Friend of mine's dnd character doodle @aimeeno1.bsky.social

I liked it better before I coloured it but such is traditional art
Phone photo of a sketchbook with the phone shadow covering part of the right side. It is a black and white ink drawing of an elf girl hugging her knees to her chest with the pencil sketch still slightly visible underneath. Her hair is in a bun with fluffy straight bangs. She is wearing a partial face mask that turns her eyes into black slits, a poofy tea dress with princess sleeves and long striped leggings with chunky boots. She holds a scythe over her her right shoulder with a long inward curved blade. Phone photo of a sketchbook taken in much more neutral lighting. The ink drawing of an elf girl hugging her knees to her chest is now fully coloured in alcohol markers. Her skin is pale and her brown hair is in a bun with fluffy straight bangs. She is wearing a white partial face mask that turns her eyes into black slits, a poofy purple tea dress with princess sleeves and a pink undershirt, as well as long black and white striped leggings with chunky black boots with metal plate on top. She holds a scythe over her her right shoulder with a long inward curved blade. A red wax seal adheres it to the shaft, and the blade itself is a glassy gradient from pink to purple to almost blue at the very tip. The darkest shadows of the colours are splotchy, indicating that the paper was accidentally overloaded with ink and has warped.
August 5, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Bonus: the much anticipated reverse showing marker bleedthrough
The same image showing the back of the paper. It is a watercolour sketch paper but had significant bleedthrough on the face area. The rest of the colours are patchy, and show a clear vertical brushstroke pattern except on the sky. The low detail version has a very strong silhouette, but few remnants of the lineart remain.
August 3, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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One of the first lorian images i drew
Based on the academy of raya lucaria glowy thingy, but oops no reference

@sevfora.bsky.social's elden ring tarnished oc
A photo of the image taken in my bedroom under the 11pm artificial lighting of the big light. It is a traditional alcohol marker drawing with white out used for the highlights. Lorian is a human character with tanned white skin and wavy shoulder length white hair. He is wearing a low detail version of the lazuli robe with blue-green gradients done in markers slightly too dark and the white astrologer gloves doing a thinking emote similar to the quoted screenshot below. The background is a night time scene with a purple-black sky showing the bridge stretching off behind him in silhouette and the "sigil" being a bright blue and white snowflake with two crescent moons on the bottom. The paper is slightly distorted and my thumb is covering the leftmost edge of the paper. The photo sev sent me after receiving it in the mail. It is taken in much more neutral lighting than the first picture, and given a wide crop to minimise camera distortions on a granite benchtop texture. The image's colours appear somewhat more cool toned and the photo is much sharper giving definition to the smaller lineart details on his robes and curls.
August 3, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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under the lamp 😳

Too lazy to take a new picture so *digitally enhanced* to bring back washed out colours
Traditional Pencil drawing in greyscale of two characters that has been overpainted with a little digital to bring out shades that the camera washed out. It shows White Mask Varre from Elden Ring in his underclothes leaning up close to a slightly confused Ioric. They both have dark hair and fair skin, Varre's shirt is a dark colour while Ioric's is off-white with a rope belt. Ioric is leaning up against a rock and laying down on the grass while Varre has his hand on his chest and is suspiciously close to his face. Ioric has not realised that he has the big gay yet, but he's about to.
August 3, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Onlylamp™️

(this is the only thing i have pinned in my discord art channel)
Cropped traditional pencil and ink drawing of a gloved hand holding a small lantern. The lantern is suspended off a large ring for easy hand-holding, and has a second smaller chain loop coming off for easy attachment to a belt. You guessed it, this is the Lantern item from Elden Ring. The gloved hand is wearing the confessor set, and is a right hand. The actual image sprite for the coveted Elden ring Lamp It's the same as the drawing, though the proportions are slightly different. The lantern glows a soft orange and little cracks run along the glass showing it is well loved.
August 2, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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I did a number of sketches of this, but the angle still doesn't feel as powerful as I wanted
Digital sketch in red line based on an actual olympian throwing a javelin. Compared to the drawing above, it looks much more precise and low energy, which isn't the vibe. This drawing was done traditionally in pencil and black ink. He is facing the right side instead of left like the previous attempts. The foreshortening on his hands is ambitious but ultimately the twinblade itself is drawn on the wrong axis and throws off the entire perspective. The shading is much more detailed on this one, trying to differentiate between the different surfaces of his armour and the layers of his hood.
August 1, 2025 at 2:02 AM