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Anonymous asked:

after very casually cramming all of your oc posts into my brain, i was wondering how cormac responded to actually seeing ran for the first time? he knows ran is pretty, but to really SEE that…

you know i'm sorry to say but cormac doesn't really remember the occasion.....

Anonymous asked:

Hello! I have scrolled through your blog like six times. I just. I am in love with your art and with your characters. Especially Cormac and Sang!! I keep lookin at them and rubbing my little hands together.

One detail just. Keeps popping up in my head. About how Letho's and Sang's relationship is rocky and they aren't close anymore. I think you mentioned it a while ago. I would love to hear more about it, if you are willing to share.

Thank you so much for sharing your art and your creativity!

-F

Hi!!! I really appreciate your interest!! It always warms my heart when people are interested in my ocs ;-; i love them so dearly and you are too kind.

As for the details of their relationship to be honest i haven't thought super in depth about it. Sang was a young, loud over excited and over eager little witcher in training, i think probably half the other kids loved him and the other half hated him and it might as well have been the same for the trainers. I think in those days Letho was a bit of a protective big brother, not super close or anything but definitely stepped in when he saw sang was getting cornered by some jerks and sang was the clingy type who declared them friends afterwards.

Sang would blabber and letho would occasionally listen. i mean sometimes he'd probably just hang him on a coat rack and leave but sang would scout him out later to continue his ramblings. But after they leave school i think they very rarely crossed paths and when they would itd be maybe a greeting and swapping stories over a drink or two.

I think sang would have heard about the kingslayings through grapevine and it'd kind of turn sangs picture of letho on its head. He might figure out Letho did it for the vipers but i don't think that'd help him much understand why he'd agree to something so stupid. There'd just be a rift of who sang thought Letho was and who he seems to be now and he'd have a lot of trouble sewing it back together if they crossed paths afterward i think the most sang would manage was a nod before moving on u-u

I just wanted to say, I absolutely adore all your Jaskier art! I’ve trolled through the whole Jaskier tag on your blog. The expressions and the fashion is just *chef’s kiss* <3

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ahhhh thank you, i adore him so much i am just waiting for more jaskier in my life ;-; we are starving

I've spent my Monday morning just scrolling through your blog. I'm obsessed with your art, especially the witcher oc's.

Sang is the same height as me! But that can't be right, because he's a short king and I am not short! (No matter what my 6'2" husband says)

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You're not short just a king, just like sang asdghjk

But thank you so much it warms my heart to hear people like my silly little blorbos!!!!! <3333333333

How old is Harley? Is he a younger Witcher? He doesn't look as chewed to hell as the rest of em XD

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he's quite young! only 30-40 while sang is in his 70s somewhere and cormac's in his 200s lmao

Art question, how do you figure out your armor design? Cormac and sangs armor are both different from eachother and also fitting to their fighting styles/ personalitys. Im asking cause i dont even know where to start looking for refs

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Hi! love this question because it's definitely hard to get started, before the witcher ocs i tended to avoid drawing armour full stop haha but they kinda made me and i'm glad they did.

But just to show you i have a huge jumping off reference board when it comes to armour and it's literally just from going through pinterest and adding any and all armour that caught my eye, from practical sense or from a design point. The program i use to is pureref btw which is great for compiling stuff

it gives me a point to at least start when i thinking about the qualities i want in the armour i'm building, these are even sort of sorted into their own categories in my brain. (rogue armour vs knight armour vs a mage that kinda thing, just so i can keep it organized)

But past that point when i have a character and i know their personality, their culture can play a huge influence, this is probably most apparent in Sang where i tried my best to make a lot of nods to Vietnamese culture and their armour so i grabbed a ton of reference from traditional clothing, art, that sorta thing, as well as tried to research as best i could the cultural significance of those pieces of clothing. (and always like to hear if there are corrections to make or suggestions from someone who knows a lot than i do haha) Sang is also my oldest character of the witcher ocs so i've been able to build a lot for his board

When it came to cormac i actually started with his silhouette because i literally went into designing him as like. how can i make the biggest fuck off looking witcher lmao

so from here i went into more specifics, figured out more of cormacs personality and went to my broad range armour board from there and then narrowed down pics and then collected more since i wanted to lean into that highlander warrior vibe. (thats the other thing, you're never done collecting references, there's always more resources to find!) and now these are the go tos for cormacs reference for armour. Way less intence than sangs because there isn't as much as an emphasis put on the culture, hes a big intimidating witcher first and than the highland warrior aspects are like flourishes.

Lastly i just made harley!! Harleys a bit different because i didn't have any specific culture in mind when creating him, his is a lot more rooted in his personality. Harley isnt a big tough warrior, hes honestly more of a pacifist when he can be so i wanted his armour to almost be softer than the others, put more emphasis on agility without making his armour just sleek. His board of armour is smaller than the others since he's newest but i'm sure it'll expand as i draw him more haha.

this was super rambly and i'm not sure how much it helps but basically my advice is just, accumulate a bunch of armour to give yourself a jumping off point, organize it in a way that makes sense to you. then when you have your character you'll be able to look at your choices, narrow down options, and then further explore that style you want and expand on it! I hope this helps haha

Anonymous asked:

what brushes do you use 👀

i mostly use stephanie peppers brushes from her patreon! unfortunately its closed now but i also highly recommend Georg's magic brush set, theyre super fun and lots of variety. I'm a sketchier artist so i appreciate brushes with more texture like these. The maxpack brushes are also v good. Im a brush hoarder i have a lot lmao