Welcome to my art blog! Hobby illustrator and concept artist, learning animation. I love creatures and ancient art. Not actually an ancient elf cyborg...unless?
Given reports over the last months over my work ending up on Pinterest, I am considering adding a banner to all art I post with a clear disclaimer against the practice. This has happened multiple times, for multiple fandoms. Because I draw fanart and post it for free does not mean what I draw is free for all to share as they like. I do not consent to my drawings being reposted on other platforms without my explicit permission, PER drawing.
If you are a thoughtful person and wish to use my artwork or share it somewhere, my DMs and ask box are open! While Pinterest is a no to me, I do not remember a single time someone directly contacted me with a request, where I said no.
Artists and fanartists are not faceless content creating machines for your favorite characters, but getting your work “shared” like that sure does give out that message. Thank you!
Something about dragons and their status as formidable wildlife, legendary opponents and prized hunting trophies who's territory shrinks as humans expand theirs. Featuring front and foremost the wizard of diplomacy who mentioned it in the first place.
Khajiit dude in two outfits. The first is simple fighter's gear, with a leather vest for protection, although it might be overkill for a ranged fighter... It's also a very plain dress. His budi-shirt has a stamped pattern and would be tied by the belt from which his quiver hangs. The strap his bow hangs from is more typical of the overly colorful and patterned look I give Elsweyri things, which would have been bought this way, compared to the decision of keeping his chest armor with extremely little decoration.
Second outfit is an everyday casual look I imagine from the south. Just a tunic, a belt for hanging things, and a single element of decoration asides of the necklace in the form of a brooch of sorts. A rather bland fellow!
i’m SothaSil on artfight but won’t be drawing a lot bc my dumb ass lost my tablet pen, hey ho
if you wanna draw a character of mine but can’t see them, i hid a lot of my pages this year, just ask and i’ll unhide for you. i’m team vampiros but don’t care much about points :) this is all in good fun. likely won’t be posting my artfight drawings on here as i’m limited to phone sketches!
A drawing for the Witch Hat Atelier zine Hemisphere. My theme was “summer”, and the style was inspired by Bilibin’s art. It was far from warm when I drew this but nowadays, fields around my house are tall and getting golden again!
My pages for the Inu-Oh anniversary fanzine! Our titular lad with his (un?)dead buddies, and a small comic detailing the ridiculous way I got to discover the film. (if you were wondering...I had no idea I was sick until after. I assumed what I was feeling was being dead tired from days of festival trampling around! I otherwise wouldn’t have attended). I wanted to convey the uplifting joy of the film, and share with the world a funny story of me being an idiot.
Hello again. So thanks to the community I was noticed and contacted by TESO team. Thank you all ppl, really, I am a small artist and my chance to be noticed was little without your reposts and reaction.
The team assures that there was a mistake and they never wanted to use fanarts without permission.
We exchanged quite friendly messages, the contents of which I do not want to disclose yet. Now I am waiting for a second answer. It is now the Easter holidays and an answer cannot be received quickly. Let's be patient and wait.
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Well... I think particular employee just did their job… BAD. This is just my guess, I don't have an official comment.
Some indirect evidence of a dishonest work (lack of verification?) is that that set of tattoos is called "Mercymothers". The Merciful Mother is Almalexia, and the tattoos are clearly depicting Sotha Sil. You should be completely out of lore to do that… or it's a deeplore that I am too silly to understand )) (don't think so, using Occam's Razor)
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Whatever it was, that dude (if so) did their job badly twice. Here are paired face tattoos (Mersymother's Face Art) in addition to body tattoos.
See the ponytail above the heart? And here it is on the face. So the whole set is cut from my picture. Alas.
This would not be evident if we did not know the history of the first picture.
I want to point out that I am not throwing accusations. Shit happenes even in big companies, now we need to understand who is to blame and what to do.
Any such things should be dealt with as correctly as possible. I was surprised when someone called me toxic in the comments for my first reaction. How else should I have reacted? Be silently happy?
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And about copyrights.
I drew a fanart and I didn't monetize it, it's not forbidden as I konw :) But now company: 1. took it without asking me 2. sells it in the crownstore for real money.
All rights to the scrolls lore belong to the company! But without the consent of the artist, even fanart cannot be used. So now we need to figure out a solution that satisfies every side of the incident (I think). At the very least, I should be credited as an artist in the credits of a new chapter or such place.
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Love you all and still love Scrolls universe, eheh.
Just for fun, a lineup of most Khajiit outfits I designed, from last year. All but the leftmost three were from Beyond Skyrim. All designed by me, except the Alfiq outfit who was drawn based on an original concept by @dark-limit circa 2017/8
Beyond Skyrim Cyrodiil asked me to design them some Khajiit armors! Specifically a set for bandits, showing off three improvement tiers.
As the full concept is pretty layered, it required much detailing. I combined the variants and layers of the chest and head pieces in a gif. Also, additional material reference. I hope that the final set with its variants allows players some fun fashion options!
Hi! You're one of my favorite artists ever, and I would love to do some studies of your art! What are some of your favorite pieces that you've done, and how do you pick your colors? There's a lot more questions that I could ask, but figured you wouldn't appreciate an entire list of questions XD
Hello and thank you, I am honored! Feel free to send me all and any questions! I'll answer these two, starting by:
How do you pick your colors?
As I change art style with pretty much every illustration project of significance, this varies a lot. Here are, from most to least common, ways I pick my colors.
Eyeballing it. Unfortunately my most common... What I will do a lot digitally is lay down a color background, and flats of a few colors, then manually adjust each until they look good together by selecting by color and using adjustements. I then paint over it all.
Using a limited palette, eyeballed. Same as before, but this time I force myself to only use a few colors. It helps me, as constraints do.
Using a reference, eyeballed. This happens a lot when I mimick an art style. My medieval drawings for example, are often done by looking at images of actual medieval art to get an idea of what colors to use to look medieval.
These can be combined around. I'll post examples now, explaining how they use each.
This is a sketch for a drawing I ended up doing way different. This is the first method - I used a flat layer for the characteres and three colors for the sky to test out atmosphere. This is how I plan out most full paintings, just trying to nail down a mood I have in my head. I fiddle around until I like it or, like in this case, fully give up and iterate further. Here, the composition was to be redone too as I did not like the body language. I was going for "bright hot sunny day under a weather that feels wrong".
For this comic, I combined a very limited palette and a photo ref to pipet from. I was looking for the stark cold/warm contrast of a mid-season bright night by a fireside. I took a google image photo of a campfire at night that was already edited. The photo itself looks unnatural but conveyed what I wanted. It's still on the file itself! From it, I pipetted a few colors I found "summed up" the palette and did all with them.
While my own habits make me prefer painting as you would in traditional methods, with directly picking the right colors, I will often digitally alter with overlays and layer blending modes some colors and gradients, etc, to alter a drawing to fix it's color palette. The following is a quite egregious example, because I first drew the character in flats before putting him in a full scene. Here is a before/after summed up.
The shadow is a layer, the bright yellow light zones also, and the orange "transitions" of light zones on the skin a third. There's also an overlay over the full character to blend him in. I do this by...making a full flat color of a layer, fucking around until a blending mode does what I want, and adjusting hue/brightness/saturation and opacity until it looks good.
Another WIP where I was struggling with the overall palette. I was going for late 60s psychedelic. You can see in the top right the original color. I thought it looked too...new, so I added a yellow layer on top, and fiddled with it. Final choice was the following setting. I then put it with my sketch and color blockout in a folder and painted over it.
For this sort of adjustement, the "Color Balance" modifier in CSP, Photoshop, and others is also a godsend - but one I often use for fine tuning a finished piece.
This being said, there's some rough rules to coloring which are...born from studying color theory and doing studies. I am guilty of doing very little studies...so I'll just sum up the basics of the color theory rules I use.
For "default" shading, I use a color that is darker, more saturated and with a slight hue diff. This is my "don't shade with black".
Using a shadow that's cooler will make the light look warm.
Vice versa.
There's a bunch of stuff to remember in how colors relate to each other and pipetting images who's atmosphere you think is interesting really is the best way to learn... It's learning how to black-blue/gold-yellow dress in your own art for the lack of a better word...But the basics will be:
Don't trust numerical values, but look at your colors in context. A same hue, brightness, saturation can look so much different. This is how Rakkan's beard looks whiteish here despite being a light very grey brown.
All this but...colour is such a wide topic, I can't really say a lot but can also type for hours... if you have precise questions about a piece in particular I can explain :') I hope this wasn't too vague and was instructive!
Speaking of particular pieces, answering your question last under the cut:
What are some of your favorite pieces that you've done?
I have been thinking about that ask you got about khajiit babies and had a thought I would like your opinion on. What do you think about a khajiit with a non-khajiit parent? My wife and I have headcannoned that a khajiit will always just produce another khajiit, no matter the other parent. Or maybe that the mother determines the baby's main features.... I'm rambling a bit but I wanted to get your thoughts.
Canon says children look like their mother species - canon also says nothing about half khajiit children.
I used to like to imagine it a possibility and even had a mixed khajiit-human OC but nowadays changed my mind to the more boring perhaps thought that beast races just cannot have children with men or mer because they're too far removed, in-world evolution wise. My old reasoning is that khajiit were a type of mer, from "Words of Clan Mother Ahnissi" who states that in khajiit myth, bosmer are misshapen khajiit. My current mindset is that mer all descend from Aldmer, and that khajiit descend from the cat people Topal briefly encountered.
This being said, again, that are just my thoughts - lore says nothing against mixed khajiit babies so making OCs like that is as canon as what I just said :) hope this wasn't too dissapointing of an answer! Have a nice day
hello my good friend and keeper of khajiit knowledge. I have an inquiry for you. How do khajiit babies start out? I've heard they all begin as kittens, which does make sense for most of the furstock, ease on the alfiqs, but I'm having trouble like. making logical sense of it (which I know is dumb for tes lore) and I was wondering if you had thoughts on the subject?
My biggest thing is just the sheer differences that would have to happen in the first few weeks/months/years (however long it takes for a furstock to develop in it's entirety) for the variances between just plain skeletal structure. Because if they all start as kittens, so four legged digitigrades, I cannot imagine the shift to two legged plantigrades makes for a pleasant infanthood. It's growing pains turned to full blast! There's gotta be differences in newborns between four legged and two legged and digitigrade vs plantigrade, and maybe they just start kitten sized, but not actually kittens?
sorry if this is a bothersome ask, you just know so much about khajiit/have amazing world building for them and I figured you could solidly set this into my brain besides just handwaving it and going "it's moon magic!" like everyone else has done rjgtkgjf
Hello Chance! I'll be answering this ask publicly just in case other people are interested - if you'd want it not shared, please say so and I'll lock RBs.
The short answer to your question is we don't know. Khajiit children, or depictions thereof, do not exist in TES. So strictly canonically speaking: we have nothing.
The longer answer: I have had the exact same train of thought before and came to similar conclusions. Not only do khajiit of all shapes and sizes have to grow into these shapes and sizes, but any shape of khajiit has to uh, get pushed out of any other shape of khajiit... For my own headcanon I have solved this with two ideas. The following is all headcanon!
The first thing: the furstock of the mother will in major part dictate how many babies they can have in a single litter. In real life biology, humans have it very complicated, because our hips, made for walking upright, work poorly to give birth. Following this, I think the more humanoid a khajiit is, the less babies they can carry at once.
In my own Khajiit OC families, this is why Ma'Jahrann only has a brother and they are both single litters, because their mom is an Ohmes. But the mom herself (Elaahni) is one of half a dozen litter-sisters, her mother being Alfiq-raht.
The second thing: all khajiit are born as tiny shapeless cat beans. The younger they are, the more khajiit look like each other in terms of furstocks. Some eventually stand upright and others do not. Here is some concept art based on this idea I did for Beyond Skyrim.
On top of growing into their adult body plan, I made them also grow into their coat, with some more humanoid furstocks staying relatively hairless for a khajiit (see my Ohmes concept art). While this makes for rapid, weird growing, this is arguably the case for many animals including humans, who go from quadrupeds to bipeds pretty fast!
For BSE, instead of doing a model per furstock for children which would be a hefty amount of work, we decided on only three at around the same young age as vanilla kids, to "sum up" all furstocks with three yet less defined body types: a quadruped very catlike one, a digitigrade fully furry one with a long tail, and a plantigrade type with a straighter neck; allowing for variety with limited ressources.
For my own OCs again - some older drawings I did of Rezad and Rakkan show them as having short legs and a very catlike baby shape, despite both of them being bipeds, Cathay and Cathay-raht respectively. Again, because as babies, their body plan is more muddy.
Rezad and his dad, both Cathay
This being said - I hope this is inspiring, but again, all headcanon! As with any unexplained lore area, it's your freedom to make your preferred takes out of it :) Cheers!
A now year old comic I made but never posted based on the official birthday comic for Custas! One of the few I plan on publishing as part of a fanbook next year. And remember,
