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um... i love her??? Why have I never seen her before because she looks ADORABLE. Thank you @thevalleygh0ul for suggesting I draw her!!
Alrighty at long last fake skin line lore. Yay! Heads up this draws a lot from the German bedtime stories I was raised on, especially the brothers Grimm, and thus draws a lot from the kind of religious undertones and general peculiarities those have. It’s also super rough and more outline-y than anything. If anything is confusing lmk
Original post:
Once upon a time there was a land with many holy times. During holy times people ought to refrain from unholy activities; partaking of drink, violence, and other bestial urges. One year the king and queen broke the ‘fast’ on these detail urges during the holy times. And the angel Kayle descended and cursed them, saying that if they could not resist temptation to act like animals for even a week than their child wouldn’t be able to resist them for a day in her life.
Nine months later, the princess Briar is born cursed to be a violent bloodthirsty beast. Luckily, her fairy godmother Morgana gives her a pillory that allows her to be in human form and mostly normal. When she grows up, she goes adventuring to try and break the curse entirely so she can get married.
A similar situation played out in the neighboring kingdom except a few months earlier, when their monarchs broke the fast on gluttony.
She has three trials where she’s tempted to do something verboten and resists all three times, at some point acquiring a beastly friend to help her do this that’s wearing a weird torn cloak. At the end of the trials, she is rewarded with a broken curse and the beastly friend turning back into his true form as a prince of the neighboring kingdom, where they go and prove his identity as Prince Talon with the torn cloak he’s been wearing.
They get married and stay friends till the end of their days, happily ever after.
The concept/colored art of a little fan skin line I’ve been working on. I’ll add a post with the lore later. No title yet but it was me taking a swing at writing a Grimm’s fairy tale type thing. Except not writing cause it’s mostly art 😅
First time water coloring on the go. The photo messed it up a little but I’m happy with the end result
More messy sketchbook watercolors
Messy as hell doodle of modern AU Briar and Talon
Don’t look at the gun too hard I forgot to look up reference before inking
The first of my two valentine’s watercolor posts. This one if more of a platonic direction, if the yellow roses didn’t tip you off. I don’t know, something about these two as pals tickles me pink (if the rest of my blog and AO3 didn’t tip you off lol). I was actually into Broar first if I recall correctly, and then from there I got into Talon and then I read the Katarina fanfic and then next thing you know here I am with an arranged marriage KatGaren fic I’m too busy to work on lol. At this rate I’ll be lucky if that thing is ready before the end of the year.
It was pretty fun practicing watercolors with these two. My color experiments, as always, turned out a little different than I imagined. I really liked drawing Briar’s weird little outfit. I imagine if she ever got to choose her own clothes they’d be like this: a mixture of textures and patterns that’s so eccentric it marks her out immediately. Talon, meanwhile, dresses in the noxian menswear equivalent of “male living space” posts. Shirt. Pants. Belt. What are they made of? Fabric. Cassie despairs at the sight of both of them for entirely different reasons
Spoilers ahead for my fic Roses Gone Wild, on the off chance any of y’all care about that sort of thing
This is my concept of Briar what looks like at the end of the fic, in her “Shepherd” form and her human form. Basically my inspirations were complete and utter disbelief that any military contractor (in this case the Black Rose) in an environment as nepotistic as Darkwill era Noxus would ever do their job without cutting corners. Like. Come on. They at minimum made her out of a corpse. And thus, the Shepherd plot line was born.
Poor Briar. After the fic ends and she gets her break from plot, she spends the next few months chilling at home with Talon and Katarina.
Final old art upload! All the plants in this are real plants, but I drew this a year ago so I couldn’t tell you any probably. 😅 I still really like all the effort I put into the background tho
Nearly the last of the old art, I think I have one or two pieces left. This is one of those style challenge things that hit their peak in like 2018 I think. Enjoy guessing what changes were stylistic decisions and what were me forgetting the details of this over-complicated outfit lol
Thank you to Sneykplantt for drawing this up for me! If you enjoyed the video then please leave a like, comment, and subscribe!
The full comic here:
Did this one around Halloween last year. Thought about waiting till this October to put it up, but I’m too impatient. Briar’s a mummy and Talon’s a werewolf. I tried to do a bunch of different textures on this one. This art began my long burning question about Briar’s design: why so much leather?
Yet more old art. This was back when I thought Talon’s official colors were black hair blue eyes.
Another older piece of art.
Briar’s outfit seems more logistically dumb every time I draw it I swear. Like, all leather? Seriously?
Regardless, enjoy the doodles. I had a lot of fun with her contortionist streak
Noxian Christmas, epilogue
Behold, the end diagram of who gave what present. Was gonna put up a full drawing of them unwrapping presents but that didn’t pan out. Enjoy the end result of my battle with the glass pens
Katarina was working off some misremembered information when she grabbed gifts. Talon actually likes spy-thriller books, not history. And Briar asked for spider stuff, not bugs. Talon teases her for buying earrings for someone with unpierced ears for like a month.
Talon is more than a little befuddled by Briar’s gift, since he said that as a joke five months ago and totally forgot. Alas, Briar was blessed with a fantastic memory and no sense for sarcasm. He’s now actually considering growing it out.
Happy New Year!
Hoping the image quality doesn’t get funny at all.
Some of you might spot that Talon’s snowman cup has a dagger nose instead of a carrot, because I’d imagine daggers are more available than carrots to Noxian children.
Briar’s drinking blood, Talon eggnog, and Katarina mulled wine. Enjoy!
The final Noxian Christmas comic strip, I think. I’m gonna do a couple more illustrations along this line, along with a detailed post about who got who what horribly misguided gift, but this is the last colored four panel comic I think I have in me. It also seems to be the last one my markers have in them. also, and this is based on nothing but my own imagination and sense of humor, but Talon totally hates when Cassiopeia visits because she drags him to high society events he can’t stand. Cassiopeia, who has banned Kat and Tal from going to any such events without her supervision so they can’t embarrass the family, finds this terribly unreasonable. She doesn’t make him go any the rest of the year. Katarina remains oblivious and thus neutral.
A little guide I made for the rough coloration and designs for these three before I started working on the last Noxian Christmas comic. I never realized how much gray and brown were in all their palettes until I started cross referencing comics, splash arts, and models to figure out which shades to use.
heads up, little bit of blood in this one
One of these days, when I tell myself I’m not going to do any wild shading experiments with this comic, I’ll be telling the truth.
The indoor lighting didn’t turn out quite how I wanted, made the noble’s skin turn out a lot more jaundiced than I imagined. I really like the outdoor lighting tho.
Coming up with the alternate lyrics was actually a ton of fun. Maybe I’ll write the whole thing in a separate post. Enjoy!
the awkwardness of knowing your brother well enough to predict all his actions, but being too far away to know what he’d do with his spare time
More Noxian Christmas. Took a big swing with the temple lighting, not sure how it turned out.
Doing a little series of comics focused on Briar, Talon, and Katarina around the winter holidays. This occurs in kind of the aftermath of a fic I wrote where a) Kat and Talon made up post Katarina comic, and b) Briar managed to make friends with both of them. Thus, holiday magic. This is one of them .
