I Got A Heart From My Internet Crush

I got a heart from my internet crush

Safe to say my day is off to a great start

.☘︎ ݁˖ "Thank you"

Letter transcript: "Receiving your request was something truly unexpected, yet very exciting. I hope you know that every mountain, every forest, and every village was made with the utmost care. And all throughout I enjoyed every moment, because I knew this mao would be very important to someone in the near future.

And now the map is complete. I hope it serves you well on your journey.

Safe travels, friend.

Your cartographer, Asobi"

Making of Thistle's Spellbook

Top part is coming along nicely...

Crying... how do I... what?

Fine. Let's use our brain for this. So we're gonna use a feather shape on a stick within a group as guide to keep the angle mostly uniform, we'll get rid of them later.

Once I started blocking out the shapes, I began adding effects in, just to test them first

The wings were a real struggle... I did them on a regular layer and used a mask to chip away the thin detail of the lines

Making sure I have both versions (manga and anime). A deep reddish version for the manga one and a golden one to match the one that appears in the anime

The golden "wheel" in the center was actually easier than the rest even though I did have to think a bit on how exactly I would go about it. In the end I used the polygon shape to make the spiked circle then made copies to make the inner rings. As for the eye I made 1/4 of it then mirrored it until I had the full eye

Had to tweak the colors quite a bit, but I used Color Overlay for all my shapes, making it easy to change the color at any point

After about 6 hours, and lots of tweaking and blasting music in the background to stay sane it was finally complete.

Spellbook post

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📣 Heads up! you can now get this cute P2U emote on my ☕️Ko-fi! ( • ̀ω•́ )✧ by clicking the link here! 👈

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Hawkmoth inspired fairy! 🌷 this months sticker🧡