Me: Let's Work On Some Figure Drawing!

Me: let's work on some figure drawing!

Also me: *first one is two women holding hands* Let's make some Ikora x Chalco fan art!

Okay, so Bungie doesn't give us enough lore about these two, so I have some head cannons about them. Honestly still don't really know how these two meet, but they've worked together a lot in both Crucible and actual missions. Chalco is a fierce arcstrider and was taught a lot by Tallulah Fairwind (the first hunter vanguard) and often learned a lot about being an academic from Osiris. Spending a lot of time with warlocks/academics led Chalco to be one herself. Chalco always had feelings for Ikora but Ikora didn't realize it (I imagine Ikora dated Eris at one point). Eventually Chalco and Ikora do end up together.

Things were going great, but they had a bit of a rough patch when Osiris was exiled because the Speaker acted as though it was a unanimous vote to exile Osiris but both Andal and Ikora voted against this. Chalco by that point really liked Osiris and even tho she saw he wasn't the best commander/warlock vanguard, still believed he was an important academic to the city. Chalco later finds this out from Andal how the vote actually went. Chalco makes up with Ikora, but since Ikora is the vanguard now and Chalco is one of her most important Hidden in the field, they spend a lot of time apart.

I often wish we got more lore about Ikora's past beyond her Crucible days and she being Osiris' student, kinda like how they humanized Zavala with the whole Safiyah/Hakim story. And I just want more Chalco lore. I get excited to read it whenever it's given. I know we'll never see her in game, but I thought the same about Eido, and I was super thrilled when they actually put her in game. So I can hope maybe the same will happen for Chalco.

It's so soothing to see sylenth's drawing vids. Also, I need to know what inks she uses for these. Cause I've only ever tried fountain pen ink, but it doesn't like to be put in a pile of water to lighten it up. It just kinda goes everywhere. But I've seen people do drawing with FP ink with ink washes that way before. Maybe I've just been unlucky with the colors I have. Her art vids remembers me I need to experiment with inks more

Painting process, mostly with inks and markers 🎨

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Longer video is available on YouTube, btw! I'll add the link in a reblog, if you're interested 👇

As a warlock main, I love the amount of birds in these sketches!

[🚧 WIP] A bunch of sketches

Still cant get over how massive cloudstriders are

“My path is my own. Now, and forever.” —Shiro-4

drawn for @ninthriven

ah, the duality of man