I Have Finished My One Extremely Rendered Piece. Now To Finish The Other One.

I have finished my one extremely rendered piece. Now to finish the other one.

Start by drawing a plain humanoid figure in whatever pose you want, make sure to plan out what position you want your cape to be in, and be sure to get some amount of references from the game or online so you can study them to figure out how to draw them. Studying the outfits as you’re trying to draw has definitely been the most important one for me. Getting pose and/or lighting references can be super helpful as well, and you can go online to try and find something (or ask someone) if you’re unable to get it in-game.

Also, some people choose to draw their Skykids with more human looking eyes while others prefer to stick to exactly what they look like in game, so I suggest experimenting a bit to figure out what you’re most comfortable drawing! I personally prefer drawing them with white eyes because I struggle with eyes. And hands.

No idea if this part will be helpful, but this is how I draw my little guy (featuring bad shading)

I originally made his design in-game and then I took reference pictures with the Season of Moments camera from a couple different angles, and then I just insert the refs and draw. I’ve gotten better at drawing him with practice, so your first couple drawings might be bad before getting better.

I’m also working on giving the kids actual expressions 😅

Anyways, go wild with it. The most important thing here to note is that references are lifesavers when trying to draw Skykids.

artists of skyblr how do you draw a skykid. i want to know the ways. teach me your moves senseis. i will go mad if i can't draw my silly little people doing silly thing

raison d'etre

Been thinking about the SoW AU, because I wasn’t initially going to have Nefarian present but now I’m thinking it would be cool to have him there.

Like, I’m imagining what happens is he’s around and does stuff, but gets horribly injured in a fight at some point and has to spend a portion of the AU half-dead in a shelter somewhere. Injured as in missing limbs, plural. And Tanith, Dexter, and Saracen would have to keep him from dying (and would have a huge debate about whether or not they should put in the effort to save him). Skulduggery can still cut off his hand out of paranoia when they meet back up with him because Skulduggery lost the controlling stone.

But most importantly, he’d also lose his eye in a fight too, and Valkyrie wouldn’t know enough about the construction of eyes to properly fix it when they get back so he’d just…have an eyepatch. That would be pretty cool, I think.

Because I’m currently doing a collection of all my Sky OCs, I’m gonna talk more about the lore around these kids!

They call themselves the Restorationists and what they do is they collect stories, songs, and performances from spirits or murals and then play them on real instruments or otherwise perform/show them in real time so other kids can appreciate them more! They also try to decipher the lore of the murals in order to create stories about them.

This means that they spend a lot more time interacting with spirits and examining the murals scattered about the world than hanging out with other children, they mostly just have each other for company (exception being when they’re performing).

They don’t have any one spot where they’re localized, they’ll kind of just go wherever and perform for whoever’s there.

Side note: their desire to learn more from spirits than just their emotes will lead them to take interest in a different OC of mine named Natalie.

Y’all should’ve never let me watch Harpy Hare because I IMMEDIATELY made some little guys based on them

Base is from Harpy Hare by Yaelokre, go give it some love!

Season of War AU masterlist:

Original premise

Valkyrie and Mevolent’s dynamic

Eyepatch Nefarian