Starting To Shade! I'm Not Sure I'm Happy With How It Looks So Far But It's Half Past Midnight And My

Starting to shade! I'm not sure I'm happy with how it looks so far but it's half past midnight and my neck hurts 😭

Oh did I see something interesting coming along the way? 👀

I think I fucked up the scaling— wait no I think the scale is right but I might've chosen the wrong pose for Areyan...

Progress on the WIP! Finally! We haven't had reliable electricity for more than an hour these days (and even that hour isn't consecutive it's just a couple minutes scattered throughout the day because I guess the ministry of energy is just. pranking people or something I don't know) and it's been hell. I'll probably flip the canvas so that their scars are facing us, the screen, later even though it'll probably make things harder for me, I'm dreading shading Hilmes' scars, but I think it'd be appropriate to showcase their mirroring and Hilmes' growth of feeling comfortable going maskless even we beyond the screen aren't being shielded from it? I hope that made sense.

I haven't decided what year the coronation would take place, but I decided to draw Areyan in the hairstyle he would come to wear as an adult, if you've read my Areyan/Merlaine ficlet this would be the hairstyle he's wearing there too, I based it off of Azel Halgal from Otoyomegatari:

I've been planning this for a while and I'm so happy to finally be able to draw Areyan with this hairstyle!

Every year or two... after a random arslan senki chapter update, i go back to looking up stuff like fan fics, fan art or just anything about arslan senki and then i end up re-watching the anime....sometimes i rewatch all the episodes and sometimes i skip a few but so far I've watched the anime 5 times and read the manga 3 times and whatever was translated from the novel once....this is the only show I've ever given so much attention to...i remember the day when arslan season 2 (anime) was released and being so happy about it that i posted the op song on yt and got copyrighted in a minute lol....it feels a bit unhealthy to be interested in a show this much but well....i enjoy it

..i think it'll always be top 1 series for me...not sure whyyy i love it a lot but it's always interesting and never boring..the plot is beautiful, each character is unique and different, no event is pointless and arslan's development is something i enjoy watching.

Historical stories are always better than a modern time story (my opinion ofc)

Nothing was useful here...just feelings, thank u for reading this far...

have a good day!

As we all know, the Maarer are using rune magic to mostly fight or at least as support. But when fighting you also get hurt, that is a fact.

Whilst writing chapter 4 I saw in my Maar lore doc that I didn't have a rune for healing - one of the most basic runes to have! So I scoured through the doc to see which rune didn't have any magical use yet to put as a healing rune. And I just can't decide which one to use!

The meaning behind it is what the symbol usually represenst in not only day to day life but also the values of the god they stand for. (I have yet to assign every god one or more runes and that will be in the far future lol.)

Also: Should I make a general post about all runes and which ones are actually used for magic?

Stubbornly drawing last night even without electricity and I was being assailed by an entire hoarde of mosquitoes.

I hate this hell country so much. Can't even have electricity consistently.

Progress so far!