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Drew Kazai to wind down a little bit after mock exams! (Fucking finals still coming up I hate it so much) since I wasn't very satisfied with the previous sketch I did of him (that was never uploaded, I think. I liked how I drew his face back then but alas from the hair to the body to the incomplete clothes I just... couldn't like it)
He looks like his older sister, who is the mother of AU!Arslan! Also he's Shapur's hubby. Go figure.
I still need to add his tats but that will come with the colouring stage (I haven't even decided what they should look like 😭 Does anyone got suggestions? 😭) I need to add his bracelet too, almost forgot.
Kubard to Kayra after meeting a pretty girl in a bar and spending the night with her
Kubard: Maybe I should marry her? She was really a beauty and we were immediately attracted to each other
Kayra *slightly irritated*: "Oh she must be really special if she has you wrapped around her finger like that".
Kubard *dreamily*: "Yes it seems so" Kayra: "what color are her eyes?" Kubard *full of pride*: Like the sea after a storm Kayra: "and that would be....?" Kubard *hesitatingly*: "…….beautiful?"
FUCKING FINALLY I DREW AYUNNEN AND KASHI. Featuring Kayra aka the unfinished one in red. My surface pro's battery died (thank fuck I was able to save this in the first place before it went “nope” 😅) Kayra is @marchdancer 's OC, from their fic series Heroine of the Slaves!
The one in dark cyan is Ayunnen, an OC of mine and the biological father of AU!Arslan. And an adoptive father of AU!Gieve. The woman in armor is Kashi, Ayunnen's wife, Arslan and Gieve's mother, though of course one of them she picked up like a stray. Kashi is also Kazai's older sister, which would make her Shapur's sister-in-law 😂
FUCK I forgot to add the earrings and marriage bands. Eh I'll add it later. Can't do it now anyways... I'm not quite satisfied with Kayra's hair situation yet either. Gotta fix that.
Here are some close-ups!
I'll colour Kazai I promise
A quick little sketch fest to force myself to not obsess over how polished a piece will look as a final product, just getting ideas out and getting myself to draw more. I did this instead of starting on Isfan's design sheet, lol. I'll get to it.
It's Kazai and one (1) Kashi! There was supposed to be one more, but I ran out of fuel. I'll draw that one later.
Some close-ups!
Flat colors for Kashi!
Progress on the Kashi WIP! I'm quite very happy with how it's turning out :D
Some close-ups of the parts I'm really proud of!
Even more progress on Kashi! I'm quite happy with how she's turning out.
Some close-ups for details:
Her hair looks so soft and silky. The shading is so on point. I really love her.
Finally she is done!!! Kashi!!
I love this man and his charming smile. The hair looks wonderful, it looks so silky. Absolutely in love with the artwork.
Kazai is finally done! This was a fun one to work on, especially with the pose and the flowy clothes. They're based on the first design on his design sheet but uh, I modified it a bit to be more flowy and I forgot to add the embroidery detailing only to realize the fact after I finished everything else. Oops? So I tried to compensate via giving him a neat earring. Oops?
His entry in the Trilogy™ I'm planning (Kashi, Kazai, Ayunnen) is supposed to contrast against his sister's in that she's dark and settled and solid while he's a flowy free whirlwind in motion— while still bearing some resemblance with her (familial resemblance because they're siblings, they wear their boots in a similar way).
Okay so, I planned this, right? I drew Kashi facing left because whenever I tried drawing her from that side it tended to look really bad and I was determined to make at least one attempt turn out nice, trying to draw her from her “bad” angle. And I did! And I'm super proud of that. But I planned, to have the black-haired siblings facing away from each other, flanking Ayunnen who is facing the screen. And since I drew Kashi facing left, it's only natural to draw Kazai facing right.
The problem.
The problem is that.
Kazai's very recognizable tattoos that I specifically placed to make him look feral, they're on the side of his face that'd be obscured.
Ah, yes, the consequences of my own stubborn hubris.
Also the braid killed me.
Anyways enjoy this one, and please look forward to the upcoming Ayunnen!
Bonus closeup:
Ayunnen has begun 👀
Ayunnen's flat colors done! Still debating whether I want to include the necklace Shapur gifted him in this piece.
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!
The trio put together! I'm not stoked with how the background turned out— FireAlpaca starts acting weird and laggy whenever I use a brush size larger than 100— and blending and blurring these three backgrounds together took a brush size around 300 to see any significant effect sooooo. Yeah.
They're three of the so far six OCs introduced in my fic Winds of Wolfsong (soon to be seven to be eight to be— damn why does the cast keep expanding?!) (oh wait I know why, because Tanaka didn't provide me with enough characters from certain social classes to fill the gaps for the kind of story I want to tell, which isn't necessarily his fault, he wanted to tell a war epic, I wanted to tell a character and emotion driven story with themes of cooperation coexistence and community, how creation is sacred and way harder than destruction, which necessitates the appreciation of those outside of the nobility and warrior classes to shine light on the crafters and the servants, also magic plays a much bigger role both in the present and in the defeat of Zahhak which led me to fill in the gaps with even MORE OCs... damn), these three in particular debuted in the first chapter. From left to right are: Kashi (AU!Arslan's biological mother), Ayunnen (AU!Arslan's biological father, married to Kashi), and Kazai (Kashi's younger brother, AU!Arslan's biological uncle who makes a return in chapter 2).