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behind the scenes (art process)

I tried out a different shading method!! Had so much fun with it. Usually I draw each shadow placement but this time I wanted the lighting to be more dramatic and have more dark areas.

So I started with everything shaded then erased the parts where I wanted the light to hit.

I loveeeee the lighting test sketch, so simple, pure vibes, just nice contrast lighting hehehe

Had to use more brain power thinking of where the highlights would be for overhead lighting.

Plus almost lost my mind trying to figure out how to invert the selection of pixels to the transparent pixels, played around with mask layers and eventually searched online (should’ve done this in the first place)

This is where I learnt a nice little trick called CTRL+click on the layer thumbnail (thank god for the past csp artists who struggled with the same thing, I learn from your passed down wisdom)

Eventually I was able to add more highlights and oomph for the non shaded parts

Also I struggled with Tim’s left arm quite a bit, there was a weird gap between Cass’ cheek, Tim’s shoulder, and Cass’ arm wrapping from behind. Played around with different poses to see which worked anatomically!

Also using a reference really helped for the crying faces!! My initial sketches made Tim look like a meme and I was struggling lmao

I’m back. With more art for Banshee in a Well!!!!!

(on ao3 by @liverobinreaction / @bugbeee)

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Firstly, my favourite dynamic in the fic was Tim & Cass

Best siblings ever, the last chapter gave me so much healing. She really was there for Tim and comforted him.

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Arms wrap around him, warm and familiar, a head of black hair tucking into his neck as he freezes. Cassandra has always been the strongest of them all, and he can feel it in the way she’s gripping him like he’ll disappear any moment now, body trembling and face wet from where it’s pressed against his skin.

Carefully, Tim brings his arms up to hold Cass back. She’s always cried loudly, almost out of spite for the silence beaten into her as a child. But right now, she weeps without a sound. He swallows, his own eyes burning as he buries his face into her collarbone, fingers twisting into the sweater he recognises as his own.

Neither of them says a word for a while. They just hold onto one another and try to breathe.

“I am not leaving. Not again. Not anymore.”

“Cass,” he says, voice dangerously close to cracking, but she just squeezes his wrists gently.

“It is not okay,” she whispers brokenly, but with a kindness he hates and loves in equal measure, “and that is alright.”

“Cry, stupid,” she says, voice trembling.

And Tim-

Tim breathes.

And he finally breaks.

He collapses forward into his sister, chest heaving with sobs that practically tear their way out of his throat, and it hurts more than any death he’s died before. Cass is crying with him, loud and open, but she doesn’t stop holding him, she doesn’t let him go for a second.

(God I eat up all these quotes from the fic. THE AUTHOR IS AMAZING I LOVE THEIR WRITING SO MUCH) *proceeds to ugly cry during every reread*

Timelapse:

Alright I realized that I maybe should tell all of you that might care what the plan is:

Im going to draw art for my main 3 AUs that are actually developed and make individual posts for them. All the minor/undeveloped AUs will be posted together in one big post. I'm currently planning on posting them all at the same time, but there is the possibility I'll start posting some before the rest if the drawing takes too long.

If you're curious about the current progress on the drawings, 1 is almost done (just needs shading), 1 is at a fairly fleshed out sketch stage, and the last one is a very rough early wip.

I kinda want to post about my various eternatus centric swsh AUs. But like, do I make a drawing for each? Just make a massive text post? Idk