Remi-chan's Neato Arty thread thing!

[Remi-chan]

So late into Mammal March i had an image of Xaela pop into my head, and a recurring theme with Xaela is despite how much i draw her, she always seems to fall short in my HD renders. Well, that stops now!

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THE ELDEN SEER

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There is no shame in embracing death! Fear without reason is like a tomb without a body.

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It was a bit over 8 hours overall which given the end result, is a very good time for me. I had some real hang ups in regards to the background, starting with overstimulated everything before settling for something more simple yet striking. You can see that struggle in the speed draw about mid-way through.

This is easily one of my most well shaded pieces, even if in some small amount the lighting is a little inconsistent due to there not being a directly evident visual light source beyond the sunrays coming from above which are eclipsed by the planet- the implication being its just another world Xaela has corrupted entirely into an extension of her already insanely massive army.

What I really like about Xaela in this piece is her clear laser focus and her expression... I mean look at it.

She's threading that razor-thin line between anger, curiosity and skepticism. This is a more typical look for the Evil God, she often wears a sinister smile, but it's not her default. She's a torrential bottomless pit of hatred, anger and frustration grown over quadrillions of years of watching the G0Ds fuck up and mortals get their way.

Xaela is scary in that she doesn't immediately give away how angry she is and has been for a very long time. More commonly approaching her subjects with a calm and collected manner of communication, coming off as eccentric and even jovial at times- when in reality, it's only because she's learned to control her emotions that she isn't brutally murdering them on sight.

She is a dangerous omen, meeting her could go fine- or it could go horribly! But it's of note that there are less people who can reasonably oppose Xaela than you have fingers to count on your hands. Two of those are embodiment class beings and the others are insanely powerful outer gods or not even existent yet in the timeline.
SAI Paint Tool || Photoshop CS6

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Simian Speed Draw #187 ~Elden Seer

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[Remi-chan]

A human magician girl this time!

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ARCHANUL MYSTICISM

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An apocalypse came from the ancient king's curse. Waves of sand eclipsing the giants would rise to consume the Desert Jewel of Nordia-- where her family lived, where she was raised. An empire of dirt, soon to be reduced to it. Fed to the very jaws of the beast, thousands of lives lost-- in service of feeding the weeping monarch. A price to be paid, for LESS than nothing.

But the sands had been shifted against their will. From the despair arose a bold princess who refused to sit idly by as the flood came to devour her home. Calling all of the commonfolk to the jewel-encrusted capital, Nikki Hirogashi devised an utterly insane plan. A massive area spell with one goal...

Turn that which flows free to that which cannot. She intended to freeze the waves via stoking the flame. It is knowledge in Nordia that when superheated, sand turns to glass.

And so to protect her people, and save her pocket of the world and stop the weeping monarch's curse in its tracks, she would utilize the heat offered by all three of the archanul moons to turn the forgotten sands solid. A kingdom of glass to replace a tomb of sand.

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This shit took me 10 and a half hours due to all the difficulty I had with the linework, particularly the ankles and legs area.

So below is all of that compressed in a 17 minute timelapse, whee~!

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Simian Speed Draw #188 ~Archanul Mysticism

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