Luxor

"This must be the place."

"It's huge... But, don't you think it might not be the house we're looking for?"

Zephyr gave the knight an incredulous look. "Huh? It's literally the biggest house in this village. Wouldn't surprise me if it was."

"Yeah, but for all we know, it might just be some powerful warrior's home, who just happened to want a big house or something."

"Where's the sense in building a big house for some warrior instead of the most important people in the village? Even if it was a powerful warrior, knowing societies like these, the most powerful warrior usually turns out to be their leader."

Eth shrugged. "Some people don't have to be the leader of a community just to show how powerful they are..."

"Either way, we're not gonna find out if this is the right place until we check, yeah? Come on."

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Despite appearances, we're all still in the Aethersphere in this post! This place is the village of Luxor in the floating continent of Iridea. This village is inhabited by Enerhija, but compared to their tech-savvy counterparts in Prismato, the Luxor Enerhija are more primitive and more attuned to nature.

This painting depicts my OCs Etherei and Zephyr paying a visit to the village elders after their arrival in the village. They were instructed to come after they had a good night's rest, but they weren't exactly told which house to go to. 😅

Was trying a new leaf brush for trees in this painting! The canopy looks more leaf-like compared to when I use my gritty brush. This is definitely going to be a brush I use more often from here on out.

Freespirited

We're soaring to the Aether today! This image features my OCs Zephyr and Etherei's first encounter. Zephyr is having the time of her life, but Eth is none too pleased, especially after his scarf got caught on the handle of her Windglider by accident...

I drew a lot of inspiration from windsurfers on Pinterest, and especially from Jim Hawkins on his Solar Surfer from Treasure Planet. The coloring style for the Windglider employs the same techniques I used in painting the Trimaran from nearly a month ago.

I think from here on I want to depict more scenes from the Aether and Radisrol using this style. I still want to create scenes like the Font of Igusa piece though.

Hangout at 4 P.M.

A mundane painting of the Gauntlet Classic parked outside an LTD convenience store in Los Santos, and me meeting up with my OC Kite (whom I featured next to none in my artwork ever since One-Third had been shelved away). 😄 Seeing as autumn is just around the corner, I wanted to create more paintings where the sun starts to set, since I find myself associating autumn with the late afternoon. My original intent was for the scene to be darker than this, but I grew to like this kind of general lighting.

This isn't my first time painting cars in Photoshop, but my last attempt at painting cars in March didn't go very well. Now that I've managed to paint this however, I feel encouraged to go back to that junked art and start over with it again. 💕 Just not immediately, though. 😅

It'd be nice to paint more cars from GTA 5. There's just so many good ones I'd love to see just parked at a bunch of places or just speeding down the highway or something. Doesn't matter too much if the vibe of the painting is dynamic or otherwise; it'd just be neat to see those scenes in this style.

Needless to say, please look forward to more content like this in the near future. 😋✌

Seven years, and still here!

Good lord, has it really been seven years since this blog first went live? Believe it or not, it is! For the first time since 2016, I'm actually going to commemorate my blog's anniversary! 🥳🎉 As part of this celebration, I made some art (though it was for my Twitch channel rather than my blog 😅) and took a second look on some of my past art on stream this last weekend.

Thank you to everyone who has been supporting me for the last seven years, especially those who have remained steadfastly by my side and watched my art grow since then. While I had many lows, I find myself achieving new heights in art, and I look forward to achieving many more in the future.

That said, I do hope you will all continue to join me as I continue ever forward in my art journey. I'm excited to discover and learn new art techniques, bring more of the worlds, characters, and creatures in my mind to life on canvas, and share them all with you for our collective enjoyment.

Cheers to another year of art! 🍹

-Zip

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