Wintersday at New Skrittington

Finally. FINALLY. This piece has been in progress since the 16th, and I've slaved to finish it on time for Christmas. I'm a day late at this point but Christmas hasn't ended yet for some of you folks 👀

This painting depicts the Exalted and the skritt celebrating Wintersday (Guild Wars 2's version of Christmas) in New Skrittington in Auric Basin. Like my previous skritt and Exalted fan art pieces, this was yet another painting that followed the same vein. I also wanted to create a continuity to this New Year's art piece I made of Tarocheeki and Yeduld, and I figured Kwadii receiving a Festive Winter Hood from Speelunkk was the perfect idea. I also wanted to couple this with a bunch of other ideas floating in my head, like Volaar finding himself in servitude to the skritt for some reason, and my character and my guildies' characters making cameos throughout all these paintings and fan art pieces.

Merry Christmas and Merry Wintersday, everyone. This painting was such a huge undertaking and I'm so excited to just share it with all of you to commemorate the holidays. 🎄💕 Have a lovely celebration, guys!

VS. MacRoich

"Come and know the overwhelming power of youth!"

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While I was in Japan the other week, I was playing a lot of Housamo while I was holed up in my hotel and I played through the Battle of the Valentines series of past events. The featured character was Fergus MacRoich, based on the same character from the Irish Ulster Cycle. I was initially kinda iffy about him, as I am with a lot of Housamo characters, but over time I grew to like him. Quite easily my husbando of the month, as Kengo, Kyuma, nor Seth from the event didn't really do much to change my general perception of them as just mere friends of the protagonist. 😎

Despite how almost AR card-ish this looks I'm not actually too pleased with how this has turned out. It's primarily because I was trying to aim for a particular style with this and I didn't seem to nail it all that well. The pose didn't help much either, but I thought I could still make it work. By the time I realized it wasn't doing it for me I had already accomplished so much work on MacRoich's model, and I decided to hope and pray that my landscape would help salvage the whole piece. Thankfully it has, somehow.

After this piece though, I think I won't be letting a picker wheel decide my art fate for a good while. 😅

Victoria Hearthwell (2022)

Oh, I truly feel a particular rush of pride when I see one of my oldest OCs no longer presented in black and white, but in full color. FOR ONCE.

Tori has existed since the early 2010's, with a wholly different design back then, as well as a different backstory. Much of both has changed, and I'm more pleased with how she is now compared to before.

My god, I'm still blown away by how well her left hand turned out. Goddamn. That is peak hand drawing right there. 😌