If Anyone Asks, I'm Not Soos

First few designs as well as some notes.

Rough draft of the design, and Llewelyn being a dork around St. Aidan.

Final design.

Title's referencing Gravity Falls ahah. So, I designed St. Aidan of Lindisfarne for the whole Pre-SOK gang. The dude's got no relation to Aidan in the movie, except by name. I stuck with the cloud idea for hair since it was a theme used for Colmcille, representing divinity and Heaven.

The Secret of Kells (c) Tomm Moore

A Visit with Llewelyn

 "Hey! Hey! Great-Uncle Llewelyn!" Rowan shouted, running across the fields to the monastery.

 Llewelyn turned around from gathering herbs in the garden, recognizing his grandnephew's voice. He gasped in delight, seeing his grandnephew head towards the short walls to climb over them. Rowan jumped down, landing on all fours like a cat. His fluffy blond hair was tangled with small sticks and leaves, and his clothes were stained with grass and dirt.

 "Oh, Rowan, how do you always get yourself in such a mess?" chuckled Llewelyn, picking out the twigs in his grandnephew's hair.

 "Because I'm an animal, that's what," joked Rowan, raising his hands as though they were paws, "I prowl through the woods, looking for prey to catch."

 Llewelyn laughed, amused at Rowan's response. He took a glance to his left, noticing his apprentice finally entering the garden from the monastery. The apprentice had a pale complexion with rather dark hair. His robes were of the dark colors of green moss and the interior of blue caves. The apprentice kept his hood up, for he was a shy one and never said much.

 "Ah! Odhrán! Glad you could join!" Llewelyn shouted out pulling the apprentice in, "Rowan, I don't believe you've met my apprentice yet. This here is Odhrán."

 "Hello! I'm Rowan! Nice to meet ya!" Rowan greeted.

 Odhrán looked around, looking for something to say back. He felt himself tense up, but managed to relax somewhat.

 "The pleasure's all mine...," Odhrán said, his voice quiet and hushed. He walked off, getting himself to gather the herbs in the garden. Rowan looked on, worried if he said something wrong.

 "Oh, don't mind him. You were just fine, Rowan," reassured Llewelyn, "He never talked much. I found him when he was a beggar not too long ago. I suppose the reason he never was open to others was some sort of event that scarred him. Whenever I asked, he would change the story every time."

 "That's terrible," Rowan sighed.

 "Aye. Though it does seem he's finding peace here," Llewelyn replied with optimism, "He has talked of sitting alone in caves. Heh, I don't think I'd be able to manage that. I'd go insane! Well, even more than I am anyways. The lad's got guts, Rowan. I hope you can be as gutsy as him one day."

 Rowan looked up to his great-uncle and beamed. He felt he was already on his way to being as gutsy and having a taste for adventure.


-So, Llewelyn and Rowan are actually related, with Llewelyn as a great-uncle. In the actual timeline of things, they never met due to Llewelyn having passed away before Rowan was born, but I came up with an AU where they do meet each other in each other's lifetime. Thought it would also be fun to have Rowan interact with a young apprenticed Odhrán :).

The Secret of Kells (c) Tomm Moore

Skithei Reference Sheet 2018

Aaaaa here it is! I've changed Skithei's design a little bit. Her design from this post is still a thing, it's just her fall and winter colors while this here is her spring and summer colors.

Anyway here's some extra info
- She's a major-league ditz ahah.
- Sweaters are her go-to, extra points if she wears an Irish sweater.
- But if the weather's warm, she wears bohemian and hippie clothing (long skirts and embroidered peasant shirts are encouraged :D).
- Her species is a falsk, an original species that bears characteristics of plants, so she bears the characteristics of moss and wildflowers.

I animated a thing!

It's kinda bad, but just a little practice thing with keyframes and inbetweens :).

Another Sketchdump! :D

A fae formed out of Llewelyn's rather trippy experiences. They're a figment of his imagination ahah.

Just a sketch of them running. 

I made a small hand reference sketch ahah. 

Just a positive vent art of my sona Skithei.

He need some milk ahah. Here's Alastar before he became the abbot of Lindisfarne, and he was the leader of a militia.

tRIpPiN hECK. Here's Llewelyn having an existential crisis in his herb garden.

The result of talking with my friend. We came to the conclusion that Llewelyn might as well be a hippie ahah.

Got a little experimental with my set of watercolor pens for designing the fae above. Again, just mostly sketches of some SOK stuff and some original art of Skithei.

The Secret of Kells (c) Tomm Moore