Too Loose, Lautrec

What can I say? He meets the criteria.

Messing around with pastels.

Finally redesigned Arran and gave him some color as well as some more backstory. After Faolán's confrontation with Alastar and escape to Iona, Colby had no-one else to turn to who would truly understand him. Then, Arran sent him a vision in a dream to meet halfway to his home village. It wasn't easy sneaking out of the monastery, for Alastar was growing paranoid and took to violence and aggression on any sort of suspicious activity. Nevertheless, Colby summoned his courage and made it out to meet the little owl-like shaman. From there, Arran and Colby grew very close, having faced the darkest spirits and the darkest natures of men.

Close-up on Arran and Colby. Made Colby a little older and more into his teens.

Some Lautrec studies as well as a redesign of Arran and a dumb sketch of Frollo.

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (c) Disney and Victor Hugo

Y'all know what it is

Some memes I've made over the past few months. Bottom's one a design I made for yet another AU (oops).

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what if I want to make you understand that the path you chose leads to downfall

but you only understand the language of the sword...
I've been low-key obsessed with this song as of late. And the lyrics fit Alastar here quite well, I must say. Well, the English part that is, I don't know the Proto-Germanic lyrics :'>.

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ॐ

when you sit on Mt. Kailash,
does it get lonely up there?
is it quiet and serene?
is the wind gentle on you?
and when you chant ॐ,
does all become still?

-I wrote the poem back in February or January?? And here's the crazy old hippie to go along with it :'3.

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New Characters!!

A little something different than the usual SOK things for now. This is the product of me trying to replicate Nico Marlet's style and living childhood nostalgia, so here are some Kung Fu Panda fan characters. I'll be doing a bit with these two, I hope. It's fun trying out new things :3c.

Kung Fu Panda (c) DreamWorks Animation

Character Projection

I saw this and I was like, "aw yeah!!"

here are the rules :
> ocs that apply and explain how they reflect your own self, be it experiences or traits
> ocs that were born out of some phase you were going through or who represent a certain emotion that was/is prevalent for you.
> ocs that function as a punching bag for you


Skithei - She's always been me?? I mean, she's my sona, so she's got everything I am but 1000x. Like I'm kind of shy so she's a hecking hermit and I'm a loon so she's bouncing off the walls I guess. I do use her in vent stuff
cuz doi

Faolán - A pre-SOK fan character. he's smart but he's actually really pompous. So he represents the qualities in me that are more snobbish (I'm working on that, I'm not as “r/im14andthisisdeep” as I used to be.. maybe.)

Odhrán - Faolán's mentor. tbh he kind of takes after me now in a less attached way like Skithei. He doesn't talk much, he meditates in a cave (goals). Like he wasn't made around this time, but when I was a worm in 2015-2016, I was struggling and I had this aspiration (still do) of running away into the woods and just being one with nature. so he really takes after that.

Rowan - Pretty much me being a nerd. When i see good art, I'm like “tEACH mE!!”. Probably a reflection of me when I was a tad younger.

Llewelyn - Hoo boy, I got everything!! So he's a huuuge comfort character for me. I draw him a lot as shown here. I mean, yeah I sound crazy but he's helped me a lot through some crazy shiznit that happened in the last 7 months or so. He's everything I want to be in life. A hecking loon but the reason being is because he's transcended the social norm and found true happiness and inner peace and gives advice in the strangest ways. Like I want to be “that one guy who’s a crazy hippie”. That’s him, right there. A crazy old hippie.

Colby - There isn’t much about him I relate him with tbh (except angst). But like his angst is from being emotionally abused by Alastar for years and the fact he just wants to be loved for once while I feel as though I need to go through some shiznit. Like I feel as though I haven’t truly lived. So yeah, we’re full of angst, but for different reasons.

Rinan - He’s a dork, I’m a dork. He was created when I was super into murder mysteries and stuff (still am tbh) and he was supposed to be a detective character before suddenly getting killed off by Alastar, but his story’s changed from that now.

Kauko - Rinan needed a lover, and I was reading about shamanism around the time, so that created him.

Siorus - He’s me at my worst tbh. He’s a whining cynic, but doesn’t have the guts to actually put up a fight so he just sits and mopes and is just passive-aggressive.

Alastar - I mean he’s everything I don’t want to be. He and I have ambitions, but he uses his ambitions to make people suffer, while I hope I’m not using my ambitions to break people and such. He suffers a massive ego death, though the ego death isn’t like the hippy-dippy “becoming one with nature and la-di-da true happiness” shiznit. It ain’t pretty and it hecking hurts and it’s hecking terrifying for him.

i tag anyone who reads this and wants to do this.

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more of the AU I guess (kind of)

Some ink got onto his face but hey, I think it adds to it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

So I have a headcanon that Llewelyn is called "the Laughing Baba" because of how frequently he laughs. Especially during meditation.

*aggressive sitar playing*

Got to designing Alastar in the AU. He's an officer of the British Raj stationed at Varanasi (though his actual residence is a bungalow several miles away). He looks down on the locals, seeing them as uncivilized people who follow a backwards tradition. However, it humbled him when Odhrán saved his life after a riot, making him reconsider who is really civilized.

It's been a while since I posted a sketchdump like this one :'>. Life has been having me busy, but I'm getting back on track. It'll be easier in the spring and summer.

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