Trying To Figure Out How To Draw This Kid

Ship dynamic: She's everything, and he's just Ken/Worships the ground she walks on gotta be one of my favorites honestly

outsiders request? Sick Ponyboy and Darry and Soda caring for him? bonus points if you make ponyboy look really feverish and on the verge of tears

Lol do i get bonus points 🤩

The beginning of his transformation

Muscles

Redid my Empires season 1 Joel, easily my favorite perspective to watch

While I DO understand the point of the full British suit. I hate it and I wanted to do smthn different

So I took inspiration from Arabic Sultans as well as the Anasazi tribes (the ppl who built the Mesa-Verde ), I wanted to give a colorful but sharp and prideful air to him, sort of like a flashy bird

So mostly pinks, blues, and greens that would stand out strongly against the dusty oranges of the Mesa, as he wants to be seen EASY. His main color is the pinkish-purple of his original jacket w/ complementaries of the yellow and green, with blue to add visual diversity. The patterns are inspired off of north-mexican native weaving patterns & Arabic geometric architecture, but heavily simplified

He has pearls littered around his clothes from Lizzie bc he loves her <33 he has a leaf on his head that he insists is normal and natural bc he doesn't believe in magic (he also ignores his enchanted items)

Joel is also actually usually really dirty/dusty, and he takes extreme care to be presentable to any other rulers, he goes thru like 7 pairs of gloves a day cus they get stained real easily

He's very strong tho, from carrying all the clay/concrete, he can pick up lizzie no probles 💪💪 may redraw Joey next idk

Hot take that a lot of people won't like, but labeling C!Tubbo as simply "Ferial, crazy boy with nukes that loves explosions🔥👹," is as generalizing and simplistic as people who think "soft, bee boy who loves flowers and sunshine🥺🐝🌷"

Please, I'm begging you, C!Tubbo is so much more amazing and complicated than either of those! But yeah, simply just my thoughts, anyone can think differently!

[Part 1 - Joel / Part 2 - Joey / Part 3 - Kathrine]

I'm ashamed to say I've never actually watched any of Sausage's eps for empires, I'm pretty sure the only content of his I saw was Joey interacting with the Church of the Blood Sheep I think???? But bc of that, this design was so hard 😩 I went with his king skin tho cus I feel it's the most recognizable

I went almost entirely just European, specifically like the royal paintings where they have very wide shoulders. I wanted him to be very square and broad, that he looks strong and immovable.

But, when you look closer, you realize how impractical and bulky he actually is, which hints at how he's egotistical and too prideful for his own good. His only armor/weapons are iron, and everything else is gold, also leaning into that idea.

For the rest of everything, I just leaned into the lore of blood. Every animal except the Blood Sheep can 'give blood', either to the Sheep or to Sausage if he needs a regen. I fought with the idea of sausage not having blood of his own but idk, I kinda want him to just so he can offer to the Blood Sheep

BTW the Blood Sheep constantly pours blood from its soaked wool, it acts like water in the kingdom. And the dogs are a hive mind, connected by blood frfr (I think that's how all blood-related people would be in mythland? Tho maybe it'd also be smthn that requires the Blood Sheep idk)

Since I’ve shown speedpaints in other ones I’ll show his here too fr ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

MANNN...

Dame Katherine, Guardian of the Spring and The Overgrown

(This is the first time that I will apologise for my handwriting)

(Lore under the cut)

The ruler of the Overgrown is always chosen by the Spring, although the reasons why they are chosen seem to always differ. In Katherine's case, it seems that her neutral stance on conflict was a large part of this, as she is Dame in an uncertain time

Hair and wings are very important in fae culture; hair shows age (and presumably wisdom) while wings, the most delicate part of the body, are protected and showed off. It is very tacky to wear clothes that clash with your wings