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Published: 2011-11-13 06:47:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 602; Favourites: 15; Downloads: 0
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Another 2 OCs of mine! He's carrying her away from sand wyrms (which will remain named such until I find a better name for them. I'd rather give them a place-holder name than wait FOREVER to write the scene (which I just did).).Medium:
digital brushes in Photoshop 4
Time:
roughly 4 hours
Livestreamed?
Yes! You can watch some of it here -> www.livestream.com/amarainsevi… be warned though, the sound is doing something strange and you can hear my off-tone voice in it
More illustrations from this story:
I tried something new with my coloring and used a brush technique similar to the requested picture I did of Nihil I'm liking the technique a lot!
I don't mind the abundant color, it's part of the culture these two are from and I just like it personally. Tell me what you think!Related content
Comments: 22
I like the motion and sense of urgency in this, I also love the way you did the tears welling ip in Kiara's eyes, she looks so confused
I forgit to mention that I like the blue shading on her little top
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She's totally scared and confused. She doesn't know whether or not to entirely trust this man carrying her but given their situation if she wants to survive they have to trust each other.
Yay you caught that! It's a shimmer in the material which hopefully indicates high class
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Poor little thing, so the man is someone she has never seen before? You said they each get a warrior depending on their igni, is he real or does he just appear when she needs him (it's alright if you don't want to give too much away!)
Hoorah!
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Nope, this one is a stranger to her. He ends up being in her life for a few years. Their circumstance and his backstory was fun to write
He's real. The igni are a selection that is supposed to be provided by family members, recommendations, and then either the best working pair is chosen or the child chooses. Either way the decision has to be careful because they're stuck together for life. Well, 'stuck' pending death.
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Oh so he just showed up, well that's got to mean something right? Everything happens for a reason. Oh so they're like bodyguards for life
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Yep. Surprises in her life teach her to roll with the punches as best as she can and that she can always get back up on her feet and fight.
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Well at least her feisty nature makes her easily adapt to change, and not sit there stubbornly refusing, or bemoaning it like some wet blanket, you need characters like that to drive the story otherwise people get fed-up of whiners, or the ones who are unwilling to accept changes coming their way (of course its sometimes fun to have the stubborn ones because realistically there are a lot of people who refuse to change!)
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Yep, and her adapting and changing is what keeps the story going. I really want this storyline to be based on her decisions and not a plot progression. Well, there are also the ones who are stubbornly true to themselves like Kiara. She refuses to be manipulative about it in the way her grandmother was and her mother encourages her but it's hard having her personality and being the young firstborn heir.
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Yeah if she just staryed the same then she'd never have a story. Sometimes you know despite a plot being written, when I write, the characters make choices and their own choice drives the story away from the plot.
Does she ever learn to compramise?
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Yep. Oh yes, she veers a lot during her writing which has me re-adjusting back story and plot so I've learned for any arch or story with her to give only a loose frame which has a start point, a few mid points/milestones, and a handful of end point options, one of which she should at least shoot near depending on her motivations at the time.
Between being in the role of heir and having her personality? Sorta. It still takes a lot of her mother's help as a buffer because she has a very strong way of seeing a situation and saying, "That's immoral/inhuman/stupid and we are NOT doing that" and subsequently follows through. To be fair she learns a lot of this from her mother and her mother acting as her enabler helps her learn to follow through - which just builds up her word. Eventually people learn that if Kiara says she is going to do something, she'll do it.
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Sound's like a good plan of action to me, I should do that more and maybe things would seem better organised lol
Well at least she has a guiding force there by her side to at least push her in the right direction without trying to change her too much, or seize control.
That's a good trait to have I think! At least they can rely on that.
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Yep yep~ I'm trying to figure out how to get her to the point of traveling though. That needs to be her next step for the next book and reasoning it out in Book 1 is harder than I thought it would be.
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Well you'd have to think of why she has to travel, she has to have a reason for moving away from a comfy spot, once you figure that out, the rest would be easy. Maybe she's not comfortable where she is? Maybe she feels like she has to find a place where she is, and so she moves on
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Hm. I think I want her affect people on a smaller scale and perhaps she shouldn't be regent/princess. Hm. I have to do some digging into Fandovia's background for a bit.
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Thank you! I was wondering if it worked. It's a combination of the brush I used and the way I used the colors. It needs a bit more practice
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Comprehension fail caused me to think of the Sandworms from Dune until I realized you meant Wyrms as in Dragon. DOH! Anyways you ever heard of Olgoi Khorkhoi? They are (semi-mythical?) Mongolian desert worms that supposedly spray acid and do other badass things apparently.
Just a thought
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I did not know about them. I'll keep them in mind for the creature design. Maybe I'll make the older ones spit acid and the younger ones, well, they're just to n00b to do it.
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Everytime I hear sand wyrm, I think of sandworm. Everytime I think of Sandworm, I think of Monster Hunter. Everytime I think of Monster Hunter, I think of unforgiving hate and pain.
Monster Hunter is one mean game.
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I only played the first few hunts with a friend but I wouldn't mind at all having that gunlance >:]
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Had it for the PSP. It is a hateful game once you get past the intro hunts and hunt dragons instead of raptors and rabid boars.
Rewarding whenever you don't get stomped into a fine paste every now and then
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Yeah, it has great art, but I wouldn't want it.
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