March 2013

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My buddy Renqa is really into demon!Stiles and I felt like drawing something kind of fast and simple, so! That happened.

p.s. she is also drawing a demon!Stiles doujin and you should probably go pre-order that shit, yo.

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If any of you good folks have Line Play, you can add me! It is stupid cute, what the hell is this. My invite code is ER-4950-9001!

Give me all the gems, suckas. (ﾉ´ヮ´)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

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I was waffling for a while on which of Stiles’ parents was the god, but ended up settling on his mom for the AU. 

Both Stiles and Lydia’s mothers are part of a triple goddess who primarily preside over life and death (amoung other things). Unfortunately, the triple goddess are also the only ones in the pantheon who die, by cycling through the Maiden, Mother and Crone. The cycle ends with death and then starts up again with rebirth, but as an entirely new goddess, with no memory of the previous life. The Sheriff isn’t aware of the cycle and Stiles isn’t inclined to tell him about it, afraid the knowledge would just hurt him more. Stiles is convinced that his mother giving birth to him drained her and ended the cycle earlier than it would have gone, had he never been born.

Corvids are familiars of the triple goddess, though. And while the goddess that was his mother doesn’t recognize him as her son (the same with Lydia’s mother, when she eventually ends), her magic/nature does, and crows and ravens naturally flock to both Stiles and Lydia to act as guides. They are also not particularly fond of Derek at first and there will be a lot of fur pulling.

Lydia’s role in the pantheon is essentially Persephone/Kore because reasons.

Anyways, after the failure with Scott, Peter decides that targeting people who already have a connection to the underworld/cycle of life & death would be ideal, and two young gods (well, a goddess and a demigod) with that parentage? Hell yeah. Not wanting another failed connection and running out of time, he tries two methods: Lydia he attacks the same way he did Scott, while Stiles he attempts to get the consent of, by promising him things like more power, and knowledge of how to achieve immortality for his father so Stiles would never have to worry about losing him. 

Stiles obviously refuses, even if he lies through his teeth to do it, but in the end it doesn’t matter for Peter since the connection to Lydia takes, and it eventually allows him to crawl his way back out of the underworld.

More from this AU

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I haven’t really yet bought the sorta popular headcanon that Lydia is a witch, and I’m way more interested in the idea of her being completely immune, including to magic. Word of God, last I heard, is that Stiles himself isn’t magic, but his will meets the right criteria that allows him to wield objects that are. 

Basically I really dig duality (and trinities, but that’s for another drawing), and the idea of Stiles sparking magic while Lydia smothers it is delightful.

Will Jade ever stop using circles? We just don’t know.

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Oh gosh, I don’t even know. I wanted to do another set, with all of the kids as inspired by different mythical beasties from wherever they had roots. I got lazy, though! Oops.

All of the Hales are Black Dogs, Derek specifically is Moddey Dhoo/Mauthe Doog, a Black Dog who supposedly haunts Peel Castle, which is pretty much what Derek does anyways around the Hale house. Stiles originally was going to be Zduhać, but then I stumbled across the Leshy, which was too perfect to pass up, so. (As for the other kids, Jackson was going to be a Changeling, Allison was going to be the Beast of Gévaudan for ~*irony*~. I got too lazy before I got around to anyone else.)

Words come from Sir Walter Scott in The Lay of the Last Minstrel for Moddey Dhoo, and a poem I stumbled across that’s only cited as a folktale about Leshy.

And it is almost 5am, gOOD NIGHT.

edit: I got rid of the pink & blue fill b/c now that I’m awake, I wasn’t really sold on it!

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Some art process thing

duckyreads asked hydrae: Augh, I’m the worst at remembering when I’ve asked something properly vs when I’ve just contemplated asking it, so I apologize profusely if this is a repeat, but – would you consider doing a walkthrough / tutorial on any of your art pieces? I’m curious to see what your process looks like. I understand the cellphone-pics-to-Sai in theory, but seeing it somehow would be really cool (esp if you ink in raster, or lineart layers – & how you choose colours, & so on…)

I CAN CERTAINLY TRY!! But it’s really not anything special or interesting;;

So this is how I do art things!

I actually draw on any paper handy because I’m pretty much out of Bristol, which is what I generally like to use when I want to ink by hand, and I haven’t felt like shelling out the money to buy a new pack. So instead I’ve been drawing in this shoddy little moleskine sketchbook I’d gotten in a pack of three for some holiday or another. 

So when I go to start drawing, a cat shows up and lays down right on it.

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Once I get the cat to go away, I do some dumb sketches. They vary in size because it doesn’t really matter since I’m just going to end up inking over it digitally anyways.

This is what the sketches for Derek and Stiles looked like.

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(I finished sketching Derek way earlier, hence the lighting change;; Also Stiles was originally supposed to be with a living wolf but then I wanted to use the skull again, soooo. ALSO I DON’T KNOW IF YOU NOTICE but stiles was originally facing the same way as Derek, but I flipped the sketch later)

My sketches vary between kinda neat and hella messy. Oops. ANYWAYS.

I never feel like digging out my scanner (usually there is a cat on it. I HAVE THREE OF THEM, THEY ARE ON EVERYTHING), so I just take cell phone photos and email them to myself. I change the sizes & dpi in the Change Resolution tab in SAI, and then inkkkk.

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The blue parts in the Stiles one and the white lineart in both were done in different layers, but I’d merged them into one after I finished. Also, I generally don’t ink using black! I usually use a colour, so I can mess with it in Filter > Hue and Saturation. 

After that, I usually do the skin, but these had limited colouring, so have the lineart & skin of that Stiles & Lydia thing

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With skin I just mess around with the Water and Marker tools in SAI until I get what I want. There’s not really any method to it, at all;;;;;

Then I do the rest of the colouring!

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I already knew what colours I wanted to use because of the beasties I’d chosen for them (Moddey Dhoo has red eyes, the Leshy has blue blood and a red scarf).

I really don’t need the sketch layer anymore, but I keep a dark bg so I can see what’s going on. I usually bucket tool all the white, which inevitably bleeds under the lineart, and I’m planning to make them transparent anyways so I open them in Photoshop and drop a stroke.

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Layer, I mean. Not an actual stroke. That would be terrible.

SAI sadly doesn’t have a stroke tool (as far as I know???) and also no text tool, so pretty much everything after this is the most basic stuff in Photoshop (which is still a mystery to me, hence why I use SAI for EVERYTHING).

(Also I could just go in and erase all the bits of the white bg that bled through, but aesthetically I like the stroke more, so!)

I usually leave it there, but this time I selected the white bg and filled it in with the pink & blue for.. some reason. I don’t know, it was after 4am and I can’t be held responsible for my actions. But then after that it was just the text and trying to move the words around to try and get them to fit, which probably took me the longest and was the most frustrating thing ever and I’m not bothering to screenshot it augh.

And then I just removed the gray bg so it’s transparent and uh.

That’s it. That’s the story.

I HOPE YOU ENJOYED IT AT LEAST….???? 

Have another cat.

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Back at the end of s2 at some point, Raya asked me what I thought Teen Wolf would be like if the show took place a year after the fire, rather than six. My first thought was THAT WOULD BE ADORABLE but then my second thought was NO WAIT THAT’D BE HORRIBLE. Genuinely traumatizing things happen to them as is, so imagine how awful it’d be to a bunch of 11-12 year olds and a maybe-16/17 year old. I’d totally watch it.

I don’t remember anything about being 11/12, so?? ALL I KNOW IS THEY’D BE TINY. I actually have a whole line up of sketches of the kids as uh, kids, but Stiles and Allison were the only ones I liked the result of so shhh.

Made myself sad when I realized Stiles’ mom is potentially in the process of dying at that point too. \o/ Awesome.

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Once in a blue moon I will draw original things. THERE WAS ONCE A TIME WHEN I NEVER DREW FANART HA Ha ha /lies down

A while back, I started making a bunch of superheroes by hitting random page on the superpower wiki, and this is Cosmonaut, who has the power of cosmic manipulation. Most of the time she just hits people with blunt objects since hurling baddies into event horizons willy-nilly can be kind of dubious business. She generally wears different kinds of helmets and masks, depending on how she feels, but I didn’t feel much like drawing them;;;

Basically her and her crews deal is that they were really really bored one day and decided to fight crime, and they’re kind of alright at it. Sometimes.

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More bb!Wolves, now with less sad and more Scott.

ladyofthelog/verity has been writing about tween wolves and in it, Scott sprouts claws when he gets nervous. And it got stuck in my head because the mental image of him burying his hands in his pockets and walking around like that is so awkward and adorable, help.

More about this AU (since I guess I started another one)