Tears In My Ultima Eyes 💔

the bride n the ugly ass groom ☺️

Nahida redesign! Breakdown below

So I adore Nahida as character, but especially as a southasian I always wished she would have more cultural motifs in her design. I really wanted to see something that could be realistically in the game, that adds to the original, while retaining the few great details hyv put in her design so I thought why not do it myself!

I based her dress on the lehenga instead of having the basic dress, as it's closest to her silhouette (missed opportunity!!!!!!). Its traditional wear, yet not as ancient as the saree which i thought fits nahidas youthfulness. Tbh I just split the dress in 2 lol, as i love her patterns

These prominently feature the bodhi leaf, which in buddhism symbolizes enlightenment and wisdom. So it was important for me to not alter those elements, and I changed almost nothing else on the dress.

What I did change are the sleeve things (?) To an actual dupatta, which is a type of long scarf. Put even more bodhi symbols there. Sorry for bad pic

Additionally I added a maang tikka (head jewelry) and earrings. I kept her bangle and the ghanta bell (used in hindu rituals) on the back as these are the other cultural elements she has.

The Mehndi design is a Lotus to reference one of her inspirations: Anahita, persian goddess of wisdom and flowing waters and where Nahida's name comes from. She is also inspired by hindu goddesses like Saraswati (also goddess of wisdom and more), Aranyani (forest goddess) , a forest fairy from the buddhist Kusanali Jataka tale, and likely even more.

And for the last detail: I gave her anklets, in reference to Aranyani/Rukkhadevata.

One of Rukkhadevatas title was Queen Aranyani, and the actual real goddess is said to have worn anklets with bells that were heard in the forest. Tho I removed the bells, since Rukkhadevata is dead and forgotten now, and so you can't hear her anymore. :')

Bc of it's purpose it's not the flashiest design, but I had so much fun researching, learning so many new things and trying to incorporate them back to Nahidas design! If someone educated has more to add or something I can correct I'd love to hear :)

decided to join a little indie animation project! it’s sort of barely in development, but i love the concepts ^^ I’ll probably be drawing more of the characters once they have more official designs

a bit late for mermay but. obligatory mermaid au

the snippet is so classic Warrior Cats 💀

“oh, hey, buddy! It sure has been-“

*war flashbacks*

When the strapping young tom who saved your clan is also taller than you 👉👈

Fire & Ice said short king Onewhisker rights and I'm never going to forget that.

It's that time of year again, and I continue my tradition of making little pendants for each Art Fight team! These ones were really fun to color, I love the palette for the teams this year.

As always, these are free to use wherever you desire, though crediting me here would be nice! I go by baubleBee on Art Fight as well, either works.

And optionally if you really enjoy seeing these every year, maybe take a peek at my KoFi and drop a tip! Your support really means a lot to me, but really I just love seeing you guys having fun with my banners every year. ^^

first post yaayyy

i have no idea what i'm doing

btw characters from left to right & top to bottom are:

Lunar Falcon

Eclipse Falcon

Sapphire Finch

Solar Falcon

Sky Finch

and they're all drolgons, my original species

Simple Brainrot wasn't enough no no, My brain had to convince me to plan seasonal outfits for this subpar series I never actually finished

(Thank you to @catzgam3rz for pushing me to post this and yelling at me whenever I showed you the finished product :p)

Versions with just the outfits (Like the second Aphmau) Under the cut!

the babes (Lunaris + Onyx)

they r my favs

I still want to design another outfit for Onyx (dark teal hair) bc they wouldn’t wear bright colours tbh

also this is such a callback I think the first thing I posted here was my earliest concepts of these 2 (but I deleted the posts since then)

Melcinda 🫶☕️

my little hc abt them getting closer in s7 :3

i actually need them to become canon they r my everything 😭🙏

so basically Lucinda was one of the very last people with Aaron when he was still himself, and i think Melissa would be curious abt that. In my mind she lives with her brother full time now so she needs to take breaks and talk with the people who knew him before abt how he used to be as part of her grieving process. this would also be how she gets to know the main cast better