u/Right_Entertainer324

All things considered, I think this looks great together. My guy is using:

- Blaidd's Armour

- Malenia's Gauntlet

- Vagabond Knight Greaves

- Bastard Sword

- Digger's Staff

Initially, I was using Igon's Gauntlets, but the chain mesh didn't really match anything, but the glove with Malenia's Gauntlet actually works really nice as an accent colour, as there's a lot of brown accents with Blaidd's Set and the Vagabond Knight's Set, with her actual gauntlet ending up kinda looking like a prosthetic. Which is helpfully also hidden by the cloak from Blaidd's Armour, rather helpfully playing into that idea by hiding the fact that there's no other gold on the arm.

Part of a wip of a kinda baby comic I'm making with Fulgur, and his bf, Keith. The irony of Keith being the old man is that Fulgur's actually 163 years older than Keith. The perks of immortality, I suppose 🤷🏻‍♂️

It's their anniversary today 🤭

So, with having two new members of his family existing now, in his half cousins, Tonitru and Fulgur, and having a more finalised look for his Da (who he takes most of his appearance from), Kairasan's design has become a little outdated, when compared to both. So, he's had an update!

He looks a lot more like his Da, Loranas, now, outside of just their shared condition (both have OCA1), but I also wanted to make him look a bit more.. Ugly, if that makes sense? He's still an attractive and objectively good looking guy, but I've decided to embrace the asymmetry with him, instead of trying to get him to look symmetrical. Still playing about with the levels on how much to play into that with, but his right ear is more concave than his left, and his eyes aren't perfectly straight, to make him look a bit more normal. He is gonna be the protagonist of my comic, so I want him to look interesting and appealing, but also not like he's some hand-crafted perfect being, with a faced carved by angels, if that makes sense 😂. Other smaller details are him having his Da's crystal eyes, over his previous red, to be more accurate to real life human albinos, his eyes now actually reflect his poor vision, with visible deformation in his pupils, and he has a new snowflake tattoo on his chest. A little on the nose, with his frosty locks, but his Da and Dahj both call him 'Snowflake', and, in his in-universe language, 'Kairasan' is made up of the words 'Kaira', meaning 'Snow' or 'Flurry' and 'Asan' meaning 'to fall'. So, his name directly translated is 'Snowfall'. So, I wanted to play into it, a bit.

(And I've helpfully added a drawing of his Da, Loranas, for context 😅)

Been working on some 'post story' looks for my OCs, and I started with Dahj.

He suffers a pretty bad injury, his arm and leg getting broken beyond repair, and taking a blow to his back. Not a life changing back injury, but enough to leave him needing to learn to walk again. And during that time, his muscle loses a lot of definition and he gains some more weight. He's just getting back onto his work out routine, with his bf, Kairasan, in the post story drawing, but he's planning to get his abs back 💪🏿

Also, drawing the body bending is hard! I kinda messed it up, but that's fine, we live and learn!

Crazy though how my general body drawings have improved, now that I've started to actually practise proper gesture drawing without a reference though. Still needs work, but really starting to feel more independent of references

A finished drawing? That's been rendered, detailed and lit? It's a red letter day 🎉

More of my sons, Tonitru and Fulgur, though, because I'm apparently still not out of my obsessed phase with them. I've fallen in love with my OCs, in the past, but words cannot describe how much I adore these guys' characters, lore, dynamic, everything.

Back when Tonitru and Fulgur first joined the New Inquisition, meeting their future partners - Tonitru's now girlfriend, Loretta, a Fidelity angel, and Fulgur's boyfriend, Keith, a Hellborn.

Loretta and Keith are actually already knew each other, having both been part of the New Inquisition for some time, by this point. But Keith also knew the twins, beforehand - He was a regular at their uncle's brothel, the One-Winged Devil.

Still working on Keith's design, and this was Loretta's mock up look and nothing's really set in stone with her, at all. Initially, I'd planned on her and Keith being siblings, which would make Loretta a Hellborn, too (A Hellborn is a human born in Gehenna). Keith's in a sort of similar boat though - I've been playing with the idea of making him a fair bit older than he is, here, and making him a bit weightier. So, there's a lot of lore and design that's not set in stone for either Keith or Loretta, especially Loretta. But this drawing's taken me the best part of two days, so I was really proud of it

I didn't light this, cause this already took me about two days overall to make, that and my lighting isn't great and I didn't want to ruin it XD But rendering's finally starting to click. Still rough, and got lots to improve on, but I get it now XD

When you're dating a demon prince, but that demon prince has the survival instincts of a capybara and is half as smart.

This is Fulgor with his previously eluded to boyfriend, Keith Reyes. Keith is one of the last few humans, and is a first generation Hellborn, a human born in Gehenna. Because of the Divine War, a couple hundred thousand humans were evacuated to Gehenna, owing to the agreement between Demons and Humanity in the Black Heart Concordant, but the prolonged exposure to Gehenna actually changed human's wiring. Pregnancies became a lot harder to conceive, and were successful even more rarely. Keith is one of the few thousand successfully born Hellborns, with a sudden upsurge in successful pregnancies happening within the last 15-20 years. Researchers believe it's a sign that humanity have finally adapted to their current home, but also now fear about what that would mean when they're eventually able to return to Gaia.

Human genetics have changed so much between Gehennan Humans and Gaian Humans that, for the first time, humanity actually now has subspecies among themselves. Whilst visibly the same, Gehennan Humans tend to be taller and a more dense bone structure, owing to the pressure of the Rings of Gehenna, whilst Gaian Humans tend to be shorter and less dense. Gehennan Humans, whilst not entirely common, are sometimes even born with demonic traits. These vary from person to person, but some can be born with claws, rather than nails, some tend to have a more demonic skin tone, and rarely are even born with a tail or horns. Many such mutations have developed in Gehennan Humans, over the past 250 years, and research into them is ongoing.

Keith was born with such a trait, being able to make his saliva venomous, like a lot of Greed, Envy and Hatred Demons can, and he has the natural fangs to do some serious damage, with his teeth. Keith is one of the oldest of the Hellborn, despite only being 21, making him a first generation Hellborn. Demonic traits are the rarest among the first generation, as little as 50 being known with demonic traits of any kind, out of the few thousand of them that are estimated to exist. Keith was born in the Ring of Lust, in it's capital, Serendipity, and is currently living a pretty standard life with his parents and little sister, Marie. Keith spent a lot of his time, as a kid, studying and trying to be a provider for his family, but when he turned 18 started to visit the The One-Winged Devil, the signature brothel of the Ring of Lust that lives underneath the Palace of Ecstasy, where the Deadly Sin of Lust makes his home. He operates and manages almost every brothel and club in Gehenna, the majority, of course, being in Lust. It was here that Keith met the Twin Princes, Tonitru and Fulgor; owing to business, Keith has actually slept with both Princes, but often found himself returning for Fulgor. Eventually, after confronting him about his more than regular visits, Keith confessed his feelings for Fulgor, of which Fulgor was initially dismissive. He'd done it hundreds of times before. People want to be with him, but then find his tics too much, or his past too heavy. But Keith never seemed to care. The two have now been together for coming on 3 years, and if Fulgor isn't with his brother, he's often found with his fiery-haired boyfriend.

I have been drawing, currently, for 128 days. January 1st all the way to May 9th. It has been really damn hard, too. January and February were pretty smooth, and there was a very large development in my skill, after spending so many hours back to back watching tutorials, and trying to apply what they taught me.

March onwards is where I my skill kinda stagnated. There's not really been much change in my skill from March to now. Which is a good thing and a bad thing. It's good, because it means everything I've learned has stuck. But it's bad because it shows the current limitations of my skills. I'm not confident with drawing without a reference, which is what I've been working on since the start of May. Mostly gesture and pose drawings, as my hand-eye coordination isn't great. Breaking down references directly, I can do. I can identify shapes, I can understand why those shapes make up the body, and I can draw those shapes decently well. But when I try and do it away from the reference or without one altogether, I really struggle. As of today, I've been practising with the envelope method to try and get more skilled and confident in drawing my own poses, so hopefully that'll continue to improve.

It's been a long and slow process, but it feels like it's finally starting to pay off. Here's hoping my skills keep improving 😅

Haven't posted here in a hot minute; mostly because my skill's more or less been the same, since about mid March. So, I've been just spending most of my time trying to get better at free hand figure drawing.

As of right now, I still break down references directly, rather than building apart from the reference. It's what works best for me, at my current skill level, but it obviously limits what I can draw. Especially if I try to draw from nothing. So, it's mostly just working on developing my hand-eye coordination, as my general knowledge and understanding is there.

There are two, or I suppose one, new faces here though - Tonitru and Fulgor. They're actually the older cousins of one of my older OCs, Kairasan, of whom a younger version of is in the second drawing. This mostly consists of the twins, but that's because they're who I've been drawing a lot recently, when I've been doing proper drawings, as I've absolutely fallen in love with them. That, and they've been great practise for my age old nemesis, Consistency.

But I've defo hit a wall that I'll only really be able to cross when I get more independent of references, but that's the current long process. I love drawing my OCs, and I've got a fair few of them, now, but the best way to get better with drawing them is being able to draw them fully freely. And that means gesture and figure drawing skills need to go way up. I just wish I knew how, outside of just doing it XD

Also finally drew one of the twins on his own. This one, in particular, is Tonitru, although they have the same outfit. Difference being that Tonitru has a purple cloth round the waist, and Fulgur a golden/yellow cloth. And in case you're suddenly questioning your life choices, no - You're not colourblind. This cloth is, in fact, red. I was initially playing with red and exported this one, but then changed it to purple and it suited it way more. So here it's red, but it should be purple.

The main goal of the outfit was to make it fit both Tonitru and Fulgor's combat style, but also play into their personalities. And, owing to being blood relatives to two Desire Demons who have held the title of Deadly Sin of Lust, whilst also being in line to become the Deadly Sins of Lust, after their uncle and cousin, that goal turned into making their outfit sexy. So, it's tight and almost entirely black, barring the cloths they wear around their waists to help allies differentiate the two of them on the battlefield.

Tonitru's also wearing an earring made of jade, here - Fulgor has the other one. It's part of a pair that belonged to their Da that he wore all the time. They now both wear those earrings to keep their Da with them.

This is a common occurrence.

^(Please excuse my godawful handwriting)

So, I've shared these guys a couple times, in the past few days, but now they're finally finished; these are the Demon Princes Tonitru and Fulgur, elder cousins of my main OC, Kairasan, and second in line to inherit the mantle of Deadly Sin of Lust. Or, is that Deadly Sins of Lust?

The twins were born a few centuries before Kairasan to his father's half brother, Asarin. Asarin was initially meant to overtake his father as Deadly Sin of Lust before Loranas did, but circumstances thrusted Loranas into the role in his place. He held no ill-will to his brother, but he did always wish he was chosen, instead. Tonitru and Fulgur came several millennia later, being born in the early 22nd century on June 7th, 2122, and grew up incredibly close. Being mirror twins, they loved playing pranks on people, swapping places with each other, or simply pretending they were the other brother. And this continued to even getting them out of things. If Tonitru had detention, Fulgur would sometimes go, in his place, and their teachers would be none the wiser. And they realised just how easy it was to get away with it, too. They'd share clothes, sleep together, had almost all the same hobbies - They were almost carbon copies of each other in every way, and they loved it.

Their pretty happy childhood did take a pretty rough turn, though. As they turned 13, Fulgur begged his Da to take him to a new arcade that had just opened, which had all kinds of classics from the 21st century and prior. It was a kid's dream. Asarin eventually caved, and took Fulgur, Tonitru happy to stay behind, as arcades weren't his thing. But whilst on the road, they were stopped by a blockade put in place, due to the ongoing war. There was a pretty big hold up, but nothing unusual. That is, until someone tried to charge through. Chaos broke out, and the angels at the checkpoint assumed it was an attack, opening fire on the demons trying to settle the situation. People started to panic, speeding away in their cars, or simply abandoning them to get to cover, Asarin included, taking the terrified Fulgor with him. But as they tried to run, they were stopped by an angel who, immediately seeing them as demons, presumed they were a threat and impaled Asarin on the end of his spear. Fulgor foolishly tried to fight back against the angel, sending him flying with a bolt of lighting he had no real control of, the shock burning his skin and the force of the bolt breaking his arm. Seeing the chaos, Gentiana of the Seven Deadly Sins appeared, alongside Loranas and Geremiah, the Deadly Sin of Gluttony. The three settled the conflict, before a Fulgor ran to his uncle, telling him what happened. By the time they got to Asarin, it was too late, and Loranas went into a frenzy. He proceeded to kill all the angels at the checkpoint, whilst Gentiana and Geremiah took Fulgor back to the Divine Council, Fulgor being left with permanent scars to remind him of that night.

From then on, the twins lived with their uncle in the Ring of Lust, as their mother couldn't bare raising them on her own, due to the likeness to Asarin, and blames his death on Fulgor. There, they grew up and lived a normal life. Fulgor has since been plagued with nightmares about the event, even two centuries later. Tonitru does his best to help him, and sometimes its as simple as reminding him that he had nothing to do with it, and that he doesn't blame him for what happened, unlike their mother. And when Fulgor's boyfriend isn't staying over, the two often sleep together, so that in the case Fulgor does have a nightmare, he isn't waking up alone.

Really happy with how they're coming out.

Still working on their lore, as retroactively adding them to the main family means there's lots of gaps to fill to make them and their story make sense, but I feel like their actual look has really come together. Feel like they really stand out more, whilst still being identical.

Drawing people sitting down is hard XD

These fellas are Tonitru and Fulgur, twin brothers and cousins to my OC, Kairasan. Unlike Kairasan, these guys are demons, Tonitru being a Desire demon and Fulgur being a Pain demon. They're the sons of Loranas' late half-brother, Asarin.

Unlike most demons, who prefer going around in their true form, Tonitru and Fulgur actually prefer their human guises, and can more often than not be found hanging around as such. The two have been joint at the hip, since they were boys, and currently live together in Gehenna's Ring of Lust with their uncle, Loranas, in Palais de L'exstase. Unlike their father, mother and uncle, who boast incredibly powerful Dominare magic, the twins, as their names might imply, are uniquely gifted in Tempestas Magics, which is rather uncommon amongst demons. Tonitru specialises in Thunder Magic and Fulgur with Lightning.

As demons who are often associated with physical pleasure, Tonitru and Fulgur, whilst not together, work part time as hosts in the brothel underneath Loranas' palace, the Blooming Rose. Outside of Loranas, himself, the twins are easily the most popular hosts, not only for their looks, but also their... Unique approach to business. Whilst they don't entertain customers together, they offer their other services as a pair, both competing with each other to seduce their customer to end up with them deciding who they want to share a moment with. Whoever gets the least customers buys dinner.

From left to right, we have Wolfe, a younger Kairasan (He's about 14 here, as opposed to his canon 23), and Loranas.

Loranas is Kairasan's birth father, whilst Wolfe is Loranas' husband, and thus Kai's step da.

This is a drawing of a 'what if' scenario, where the war that has nearly wiped out humanity in their real timeline never happened. Because that war never happened, there was never a ban on the mixing of angels and demons, and thus Kai's existence as Nephilim never needed to be kept secret, meaning Kai actually got to grow up with his family. Although, mam's still absent because she's still an evil witch, and Loranas.. Wasn't exactly aware of her pregnancy, let's put it that way.

Loranas and Kairasan both have albinism, which is usually a little odd, as albinism tends to skip a generation, owing to it being a recessive trait. However, Kai's mother, Carlotta, actually possesses the recessive gene that can cause albinism, though she isn't albino, herself. So being a carrier of the recessive trait, combined with sleeping with someone who actually has albinism meant Kai also came out a little frosty. And whilst he hates it in every timeline, Loranas always calls him his 'Snowflake'. Mostly because it was actually snowing, when he was born, but even Kai's name is a play on snow. In Angelican, Kairasan's name comes from 'Kaira', meaning 'Flurry' or 'Snow' and 'Asan' meaning 'To fall'. So, Kairasan's name in English is literally Snowfall.