u/VelvetArcbright

I decided to switch things up and play some Gunner once again, so I made a new look to complete the vibe!

After many hours of rendering, colour corrections and about 60+ cups of tea later I finished my first big piece fresh out of art hiatus! This one for my Mizu OC! I wanted to capture something pretty but equally sneaky

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I had a lot of fun with this! It was rough shaking off the rust since I hadn't rendered a piece in nearly a year (thanks to college kicking my time and motivation to the curb) but I managed to get back into the groove of it!

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I've actually never painted a Mizutsune digitally before- so it was fun learning on the fly, if not a little bit daunting too. I hope I've done my absolute favourite monster of the series justice!

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In total this piece took around a week and a half, but I started the sketch way sooner than that (and scrapped it twice before biting the bullet and just going with the idea I liked most, otherwise I'd never get anything started!)

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If you like my work you can also find me over on Twitter/X @velvetarclight ! I'm a bit more active over there.

Sorry about the smaller post this time around! I'm currently working on a larger piece for Mizu which isn't done yet- but I still wanted to make some consistent posts here

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Anyway, Chameleos now completes the Elder Trio! Man I love these three too much, I really hope Chammy comes back for Wilds- as much as I like Namielle I'm kind of tired of her after dealing with her in WiB and Stories 3 so I'd rather Chammy comes back to terrorize the forest instead in Ascendance

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Anyway, I opted for more of a playful assassain kind of deal, everyone seems to make em cute and witchy but aren't Chameleos weapons and armor supposedly used by the Guild for assassinations? Maybe I'm trying too hard to be different

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Also included are some extra sketches I did for the trio, these do have small amounts of lore to go with them but I'm not sure how interested anyone would be in it ^^"

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Last slide is the initial designs I brained up for Kushala before doing a course change to better suit the character I was making, but who knows maybe I'll use them again for something else!

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Previous art posts featuring these OCs vv

Post 1 : Mizutsune and Zinogre

https://www.reddit.com/r/MonsterHunter/s/vSLMVuTFH3

Post 2 : Disufiroa and Alatreon

https://www.reddit.com/r/MonsterHunter/s/qTMvT3rd1J

Post 3 : Kushala and Teostra

https://www.reddit.com/r/MonsterHunter/s/VsqdWJE8xl

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Additionally I try to post more frequently to my Twitter/X! You can follow me here

https://x.com/i/status/2065576203369455810

(Apologies for any repeat posts, PC Reddit is strange)

One art post before SGF kicks off! Hopefully there's something DLC in there for Wilds.

I'm somewhat strange since I've always found Teo/Kushala more interesting to think about over Lunastra- not that I hate Luna I just prefer this due to just how different it could be.

This is partly inspired by the Teo/Kushala DBs description from oldgen, especially from GU

'The Twin Nails's final form, the blades somber remains of two love-struck knights'

Interesting stuff if you ask me! So here's our dear Emperor of Flame with his favourite windy knight because why not?

I promise I haven't forgotten Chameleos-- they're just invisible so you can't see them yet!

Reddit is finally not filtering my posts on this account out! Hooray!!

"What if large monsters were Wyverian?"

The second part. This time its Vorphyroa (AKA Disufiroa) and Alatreon, two elder dragons who I have a soft spot for- but should probably also never meet.....

Too late for that I guess, I just think they have a cool Black/White dichotomy and it was fun to stick them together.

Before I get into the rest of my notes for this, since I got a handful of comments about it last time. I know what Gijinkas are. I'm simply not using that term here because I've based them off Wyverians rather than straight up humans- and it makes for a more fun title! And series name if I keep making these I suppose haha.

So, I cracked out the last few images in the last 10 hours or so, so some of the linework or rendering may be a little messy.

I did Vors (Disu) while I was still working on Miss Zino from last time because I was stuck at a wall with her, so I made Vors (Disu) to not burn out. I'm still very happy with her look overall, I plan to make some additional forms for her (Namely a more draconic form and Solstice War (Shiten) form) but for now I'm happy with these two main ones.

Small Vors (Disu) came from an idea that I had that- depending on the innate power of the individual, they could switch up their physical forms whenever they felt like it- not without consequence of course. Hence Small Vors (Disu) and Twinktreon Small Alatreon came to be. Perhaps they use them to conserve power or to simply hide away from onlookers by posing as normal Wyverians

Alatreon was harder, but mainly because I still need to work on drawing men overall. I didn't vibe with his face in his full design but I managed to at least fix it for Twinktreon Small Alatreon, so I'm at least improving I hope!

I do like his overall colour pallete though, it was really satisfying to use, and I think the spiky armour helps tie this appearance to the original more, though in hindsight I could have changed some colouring so it looked less Nergi-like perhaps...

Twinktreon was an accidental joke because someone in my discord pointed out that he looked like one, and it stuck so its just kind of funny now lol

I don't have any more previews for who is next this time, sorry! Though I'm torn between finally finishing Kushala and Espinas or taking a Knife-o-saurus detour and working on some of them instead

...Or I guess I could do the last three of the Fated Four so Mizu has his buddies back. I'll work that out another time!

Will be crossposted to my Twitter/X @velvetarclight soon!