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(Description copied from my tumblr post since my brain is totally fried from no sleep.)

I am learning TES lore and metaphysics from my buddy and ever since I learned about the Ehlnofey I had a vision for them upon learning that their forms were very unstable.

I imagine their bodies being made out of volatile spiritual energy- ever shifting and changing. I imagine their forms to flicker and warp a lot while still maintaining a vague humanoid figure overall. (Bipedal, one head, two arms.)

I know the pose is kind of funky but it was the only way I could think of where I could kind of depict the wacky, jittery movements I imagine them to have.

I made them blue because of the Old Bone's blue "energy" / flames- as well as Vivec's blue flames on his head in one of the concepts / many fanarts.

This was a quick 20 minute sketch but I think I aced depicting the vision in my head. :)) Hope you like it, I'd love to know what you lore-loving people think of it! I think Bethesda needs to get funkier with designs RIGHT NOWWWWWW!

If you go to the third slide you’ll see the original art I made of her for comparison! :]

This one was a little tricky compared to the other overpainting I’ve done because I needed to paint soooo much stuff from scratch including the clothes..! But I think she came out great :) I hope you like my girl! :D

I posted this to r/Morrowind the other day but I wanted to post it here too so you guys could see it! :]
I want to draw Mr. Ur next…. The funky little fella that everyone always makes so pretty….. haven’t made up my mind if I want to make him scary or not though. On one hand it would be cool to do that- on the other hand I love me a pretty Dagoth. 🤷‍♂️
Hope you guys like him! :))

From left to right its:
Orrin, Amusei, Corvus Umbranox, Millona Umbranox, Janus Hassildor, Evander (main character) (OC), Methredhel, Ena (OC), and Armand! :)

Still a lot more characters to make for this, these are just the ones I've drawn over the months. Their concept arts were never meant to go together but idk.. I think it works! lol

I have drawn Amusei before but I’m not really that great at drawing Argonians yet. I’m trying to practice drawing them more and solidifying Amusei’s design / Argonian structure for when they come up in my manga.

I wanted to go for a more animal-like approach this time since I love digitigrade legs a lot- and for once I’m actually satisfied with how he looks! In my head he’s a failthief because he’s so large and bulky lmao. :b

The two characters for scale on the right are Methredhel and my guy, Evander.

I posted these a while ago on my tumblr and Instagram but you guys are cool so I figured it’d be fun to post here as well. I wanted to make fake screenshots of how the characters look in my head, both my player character and Lex- so I painted over screenshots I took in the game in Clip Studio Paint! The base for the eyes are from screenshots from The Eyes of Beauty of Fallout 4 that I photobashed/collaged in and then painted over again.

..And I know Lex is a crusty old man in the remaster and I made my own model for him for the screenshot. I deny old man Lex exists. I pretend he is not real. 🫣 …Listen he’s younger in my headcanon but in the original he was in his early 40s MAX 😭 ….I’m very passionate about that stupid guard cop.

Hope you like it! I want to make more sometime :)

My guy's name is Evander and he's such a typical old man in Skyrim. "I don't want no damn dog!" and then proceeds to love his new furry friend like a child- smh. Evander was my thief character in Oblivion but due to Events he becomes a vampire and lives to be in Skyrim's timeline- but not as a dragonborn!

Hope you like it, its silly lmao. (There's also his horse named Wooly Bear, and Brynjolf as you can see lmao.)

I wanted to make them matchy-matchy :)
Gave her some seafoam colors because Anvil is a port town and I wanted her to be the sea and Corvus to be the land. Complimenting each other! I also wanted to maintain the blue dress from her original design: :)

Didn’t mean to post Corv’ twice but I wanted you guys to see both of them together. My favorite Oblivion couple! 💖🫶

You guys really liked my Janus concept from the other day so I decided to make one for Corvus, too! This one actually needed to be made for my manga- even though he won't appear till the end given the events of the Thieves Guild questline. I wanna make one for Millona next- gonna see if I can get her outfit to match Corvus' aesthetic here.

I tried combining Colovian and Hammerfell motifs for the different elements of the clothes. I'm very pleased with how he came out! :]

I found my old art of Janus in the bowels of Bing from my dead blog from 2015 that shan't be named- so I figured I'd redraw him! ...But this time adding my own little flare >:)

Does he look completely different? Yeah. But does he have the same skin, hair, and eye color? And is he still an older dude? YES. And that's ALL you need for a redesign baybee B) He just has different drip and haircut!

Hope you like him, I love Janus- he's one of my faves. :D I'm a firm believer that major characters should have special outfits you can't normally get and should be kinda swagged out. If I could 3D model things and use creation kit it would be so over. That would become my life lmao- just making clothes and armor (and maybe hair too idk) for a billion year old game.

Illustration based off of "The Swing" by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. (ft. my own design for Nocturnal) (Digital)

Got the idea from a site that gives you a random Elder Scrolls character with a random pose reference. I'm a manga artist so I wanted to try to do this in a monochrome / inked style. :) I was very close to doing a rendered digital painting, but if I did that I don't think I would have had nearly as much fun! :] Hope you like it! She's having a nice little dream with her frenemies :3

This concept art is wack af since it's covering multiple concepts LMAO

This is my character, Amu! (Am-yoo) He's my Skyrim character's adopted son. Wanted to figure out what he'd do and look like as an adult since I like thinking about my characters through all of the stages of their lives.

You may be saying: "But what about Racial Phylogeny?" and I say: I spit on your stupid book! *Pitooey!* If Bethesda can retcon whatever and take Jungle Cyrodiil away from me then I give myself permission to do whatever I want! 🫶

AU of an AU...... AUception??

You guys have seen him before in my previous posts! But this time in Sheogorath flavor! (In an outfit I designed myself 🙂‍↕️)

In Tyal's story he does not go to The Shivering Isles. After The Oblivion Crisis is over he becomes a nomad and travels all across Tamriel and Nirn. Last night I saw how dripless Skyrim Sheo is- and I was like "let me design my own Sheo fit" ..and that turned into drawing that outfit on my boy! :)

I wanted to include the red and purple from Skyrim Sheo's design since I really do like THAT aspect of it- but then I wanted to include shape language and aesthetic choices from Oblivion's design. Incorporate that with elements of The Dark Seducers and Golden Saints and BAM! That's the idea lol. Idk if it's actually good or if I'm just delirious from staying up all night- but I really like it! I guess I'll see how much I like it later after I sleep and then wake up 😅

(I'll share a secret with you... Out of the hundreds of hours I have spent playing Oblivion... I have never played through The Shivering Isles. I know, I'm a fake fan.)

>"I must stop my father at all costs- I promise you I will not fail! As long as my heart still beats, I will protect Tamriel and her people with everything that I have!"

Some of you have seen him before but he's my little dremora fella >:)) I also designed the Kvatch armor he's wearing, I thiiink I posted it with my other armors in a previous post of mine? Unsure.

His name is Tyal! I saw the cool pose reference on Pinterest and instantly thought of him :P Still working on getting used to drawing his sword / deciding on how I want the blade on it to look. The sword's flames are powered by sigil stones and the "claws" on the hilt close up when there is no sigil stone inserted. It's called Deadland's Edge :)

I'll post part of his concept art on the second slide so you can see a colored version of him! (And I'll include a screenshot of him from the game for fun! Its really hard to make a dremora look good with vanilla visuals :/ )

You guys have seen me post all kinds of art stuff here before but this.. is what I like to do most! I'm making a manga about my player character and his time in the thieves guild! I've been making manga for four years but I think I'm just now starting to get the hang of it.

I'm really proud of how this looks. I know there's like. No real niche for this within the TES community but I thought I'd share anyway. Panels go from right to left, top to bottom.

Going by my script its projected to be quite a long manga. (Understatement.. but I'm too embarrassed to say how long it might be after crunching the numbers. 😅)

Hope you like it! Someday when I make more I plan to release it on ComicFury unless I can find a better site :P

I’ve been wanting to make a concept for Birdfolk for a while now, and I’ve finally gotten around to it! I think it’s so cool how bird people used to be in Cyrodiil :)

Since it is noted in the lore that these guys learned to write with their feet, I wanted to make their feet almost like hands. I imagine they hold the writing utensil with their first four fingers while tucking their “pinky” inward at the same time.

This would be a male of one of the various regional versions. I imagine different parts of Cyrodiil had different types of Birdfolk to fit the environment. The hook-like appendage on their forearm is for holding special bows.

I’m unsure what types of clothes to give these guys so this is one without clothes.

I imagine the females would be brown / sandy- like lots of real bird species.

I would like to know what you guys think about my design!! :) I think it came out pretty good- I’m happy with it. 😁

He's The Gray Fox in Oblivion and in Skyrim he's a vampire! 200+ year old crusty bag of bones. His name is Evander Jourdain! This isn't my typical style, I usually go for a more cartoon / manga style but I saw a cool color palette online and I had a vision lmao.

Hope you like him! :)

She's buff, tough, and would probably beat you to a pulp if you looked at her sideways. I just made her today! Doing a new run of the game where I'm going to actually do the main questline for once. :P

I didn't have the energy to color this in, so a sketch is all you'll get! The armor she's wearing is "Lunar Guard Armor" off of Nexus Mods for Skyrim SE :) Someday I hope I can design armor that cool! (It's something I like to do lol.)

I hope you like her! :] It's been fun getting to play video games again! Did NOT think I'd be getting into Skyrim again since I'm in the middle of playing Oblivion remastered- but the heart wants what it wants!)

I wasn’t going to post this on here but my friend said I should so here I am lmao. You’ve seen me draw this loser on here before a lottt. I do a painting of him every year for the hell of it since he’s my fave.

I like to see how far I’ve come as an artist with these- skill showcase via favorite character I suppose lol. (I meeean, he’s one of the main characters in my comic! I can use that as an excuse right?) I fill the guard-cop niche nobody asked for 🫡

Hope you like him, he’s wearing the guard armor I designed. It’s a different style than my normal toony anime/manga one but that’s okay 🤣