Sup, you can call me Gia or G | She/they or whatever pronouns are funniest for the bit | Aussie | Fancies themselves an artist but has never heard of an artstyle before in her life | Please do not repost my art.
I thought about how the shadows would look in LU, and I thought the green headband would be retained, as well as the black tunic that appears in "four swords manga." Considering that Shadow has not experienced the "Minish Cap", Shadow's hat is just a copy of four's hat (Shadow likes his hat's smoke-like texture).
【This paragraph is all translated by me using translation software, please forgive me if you find it difficult to read, I really want to share my thoughts about these lovely boys.】
So I love Linked Universe, and have been engrossed by the amazing fanfic This is an Adjuration by the extremely talented @not-freyja. Been reading it and following it for the last few months, and uh, got some inspiration for a concept for a future Wind, post-Adjuration.
Drew him, and the lovely folks in the Discord server that I like to call the Adjunation wanted me to post it, so... here! Future Wind! Carrying the memory of his brothers wherever he goes!
About the AO3 "No Guest Comments for a while" warning
If you're not following any of AO3's social media accounts you might be in the dark as to what kind of "spam comments" have engendered this banner at the top of the site:
These spam comments have been posted about a great deal on the AO3 subreddit for the past couple of days. Initially they comprised a bunch of guest (logged out users) bot comments that insulted authors by suggesting they were using AI and not writing their own fics. Some examples, from the subreddit:
But it then escalated to outright graphic porn images and gifs being posted in comments, again by logged out 'Guest' accounts. Obviously, I'm not going to give examples of those, but between these two bot infestations, AO3 has clearly decided to act and has temporarily closed the ability to post comments for users who are not logged in with an AO3 account.
Unfortunately, this means that genuine readers who don't have an AO3 account won't be able to leave comments on fics that they enjoy.
If you are a genuine reader who doesn't yet have an AO3 account, I strongly suggest getting yourself on the waiting list for one. More and more AO3 authors are now locking their fics down to registered users only - either due to these bot comments or concerns about AI scraping their work - which means you're probably missing out on a lot of great stuff.
Hopefully guest commenting will be enabled again at some point soon, but I suggest not waiting until then. Get yourself on that list.
Wait times are going to be longer than usual at the moment, due to the current Wattpad purge [info on Fanlore | Wattpad subreddit thread], but if you're in line, then your invite will come through eventually.
Update: There's now a Megathread about this on the AO3 subreddit.
From a prompt suggested by @whitewinterstar : "Vio leading Shadow into the sunshine for the first time"!
WHY IS SHADOW AN EDGY BASTARD WHO WEARS ALL BLACK
Since I'm often working in full color I don't usually have to worry about conveying hue AND shade at the same time. This was a deliberate challenge on that front. I’m proud of how the dramatic lighting turned out! I really wanted to convey the harsh contrast between sunlight and shade, but I also wanted to stick to the challenge of only using my 50% gray pen for shading.
Also proud of the hand-holding, I think I have literally never drawn clasped hands before.
6 x 8.5 inches. Felt tip pens and white gel pen.
[IMG: a pen-and-ink drawing of Vio from Linked Universe leading Shadow out of a building. The two are holding hands. Shadow looks nervous and is wearing his hood up, while Vio has a slight smile. The lighting on the two of them is high-contrast, like strong sunlight. The drawing is in black and white, except for their eyes, which are purple and red.]
Bonus image: Here’s the linework prior to shading!