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salsedinepicta · 5 days
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The theme is: themes
Tagged by the lovely @pinkfadespirit - who I hope won't mind if I tweaked the rules a little bit.
Rules: list the first line(s) of your last 10 posted fics and see if there's a pattern!
Now, I don't/can't write - it requires far more vulnerability that I can handle. SOOO I went searching for recurring patterns among my drawings and sketches, hopefully this is ok!
🌙 Moon and water symbolism: lots of examples - I'm obsessed with it and I'm not even try to deny it. In fact, it's weird that I don't paint water more often.
🌱 Botany: especially paired with anatomy, but also on its own. I have an old little herbarium with ink drawings and sketches, and I love botanical prints too, so there is a clear influence lol.
👑 History and historical fashion: again, lots of examples. Although I'm not particularly interested in the absolute historical accuracy, but more in the vibe and general silhouette. I also love mixing historical aesthetics with obviously modern ones (see: piercings).
🩸Blood: because it has a nice colour, that's it, no deep and meaningful reason. I think? I dislike graphic gore though.
+bonus: I obviously have a thing for green/red contrast. No regrets.
Tag time! Maybe @greypetrel - since she's that kind of contemporary renaissance artist that can write and draw well 👀✨ absolutely no pressure tho!
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salsedinepicta · 22 days
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OCs in three (images)*
*and maybe a quote too
Tagged by @greypetrel - thank you! :* I love putting pictures together and overthinking characters' symbolism, so this is just perfect for me.
Tag: as usual, please steal this if you want to! Or tell me if you'd like to be tagged, because I am far too scared of being annoying lol
Malva Surana
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I am no one, from nowhere, belonging to nothing. I have no story to tell.
Gwydion Hawke
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I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you every Tuesday. I will love you even as the world goes on its wicked way.
Maren Hawke
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It is wise to conceal the past even if there is nothing to conceal. A man’s power is in the half-light, in the half-seen movements of his hand and the unguessed-at expression of his face.
Circe Trevelyan
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I shall either find a way - or make one.
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salsedinepicta · 28 days
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The Artists for Palestine project does not have an end date
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Its going based on artists willingness to participate alone!!
If you are an artist and want to help Palestine and this project you should message @/sitcomabed over on twitter and join the other artists in creating art and generation donations!!
here is the link to the original twitter thread where they explain how you can get your commission
also if you arent an artists you should still go and donate!!!
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salsedinepicta · 30 days
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WIP Wednesday 🌸
On an actual Wednesday, wow.
Tagged by @greypetrel - thank you! 💜✨
Well, there is... stuff.
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1. A thing for a friend (not on Tumblr) and her incoming daughter (still swimming in amniotic liquid), pretty much done except for a few adjustments before printing.
2. The mortifying ordeal of sketching other people's (very lovely) OC to figure out how their face work - sorry Radha, sorry Arja 😶‍🌫️
3. Gwydion Hawke painting sometime in the future, only sketches now. Hairnets are important.
4. Same guy, but this time it's me trying to paint dark rooms and warm lights, ghost AU?
5. Random sketch. Yeah, I really love drawing with red/red-adjacent pencils
~~~ Tag time! Maybe @pyritefes2? Absolutely no pressure tho 🪴✨
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salsedinepicta · 1 month
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would any fellow artists be interested in drawing DA characters/OCs in fun met gala outfits this year? we could post on May 6, the day of the gala.
just a fun, low-commitment fan event idea
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salsedinepicta · 1 month
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Get you a girl who can do both and all that ✨ cit Maren Hawke
(No, not really)
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salsedinepicta · 2 months
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Sweetest of diversions. ✨
And so it begins! Starting with @salsedinepicta's lovely Maren and her peak fashion choices (french hoods are the prettiest, but I wanted to do some variations). And what's the point of a structured bodice if not to hide some fancy accessory inside, after all? it's all part of the fun, what's a ball without daggers?
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salsedinepicta · 2 months
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Creator VS Oc(s)
Thanks to @greypetrel for the tag 🩵✨ with this picrew.
Ft. Malva Surana, Maren Hawke and my need for an haircut
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+ plus Gwydion patiently waiting for a picrew with beards options
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As usual, the random reader is encouraged to steal this if they wish so.
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salsedinepicta · 2 months
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WIP Wednesday
On an actual Wednesday! Amazing.
Tagged by @greypetrel - thank youuu 💜✨
I have only two thingies, because my energy doesn't match my ideas/creativity level 🫠
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1. Hello Maren, I gave you a nice jacket. Based on a costume from His Dark Materials, the scales-like pattern was just too lovely to ignore. This illustration is 95% complete btw - butttt it must go with another whole other thing, so it'll stay in the wip folder for a while, bye.
2. A selkie that badly needs some kind of background. It's for a friend (well, technically her incoming daughter), but she is not on Tumblr so I should be safe 😶‍🌫️
Tag: no idea! I genuinely don't know who wants or likes to be tagged. So please just go ahead and consider yourself tagged by me, if you want so. Or tell me, it's fine anyway 🌟
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salsedinepicta · 2 months
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I realised that 1. I very much agree with @pyritefes2, and 2. Sigrun deserved a few sketches on her own.
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- because 'Legion of the Dead' would be such a great name for an alternative rock/metal band. Too bad for copyright and all that.
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salsedinepicta · 2 months
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I may have thought too much about my Surana with longer hair, maybe.
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salsedinepicta · 2 months
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The (tired) face of someone who got a ✨fancy✨ Law degree out of sense of responsibility just to drop everything and become a photojournalist at the publishing and communication agency of his bestie - now family lunches are somewhat awkward.
(or: I roped myself into some kind of ModernAU because I wanted to practice drawing modern clothes - as usual)
+bonus with the actual protagonists
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salsedinepicta · 3 months
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WIPs Wednesday🪻
Tagged by @greypetrel - thanks :* !
For once on an actual Wednesday, incredible.
And for once I actually have things to show - aka a bunch of ModernAU sketches of various level of completion, because why not? ... and because I needed to practice drawing modern clothes, really.
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I genuinely ran out of people to tag this time - please hmu if you are interested or just say I tagged you and then go and be free.
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salsedinepicta · 3 months
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OC(s) Questionnaire
Tagged by @greypetrel - and her characters are just beautiful, so I'd highly recommend to hop on her blog and read her version :> 💜 Thanks for the tag!
Tagging: maybe @coloricioso could be interested? No pressure as usual ✨ +plus anyone who is interested!
Everything under "Read more" after the first one, of course.
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NAME: Gwydion Hawke
NICKNAME: Hawke, of course - the firstborn can take dibs on the family surname. And then Gideon, since 1. that's how most people misspell his actual name and 2. Varric uses it in his stories (it's “more suited for the hero”). He doesn't mind.
GENDER: Male, although he takes it easy. In a modern AU he would be the Hakwe sibling most likely to experiment with gender presentation - and in every universe he just knows he'd look good in a dress/corset.
STAR SIGN: Libra
HEIGHT: 178 cm / 5’8”
ORIENTATION: Gay
NATIONALITY/ETHNICITY: Literally a random human born on a ship – 100% conceived in Kirkwall though.
FAVORITE FRUIT: All the citruses
FAVORITE SEASON: Early Spring
FAVORITE FLOWER: Forget-me-not, snowdrops, zagare (orange blossoms).
FAVORITE SCENT: Crushed elfroot, rain, lyrium potions - and why must lyrium be toxic when it clearly smells like raspberries and tangerines? UH? Templars are gatekeeping it. He is literally the only one saying this. At some point he’ll think fondly of sewage.
COFFEE, TEA, OR HOT CHOCOLATE: Tea, preferably cold.
AVERAGE HOURS OF SLEEP: Around 7, but not consecutive.
DOGS OR CATS: Dogs AND cats AND also every single animal willing to be pet - why would you deny a centipede some love? And did anyone actually tried to raise a baby dragon? Cowards.
DREAM TRIP: Antiva, or Rivain – it sounds fun, from Isabela’s stories, and he is intrigued by their religious customs (and generally different approach to magic). Not without 50+ SPF though, have you seen Anders' skintone?
NUMBER OF BLANKETS: Just a few, he doesn’t particularly suffer the cold – and he’s a cuddly sleeper.
RANDOM FACT: Extremely tactile, hands must be occupied (almost) all the time. He makes his own bows and then whittle silly little figurines with the scraps of wood - usually they all end up looking like chunky animals of debatable identification.
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NAME: Maren Hawke
NICKNAME: Mari (used only by selected people – Bethany can, Carver may or may not find nettles in his bed the next day) and various epithets by Varric (he finds her difficult to pin down, to his extreme annoyance). When she’ll get into Kirkwall’s politics people will start to call her Lady Amell, to everyone amusement.
GENDER: Female
STAR SIGN: Scorpio
HEIGHT: 170 cm / 5’5”
ORIENTATION: Official not-so-mean lesbian
NATIONALITY/ETHNICITY: Human, born in Ferelden, even if she doesn’t feel a strong national connection to it.
FAVORITE FRUIT: Pears, quince, pomegranates
FAVORITE SEASON: Autumn and Winter
FAVORITE FLOWER: Wild violets, daisies
FAVORITE SCENT: Parchment and ink, ambergris, wild roses’ oil, metal.
COFFEE, TEA, OR HOT CHOCOLATE: Black coffee in public, hot chocolate with lots of spices (and something sweet to eat on the side) in more private settings.
AVERAGE HOURS OF SLEEP: Better not to ask. Around 5, to avoid dreaming – she will slowly get better during the years.
DOGS OR CATS: Birds, obviously.
DREAM TRIP: For political reasons, all the cities of the Free Marches. And Weisshaupt/the Anderfels to pester the Wardens about griffin’s eggs – because what Merrill wants, Merrill gets.
NUMBER OF BLANKETS: At least 4, because half of them will be stolen by Merrill during the night.
RANDOM FACT: Does she care about fashion? Not particularly, but she is highly aware of the power of appearences, and how to convey certain messages through clothes. She prefers small and significant jewelry over flashy one, but absolutely loves a nice statement headpiece, especially with some kind of drapery or veil – so she can literally put behind a curtain annoying people with a subtle turn of her head.
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NAME: Malva Surana
NICKNAME: Irving’s pet, Surana, debatable variations on her name when Jowan wanted to be annoying – after the Circle, she is just Malva and then the Warden Commander.
GENDER: Do you have a gender if the circumstances of your birth make you less than a person in the eye of society? Ahaha, anyway, female.
STAR SIGN: Aquarius
HEIGHT: 160 cm / 5’2”
ORIENTATION: Very queer - preference for women, but willing to experiment for the sake of it, if she fancies so. In another world, her and Gwydion would be the monsterfuckers, let’s be real.
NATIONALITY/ETHNICITY: Definitely a city elf (the tattoos are random lines, made by someone who wanted her to remember but had no idea how a vallaslin really looks like, or how and when they are done) – maybe from Denerim’s alienage? But as far as she knows, there is no past before Kinloch Hold.
FAVORITE FRUIT: Blackberries
FAVORITE SEASON: Spring
FAVORITE FLOWER: The kind of question that would trigger a half-an-hour-long aswer. For brevity sake: nightshade, hellebore, wisteria, ivy (not a flower, but impossible not to mention), and mallow.
FAVORITE SCENT: Burning wood, moss and damp earth, rosemary, wildberries.
COFFEE, TEA, OR HOT CHOCOLATE: Definitely tea. She is the mistress of the most absurd herbal infusions. They are great and they'll cure your cavities and other various ailments - but you don't want to know the ingredients. Don’t.
AVERAGE HOURS OF SLEEP: Between 6-8, can wake up every day at the same time without any alarm of sort.
DOGS OR CATS: If really pressed she'd say dogs (“They are great traveling companions”) but immediately regrets it because of all the fond memories of Ser Pounce-a-lot.
DREAM TRIP: The Thirashan forest, Arbor Wilds, Arlathan Forest – pretty much an elven history roadtrip to try to reclaim that part of her identity.
NUMBER OF BLANKETS: Just one or two, wrapped all around her chrysalis-like because her subconscious still believes that the other apprentices will steal them.
RANDOM FACT: For a moment, she was Justice's first choice for a possible living host - she never knew it, though.
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salsedinepicta · 3 months
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Three-Songs Playlist(s)
Tagged by the lovely @greypetrel , hello and thank you! The title is pretty self-explanatory: 3 songs playlists for the OCs, so here we go - some fit pretty well, some partially, some are pure vibes.
PS. Tag time! I tag @pyritefes2 - I remember you picked some really interesting songs in another post, but no pressure!
Sooo:
Malva Surana - i lived like you told me how - look at me now 1. Sally / F. De Andrè 2. Promiseland / MIKA 3. Can't catch me now / O. Rodrigo
Gwydion Hawke - darling, I would do it again 1. Fuel to fire / A. Obel 2. Francesca / Hozier 3. Little talks / Of Monsters and Men
Maren Hawke - high achiever, don't you see? nothing comes for free 1. Just a girl / Florence + The Machine 2. Are you satisfied? / MARINA 3. Vision / Paolo Buonvino
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salsedinepicta · 3 months
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*rubs my hands very excitedly*
50. Tenderest touch leaves the darkest of marks, and the kindest of kisses break the hardest of hearts.
I agree that loving secondary characters is kind of your brand, and (sorry, but idk enough about Dragon Age to send an ask about them...) I'm thinking your interpretation of this prompt with GO angels/demons/secret third thing would be very very interesting! 👀
(terribly sorry if I phrased that weird, English words aren't my strongest suit 😅)
Hello! 🌟 First of all, your English is great - it's not my first language either, so I understand the struggle. And thank you so much! It's... pretty incredible to me that people still follow me even if I've changed? So really, thank you 😶‍🌫️!
Now, I'm a Hastur/Ligur girlie - but I may have been inspired by the "dark and breaking" part of the prompt. Sorry!
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salsedinepicta · 4 months
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Hello ✨💜
for the Florence prompts...
5. I'm on fire, but I'm trying not to show it for Maren and/or
48. Sweeter than heaven and harder than hell for Circe? (or change them for anyone who fits best :3)
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Hello! 💜✨ I went for the first one, since painting fire over water is always quite relaxing 🔥
(ideally set during the year with Athenril - because Meeran had enough Hawke's siblings already. Burning ships is an healthy coping mechanism, maybe? Sorry, Isabela.)
Thank you for the prompt!
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