#(I've done this before and i also use the eyeliner for myself lol)

[slightlyhopefulromantic]

i was gonna wait until i finished the bitd and deadlands line-ups before posting these, but i'm not gonna get those done before the final season starts, so might as well bite the bullet now XD woohoo, oxventure d&d designs! i'll go into further detail below the cut for all of my thoughts on these designs and reasoning for smaller details, but for now, just know that i will never draw a cape. i simply cannot do it. hoods and weird draped fabric or nothing XD

okay i put like. waaay too many thoughts into a lot of these small details so im gonna allow myself to geek out here X3 firstly - though they're way too small to read properly, i did the little symbol eye shines i used in my first art for them! dob gets music notes, prudence gets fire, corazón gets hearts, and merilwen gets flowers. i usually draw egbert's pupils pretty thin to resemble a reptile, so he just gets normal eye shines, but i probably could have given him some here... he would get suns if i thought of that

dob - muscular in a wiry and dehydrated way, lol, hence having a more defined stomach/hips despite not being as strong as prudence or egbert. he has sad/down-turned puppy dog eyes at all times because i think the big-eyed endearing look is fitting for him, though i do make them darker blue than his canonical baby blues because i just... like how dark blue eyes look, lol. i'm pretty sure he canonically has the stomach scar, and obviously his facial scar has always been there, but i gave him a couple other ones just to show that hes pretty reckless. and he gets freckles because even though they arent mentioned in the dragon dogma's video, i noticed luke added some and. i like freckles a lot

prudence - i've said this before, but i love the thought of pru getting muscular after the werebear bite <3 i just think she should be a little bit hench. as a treat. once again, the heavy stomach scarring comes from the dragon dogma's video, because i found their design choices in that really fun. i change prudence's outfit the most out of any of the characters, just because her canonical outfit confuses me. i'm really bad at understanding/drawing fantasy wear as is, but her fit... i'm lost entirely XD so i free-balled a bit. her inner sleeves that hook around her fingers are based on jane's various prudence looks, and then the looser outer sleeve is just because i love prudence with a dramatic sleeve. originally the colors were closer to her canon outfit, but it just looked messy without all the details of the original, and then i tried red like jane's prudence looks but it didn't contrast enough with her skin. so i restricted them to just deep purples and black with pops of gold and dark magenta!

corazón - what can i say besides. transgender. LMAO honestly though, besides adding the top surgery scars, i just really like his canon look. i simplified the details, obviously, but i really love his big coat and his tall boots and the earrings and the black-on-black-on-black of it all. i didn't particularly feel like drawing hats when i was doing this, lol, so i stuck with a red bandana instead. the beads that are strung from it are black, red, purple, green, and yellow to match their guild's canonical color associations/the colored name plates they get in later seasons :] because corazón is the sentimental sort, even when he won't say it. also he gets a little cateye for his eyeliner, i dunno if i've ever said why i do that before haha

egbert - egbert my dearly beloved. literally just his canon look except he has la vache mauve on his tunic instead of fire! and the nose spikes i give him, i guess, but i forget those aren't canon. i actually usually draw him in mike's egbert get up, with the black robes and the golden dragon sigil, but i kinda wanted to move away from that to lean more into the end of legacy of dragons, where egbert fully commits to never going back to the dragon d'or. also i just love drawing little cow heads <3 also! i like the idea that rather than typical scar tissue, dragonborns grow thicker scales over places where they've been injured. so the thicker patches of small scales on egbert's body are meant to be scars! including his kidney scar, lol. the larger scales and the ones on his face were always there though, that's just dragonborn biology baby

merilwen - if i said i based merilwen's body on cartoon bears, would you forgive me... i just think it's cute LOL tummy <3 for the final dragon dogma's video reference, that's where her freckles and tattoos come from. ellen was right, merilwen with floral tattoos fucking rules. who am i to deny it. as a hairy woman myself, i also like making merilwen a hairy woman. she's a hippie, she would NOT shave. i also really love the red earrings she wears in her canon art, so i tried to carry that through to some other small parts of my drawing for her, and landed on the bands she has on her pants as well as the odd feather for her arrows. fun archery fact, for those who may not know - in modern archery at least, you usually will have a differently colored feather (or for my arrows, rubber fins lol) that indicate how youre meant to string the arrow! so i took advantage of that to give merilwen some more red, hehe

#oxventure #dob the half orc bard #prudence the tiefling warlock #corazón de ballena #egbert the careless #merilwen the wood elf druid #I really wanted to post all the line ups at once but I have fallen ill XD #and I’m busy tomorrow. so drawing is not in the cards for a bit #I’ll try and finish those soon 👍

[bonesandthebees]

Also I had some coffee today and it was chocolate raspberry and it was so tasty and I had it with some apple cinnamon bread that my cousin had made and it was a little stale but it's alright bc it was tasty and paired with the coffee it made delicious dessert so :)

Also while I was in the store earlier I had the WORST cramps I literally felt like I was going to fall on the floor but after a while they went away and I could enjoy the shopping again so yay I also got some bright red nail polish I haven't put it on yet but I was thinking of doing that tomorrow

I really want to get into cosmetic stuff but I never learned how to do makeup and at this point I'm too scared to ask bc anxiety of ppl making fun of me for not knowing how to do makeup is strong and that may sound stupid but hey I got issues lol but yeah I want to learn how to do makeup but I have no clue where to start or what brands to get or like anything

Also with skincare bc my skin has seen better days but I'm also too nervous to ask for help with that and I have no clue what to do for that so lol my skin is suffering

I've slowly but surely been getting my wardrobe to my current style and Ive gotten a lot more comfortable wearing shorts in public bc before I always wore pants so my legs were never shown off and I realized about last year(?) That I had gotten really self conscious about my legs even around my family but i actually wore shorts out in public yesterday when I met up with my mom and I felt so happy bc I rlly like the outfit I was wearing it was black shorts with a white shirt with yellow and blue vertical stripes and the shirt was tucked into the shorts and I felt so happy wearing it it was great I felt very very good abt myself which is good bc I am self conscious about my body a little but it's gotten a lot better recently so that's good!

-🌼

chocolate raspberry coffee sounds so good wtf I wanna try that

okay I'm not going to go off on a tangent here on makeup/skincare recs and tips and all that unless you ask for it, but if you ever want that kind of stuff I know quite a bit about those kinds of things and I'm happy to share my wisdom! I'm not like an expert makeup artist or anything and while I hypothetically know about more intense stuff like contouring and baking your face and all that I've never actually done it, but I do know a decent amount! and I can do eyeliner really well so, there's that. and I've already made some skincare rec posts on here but I'm happy to answer more qs about that stuff if you ever desire

I'm glad you were able to feel good about your outfit!! baby steps are important for that stuff, but definitely try to branch out and wear outfits you might not normally wear! if you see an item of clothing you really like but you're self conscious about it, consider getting it any way and seeing if you can just wear it around your house for a bit to feel more confident in it before wearing it out. I used to be really self conscious about wearing tight shirts for a very specific body insecurity I have that I won't get into rn but I really love wearing crop tops so I gradually just started getting tops that were a bit tighter and it really helped my confidence

#ask #daisy anon

[straykats]

kat talks: circus

if you're unfamiliar, it's just my reactions to the songs/mvs. i'll update it with the rest of the album (including jpn vers) when they're out!

circus

okay so this is my second listen but i wasn't really paying attention the first time due to circumstances lol

is the opening... beatboxing? i think it is???

changbin never fails to impress i swear and also his HAIR

also the whispers >>>

HAHAHA the ??? the sound just before lix's part HAHAHA its such a *pokes tongue out mockingly* kind of thing like really childish

lix's outfit is my absolute fav i s2g

??? hyunjins??? tone???? tone or timbre i always get cONFUSED BUT I LOVE IT

side note but since oddinary i think hyunjin has really.. solidified (?) as a rapper? not that he wasn't a good rapper before (and who am i to say any of this, anyways) but his raps in oddinary (venom, muddy water) and in circus really have like. a Him touch to it (capital H for god Him Hyunjin coincidence i think not)

okay i never manage to explain this properly but i love the. sound distribution. idk. from the beginning to minho's "bring out the fire" and then to lix's bit. in the beginning, the sound distribution/layout or whatever goes from being very forward-central to then being closer to the centre but wider (like.. an amphitheatre???? like a U shape infront of the centre???) and then when it gets to lix's it becomes a very full sound (like a D??????) man idk okay 😭

imagine like. a netball or bb hoop right and the D around the hoop. the beginning is a line of three people standing at the top of the D, infront of the hoop, and then "bring out the fire" is a line of people along the D-line, and then lix's bit is everyone running towards the goal so that it's full??????????????????? anyways moving on.

idk what minho says between lix and hyunjin's bit but its the cherry on top ok

the prechorus WAIT i love. i love how jeongin's two lines descend at different intervals. um. im forgetting how to describe things. but like. the second time it descends differently. like it goes (incorrect notes) 1-6-4 1-5-3??? i think

side note 2: i want this so bad to be a c harmonic minor but idk i havent done the whole thing yet i've only figured out jeongin's prechor lines. but i dont think the songs harmonic :(

(update: it's... f.. minor???????)

seungmin's 'round and round and round and round' reminds me of. gods menu

WAIT wait was that the prechor or is sung's bit the prechor idk i LOVE love sungs bit

wait im so confused about the song structure i need tor elisten later AHHAA

the change when it goes to changbins bit??? digging it so bad man

why do they keep doing the cutouts of minho AHAHA i mean we love him

WAIIIIIIT SO sung's top is like. long. and has the detailing at the bottom and then theres a corset /over/ it OHHH i thought it was all attached JDKSDJK

also i love the bass in sungs bit and the way he ends his verse

MINHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO yes

circus so they included minho's nat geo dance thingy w the hands to clown him methinks (jkjk)

wait. jisung eyeliner?

chan maam who put u in that jacket and tie (?) combo 😭😭

CENTRE JEONGIN IS SO FUCKING GOOD

i love hyunjin's cropped blazer w the chain SOOOOO much more than the dual-texture (?) jacket blazer thing w the tassels

all the cropped blazers in here are making me crazy i love it

texture change for the bridge i love it and i love the texture at jeongin's bit even more like thats so GOOD the cymbal is NJDVKSNVSDK i love lvoe

shut up the shot of minho lowering the hands

YESSS THE LAUGH AND THE CIRCUS THEME

there are so many kids

WAIT. wait. i need to rewatch us (the movie) i htink it might be an us reference

overall i LOVE it and i would love to hear a drum and slap bass cover but i also would love to hear drum and slap bass covers of every song in human history so

your eyes

can't believe i'm subjecting myself to this mv again NJVFKVSK havent listened to it a second time since lol

young wings keys but sadder

the melody.. reminds me of smth... like. either slice of life anime ending or an extremely long shounen anime ending (im looking at naruto and fairy tail)

but hey hyun vocals <3 <3 <3

chans high notes <3 <3 <3

WAIT THERE ARE STRINGSS skz orchestra arrangements when (i can make a whople separate post about orchestral arrangements for skz songs)

@ changbins verse: that is a very tangy (i forgot the word but it sounds like tangy) guitar

but the transition between lix and bin's verses was so seamless wtf

sung rapping in semiquavers broke down the flow so nice imo. idk if i said that right

@ jeongin's verse... the backing vocals... chan...? but it almost sounds like minho when it's higher. the lower "ohh" sounds like channo

okay not that i don't enjoy the song but i just really dont have as much to comment on fndjskfdsj

(okay tbc w the other songs when they come out!)

#kat talks circus #okay i dont enjoy your eyes as much as circus #idk its just not really my thing?? i do like the final chorus tho #OKAY WHEN I SAY I DONT ENJOY it doesnt mean i don't appreciate the song okay 😭😭

[cardioasscular]

happy april fool's day here's my dog with poorly-drawn-on-with-pencil-eyeliner eyebrows

#it's ok it's wet n wild brown pencil eyeliner and it comes off easy with makeup wipes #(I've done this before and i also use the eyeliner for myself lol) #dog #dogs #golden retriever #puppy #senior dogs #this is popcorn and he's 10 and a brat #and i love him with all of my heart #funny #funny dogs

[ahjiee-rana]

Hi, apologies for bothering you but since I've been seeing your lovely DAI shots, I've had DAI in my backlog to play and wanted to ask if you were using any mods or if there were any you would recommend?

Hey! DO I EVER. Lol. It’s no bother at all and I’d be happy to recommend a few that I use! :DI tend to switch various mods I like in and out pretty frequently based on whatever mood I’m in and the section of the game I’ve reached. But here are a few of my faves. (Uh, okay, I’ve gotten a bit carried away here and this is going to be a lot longer than I thought it would be oops haha).To start, the majority of these can be found on the Nexus - only a few are from other sites - and I don’t think any of these would be considered ‘cheats.’ Also, I personally play almost exclusively as elves, so some of these might be more geared toward them. Also, also, these all use DAI Mod Manager to merge with the game, rather than Frosty mod manager. An asterisk next to a mod means it’s pretty much crucial, either for modding the game, or for me, personally. 

The sacred text for everyone using DAI mods: DAI Modder Central.

Eyes, eyebrows, eyelashes:-SOS Eyes up Here (All of which are gorgeous. I’ve used tintable Witchcraft v2 and v3 as well as tintable Babydoll). I also use the eyelash mod from here.-I am also currently trying out Look At These Eyes from this mod page, which are very lovely, too!-*Eyebrows 4 Women and *Eyebrows 4 Men. There’s another brow mod that’s being worked on here rn which I’m definitely going to try when it’s done!

Hair:-SK Hair pack has great options!-Short wavy bob is adorable (my bby is using it here).-Nipuni’s updated bun is also very nicely done! (using it here)-I also strongly recommend using a hair texture smoother like *this one along with whatever hairstyle you pick, or even if you pick one of the vanilla game hairs.-I’ve also used Relaxed Hairstyles. (screenshots)-If you sift through Skara’s mixed mods page here, there’s some more excellent hair mods and other cool things that are not on the Nexus.*Meshes need to be set to Ultra in options for all hair mods to show up in-game, or else on a lower setting they’ll only show up in cutscenes.

Complexions & makeup:-Ascendia’s complexions (I’m using the ‘Ionie’ DLC-friendly one currently on my f!Lavellan).-Gearhog’s complexions (I use their ‘Jude’ complexion for my male elf).-Kitten’s Complexions (I’ve used the tintable ‘Sera’ one as well from here).-Gearhog’s burn scar one is a fave as well, as I find it adds a bit of backstory to play with ;).-Also while on the topic of complexions/face things, I like these vallaslin tweaks by tropelicious, as well as these if you’ve played DA:O and want that style back for your Quizzy.-For makeup, I especially like the eyeliner #6 from this one on my F!Lavellan.-This is also beautiful work from Sidoumo.

While I’m here - a note about complexions, hair, and makeup. It’s much easier IMO to merge your chosen complexion and makeup mod (many DAI complexion mods change complexion #3 for f and #5 for m. So you can only try out 1 complexion mod at a time) and a few hair options before starting up a new game, rather than seeing how they look on an already created character, especially because the Black Emporium, where you can change your character’s appearance at any time, will absolutely crash if you go in there with mods on that alter your appearance. What I do is make one mod folder with my main mods I want to use, merge for regular gameplay, and one mod folder for Black Emporium without any Inquisitor appearance mods, and merge that one whenever I need to go in there for the mirror to tweak my appearance, or for purchasing schematics and crafting supplies that I’m too lazy to go and collect myself. I also eventually create a third folder with mods that are compatible with the 3 end-game (or late-game) DLCs, as some mods that worked throughout the whole game will also crash (or just not show up) in these later DLCs.

Armors & pajama/unequip outfit:-I love all the *Dalish armor edits from KittenTails.-If you play as a Qunari, definitely take a look at the SOS Qunari overhaul collection.-I can’t stand the ‘unequip’ outfit/pajama (not a big deal early in the game, but later on you’re wearing it all the time at your HQ), so I use *a pajama replacer.-No matter your class and race, you always start out wearing the same armor. If you want to switch it to something like elven mage armor or want to RP your Warden from DA:O, etc., Immersive Starting Armors is a good option.-Multiplayer Armor Edits for Single Player is great for expanding your armory, too.~-Just a little aesthetic thing is the No Dirt Buildup mod which disables the gradual dirt/sand buildup on your armor.

Important/Other:-***DAI Mod Manager for merging your mods with the game.-***7 zip to extract mod files.-**DAI Cinematic Tools for screenshotting/flycam. These tutorials have helped me a lot when learning how to use the Tools.

Companion appearance specific:-I adore Skara’s lil greying ponytail for Blackwall (scroll down toward the bottom of pg5).-Sera is super cute with this complexion and bun.-For Solas, I’ll switch between *this one (first regular option) and (spoilery) this one for late-game as a bit of a storytelling element in my mind.-Vivienne is already badass but I like this mod for her as well!

I tend to over-organize my computer, but I’ve found it reeeeaaaallllyyy helps when I’ve tested out as many mods as I have to make separate folders for each type of mod (Face Things/Eyes/Hair/Armor/Other Characters/Mission Specific), one for your characters, and then one or more inside that one for each of your characters if you have multiple playthroughs that utilize different mods for quick and easy merging. Like so:

> inside My_Characters (I make these folders as I need them.)

When I post images on Nexus, I include my mod list to credit and thank the authors for their work, so you can also get an idea of what these all look like on a created character here.

I hope this helped!

#ask #reply #dragon age #aeretylian #long post