#god it's going to be a monster like the FFXV self-indulgent self-insert bullshit fic isn't it?

[phoenixiancrystallist]

Month 7 day 27

Did more work on whatever this is XD Finally got smrt and color dropped directly from the bajillion and six screenshots I've taken, so Frey's skin, hair, and eyes are accurate now. Sus's hand still needs work/references. I need to go through and screenshots where I don't adjust the saturation in photo mode >.> I tried using the raw image that I edited yesterday, but that looked too... pale? It didn't look right, either way. So I'll keep playing with his coloration until it looks right.

Also I decided I like his grip better with the thumb up further for some reason ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Thank goodness for my non-destructive editing process; that would have been a paaaaaiiiiiiiiiin to fix otherwise.

#the great artscapade of 2023 #art #my art #forspoken #forspoken fan art #forspoken susurrus #frey holland #when I posted this to the projects chat in my guild's discord I described it as #''More torture! ...antagonism. Flirting? ...whatever these two are doing XD'' #and I feel like that's accurate for their dynamic in general tbh #also I wrote more in the self-insert shenanigans #aaaaand then I scrapped like all of it because it was taking the story in a direction I wasn't prepared for it to go yet #or maybe even at all tbh #I might actually wind up having to scrap the last couple chapters I wrote ): #idk we'll see #I'm only 18k into this thing it's fine >w> #god it's going to be a monster like the FFXV self-indulgent self-insert bullshit fic isn't it? #at least THAT one was following the game's story and I didn't have to do a whole lot of work! #this one I'm making everything up out of whole cloth XD #*I* have to make the dumb plot decisions now I can't just rely on the canon dumb plot decisions! #don't get me wrong I'm having so much fun #but oh man #it's a LOT of work