Hi @thistlebane, I'm your (extremely late) back-up Santa!! Hopefully this humble Mazoga offering will be enough to ask for forgiveness... I have a tendency to simplify (or dumbify) complex armour, so I hope you don't mind the inaccuracy! She was very fun to draw.
I was thinking about Dunmer (as per usual) and now I have a headcanon surrounding Dunmer traditions that's been rattling around in my head for a while.
I know that typically Dunmer include little bones of deceased ancestors in their family shrines while the rest returns to the ash but I also like to imagine that when young Dunmer children lose their first baby tooth, it's added to the family shrine too. It's more of a ceremonial act than a functional act (seeing as they're still alive) that serves as a sort of introduction into their future duty to protect and advise generations to come (and for closer kinship with those whose bones came before and aid them now).
I recently realized I never posted Ramshuribani's reference, but since I modified some things on it today I can now post the updated version I'm a lot happier with (added her earring based on this unused lore tidbit (bottom of the page), switched her main weapon from a spear to a short blade (thus her weird pose), and slightly fixed her colors to look nicer).
She's the sort of companion/follower to my Nerevarine. She's an Urshilaku Ashlander who finds his insistence that he's the Nerevarine silly but endearing, but come to be the first one to actually believe in him. She later tags along with him while he's fulfilling the 4th and 5th trials, and the two of them start a little fling that turns into a full blown romance.
Unfortunately she's not as developed as I'd like her to be right now, but I got a lot of pieces of story set up, so I'm just waiting for the switch to flip in my brain at some point that puts them all together.
I was considering whether to share my bastard pasty elf here but refs are always so much work so i suppose it's worth posting
Okay I was productive for a day, time to dip for months again (maybe not, who knows?)
OOPSIE did this weeks ago and forgot to post- Not the Drake design I said I wanted to make but I wanted to Skyrimify my OC Jem for my AU 👀
Look at him, why is he hot-
Jem is a Barbarianesque mercenary that was once a bandit that pillaged villages in his youth during the Great War. He turned a new leaf and put his old bandit life behind him and used his strength and crime knowledge to become a mercenary.
2023 clothing refs for Darra, in time for Artfight :] (though my participation this year may be very limited)
Including a classic Skyrim dress, a Vvardenfell dress bought in the Raven Rock market, and a nice winter mage jacket.
And, under the cut, underwear (and another classic Skyrim dress)
Maybe in the future, I’ll add Solstheim/Vvardenfell looks, fancy Skyrim clothes, the tavern outfit, and the Skaal jacket... but 8 darra is already a lot of darra