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salsedinepicta · 1 day

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My gift for @notomys-mordax-blog for the 2024 Handers Exchange (hosted by @handers-time - whom I thank for organising the event) 🌙

The "fancy evening but they are awkward" prompt captivated me - they are here just to shed feathers all over the place, really.

#Hope this is fine!#✨✨#clip studio paint #csp #illustration #da fanart #dragon age fanart #Handers #dragon age hawke #dragon age anders

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salsedinepicta · 2 days

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a quick WIP Wednesday, because it's almost midnight here 🌙

Thank you to the lovely @pinkfadespirit for the tag! 🦢

1. Something with someone featuring apricots in the background - hello @greypetrel, one day I'll be done 🫥💙 {also, if you want to share something in the future this could be a tag?}

2. SOOO... the other wip that I posted two months ago that was some kind of handers ghost AU? Yeah, now there is more stuff that goes with it, because what I truly needed was to creatively procrastinate some more.

Too tired to tag, but I encourage anyone to do it if they wish so 💅

#Recreating the light of the dawn is more difficult than expected #So pretty tho #🥹#clip studio paint #mixed media #wednesday wip #csp #Not using DA tags because you can barely understand what's going on lol

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salsedinepicta · 13 days

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Fan Work Friday Saturday

Rules: If you're tagged, MAKE A NEW POST and showcase one fanartist or fanfic you recommend (with links), and tag someone to give their recs next! Don't forget to reblog the rec you were tagged in!

Thank you so much for the tag @dreadfutures! Saving the second for later on in the week. Listen I have a hard time choosing and I'll do these on repeat if I must.

Fanartist: @salsedinepicta

Starting with her, purely because it's litterally 10 years of me being 👀 at her art, and I do love the way she mixes pictorical techniques with swirly, 2D lines. I am not a fan of pink+green combination, BUT when she does it. Add a lot of historical references and clothing and an expressive use of colour. I'm an absolute sucker for all artstyles that just looks like three paintstrokes thrown at a paper (digital or traditional) and she does that. And, she's a wonderful human being too, which really helps. <3 (she'd hate the attention but let me Will Smith meme her.)

Fanfic: To The Bone, by @shivunin

Rating: M Words: 48,373 Pairing: Cullen/Inquisitor Lavellan Summary: Depending on who you ask, either Sylaise or Andraste set a mark of fire on those who are destined to find each other. No matter how curious each of them is, neither Lavellan nor Cullen are especially eager to actually go looking for this person. Either luck or fate draws them both to the Inquisition anyway.

I debated high and low what of her fics to start from. I chose To The Bone because it's a soulmate AU. And I generally don't like Soulmates AU. But this one? Mo has a way to turn tropes and clichès around in a way that just makes them relatable, visceral and real. The way she renders human fragility and vulnerability is really heart-clenching. I know I always fangirl over her work but it bears repeating. To the Bone is played more than a Soulmate AU -it is important, but not the main focus, which tricks me into loving this- as a big story of two hurt people who needs to learn to trust someone with their own vulnerability. It's all about learning that you can trust other people, and exactly how scary a decision it is, how much it feels like a jump in the blue.

It's relatable, it's gritty, it's not the peak angst Mo can reach (for that, get a lot of tissues and click on Wander the Drifting Roads.), but it was the first of her works I read and it has a special place in my heart. For its themes, for its main character (can I hug her?) and also and particularly because it's a trope I generally don't like. And I do like to be stand corrected.

Tags under the cut!

You two whom I mentioned, if you want consider this a tag too! :)

Also: @melisusthewee @dreadfutures @inquisimer @blarrghe @blightbear @star--nymph @pinayelf @dungeons-and-dragon-age @ndostairlyrium @hollytree33 @theluckywizard and YOU

#First reaction - shock #Cit #I mean it's more like “ahhh ahdjdhksk'#This is so lovely and I'm very much grateful #🥹💙💙#And I'm glad my red/pink-green propaganda is working 👀💙#This tag game is so sweet - I'll start making lists #Just in case #👁️👄👁️#Text

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salsedinepicta · 25 days

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Hello 💜✨

Some weirdly specific artist asks...

3, 10, 15, 25 and 29, please? :3

(salta quelli che non ti ispirano, ovviamente! <3)

Hello! 💙🌊

3. What ideas come from when you were little?

According to a reputable source (see file attached*), I've always liked botany stuff since I was literally 8.

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10. Favorite piece of clothing to draw?

Anything flowy - be it veils/headpieces or gowns or sleeves.

15. *Where* do you draw (don't drop your ip address this just means do you doodle at a park or smth)

At my desk, or sitting in bed (when my back hurts - I usually sit on a stool so no backrest). I'm quite self conscious so I rarely draw in public, unless it's some kind of event. I used to doodle at one of my former workplace tbh, but now I can't do that anymore.

25. Something your art has been compared to that you were NOT inspired by

Japanese art and prints, back in (art) high school - with all the due respect to Japanese art, it wasn't my inspiration.

29. Media you love, but doesn't inspire you artistically

Definitely Black Sails and American Gods - both are among my favourite shows, especially Black Sails, and yet I have created very little art (or not at all) based on them. No idea why, tbh.

Thanks for asking! 🌼✨

#Ask

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salsedinepicta · 27 days

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Weirdly Specific Artist Ask Game

Didn't see a lot of artist ask games, wanted to make a silly one.

(I wrote this while sick out of my mind last year and it's been collecting dust in my drafts, I might as well let it run free) 1. Art programs you have but don't use

2. Is it easier to draw someone facing left or right (or forward even)

3. What ideas come from when you were little

4. Fav character/subject that's a bitch to draw

5. Estimate of how much of your art you post online vs. the art you keep for yourself

6. Anything that might inspire you subconsciously (i.e. this horse wasn't supposed to look like the Last Unicorn but I see it)

7. A medium of art you don't work in but appreciate

8. What's an old project idea that you've lost interest in

9. What are your file name conventions

10. Favorite piece of clothing to draw

11. Do you listen to anything while drawing? If so, what

12. Easiest part of body to draw

13. A creator who you admire but whose work isn't your thing

14. Any favorite motifs

15. *Where* do you draw (don't drop your ip address this just means do you doodle at a park or smth)

16. Something you are good at but don't really have fun doing

17. Do you eat/drink when drawing? if so, what

18. An estimate of how much art supplies you've broken

19. Favorite inanimate objects to draw (food, nature, etc.)

20. Something everyone else finds hard to draw but you enjoy

21. Art styles nothing like your own but you like anyways

22. What physical exercises do you do before drawing, if any

23. Do you use different layer modes

24. Do your references include stock images

25. Something your art has been compared to that you were NOT inspired by

26. What's a piece that got a wildly different interpretation from what you intended

27. Do you warm up before getting to the good stuff? If so, what is it you draw to warm up with

28. Any art events you have participated in the past (like zines)

29. Media you love, but doesn't inspire you artistically

30. What piece of yours do you think is underrated

#Hello #Ask

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salsedinepicta · 1 month

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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!

#I'm so sorry that I couldn't do the proper thing and everything 🙈#And I'm quite late too - commissions and work/dayjob 🫠 yay #Btw yes I love botany and everything but not in a 'omg the chemicals!!' way - I love vaccines and antibiotics too thanks #Tagged on #Idk if I have a tag #Tag things #Text

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salsedinepicta · 2 months

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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

I am no one, from nowhere, belonging to nothing. I have no story to tell.

Gwydion Hawke

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

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

I shall either find a way - or make one.

#Alba Galocha i'm begging you - film more period dramas #dragon age oc #tagged on #idk how to tag this tbh #i should probably start making ocs tags and everything #mehhh

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salsedinepicta · 2 months

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The Artists for Palestine project does not have an end date

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!!!

#Reblogging here too #in case anyone is interested #Granted 70% of my followed are bots - but I do cherish that 30%#*followerS #signal boost #Not art

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salsedinepicta · 2 months

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WIP Wednesday 🌸

On an actual Wednesday, wow.

Tagged by @greypetrel - thank you! 💜✨

Well, there is... stuff.

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 🪴✨

#It's funny because I'm low-key genuinely scared by ghostly stuff? But there is still a part of my brain that goes 👀👀👀 - why?? Why??#wip wednesday #clip studio paint #sketching #sketchbook #dragon age oc #mixed media art #And a tiny #handers

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salsedinepicta · 2 months

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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

#Oh this sounds fun! Thanks op 🌸#Also the theme imho immediately evokes a mixture of botany and historical fashion... Which is GREAT #DA met gala #Not art #Yet

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salsedinepicta · 2 months

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Get you a girl who can do both and all that ✨ cit Maren Hawke

(No, not really)

#Or: olive skin tone during summer VS during winter #I prefer the first one but eh #Too much work on that dress to throw everything away #Spear girl because subconsciously it reminds her of a staff LOL #Also you may ask 'oh Greta how can she wear such a low cut gown without doing an impromptu mammogram scan?'#Easy! No tits ✨✌🏻#clip studio paint #mixed media art #gouache #gouache illustration #sketchbook #illustration #dragon age hawke #femhawke #Da fanart #Dragon age #da2 #dragon age fanart

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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?

#I'm screaming at a frequency that only whales can hear #Look at themmm #😭💙💙💙#Love the pose love the concept love the palette etc etc #greypetrel #other people's art

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salsedinepicta · 3 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

+ plus Gwydion patiently waiting for a picrew with beards options

As usual, the random reader is encouraged to steal this if they wish so.

#Tag Things #I should probably make characters tags but absolutely not today #✌🏻

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salsedinepicta · 3 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 🫠

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 🌟

#'i killed a lot of baby dragons (ops) at the Bone Pit and all I got it's a very cool jacket - thank you very much'#Gouache my beloved sorry for putting you aside for so many months #gouache #mixed media #sketching #wednesday wip #art wip

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salsedinepicta · 3 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.

- because 'Legion of the Dead' would be such a great name for an alternative rock/metal band. Too bad for copyright and all that.

#Me: quick sketches wohooo #Also me: the book that anders sleeps on MUST be a legit nursing school book or everything falls APART #👁️👄👁️#Anyhow thank you for the inspiration #Sigrun is SO fun to draw #mixed media #graphite sketch #Sketches #dragon age #Da fanart #dragon age fanart #dragon age sigrun #dragon age anders #Not at his best maybe??

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salsedinepicta · 3 months

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I may have thought too much about my Surana with longer hair, maybe.

#I kind of want to do something more with the first sketch - it's giving me ✨ideas✨#But we shall see #Anyway this was prompted by the fact that there were too many people with short dark hair lol #But knowing myself it won't take much to come up with a bittersweet backstory #Bye #clip studio paint #mixed media #csp #dragon age #dragon age oc #dragon age fanart #warden surana #sketches

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salsedinepicta · 3 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

#Idk idk idk #I just hope hawke looks vaguely similar to himself because without face references I'm lost 🫠#The joy of being used to draw/paint semi realistic stuff #Anyway I like to think that while AU Thedas surely has its problems face tattoos on workplaces are not one of them #They are such a big part of the characters design that I feel bad erasing them #I know I know #clip studio paint #mixed media art #sketches #Dragon age #Da fanart #dragon age fanart #dragon age hawke #da2 #I'm not tagging anders and sigrun because they are literally 2 cm in a corner

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