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drakonishe · 8 months
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I'm going to be streaming and doing courtier-themed sketch requests on the @arcanacononline discord server during the first, second and perhaps the third day of the festival! Courtier swap AU requests are also allowed (and encouraged).
Featured artist stream on discord + twitch:
August 12th, 2 pm - 3 pm GMT+0
Streams in my channel on their discord:
August 11th, 12 pm - 2 pm GMT+0
August 12th-13th - possibly at random times.
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asrabounding · 8 months
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NEW MODERN AU EPISODE!
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FAKING IT EPISODE 8 - "SWEET TALK" Asra needs a distraction.
Play it here
Writing by @morellanimmermehr and @asrabounding
Art by @asrabounding and @drakonishe
P.S. Please credit the creators and the story if sharing this art! We all worked extremely hard to put this together.
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drakonishesclan · 5 years
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so here’s an idea
GAOLER FLAMBEBES
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eeltime · 3 years
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Profile card for Miss Feral herself
Other information about her :
her patron tarot is Strength
affinity for green / hedge magic
Would have had her drivers license revoked within a week of getting it in any modern au 
Gives the best pep talks and hugs at the farmers market
Pippin is her familiar but she also has a pet horse, Pepper, who I still need to draw
credits to @momky_savenky on insta for the template and @drakonishe for the beautiful sprites of my girl ♥
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drakonishe · 1 year
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I think there was a moment in Asra's life when he was helping MC recover from memory loss and he realized that amnesia made them a prime target for jokes like "updog". For three days he was contemplating whether he wants to take advantage of this once in a lifetime opportunity, but in the end he decided to instead teach them to respond to such jokes in a way that counter-annoys the person trying to pull them on you.
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drakonishe · 3 months
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How do you feel about people who think Faking It doesn't deserve to be promoted by the arcana accounts? why should you be promoted and not other fandom artists?
There's a row of requirements that a fanmade story needs to meet to be promoted by the official accounts, basically you need to reach a certain level of popularity on your own before you're approached by the Dorian team for further help. We worked really hard to keep up with our weekly release schedule without losing the quality of art and writing, so I don't think our story is undeserving. Mind you, I'm unmedicated for ADHD bc neurostimulants are illegal in my country, which makes it really difficult to meet these deadlines, but I'm trying my best. As for why other stories don't get promoted as often… my guess is they don't meet the criteria as consistently? Which can be caused by many reasons that are out of control of the creators, but I don't think myself or anyone on my team are the ones causing them, so idk why people spend time and energy hating on our story instead of helping other creators succeed. I think one of the main reasons I can work on Faking it almost full-time right now is because I had the financial safety net to wait out the period when the story didn't make much money and spend a lot of work hours on it in spite of that. So, if you want to see ads of other things more often, go support those other fandom artists financially so that they could spend more time to make their stories and get more popular! I would actually prefer it if more people got promoted on the regular basis because I know how annoying repetitive ads can be. I try my best to reshare and promote good stories made by other people but I don't have that many followers myself. In case you want recommendations: If you like courtier content, and especially Valdemar, support the heck out of Kavia, her art is stunning and the writing is very fun! Plus her OC designs are all to die for. Amabel is so cool and tall and I love them so much <3 Her latest release was this story as an entry for the writing month event.
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Solar's Valdemar tale is also awesome, they write Valdemar so in character while also letting you experiense sweet moments of closeness with them, slowly developing a queerplatonic relationship.
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Another great author is Magichoboboy, they have a route made for their handsome MC, and a couple of stories about the relationship between Mars and Lucio featuring Julian as Mars'es ex. Their latest release is an update to the Mars' route.
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(btw I contributed here a little by drawing Maya's sprite as a commission but I promise I don't profit off of promoting the story haha) What Lies Beyond by Mimisha is a story I only saw small bits and pieces of, but if you like Julian x MC, that's a story for you.
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Chasing Chariots started off as a part of one of the game jams and iirc it was the winner?
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Honorable mention for the Last Deal and Right Hand Man by @rhazberriquartz and their partner Spectralgalaxii, who unfortunately have left the platform since then. Their stories about Lucio's redemption arc and about his past interactions with count Spada were amazing. Especially their Spada sprite design. The stories are unlikely to be finished at this point, but maybe if they get enough attention and suport, the authors will come back to writing them again QvQ
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drakonishe · 8 months
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*santa barbara theme song plays*
Just as I thought I’ve explained all the possible little things people accused our modern AU tale team of, an anonymous source has sent me screenshots of fresh new takes about our art (ノ◕ヮ◕)ノ:・゚✧ For more context, check my "AB accusations" tag, but I warn you, that's a long read. I usually respond to posts like this directly to attach my notes to the post, so it doesn’t spread around uncontested. I can’t do that with the screenshotted ones for a few technical reasons. So I’ll be censoring the usernames because I don’t want any hate sent to them anyway.
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Already I want to point something out. The dorian fantale screenshot the asker sent is more desaturated than it is in the game, so it is more desaturated than the official sprite as well (since the base we use is literally from the official source). I don’t know if it was edited to make us look bad, or if it was some technical issue on their side, some apps desaturate images slightly when you send them through the messages.
I’m sorry Asra I have to cover you in stripes again.
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Here’s my screenshot in case you want to do the experiment yourself, but it only works if you precisely make the sprites the same size and align them horizontally. If you don't trust me, you can take it further and go into the Dorian app, to see it in the story and take your own screenshot, but you'll have to tap through 6 chapters to reach this sprite.
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Let’s continue looking at the screenshots of the ask reply:
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Wrong guess, sorry No shading layers were removed. The collarbone shadow is missing from official late game sprites, example: the summer tale sprite from the holy and almighty official arcana app.
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The arm being blueish I’ve already explained, it’s the overlay adjustment layer that was misplaced when dragging layer groups between files. As you can see, we corrected it within 24 hours after releasing the chapter, and the mistake isn’t present in any other of our sprite edits. Visual proof that I’m not bullshitting you about the blue overlay existing on official sprites btw:
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Let's get back to the ask post:
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As I have proven above, the “edit” where the skin color was desaturated was not my doing, it was the asker or whoever sent them the screenshot. All the shading is intact except that one collarbone bit, which was removed by someone working for Nix Hydra, and is a ridiculous thing to get angry over in my opinion.
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Here comes another favorite trick of mine, overlaying things on top of each other in photoshop! Sorry, this is another factually incorrect statement. Perhaps the head looked smaller to this person because the shirt Asra is wearing is large and bulks up the shoulders (ironically, we used a live reference of what a Julian-sized t-shirt from NH merch store would look like on a person of Asra’s height with broad shoulders). As for the neck, the golden choker visually shortens it in the original sprite.
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That’s about it for that ask. But wait, there’s more! It was is a reblog of a reposted picture, the picture has been addressed by me in my earlier “essay”. But the reblog adds more arguments, let’s break it down:
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This all keeps coming back to this image:
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I finally went and found the original of asrabounding’s post of this on discord, and noticed something I haven’t realized before.  It’s a photo of the ipad screen. Meaning the colors here look lighter. It’s a WIP he has shared without a second thought in February this year after people have shown interest in the sketch.
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I asked Asrabounding to send me a screenshot of the file with no shading layers. He even added a picture from the artbook he used as a ref for how dark it should be, but he had to compensate for not having the warm overlay texture they use in official sprites and made the base tone more saturated than NH does, but as you can see, not more pinkish.
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Proof that the value/darkness is identical.
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Let’s verify the hypothesis that taking a picture with your phone from a screen lightens the colors. I don’t have an I-pad, but I think my phone will do. In some attempts it was even worse than the initial photo.
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I think the most important thing here is that the final result is exactly as dark as Asra is in official CGs of a similar shading I also color-picked the blue shading color from his hair, that is conveniently white, and put it on multiply over the flats Asrabounding sent. This was done to make sure he hasn’t edited the flats last minute to wiggle out of this. I trust him, but I know some of y’all don’t.
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Another comment from that blog:
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There are several straight-up lies in this one. First of all, this attributes my responses to the blue arm conundrum to Asrabounding, which wasn’t the case, I wrote them myself. I’m a whole separate person. Secondly, Asrabounding never claimed to be a person of color. In my post I said that his heritage is mixed, and he travels to visit his family. In middle east. Where the sun is hot. So his tan forms naturally in the summer. You know, it’s a physiological process. And people were accusing him of purposefully darkening his skin for cosplay, which wasn’t the case. Stop being a weirdo about it. I’ve seen anon messages he got that were making fun of his tan and saying he looks orange, and let me tell you, people don’t really control the hue of the pigment their skin produces due to sun exposure, plus cameras and lighting often have imperfect color perception. Thirdly,here’s a screenshot of Asrabounding’s instagram, doesn’t look pink to me.
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Also, don’t act like Nix Hydra never used shading colors that make Asra’s skin look pinker than it is otherwise. 
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I even have a fun little video recorded to check what hues there are in the two compilations above.
Another argument:
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Blue and green are hues, light/dark values can be compared by using the greyscale method, and my argument was that the skin isn’t lightened. I understand that making a character pinker than they are can make their skintone look closer to caucasian as long as it’s not too dark, however Asrabounding is using shading colors similar if not identical to what Nix Hydra used, and the blue cancels out the orange, because they’re the opposites on the color wheel, meaning Asra’s skin will look less orange under a blue multiply layer. If you have issues with that, they should first and foremost be addressed at Dana Rune and other artists who worked on the original game, not at the fanartists trying to replicate the style. Finally,
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Almond was retired as a 'sona in Novemer. If she will be used in the future it won't be as Asrabounding’s sona and will go through a redesign.
The game project belongs to Asrabounding partner, as does Almond.
Almond is not the main charachter of the game and does not appear in any of the playable content currently available.
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drakonishe · 1 year
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Poll time!
Making these Steven Universe designs was a lot of fun, so I want to draw fusions. I'd like to know which ones y'all want to see first, so here's a poll! I'm planning on drawing a little fusion dance pic + a fusion design for each of them, and it might to take a long time to finish them all, but I really need something easy to do for while I'm waiting for feedback from commission clients or my art director. Please reblog so that this post doesn't end up with like 10 votes QvQ
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drakonishe · 1 year
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I just wanna talk for a sec abt the difference between these two Asra's blushing faces
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Like the left one is sort of avoidant and embarrassed, it's cute and all but the right one!! The right one always hits me hard whenever it appears in the route (which happens relatively rarely btw). He's so taken aback. Cornered. Vulnerable. Scared of the intensity of his own feelings. 11/10, no notes, simply one of the best faces in the game. Honorable mention of the one where Julian is disguised as him, it's amazing that instead of using Asra's own expressions they drew new ones that imitate Julian's mannerisms
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drakonishe · 21 days
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You should at least credit the artists on your shitposts.
You're right, sometimes when a comic ascends to a famous meme people (myself included) forget that art credit is still needed. Here's the original post on Twitter and a screenshot from the know-your-meme article on it.
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Upd: their Tumblr is @soup-erb
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drakonishe · 3 months
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are the courtiers in season 1 of faking it?
In season 1 we had Valerius as Lucio's boyfriend and Vlastomil as Lucio's lawyer (+ his trusty worm-on-a-string keychain), but we will be adding the rest of the gang in season 2! The first episode of s2 already has Vulgora as a police detective.
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drakonishe · 3 months
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Why did you choose a fennec fox for Asra in your swap AU and stuff?
Well, I needed to choose a fox because of the Magician major arcana being a fox, and fennecs specifically have light colored fur and live in the desert! I thought it would be fitting, since Asra canonically has a small house in Nopal and has white hair.
+ fennecs are cute as hell
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drakonishe · 11 months
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Yeah so an update on that anon
A month ago I recieved this ask:
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The person who initially was offended by Azi’s comment let me and my friend know that he doesn't hold a grudge and doesn't support the harassment because of that mishap. He asked to stay anonymous because he "doesn't want anyone to come to him for tea", but I still have an ask in my inbox that he sent and requested to leave unanswered. For the sake of convenience I’ll call him NBM (nonbinary man). That was a while ago. The reason why I’m still talking about this is because harassment only got worse. I need to prefix the next part with, do NOT send harassment to the user mentioned there, none of the people involved want that. Azi has solid reasons to believe that the person harassing him is the user that has “panda” in his tumblr handle, who was NBM’s friend. Azi had a conversation in DMs with NBM, who at first didn’t believe his friend would do such a thing, but later Panda asked him to send a long monologue to Azi, because they had each other blocked. In that monologue, he doubles down on the narrative that it’s not him sending anon hate. However, after reading the monologue, NBM ended up siding with Azi, because in it Panda admits to knowing some facts about Azi that would only be possible to know at a very high time and effort investment, I’m talking obsessed-stalker-level of it. I’ve read through screenshots of those DMs, so I know what I’m talking about. Since then he’s been trying to organize a smear campaign against Azi by making a sock puppet account and posting screenshots of the conversation. The very same ones that not only didn’t convince *me* that Azi is a bad person, but also turned *his friend* against him. The posts got 0 likes and 1 note saying “how is that even worthy of a callout” :D Apparently he got frustrated by that, so he decided to look for more things to accuse Azi of, and tried to accuse them of whitewashing Asra by cherry picking the drawings where the colors look even slightly off. Let’s address those because this kind of libel makes me especially angry :) First of all, from what I know he’s the first person to accuse Azi of whitewashing, in spite of her posting drawings of Asra for two or more years now. She literally color picks the skintones from sprites and other official assets, same way as I do, and no sane person had any issue with her coloring yet. Here’s an image Panda posted, implying that the teacup piece is whitewashing because in it Asra looks more pinkish.
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However, if you have beef with the pinkish color palette, you have another artist to blame, specifically whoever designed the official candy charms, because that’s where Azi color picked from for this art.
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Not to mention that for this image Panda color picks from the highlight on the arm to make people think the overall skin tone is lighter than it is (for comparison, the circle is me color picking from the base tone)
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Let's convert to greyscale to see if the color was lightened!
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Let’s look at other examples he shows. He claims that this drawing is whitewashed because the flat color of the face doesn’t match the finished sprite, however I want to ask you all: does the final drawing look whitewashed? It doesn’t, because it has a bajillion overlay and multiply layers on top of it. For CGs, Azi follows a process similar to how official NH artists did it, which involves achieving the final skintone by adding color correcting layers on top, one of them is an orange layer that darkens the skintone and makes it warmer.
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Let’s compare it to other dark lighting CGs Panda provides in his post! Would you say he looks lighter?
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He then shows this drawing and tries to dunk on Azi for making Asra look orange. 
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The assets posted around the web have different levels of saturation,and depending where you color pick from, the colors will be different. I wouldn’t say a bit more saturated skintone is something you need to cancel a person over.
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Then, Panda compares the covers of Morella’s missing moments story which Azi updated the art for. Notice how every other part of the former cover is darker too, even Julian’s shirt? Hard to read from distance covers don’t do well on Dorian, where people look through them in a thumbnail form, so making the lighting less dim on the characters was done to help the story gain more traction. Again, the base colors were color picked from official assets.
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Panda also posted Azi’s photos from different times of year, implying she darkened her skintone to cosplay Asra. The thing is, Azi is from a mixed heritage, lives in and travels to places where the sun is bright, and there’s such thing as a natural tan. (On the left is a comparison between photos of Azi, on the right is a pic I found on google by typing “tan lines”, Azi’s skintone didn’t even shift that much in comparison). And yes, your face and neck tan more than the inner part of your arm, that is true for all skin colors. I also have seen Azi’s old pics where she was very tan, so it’s not a new thing she does on purpose.
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So yeah, if you do see callout posts about Asrabounding, please know that there are two sides to this story. Feel free to read the DM screenshots too, I didn't repost them because there's a bajillion of them, they're not mine to post, and I wanted to focus on disproving the racism allegations.
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drakonishe · 1 year
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Question @ courtier fans
Ok so, the biggest obstacle to me making actual courtier tales was the fact that writing, edtiting sprites and drawing CGs was a lot of timeconsuming work I couldn't monetize, and I'm a broke little art goblin, so I had to prioritize drawing other things. However, apparently the Dorian app allows fans to monetize the fanmade tales they publish, the deal is: after the tale earns 30 bucks, the profits get split 50/50 between the creator and the company. Some may say 50% is too little, but whatever, it's better than not giving the authors anything at all. This post is an interest check, would you theoretically pay actual money to read a courtier tale made by me on Dorian? With a CG, additional faces for sprites and maybe even backgrounds? I'm thinking of making a Valdemar one as a start, them showing the protag around the dungeon and talking about anatomical stuff (so trigger warning for that I guess). I also have some ideas for Vlastomil and Vulgora, but less complete ones. I can't make a romantic tale about Valdemar out of respect for aromantic people who consider them canonically aro, but the rest of the courtiers are fair game, so my goal will be to give y'all as much as I can with a PG-13 rating (´,,•ω•,,) I know some people didn't want Nix Hydra to make courtier tales because they could "ruin" the characters, like canonize some traits fans consider to be too stereotypical and lazy writing-wise. Well, the beauty of fanmade content is that you can easily ignore it! And still have your own headcanons. Plus I'd like to think that I care about the courtiers way more than a Nix Hydra writer that could be tasked with making the official tales, I'll do my best to not make them feel one-dimensional or out of character. Feel free to post your opinions in the comments or reblogs!
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drakonishe · 3 months
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Do you have anything to do with the upcoming courtier content?
:3c
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drakonishe · 5 months
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Trick or treat. 🍫🍬🐐🦠🪱🧅🍅
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(I'll use this post as an opportunity to post my current favorite kind of candy: caramelized peanut bars)
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