Zersetzung // Decomposition

So, I thought my first Cosmere fanart was this sketch of Hrathen from 2015:

But then I remembered, it was this Kelsier I drew for a friend in 2011:

I can’t believe it’s been seven years… I also can’t believe that this is what I pictured Kelsier to look like. Dear past me, this is not what an almost 40 years old with a hardness in his eyes is supposed to look like.

I ALSO REALIZED JUST NOW THAT FORGOT THE SCARS ON HIS ARMS WHICH ARE IN FACT THE MOST IMPORTANT OF HIS FEATURES askjhddsjkfs

Show Your First Cosmere Fan Art

Hey folks, how about this? Reblog this post (or just use [first cosmere art] tag), paste your first Cosmere fan art (or any early piece perhaps no one has ever seen) and share your feelings. It can be any kind of art, or even shitty sketches found in your textbook, as long as it was drawn/made by you =)

So let’s begin! I am not sure if any of you would like to play this, but thanks anyway!

Akusaimonth: Berserk Mode Day 18: Misunderstanding

Keep your mouth shut.

I don't think there are misunderstandings in between those two. They are both hearing as well as understanding what the other one says. In my opinion, the biggest misunderstanding is within Saix, because he very apparently is not aware of what he's really doing. Or what harm he causes by doing it. All Axel does is defying to hear what Saix doesn't say.

Anyone who thinks I'm exaggerating – think again.

The reason I drew this (exactly a year ago today) was a nightmare I had back then. Everyone Koujaku even remotely cared about had died in this dream, and he blamed it all on himself.

He felt so empty inside, he couldn’t do a thing anymore, he could barely get out of bed, kept the curtains and windows closed at all times. The only reason he was still alive, was because he couldn’t even care enough to die anymore. And, because somewhere in all this mess, Mink was there. I don’t know why, he didn’t say a word in the whole dream, but he took Koujaku with him, to someplace far from Midorijima and he held onto him. 

For Koujaku, it was all that was left.

Akusaimonth: Berserk Mode Day 9: Flustered I guess, not everything is lost just yet. I actually spent all my free time of the last two days on this @_@“ (so much for my resolution to do small and simple drawings.) Urgh, I’m sorry for my handwriting. Page 1: Saix: Axel. Axel: … Axel: What? Spit it out already. Saix: Will you … eat some sea salt ice cream with me? Axel: … (processing, please wait.) Saix: Nevermind. Just forget it. Page 2: Axel: Oi, wait! You can’t just walk away like that! That’s not fair! Saix: … Saix: Then tell me. Will you? Axel: … Axel: Not as long you’re acting like that, that much’s for sure. So, no more running, okay? Saix: You mean … Axel: Of course I will! After all we’re still friends, right? Page 3: Saix: … right. Axel: Wait, was that a SMILE just now?! Saix: Oh, shut up. I guess Saix was trying to ask this question for days, if not weeks and that’s what happened, when he finally managed. Axel, who had actually almost given up on his friend was obviously rather surprised by it. (who wouldn’t?) He probably expected him to order him around or to say something mean about his (new) friends and well, when that question came he just decided to give Saix another chance. Because maybe, just maybe, their friendship was not completely lost after all.

Let me face my fears.

(Isa’s new hair colour looks like space and I love it.)

Just a little heads up: I'm alive and I'll try to post a few more drawings before the new year!

First up is a little series of portraits, featuring my favourite characters of three of my hypes from this year: The Magnus Archives, NEO: The World Ends With You and The Great Ace Attorney.

If you follow my reblog blog @schluesselschwert you probably already know who they are. x'D

Hope you all had as good a year as you possibly could and I wish you happy holidays!

@kittendough recently noticed, that Chat Noir is basically Ouran High School Host Club’s Tamaki all over again, so guess what I drew her for christmas.

Done with water colours and coloured pencils. (Also, This is probably the most anime thing I’ve ever drawn. It was fun though!)

(referring to this post)

So, I decided to do it like this from now on. Writing all the background info on my pictures in an extra post, rather than stuffing it into the caption. I just don’t feel very well when people reblog pictures with my sometimes very personal thoughts in the captions. It’s strange to see that on other people’s blogs. Also, this way I can write to my heart’s content. All of the unnecessary stuff noone wants to know anyway! <3 Yay.

(I’ll tag this as “dias art blabber”, by the way.)

So, let’s do this. Background infos, thoughts and close ups below the cut.

Starting Point // Summary? There were three reasons for this picture: a) another onset of winter in the midst of May gave me the right inspiration to finally get that spring flower thing out of my head; b) the nice tags by some people added drastically to that + someone wrote that they “miss miss miss” my art and apparently they only ever see my akusais, so here you go ;) ; and c) it’s my 78th post. It called for some AkuSai. -like stuff.

Finding the motif // flowers The basic idea behind this picture was Roxas with this flower. We call them Sky’s/Heaven’s Keys. (sky and heaven are the same word in German ... I guess it means heaven, but I always understood it as sky. When I was a child I’d always imagine flying and unlocking the sky with one of those flowers …) They are my absolute favourite spring flowers and I found them fitting for Roxas. Not just because of the name, but also on an emotional base.

I figured quiet fast that I should get Xion and Axel onto the pic as well. Xion would of course get Forget-Me-Nots. Which is not very creative, I guess. xD Yet so undeniably fitting. For Axel it was Cuckoo’s Flowers. One of the few pink things I liked as a child. Probably because it wasn’t some “girlish baby colour”, but a really hot pink that really sticked out. Aaaalso, cuckoos are brood parasites, not so sure how you think about that, but in my opinion that connotation suits Axel.

// the rest Still I didn’t know how to get that onto a picture. Until it snowed some day in the middle of May. This was exactly the input I needed. I just thought, that if the Sea Salt Trio was spring flowers, then Saix would be the snow. The last picture followed to bring the picture to an end. It seemed so unfinished, almost like a lie, with the three of them happy.

Upload // Or: Tumblr hates me I did really have a hard time uploading this thing. I literally tried everything. Even with the supposingly working size of 540 x 810 px the pictures were still blurry ... I even tried to reduce the height by cutting the pictures into parts. Still blurry. At some point I just decided that I didn’t care anymore. They are clear on my blog or when they are clicked. That’s enough.

Close Ups // I promised them and here they are! That’s about the size I worked on when I was colouring, the original sketches are waaay smaller, they are drawn on DIN A4 paper (see comparison in the end). 

I like to set these two into some sort of ... contrasting parallels? Like, creating opposites, yet showing the similarities at the same time. Wow, does this even make any sense? xD I used more colour on the bottom of the last picture, because I really wanted the red to be strong there. That image is supposed to have a sad at first and then almost hateful atmosphere. I wanted it to have an unsettling effect  when scrolling down (and letting it sink in, of course).

Axel looks like a flower himself. x’D Especially in those colours …

When my youngest sister saw the picture with the three of them she asked me, if they were marrying. x’D

Size comparison with the actual drawing; the flowers in their hands are like super mini tiny.

So, in case you did read this, thanks a lot! Would you mind letting me know what you think about it, please? Like, does it make sense to do this? What are the interesting parts? What is not? Anything else that you would like to know/see? Did you like the close ups?

Anyway, thank you very very much for showing interest! :D That’s basically the reason for me to finish pictures and put them up on here. You, that is.

"If I had a heart, this would be where I'd die of laughter." 19 Days left.

Because this is one of my favourite cutscenes. It features: - Naminé. - Naminé blurring. - Saix. - Riku. - Riku's theme. - Saix' superawesome dodging backflip. - Saix being pinned to a wall. - Saix grinning. - Kairi defying Saix basically the same way she defyed Axel and I like every parallel between those two. - Kairi being actually cool. - the image of Saix rolling over the floor laughing his ass off. It's just so wrong.