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The day before yesterday, I had a nostalgia for a beautiful, role-playing community of the Dark Brotherhood.

(I'll leave the link just below if one of my readers is Russian-speaking.)

Well, I decided to make art with the Blade of Woe. And again, throw a little lore on the subject of this weapon.

The Blade of Woe is an ebony dagger associated with the Dark Brotherhood. It looks little different from any other similar weapon, but in the right hands it is deadly. The dagger is all the more deadly, because it damages health and magic, and also demoralizes the one who is wounded by it.

Around 3E 433, the dagger, which had not yet been used to commit a single murder, was handed over by Lucien Lachance to a certain assassin when the Dark Brotherhood invited this newcomer to join their ranks. The killer joined the Brotherhood and quickly ascended the career ladder, remaining the owner of this weapon. After the rite of Purification and subsequent cleansing of the ranks of the Black Hand, which ended in Lucien's death, the killer took part in a meeting of the top of the Brotherhood, which resulted in the decision to summon the spirit of the Mother of Night in the crypt under the statue of the Happy Old Lady in Braville. During this meeting, the true traitor of the Brotherhood was identified and killed, and as a reward for her loyalty, the Night Mother revealed the true power of the Blade of Woe to the newly chosen Hearer.

Around 4E 201, the Blade of Woe, whose magical properties were significantly weakened, was wielded by Astrid, the head of the last known active refuge of the Dark Brotherhood stationed in Skyrim. Astrid died at the hands of the one who killed Grelod the Good. The killer took possession of the Blade, after which the location of the weapon is unknown.

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I really like, how he looks in modern clothes.

winter

Вххвхв, so ok..

I just want to meet with my partner.

reblog and make a wish! this was removed from tumbrl due to “violating one or more of Tumblr’s Community Guidelines”, but since my wish came true the first time, I’m putting it back. :)

In short, I was bored yesterday, and I couldn't sleep, so I drew this on a stud.

And here is the list for the challenge. I finally made it.

So .

Fresh art with a statue of Mara. It was outside the challenge, but lore about one of the nine divines still want to post .

Mara is a goddess of the Nine Divines. She is also known as Mother-Goddess and Goddess of Love in the Empire, and in Skyrim as handmaid of Kyne. She makes an appearance in almost every culture's pantheon in Tamriel, and at times is affiliated with Nir who gave birth to creation. She may be married to, or act as a concubine of, either Akatosh or Lorkhan, depending on the religion. In Morrowind, Mara appears in the form of Ama Nin.

Her commandments :

Live soberly and peacefully.

Honor your parents.

Keep peace in your home and family.

Flight Cycle Animations

Made em myself and oof I am exhausted. I had one animation class in college. Just the one. I can’t do much more than these short cycles (though I am working on some longer ones at the moment).

Disclaimer: these gifs are not a perfect reference for flight, I recommend looking up videos of birds and bats flying in slow motion for better references. These are just meant to be samples of how winged people would need to move their wings and whole bodies a lot more than we usually see in movies and tv. I figured it would work better as a visual in motion as well as a written description.

(Description: a bird winged person and bat winged person flying in a looped gif. They are shown from the side here, with their wing bones highlighted in red.)

It was hard to keep everything consistently sized, but anyway. Heads should stay pretty still, this is called “head tracking” and if a flying creature can’t do this they won’t be able to see straight while they fly. Hips should move a lot when flying, because tails are just as much a part of the motion as wings are. In the case of birds, their tails tend to move opposite to their wings, flaring outwards as well. In the case of bats, their wings are attached to their legs and tail if they have one, so their hips will follow the motion of the wings. (And with bat winged people it’s always a tail because the wing membrane would disrupt the bipedalism otherwise).

Bat wings usually have a deeper downstroke than bird wings, and their finger joints allow for more precise wing shaping in flight, curling upwards close to the body for the upstroke. Bird wings in casual flight will have shallower wing strokes than bat wings, sometimes not even coming all the way up depending on the flight speed. They also keep their wingtips closer to the body on the upstroke. Like how when you’re swimming it’s easier to pull your arm up elbow-first to avoid drag.

Definitely look up specific birds and bats in slow motion if you can, flying is a very complex and nuanced form of movement and I can’t describe every detail of it myself. Wing shape, flight speed, air currents, etc can all affect the way a creature flies.

(Description: same as above, but now the winged people are shown flying towards the viewer, and their wing bones are not highlighted.)

Honestly it’s a little easier to draw normal flight from the front lol it lets me show the movement of the wings better. (Foreshortening wings is freakin tricky and I’ve been working on that for years, it’s so much harder than foreshortening other limbs.) It’s a bit easier to see the bird tail motion here, the way it flares out when it dips down.

(Description: a looped gif of a bird winged person and a bat winged person hovering, shown from the side. There is also an example of how not to hover, depicted by a common trope of a winged person floating vertically in the air withheir wings held straight out to the side. Their body kind of bobs up and down while their wings move mainly from the shoulder, looking more like signal flags than actual flapping wings.)

Not all birds and bats can hover and it kind of requires extremely fast flapping, with a very particular motion to it which is hard to depict at any angle. But it’s okay to fudge that a little for the sake of your winged people. The motion is rather circular, wings go out to the side, push down, and then the wrist pushes forward. On the way back up, the wrist folds straight back and the whole wing will fold in super close to the body, then quickly rotate outwards to come back straight out behind the body and repeat. That’s how it works in the best videos of hovering birds I could find, which were kingfishers. I could not locate a video of a bat hovering that was quite as thorough but I gathered that it works in a very similar way.

Except hummingbirds, those are a whole category of their own. I might have to make a specific post on hummingbird wings someday because they are just that unique.

And as seen on the end there, my pet peeve. I see this in live action and cartoons. The weird vertical hover where the person just sorta floats there and moves their wings flatly up and down (or worse, they don’t move their wings at all). This is not a functional way to fly. The wings are not catching any air. They’re going to fall right out of the sky. And what is the point of giving a character wings as an actual body part if you’re just going to depict them magically floating? It’s not nearly as fun.

you know what!!!!!!!!!!!!! i don’t care anymore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i enjoy things and i am going to enjoy things and i don’t care if other people don’t enjoy the things that i do!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i do not have to defend myself about every single thing i have ever liked!!!!!!!!!!!! i do not have to preface every opinion with “i know it’s garbage” for it to be valid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i like things!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and i like liking things!!!!!!!!!!!!! and i don’t care what other people think!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

why is every new TES blog is like… making up apologies just to make their character a stormcloak (or even a Nord, smh)

things like; “she used to support the stormcloaks, don’t worry she hates them later on lol” or “yes he’s a stormcloak no that doesn’t mean I support them lol” or some variation thereof.

it’s… just… a video game thing?

you don’t need to apologize. you don’t need to come up with plausible reasons in order to not get yourself “cancelled” for making a stormcloak character, a Nord character, or any other type of character you can imagine. just… make your goddamn character. that’s it.

Thank you 🥺💙💙💙

Now, I just want to draw more of Kajo ":>

She so sweet and also cool

I'm finally done art. To be honest, I think my skill has grown a little bit.

So.. Here it is! I hope you like it @aaami!

(also today is my birthday)

I'm finally done art. To be honest, I think my skill has grown a little bit.

So.. Here it is! I hope you like it @aaami!

(also today is my birthday)

spoiler :^

@aaami Hope you'll like it!

He looks like those scared owls

That moment when the outlander that hired you reads a weird black book

So.

The first one who opens our challenge is the flame atronaha.

A little lore on the subject of these loyal guardians, I think it wouldn't hurt.

An atronach is one of several species of Daedric creatures or golems, made up almost entirely of a single, pure substance. The name is sometimes applied to man-made constructs that resemble atronachs, but are not Daedra; these creatures are more properly called golems.

All Daedric atronachs share a few characteristics that distinguish them from other Daedra. They are made up of what would normally be inanimate material, and they often appear to be humanoid in form. However, they can be conjured into other shapes. Atronachs generally move by walking or hovering.

Atronachs are considered moderately intelligent, and are frequently used by powerful conjurers as guardians. All atronachs can use magic based on their base element, and are typically weak to opposing magic. Daedric atronachs are unique among the Daedra in that they claim no allegiance to any specific Daedric Prince. They are found nearly as often on Nirn as on any given plane of Oblivion. An exception to this is the storm atronach—as one of the most powerful Daedra species, they are often recruited by the Daedric Princes to protect their realm.

I was bored, so I came up with a challenge to draw TES.

The essence itself is simple, every day(well, or not every day), I will have to draw one creature from the scrolls. Foxes, bears, sprigan, draugry, spiders and so on and so forth.

I'll raise my skill, and the content will be there.

In General, here. The first art is already ready and probably tomorrow I will just throw it here.

Don't miss it, there will be content soon!

Wow, I really did art with among us.

Well, I'm always late, but the game is still fun.

I guess I was more pleased to draw horns.

Translation : BIsquit

Finally, I downloaded all the mods I needed, now I can rest.

Honestly, I didn't think it would be SO tiring. Plus, because I had conditioning on (I'm cooling my computer with it), I have cold fingers right now. But for that I am happy with the new list of mods.

Now, second part

I'm alive! I also brought mushroom sketches.

1 - st part!

My boy 🥺

Dragonfly Dagger

Dragonfly Dagger

Ah, yes, more random sketches :)

* thinks what I can draw on the theme of the treasure planet *

*thinks harder *

I'm late as usual, but it doesn't matter! Today ( or rather, I already had yesterday) is the birthday of one game from Bethesda, Skyrim turned nine years old.

In honor of this, here is an art made with Dwemer armor, while listening the book)

Well, I found some old art on treasure planet. ( made last year)

Jim Hawkins as the girl. Something like genderbend.

More random sketches!