It's Good To Get Out And Stretch Your Legs Once In A While. People Aren't Made To Stay Cooped Up Inside

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(detail + ratio rambling under the cut >_>)

This is one of those "I need a break between my ten other illustrations, let me do a lil sketchy sketch :D" that got too ambitious etc. etc. I never want to see the color red again" moments. BUT!

I really, really like to explore Ratio's viscerality and what's happening between his brain and his nerves, like... all of this thorough control and discipline and he still has to breathe and react to himself and his surroundings, you know? His accomplishments are insane for "his age"* but he's going to run out of "age" at some point! His ambitions are so far reaching that he's not worried about getting doctorate degree Number Nine! Rather, his efforts are pointed outwards, into the universe, for the universe. As you know.

Speaking of his degrees, I had a half thought a while ago that we've seen him with two types of laurel pins.

One is him in his suuuuuper cute mother goose avatar (three leaves) and the other is the hat he's wearing everywhere else (eight leaves).

The thought was, "Aww, what if they're like commemorative pins counting the number of his degrees or whatever :)". Literally only because there's eight in the current one. This is kind of silly because then you'd HAVE to have an obscene number of degrees even for a normal person for your leaf pin to start looking like a laurel in the first place so scratch that BUT it's cute to think that it's still academic regalia. Something something I work in higher ed myself and it's like... it's like that.

The university goldsmith appreciates the job security.

I REMEMBER WHY I BROUGHT THAT UP. FOLLOWING the fantasy where more leaves = more knowledge!, in summary, even though Ratio seems to be a little beyond trying to get a prize every time he learns something now. But he does want to Keep Going. He can only Keep Going.

So I drew him in a bathtub full of an uncountable amount of gold leaves looking at the camera with an indescribable expression born from a hunger that will never be satiated lol DETAIL SHOT!

*Referenced only vaguely in a comment in the context of astonishment, but it could have easily have been "woah he's accomplished so much for his age (young)" as it could be "woah he looks good for his age (older)". There is no canon age and even then, reconciling standardized system time versus planetary time versus "does his particular breed of lizard human have the same lifespan as tumblr user nhura?" is a losing game for everyone involved! Here's what I think: I think he started going grey in his early twenties, whatever that means in spacefantasygame, and that that's very cute on him.

Do YOU think Ratio would be tempted by immortality???? Or would he MIND HIS BUSINESS

he’s finally back

posting sketches with kiyo again cause i have no time for drawing except during my study i’m so sorry T_T l just hope that i’ll finish the second piece on my tablet

i miss my inquisitor

day 5 of spooky kiyo

corpse bride

well i didn’t want to draw his sister like emily so it’s just her skeleton (disclaimer i do not ship kiyo with his sister) because they are completely different characters. emily lets victor go because she doesn’t want to derail his life just like hers was. and his sister won’t let kiyo go even after death (even if that’s just kiyo’s delusions and not a real ghost)

i got late with this i just fell asleep yesterday and forgot to post it

good luck everyone with anaxa pulls ,,,, bunch of aglaea and anaxa sketches + unintentionally made aglaea look like me irl

day 1 of drawing kiyo as monsters or creatures because it’s the spooky season

i planned this as a week of me drawing him buuuut i forgot to do it yesterday. and i’m still not sure if i’ll be able to continue and draw him everyday because i have no time/energy and as you can see i’ve been drawing sketches only for the last month for this reason 😔

riney