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(this is such a dumb joke but I love it sm lmao)

Left flag: Aro-ace (headcanon)

Right flag: Non-binary

sooo about lamb's clothes....

i knew for a while now that my lamb whould start wearing more than just a fleece after ascention and designing clothes is my absolute forever and ever favourite part of drawing so i finally can do it for my cotl au😩😩😩. references and what went into the design (including lore stuff) are under the cut as always

the aestetic choices

they stop wearing the collar and always leave their neck open so the scar and subsequently the evidence of their immortality is always visible

i changes the red-and-white of the default fleece to red-and-gold cause it looks more regal and important and more suitable for a new god

i keep their silhouette feminine cause personal preference ahah. their dresses are mostly very light and loose because anything firmer probably feels awful on wool

i didn't do it justice cause frankly it's time consuming but imagine a lot of intricate embroidery there (because, again, a new god, they have the right and the want to be show-off-y)

the lore stuff (the crown and the symbols mainly)

i could go on longer but in a nutshell – even while being a vessel lamb already started rewriting history a bit. their cult consists exclusively of victims of old faith or reformed believers, so "oh guys we're actually worshiping one of the bishops" shit wouldn't really fly. so the cult if for The God of Death (not bishop mind you) so when narinder theoretically is freed he gets a new start as a deity, plus any mention of him was already erased by his siblings (that's my way of explaining why there's literally no narinder imagery anywhere in the cult, and crown doesn't count like narinder imagery)

when freeing narinder doesn't go as planned lamb continues with "this is not like the old faith guys" even harder. they started wearing the crown not in it's crown form, all of the crown imagery slowly disappeared, etc. they don't go by title of a god even, they're "The Promised Liberator of the lands of The Old Faith" or like just liberator or saviour or wtv

HOWEVER they still borrow a shitton from the old faith, even in aesthetics. the headpiece they turn the crown into? based on bishops' cross-like headpieces, but more horn-shaped (the eye of the crown can be seen only by those meaningfully touched by divinity, so, ratau, desciples, old faith siblings). all of the symbols they use in embroidery? also old faith

they're doing the same thing old faith did to the old gods. "they call their faith old but they're just a bunch of heretics". lamb is a heretic to the old faith, they make it seem like they're different but it's just a new coat of paint

important!! the desiphered meaning of the symbols belongs to @itislils2004. they did an insane amount of work putting together cotl lore, i highly recommend going through the google doc in their pinned post, it's a wonderful read (and a wonderful watch, their art is amazing)

Manifesting more official Baal & Aym content for 2025

DO ART FOR YOU! 🫵

FUCK EVERYONE ELSE!!!

Seriously.

I'm so sick and weary of logging on here and seeing creators I adore, and people I don't even know alike, apologising for not uploading or basically begging for a break like they're not a human with needs.

You're literally a human being, with thoughts, feelings and emotions. You're not an art factory, you're not some positivity pump, you're nothing other than a genuine human being living a genuine life experience.

SO GO LIVE IT!!!

YOU OWE THE INTERNET NOTHING!!!!

There should be, and realistically is, no shame in just fucking leaving if you want to. There's no contract you signed, there's no permit you bought or lease you hold. You're a person who decided to share their art with the world, FOR FREE, and garnered an audience of faceless people behind screens who enjoy that art because YOU wanted to make it and share it.

Let me be frank as best I can. You owe the internet nothing, you owe the world nothing and you owe yourself EVERYTHING. You are the only person who can live your life, you are the only person who can create the things you create and you are the only motherfucker that should matter to you when you create those things.

Art is supposed to be a wondrous joy that inspires the mind and indulges ideas that other creatures can't even comprehend. It's supposed to be a magical and fun fantasy land where anything is possible because you make it possible. It's not a 9-5 unless you make it one, so stop making your hobby a 9-5 unless you're getting paid for it, and even then put in limits because no job that you choose to do should end in you burnt out and wishing you'd never started in the first place.

Remember when we were all kids? When we all drew and wrote for fun simply because we could? We'd show people are shit and be like "Mama look!" and she'd clap her hands all proud. But she wasn't why you picked up that crayon, you just did it for you because you wanted to make some shit.

That's how it should be. That's how it is unless you let those fake ass numbers on a screen rule your life. It's all meaningless, the praise may be genuine but that doesn't mean you should spend your whole life running in circles and performing for an audience.

Be a human being! Be an artist! Fuck everyone else!

Just be yourself <3

Trying to finish a narilamb comic but I lost motivation midway through OOF 🫡

gifts with nari or lambs for some of my fav artists!!!!!!! its not all of them unfortunately but ill make more in the future

@bamsara THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for your art!!! you and your artworks have been a great source of inspiration for me for a long time, please take care of yourself and ?? drink water idk what to say

@kyoukorpse I LOVE YOUR ARTSTYLE RRAHHHHHH!!! its so tasty and nice and i find it so unique and just adorable!!! thank you for your hard work also <33 hold a doodle of chirin

@beautysnake i honestly adore the way you draw narilamb and i have no idea how are you doing that. just insane

@jomo-is-here idk how much of a gift is it but your artwork really inspires me a lot so its? just a lamb in your style

@raybuggybug Ilove your lambsona i fell in love with it from the first sight /j j j

@acis-arts your swap au is a pure serotonin to me tbh thank you for creating it.

@runningwithscizzorz i REALLY love your lamb euweuhfhuefhuiawfuhi hehuweuhehuew.

@anuphim YOU'RE LITERALLY THE REASON I FOUND OUT ABOUT COTL FANDOM SO THANK YOU SO MUCH and i also really love your narilamb theyre taste like strawberry to me........

@bogor-o your mother au is so unique tbh and i love the concept so much. so heres your proud parents !!

@ane-doodles i really love your artstyle and your au hehehehe. sorry if they don't look like your narilamb though

@lil-vibes your artstyle is so tender and soft and i want to eat your narilamb so so much!!!!!! rrrhhghghgh!!!!!!

@dogiperson narilamb yuri save me narilamb yuri.......... your girls are adorable!!!!

@strawdool YOUR MODERN AU IS MY NEW OBSESSION IM NOT.JOKING /POS

@chwylaven love your artstyle its like a candy to me. your narilamb are so so silly!!!!!!

@laserbobcat for you its leshycat AND I'VE DECIDED TO PLAY WITH MY ARTSTYLE ON THIS ONE CAUSE YOUR LESHYCAT WAS SO SUNNY AND COLORFUL IN MY HEAD.........

@aveloka-draws your lamb is creepy in a very attractive and unsafe way i adore it

@vurelly Ilove love love your angry lamb and smug house cat narinder im so serious rn .

Hey I was wondering if I'd be allowed to do a TROD cosplay

I've cosplayed lamb a couple times but I thought it would be cool to add Narinder's scythe from trod as a prop to make it specific to the fic. If not, all good

love your work!

Go for it!!!! I'd love to see it if you do

Love your art! What's your shading process / any tips? I really like how vibrant it is

Thank you!! also sorry this is a long post

I usually start painting the character after I already have a background, super sketchy or with a placeholder (a photo usually), just so i know what colors to use

I fill the character with a color from the BG or a similar color and use the multiply blending mode

then i paint the lights on another layer with the "add glow" blending mode (i also pick the color depending on the bg).

I add another multiply layer for anything that needs to be darker, like stuff under the characters clothes

I paint a line with a saturated color between the lights and shadows, for example i added a bright red for the cape and light purple for their skin (? this is subsurface scattering, it doesnt happen on every surface but i like how it looks so i use it on everything lol.

Then i paint the lineart a similar color to each part of the character or you can paint it all red and use multiply

that's basically it

some tips (these are just things that work for me)

I think is better to paint the lights, not the shadows. it helps to see the shapes of the thing/character you're drawing better (its what i did with lambert ⬆️)

Draw backgrounds, i think it makes every drawing look more interesting and its easier to decide the lighting for the character, if you dont want to draw anything detailed you can paint something simple and blur it

i really recommend to start with a thumbnail, experiment with colors, perspective, composition, etc. before actually starting the drawing thumbnails of this post

this tip is something that everyone has heard before but use references, real life references like photographs for perspective and lighting, 3d models for anatomy and perspective, paintings to see how other artists stylize objects, bgs or characters. use references for everything

this tip is super important for me: check the values of your drawing, (lower the saturation, with the lineart hidden) if it isnt readable/ doesnt look good in black and white it most likely wont look good with colors (this depends on artstyle and personal preference tho)

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FELIX YESSS

Guess who made a quiz about the AU's characters 👀 Wanna see who you are more similar too??

Have funnn, I want to know what you get!❤️