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Weekend Sketches #15 - Princess Nova, The First Mage

10/2/2022

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A digital drawing of a tall and very femme woman seated with her legs crossed. She has long radiant orange and red hair, like the colour of flames, and freckles on her face. She is wearing a sheer shawl bordered by a gold trim, and on her arms are pitch black tattoos in the shape of flames. She daintily holds a longsword in her right hand while resting the index finger of her left against the side of her face in thought.
Earthshine is mainly a story about a duo, but there are a few important secondary characters who make their mark on the whole narrative. One who has a particularly big impact is Nova. She arguably turns the duo of Sol and Nyx into a trio, but only in the back half of the story.
A black and white sketch of Sol, Nyx, and Nova as a anthropomorphic dog, cat, and fox respectively. Nova is looking at Nyx with her front paws held together  in delight while Nyx looks back at her with hostility and the claws on her right paw barred and her tail puffed. Sol is stuck between the two of them and looks very uncomfortable, refusing to make eye contact and licking her nose in nervousness.
I would love to share more about her here but I run the risk of spoiling the whole first arc, and I’m learning that I should probably stop doing that. I do still want to name her ahead of time. I have been drawing a lot of art as I develop her character in preparation for her future debut, and I really want to post a bunch of it with some context to point back to haha. I think I just have a habit of introducing powerful and charismatic high femmes late in whatever narrative I’m writing. It’s like a sick joke I keep playing on myself.
Three black and white digital halfbody sketches of Nova. From left to right: Her looking to the left in profile, her looking directly at the viewer with her hand slightly covering her mouth, her again looking at the viewer with her chin resting on the back of her outstretched left hand and a small smile on her face.
Nova has gone through a few design changes before I settled on her current look. Honestly what has helped me flesh out Nova’s personality was sticking her in a sci-fi AU where she, Sol, and Nyx are travelling on a spaceship together doing deliveries and/or smuggling shit. 
A black and white digital sketch of Sol, Nyx, and Nova from left to right respectively. Sol is wearing a tank top with her coveralls half off and tied around her waist. Her hair is in a braid and she is smiling as she holds a potted plant. Nyx is dressed in a Lycra bodysuit with a hoodie over it and thick electrician's gloves on her hands. She has a tool belt around her waist and a pair of pliers gripped in her right fist and she is staring at the viewer in mild hostility. Nova is dressed in an antique captain's outfit with lace frock and the large captain's coat draped over her shoulders, but no hat. Her hair is in a ponytail and her right hand rests on her sword while her left hold's a tablet. She is looking at the viewers and smiling.
The nuts and bolts of canon-Nova is that she loves swords, is a mage just like Nyx, and is a big fan of patricide. The rest will come as I start churning out this story.
Thanks for stopping by!

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Winter
10/23/2022 18:31:49

A bit late to this but its always awesome getting to see collections of your illustrations together!! I love this!!! BABE!!! A lot she makes such a fun addition to the story imo ;v;/

(Also rip same hat on the 'accidentally spoils my own stories' istg finding the balance between 'look at my new oc' and wanting to reveal everything about them is a hard!!)

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Gisele link
10/23/2022 18:57:40

LOL Thank you Winter! <3 God the struggle is so real! I gotta keep telling myself that it'll all be so much more satisfying in a properly constructed narrative.

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elemei
12/23/2022 06:04:14

(Catching up on my RSS feed at the end of the year lol) Woww love her vibe. 👀

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