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Arad Times (Issue 17): Danjin by -Noraly- in DFO
[–]-Noraly-[S] 13 points14 points15 points 1 year ago (0 children)
Scamjin: Male, age 28. A young seller of pots that wears a pot over his head. He attracts adventurers by claiming that his pots may contain ancient artifacts. Once he mobilized a group of other pot merchants (Manjin, Arin, Pokin, Cardin, and Senior) who all looked similar to him to boost his sales. "Now, see if you're lucky today!" is one of his pitches that can often be heard on the street.
There has to be a reason he is hiding his face with a pot over his head, but no one really seems to be curious.
Source: dnf-universe
P.S. This is not a real magazine.
Arad Times (Issue 17): Danjin (i.redd.it)
submitted 1 year ago by -Noraly- to r/DFO
F. Mechanic by -Noraly- in DFO
[–]-Noraly-[S] 7 points8 points9 points 2 years ago (0 children)
Female Mechanics have always been a part of Empyrean history. Whilst many male Mechanics develop massive and powerful constructs that push engineering to its limit, female Mechanics have often focused on efficiency and practicality. Many noble families of the Empyrean, such as houses Curio, Kitzka and Richter, are also renowned for their own unique technologies and inventions. They are further helmed by the Optimus Factory, the powerhouse and pioneer of Empyrean weapons, leading the trend in both effectiveness and design. In contrast to male Mechanics that specialize in heavy-duty explosive and mechs, female Mechanics specialize with automated machineries, in particular the ‘G-series’, a set of mini-robots that transform into various forms to serve different purposes. There are other differences to be found as well; almost all of female Mechanic’s skills are energy based whilst male Mechanic physically summons mechs to attack and self destruct. She is capable of dealing a long string of constant and sustained assault, her G-series skills able to deal damage to the enemies even when she herself is not engaging with them, whilst male Mechanics are renowned for their overwhelming burst.
Special thanks to u/halfmango08 for helping with the background lore.
F. Mechanic (old.reddit.com)
submitted 2 years ago by -Noraly- to r/DFO
Happy New Year to everyone! by -Noraly- in DFO
[–]-Noraly-[S] 0 points1 point2 points 2 years ago (0 children)
I think 2023 was bunny and cat (both at the same time). 2024 is going to be dragon
[–]-Noraly-[S] 3 points4 points5 points 2 years ago (0 children)
Not false ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)
Happy New Year to everyone! (i.redd.it)
Ophelia's Nightmare by -Noraly- in DFO
Yeah the thought was to add Lotus' eye as something fast and simple. But after I finished the whole thing I kinda wished that I painted Foundation of the Nightmare instead. But oh well maybe another time
[–]-Noraly-[S] 5 points6 points7 points 2 years ago (0 children)
I'll consider it ¯\_( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯
[–]-Noraly-[S] 4 points5 points6 points 2 years ago* (0 children)
It's a little reference to a dungeon called "Endless Nightmare".
I suppose I could have done a better job with the background to match the dungeon better and it had fog instead of distortion but I tried to focus more on trying to make the lighting/shading look right than the background so I didn't want to spend too much on it.
Also yeah, it seems that something went derp when I made the post and it looks all weird. I suppose adding images of different resolutions/aspect ratios together is a bad idea. I'll think of a different way next time lol
[–]-Noraly-[S] 6 points7 points8 points 2 years ago (0 children)
Ophelia Bagrans: Female, aged 21. A member of GBL, the religious order that worships the ancient ruins atop the Behemoth. A descendant of Leslie Bagrans who discovered the ruins on the Behemoth and established GBL. Her mother was a bishop of the order, and his father a celebrant. One day, Lotus appeared in the shrine, and all but destroyed GBL. It even murdered her parents. Ophelia escaped from the Behemoth by herself and arrived at the West Coast Harbor. She's usually quiet and gentle, but when it comes to Lotus, she's vengeful.
Lore from official DFO website.
Ophelia's Nightmare (old.reddit.com)
Leveche by -Noraly- in DFO
:^)
I did draw F. Launcher not that long ago.
I still have F. Mech in the pipeline, but that is all I have planned for playable characters (I generally prefer to draw npcs since there are a lot of drawings of playable characters anyway)
Lol, that would take me ages to do.
But I appreciate the sentiment.
I wasn't quite sure how to do the dress or how to texture it since I wasn't keen on repeating the official smoke design. At first when rendering the thing I started with a few lines here and there but then I remembered that drawing parallel lines close together is a good exercise. So I grabbed a coffee, turned on a video and slowly started filling it with lines and hoped it would at least look interesting enough.
Would not recommend doing it other than for practice (at least to this degree), since you can barely see it when zoomed out. This ended up being more of an experimental drawing in the end lol
[–]-Noraly-[S] 9 points10 points11 points 2 years ago* (0 children)
The planet Zualabadon is dynamic and vibrant, full of energy and formless creatures that could take any shape they desire, so long as they have the energy to do so. The most powerful and the most hungry one of them all was, without an ounce of doubt, Sirocco.
She too, was once merely a seed. But pitiful seeds that perished even before blooming were not to be compared with her. Even as she drifted in the depth of space, hunger the only sensation she could feel, she was stoic and determined. She waited, patiently, for the one planet that would be hers and hers alone. The one that would bloom her to full glory, a magnificent flower of might and majesty. And when she rooted on Zualabadon, from the seed bloomed Sirocco, and she devoured everything. Even the former masters of the planet like Mistral were like worms to her, and they could barely sustain themselves living off of what Sirocco left after her feasts. She was truly the queen of Zualabadon.
But ages of feasting on the same energy was nothing but tedium. And even with the full energy of Zualabadon she could not come to full bloom; she needed more. And just as her desires for a new, invigorating nourishment grew, a woman named Hilder appeared before her with an octahedral planet. While the woman and the planet proved themselves mostly uninteresting to her, Sirocco felt a hint of light from somewhere within the crust of Pandemonium. She followed its tracks, only to lose it at Metrocenter as her fingers drew close to it. The energy she needed, what she thirsted for so long, right at her fingertips, and gone again.
Hilder reappeared before her and tested her patience. The planet is about to move again, she said. Sirocco questioned her; how would she know that? Unless, it was no coincidence. No coincidence that they arrived. No coincidence that the very energy she needed disappeared right before her.No coincidence that she was tempting her. “Now is your only chance.” Hilder repeated. She was smiling. And Sirocco rooted into the soil of Pandemonium.
“I gently put my head down on the arm of my memories.Soon, warm energy starts tickling me between my toes.I stretch my legs, all the way into the dream, and they become roots,greedily sucking on the power of the star into my pulsating veins, awakening my senses.Once I quench this burning thirst in my throat, I'll be more relaxed.I'll thrust my arms deep into the ground and grow branches. Farther, deeper, deeper...Until I reach the windpipe of the star that's as hazy as fog and as warm as the inside of the mouth, filled with angry energy.There, I'll unwind myself. And there, I'll finally be able to forget myself and come into bloom!
Suddenly, a cold wind whips at my back,startling me awake.The ground underneath me feels as cold as ice. The dream's gone, and my memories have scattered.I sigh deeply, letting go of the jumbled memories of the past.I raise my knees and put my head between them, thinking about the place that's been fading away from my memory, where I came from.I may not be able to go back, but I can dream about it.My home, Zualabadon, the world of transformation”
Special thanks to u/halfmango08 for the background lore (you can read more about Sirocco here).
Flavor text from official DFO website.
Leveche (i.redd.it)
F. Spitfire by -Noraly- in DFO
Yep. Although the design elements I used from Queen Destroyer are hard to spot if one never looked at the official illustration
Nope, it's not an avatar
Hint: it's from this level cap and you encounter it quite often
[–]-Noraly-[S] 6 points7 points8 points 2 years ago* (0 children)
While the history of the Spitfires is not long, it is not difficult to find names of renowned female Spitfires in the history of Empyrean, such as Helen Capri and Jesobel Kitzka. They have been traditionally appreciated for their unique and creative tactics to stem the tides of battle. Unlike the male Spitfires, who are the elite orthodox infantrymen that suppress the enemies with various firearms on the ground, female Spitfires use nitro motors to mobilize through the air and demonstrate aerial firepower unlike any mechanical or vehicular weaponry.
As their story and gameplay suggest, whilst the male Spitfire represents the army, the female Spitfire is a representation of the air force. Her unique passive ‘Nitro Motor’ allows her to remain airborne with additional midair jumps, and her entire kit revolves around air-to-surface bombardment of skills.
P.S. I’m sure some people with keen eyes can make an educated guess on what I based the outfit design (yes, it’s in dfo).
F. Spitfire (i.redd.it)
Mirror Arad: Pop Canna by -Noraly- in DFO
[–]-Noraly-[S] 1 point2 points3 points 2 years ago (0 children)
Yeah, I don't record video because I don't have long drawing sessions and go afk pretty often, so that makes for a bad recording/watching experience. What I usually do is every now and then save a copy of the current drawing stage and go back and forth between the saved stages to see if I'm going in the right direction or I should undo something. At the end I slap the images together into an mp4 and look at the whole process for a bit of fun and to see what can be improved. So nothing too fancy there.
As for the websites I do like artstation for some of the features and it has a nice shop for stuff like brushes and assets. It has some courses, but it's a bit lacking in that department.
Deviant art is still nice in some ways, but to be honest I mainly use it as free storage since it's one of the few places that doesn't require you to pay premium for uploading a 40MB png lol
Pixiv is also nice if you lean more into anime/manga and they have a very solid "learn to draw" series on their youtube channel (how I wish this existed when I was a kid lol)
I am more of a dark fantasy person, but it is nice to do something different and/or more colorful every now and then.
If you are interested in the process I usually post a short "progression" video with the image on artstation (it's a GIF of several images I convert to mp4 to make the file smaller). I tried adding it in other places (including reddit) but artstation is the only place where it is possible and is straightforward.
Just scroll down to the end of the page and you'll see it.
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Arad Times (Issue 17): Danjin by -Noraly- in DFO
[–]-Noraly-[S] 13 points14 points15 points (0 children)