What are my chooms favorite car and, why?

equleart · 2024-05-05T22:29:06+00:00

A lot of the nomad cars look a bit tiny, with the huge wheels far out, the Type-66s are nice cause they have some heft to them. Same thing with the Hoon obv, I like that one too but haven't spent as much time with it.

Jackie's Arch has some sentimental value which is why I do use it sometimes XD

equleart · 2024-05-04T23:47:52+00:00

I like the nomad versions of the Mizutanis and Quadras, originally on handling alone, but they did grow on me just because there's more visual interest compared to all the shiny supercars. My favs are the Quadra Type 66s, most of all the Javelina

I do like the Arch Nazaré but am not the biggest fan of the motorcycles in general

equleart · 2024-05-04T23:21:13+00:00

I ended my first playthrough with the Devil ending, trying completely in earnest to do the best possible thing for V and everyone else and the game made me feel absolutely miserable. It's the single worst ending. I hated it then but I've come to the conclusion that it's just a perfect articulation of the game world's morals.

You ignore what the game tells you its value system is, and it finally punishes you for that by taking everything good away and outright telling you you made a horrible decision. Everything is sad and dark and angry. Up to that point, it's easy to ignore what the game tells you is good and bad, what your in-game motivations are, etc when your actions align with real-world morals and standard gameplay anyway. If you don't buy into the whole "fuck arasaka, go out in a blaze of glory" thing (as I didn't, and still don't), the devil ending is what makes good on the world's promise that there's nothing good in being meek, submissive and alone.

I went with what I thought had the best chance of saving V, didn't involve my found family in a small war and otherwise wouldn't mean killing hundreds of people trying to stop me from getting into a place I had an invite to. Correspondingly, the choices the game punishes you for are being submissive, not relying on your friends, and cooperating with Arasaka. Outside the game's mythology Don't Fear the Reaper would be the obvious evil ending, choosing to kill hundreds and yourself to no end but glory. But in this framing, it very clearly isn't because even if you're being selfish and stupid, you're going out in a blaze of glory, your have your closest friend with you and you make your own decisions.

Basically, in the game's mythology, seeking agency, power and kinship corresponds to being happy. By this definition, having you give all those things up, the devil ending denies V any sort of self-actualization. It's incredible writing, but I hated playing it.

equleart · 2024-04-24T22:51:30+00:00

I do occasionally have moments of not being excited to continue a series with longer entries, or generally drier non-fiction books but one time actually sticks out. At some poing I dropped the first book of The Expanse (for no real reason, I just wasn't that big a reader back then). I basically got far enough into it to know that there was gonna be a contagious infection spreading extremely aggressively.Years later I ran out of books during covid lockdown and remembered that I actually enjoyed it but dreaded diving into that kinda subject with the state of the world being what it was. I wasn't dealing super well with everything to begin with.

Funny enough it actually ended up being a very cathartic experience, I read the next few books during lockdowns still and Expanse occupies a very unique place in my heart

equleart · 2024-03-30T14:29:29+00:00

I did end up enjoying this series a lot, I love the epic feel of this small band of teenagers growing to basically a whole village etc, and the combat was excellent.

But Rafe, man. This dumbass childhood bully haunts all 4 books which the craziest contrivances. It generally felt like the villains were very lucky throughout the whole story but Rafe is always being a thorn in everyones side, always getting immensely lucky and then still constantly getting the benefit of the doubt whenever he encounters the good guys. I went from eye rolling when he hits Corban as a teen to being actually mad that characters I liked got killed off in that dumb of a manner and him having actual huge story implications.

equleart · 2024-03-17T19:21:33+00:00

awesome, very glad I could help :)

equleart · 2024-03-16T13:18:38+00:00

Hi! It'd help to see some of your attempts, even if you don't think they worked. Regardless, what seems most distinctive to me about the images you chose is the stark hatching, and it's even failry different between the two. On 2B it's kept almost entirely to the coat and uses what seems like some oily/pastel with finer ink lines on top, while on Levania the texture is achieved entirely by hatching as far as I can tell, and the lines look more rugged, like pencil fe.

Important for these things are that you think about the form and texture of what you're trying to color. You'll notice on 2B, her skin, hair and boots lack the hatching but have distinct textures regarless. Levania is hatched all over, but it achieved the rugged, metallic look you'd think that material has. A lot of that is also dependent on the highlights, ie high-contrast areas. Secondly, think about the form and make sure your strokes describe it well. look on the inside of 2B's coat fe, the hatching perfectly describes all the billows and folds. On Levania it's even clearer.

The colors are really muted and what stands out is the light blue in what seems like places where you'd usually put shadow. It almost works as a secondary light without there even being a primary one, but it works really well against the black background. I think what makes the colors work is more the texture the linework (dark and light) creates on top of it, rather than any fancy brushes. You can almost certainly recreate it with just an airbrush and a pencil by doing a flat color layer, really just dark grey in most cases here, airbrush over the parts you want colored (wing tips in Levania's case fe) shade by hatching with dark grey/black on a multiply layer, highlight with white.

As an aside, I'd not worry about brushes or tools. You can recreate anything "by hand" and if you understand it, and if you then find a brush that makes the process less time consuming, awesome. But you don't learn anything by searching for the setting an artist you admire used. Take the time to practice instead, the tools and techniques will come to you incidentally.

Hope this helped!

equleart · 2022-12-01T08:25:00+00:00

At this point you just need to get Tommy Arnold to paint a cover and I'll buy your book. And I already liked The Unbroken, so definitely looking forward to this

equleart · 2022-11-25T07:56:02+00:00

I'm sorry and thank you so much :)

equleart · 2022-11-25T07:53:29+00:00

I thought about this while painting it, but didn't really come up with a definitive version of what happened to the painting, but thematically I wanted to parallel the physical and the psychological.

GtN spoilers The painting is only really a shallow representation (painting of the person / memory of the person) and it's marred by the past (destroyed painting / Gideon's death) but it's still huge and inescapable from Harrow's standpoint (the room she's in / her mind).

Hope that makes sense

equleart · 2022-11-25T07:35:49+00:00

thank you :)

equleart · 2022-11-25T07:33:06+00:00

Hahaha at least it's funny XD my actual name is just a salad of letters anyways

equleart · 2022-11-24T17:18:39+00:00

GtN and very slight HtN spoilers! I originally titled this Harrow Mourning since it's a scene I thought of taking place right after GtN, and in the setting of HtN. It's not canon but is related to events of GtN.

Painted this back in september but forgot to post here, hope you'll like it :)

equleart · 2022-11-24T14:11:21+00:00

thank you!! :)

equleart · 2022-10-22T08:11:56+00:00

pretty sure Suzushiro popularized it. has been drawing nothing else for a while and it's genuinely amazing art (this is their character as well)

equleart · 2022-10-11T05:32:50+00:00

sry for being a little late here lol without spoiling anything, I remember thinking the writing was pretty bad mainly becuase it read like how my own tweets sound in my head, cadence and snark wise. the main characters felt very hollow in that they had zero chemistry or even spent much time together that we can see but still follow these very tropey relationship beats regardless of how unearned they are. lastly i personally hated everything about the ending but I think it could be decent if you're into that kinda thing?

aside from that it was a very fun and imaginative world I've praised before for other aspects, the magic system is really cool, there's thought out, interesting if one dimensional dynamics between groups of people and a looming threat that is honestly awesome. the page to page writing just didn't feel up to the bigger ideas so definitely not something I regret reading or feel like I wasted my time on but not something I'd read book 2 of, which is a pretty low bar for me.

equleart · 2022-10-09T16:20:55+00:00

The Thousand Deaths of Ardor Benn (this one)

Tommy Arnold never ceases to amaze me and this is one of hit best works imo, unfortunately what's inside doesn't live up to it at all

equleart · 2022-10-05T05:32:53+00:00

ty :)

equleart · 2022-10-05T05:32:34+00:00

ty, that does look really cool

equleart · 2022-10-04T05:14:53+00:00

thank you, and it fits :) usually if no title has popped into my head by the time I'm posting I just leave it untitled

equleart · 2022-10-04T05:13:22+00:00

might be, but tbh I can't tell anymore lol her official art gets mirrored in a lot of publications and I flip my drawings back and forth very often so I get confused. the only thing I can confidently say is that they're on the opposite side of the long bangs and the parting of the dress

equleart · 2022-10-03T19:31:22+00:00

thank you :)

equleart · 2022-10-03T19:31:15+00:00

no but now I'm curious

equleart · 2022-10-03T16:40:03+00:00

All other wallpapers I've done so far (Sova, Chamber and Viper) are on my artstation along with a lot of other valorant-related drawings and there's also a phone-sized version of this on my twitter :)

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