Auraboo's lair

I'll put together a proper masterpost for all my creative projects and where you can read/view them asap, but since I today got the happy news that I've been accepted to table at Tampere Kuplii (one of the biggest comics festivals in Finland) next March, let's do a quick roundup of my wip projects for the time being!

All of these will eventually be free to read online, so no worries if you're not from Finland and can't make it to events here (or can't read Finnish for that matter, haha). I'll post links to completed works once they become available!



PS. I figured out how to install a custom theme! This one's by gelateria, I'm adding a permanent credit somewhere on my page once I figure out how to do that.

New con season's looming in the horizon and I've got my hands busy preparing several zines to be sold at Artist Alleys. Two (!!!) of those will be Amnesia The Dark Descent fanzines and atm I'm working on the cover art for the Alexander/Daniel centric one.



Doing the lineart took me a couple of months, mostly because I kept changing my mind about the poses and whatnot, but decided to go with a semi-mirrored look in the end. I talk a lot about the parallels between these two in my fics and like to explore it in my art too, so the concept is simple enough: so different and yet so similar. The lineart was done with Sakura Pigma Micron pens (a long time favourite of mine) and Pentel brush pen, since they both work well with watercolour and won't fade or smudge.



I'm actually really pleased with how their faces turned out, especially in Alexander's case (left). All these years and I'm still somehow worried when drawing elderly characters - it's so easy to overdo it with the wrinkles and start obsessing over details without seeing the big picture.

Daniel (right) on the other hand is so familiar to me now that I could probably doodle him with my eyes closed (okay not really but you catch my meaning). There is no official concept art of Daniel and we see the game from 1st person view so when I came to this fandom and started drawing fan art, I had to go with other people's headcanons about his looks and slowly build my interpretation of him from there. I don't think I've mentioned it anywhere before but I actually based much of him on my own features. Many artists depicted him with a crooked nose, which made me very happy since my nose is like that, too, and I'd always been very insecure about it and I'd never seen any of my favourite characters with one before, so I started drawing him like that. Same with his eye colour: I used to give him olive green eyes in every picture (nowadays I just pick whatever fits a particular painting) because that's my eye colour. Funnily enough, all this definitely made me start appreciating my own looks a lot more, so thanks for the accidental ego boost, Daniel!

I'm still working on colouring this with watercolours but the colour scheme will have a lot of pink/violet thanks to the roses and the petals + the bottle of Damascus rose tonic in Daniel's hand. There's gonna be a looping red thread tangled around Daniel and Alexander's fingers, connecting their hands, to play with the 'red thread of fate' (運命の赤い糸) concept that many anime/manga fans are undoubtedly familiar with.

And that's the art trivia for today! Let me know what you think and feel free to leave a comment/feedback if you'd like. <3