Hullo everyone!
It's Autism Awareness Day, so I wanted to shine some light on an original character of mine from my personal project, Neon Circus. Their name is Rosemary!

They're Non-binary, selectively, mute, neurodivergent, and take on a role as the "brains" of the operation when it comes to the story I'm working on with my partner!

I have iterated this character's design many times but they are definitely one of my favorites to mess around with for the sheer fact that they're not only adorable but the selective mute-ness is sort of a call-back to when I myself was a mute in the game VRChat!

Also the massive needle is a bit of inspo from May Guilty Gear, just taking that massive fuck-off weapon aesthetic and applying it because its cool lol -- That specifically is non canon but I still enjoyed making it!

I wish to hug all my OC's but this one especially <3

attempts at painting some in-game screenshots. i saw peeps doing "virtual plein-airs" from video games and i thought it would be fun to try it with elden ring

also tried to emulate the zorn palette with the capital gate one, was really interesting to work with

original screenshots

I was inspired by @Amberfire's morrowind paintings, like this one https://cohost.org/Amberfire/post/4375806-seyda-neen

Apparently the phrase "virtual plein air" is kinda old, with at least one 2019 article referring to a facebook group of artists making paintings based on Google Street View, which is also really neat imo, but not quite as fun as going into Elden Ring and taking the screenshots myself :P

In searching the tag, I hadn't realized that @portablecity seems to have been doing this latter version of virtual plein air last year, although i remember liking those paintings a lot. I've never done a regular plein air myself, since i didnt work with paint before going digital.

umm, how about a process? heres one for the first painting.