i was drawing that during school so i was partially lobotomised, but color adjustment settings helped me a little. it was mostly color jitter doing the heavy lifting lmao. i use it almost always cause it creates appealing color variation and i like that and i can slather on color like whatever and it’ll just work and i like having a painterly style
if you know color theory and values, learning it helps a lot here (i was picking colours that looked nice together - the whole mood of this drawing is meant to have tension, be “icky” in some way, so i wanted to communicate that. i’m always trying 2 think about how the overall atmosphere will be to translate that with visuals ^_^ i tend to contrast warm w/ cool colors too. you can see that w the orange and vivid purple. u must also consider values of the drawing ,so even w/ variation in the shadows and such, they can make colorful drawings if they remain in the same general value.

my typical painting process involves coloring the whole thing one colour as an underpainting and then painting over it, ensuring that bits of the underpaint are still exposed (it becomes the “white” of the piece) ;You can see the red-orange peeking through too. idk. this things sort of come naturally 2 me at this point from obsessively looking at my favourite artists who have similar coloring styles
thank you *u^ tldr i slapped them on and called it a day

i had like a diagram of this back then when i was really frothing over kr but it’s old so all i can say is that they are like the same thing but not really

and the fact that Playerkeyreaver ritualistically indulged in active suicidal tendencies On the basis that their goals were much more different than CTLKeyreaver. but now it does not really see any benefit in doing that for the reasons they once believed in. There’s a level in difference of how insane they seem on the exterior because Playerkeyreaver almost always seemed to be out for blood, and was incredibly, openly passionate (at least from public perception, which wasn’t true entirely) -This also meant they viewed their disposability differently as someone who wasn’t constantly pestered by SOA (yet), and moreso Deathknell. .And then there is CTLKeyreaver, who basically experienced an emulation of ichors trauma, and that caused ichor to relapse terrible habits and rethink ichors entire existence ……;Except it was from someone the equivalent of a god. Obviously your convictions would change the moment you experience the very thing that you sought to escape, or at the very least waver, so in a way CTLKeyreaver appears more … “passive”?, or not as active as they once were. You can see that when I would frequently refer to their players arc as their “prime” :9
I believe they’re both still incredibly reckless. Arguably, CTLKeyreaver even more because now they can be beheaded, and can be confident they’ll still live <:)

player titles work in either mutual or forced transference. the one between deathknell and keyreaver is an example of forced since KR didn’t have any say in it. The House works indiscriminately. if it’s through forced, the nearest person (in terms of physical location) to the owner of the title becomes the new holder of the title regardless of who they are, after the previous owner dies. this is done in order to ensure all titles are filled since The House requires some form of activity to sustain itself

kr always just keeps this body as is so who knows where knell’s body is now lmao. Well, why would they? That’d be something firmly against their beliefs 🫠

oh yea im kappi
argo refers to the protagonists basically. i actually dont think they use it in the story it’s just a fun thing for me to refer to them as + fits with the ship theme (since carinae, meaning keel, stems from argo aka ship aka the one jason and the argonauts went on)

important stuff in the esf is that there’s a hierarchy difference between highest orders (H.O) & middle orders (M.O). You can probably guess that one. H.Os have special titles. and there’s the given blessings of every individual of the ESF, coming in the forms of the four virtues (temperance, justice, prudence, and fortitude) - those aren’t necessarily concrete concepts to apply to a person, it’s a cultural concept. Also, the H.Os are not the highest role of authority in the ESF. :)