Just some little extras and kinda to look back on them from time to time!

SOL REDESIGN SHEETS PAGES

The Grand Star Caster

Hey there folks, been working these few days on a new reference sheet for my main Star Caster character

after noticing I haven't made a reference sheet since... Almost 7 months!

I might have overdone it a bit by also making cover art, but hey, that's what happens when you love your

OC that much-- Hopefully I'll have more ready for the other Star Casters folks in the Gang

Enjoy!

Cover Art SpeedPaint [Youtube]

Media Betwixt IRREGULARITY

Casters lore posts!

The other Grand Caster, The Capital, Lady trivia,

Media's nature and The Primeval Current

What is Media and The Primeval Current?

Media is essentially the energy that composes atoms in the universe, which an alternative name given to it was Cosmic Energy.

Everything proceeds a system of configurations that make use of media and this log records everything inside it like DNA which is why it was later given the name media as a group of data recollected through the use of this one. Think of it like a system that studies itself and evolves.

Everything that gets recorded inside media goes to an invisible flow called ''The collective knowledge'', which is where data gets saved inside media.

Everything proceeds this way until an "Entity" is created, a being capable of thought which gets recorded inside the media, every thought, and every action uses traces of media. Media could exert influences over itself, which created sentience and commands, just like how your brain executes orders to your body. Entities are capable of exerting influences on the media to do actions, and every thought gets recorded further and further in an evergrowing log of data that keeps transforming.

This is the primeval current in which media resides.

Soon, as media was a complex string of annihilation and deconstruction and reconstruction, the atoms of the world screamed as they were inverted and subverted and demoted to energy. Produced by sentience and allowing sentience to think, it became a knot tying that braids into its own string. In short words, it's a set of all tangles made by a single one. And with it, irregularities were created

The collective knowledge had been corrupted by itself, with thoughts of false truths being recorded inside it: lies, theories, religion, rumors, fallacy, enlightenment, etc.

Media begins accumulating in the mutated matter, and with this Cosmic entities were created Mutations varied and were like they could exert specific orders into the media, in which all entities could control if they were inside the flow of media related to their output capacity. This, however, doesn't work like a mana system, as it's really not a mysterious source of magic power; but a complex system of commands and resources.

"The crystals that contain vast amounts of Media come from the stars, they are all concentrated with media but sometimes there's also an irregularity, it's not known what causes this specifically on the shards but they contain cosmic wisdom about the great work in influencing the universe's command only the Engineers and Heofongebod scholars seem to understand..." "There are plenty rumors about where these weird chunky shards come from, lotsa folks believe it's some sort of the gods blessing, others believe they are new minerals that fell from meteorites and started developing into our ecosystem and some even say they're the crystallized corpses of those supposed "gods", either way, it doesn't matter where do they come from, I just know for sure that all the church capital higher-ups are crazy rascals about it... They would surely go over your neck just to get that little sphere thing you're always carrying, so be careful."

The wisdom inside Primeval shards uttered words of Great Cosmic Entities, which are incomprehensible through human speech. They are metaphorical concepts elevated to an inhuman state, which can only be transcribed into symbols.

"THE TRANSCRIPTION OF THE GREAT ENTITIES' INHUMAN VOICE RIPPLES LIKE A WATERY REFLECTION WE FLOW IN THE PRIMEVAL CURRENT RESONATE WITH IT AND RAPTURE"

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More on Lady!

Lady is a superb fighter who takes lots of harsh jobs, most of her scars are pretty old but she hasn't shared where exactly these old wounds come from, she just shared that the scar on her face left side was because of a messed up gun...

SOL once asked about her eyepatch and wondered if she had a reason to wear it (Being that she doesn't really mind her scars), she told him it was such a bother to keep her damaged eye closed so she wears an eyepatch to be able to focus her aim at all times. (She makes up for her hearing for the lack of her vision field)

Elesia asked why Lady lets her hair grow so much, even as to wonder if she ever had a haircut before which she answered "Never, it'll ruin my balance" She also told her it works as a distraction plus her coat so enemies can't aim at her back so easily and hit a vital organ since being quite tall makes her a standout target.

SOL thinks they're like the media traits to show more of Lady's origin trait (He thinks they're kinda cute too, which Lady once offered he could even feel them all although it was obviously a trap he swiftly evaded.)

Lady's blade is akin to a sabre, however, the handle crossguard is custom work from modifications made by the Engineers and SOL which makes it akin to quick-draw techniques and two-handling for the use of artifact runes inscribed inside the blade for media usage. There was a time she was drunk in a job on capturing a target without killing them and her drunk ass thought using a gun would be too risky so aimed her sheath towards the fleeing target and just released the media storage making the sword pop out flying straight and knock out the target with the handle. Elesia was both impressed by that action and being so irresponsible of being drunk.

Lady likes guns over swords but she prefers to stick with her one-handed Evelyn as she always carries it inside her coat, for her it always comes to using bullets first then the blade. Lady is currently one of the few people who could give SOL a hard time if they even decided to fight, however, even if it happened so, they both would think it would be a massive waste of resources.

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''The Vagabond of the Cosmos''

SOL is not the only candidate for Grand Caster among Media Entities, there's this mysterious wanderer who goes in and out of all kinds of places in different planes; older than our Fallen Star, he seems to know something SOL doesn't, he barely casts media commands and doesn't seem to have fabricated a unique magecraft like SOL's gravitational rune yet he earned his respect as a comrade.

"We've been both fellow witnesses to the true nature of this universe yet; We're different... You are different, not human, but something else... heh, guess I can hardly be called human myself too. May you have success in your journey, hopefully, we'll find the answers we each seek."

An interdimensional traveler doesn't recall the place from which he hails even after entering the records, his personality shows that he has some years behind him because he acts like a middle-aged man, a bit grumpy on heavy work but pretty down to earth.

His origin trait lets him perceive the essence of other entities akin to their origin trait to a soul, not a lie detector but something like a scanner. In a conversation between him and SOL, Elesia overheard that he might have an apprentice and that he could be currently residing in the Capital.

As per Elesia tradition, she calls him "Mister Onyx" because of his flaming head resembling the white and black colors of the mineral with the same name. He smokes quite a lot and because his head is literally a flame, he never has trouble getting them lit although...

"How does a flame smoke?"

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Author notes: Back when I was designing the tempest unit manifested traits due to the media leak on its core, I wanted to portray ''a burst of tree root-like horns'' which also made me think to add branches that kinda gave me vibes to Cleric beasts from Bloodborne which are a reference to wendigos; later on, it reminded me of Japanese dragon gods creatures like Seiryu or Megaten's Kohryu. As for early draft lore interpretations, the rune which you see inside its core was meant to be a rune that had unknown properties but was enveloped in the ''mystery'' of the universe. Something Casters simply reject as their mission is to find the ''truth'', so I brushed it off as something random and as a showcase of the risks of using this rune. The Tempest Unit was meant to be the vessel of the Star which SOL was before becoming ''SOL'', this was supposed to add a question into what kind of entity SOL was supposed to be as a star and if this has anything to do with his current existence.

Potential titles for the first arcs:

「𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚;𝙸𝚛𝚛𝚎𝚐𝚞𝚕𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚢 🄵🄰🄻🄴🄽🄰」

[The Falena Irregularity]

𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐥 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬/𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐥 𝐃𝐨𝐨𝐫

「ₛₜₑᵣₙ Gₐₜₑ」 /j 𝐄𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐋𝐚𝐤𝐞

「ᵀʰᵉ ˢᵗᵃʳ ᶠʳᵒᵐ ᵗʰᵉ ᵉⁿᵈˡᵉˢˢ ᴸᵃᵏᵉ」

ᴍᴀᴛɪ ᴍᴀᴛᴀᴋɪ ꜱᴛʀᴀʙɪꜱᴍᴜꜱ

𝓔𝓷𝓽𝓲𝓽𝔂 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓲𝓻𝓻𝓮𝓰𝓾𝓵𝓪𝓻𝓲𝓽𝔂

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Star Casters Concept drafts/notes

''Media Traits and Tempest Unit records''

&

''The Capital Lady''

This ''trait'' could be interpreted as the hidden essence of a being, it's been named differently through time as Soul, Origin, Purpose, Role, and many others.

Normally any being connected to media and flowing through the great primeval current has an origin, but only those who dive deep into it have it's origin to begin manifesting.

However, certain circumstances make these traits take over and begin changing their very essence; Currently, the only recorded common cause is overexposure to a High Rune.

Even with the support of many scholars, we found a hard time figuring out a person's origin as these are tightly related to the collective knowledge, what we figured out is that this origin can be translated from a single word to a sentence.

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''Tempest Unit'' Codename ''TP'' Recorded Status before loss of contact .- ??????

- TP successfully repelled ???.

- TP media usage surpassed it's backup reserve, Tempest core activated ???? rune sequence.

-/Failed Operation/TP sustained damage to it's vessel.

-/Error/Detected media leaks from Tempest Core.

-/Error/Critical Media Inhibitors/ TP high rune is beginning to emit a radiance

-TP begins to fall

-TP dropped it's Greatbow through the fall, found around 2 kilometers of it's last recorded location.

-Detected damage signals from TP.

- Last recorded message ''Critical Damage received, safe landing chances are dangerously low, my body is beginning to crack, I can feel roots from inside''

- Tempest Core traits are beginning to overmanifest in TP vessel.

- TP disappeared before landing as no signs of it's vessel nor crashes were found.

- TP was no longer detected by our Casters bounded field.

- TP current status: MIA.

End of report.

Can traits be suppressed?

I haven't thought if there's an actual method that is reliably usable for a general approach.

Traits aren't something someone would want on their bodies after all and at times it is pretty detrimental for their lifes

I'll approach it on time.

For now, if SOL were to try to hide his traits from other people, it would mostly not use media through himself but rather artifacts with rune patterns inscribed alongside their own media storage (Like the capital engineers)

As for his wings and moth mantle, thinking he can just take the mantle off but I want the mantle wings to move so I may change it to be attached to his wings but just like the former, they can't make SOL fly.

As for his small feathery wings... He would need to amputate them

The method he would do is to freeze them all the way until being able to break the bone with a single hit, this would prevent bleeding but would suffer from frostbite scars, fortunately, he knows how to reverse/heal the scars and regrow/regenerate them but it's not like SOL would actually hide his traits.

(This is simply thinking a morbid what if)

los traits de origen y los que se consiguen a través de media, Un trait de origen es simple, es el que esta relacionafo con lo relacionado en el conociemiento colectivo de origen Son más propensos a manifestarse si el origen es solo una palabra pero puede traducirse;

Por ejemplo, SOL y Elesia comparten la primera palabra "Polilla" en su orígen lo que hace que compartan un trait, si SOL forma unas alas de polillas como si fueran capas, entonces Elesia también podría.

Este trait solo empieza a manifestarse físicamente si la persona conoce su origen cuando no es simplemente algo con su propósito/personalidad.

Solo los casters y entidades que usan runas primarias presentan traits de forma constante y normalmente son los que propensos a Grand Caster que presentan su trait de origen, A no ser que una entidad exterior allá intervenido.

I wanted to design a girlboss character

I've been wanting to make a person connecting SOL to the capitals and thought of this girlboss who's kind of a big deal but it's not a caster, But something like a mercenary who uses the engineering processes of the time.

Like a gun... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

this girlboss mercenary has it for SOL

These are some drafts on her character sheet deeper on it.

She enjoys plenty of adult pleasures like alcohol and tobacco but she's really picky and wants only the highest-rate merchandise, and like a shining star, she finds SOL to be really damn cute stuff.

So even if she lacks any feminity whatsoever, she gets flirty with him but SOL is pretty oblivious to her advances even when she outright states she wants to make him "her little star"; it could be SOL is just ignoring it on purpose as a way to tease her or genuinely doesn't fully understand human emotions.

She doesn't really care if SOL is playing dumb or not, for as her words go something like "It wouldn't be funny if he bit it so easy" or "I love it when they play hard to catch"

However, she grew a bit of disdain/jealousy towards the moon as it seems the only closest emotion to "Love" SOL has ever shown for anything. 

She's also seen firsthand how big of a deal SOL can be as a caster as she's the main connection he has to the capital; So the Girlboss considers him worthy of being her man and some of her retainers rumor when she's alone on her headquarters, she begins to stare at the runes inscribed by SOL on her sword to feel the brush strokes made by his hand.

She's 6'5" (1.95 m) tall which makes her taller than SOL, Elesia calls her nickname "the big lady" and finds her to be kinda cool, but she hates how she reeks of tobacco.

The girl boss finds pretty rarely curious how SOL actually picked a student and let her live inside his observatory, as she knows SOL isn't really a common caster that wants to pass on his knowledge as he wants to finish the research himself, so she thinks Elesia has something more than meets the eye.

My main references for the design of the Capital Lady are mainly Baiken on the first Guilty Gear and Integra from Hellsing, but there are plenty others!

"𝐒𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐞. 𝐃𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐲𝐬𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐬, 𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝. 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐞. 𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐲𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞. 𝐅𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐛𝐲𝐬𝐬"

-The Capital Scholars chant-

Winter vacations have arrived and college lets me take a breather for a bit,

so wanted to make a post to write down some thoughts on what to do with this free time and some ideas.

Want to grab some mint and chocolate chips ice cream...

What was done since the last post?

Nothing much really, I did some fanart for some fellow artists but couldn't get everyone on my list and added some pages to my SOL doodles; we were into finals for the semester so I could only produce 2 or 3 drawings a week (And kinda had to give up on rendering them so black and white it was, did had a fun time experimenting with my Flipnote studio brushes)

Also worked further on a character that I had mostly on drafts being ''The Tempest Unit'' to which I finally gave a design!

Unfortunately for it, it didn't get a full body, at first I wanted to make it mecha-looking but ended up going for a Golem style to match up with all the horns and roots that come out of it's shell.

It might get smaller vessel but that will be saved for the upcoming story I've been working since July.

Also been gathering some new brushes and watching some art streams which are actually quite fun, I made the recent SOL doodle page while watching one and hopefully put some techniques to test

As to what ideas had been in mind during these days, currently want to work further with the world-building of SOL and Elesia, wanna show y'all some of the wizardry stuff those two will do, hopefully, my skill in drawing machinery isn't that rusty

Also made wrote some notes on possible design choices for SOL for stuff like how the cosmic energy affects him:

The collective knowledge of SOL's world relates flying beings and stars to Angels (Christianity Angelogy to be specific) as it is placed in a time where the industrial age in a progress focuses on flying stations and machinery

There's this idea that depending on what magecraft a caster specializes their body begins to assimilate the traits recorded in the media/cosmic energy even if they're true or not,

For example, people believe that space is cold even tho it's a misconception about it.

SOL assimilates some angel traits but might be way too much for mysterious reasons as normally these traits only happen to the ones who been enlightened by the cosmos (The Moon should hold the answer to that) Those being the unchanging appearance of a young androgynous male, almost and the shape of his hair shifting to a Covered Seraphim shape whenever he starts using media.

"So if you learn all kind of magecraft, your body will turn into a mess of mixed traits malforming your being or is there a limit?"

That's a question to answer in the story but gotta say The Tempest unit 8 eyed face, roots and horns are some of the traits given by the runes inside it's core.

I would love to practice with clothes with moth-like motifs!

Oh yeah, I also want to draw Angel from Chainsawman, I apologize in advance if it becomes the only content I make for a week straight.

on an unrelated note, pretty excited about Armored core 6 reveal! From Soft being goated as always

And that should be all I had in mind for this time around, by next time I'll probably go into detail with the story project, thanks for reading, and have a good one.

 these artistic bursts will not project themselves!

After being released from the Daily drawing challenge I put myself in, which really made get the quite the hang on the digital tablet I got.

I felt like I needed to see the improvements on a actual drawing with care, or at least as much care I can put into;

Newgrounds city drawing went out like hot butter as I could even finish it in a single day work, and I really loved the result on that one as it was pretty much just using my main artstyle and what I am normally used to drawing.

SOL's higher rune symbol was an approach to a more experimental work, even approached the design of the character itself differently as this character is still growing to find it's own identity in terms of artstyle.

Gif didn't work so posting steps separate

l Went slow on this one as it took 5 days to complete after the other since I didn't have a clear picture of what I wanted to portrait in the piece as the gif progress shows how different early steps look so different to the final work, at first I wanted to do sorta of a tarot card style piece despicting SOL as the Magician but it conflicted with wanting long hair covering the sides of the canvas, visions conflicted and opted to discard the tarot card and went for second.

I finished the Lineart and then it came the wall, the coloring...

Sometimes working slowly helps flesh out more the ideas you have in mind but there's the risk you might overthink and make a mess trying to fulfill all of them, unfortunately I am still a beginner in rendering and "Complex" color themes, so I don't have a clear route and most of the time I experiment with layers effects to reach something I like; being something stylish rather than detailed.

I went on a full free time day browsing through my feed to find art which ressemble the style I had in mind and sometimes watch Art process to understand how they visualize their work, sadly most of the work I did find to it didn't have wips or process of sorts.

Kinda why I post mine in case someone is curious on how I work

But at least I had a clue on it, so started to work and while at it I even thought of restarting the coloring after I finished and make alts of the piece, but I reconsidered it after a bit of reasoning it would be not be so good to focus way too much on this piece.

So unless the first result was nothing alike what I had in mind, I would take what I get and practice with a new piece instead.

Then, after 2 days coloring and adding finishing touches it was done.

Did I add way too many stars in the background?

Honestly, it's not what I had in mind, but I liked it nonetheless; considering this was my first attempt at a new style that I hadn't worked at before, I would say I accomplished something neat 🌟

Now that it's finished it's time to approach the next piece, these artistic bursts will not project themselves!

Take care everyone and thanks for reading all the way here, really wanted to share what had been on my mind these few days while working on this.

My Wacom Intuos has finally arrived with Clip Studio Paint, I'm so overwhelmed by how much options I have now I don't even know what to do with it.

Any CSP folks around have any beginning tips?

My stylus has arrived, for some months I had been using some basic pens with rubber point (some teared apart because my phone screen is a bit broken, gotta thank my dog for that).

So hopefully I'll more consistent drawings with this one.

KINO