Lylias Crimson Fox

Hello lads and lasses !
It's another Friday and that means another shitty post from yours truly !

General Topic

So what's up with me ? Well I've been working on Sapphire Romance a lot - as always.
I think next week post will dive more into Sapphire Romance and what it is.
Thinking about it there are tons of little project i worked on and never finished that i could present here...

I'll also have to think about the formatting of these weekly news - i was thinking to divide them up between the different aspect of what i do and create.
That would be interesting.
Anyhow - i don't have much news to talk about this week - only more ramblings about the drawings i did so let's go straight to it.

Art post \ Luna-lunalight - Lylias the crimson fox.

Here is the art i made for Lylias who replaces the card Lunalight Crimson Fox.
Her EDOPRO/Project IGNIS code is 94919024.

I don't have much to say about the art except for the redesign of Lylias clothes as apparently i cannot stick with one and only clothes design.
Also i changed her hair style - something i did during the character designing of Sapphire Romance.
I like this new hairstyle as it look more natural than the gravity defying tuft she had before.

Apart from that, i do have to say that Lylias is partly the reason as to why i nuked my older pixiv gallery.
So what happened ?
Well to put it simply i was hit by a big Mandela effect - For some reason Lylias's design had been changed without me realizing.

I'll explain from my POV as it's the best way to explain it :
I was working on this picture and because i wanted to redesign the clothes of Lylias i wanted to see her previous clothes so as to have a reference for it.
From the top of my head i always remembered that Lylias had her tattoo over the right eye and that her red tuft went to the opposite side to her tattoo.

So i began looking at my older gallery and saw the oldest picture of Lylias... and somehow as i looked at her i noticed something wrong : Her tattoo was over the left eye.
At first i thought i had just inverted the drawing and fucked up somehow so i checked the original files to be sure...
Her tattoo was on the left eye.

Slightly agitated, i began to open the original design file i had and confirmed that... her tattoo was on the left eye.
So i was confused - when did i made the change ?
I began looking at the pictures before my 2021's banner... and the tattoo was on the left eye.
However there was another slight problem - the tuft of hair was on the same side as her tattoo.

So i continued to go back and went all the way back to before my 2019 banner and this time the tattoo was on the left eye but the hair were on the opposite side.
This is when i realized what had happened and how i had forgot :

During my 2019 banner i had drawn the hair on the same side as the tattoo because it was easier as i couldn't make it look right.
But by doing so, i reused this banner after forgetting why i had done it that way and repeated what i made blindly.
Up until my 2021 banner where i remembered that Lylias's tattoo was on the opposite side of her hair and thus made the change thinking i had just made a mistake on the previous drawing.

Realizing all that i also recalled a fan-commission i had received where i was bothered as she had been drawn with the tattoo over the left eye and the tuft on the wrong side.
Thing is - i was just an idiot and the artist had drawn it correctly.

So to avoid more messing with the story lore i decided to private all the drawings for now and start fresh.
I'm sorry for the inconvenience it causes but these characters matters a lot to me so i want to get them right.
Also memories are a terrifying things.

Website news

Not much going on.
I haven't worked on the website this week as i had a lot of other stuff i did - I'll try working more on it over the weekend i think.
Alongside drawing stuff of course.

See you next Friday for another update !

Moon-Moon the space pirate

Hello lads and lasses !

It's been a week since my last post and it's time for another update.

So what's been up this week ?

New art project : Card replacement

Last week i have started working on a simple project so i could get back into the habit of making art. 

So i looked at my current ongoing hobbies and one of my current hobbies is playing YuGiOh! TCG and Master Duel.

For this hobby i've using EDOPRO or Project Ignis as a way to test out new decks and get a feel for the archetypes.

To be fair i feel that Master duel or the TCG cost alot to be enjoyed wether it is time or money so this simulator have proven to be quite useful for that.

If you are wondering what archetype i play it's mostly Elemental Hero, Endymion/Spellbook and i'm trying to make a red eyes/Flame Swordsman deck.

Something fun with Ignis is that it is very easy to mod and to change card appearance.

Thus i though that as a way to try and get back into drawing i would draw YuGiOh cards with my style so that i can work on my basics while making something "useful".

I was going to start with the Charmer Archetype as i lile the very clear elemental design but for some inexplicable reason i ended up wanting to draw more Moon-Moon (my friend's OC).

One thing led to another and now i'm using the Lunalight to make the Luna-Lunalight.

FES01-001 Space Pirate, Moon-Moon 

Not too shabby of an illustration if i do say so myself.

For context that was an original character i had designed as a mascot for a friend which had see a resurgeance lately with my friend and I's joking.

Thus the character that was once called Nyanna was renamed as Moon-Moon - a space pirate who roam the universe to steal unusual and worthless things.

She also have a secret identity as Sailor Moon-Moon a Sailor Moon inspired heroine who nukes evil from orbit.

That's the gist of her lore but i can appreciate a simple lore.

She acts as the replacement for card 11439455 in project Ignis : Lunalight Blue Cat.

Here is the card version for those intrested.

The arrival of the About page

And now we reach the website update.

I have written the About page, and who knew an about page could make me feel emotional.

I wanted that about page to be more personal - after all it's a page about me so i at least have to let go of the secrecy a bit.

Writting it made me think alot about my grandpa which had been a source of courage and hope for me and also to realize once again that if i am alive today and if i didn't gave up on life it was because of his kindness.

So i hope i can continue to be myself and create things that i love.

See you next friday !

A long overdue update...

Hello everyone, long time no see !

How long has it been now ? Two ? Three years ?
Either way it has been a long time with little to no real drawing or festival.

Past me would have apologized for that... but honestly after those brutal years i don't think i should.

To be perfectly honest with you, i had been working a mentally draining and morally destroying 9 to 5 job that had taken over most of my day to day life.

Something i don't wish anyone to have to go through.

Now i have changed job to a place where i feel more welcome and happier : It is still somewhat of a 9 to 5 but this time i feel at home and free.

And with freedom came time to decide about the future of the festival and of myself.

During those years away i had been working on my game for a long time.
Hoping that i would be done with it soon so i can show the world how much effort i have been putting to finally release something.
But as you can imagine : I didn't finish it.

Or rather i haven't finished it yet.

The game i have been working on Sapphire Romance is to me the culmination of a journey i had taken long before i became an artist.
So i don't plan on giving up on that creation - i just need time.

But this time i decided to change how i did things, i'll do what i've been wanting to do for a while : Draw without restraints, and write all that i want.

Will it make the game come out earlier ?
No idea.

Will it make it better ?
No clue.

But at least i decided to be myself on that : Work on things as much as i can without pushing me to the limit.

So this is a new start.
Not a festival with drawing every friday - but not a deafening silence of multiple years.
I'll just make post every week - weather i have things to say or not.
So feel free to drop by every friday to see what i have to say or if i finally posted a drawing.

Talking about drawings, i also need to explain how i am changing things now.

Because i need this new beginning after so long i have decided to review what platforms i'll be using and in what capacity.

So i have chosen three platform where you can see my stuff :

• Twitter / X : https://x.com/LonnesDev > The same old stuff only more sporadic because i don't like how the app is made.
• Pixiv : https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/36276246 > My beloved. It's clunky but it keeps my drawings viewable and nice.
• Blogger : https://atelier-lonnesdev.blogspot.com/ > My new-ish website where i'll post my stuff and ramble on for paragraphs in the news.

I'm throwing away DeviantArt, Newground and Pillowfort (which i never really used).

Also for now i have made the executive decision to private all the drawings i had made in the past in my pixiv.
As weird as it is, I want to start over fresh - Not tied to what i used to do or the legacy of the effort i had deployed before.

I'll un-private them at a later point once i'll feel more at ease with my current efforts.

To be honest, i feel rusty after not drawing for so long.

Granted - I was always not very good at drawing - but years of "inactivity" have left me in a rusty state.

So i want to get back to my old self first.

For now...
I'm not gonna post this update to Twitter.
Not until i have some drawing to add to it !

(Also if you are wondering about the emotes, it's custom made.
One of the few things i did during my Hiatus) 

That's all the news i have for today.
And as i said before, stay tuned for more !

See you all... Next friday !