Piece I got in an art trade with @eisly back in 2022 of my nerevarine, Brand-zaw. I adore this piece so much 💖
there’s a color that shines through your skin like the moon on the wind
Nelyn was the first trans person I ever drew - I made them to play morrowind when I was about 15 and they started to grow a life of their own outside my will, they shifted in personality, looks and history. And in that shifting it was revealed to me that Nelyn was in fact, not a girl and had a mastectomy at some point. It seemed obvious, logical, the most natural thing for Nelyn to be. It still unnerved me, it made me feel an unexplainable shame and discomfort as I drew his bare chest for the first time, a shame that was actually envy.
That image, drawn hastily in the few moments I had home alone at that age, reflected the image of what I wanted to be and had not come to terms with. It was with a pencil that I made the first step to accept what I was.
Really disappointing to see Tesblr creators openly using AI for their work and admitting to it. It's really a great way to be unfollowed and blocked by most of the fandom.
Pick up a pencil and draw - tablet, paper, a fucking napkin, I don't care. Don't rely on the plagiarism machine to do your work for you.