2022
The New Year starts with a Tyrea that I still really like 3 years later. She's such a beautiful woman.
2022 starts with a desire to draw characters from all over the series in alternate outfits.
Also Homs Linada and missing Pied Piper:
And some humoristic stuff:
Realizing
Uncontrollable fits Malos and Mythra rather well (goth/punk aesthetic too):
Some more Aegises:
For a few spring weeks I get obsessed with the idea of Malos and Tyrea teaming up and honestly I should bring this duo back.
Logos is still around and getting a more defined design:
And by June they're joined by the first appearance of Ontos, the third of the trio. The AAA computer trio is now complete:
But 2022 is also the year of Xenoblade 3! Some ladies catch my eye in trailers, then in the game:
And then Xenoblade 3 makes me yearn for Xenogears and Xenosaga so I end up drawing for these games instead of the game I just played?
And then I fall back into Xenoblade 2, finish a Malos&Mythra piece started a year ago, and begin my Mikhail arc because I've been digging into his character arc and writing fanfics about him and he's becoming more and more dear to me. This is also when I start writing post-XC2 fics focused on him, Malos, Logos and Pneuma that will help me cement Logos into his own character.
It takes me 2 more years to realise I drew Mikhail's weapons wrong up here because they
are wrong during half of the game and I picked the wrong ref pics. I want to redraw it someday, properly this time.
The fun part is that it didn't even click when I drew these alt weapons (correctly) a few weeks later.
And that's about it for 2022, I end the year with my mind into a bunch of Alternate Universes, and I will keep a fondness to them for the upcoming years, taking up writing a few fics when I'm not drawing.
