Pride Knight (Patreon)

Happy Pride! 

I didn't really plan to do anything pride themed this year. Tbh, I was fed up of trying to think of something "themed", bcs nowadays there are so many themes for artists for different months, and it feels like you are missing out if you don't participat. It is a bit tiring because I have so many things I want to draw. And I know pride is not a theme, but you know what I mean. There is more rainbow/flag flavored art around this month. Which is a good thing, but as an artist I always feel pressured a little. Since I already did the Witcher pride and CoD is more than well enough equipped with artists, I was free to do something self indulgend this time around though. 

I had the idea for this one while out on a walk. Sometimes it'll just be this way, you're having an artblock and trying to do something else and suddenly you have an idea. The character is Ash, I think I said it already in a post before. Ash is a sibling of Willows, which makes this piece kind of extra self indulgent, bcs Ash is non binary. I was mulling over Ash's armor design and I don't know if I got inspired by something I saw or if this is an original idea (again, just how art works XD) but adding chestplate decoration that looks like starburst top surgery scars just felt so good. 

I struggled with keeping the colors coherent in this one and I wanted to try a different way to render metal, which is why it took me so long to have it finished. I did add the high res verison of this since there is not much of extras or variants that i can show. I did not want to add different flag versions bcs for the initial pic it was hard to just decide on a color scheme. If you'd still want some specific flag color you can let me know though, I'm happy to try my hand at it. Maybe without the rainbow trim bcs that gets really overwhelming really quickly. I think in this case I was happy to go with the rainbow encasing the trans flag bcs, well, trans people are fighting for their life out there in lots of places right now. As somebody who is not outed in real life except to very close friends I still struggle with seeing myself as part of the trans spectrum. So I think this makes this piece kind of important for me as well? But I don't want to go too deep into that, I am rambling again XD I really like how it turned out though, a bit of a struggle but I think it was a good experiment.

So yeah, sorry for the ramble!
I hope your weekend is going well. I will go sit down and reply to some comments now, so sorry for the spam in advance <3

Take care and stay safe
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