The Blanketfort (crying and throwing up) - The Official Solas Thread [Spoilers]

I knew about mosaics, but statues of Mythal? So it confirms that the Temple of Sacred Ashes was Mythal's property. I wonder, if Skyhold was really the place where "the sky was held", and it's not far from ToSA, that Solas used infrastructure which before belonged  to Mythal, even used it with her blessing.
I was replaying Trespasser recently and in Dread Wolf sanctuary (the place with vallaslin removal fresco) there are mosaics of other Evanuris, of course it can be simply a design choice, like the abundance of elven wolf statures, well everywhere. But considering that in dev notes the Orb is attributed to Mythal (which could change during the developing process, but lets assume that not), could she (even unofficially) assign Fen'harel as her heir? We know that she was voice of reason and often resolved petty disputes between other Evanuris and "she cared for her people, she protected them" as Solas says. Heck the priests from the Well know the secret password to the sanctuary! 
 My tinfoil hat theory is that Mythal supported Fen'harel rebelion, provided him infrastructure, power (the orb) and it might be the reason that she was killed by her peers. 
 


Thank you illyria
My Lavellan's face is the biggest self insert I ever manged to do in a game (gotta love the CC), so I will take it as compliment. 
I made the jammies retexture months ago and somehow I still haven't posted it on Nexus. I guess I should finally do it.

That what it looks like in full non beige glory:


I even made it fully tintable



 

That outfit is lovely AND it doesn't have gloves or weird stuff that would create butt grab wrist clipping issues. I want it! Drop us a link when you post your mod. I'm totally jealous of your work. I made custom recolors for Sims 2 and KOTOR 2, but I have no clue about making DAI mods. I want to make Lavellan a comfy sweater to match her beau.

If I stare at something an draw/erase/draw/erase etc, I can get a pretty good likeness.

But freestyling? Not even. It's so weird, because I can even see images in my head drawn in pencil strokes as if I'd just done it. Like shading and all that. But without being able to see it with my actual eyeballs, it's a fail.

I want a Dorian kissing my Fem Quiz's forehead real bad. 

I'd love to make fan art, but all the many art classes I took in high school screwed me up. They were too darn focused on photo realism (which I suck at). They were obsessed with us perfecting blending techniques and crap, but they never encouraged us to do 100% original work from our own brains...except for sculpture. Strangely enough, my sculptures were the only things that came out the way I wanted them to. Working from references was how I was taught, but it doesn't really work for me. I passed two different versions of AP art exam, but 10+ years later I still haven't worked up the nerve to finish and post a fan drawing (although I did make a plushy of Reaver from Fable II...which is sorta fan art). When I do finally finish something I'll be sure to post it here. I could use encouragement, and I know you guys are all a lot more positive than the tiny critic in my head.

Stick in the Mud floratheelf I had like 4 months of drawing classes and they were the W O R S T lol, I had to stop it because my parents were obviously wasting money on this. But I did get something out of it and it was : stop being scared of building sketchlines. You know, drawing circles and squares and stuff before the actual drawing. I never stopped since because it really helps getting composition, proportions and lenghts right.

To anyone here : don't judge your ability to ever manage to do anything art related over such matter. Sometimes art classes are good and sometimes they aren't, because they're provided by a human being and thus they have flaws (sometimes more than average for sure) and they will never fulfil everyone's need.

I know very well the issues with low self-confidence but I will tell you this : you are BOUNDLESS (#vallaslin)
So go for it, embrace it, and never let go before you're done = never) ♥

Edit : tonight i bumped into this post and these screencaps i swear... it's... ADORABLE, were you THIS CUTE all along solas ?? Omg I can't omg my heart omg no stop omg i want to hug you so bad mlzhrmqozvlvsjemozehfcmqzhemfszozghmrkeshm

Thank youu
omg guyz plz post more in the thread i feel like i'm SPAMMING YOU

I finished another artwork... you wont be disappointed LOL
I went to bed and I had this idea, I kept loling at it for mins, And now it's a trashcomic
I CANT STOP LAUGHIN BWAHAHAHAHA
Here you go, omg



And a very needed addition :



and the tumblr link xD

Omg french dalish trash tries english poetry as writting cole, it was a very interesting experience ! 10/10 would recommend

Practicing realism is actually very important, because realism is a foundation on which ALL of the styles are built.

You have to know how something is built, how shapes and shadows or anatomy works to later build our how thing on top of it. I'm most definitely grateful for having to learn that hard lesson in my art school, though I also do know from experience that having teachers who sneer at 'freestyle' or 'stylistic' drawings can be incredibly daunting. I've had a year when I was dragging my feet to each class because I couldn't really stand the professor and his approach, and a year when I was staying past classes hours, long in the night, because my other professor was a good teacher as well as very accepting of our own excursions into our head and style exploration.

Also, that trap would TOTALLY work!