I am back, my darlings, with another drawing! Who would've thought that I'd upload a drawing here.... in my artbook... what a nice coincidence.
(sorry when this chapter is a bit of a mess, I'm writing this during history class >w<)

So, as you probably already saw in the title, I FINALLY GOT AROUND TO DRAWING CEV!!! Yayy! Overall this was great fun, since I finally think I managed to capture the Cev-essence, but that's for you to see for yourselves. The main idea was, to more or less mirror Gruithons pose, since... well the two spent so much time together, that they started to pick up the other person's personality and to quote Undaer: "You two are like... the same fucking person. Am I allowed to use singular on you now, because it's slowly getting really fucking freaky?"I also wanted to go and kinda copy the expression I made on Fers face in that development reference, just a bit more relaxed and confident. (here that is btw... talking about the one on the left >w<)

And so I sketched out this over here. I realised a bit late, that I worked on a flipped canvas, so I went ahead and just flipped the face around later on (especially because of the moles on an invisible layer and his scars), which ended up in him looking a lot more like Ruith than I initially planned. I also used this old drawing I made... ages ago... of him as a trainee, before I reworked the ages of everyone, as a reference for a lot of his moles.

Anyways.... i probably should finally show you the first WIP, after introducing the last paragraph so dramatically...

Oh! Before I continue I just wanted to also say, that for once I did that background box thing before the actual drawing ^-^
Definetely was a good decision, because making that thing look neat, when you already have like... 160 layers and a crappy laptop is a pain...

Okay, so since this is my third drawing of this kind, I wanted to try out something new... or at least newer. As most of you should knwow by now, I usually draw my "lineart" directlz above the rough sketch, and the rough sketch is the first thing that appears on the canvas... so no clean sketch in between.But since I started doing clothing, torsos and overall things I'm not too familiar with recently, I was obliged to put in that nasty step in between, which stretched the drawing progress out a lot. And I am already a really slowly working artist, so that really bothered me internally.Anyways, for this drawing I decided to just try and line the piece above that last WIP you've seen. I didn't expect that to work as well as it did, honestly, so in future I will indeed be brave enough to just skip that part >w<

So yeah... I went in with the lines, starting with the face, then the trousers, then the shirt and at the end the arms and hands (didn't export a wip where you also saw those and no colours QwQ)

On the former trainee pictures you also got to see a funny colour comp pic, but since we all know and love Cevs palette, here's some random colour experiments I made during the flat colouring >w<

The first one here, is how Cev would've looked, if he weren't a mutation. See, since he was born in the East (dang I should really get used to using the proper continent names... wait have I even ever used the proper continent names here??? WAIT... did you guys all asume until now that North, East, South, West were the actual continent names?!  ... oops....... um........ Well, the North is actually "Oskâri", the East is "Aulath", the South is "Ikôr'esh and the West is called "Kruaden"... dang.... i gotta change that...), he was actually supposed to have darker skin, brown hair an green eyes. But since his parents both have an EotA (Eye of the Ancients - a floating eye out of pure magic that appears on ones forehead and is attached to your brain, as soon as you have more than 60% ancient magical DNA), his genetics got fucked up a bit, which is why his hair and eye colour change according to the magical athmosphere and he has the same skin colour as his mother, since... those genes kinda won I guess...

Anyways, here's how he'd look if he were just born as usual:

And then... well Feredir fled from the East (ugh, here we go again).... fled from AULATH, after finding baby-Cevrond, and over to the Clockwork clan in Ikôr'esh.
After residing there for 20 years, Cevronds hair- and eyecolour had adapted to the athmosphere and he looked just like we all know and love him. The older he got, the longer he needs to reside in the same athmospherical-circumstances for those changes to happen... at the age of 5.000 he'd already need to chill in the same place for 20.000 years, as an example. And since he travels around a lot, he never even realised that "ability" of his, until he got old and lived with his wife in the Sundance clan for.... I think 300.000 years, and he realised how his roots started to grow dark blonde and his eyes started to get golden speckles (fun fact: he was so terrified that he went to the doctor and everything, who obviously couldn't diagnose an illness, totally freaked out that he was going to die now, then called his dad, who just told him "Oh yeah, btw, you're a mutant... if you stay in the same athmophere for to long you just kinda do that." ... so Cev and his wife visited the Clockwork clan for ten years so that Cev could look "normal" again >w<")

.... long story short, here's how he'd look if Feredir would've stayed in Aulath for a few years before migrating over, so that Cev would still have eastern hair and eyes >w<

And then I've had enough fun and finally coloured everything how it's supposed to be...

So here we have the first flats, since I procrastinated from drawing the rucksack again, as per usual, since they are indeed fun, but also a pain......

I also gave him a tattoo-redesign, since the small one on his forearm... dunno I felt the urge to give him more, to match Gruithon a bit more. (This  is where the tattoo-gun got whipped out after the drinking game, Mith >w<" )

Welp, we all know that there wasn't any escape from the Rucksack at this point, so I drew it out, deciding that I wanted it to look a bit like a mixture between the other two from before. Do you know how hard it is, to make backpacks look different, when you can't show the actual "front" where the main differences are?? Well I had to find out and the answer is: actually not that hard you just need to pay attention to detail and need to get creative...

I don't have a WIP with the full lines, so here's the full flats instead! I kept with the entire "backpack has a lighter valued tone to the sleeping bag" theme I had with the other two and also added a nice brown as a third colour. I was tempted to use the usual "off-white and turqoise" colour scheme of the clockworks, but decided that... well it wouldn't really be useful on a backpack made for hikes and survival in a forest, so... that was that.

Next up I got to shade! And other than usual I was lazy and decided to do the "smaller" elements first, before working on the larger components. Meaning hair, eyes, and metal were all done, then I slept a night and the day after I finished the drawing.
Didn't export a WIP with the finished metal, but here you have eyes and hair ^-^

Overall... AAAAHHHH I love drawing Cevs hair so much, because I can make it shiny and floofy.

Man... next up would be the finished piece.... and as we all know this is backstory-time!!

So whilst Cevrond is by far not a new character (I hope so at least.... if you're new then that's okay, but if you're from the old artbook... oof, what happened?), I think I still haven't ever says why he now actually joined the order...

So, his mother died, about a week after he was born, in a fire (... yes. Yes, I'm just gonna leave it at that... those who know more, know more, those who don't, will probably be surprised when they know more). Thereotically he would've burnt to death as well, but Volcanis (goddess of fire) found him adorable and still owed his parents a favour, so she saved him from the fire and made sure that his father would find him, after being reborn.

So Feredir literally climbed out of his own grave, found his son in the ashes, instantly freaked out because "the love of my life is dead and now i suddenly need to take care of a child as well"... the latter point was obviously a happy freak-out, but he freaked out nonetheless.

So Fer fleed from Aulath to Ikôr'esh and settled down with his twin brother. The two raised Cev in this tiny town and at some point Feredir adopted a small boy from the Gravebuild-clan called Calphen ^-^
At school, Cev was fairly good. Instead of doing school work he usually hung out with his friends and overall didn't put any effort into his education, whilst still getting fairly good grades and a pretty good mark on his final exam.

So during the last five years of school, the Clockworks go through several tests, so the children can properly mainfest what they want to do in their future (the hundred years before that they looked in depth into a different job, so that they were aware of the variety they had, but at the end most of the kids just feel lost, since everything is kinda cool).
And Cevrond found, that whilst he was suited best for going to a magical university, he found the more sport-oriented jobs to be a lot more fun for him. So, not completely ruling the university option out, he decided that he wanted to have a physically straining job.

Now in the holidays over the Holy Day of Time, he went with his uncle on one of his buisiness trips (his uncle is a highly respected, freelancing prosthetic-engineer for everyone who doesn't know) since Cev is so, so sick of the town he grew up in and takes every chance he get's to explore other places or regions.

And during this four day long buisiness trip an organisation, known as the Knights of the Night (>>evil laugh<<), decided to terrorise this precise city. Meaning the place had to be evacuated. By the Paladins.
So Cev here, as some of you know, has a problem with not being in charge, but he can deal with it, if he knows that someone else can do something better than him. His worst problem is, that there is no feeling for him that is worse than feeling helpless. And oh boy did he feel helpless in that moment.

So feeling guilty and thinking to himself, that he never ever wanted to have something happen again without him being able to do something, and knowing that he didn't really want to go into desk-work later on in life, he decided that joining the paladins would be a great nd viable job-choice.

He brought it up to the dinner table, and cue the first time Feredir has ever been really pissed at any of his children ^-^
Cev felt terrible, Tirith calmed his brother down and then talked with Cev. The two decided to give the Paladins a try, if that's what Cev really wanted to do, without telling Feredir about it.

Voila, Cev got through all three of the application-trials and then got accepted to the Order :D
Cue the second time Feredir has ever been really pissed at any of his children ^-^

So Ti bought his nephew a dragon and Cev left for the Order, meeting Ruindîr on the way there, yadda yadda yadda, we all know roughly what happens after that (If not...... wellllll..... the first phew chapters of "Paladin" are up on my second account Amarthel, so..... and I'm currently writing on "Legend, which will be uploaded at some point too, so.... hehe...)

Welp that was so much to that here's the final drawing you've been looking for >w<

Ahhh... you have no idea how satisfying it is to see that picture finished...

Especially because now I can do this:

... and this, so I can actually show their sizes instead of just throwing the three drawings next to each other:

AAAAHHHHHHH I never drew enough half-body portrayals of my OCs to slam them next to each other in like a lineup kinda thing, even thought drawing my characters is the only reason I do art....

AAHH this is so wonderful to see just... give me a moment to stare at my own creating and cry.... (fuck that sounds so arrogant.... i swear guys im just happy to have my children in one picture together aaaahhh)

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...... dang.... yep, I've calmed down again.

Anyways!! I am super happy with the drawing so far, really excited to draw more of my trainees, also looking forward to drawing Cevrond again, now that I hava a solid starting point.

>>gives you cookies, tea and blankets<<

I hope you lot like the drawing as much as I do and enjoyed reading the chapter! I'm always happy to see comments of you guys and it always sparks joy if you come back to my tiny artbook over here >w<""