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Lover's Brawl

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"- We have been playing this game for the past 100 years. Have you ever thought about calling it quits, and skip ahead to the good stuff?
- I have thought about it. And I think you would never forgive me if I did."

Or something along those lines. :giggle:

Just a bit of fan art and gift art at the same time of :iconhattonslayden:'s characters, Mar and Shesheik. They're the man's favourite characters, engaged in a continuous lover's brawl where Mar will only allow Shesheik to sleep with him if she can best him in battle. Though initially that sounds a bit rapey, along the lines of a conqueror burning a village and laying claim to the people in it, you only know the story from a bird's perspective, and not the intimate intricacies of it. Mar and Shesheik have been in love for most of their lives, and would not consider anyone other than each other. That said, for them to just go ahead and do each other like rabbits...or like a human and a wolf/bug girl hybrid, would cheapen their feelings for each other, like a fairy tale cliché, and they do not live in that sort of sugary sweet world. It's clear they both think the other is worthy, but neither of them have actually done anything to deserve the other. Their battle is a sort of flirt, as well as courtship they need to engage in to not cheapen it, but reaffirm it and make them treasure it.

So big muscle man giggles as he tease bug girl who then does swing her long katanas around to deserve muscle man. It's a male fantasy, but it's not a rape fantasy.

It was fun working on this, especially considering how it usually turns out when I experiment on drawings, but I had an idea of Mar reflected in her sword and went for it, and it turned out really well. :) I did muck up his armour, both in its shape and contrasts and colour-to-bw conversion, but I was trying to make it feel like a reflection in the blade and not just an inserted photo. Something it did demonstrate to me is I really need to move on from pen and paper if I will ever have a chance to make it as an illustrator. It's simply not worth the time it takes, for everyday, money-bringing drawings and paintings.
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