a few more Ryders

Still haven't played any more Andromeda, but I do want to get to know my girl better.

And her fabulous sibling Castel.

They're good friends.

- KP


Quote of the Day: "You bought a cow?!"

Guadalupe and Castel Ryder

Ari got me Mass Effect Andromeda for the PS4 as a graduation present and I just started playing it yesterday. I had started planning my Ryder siblings before the game was actually in my possession, and I had come up with this:

Guadalupe Ryder, the shorter buffer twin, and Castel, the genderfluid younger twin. Adventure in their blood and makeup on point.

I played around with a bunch of different looks for Lupe (knew I wanted her short and muscular with killer brows, and not much else), but settled on Castel pretty quick. Also there's Papi Alec at the bottom.

Thought I had her settled...

Then went into the actual character creator and this was the closest I could get.

Which, to be fair, wasn't bad.

There were no good light pinks for the hair, no way to make the brows thicker, no good fluffy bob, and no facial piercings, but I did get a few cool scars and a wicked tattoo out of the deal, so I'm happy overall. So there's my girl. She's gonna bang Vetra probably.

- KP


Quote of the Day: "Listen - you know what? Let me molder and fester and die."

Cale is still truckin' along

I haven't done Virmire yet because I'm a baby and I'm not looking forward to, y'know, suffering, but anyway here's Cale.

He looks a lot like one of my art teachers from high school, which absolutely wasn't on purpose, but it does make me giggle from time to time.

He and Garrus have undeniably been flirting. The plan is to have Cale romance Kaidan in the third game, but I am a big fan of Bi Garrus.

 Oh, Noveria. Literally every possible pairing in ME1 has at least like ten fluffy "sharing body heat" fics set on Noveria.

Guns are hard. You'd think as much time as I spend drawing Mass Effect stuff, I woulda learned how to draw them by now.

In other (Dragon Age) news, I screwed up the end of Merrill's Act 3 quest and couldn't turn in like four other side quests, so I went back to a 3-hour-old save to try it again. Which means I have to kill a fully-grown dragon and a fairly large abomination again. Yay.

- KP


Quote of the Day: "Barrels of explosives and darkspawn galore? It's not even my birthday!"

I was Jack for Halloween! This costume was kind of a pain because it was not only held together by duct tape and prayers, but also because that body paint rubbed off on absolutely every single thing and I was tripping over my boot covers all day, but I think I at least looked awesome so I'm gonna say it was worth it.

We went to Cloor's and watched the first two episodes of Stranger Things, which were super good and I can't wait to see more of it. Good Halloween fare, too.

- KP


Quote of the Day: "Hey, DM, are there traps?"

a lot of Mass Effect art I didn't realize I was behind on

Some Sheps for friends as a thank-you for help with a project.

The ME:Andromeda protagonist, Ryder!

Some Talis.

Some Kaidans (and a Sheploo).

Some Garruses (and a Rain Shepard, and a Sidonis cuz they were banging let's not lie to ourselves).

Some Jacks and Mirandas.

Colored this Rain piece for N7 day this year.

And a Cale Shepard. Shirtless. Because.

I've been neglecting this blog for long stretches of time and it's making it hard to catch up. I'll try to stay more on top of things in the future.

- KP


Quote of the Day: *licks gun* "Le's go."

happy N7 day!

There's a new Andromeda trailer out and I'm bawling! Surprise!

Here, have a Rain Shepard alone at the bar because it's Time To Be Sad!

Oh all the comrades that e'er I've had

Are sorry for my going away

And all the sweethearts that e'er I've had

Would wish me one more day to stay

But since it falls unto my lot

That I should rise and you should not

I'll gently rise and I'll softly call

Good night and joy be with you all

~ The Parting Glass, the Wailin' Jennys

Have also some dirty MShenko smut that someone on Tumblr requested (ref)! 

And have it in pink!

Okay. Deep breaths. I'm okay now. Probably.

- KP


Quote of the Day: "It looks like a crab." "It's not a crab, it's an angry uterus!"