Midas Touch: A Greek myth that goes a little something like this, Midas found a good friend of Dionysus, a Saytr named Silenus. Midas took in the Saytr, who was super drunk because Dionysus, and cared for him. Dionysus found out and as a reward gifted Midas with a wish. Midas wished for everything he touched to turn to gold. It was super cool until he turned his food to gold and maybe his wife or daughter into gold. He then begged Dionysus to take away his curse.
I know there are different ways it ended but I know one where after begging Dionysus he told him “ you must wash your hands in special river “ and so he did soon he gave gold to his village his greed vanished only after losing his daughter. But there is one where he starves to death
i would totally binge watch an animated series with these character designs- your rendering is also incredibly beautiful! name suggestions: Lynn for water (derived from words meaning pond/lake/waterfall - Welsh and Celtic origin) and Mishal for fire (it means torch/candle - Arabic origin)
Fun fact: Clepsydras are water clocks, like hourglasses are "sand clocks". Might fit as a name for your water-time-bending lady. Super cool character designs as always!
Just a random idea: I know Water have no ice elements, but things frozen in ice can become preserved for years. So as an addition to her time powers, perhaps she can stop the time of a single person, thus trapping them Some name ideas: Fire: Eve Water: Edel, Blince
a cool idea would be designing characters for each of the (actual) element. Just take the periodic table and slap some pretty girls on it. Btw I don't expect anyone to do this in a million years because there are 118 of them and I don't want you to die
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I hurt my brain trying to get a similar mentality that you have, anyways I recommend Seraphina for fire woman and probably Darya for the water character. The names are something that I would like to use for my own characters but... eh-. Anyways I did some research and Seraphina does mean fire or beauty if I remember correctly and Darya means "sea" :D
I love the Kintsugi healing element! Fire has big paladin vibes, which is top tier. Water is lovely and striking, too; I have to admit, when you mentioned Cthulhu it just reminded how much I would love to see any sort of eldritchy art you might create. These illustrations are gorgeous and I'm so excited for part 2! (The "personal love letters you will never see stop asking" nearly had me guffawing at my work desk.) Hope you're doing well! Congratulations on 100K subscribers! You have definitely earned it. Don't take on too much, but a Discord server (or patreon where money can be hurled at you at top speeds) would be incredible. EDIT: Realized I left out about half a sentence previously. Whoops.
I'm almost definitely leaning into the Cthulhu or Nesse angle for water 👀 I feel like it mirrors fire's dragon a bit better! I would love to do a video where I create Lovecraftian monsters or something tbh! Idk how into spooky stuff most of my audience is but I love it. And thank you! Your support over the years has meant so much to me Willis! I really want to launch the Discord and maybe a Patreon in the near future so I can connect more with the community ✨
For the fire girl, a good name might be Edin or Febris. For the water girl maybe Adria or Bree/ Briana. Also wanna say I'm quite new to your channel but you're videos have given me a lot of inspiration to start taking my art more seriously. Thank you, and I hope you're having a good day.
Water is giving me a gentle and kind energy like a mom or big sister and Fire looks so regal and 'in-charge' in a way. And no matter how generic the dragon was as a choice for Fire's companion, I thoroughly appreciate it as a dragon lover. I have a few name ideas for these pretty girls cause I just love giving characters and inanimate objects cool names with cool meanings. For Fire: Elidi (gift of the sun), Enya (fire), Idalia (behold the sun), and Oriane (sunrise) For Water: Rosemary (dew of the sea), Nixie (name of a water spirit), Cascade (you know, like waterfalls), and Ara (bring rain) Can't wait to see Air and Earth!
I’m not sure what it is, but I love the dark skin with yellow clothing combo. It’s why I love Mel’s design from arcane, especially with the yellow freckles she has. There’s also i comic that I read where one character had dark skin with yellow freckles and eyes. There’s something about that combo that I’m a big fan of I’d also like to mention for the fire goddess, another two things that could add to her theme of “rebirth” are volcanoes and wildfires. Volcanoes caused lots of damage with their lava, but they can also make islands and very fertile land for nearby areas. As for wildfires, even after very terrible wildfires, life finds a way to regrow. Where I live, we had a pretty bad wildfire I think three years ago. Now revisiting there in the summer, the trees are still dead but the ground has lots of plants and flowers that grow around it
The animals really look great with the character designs you did. Both characters look awesome. The random image of the producer looking fab was super sweet.
The Avatar challenge was so fun! Thanks for joining in even tho it was pretty early in my channel :3 I kinda want to redo that video now that it's a couple years later 👀
I love that the water girl looks like Katara, I will forever and always associate water with indigenous people “especially after “The Painted Lady” ATLA episode! I love her so much!
I always love it when fire is used for it’s themes beside destruction. Energy, warmth, protection are all themes that feed into fire even hope can fall under it. Great job!
I like the name Seraphina for fire (It can mean fiery, burning, or heavenly winged angel), and Anahita for water (meaning water or river goddess, because how perfect is that??) I love your channel and your videos and you inspire me to improve my art style.
I would call the Fire girl Leonne because of lions commonly being associated with the sun and fire. For the water girl, I think Cori or Aby (abysse lol) sounds neat. Great art !
Since the sky tree and now element charactets are kinda all in the same world, headcanon that the night sky girl and water girl are gfs cuz of the ocean and moon conections
Woooooooooow Can't wait for more. They are glorious!!! I can so imagine their "familiars" emerging from them Might there be any magical boy celestials in the future?
I really love seeing this kind of videos from you, they're all so beautiful and creative it always hype me up and inspire me! Anxious to see part 2 as well
Congratulations! A livestream sounds fantastic if you can get it to work. Also, for the earth goddess you're going to make, you could take inspiration from the process of decomposition and how everything eventually becomes part of the earth. Maybe this could let her know the history of something. Or you could take inspiration from how the ground links everything, which could give her the ability to know what's happening far away or teleport anywhere she wants. The air goddess could have this same ability though since the air also links everything. Another cool thing you could do with the air goddess is give her the ability to "bend" light or temperatures since both travel through and are influenced by the air and wind.
These designs are amazing! My idea for the fire "goddess" is Helia. A girlish take on the greek sun god Helios. I think it fits with your idea of fire being something connected to life as the sun is our main source of life. I think it also pays homage to the Wonder Woman inspiration since I think she's based of greek mythology.
Idk what you’d name the fire girl but for the water one I was think Charolette, after Charles Darwin who popularized evolution, and (in media) the ocean is often associated with the origin of life
I think you could call the fire girl Aurora because that name means light and I think that fits really well! 😊 Also thank you for choosing thank you name that I suggested for wade!!
These ladies would defo be in a v casual Saturday band where they jam to old 90s folk. All I know is fire is the lead guitarist and water is totes the bassist
RU-vid recommended this video and eventhough I don’t really watch digital speed paints because they make me dizzy I love your video and subscribed! Your thought process and explanations where really interesting and beneficial for me, I think it’s so great to have a story for your character(s), it shows in the design as well as the overall outcome. Thank you for sharing! 🌱
These design videos are always the highlight of my day. Just hearing about the thought process behind stuff like this is the best thing in the world. Thank you, for your genius mind, Ma‘m
phoneix rebirth linked to a Fire Goddess is honestly such a satisfying choice ! Also love the animal compaions of the aquatic variety! Love your work, thank you for sharing!
OH MY GOD ALPACA YOU UPLOADED!!! I'm a relatively new fan and I adore your character design challenges, thank you thank you *thank you* for making another one!
These are beautiful. I like familiars are with them. It would be interesting to see an opposite interpretation of disasters like, hurricane for water, typhoon or cyclone for air, earthquake for earth or maybe quicksand, and of course flash fires for fire. They of course would be like a super villain team opposite of x-men perhaps, or dark goddesses.
Funny enough, I'm designing characters for a story I'm working on since a year now. And one of them has the power to create water. But, she's not the healer of the group at all (she's more like the warrior) and she's from a very dry land. So people had to make water in order to survive. A bit like evolution. But I never thought of water benders who live in an icy land. I don't know, the desert thing spoke a lot more to me and was so obvious to me.
I feel like Water (name suggestion: Lana: Hawaiian for “calm as still waters”) would be calm and collected but overly protective of loved ones Fire (Bridget: Meaning: Irish goddess of fire and poetry) would be a chaotic spitfire and is typically sarcastic, but reckless and isn't afraid to fight someone if need be.
Water being the tank would’ve been cool as well, since water stops most anything from going fast in its own and strength is generally weakened under water
I love these illustrations! You conveyed the idea of the elements very well, and the lighting in both of them is beautiful. Also, I think Zora would be a good name for the water girl. Love your videos! 😊
for the fire girl, i desperately hunted after a name i saw when i was looking to change my own. i thought the name Tesni (which is of welsh origin), meaning "warmth from the sun" would fit her perfectly. the meaning is soft- and feels almost gentle- which goes with her healing abilities, yet it’s got a hard like uh. kick to it when you say it aloud? best i can describe it. and i found a name for water, Lyre. it means fork in the river and it’s of english origin. i thought lyre worked well as “fork in the river” could refer to how the future could play out? it parts into one or more trails, thus forks in the river (or future in this case) keep appearing. it sounds gentle and regal, which is what this gal gave off for me. also i would love a discord, personally!
still giggling at "my magpie brain" cuz honestly MEEEEE. but omg i love how these turned out, especially how you incorporated a creature to go along with the element! also congrats on 100k!!! a discord would be super cool! have a party with your producer and celebrate
What if the fire goddess was autistic? Gold (specifically the gold infinity sign) is the symbol of autism, red to an extent as well with #RedInstead and since the fire goddess has both it’d fit well! Plus, the stereotype of all autistic people being white men, and she’s the opposite of that!
Oh my gosh i love your creative process so much :OO your ideas are so amazing and i just love how you add so much meaning behind your designs!! You’re such an inspiration to my art and this video just gave so much inspiration and motivation :DD
I just gotta say, the water inspiration dress looks so much like blue diamond from Steven universe, and she’s got garnets abilities which were visualized as water- I love the designs you came up with, they’re so pretty and powerful and elegant♥️
I like toImagine that all the characters you make in these design videos are all in the same world but completely oblivious or somewhat known to eachother! Awesome designs as well!
A livestream Q&A would be super cool if that ends up being possible! I would LOVE a discord, but if it ends up being too much to create/maintain, do not feel bad about letting it fall! For names, Fire could be Svechenya (russian for fire/glow) or maybe Vuur (afrikaans for fire). Vuur is apparently pronounced more like "fear," too, which I think would be a cool idea for a goddess. Water could be Natalie (a twist on natlei, afrikaans meaning to water) or Voda (Croatian) if we want to keep the V theme lol. And when I saw her final design, the name Nala also popped into my head. *so many options*
What do you think of the name Adria for water? Also this looks AMAZING!!!! ALSO! At the end of the video, the music is from tommyinit. Do you know who he is? Do you know what the DreamSMP is? Sorry for asking if it bothers you, but I am a huge DreamSMP stan. SO I was just wondering because at the end the music in the backround is music that Tommyinit uses. But yeah, this looks amazing!
Thank you! ♥️💕 I've heard of him but I've never watched his content. The song I used in my outro is originally the music from the shop channel on the Wii lol I use a lot of Wii music in my videos cause it's nostalgic and ✨memey✨
For the fire goddess :Vespera (lat.evening star),Hemera (goddess of the day),Eos (personification of the dawn);for the water goddess :Nerissa(Sea nymph), Thalassa(the sea)
PRETTY ELEMENTAL LADIES EEEEEE???? Super pretty, 11/10 would buy again. Also I'm bad at names so unfortunately I have no suggestions but THE DESIGNS ARE SO COOL
DUDE WHAT THEYRE ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS??! screaming and crying bc why so much skill my dude pls hand it over right now?? No but seriously the rendering of these pieces are absolutely stunning i love the fire one so much😫😫and i can totally tell that the fire girl was based off of that Pinterest photo so,,,good job?? Idk lmao anyway,,,YEAH
"only drawing girls characters" I mean, do I feel called out? Yeah. But i got a good reason to do it: because of the gay. I'm super gay, so I draw girls cause I love girls. Women. Holding hands with cute girlfriend? DREAM. What entails a cute girlfriend? She's girl and dates me. Wich will never happen because I'm a goblin and don't talk to women. They're intimidating. Or friends. If not friends, scary.
oooooooh, what if she encountered a enemy in the wild and they're hurt. like. extremely badly. so she offers to heal them, because even if they're the enemy, no one should be that hurt. ever. (also it would be a shame if they died without a trial) but they straight up keep refusing because her healing abilities leave gold, residue. o. o or at least that's what i got from the video. so, they're very cautious and skeptical because once they're healed... its... its over. they might return with their healed injuries (if she doesn't capture them. or if they somehow fucking escaPE THAT SNAKE!) and then immediately be questioned over their gold accents. as.. that is the healing ability of THEIR enemy. augh, it would be such a cool premise!!!! or maybe we switch it around where she KNOWS she can't just HEAL them because of her gold residue. and the enemy is just quietly assuring her that it's alright. no matter what choice she makes, they are still going to die. whether it be by capitulation and put on trial (which will lead to death if found guilty.. which.. they 90% will be), they return with their healed injuries then immediately sent to death for conspiring with the enemy, or just.. dying from their wounds..... or they might not die. BUT EITHER WAY, THEY ARE THINKING WORST CASE SCENARIOS..... augh. now i want to write ;;;^;;;;
I'm not sure how to begin this comment properly, so I'll just... First of all, I ADORE your art and designs, you inspire me to branch out more and explore the vast universe of art and creativity ^^ Second, your editing style and the overall aesthetic of your videos is very unique and tickles my smol crow brain in all the right ways Third, I did NOT expect to hear Danny Gonzalez's outro music, so I was quite pleasantly surprised :0 Finally, I hope you're doing well right now and I wish you the best in your future artistic endeavours :D
Congrats on hitting over 100K subs you deserve it! I love your style of content your brand of humor is something I find absolutely hilarious and I love your editing style you merge everything into one chaotic aesthetic and I LOVE it! I always look forward to seeing you post! Your character designs are so fun to watch come together I love hearing your thought processes and your OCs are just amazing. You are so creative and it's super inspiring. I would LOVE it if you made a discord that would be great! I cannot wait to see what you will do next! Every time you upload it inspires me to work on editing and to start a RU-vid channel something I have always considered doing. I have always been nervous about it because I worry about putting my art out there. Kind of a feeling of 'oh I am not good enough yet I need more practice then I can do what I want' but your content really just inspires me to be like 'just go for it you will never be 'good enough' there will always been room for improvements so just do it and have fun'. So thank you for putting your work out there I enjoy it so much and I learn so much from it (like my god your digital art long form process videos have taught me so much it's actually insane-). Also, don't know if you would remember me I am _ umbranocturne _ on IG, I sent some reference photos of some opal and moonstone rings in DM one time so hello! This is my REALLY old outdated (embarrassing-) RU-vid account! (Also I rewatched Naruto the whole series from 1 - 500 during Covid lockdown and I thought I was out of the fandom after middle school and it knocked me out and dragged me back in now in college lol it's not a perfect series but it's got that childhood nostalgia.)
Thank you so much! 💕♥️ It always thrills me to hear people get inspired by my content!! Have you ever considered that you're already good enough to begin a channel? 👀 The individuality that someone can bring to their content is the core of creating any kind of art, and I think it's especially at the core of content creation on RU-vid! So I think you should absolutely go for it. I was definitely not "ready" any time I've tried to level up my work, but each experience has helped me to grow as a creator and artist so much, and I think watching that growth is a big part of why people watch RU-vidrs ✨ Just remember not to put too much pressure on yourself! Having fun is the priority. RU-vid can be a really rigid platform, and I think the future of content will be new creators who break the mold and follow their own instincts for their art!
@@PricklyAlpaca You have a point! Honestly I did not even think of it that way thank you! That's a huge thing for me I can fall into the trap of putting pressure on myself but I totally might give it a go. I have been looking for some form of creative outlet and youtube might be it.
I would love a Discord server!!! A fun little community for art goofs. As for a celebration, maybe holding a little character design contest and you draw your favorite design of the bunch for a video? Not sure if you're into that kind of thing, but I love when artists have things that encourage others to create, it always turns out to be a wholesome fun time because you have a bunch of people coming together to create stuff they like! I also really like DTIYS stuff and collabs and the like. I'm glad you're enjoying the content you're making that's so awesome!!! It really makes watching your stuff just that much more warm-and-fuzzy, knowing that you're enjoying the creation process. Turning art into "work" can be such a crazy process and it looks different for everyone so I'm glad you're finding your way on that crazy journey!! Congrats!!! This video led me down a name rabbit hole haha. I was looking into names that originate from the African continent and learned a lot of neat things about the culture- such as that (according to my very LIGHT research) it's common to name babies based on the day of the week they're born, or the month/season. Akosua is one such name, apparently originating from the Akan people of Ghana. Akosua means born on a Sunday, which relates the name to sun/fire. Pretty neat, I think! Plus, it's such a pretty name. Afreyea (born during good times), Samiya (Arabic, so more northern African meaning exalted). Zarina is muslum/swahili for "golden." All fun candidates IMO. As for water... "Marama" is from Polynesian Myth, the goddess of the moon and death. There are many variations of "Kai" names that would be fitting, as it adds the meaning sea/ocean to names in Hawaiian, such as Kaimana (ocean + power), Kailani (sea + sky/heaven), or just Kaia / Kiya / Kai. Well, that was a fun deep dive! Looking forward to the next two
For fire Pyrosia, Midama/Migama (Midus Magma), Inferntasia (inferno fantasia). And for water, Octavia or Gn'thor/ Genethor (gn'thor being water in chthulu language). P.S: I ship the fire and water girls (because haha contrast, immense funny). And the same for the earth and air girls. If I have offended you by this basic shipping or if it's weird (not including homophobe's opinions). I will personally slide down that pole to hell and sit in the corner.
Love how they came out!! Congratulations on 100k subs!!!! You really earned it, you give me so much inspiration and I'm really thankful for that 😊 I also think Nafira fits the fire goddess?? Idk I feel like she's a Nafira.
Name ideas! Fire: Angarika: Hindi name meaning Flame of the forest Idalia: Italian name meaning Behold the sun Salana: Latin name meaning Sun Water: Cordelia: Celtic name meaning Daughter of the sea Nixie: German name meaning Water sprite Talia: Hebrew name meaning Dew from the heaven
A Q&A (either livestream or YT) would be fun! So would a discord server if it’s something you’re cool with doing (would definitely recommend mods though)
You did amazing Kira! I'm so excited for part 2! Fire Element name suggestions: Bridget and Cyra. (Bridget means Brigid of the holy fire in German & Cyra means Sun or born in the light in Persian) Water Element name suggestions: Adriana & Anahita. (Adriana means sea or water in Latin & Anahita means Water and River Goddess in Persian.)
As for the water girl, you mentioned that you wished you would have made them all mythical pets. Maybe hers could be a sort of water-based shapeshifting mythical creature. Since water does shape to its containment in a way. It's hard to explain haha, just a suggestion ^^
I think Adaliah would be a good name for water. It means “one that draws water, poverty, cloud, and death”. Water can be incredibly dangerous and this names beautiful sound masks its true meaning, I think its a match made in heaven. And I think fire should be named Damia meaning "Goddess of the forces of nature". Seeing as her abilities deal with energy and everything is energy, its almost like she controls everything.
I know it could sound a little tragic, but the water girl could have the name Ophelia. And, for fire she could be Esther. And for me is funny to think about it because I really think those name are kind of for elderly women (?). I imagine like two very granny ladies when I think of thosentwo names. 😅
i think creating a discord server would be a great idea, I'd make an account just to be a part of it lol (but if it ends up being too much, we totally get it)... I also wanted to suggest Twitch livestreams¿ I'd totally watch your art process unedited and maybe even 'draw with you' at the same time. btw your dragon looks really good!!
Midas touch myth : King midas get's blessed by a touch that turns anything he touches i gold I think in a version he asks some sort of spirit or minor god). The only wayo revert it is by making the golden objects touch water. One day he turns his own daughter in gold. conclusion he realises his blessing is very much like a curse. The princess does turn back to herself afer he puts her in water that's in the garden.
Oml, they’re all so pretty agh!!! And I think that a discord server would be really cool! I think it’d be awesome to meet other people who like your vids :D (Also, CONGRATS ON 100K!!!!!!! :D)
I think Nathalie or Chloe would be good names for the fire girl and Aurielle or Beatriz to the water girl (also water girl gives vibes of the episode "The hourglass" from Steven Universe).
for the fire girl llama ( the LL pronouced like a y ) since in spanish it means flame and calling ( you could incorporate the calling aspect however you want) and for water girl Medusa ( jellyfish in spanish )
Watching the Water part of the video reminded me of my high school geology class. We were thought that water is the most corrosive force on the planet and that, given time, water can and will destroy anything. I like the time powers, it reminds me of Frozen 2 and the “water has memory” thing. But I think destructive water would be cool.
