Sarracenian's illustration blog

OK so now that people are here:

Hi, I'm Aleksis, a Finnish-Chinese Illustrator + comics artist, emphasis on historical/fantasy & scifi + misc. Currently drawing my own toku-inspired Rescue-Knight and Chinese-Roman fantasy comic called Legionary Extraordinary (available on itch.io)

Email: c.sarracenian@gmail.com

Portfolio: https://aleksisshi.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sarracenian Ko-fi (Commission info): https://ko-fi.com/sarracenian Twitter Art timeline (various pieces not on portfolio): https://twitter.com/CSarracenian/timelines/822999817630744576

I do have a commission page! The link is here:

If there's something more specific you have in mind, you can DM directly.

And I'm more of a casual Warhammer fan, since I mainly just paint the miniatures and I like the Eldar because of their aesthetic and concept. To this day I've still yet to play that many actual games of 40k hahahaha

Eldar Howling Banshee but Heavy Metal (like, actually)

Yesterday was Ranma's 35th anniversary but that's not going to stop me

Once again got a little too much into drawing Moumou in different fits for fun, mostly from late 80s-early 90s sitcoms (see if you can recognize some of them!).

(I didn't notice I accidentally reblogged posts that weren't mine on this blog, oops. Now they're cleaned up)

Anyway: What if Space Cassette Moumou, coming to VHS rental stores near you!*

(The backcover + more exclusively on the patreon!)

Have I ever told anyone that I'm actually a big fan of the Eldar Aesthetic? Being a years long tokusatsu and Morrowind (& former Bionicle) fan can do that to a person.

This was supposed to be a casual drawing of Xueyi from Honkai, whom I like, but then her design just kept going and I had to stop at some point

Happy Lunar New Year everyone!

Wow Yedocia is gonna fuckin die

A late addition to Shanghai team's Ways of Sitting, based on my roommate telling me how women manspreading is the Peak.

Also bonus:

a new art poll is available on my patreon.

Yes, those are the options:

So, here's Qi Dandan smoking after I finished watching a few Ruan Lingyu movies. She doesn't actually like smoking but she does it anyway, you know how it is.

Apparently, my roommate's mum called today saying "wow Aleksis sure has been drawing some chicks on IG".

God, I've been marked. I'm "the chick drawer" now.

"What if an old anime promo art was also a 1920s-1930s Shanghai commercial poster?" feat. Qi Dandan

ho hoo, anything to trick me into doing digital painting I suppose

Its Kanzaki Sumire time

Or as she likes it, all the time