Cloudward Ho - Blog Posts

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Bulk Ask Responses!

Heya! I've been getting a bunch of asks re: Cloudward, Ho! and I figured I could answer them all in one place ♥

Starting off strong @wogglywiggler ;D Van is amazing and I can't wait for yall to see Siobhan's incredible performance as her - she's got LAYERS, folks!!

You're welcome, Anon. Live thirsty my child ♥

SOMETIMES IT'S NOT INTENTIONAL BUT ALSO I'm a raging pansexual and I find everyone attractive so I do my best to translate that to my drawings. I'm so glad I am apparently the queen of dnd thirst characters tho ;D

Hi @eembezzle!! GOSH that's so cool, I never really think of my art as like... super recognizable but I'm glad yall knew it was me! ♥

The second part of your ask is very similar to this one from @whookami :

and this one from @graciousred :

So I'll answer them all together!

The process is different for the PCs vs NPCs, but all in all I work through coordinators and art directors. I rarely get the chance to 1 on 1 with talent. We work with a wonderful app called Airtable, which makes everything nice and organized and easy to deal with when you're drawing a bajillion characters. PCs I get mood boards and written descriptions, and we go through several rounds of ideation before landing on finals. They take the longest by far!

NPC-wise, I'm given a write up of the character and the timestamp for when they're introduced in the season. If they have a battle mini, I get reference pics of that, too. Yep, minis are made WAY before character art! I listen/watch the "stringouts" aka uncut/unedited footage of the sessions to get the vibe of the character, as well as any secret things that are important later i.e. someone in disguise, like The Skulker vs Johnny Manhattan in NSBU, or if there's some kind of historical importance to a character/secret hidden on their person that is important to visualize. These get done in batches :)

I wouldn't be able to get this done without the awesome dropout team - especially Eve, Skye Loremaster, and Alison ♥

As for Projection Illustrations - that's done before filming! We work closely with the battlemap team (love you Rick, Alison, and KC) and the projection engineers (GOATS Derek and Ruby) to make the beautiful sets the players and viewers get to enjoy. We actually work on the sets DURING film schedule - and CH has a LOT of art yall will get to see. There were times we finished the art the day before the episode was filmed!! But, the art has to be done before the cameras roll, as they're projected live behind the actors.

Hi @seasonofhotness! Thank you so much - I have my con schedule on my website (caitmayart.com) and I try to keep it as updated as I can. I'm currently waiting to hear back from NYCC, but I did apply! Cross your fingers for me ♥

Oh goodness @lady-writes that was totally unintentional, but I SEE IT NOW WHOOOOPS

I just wanted to make Daisuke look like the suave bastard he is, and Zac embodies him so well it must have leaked into my drawing haha!

Thank you all SO MUCH for the love - I can't wait to sail CLOUDWARD, HO with you all!!

squeems cousin or something like that

I drew this in October as a joke for the projections team - we all the Cloudward Hoes on THIS ship

id like to submit this to the “accidental renaissance” dropout ™ collection

me when i punch my dad to death

and when i call them hot we all nod in agreement right? right?

sky interpreted heroes!

sky pirates steampunk intrepid heros season?

yo ho yo ho and a bottle of fun !!!!!!!!!

thinking about marya and how when you think you've lost everything you still have something. even if that something is worms you hid in the back of a chair. her silk shirts and her youth and her love for the world and for adventure. trauma is hard and bad and it strips you of everything you were and everything you think you'll ever be and it leaves you to waste. but somewhere there are worms you left in the back of a chair. and you'll wear silk shirts again. and your friends will write your story better than you ever could. and you are that person and you always will be. and some young mech-wielding bright-eyed transfem will worship the ground you walk on.

I'm like really okay and fine I swear

I don't know how the fuck this happened but episode 3 wealwell is giving aelwyn abernant in some major ways and I don't know how to feel about it

a completely unbiased and correct ranking of the gotch brothers' names (in order of least to most funny to me)

blanewell - not unfunny (none of them are unfunny) but doesn't tickle me quite as much as the others

samwell - I find the almost correct names in some ways funnier than the wacky ones but of the almost correct names samwell is the least funny to me

hatwell - buck wild I can't believe he's real

roywell - another almost correct name also big up middle child he doesn't even have a wiki page this is heartbreaking

wealwell - the man the myth the legend so fucking funny we love our queasy fag and his goofy name

johnwell - idk what it is about johnwell specifically but it's so close to being a name in a way that makes me come undone

maxwell - I literally cannot stop thinking about and laughing about how funny it is that the gotch brothers' names end with being normal and start with being weird like I have so many questions - did they know maxwell was going to be the last and so could give him the normal name? are all of these names normal in canon? were they scrambling around for maxwell and it took them seven tries to remember? each option is wonderful and amazing and I truly cannot stop thinking about the gotch family naming conventions

eastern european haunted emily axford pc, transfem daughter of libertarians ally beardsley pc, spot on pub representation grizzled old british lady siobhan thompson pc, nasty old gun guy zac oyama pc, posh boy brian murphy pc, famous explorer with a book series that really falls off lou wilson pc we're fucking eating this season my god

it's a good day to love women