
2022 to 2024 main art gallery of BLUE HORIZON characters by naila moonsi.
[That's about all~!]
This page has a secret! Poke at it if you want. If it's too difficult to find, it's on the main page with other secrets, too. It's secret, but it's not "secret."SO... I was stubborn back in February of 2024 and assumed I'd draw a few more (and actually reach my goal of finishing 30 daily sketches instead of only 20), but I never did!
I never dropped this sketch I completed in February 17th of 2024. I will actually drop the somewhat edited version of this sketch here (I'll be less lazy and drop the edited version of other daily sketches here eventually).
It's of older Armando Rivera and Ranvir Chandrani, the dads of Blue Horizon! The first digital art I ever attempted was of them at 18 or 19, so it's interesting to see my slow progress thus-far by comparing them.
older armando and older ranvir respectively under a rose arch. the roses surrounding them are pink and darker pink upon a spring green arch. behind them are implied bushes with implied lavender-colored flowers and a grassy lane with flower petals implied to have fallen on the grass. armando with medium light brown skin is looking at ranvir a little shyly with a slight blush; he has black pomade hair back with a gray streak and a beard and a lopsided smile. he wears a white shirt with a purple tie and gray pants. ranvir with dark brown skin is speaking to him with a smile on his mouth and is relaxed; he has short gray hair and gray beard. he's wearing a white undershirt and blue lungi with aqua stripes falling like water.
close-up of older armando and older ranvir under the rose arch.I'm currently largely focusing on the upcoming Kickstarter and art I want to get done for that! So I haven't been sketching outside that much.
Due to this, here's a few comic sketches to give a better feel for my current art, from March 2024 onward (the last one is from late July 2024):
Antonio pulling Alejandro's arm against his chest, holding it. Antonio is smiling with furrowed brows at Alejandro while mostly submerged back against the ocean, with only his face and part of his head unsumbmerged. His shoulder-length blue hair is drifting in the water, and what's underneath the water is darker or bluish, including his diver-like dark blue suit, his skin and his hair.
Rajab looks back at someone with a serious gaze, silver eyes, dark brown skin and silver hair with a flowery white print shirt. The seas behind him look mystical and swirling. Antonio with his typical darker blue hair [within the comic] like waves looks brash with a sharp grin, with glowing red eyes and blood splashed on his skin. Fernando, who is identical to him except with [anime] dark violet hair with a flying braid, looks back at what looks like Antonio very seriously with his golden eye glowing and a small frown, wearing a red shirt and with his waves whirling behind him.Late October 2024 additions:
Leo seems to want to assure Khaleel he has his back, smiling very softly, while Khaleel is blushing heavily. Leo has his anime silver curly hair tied back and Khaleel has anime silver dreads. Leo is Spectral Viridian (spring green color) while Khaleel is Red. They both have dark brown skin, and Leo's is darker while Khaleel's is a bit lighter. Leo is wearing a bright pinkish red shirt and bright azure blue shorts, while Khaleel is wearing a gray-black sleeveless shirt.
Diego is trying to comfort Antonio's golden-eyed identical twin Fernando, sweating a bit while blushing and awkwardly conversing (implied). Fernando's tearful, with his feet to his chest and tears fallen on the hands on top of his knees. They're indoors sitting on a windowsill seat, and Fernando is wearing only an teal lungi with violet diamond patterns at the bottom while Diego wears a plaid shirt and gray jeans. Diego's skintone is light brown, while Fernando's skintone is medium brown. Diego has black hair that's pomaded back, while Fernando has dark violet hair that's implied to be black that has a braid hanging down in front of is chest. The clouds are gray outdoors and the wall or balcony door Diego holds onto is lavender.
The silver-eyed Raj Rivera is crying while glowing violet-eyed William is trying to comfort him, holding onto his arm while blushing heavily. William has long brown hair that's a little wavy, pale skin, and freckles. He wears an orange shirt with fuchsia v-neck lining and a fuchsia four-pointed star/sparkle on the chest. Raj has silver-white anime hair color and dark brown skin. The tears are noticeable on his face, even though he's smiling, and it spills over onto his black undershirt.
An anxious-looking Antonio with a pouty frown staring at the ceiling while lying in a lavender sheet-covered bed, head atop a pink pillow. He has dark blue hair like waves and dark brown skin, and his eyes are a glowing supernatural red. He wears a blue tanktop. This is the first art I ever did of Another Sky verse OCs, and is of the dads Ranvir Chandrani and Armando Rivera at 18 or 19~! (Book 1 starts with their story in Part 1 for reasons and loops back to its themes in Part 2 despite starring the Main 6 and their friends.) The flower is done by a brush by ▷流河 @ Clip Studio Assets (1765219). I stopped drawing for 15-ish years and this was the first digital art I made:
This was the next art; I wanted to sketch Ranvir in a lungi in front of a pond by his uni so I did that:
The next art is of the main 4! I got excited to draw them and remembered how perspective worked due to the sheer intensity of wanting to:
You and I through our lifetimes.
Aside from the first art gallery, the next art was this one of Ranvir, Armando and technically 8-year-old Antonio (I have realized he looks 5), which calls to a Part 1 subplot:
NEXT IS... the daily sketch era (this past week, ending on 1/08/24). 12 of them! Warning for blood in several of them and a vague suicide ideation TW in the last one.
There's one art I'm going to include with the below instead of up here despite creating it in July 2023.
No one worries about your purity except that fool.
[the scion of the sun, alejandro altaha.]
I think you already know, but truth is, everyone sees the blood all over you, Antonio Chandrani.
[the bearer of the moon-and-ocean, antonio chandrani-rivera.]
the pure and the impure, the impure and the pure.
[antonio chandrani rivera and alejandro altaha.]
they say there are angels in the darkest depths of the seas.
[extremely normal friends layla chandrani and alia (atif-)akinyemi.]
THIS NEXT ONE...
It's easier to watch you say things like "Everything will be fine," and "I'll ascertain it," from afar. It almost feels familiar.
[rivals alejandro altaha and antonio chandrani. spin-off this old art with antonio and his fraternal twin brother raj.]
IS BASED ON THIS ONE FROM JULY 2023:
When I was younger, I believed my older brother when he said, "It'll all be fine one day." The brotherly pair, Raj and Antonio.
[antonio down the stairs and his fraternal twin brother raj above.]
cats in the cradle and a rose for any who can love the moon
[antonio chandrani-rivera and his identical twin fernando chandrani-rivera facing away from each other. antonio is wearing a lungi because he's mixed fantasy counterpart south asian!]
and the beloved spoke, "i want a dream with you, antonio, not this hell you fall into."
[antonio chandrani-rivera. based part on the akira motorcycle scene and part on kali's bloodied feet imagery.]
musical synergy 🎶🎵💗💗💗🌊🌊
[layla chandrani.]
there's a whole ocean for you
[layla chandrani.]
fashionable guys in fashionable lungi (feat. antonio chandrani, dad ranvir chandrani, and raj chandrani…!)
note that triplets antonio and raj (and unseen fernando) have 2 dads.]
such softer love than what i remember.
[alejandro altaha's arm. reference.]
Week 2! This time, blood tw only for one of them, and it's the chibis art too, lol. The last one is also horror-oriented, though no blood or gore.
I drew 7 arts! Started 01/09 (I actually drew one), then took a week-long break, and then kept drawing till about 02/02/24. My goal is to draw 30 total to get drawing practice, so 11 more is all I really want. We'll see how that goes.
the truth is, you have no hero anywhere across the wretched planet.
[alejandro altaha looking up at a hologram screen featuring his rival, antonio chandrani-rivera.]
There they are--the princely two and the troublesome savior among the people.
[triplet brothers raj, fernando and antonio chandrani-rivera! inspired by a single line fernando says to antonio in my wip, as well as antonio's overall stress and mentality around fernando.]
was it so long ago?
[leo and khaleel, who are childhood friends. khaleel's braids are done by a brush by zoruhatuum on csp assets @ 2006057. they're the last two of the main 6 ocs (layla, antonio, alejandro, alia, khaleel and leo), so it was exciting to finally draw them!]
only for a little while... right?
[the dads ranvir chandrani and armando rivera. this is when they're 18 or 19 and based on a scene in the currently unreleased book 1 (though it is complete). will clean up this sketch further eventually.]
POV: antonio chandrani, 14, cannot read (love tells)
[antonio chandrani-rivera at 14 thinking about his boy best friends alejandro, kiran and rayan... he is canonically gay. this is based on a storyline in book 2, which is still in the works and definitely not released yet. while antonio definitely has love troubles in book 1, i didn't want the first art i ever did of leo and khaleel to involve antonio's love troubles.]
the silver brother and the eldest--the one they say is doing just fine.
[raj chandrani, the technically eldest brother among the chandrani triplets.]
UNFORTUNATELY AMONG THE FIVE OF US, THERE IS A SAVIOR OF HUMANKIND.
[the five main female (and nby) characters, with layla at the center. konna and alia are to the left of her while khalida and maria are to the right of her. this is based on a storyline in the unreleased book 1 with the theme of "savior."]