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icebrain.bsky.social
@icebrain.bsky.social
One of the warframe fan artists
Idk what my hands do half the time
#warframe
Ok I know having mesa as death seems strange, but she was made from alaid v and his infection strain.
But also, she's iconic to warframe, so why not make her a surprise death card. Death can be a surprise.
April 6, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Koumei pretty much speaks for herself with being fortune.
She's the second one I changed the helmet on and also a frame I have genuinely loved using. I love her threads of fate deal
April 6, 2025 at 7:15 AM
I stayed off from warframes on this card cause I wanted to just do a bit of a painter styler with the love card. Plus, why not have the Canon bisexual as the love card.
April 6, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Octavia almost didn't make it on here. Believe it or not, she was the 5th one drawn out but not to full detail until I learned more about what I was doing. I hated drawing her legs and coloring them. I did enjoy the lighting on this one where it looks like she has speakers in her stomach.
April 6, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Here's where I give titles, and this is when I made a slide show of the cards and who got what titles and what each one means when you draw them out the deck depending on the position they're in.
April 6, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Now I needed something to make make the cards interested besides just colors and textures, I needed dynamics. That led to loki and the visual of him kinda falling put of use in warframe, and I wanted to showcase that, which is why later on I chose I'm for the tower
April 6, 2025 at 7:15 AM
This is where I wanted to get more intentional with the borders and honestly, this is my favorite border I did
This is also where I use textures to blend colors together
Like I said, I used that break to learn some shit
April 6, 2025 at 7:15 AM
After that break, this is where I get into it with textures, better lighting, and a bit more of that storytelling on the cards and where I decided to make these into a tarot series. I didn't give them titles until I reached the Garuda card.
April 6, 2025 at 7:15 AM
I don't really have much to say when I was making Harow other than I took another break after drawing him for about 3 or 4 months.
April 6, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Now, this is the frame that broke me to finally take a break after much progression into my learning (much like how in tarot, the Fool is learning from the other major arcana cards)
April 6, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Here is when I started my process differently. You don't see it, but this is when I break the frames apart and focus on sections at a time.
April 6, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Go big or go home, and subtle is more can sometimes go hand in hand, and I feel like I captured that idea at this moment with frost.
Between the energy effects and lightning progression, I was getting more comfortable with digital art and using shortcuts to simplify what I want conveyed
April 6, 2025 at 7:15 AM
This is when I focused more on the frame itself than the background cause I was honestly burning put at this point.
This was also the start of making energy effects to make the frame pop in another way, which lead to new inspiration
April 6, 2025 at 7:15 AM
This was the first time I was asked to be featured on someone's stream (hi vec) and that's when things kinda escalated on how I presented my work and was happy it was paying off
The community that found me is kinda insane (in a good way)
I remember their reactions and was ecstatic to keep going.
April 6, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Around this time I was getting some decent views on my work.
Rhino was honestly pretty fun and the first to feature a weapon in the series. He's holding the lex. For the background, I just wanted a pop of color on him since he has a plane color scheme
April 6, 2025 at 7:15 AM
I only did three prime variations of the warframes cause I didn't like how their original looks were. That also lead me to get a little bit more into the backgrounds, which lead me to more brushes to use so you'll see different variations on what I do.
April 6, 2025 at 7:15 AM
One of my favorite frames actually is Oberon right after Xaku.
When I made his pose, I was thinking, "Let's make it sultry!" And well, now I have what seems to just be a horny Oberon, but nothing wrong with that.
April 6, 2025 at 7:15 AM
The next frame that came to be was Mirage, and I remember when finishing, I was like, "Yeah, this is a good phone background."

The borders on the frames weren't intentional at first, kinda just happened honestly cause this border was going to go on Gara.
April 6, 2025 at 7:15 AM
There are rough drafts of other frames I had the intentions of fleshing out cause these were originally going to be a magazine cover series instead of a tarot series.
April 6, 2025 at 7:15 AM
I decided to transfer to digital art since it was easier to send to my friend cause he's several states away from me.
Transferring to digital art was an experience, I'll say, since I traditionally do surrealism art with humans and plants.
There were many challenges in the beginning since I was new
April 6, 2025 at 7:15 AM