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Détail de « La Veuve », par Anders Zorn, ca. 1882/3.

Detail of "The Widow", by Anders Zorn, ca. 1882/3.

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Les Ondines

Antoine Calbet

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As much as I would love for narumitsu to be Canon, I just don't feel like it's ace attorney style to heavily explore cutesy romance stuff. It would feel a bit odd I think to have a game where they have a romance arc as aa is not a dating sim 😭

However I think it's absolutely hilarious if they come out with a new game where they just sorta don't ever substantially say it but it's obvious what's going on.

Ways they could make Narumitsu Canon that I think are funny:

-One of the locations is called "My Apartment" whilst you're playing as Phoenix, and when you go there sometimes Edgeworth is just like... sat on the sofa drinking tea and you're just meant to accept it. (alternatively. You are able to play as both Phoenix and Edgeworth at some point and both of them go to the same "my apartment")

- They put wedding rings on their sprites and never ever elaborate on it.

-There's an almost hidden piece of dialogue that you only get when you fail spectacularly where Edgeworth gets smug and Phoenix thinks "That's it. I am so going to divorce him when we get home" or something sarcastic along those lines. That's the only time it's mentioned.

-There's a case where there are two people in love and Maya is like "Nick you must be so lonely you haven't dated anyone in years. All you do is hang out with Mr Edgeworth all the time >:( " and Phoenix just thinks "Yeah. There's a reason for that" and that's it. You're meant to infer wtf that means.

-Larry complains about being a third wheel once when with Phoenix and Edgeworth.

-Edgeworth's office has a tiny nearly illegible photo that is clearly just a wedding picture of the two of them. You click on it and Phoenix is like "As nice as this day was, did he really have to use the photo where I'm blinking??"

-You present a ring as evidence to Edgeworth and he says something along the lines of "Interesting. It almost reminds me of the one you gave me, Wright"

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Evening dress, c.1810 by unknown designer

this dress is made of silk and net and covered in leaf-like embroidery.

this dress can be found in: the metropolitan museum of art

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Illustrations from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein by Bernie Wrightson (1983)

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir - "Julie Manet with Cat (detail)" (1877)

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Design for a wall decoration with peacock, cranes, and sunflowers for the restaurant in Hotel Langham (Paris), Emile Hurtré and Jules C. Wielhorski, 1896-1898, pen and black, blue, and metallic ink, watercolor, over graphite.

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From source: Three Glass Eyes in their Storage Box. Blown glass prosthesis. Beginning of the 20th century. Small comfort mirror to help the setting. Box in black leather, blue velvet interior. Box dimension: Length 11.5 cm - Width 4cm - Height 1.5cm.    

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Evening dress, 1912, England.

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Brown Silk Gown

1910-1919

Unknown Designer

HCC Fashion Archive

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Dress

about 1900

unknown designer

Museum of Applied Arts Vienna

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Dress, 1890. Emile Pingat.

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hi hello i absolutely love the comic i have no big long novel to write i just wanna say i am absolutely OBSESSED with phoenix's dimples they're so cute that is all

Noted, thank you, have a nice day x)

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Hi! I just wanted to pop in to say this! I was recently re-reading deciphering for the like 5th time, and while I could go on forever about everything from the writing and concept to the backgrounds, etc, etc, i wanted to shout out how you draw faces? Oh my godddddd you're incredible. The emotions and expressions you make throughout the comic are so fantastic. Its so seamless that I didnt notice the first couple times. However, art ive recently experienced changes how I act (which i do all the time to myself) and I noticed myself replicating the more intense, distinct facial expressions in your drawings. It almost feels cartoonish in how distinct the expressions you do are and how you focus on them (not in a childish way, in a "focused on the emotions and therefore the body language because its not live action" way) which is just so so so much fun. The emphasis you put on expressing the emotions of the characters outside of dialogue through faces and imagery-- which i won't go into here but oh my god know that I love you for that, i love imagery-- is what makes this one of the best comics I've ever read.

Anyway I love you so much thank you for making your art!!!!

Aww, thank you. Let me tell you...

I don't know if there are thousands, but I make hundreds of photo references for every chapter for expressions, body language, angles and lighting. And as I am a closest thing I have to reference, I feel like currently I have more photos of myself than an average instachick x) Gosh, it's a forth year I'm drawing this comic and it's still mostly flying talking heads spread on a page x) So yeah, I'm referencing my face a lot. I'd say I do it too much and for the next comic I should do more diverse characters that look less like me (literary) and push myself to find more references, buuuuuut... right now it goes as it goes, let me finish it as it is. Welp, and I'm having fun with what I have, day work is hard enough right now x') It's also fun though to transform myself into a guy.

Yeah, I'm making some part of the process plain easier for myself x) But still, yeah, exaggerating expressions even with photorefs is just a skill.

Man, it's funny that a sneaky photo here is still more expressive than a drawing, huh xD My bad, should have push it more.

Same method goes to Miles, though he is just not as goofy as I go with my version of Phoenix x) He's mostly a drama boi and I try to act like this.

Though, of course, he also has silly his moments x)

As a past friend of mine once told me, comic artists are just lazy animators. When I fully became one, I could not agree more x) Yes, it's not animated, so I share a comic philosophy that every frame should tell as much as it could no matter the style. Welp, my style is both semi-realistic and cartoony in a sense, so I guess I'm taking the best from both worlds? Don't know. I just like how it goes :3

And it's just fun x)