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DVMNINKTOBER Day 10 Satan

So I've been slowly, slowly been working my through this year's Devilman Inktober by nozoshii created for the community https://www.tumblr.com/nozoxshii/763169423585673216/i-made-a-devilman-inktober-prompt-list-for-the?source=share

The tenth day is Satan! And one of the days I was looking forward to making the most, not just because Ryo/Satan is one my fave characters of the devilman series but also I have been wanting to make a Satan fanart piece based on this painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence, "Satan summoning his Legions" https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/how-to-read-it-thomas-lawrence-satan

When I first saw this painting I was so inspired and wanted to draw Satan riding on Caliorruar and rallying the demon army as they go to fight against Heaven! This was a hard one to do, because well I really tried to make the pose as close as possible to the Sir Thomas Lawrence painting but ofc Satan doesn't use a spear so I had to use myself as reference for how the left arm was meant to look. Also I wanted to make the shading on Caliorruar look like how Go Nagai did in the original 70s manga, and I played around with different inking brushes to get that effect. I also added a piece of cloth to wrap around Satan, one to censor his nudity but also give this piece a classical painting kind of look too.

I wasn't sure how this was going to look at first until I started adding on the shading and now I'm really pleased with how its come out!

phew that was a lot but I'm making progress, the next art batch is going to be mostly different versions of the day 11 prompt: fav ship/duo and given that I have quite a few ships I dearly love, I am going to be making quite a few versions of this prompt! XDD

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DVMNINKTOBER Day 9 Sabbath

So I've been slowly, slowly been working my through this year's Devilman Inktober by nozoshii created for the community https://www.tumblr.com/nozoxshii/763169423585673216/i-made-a-devilman-inktober-prompt-list-for-the?source=share

The ninth day is Sabbath! The Sabbath scene in Devilman is one of the most famous parts of the whole series and its one I really enjoy because it has a lot of foreshadowing for what happens later in the series, i.e Ryo causes problems and the people at the party focus on beating the shit out of him rather than just restraining him and helping those he has injured. And because the partygoers are stuck in the mob mentality they attack Akira when he tries to help Ryo rather than just ignoring him or moving him away from the scene. And because the party was more geared towards violence and losing themselves to it, its what lead them to becoming merged with demons and the Sabbath turning into a true blood bath! It funny enough hints at the later horrors of the fifth volume...

The Sabbath scenes in Devilman adaptions are normally filled with debauchery, the partygoers seemingly only living for the moment and to be unfortunate sacrifices for Akira's and Ryo's mission. The OVA version of the Sabbath is my personal fave because of the colour scheme its so lovely and fun honestly! But I do think Crybaby's Sabbath scene sells the debauchery element very well and there are so great colours in that scene too!

The Sabbath scene is also a great host of demonic violence and Akira's triumph in mastering over Amon and becoming a devilman!

But that's not what I decided to make for this prompt, I decided to show what the Sabbath likely looked like before Akira and Ryo go down to the basement, a place where normal partygoers danced, drank, did drugs and loved the night away. Again this really highlights that these were normal people who died so Akira could become Devilman, regardless if it was to save only Akira or to save the world this cost an entire hoard of humans to do it.

I was originally going to make this in black and white but when I showed this to devilmanz666 he had mentioned that he thought the colours for this piece was going to be pretty cool with all of the coloured lights that are present in the sabbath scenes and I thought why not have this inktober piece be the one with the most colour. I think it really helps the partygoers to stand out more so thank you devilmanz666 for giving me that idea! :D

I'm pretty pleased with how this came and it was fun to make too!

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DVMNINKTOBER Day 8 Crybaby

So I've been slowly, slowly been working my through this year's Devilman Inktober by nozoshii created for the community https://www.tumblr.com/nozoxshii/763169423585673216/i-made-a-devilman-inktober-prompt-list-for-the?source=share

The eighth day of the prompt is Crybaby! And oh man this an adaption I have the most mixed feelings for! I've watched it twice now and honestly while I don't love Crybaby, I can't bring myself to hate it for all it tried to do, I really feel like the rushed pace and it only being ten episodes long did not do this series any favors. Also hated how they treated Sirene but I'd rather bog this description down with all of the things I feel the series has done wrong. And I think having the series set in modern times makes a lot of sense since sadly violence, hatred of the other and war are timeless

I do like some of the things the creators added to crybaby, the rappers, Miko, how they dealt with social media and news being a tool that could destroy or give hope in dark times, and honestly given how things are in the world it is horribly relevant more so than ever! I also loved the music, honestly its my fave thing about crybaby, the soundtrack slaps hard, and is so fitting for its time period (just like how the OVAs' and the Amon OVA's OST are so fitting for their time periods too!) and I love to listen to it a lot!

I did enjoy some of the wacky demon designs even if they weren't the wonderfully detailed ones I normally like, they are at least fun to look at. Psycho Jenny's design in Crybaby is one of my faves honestly, and I had a lot of fun drawing it here for this picture! Also Miki's death scene broke my heart, okay, I keep being in tears while I was watching it, that was roughhh and I did like the final battle, the music and the emotions were really hyped in my opinion.

Speaking of this picture, this one was a little tricky to make but I wanted to again play with composition, and playing around with different textures and shading. Also while Crybaby Satan's design isn't my personal fave I did have a lot of fun drawing him too, especially his wings, they are more simple looking than the Amon OVA's design of Satan but a little more detailed than the manga version of Satan, so it was an interesting challenge to find the right balance.

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DVMNINKTOBER Day 7 OVA

So I've been slowly, slowly been working my through this year's Devilman Inktober by nozoshii created for the community https://www.tumblr.com/nozoxshii/763169423585673216/i-made-a-devilman-inktober-prompt-list-for-the?source=share

The seventh day prompt is the OVA and I have to say that the 87-90 adaption of Devilman is one my favorite version of Devilman, its right up there with the manga and its because it is despite some changes it is extremely close to the manga's plot and honestly I think it really improved on some things too! The art style and the animation of the OVAs was truly godtier, like I cannot express enough how beautiful it is to watch, the use of colour that used to bring the horrific demons of Go Nagai's creation was masterful! The music is amazing and oh my gosh the demon bird arc was beautifully adapted in the OVA!

Like no joke it was so well done, I love how it starts off with Jinmen and Akira having to battle with the fact he can't always save everyone including his own mother and ends with him barely surviving his grand fight with Sirene! Honestly the OVAs do a lovely job with showing subtly Akira's morals break down little by little when he is introduced to violence and honestly if the OVAs had been able to be finished I am convinced that we would've seen Akira fully break down and abandon humanity in the final OVA part, I mean he does in the Drama CD so there's that at least.

But back to the demon bird arc, I utterly adore how the OVA did Sirene, she is powerful and yet shows some vulnerabilities as she battles with Akira for to avenge Amon's soul and man she really is his equal in so many ways, if Akira had made one wrong move he could've been torn apart by Sirene!

So for this picture I wanted to center Sirene a lot more and have Akira and Ryo be the more looming evil presence surrounding her, since in Sirene's POV they are the villains of her story. This was a hell of a test of my composition skills and honestly this batch of arts I'm gonna be throwing your way is all about me stretching myself when it comes to composition. XD

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DVMNINKTOBER Day 6 Fave DVMN

So I've been slowly, slowly been working my through this year's Devilman Inktober by nozoshii created for the community https://www.tumblr.com/nozoxshii/763169423585673216/i-made-a-devilman-inktober-prompt-list-for-the?source=share

The sixth day is your fave devilman and I chose to draw Miko! I really like Miko from the manga and the Amon OVA, and I feel she is criminally underused honestly, which is a shame cause there is something to be said about a devilman like her who has to keep her truth self even more hidden compared to Akira. Miko is able to hidden the growth that gives her acid spitting powers underneath her clothes but she can't just show her true self to just anybody and the growth itself gives her horrific body dysphoria and at first she had believed that it was a punishment from God for her thieving ways and when she accidentally killed the girls harnessing her for quitting stealing for them she was gaslit into believing she deserved the abuse the scientists were doing to her during their experiments.

It wasn't until Akira rescued her and told her that she wasn't a demon but a devilman because she has a heart of a human that she started to not hate herself so much. Also shout out to the liveaction movie for doing one thing right in having Miki make Miko feel better about her new appearance and giving her the strength to go on in the end.

But yeah I wish more Devilman media did more with Miko and allow her to be a badass more (I'm looking at you Amon OVA that was bs!) and have more interaction with the cast more.

I went for something a little simple here but hopefully impactful for Miko, I wanted the focus to be all about her.

Again given how bad my back is still and how busy I am, I know the next batch of the Devilman Inktober is going to take a bit and I know I won't be able to do all of this within October! XD So I'll continue this for however it takes for me to get through this prompt list since I do really want to finish this even if it takes me through into the new year to do so! XD

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DVMNINKTOBER Day 5 Fave Demon

So I've been slowly, slowly been working my through this year's Devilman Inktober by nozoshii created for the community https://www.tumblr.com/nozoxshii/763169423585673216/i-made-a-devilman-inktober-prompt-list-for-the?source=share

The fifth day is your favorite demon and between a lot of great demons in Devilman, I have to go for my man Zennon, the King of Demons!!! I never expected for Zennon to grow on me but when I had reread Devilman again in 2022 I noticed how much Zennon began to intrigue me since we know so little about him in the series and reading Violence Jack and finding out that the Slum King was a reborn version of Zennon intrigued me further. Zennon is so powerful and mysterious, we know so little about him despite him being Satan's second in command and as revealed in the Devilman Lady manga he and Satan are merged together and that's why Zennon has a female head on his left shoulder! Zennon is forever loyal to Satan in all ways, but he isn't afraid to call him out for falling in love with Akira. And yet when he was reborn as the Slum King he was downright vindictive in his cruelty towards Ryo/Satan(as Satan had wanted but only to him and no-one else) as though despite not remembering who he was he wanted Ryo/Satan to suffer for what he had allowed to happen in the Demon VS Devilman war.

Zennon also has an amazing design, Go Nagai clearly based his design of Zennon on Satan/Lucifer from Dante Alighieri's epic narrative poem, The Divine Comedy, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_Comedy You can see how Zennon has three heads just like Satan/Lucifer has in Dante's Inferno https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_Comedy#/media/File:Lucifer_from_Petrus_de_Plasiis_Divine_Comedy_1491.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante%27s_Satan and I think that's extremely fun hoenstly!

We don't know a lot about Zennon personally so its allowed me to play around with a lot of headcanons with him in my verse and honestly it is a ton of fun to play this demon king like a doll! XD

I wanted to draw Zennon towering over the city like he does in the manga when he first shows, it really sells to you how much of a powerful presence he is the way he projects his image around the world to announce to humanity that the demons intend to take back the Earth! Quite a fearsome force to be reckoned with!

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DVMNINKTOBER Day 4 Fave Character

So I've been slowly, slowly been working my through this year's Devilman Inktober by nozoshii created for the community https://www.tumblr.com/nozoxshii/763169423585673216/i-made-a-devilman-inktober-prompt-list-for-the?source=share

The fourth day is your favorite character and I think you alllll know who is my fave in all of Devilman! XD and I've written a lot on the day 2 picture about how much I love about the original version of Ryo/Satan and his importance to the series! For this picture I thought I'd show the two different sides of Ryo/Satan, the human who has the weight of his father's frightening inheritance on his shoulders and the fallen angel who schemes to bring about the end of humanity, both are fighting for the Earth they love so much but in the end it was all for nothing...

I had a lot of fun making this even though drawing the earth was kind of challenging for me XD

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Commissions Closed

Hello, I just wanted to update everyone that I won’t be able to take anymore commissions until after the new year due things in my life getting a lot busier and also me needing to take better of my health, especially since I have recently had some health issues to deal with.

I will still posting my own art from time to time when I can.

Thank you all for your support, and I hope you are all doing well yourself. :3

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DVMNINKTOBER Day 3 Miki

So I've been slowly, slowly been working my through this year's Devilman Inktober by @nozoxshii created for the community https://www.tumblr.com/nozoxshii/763169423585673216/i-made-a-devilman-inktober-prompt-list-for-the?source=share

The third day is Miki, another important yet unused character in the Devilman series, which is a shame since her death series is crucial part of how the conflict between Akira and Ryo began! I really love Miki as a character and I have to admit its mostly from her manga version, she was fun, spunky and sometimes a little violent but also just a normal teenage girl who just wanted to be with Akira and did not deserve the awful fate at the hands of the mob and is a huge reminder to us that when horrible things happen, such as witchhunts, innocent people will always get caught up in it all and suffer the price horribly! Miki is often used as a symbol of Akira's humanity and his ties to it, which is all fine and all but I wish more creators would remember that Miki is a human being with her own life and really highlight what a horrible thing it is to be put on such pedestal or at least examine what it means to be put on a pedestal like that and what it would do to someone like Miki if she knew that because of her death Akira gave up on saving humanity. Again I think Miki's story is extremely tragic an important story to remember.

So since Miki's last appearance in the manga has her wearing a black and white dress, I thought it would make sense to have the background to be a mix of Akira's and Ryo's flipped, merged together and adjusted to fit Miki more. Also I wanted to draw Miki when she was at her most badass even if in the manga it didn't last long, it was still awesome to see her throw molotov cocktails and stab her foes with a knife as she tried to fight for her life from the mob. We can pretend here that she's here to kick ass alongside Akira and Ryo in her own way. :3

Btw if you like what you see and want a commission drop me a direct message on tumblr, instagram, a note on deviantart or artistree https://artistree.io/missn11

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DVMNINKTOBER Day 2 Ryo

So I've been slowly, slowly been working my through this year's Devilman Inktober by @nozoxshii created for the community https://www.tumblr.com/nozoxshii/763169423585673216/i-made-a-devilman-inktober-prompt-list-for-the?source=share

Second day is Ryo, another important part of the Devilman series, and honestly in my opinion, Devilman just isn't the same without Ryo/Satan's presence! I decided to draw the manga version of Ryo/Satan because he is my favorite version of the character aside from the OVA and Amon OVA version of him, I love how Ryo went from Akira's best friend and his shady guide into the world of demons to his ally in the fight against the demons to his greatest foe, and I also love how it turned out that Ryo/Satan was in love with Akira and that he had wanted to give him the strength to be able to survive in the world of demons. I also love that Satan himself is in my mind a fallen hero turned villain, he stood up for the demons and fought for their freedom when God wanted to destroy them because they displeased him, but then was unable to let go of his hatred towards humanity for what they had done to the earth and plotted their ruin. Even when Ryo/Satan ended up falling in love with Akira, he still couldn't bring himself to see the good in humanity and see that not all of humanity was to blame for what was happening to the earth, and that they were deserving to live as well. He never realised until it was too late and he had lost everything he loved, the earth, the demons and of course, Akira, only then did he finally admit to himself and Akira that he was wrong. Again like Akira's story, Ryo/Satan's story is a very important to see play out and to remember to not become the very thing you swore to fight against.

I had fun making this image and I wanted the first three days of the prompt to match well, I used the background I had made for Akira and flipped it and inverted it to make it look different since Akira's colours are often dark and Ryo/Satan is often bathed in light colours or white, to symbolize their differences.

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DVMNINKTOBER Day 1 Akira

So I've been slowly, slowly been working my through this year's Devilman Inktober by @nozoxshii created for the community https://www.tumblr.com/nozoxshii/763169423585673216/i-made-a-devilman-inktober-prompt-list-for-the?source=share

prompt, we wouldn't have Devilman without him! I chose to draw the manga version of Akira since he is my favorite version of the character aside from the OVA version, I love how Akira is both a decent person who has some screwed up qualities thanks to him having merged with Amon. He went from a conflict-avoidant coward to feeling powerful for the first time in his life and because of that he was losing himself more and more to violence. When Akira lost what kept his humanity in check, i.e Ryo betraying him and turning out to be Satan and losing Miki and her family, Akira left humanity to die and chose to try to take his revenge on Ryo/Satan at the cost of the lives of his devilman army and his own life. Akira's story is very tragic and one I think is very important to see play out.

So this image was very fun to make, I had been away from drawing not only cause I was busy with studying but two weeks ago I had hurt my back badly and couldn't draw for a week and this was the first thing I drew when I was starting to feel better. Though I am not 100% better and cannot spend time drawing for very long and will have to watch myself from now on.

Btw if you like what you see and want a commission drop me a direct message on tumblr, instagram, a note on deviantart or artistree https://artistree.io/missn11

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Alma

I'm back with another commission for TheMightyNanto, this time of Alma from the 2004 version of Ninja Gaiden. Alma is the twin sister of the heroine Rachel and they are afflicted with a blood curse that turns humans into fiends, and since Alma has lost her humanity, Rachel seeks to kill her sister to redeem her soul. 😭

Alma from what I've gathered is known to be a very hard boss amongst the Ninja Gaiden community too! Give how powerful and imposing she seems to be I can believe that!

Many thanks for TheMightyNanto for commissioning me to draw Alma, I am pleased to have gotten the chance to draw such a beautiful and interesting designed character, honestly she looks like she could be right at home in the devilman universe! XD

Btw if you like what you see and want a commission drop me a direct message on tumblr, a note on deviantart or artistree https://artistree.io/missn11

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One day you'll awaken to a world worthy of you

And here we end this Satan/Zennon themed art dump on a sad note. So Satan has been sealed in a crystal and Zennon longs for his Venus. How did Satan get sealed in there? Was it by God? By Satan's own will? Or someone entirely? You decide!

But yeah this was a little bit challeging since I've never done crystal like textures before but I think it came out nicely.

Btw if you like what you see and want a commission drop me a direct message on tumblr, instagram, a note on deviantart or artistree https://artistree.io/missn11

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Akira, come to me, your True King!

So I thought it would be fun to make a different version of the True Demon King merge form I had come up with for Satan/Zennon. The Original is based on the Amon OVA vesion of Satan.

And this one is based on the Crybaby designs for Satan and Zennon, and this was quite fun to make, sometimes I need to play around with art styles to relax and well, I always find drawing the True Demon King form a delight for me! XD I was hoping to make other versions of this merged form using the other adaptions designs of Satan and Zennon but I ran out of time so I guess it'll have to be another time XD

Btw if you like what you see and want a commission drop me a direct message on tumblr, instagram, a note on deviantart or artistree https://artistree.io/missn11

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Tearful Reunion

Hellooo everyone its been a while since I've posted art, I've just been so busy with private commissions and getting myself ready for my courses so I haven't had much time to do much art lately. But I have managed to make some pieces, and they are all Satan/Zennon themed since I have been neglecting drawing them!

Here we have Zennon being reunited with his beloved Satan after being away from each other for so long. While Satan is the most powerful out of the two of them, I think he does enjoy how big Zennon is compared to him and being held by his Demon King is a delight. I'd imagine that Zennon doesn't want to admit it but he does find Satan's human form quite cute in how he can hold him in the palm of his hand quite easily! 🤭

Btw if you like what you see and want a commission drop me a direct message on tumblr, instagram, a note on deviantart or artistree https://artistree.io/missn11

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Life updates in regards to commissions

Hello, I just wanted to give you all an update as things in my life have started to change quite a bit! So I've started a long Maths and English course and that's going to take up a lot of my time, if not at class, I'll be having to do studying and homework and that's quite a life adjustment for me. And there are other commitments coming up that are also going to make my life busier too.

And at this time of getting adjusted to my new schedule, I feel that it might be best for me to not take on commissions that are more complex, i.e commissions with really complex backgrounds and transformation sequences, for example.

So I might also not be posting as often as I used to, I do have some art waiting to be posted but I wanted to do another piece before I post them, so hopefully I'll be posting again in a few days. But after that art dump I'm likely going to be posting less art as I'll have less time to make art compared to before.

Hopefully, things will ease or I'll adjust a lot better and I'll be able to work on more complex commissions again though likely at a more slower rate compared to my normal turnaround rate, but I cannot at this time give you all a time-frame for when that will be.

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Demons Better Run

I'm back with a commission for TheMightyNanto of a picture of his favorite Devilman battle couple Akira and Jun looking quite fearsome for any demon that encounters them! The background is very much inspired by the backgrounds of the Devilman Lady anime intro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtO0TMgqb8M

Many thanks to TheMightyNanto for commissioning me for this on this very fun and colourful piece! Its always fun to draw Akira and Jun being buff and powerful in their Devilman forms and I loved playing with the colours of the background for the shading and highlight of this piece too!