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experimenting with overlays + different layer modes with hiyori ❤

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ikuya: is this fashion

an answer to a question nobody asked (WHAT IF HIYORIS COAT ACTUALLY HAD A CHICK ON THE HOOD)

nagisa has given us great things 🙏

or, the free! version of what if fhq!kenma had cat ears on his hood

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i love asahi but i hate drawing his hair

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happy birthday kenma!!

my lines were so bad i just removed them but it works 👉👉

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cutie with canonical ponytail 👀

ikuya with a ponytail: 👌👀👌👀👌👀👌👀👌

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ikuya with a ponytail: 👌👀👌👀👌👀👌👀👌

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i desperately needed to practice side profile and i desperately wanted more of hiyoiku being soft af so here we are ❤❤ as always, click to see the full picture

also this is my submission for @lovefreeweek‘s day 1 prompt: How do they say “I love you”?

neither hiyori nor ikuya seem like they’d be very verbal in expressing their love, considering their personalities. imo they would do little things for each other, like this, and look really soft, which is actually what they do in canon, awww

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what a babe 😩❤❤❤

i just eyedropped hiyori’s hair color and lightened it for the background bc their hair colors are perfectly complementary how romantic is that yeah i've just gotten around to learning color theory

i’m actually really proud of this! for one, it’s the first time i’ve liked my lineart better than my sketch for a piece, and secondly, it shows how much i’ve improved since the last time I drew ikuya (~5 months ago). really motivating to me!! this is why i keep drawing

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BUT I THOUGHT THE FREE ANGST WAS OVER

FORMING THE PROTECT THOSE THAT HARU CARES ABOUT COALITION

NEW MEMBERS SIGN UP HERE: ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________

this foreshadowing is HORRIFYING and UNACCEPTABLE

interesting to speculate over though...

free! is about friendship and not that dark, so Haru’s going to choose his friends over swimming (but still win probably, because they are his strength, not his weakness) and nobody’s going to die (knock on wood)

most likely candidates for harm will be Makoto and Rin, since they are closest to haru

Rin fits the parallel best, especially considering the implication that Toraichi was the old friend of Ryuuji’s

however, Sousuke is coming back in 2020 and not letting him and Rin get their swimming reunion is way too mean, wtf

and Rin had an angsty first season

Makoto hasn’t had as much angst so far and he’s Haru’s oldest and closest friend

he isn’t a rival, like we’re assuming Ryuuji’s friend was, but he is a friend who is no longer competing, which also parallels closely

Ikuya is also a possibility, but unlikely because he’s had a hell of a season, and is seemingly being set up as a side character in the future, while Makoto and Rin are being brought to the forefront again

...then again, Kyoani’s already gone with a one-two punch of Ikuya-angst with High Speed! and Dive to the Future!

also Ikuya is vulnerable to incidents in the water, which are less likely to happen to either Makoto or Rin because they can breathe underwater

this might set Ryuuji up as an antagonist next season

however, his reaction to Haru skipping training to watch the nationals suggests he may in fact approve of Haru’s friendships

counterpoint: Ryuuji may be harsher because Haru failed to qualify for the 200m freestyle

counterpoint counterpoint: Ryuuji doesn’t blame friendships or anything after the race, instead telling Mikhail Haru hesitated because he was scared to reach his own limits and also Haru probably qualified for the 100m freestyle

or the antagonists could be Albert or Kinjou, since they must have given something up, according to Ryuuji, so they may apply more pressure onto Haru

tell me your thoughts, pls

that doesn’t mean hurting anybody is okay, KYOANI

GOD

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you could make a religion out of this 🙏🌊

original painting: Head Of The Madonna by Giovanni Battista Salvi, Il Sassoferrato

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i can’t find the original tweet abt voltron by lanceswifelol, it might’ve gotten deleted? if anyone has a link to it/the person who tweeted it, message me

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I can’t stop thinking about ………….him

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and this, class, is what we call a love triangle

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Official Twitter - August 19, 2018 *Last year: Here

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Y E S

theyre made for each other ok!!!

(larger version)

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it’s that water magicc

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I   S E E   N O   D I F F E R E N C E

i love that ikuya and tsukki have the same voice actor because their relationships with hiyori and yamaguchi, relatively, can be pretty freaking similar— loudmouthed redhead included.