#initial colors - DOWN

[shroomerr]

portrait study but its kenny

[dipndops]

Happy Valentine's Day!!!

Hi @potahun, I'm your gifter for the Heishin Valentine Exchange and I picked your Ghibli movie prompt and went with Howl's Moving Castle c:

@heishinvalentineexchange2025 Thank you for hosting the event! It has been super fun!!

Close ups and explanations below~

It took me a bit of time to figure out which character I wanted to be who, but I settled with Shinichi as Howl and Heiji as Sophie! I think the idea of Shinichi being an other worldly character like Howl isn't too far off from how he is depicted in canon. From an outsider's perspective, Shinichi seemingly has all the answers to the many cases he comes across. Especially with the way Heiji reveres Shinichi, it's not hard to see him as someone larger than life. (Also Shinichi transforming into a bird creature whenever he intervenes in the war kind of fits with how he transforms into Conan in canon as he investigates the Black Organization)

As for Heiji as Sophie, I feel that putting Heiji in a position where he becomes old can parallel his struggle with his family's (particularly his father) distrust in him being a teen detective. But in this case, Heiji initially fears that growing old hinders his ability to remain a detective. Throughout the course of the film, his fears would be assuaged as Heiji helps end the ongoing war in spite of his age.

Now for the art itself, originally I wanted to pick one scene to focus on so that I could combine this prompt with your Heishin whump prompt. But then I figured it would be neat to take inspiration from the movie's song Merry Go Round of Life. The large ring was intended to mimic the roof and rim of a merry-go-round. Like imagine the roof and then you squish it down (if that makes lol)! The rims on merry-go-rounds often feature a circular frame with images of landscapes within. For that, I recreated backgrounds from the movie.

Given the name of the song, I felt that I should recreate different scenes from the movie to show the progression of Heiji and Shinichi's lives (I would've drawn Heiji much older but I was just struggling on how to execute that properly TT-TT). From right to left the scenes are; Shinichi intervenes in the war; Heiji views the meadow Shinichi shared with him; baby Shinichi cronches on a star; Heiji watches the parade celebrating the war effort; and Shinichi stares fondly at Heiji within the castle.

Anyways, have some bonus doodles I made while working on this piece to keep me sane c:

(^ this is my celebratory doodle that I drew right after I submitted the artwork. I'm going to hibernate now thanks LMAO)

[salt-n-salt]

(sniper dot appears on my forehead) hi guys

[perigilpin]

and if I said I started rendering that one Jen x Agatha piece in honest?

[aetalk]

[slumbergoblin]

Hi Mei :)

[kitpine]

He's here to remind you of what you've done, Scott. Or would you like to indulge- forget it all again?

After a moment's consideration: here he is without the background

[dksartz]

Little Blue Dreams

Acrylic on panel 6x6"

Reference from thekangaroosanctuary on insta from their video on Pippa the Joey's first steps. Sketched the kangaroo while watching the video, then sketched out the baby dragon based on that.

Young Blue pernese dragon in an abstract purple-red space.

[ducktracy]

crazy idea: watching every single Looney Tunes short in chronological order... but skipping all the Merrie Melodies (or vice versa). Especially if one were to continue doing this post-Looney Tunes switching to color and the distinctions between the two series cease.

IT'S FUNNY YOU BRING THIS UP because there was a point in time where i seriously considered tagging/separating my posts by series and was like. no. that would be IMPOSSIBLE TO SEARCH. the LT/MM distinction is so fascinating to me, but especially after the LTs switch to color and thusly reduce ANY difference between the two. i have no idea how they determined which fell into the LT category and which in the MM... i don't think "Bugs should only ever be in the more prestigious Merrie Melodies" was as much of a concern after the switch to color?? i have no idea. something for me to pay attention to as i continue to carve each cartoon inside and out!

all of my top 5 LT cartoons fall into the actual Looney Tunes series... in spite of Daffy Doodles getting a Blue Ribbon reissue and making the universe think it was a Merrie Melody by proxy. that is ANOTHER fascinating phenomenon. so i guess if i were to choose, it'd probably be that.. especially since the LTs used to be reserved for starring characters only, so that takes out the problem of drowning in samey song and dance shorts through the mid '30s. but.. at the same time.. you can't use those song and dance cartoons as an escape from the violent mediocrity that are the Buddy cartoons HAHA

[itsays]

also if you ever think im too critical of kpop groups just know that is how i am about every interest ever

[grimmjowjaegerjaquez]

thinking about changing uriel's resurreccion from the. pavo real/fenix idea i had and just makin him paloma instead.

[crabbling]

[asjjohnson]

I bought a small travel mug yesterday with a $5 store credit. It's black with the letter S on it.

I'm not sure what the S means.

My first choice was actually a green mug with the letter B on it, but I like the letter S more than the letter B.

I figured if I got the green one I'd forever feel weird about the random letter B on it, but I can live with the letter S.

[wyzeowl-jubylee]

Isolde, Cleric of Norgorber. She jumped in (literally from the second floor balcony) to help our party fend off attackers when we got caught up in a murder scene at the bar. Never mind that she was the true culprit behind the murder in the first place.

She continues to pull strings behind the scenes and terrorize our party to this day. She could be anywhere at any time. Watching. Listening. Collecting all of your secrets.

Haas (inspecting the mug the now very dead loan shark drank from): Poison.

Isolde (nonchalantly): Poor shmuck. No clue how it could have happened.

Haas (narrowed eyes): You sure you don’t know anything about this?

Isolde (smirk): Now why would you say that?

To be honest, she gave me just as much trouble when I was sketching her as she does in game. My search list from this endeavor is lengthy.

“Court of black paper”

“Bloodborne choir”

“King bumi”

“Greyson arcane”

“Dark dnd character”

“Female bodybuilder”

“Female body builder side profile”

“Quaker outfit”

“Person holding smoking pipe”

“Medieval smoking pipe”

“Matted hair”

“Old woman”

IDs:

Sketches of an old woman with a scar from her chin to her right cheekbone, clefting her lip. She is drawn in layered robes similar to the bloodborne choir and wears boots and elbow length gloves. Other sketches from neck up and chest up vary her facial structure and messy style of her hair.

Drawn poses of a muscled female figure from the front and side. In some she holds a smoking pipe, only one gives her a face. One note above a sketch reads “posture???”

A finished sketch of the old woman smiling menacingly, now cloaked and holding a smoking pipe, Pathfinder Society badge on her belt. Matted hair frames her face, the scar clefting her lip is prominent. Lighter sketches of her with her hood drawn up and sitting with one leg crossed over the other are on the side.

[ifjgh]

Bonus Poses

While I was designing the Main 8, I gave each of them a little side bust/pose/thing on the ref sheet. Decided to just throw em all on one post since they aren't high effort are super important, some of them are just silly.

[snekdood]

so august 2018 is when my peak being-crazy-made art craziness happened, huh