#livmadart

[hypermoyashi]

Hi! About your recent post, i wanted to stop in and say that i followed you after absolutely binging make it to daybreak!! I was super impressed by how you honored both the trigun and demon slayer worlds so perfectly :)

Hello hello! Thank you so much for the kind words!! I didn't make the post just to get nice words on my stuff (I've found sometimes reminding the fandom they can channel fandom passion into positive things rather than negative ones is good to do every now and then as I see more and more negative/complaints around, which tends to happen when there's no new content for a while), though I definitely appreciate it jkengjkre Demon Slayer and Trigun are both series I like a lot, so I'm happy to hear my Trigun fic came across well!

Also, as a bonus, tomorrow is the fic's one year anniversary, and the day I'm planning on posting the next chapter!

I also really like what I've seen of your DCMK stuff!! Honestly I've only briefly skimmed through it so far, but it seems really neat! I definitely need to dig through it a little bit--I was considering rewatching some magic kaito stuff, and if I do, I'll definitely check out your stuff!

[hexfloog]

Hi!! For the choose violence ask game…..22?

HI LIV HIII

for @astravis too since they picked the same question !!

22. your favorite part of canon that everyone else ignores

!! salt warning !!

i'll be a little unpredictable here and say "sonoko." i think she's slept on the hardest, which is especially surprising as she hails from the OG cast??

easily my favorite thing about her is that she's pretty blunt about what she wants and isn't afraid to tell anyone what she thinks, including her own mother, after whom she clearly takes. there's just no bullshit about her, which in this franchise, is like the biggest gulp of fresh air ever, considering our titular character has been out here living the biggest lie on earth for the last 30 real-life years and sucking everyone around him into it for just as long

she can often come off as insensitive and her behavior sometimes straddles the line between candid and rude, but she's an overall confident girl who compliments ran nicely in her particular brand of honesty, all while remaining relatively humble about her wealth (and using it productively). when's the last time sonoko used her money buying people or leveraging it in exchange for popularity or favors like the vast majority of beika's dead heirs and heiresses and CEOs. her friendship and dedication to ran, combined with her resources, are a catalyst for a huge chunk of this show's misadventures and most of the time she just provides of her own volition (or by request) or extends invitations without asking for anything in return (at least, nothing a regular person wouldn't ask of a friend). like whyyyyy are we sleeping on this girl she's the GOAT. compare against someone like momiji, who feels a bit like the result of someone writing sonoko on an off day.

i think her confidence is often conflated with arrogance-- god forbid a teenage girl be genuine-- and while she can be a bit of an airhead on occasion, i just think it makes her human. too many characters on this show suffer from... being narrative favorites, we'll say, but sonoko is fairly balanced even if, in all fairness, she has the advantage of not being in the spotlight all that often.

interestingly, i also think kogoro is a similarly human character, but unlike sonoko i'm of the opinion he's been flanderized to high hell. so there's that.

i know at least part of the negative (or even lackadaisical) sentiment around her, if it exists in any meaningful amount, can probably be attributed to general fandom misogyny, but that's not specific to detco. though i do think it's exacerbated by... well, that whole 'narrative favorite' thing i mentioned earlier. double standards and whatnot.

there is probably something to be said about her relationship with makoto but. makoto is almost everything sonoko asked for in a boyfriend, and whether you agree with what she was looking for in one is irrelevant, the point is is that she got it. she can definitely do better in chasing KID but iirc this was sort of 'resolved' by showing he's more of the object of her fangirl affectations as opposed to a legitimate, romantic pursuit.

anyway i love sonoko and it's a bit harder to pin down why (that's why i took so long on this one sorry sorry sorry) than, say, conan, but overall i think we as a fandom tend to just forget about her in the sea of other characters. she's an OG gem and honestly i wish we had more of her outside her behind-the-scenes relevance to canon.

thanks for the asks both of you <3 ask game

[teallicht]

Happy birthday!!! Here is a quick sketch present for you!!! Hope you have a great day!

omg my favorite lil creature!!!!! thank you liv!!!! ;v;♡

[snoozeeroo]

Hiiii!! Your Pokémon au art is living in my head!!! How do you feel about others making fanart for it? With credit of course!! No worries if not, your work is just so lovely :)))

Hello! I'd be absolutely honored if anyone enjoyed my crossover well enough to consider drawing it! Please tag me if you ever end up drawing it, or any AU of your own for that matter, as I'd be so excited to see! ^_^) 💓

I'm so glad you enjoy my AU, thank you for sharing this with me! I hope you're having a wonderful day/night! ⭐️

[shrunkenbrat]

Congrats on the one year blog anniversary!!!

Thank you! I'm really glad to be here ^_^ ❤️

[usbongph]

PhilNITS Oct 2022A IP61M: Service Level Agreement (SLA)? | Answer with Explanation

[usbongph]

@livmadart, I'd go with "YuYu Hakusho" if it really did reach over 100+ episodes. And, "InuYasha" as Best Anime that I'd want to know more about.

[kaitou-kid-my-beloved]

@livmadart 's creature Heiji took hold of me. I love him.

[meitantei-shitpost]

PART 1 of a comic based on the super talented @livmadart ‘s Crybaby Conan AU!!! Basically after turning into a kid Shinichi has to deal with the big emotions that come with being a child. This takes place right after Conan and Heiji solve a really gory fucked up case.

Next Part >

[ghostinghome]

My @dcmk-exchange gift for @kaitou-kid-my-beloved !!!

so sorry this took so long !! i am so indecisive so i decided to draw multiple things, so really this is a gift bundle,,

i drew more things though :3 under the cut are some extras !!! just didnt want this to be formatted more weirdly then it already is :3c

also !!! credits to the amazing @livmadart for the phantom and kaito kid magical girl aus !!! i personally am a fan of them as well so this was so much fun to draw :33

And these are some doodles of things i would have wanted to draw, but couldn’t because of lack of time/energy :3

[phantoms-lair]

The question is did they get turned together or did both these boys happen to get turned separately and not know it till they reunited.

Also I can see Ran having misgivings about Vampire Conan for all of five minutes before realizing he still doesn't believe in vampires and she's the only thing standing between him and death by sunlight.

I am now thinking about vampire Conan and heiji.

Conan would absolutely try to hide it.

Heiji would try to hide it and fail within 5 minutes. The only secret that boy can keep is his feelings for kazuha (the only secret no one wants him to keep)

Even afterwards Conan still tries to deny the existence of the supernatural

Heiji: "i thought holmes said 'once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth'?"

Conan: "Clearly I just haven't explored all the options yet."

Heiji: 'keep telling yaself that kudo"

Ksjdjdjdjdjd I agree!! i have certainly thought about this before

Ran and kazuha would totally figure it out…their fear of vampires would be outweighed if the vampires in question were these two jokers

Thank you for your ask!!!

[emeraldthelynx]

Gift for @livmadart because Arsène won't leave me alone.

Ran let a long-suffering sigh out through her lungs. Of course Dad was drooling in front of the TV for A Yoko Okino show.

Again.

Conan was making himself happy with a thick mystery book on the couch, smirking to himself as he came across sections with clues. Really, he was just like Shinichi, trying to guess the mystery before it was solved. Sometimes she really had to wonder… There was a small, but rapid-fire knock on the office door. It sounded like a little fist. Conan rose his head in confusion. Ran looked down at him. "Conan, did you invite one of your friends over?" she asked. Conan shook his head, staring blankly. "No." he said. Ran looked back at her dad for a moment, then sighed. He was still drooling over the TV. "I'll go get it." she said. Conan's voice spiked urgently as she turned the knob. "W-wait! Don't let him-" The door swung open, and a little boy with a face just like Conan's burst into the room.

"Big brother! I found you!" he said. Ran whirled around, and her dad stared dumbly away from the screen. Conan's eyes were big and he frankly looked freaked out. "Ki- Arsène! I told you to stay at home!" he yelled. The clone, Arsène, dropped his bag to the floor of the office. "But, big brother! How can I stay at home when you're having such amazing adventures without me?" He grinned, eyes flashing a cheeky look. "Besides, you get to meet my hero, Kaito KID! I've got to see him, brother! I've just got to!" he said. Conan glared, and shot off the couch. "No Kaito KID!" he yelled, and started to chase Arsène. Arsène shrieked with laughter. "Ke ke ke! Catch me if you can, brother!" "I've caught you once, I'll catch you again!" "The number of time you've caught me is zeer-o!" "I'll use my sneakers!" "Meanie!" Ran stared at the sight of the two first-graders chasing each other around the couch in a state of half-shock. Her dad slowly straightened out. "The brat has a brother?" he said. Ran looked at this Arsène boy. He looked identical to Conan, if you excluded the bird's nest of hair and the missing glasses. "It looks like it?" she said. Conan lunged for Arsène. "You little KID!" Arsène twirled deftly out of the way, and Conan sprawled onto the floor. The twin looked down at him, brushed his bangs out of his face, and smiled politely. "It's an honor to meet you, Miss Ran." he said. He flicked his wrist, and a blue rose appeared. He grinned. "It's magic!" he said. Ran took the rose, looking at Arsène carefully. "Th-thank you." she said. She looked at Conan. The little boy was rubbing his head, and glaring at his apparent twin. "Conan, you never told me you had a twin brother." she said. Conan glared at Arsène. "That's because I don't like him." he said. Arsène plunked himself down on the couch. "But I like you, tiny detective! I told Papa that I'd be okay staying with you instead of traveling with him, so here I am!" he said, smiling wide and innocently. Dad stood up from behind his desk. "It's not 'okay' for you to be staying here, brat! I'm already taking care of your troublemaking big brother, I don't need another one of you around!" he said. Arsène frowned. "But Mr. famous detective Mouri! My brother has so many adventures with a the great detective! I want to have adventures too!" he said. Dad snorted, but it was clear Arsène was working to his ego. "Little brat. Fine! But you'd better pull your weight and not get in my way on a case like your big brother!" he said. Conan crossed his arms. "Make him go away, uncle!" he said. Arsène ignored him, and instead bounced up to Dad's desk. "Can I call you uncle too, Mr. famous detective?" he said. Dad groaned, and leaned back. "Sure sure. Now stop interrupting me, you're making me miss too much of Yoko's show!" he said, and turned back to the TV. Arsène stood on tiptoe to watch for a minute. Conan slapped his forehead. Ran bent down to him. "Conan, do you really hate you brother this much? You really should of told me you had one." she said. Conan pouted. "But, Ran! Arsène is a lot of trouble! He bugs me as much as Kaito KID!" he said. Ran thought she might of imagined Arsène looking back for a quick moment with an irritated look that wouldn't have been out of place on Shinichi's face, but ignored it. Ran picked up Conan.

"But you still like the challenges that the KID makes, right? So you can't dislike your brother so much you can forget about him. Isn't that right, big brother Conan?" she said. Conan frowned, turned away, but Ran could tell by the way he relaxed his body that he had accepted his fate. Arsène turned back from looking at the TV. "Miss Ran? Can I go up too?" he asked. Conan's body went rigid. "No way! You're not allowed to touch Ran!" he said. Arsène smirked. "Protective much, little detective?" he said. Conan glared. "Little KID magician!" "Tiny tiny detective!" "Meddling magician!" "Nosy investigator!" "Rule breaker!" "Teacher's pet!" Ran slowly felt a headache build in the back of her head. Oh boy, she hoped she wouldn't regret this. She belatedly realized later that Shinichi didn't have a twin brother. Well there went that theory…

[hexfloog]

Hiya! I was thinking about the remastered animation Cel style evil Conan post you put up recently, and I just wanted to say how amazing and impressive it is! I love love love the look of old animation and you really nailed it. I’ve been trying for ages to mimic that look myself and haven’t been able to crack it, so if you ever wanted to talk about your process on this piece, I’d be all ears! Wonderful work, again!

Waaah hi liv!! Thank you, I'm so glad you like it, and that it comes across so convincingly!! One of my favorite things is to make digital art that can have a second life as a different medium, and I wish I had an easy answer for you as to how I go about doing that, but the truth is that it's mostly the result of a lot of trial and error. And a metric ton of references.

Here's a quick process video of my last piece to try to show off what all my layers are like, but I know it's mostly useless without an explanation!! I can't explain it all because I was kinda winging this one for funsies but I can give you general tips for this particular look.

Clip and words below the break!

As a disclaimer I didn't really go into this one intending for it to come out looking the way it did. So it's more of a hybrid look between my usual "clean" digital rendering and a fake screenshot.

[1] Reference, role models, and inspiration - I'm not kidding when I say I used to tote around an entire, dedicated folder filled with printed reference. These days that usually takes the form of about a million browser tabs (￣▽￣) I stare at early Detco and the first six movies a LOT. And Cowboy Bebop. And Akira. And and [insert your choice of 80s-90s anime film]. Depending on the exact look you're trying to replicate, you can always look to a more era-appropriate movie.

I love pulling inspo from films in particular (both animated and live action) because cinema is a whole other art that employs all kinds of techniques for our usual considerations (like lighting and framing), and looking to them can inspire some pretty poignant imagery, especially when you're trying to create something that's meant to mimic a single-frame capture of exactly that. I don't keep up with movies or anything, but I do have my favorites, and it didn't really occur to me to look to them until some of my favorite artists revealed that they do the same with theirs.

For this particular piece, I also had to establish some consistency with the other piece that bookends the scene, so I actually referenced my own art, too.

[2] BIG canvas! I usually work at two or three times the size I expect to export. Following standard aspect ratios for animated productions can help sell the look. Letterboxes have their own ratio, too, if you choose a widescreen canvas; and subtitle fonts are usually standardized to certain font families and colors since their primary purpose is to help make the media accessible. All this is usually a quick google search away, OR… if you're like me, and you still watch physical media… you can just yoink most of this from a real DVD.

[3] Thin lines!! I still can't quite nail the right line weight for these-- I definitely went too thick here-- but they tend to be very fine. And imperfections are good! Nobody has a perfectly steady hand, especially with traditional cels.

[4] Less is usually more when trying to sell a screenshot look… it's easy to over-ink and over-render and-- in my opinion-- restraint is necessary to sell it. This is the hardest thing to explain… it's design vs. rote emulation, I think. But that said, digital aids (next point) do a lot of the heavy lifting in these - as far as the art is concerned, a little will go a long way! These were some of my easiest lines and shading. So on that note…

[5] …Blending modes, masks, and filters are all your friends o___o I get a lot of mileage out of the default tools already available to me in the art software. There's plenty out there that's available for free, too! I recommend you find a fake anime screenshot tutorial, follow it once, and just go nuts when you get to the part where you can play with these settings. The make-or-break for a convincing screenshot-- in my opinion-- is texture and bloom, and all these digital tools will help you achieve that.

I hope this helps!! Hopefully the video can help you see a bit more of the process since I can only really offer tips. It shows everything at full size so you can see the details, so go nuts!

Thank you for the ask! Beaming plenty of good luck that you can find the look you want!!

ALSO I REALLY HOPE THIS IS THE PIECE YOU MEANT I'M LITERALLY ABOUT TO QUEUE THIS UP AND JUST REALIZED THE ONE THAT CAME BEFORE THIS IS MORE REMASTERED CEL ANIMATION LOOK SKSKSKSK

the same tips apply though so i hope they still help all the same :3c

[akai-anna]

@livmadart voice: he's like a bug

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[silver-fairy]

I am in love with @livmadart art and their AUs. So, here’s a little Phantump!Conan made from air dry clay and acrylic paint. Hope you like it!

[usbongph]

@livmadart, @raenger, I already ate the mini "home cut" donut.