#made in abyss riko

[lucafuwafuwa24]

my sister liked the covers of mia volumes that i have, she wanted to see me redraw it, so i did i also tried out this type of shading when you smear pencil sketch with a finger. my camera's not very great in showing it, but it turned out pretty dreamy! also i start to think that i am a printer machine actually

[alethianightsong]

Made in Abyss is great if you like extensive worldbuilding, adventure, trauma, fantasy, horror, mystery, and more horror.

If HP Lovecraft and Jules Verne had a baby and that baby could only draw cute characters, then you'd get Made in Abyss. To summarize, a 12-year-old girl named Riko wants to meet her long-lost mother who resides at the bottom of the Abyss, a giant chasm in the earth. Being a squishy little human, Riko is subject to lots of injuries and physical trauma cuz "reality ensues." No matter how plucky and optimistic a child is, throwing them into a pit full of wild animals is not a good idea. The Abyss itself defies space, physics, and time. Imagine the Burj Khalifa times 3 sunk into the earth. Now imagine if that superstructure was split into 7 stories or "layers" and each layer has its own ecosystem and weather patterns. Now imagine if that superstructure was a giant trap with downward-facing teeth so the further you went in, the more painful it becomes to get out. Now imagine if that giant trap was sentient on some level and gives you an irresistible urge to literally get to the bottom of it not caring if you can never return to the surface.

[imjustapoorwayfaringgeek]

i like drawing character portraits to define what i have in my mind

here are some made in abyss character portraits i did recently

i don't wanna add what they look like in the anime here to not keep the post too long but here are some character traits i considered while drawing them, contains mild made in abyss spoilers

reg is from the abyss, he's basically a foreigner so i gave him mildly different facial features compared to others, like a wider nose and straighter mouth shape. i tried to represent his gentleness and kindness through a rounder face and down-turned eyes; although i also tried to represent his extreme physical strength and constitution through a square face. he gives me square vibes.

on the other hand riko has a more pointy chin and overall face shape, like of a fox. she's curious, energetic, a real adhd creature. she's not as strong as reg but rather trusts her knowledge of the environment to come up with solutions. she may be a dumb annoying 12 year old but she's also smart and charismatic, that's why she's the leader.

for some reason prushka always seemed chubbier than the other characters to me, which i love. and it kind of makes sense since she used to live a more settled life. she has a different eye shape, so there's that but i also wanted to give her a heart shaped face although it's not too defined since she's a slightly chubby kid with round features, her whistle form inspired me to do this. also obviously she's albino?? i guess??? she seems to be????

marulk is grace. he's also a foreigner according to his lore, therefore he also looks fairly different from the others. unlike reg tho, i gave him sharper features to highlight his elegance, with a diamond shaped face. his skin is sensitive and he can't go out under the sunlight, so i made his and prushka's(who i assumed to be an albino) skin colors the same. to support this i made his pupils a reddish color too, which is common for albino people.

[sypy-cup]

I like to create cat designs for pieces of media I like, and after over a year of being in the Made in Abyss fandom, I finally actually designed a couple. Have the babies :D

A lil extra

[lucypenniiies]

Made in piss

[wolfbeestudio]

Let us explore the depths with Riko and Reg in Meow in Abyss!

(Made in Abyss is one of my all time favorite anime ever~)

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Commissions for illustrations and plush are open :3c

[urfavesarequadranted]

Riko and Reg from Made in Abyss are moirails

Reg and Riko from Made in Abyss moirails!

[duoatomica]

Daily reminder that to this day in made in abyss theres a broken ruler inside reg's ass

[stellarspiffy]

I friggin love this show

[carlosshutupmygod]

[wayward-delver]

In that exact order. 

Fave relationship dynamics!!! ;)

[alethianightsong]

The nature of the Abyss in "Made in Abyss" (Intro to the setting)

There's 7 confirmed layers and each layer has a "curse" or an effect on the human body; the curse only kicks in when you try to ascend. The first 3 layers are pretty okay: dizziness, nausea,(Layer 1) numbness of limbs and stronger nausea(Layer 2) & visual + auditorial hallucinations(Layer 3). The 4th layer is when things get serious: you bleed from every hole in your body and feel intense pain. Layer 5 gives you sensory deprivation and a strong urge to self-harm. Best case scenario: you tear your hair out and lose some fingernails before coming to your senses. Worst case scenario: You peel your skin off, pluck your eyes out, or something like that. Layer 6 will mutate you if you try to ascend from it. There is no best or worst scenario here; either you mutate into a pile of flesh and die, or you mutate into a pile of flesh but you live, forgetting that you used to be human and just crawling around as a mindless thing. Because of the difficulties of ascending, Layers 1-4 are well-documented and there's tons of info on them, while info on Layer 5 is spotty, Layer 6 is sparse, and Layer 7 is a step above a myth. Since ascending from Layer 6 can kill you, cave raiders send up hot air balloons and the risk of said balloons being destroyed goes up the deeper you go. For all we know, there's 10 more Layers but info about them never finds its way to the surface. You'd think if the Abyss itself is trying to harm you, there wouldn't be many people diving into it, but each layer has Relics in it, or special artifacts with unique abilities and the deeper you go, the more rare and expensive Relics become. The smart thing to do is just gather Relics from the first 3 layers, go back to the surface, and live like a millionaire, but the Abyss itself drives people to go deeper into it, so deep that they can't return to the surface and are deemed dead for all extents and purposes. The Abyss is the centerpiece of the local surface religion and is treated as a deity, so all the lives it claims are just treated as facts of life instead of tragedies. "The Abyss giveth and taketh away." The Abyss has no mouth but it consumes, no eyes but it sees, no ears but it answers prayers, no human mind yet it understands love and longing. This is why "Lovecraftian" is often used to describe the series. Not to mention that the abilities and appearances of the Relics are more like alien technology than something that could be made by human hands.

[deathzoid777]

i pray you guys get the reference

[thatalienrabbit]

[thequasarwinds]

I know this prob ain’t a shounen anime but- Telemachus is SO SO MUCH like Riko from Made In Abyss (I’d list the similarities but I don’t wanna make this too long) 😭😭😭😤😤

Telemachus my favorite shounen anime protagonist (i'm going to yap)

telemachus my favorite shounen anime protagonist

i keep saying it but just love the video game/anime inspiration like as we approach the end of the musical its just so apparent lol

gods game as a tournament for athena i just kept thinking about my hero academia LMAO wolfy did so good presenting the gods in the animatic

i just think of telemachus similar to hinata from haikyu -- like he's just a bundle of joy/sunshine to me hehe

of course i will draw ody angst but wanted to get the fun moments out of the way

i kinda wanna draw an anime style god games poster kinda like a promo art for a show but then too many characters (lazy)

can there be a place where there are official character designs for epic i keep pausing videos for reference

athena/telemachus was one of my fav duos in the Odyssey and this musical just made me love it more

can i just say?????? the fandom is insane like there were COMPLETE ANIMATED SEQUENCES????? in the live??? like artists are crazy

[thegodhand7]

Literally me