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[nanariemi]

lightness

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🍰 Page Illustration Sneak Peek 🍰

Nagisa and Honoka deserve a sweet treat for their valiant efforts!

Black and White can be seen relaxing in @nanariemi 's Pretty Cure illustration!

[klysanderelias]

(part one here!)

Today's installment will be all about my absolute babygirl of the Beam Saber game, Briar Finlay. She's the character I've spent the most time thinking about, the one with the most characterization and planning, and the one that probably no one will actually interact with 😭

First we have a piece from @anaizzzen-ut, a stellar artist who did amazing work with this one.

Briar is the leader of the shipboard security forces, and the whole idea of her character is how much that job sucks when you have teams of mech pilots. She's a footsoldier with an EVA suit and a non-penetrative gun in space, where she's the last line of defense for the ship and also the line of defense most likely to die messy, painfully, and slowly. In a couple of these commissions, she's wearing a rebreather mask - in a boarding action long before the campaign starts, a fire started and her suit was breached by the fighting. Due to smoke inhalation, but more importantly the toxic chemicals released by sensitive electrical components and complicated sci-fi materials burning, she suffered extensive damage to her lungs. Luckily there's a certain amount of sufficiently-advanced-equals-magic medical technology, so she survived, but she still needs supplemental oxygen regularly and fights with a full life-support system in her armor to keep her from suffocating, having seizures, etc. I love the smoking aesthetic but in absolute reverse using medical oxygen.

Another gorgeous piece by @nanariemi - the colors in this one are just spectacular.

Briar is such a fun character to rotate in my head because there's so much strong characterization that comes so naturally out of her concept as a combat character who is completely helpless 90% of the time. She can't do anything to protect the ship from other ships, and there's basically nothing she can do about enemy mechs. And of course, there's the issue of survivability - a mech pilot can have their mech melt down around them or explode in a fiery cascade but still eject and make it back home without a single injury. I'm so compelled by having a ttrpg campaign where all the players are mech pilots, and they're having to deal with this angry, rude asshole who has an extremely valid point - they don't have the same skin in the game she does, but they're the vaunted heroes and she's in the trenches. And I think a lot of good mech fiction makes that distinction - making comparisons between the gods of the battlefield and the little people underfoot, but also challenging those roles. Mech pilots literally CAN'T do the job she does. All that armor and missile pods and whatnot aren't going to keep all the people on the bridge from being shot by a normal-sized guy with a gun.

And here's another piece by @dhurain, of Briar in a quiet moment,

I think ideally I'd like to have an arc for Briar where she grows to respect and care for the PCs, while they open up to her and show her respect as well. I think it would be such a good roleplaying experience and a great narrative to have the characters have to rely on each other and see each others' strengths when the first interaction would be something like her disdainfully calling them 'toy soldiers' or something in passing in the hallway. And I think Beam Saber has enough interplay between the in-robot and out-of-robot gameplay that you could have scenes where the pilots are out of their mechs and having to fight alongside her, or where she's providing some sort of ground support for one of their missions and suddenly the lethality of mech combat to everyone not in a mech comes to the forefront.

There's another commission of her I have in the works right now that I won't post the WIP for but trust me, I'll be blasting that thing around once it's done because it looks great so far.

Anyway I'm love her your honor, she's my babygirl and I'm trying to spread out the commissions so it's not just ten of her and one of everyone else. And I'm doing okay! I only have... four... so far...

Finally, another cute thank you sketch from @dhurain!

[vanixing-thts]

[A bit more about my ears…]

I wanted to make a master post about my ears but I don’t have many DIY photos of most of them. Still I will do my best for anyone interested!

Long post ahead ….. ٩(─︣ ‿‿ ─᷅)۶

🗝️♥️🗝️ ..

The first pair I made was for Vanitas, because he’s the best boy! I was meeting up with some irl KH friends for the first time and I doodled a pretty cool design so I made them. It took me around a week to make them:

I put the teeth of his keyblade around the ears, incorporated his gold, black, and red colors, and used a clear garden stone for his helmet. The bow is comprised of his “skirt” and the helmet. As you can see they are cool but… alot. They were really top heavy too. So I remade them and added some tweaks, like using thinner foam:

I was satisfied with them and they were less top heavy, then I commissioned my new friend yuri (suba_rashii on twitter) and it became my official al vanitas ears!

Next I made a pair for Roxas! He was my first ever favorite kingdom heart’s character and I fell in love with the checkered idea. These only took two days to make. I hand glued the squares which is why they’re crooked but I still love them. The little roxas is felt, I wish I was good at resin or acrylic but thats a-whole-nother beast by itseld. Art by me, featuring me!

After that I took a brief break from Kingdom hearts and made a pair based off inosuke from demon slayer! These were a bit more challenging because I decided to used plush ears instead of foam ones but I loved how they turned out. Amazing art I commissioned from @nanariemi went along with them! Fun fact: The disney employees liked these so much we got to skip the line once. 👀

And… there is so much more to show and share but that’s all tumblr will allow me to put for now. Maybe soon I will do a part 2 to this post. Regardless, thanks for making it this far and I’m so happy people were interested in what I had made! Everyone has been so nice here, haha.

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Have a good day everyone, and may your heart be your guiding key! 🗝️

[frozen-way]

Amazing com done by @nanariemi! Please go check them out they were a joy to com <3

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[dadworthzine]

💐 Artist Spotlight 💐

We’re absolutely thrilled to introduce @/nanariemi on Twitter as one of our page artists! With their stunning backgrounds and incredible details, Naz is creating a piece that you will definitely want to hold in your hands!

[nanariemi]

hi everybirdie! i'm opening comms bc rent/bills/groceries and i have quite a bit of things going on 😖 shares + likes are highly appreciated!

🌻 if interested and/or for inquiries, pls dm me or email: justnazuyu@gmail.com 🌻 please check my carrd for more info + examples: nanariemi.carrd.co/#commission

☕️ if u can't commission me at the moment but would still like to help out, do consider donating to my ko-fi if you'd like: ko-fi.com/nanariemi

thank you, i look forward to working with you! 💛

[klysanderelias]

So for the next batch I'll do a few more characters from the Beam Saber game I want to run - first off, the flight control officer that acts as a handler for the party (and the other mech team), Kalina Al-Atras (she/her). Originally I was going to have her be genderfluid and switch between Kalin/Kalina, but after a little bit of consideration I thought that would be way too much bookkeeping and busywork for one NPC - I had the idea of her tattoo on her cheek being bioluminescent and changing color depending on which gender she felt most, but again that's something that's hard to keep track of and difficult to convey well in a ttrpg (there are definitely actual plays I've heard that do genderfluid characters well, but not ones that switch daily or multiple times a day).

First we have the initial portrait, done by @dhurain again (who does incredible color/texture work and gorgeous backgrounds to go with the portrait)

Next, another piece by @sierra117-renner

And one by the wonderful @nanariemi, of Kalina reading over an after action report and being both alarmed and impressed by the idiocy and/or bravery of her team.

And the next character is Captain Kaiolohia Tender (he/him), the captain of the starship the PCs work on, Into The Dark We Cast Our Hopes Like Nets (if you can't tell, I'm taking a lot of inspiration from the Culture novels by Iain Banks). Once again, @snippity knocks it out of the park.

Captain Tender is a character I've got a lot of ideas for but nothing nailed down particularly well - I want him to be bookish, a kind of underwhelming presence, but the sort of captain who knows the ins and outs of his ship to an excruciating degree. I also wanted to avoid overly military clothing or imagery, both for his character but just in general. I love the aesthetic, I'm a sucker for gundam characters decked out in full regalia, but I think it's better to try and avoid especially for the setting as I've imagined it.

Anyway, from the talented @aerequets, a little vignette of Kalina and Captain Tender going over notes during a walk and talk meeting. I really like having these little snapshots of daily life illustrated, because I think one of my favorite parts of any ttrpg campaign book are the pictures of characters interacting or otherwise doing flavorful things.

Oh and I wanted to add, @dhurain has done little thank you sketches for me for a couple of different characters, so here are her sketches of Kalina and Rachel Hess - absolutely adorable!

Okay I've been going back and forth on this and I'm gonna do it, just in chunks because of course there's a limit on images.

This is the character that started a bit of an obsession for me, what I thought was going to turn into a novel but I'm sticking to the original concept - a beam saber (by austin ramsay) game that I'm going to run before I die, I swear to god. This is Rachel Hess (she/it), better known as the Thirty Thousand Tons Of Unexploded Ordnance, a starship using an artificial construct body to pass a coded message to the party. I've got a lot of plans for her, but her initial appearance is supposed to surprise and confuse the party, as well as start pushing them towards major plot events (or at least give them the option). Art is by the wonderful @dhurain

From the same game, Stability Liao (she/her), the chief mechanic of the PC's starship. She's probably one of the least fleshed out characters, unfortunately, because I love how she looks and I think she'd be a lot of fun to have in scenes. She's the typical enormous brawny mech repair specialist - calling the players' mechs hers, berating them for taking damage, but I want to give a little more space to her outside of the mech bay and see what happens, because I think there's a lot of room to play and evolve in reaction to the players. Art is by the talented @snippity.

The last characters I'll do for this installment are the other mech pilots on board the players' ship, all art done by the incredible @sierra117-renner (also @s117rartblog for portfolio)

This is Kadri Kassal (she/her), callsign 'Viscacha', shy sweetheart with a molten core. She tends to fight extremely aggressively, pushing her heat curve to critical. I don't want to play too heavily into the 'nice girl who turns into a combat monster' trope, but also I feel like given the right amount of time in scenes, it'll be easy to avoid making her one-dimensional. Plus y'know, I think 'shy sweetheart' is a good character to have floating around for characters to have scenes with, if only to have a landing point and a friendly face to start with.

Next we have Cob Hawkins (he/him), callsign 'Wildjack', the slightly cocky and definitely goofy sensors specialist. Again, I'm allowing him to be a little trope-y as the goofball who can be the voice of reason when necessary. If I'm being honest I haven't put a lot of time into these characters and their personalities because I'm not sure how much the PCs will want to team up with them (or how long they're going to survive).

Finally we have Wicker Corini (they/them), callsign 'Adroit'. Wicker is going to be a more difficult character to roleplay - I plan to have them be largely nonverbal, communicating in combat with signal pings or other computer-based messages. They're the leader of the mech team, confident and talented, but definitely the kind who gets underestimated because of how quiet they are.

I've got a commission in the works right now of these three sharing a drink after battle/training, and I'm very excited for it.

There's also Dead Tom (he/it), the fourth member of the mech team, who doesn't have a portrait because he's an AI routine piloting an enormous artillery mech. He's very basic, and I'm leaving it up to the players whether they want to delve more into the possibilities there or just leave it at 'yeah it's a piloting matrix plugged into a warbot' without exploring whether, like, Dead Tom was based on a person, USED TO BE a person, IS CURRENTLY a person, etc. Again, the problem of making characters for a ttrpg campaign is that a lot of them are going to be at the mercy of the players in terms of screentime or importance or characterization.

There's a lot more but due to image limits per post (and the fact that a lot of the remaining characters have multiple pieces of art) I'll leave it here for now.

[iida-zine]

✨CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT✨

Today I would love to RE-introduce Naz (or Nana!) They're gracing us with a spread of our engine boys through the years 😌💙

Twitter: @/nanariemi Instagram: @/nanariemii Carrd: nanariemi

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[iida-zine]

✨GUEST SPOTLIGHT✨

Introducing our first amazing guest artist, Naz/Nana! Naz loves to play around with artstyles & colours. They love the goodest boy Tenya, who lives in their brain rent-free.

🔹Twitter: @/nanariemi 🔹IG: @/nanariemii 🔹Carrd: nanariemi Welcome, Naz! 💙 ------ TYSM for any shares 💙🧡 @bnhabulletin @bnha-community-board @bnhafandomcalendar @bokunozines @uahigh-newsletter @fandomzines @zineapps @zineforall @zinecenter @faneventshub @bokunozines @zinesunlimited

[nanariemi]

hello!! i am a bit short for rent this month if anyone would like to help out a little 👉👈 i've been doing offline freelance gigs but it's not enough/doesn't pay till the next month >< would appreciate it a lot. im open to suggestions outside of what i put on my site! dms on all my social medias are open although i dont always get notifs so feel free to shoot me a dm on discord if you're comfortable @/nanariemi!

[reblogs appreciated ✨]

hihi, my commissions are open again! i have unfortunately been let go of my job as of recently so i am looking for some support while i (hopefully) land a new one :')

more info on my carrd site here, thank you for looking! ❤️