#she even drew them in the outfits I used in my concept art

[funhouse-mirror-barbie]

This post came across my dash today, and…the only way I can see this being okay is if the artist who did the original stills/frames from the pilot gave permission to use their art and were credited in the Playbill (regardless of if they are still working on Hazbin or with Spindlehorse) or if the stills were from frames Viv did.

(And I’m honestly hoping that’s the case!! I want artists to be credited and aware of when their work is being used! I want that to be the case here!!)

Because these are very clearly the exact same frames:

I was trying to think about why they would have these exact frames either copied or traced, and the only reason I could think of was if they were trying out different outfits/looks for Charlie’s A24 redesign? Kind of like how the Splatoon played around with different costume designs on their character models:

But even then though, I don’t fully understand why they wouldn’t just. Make new sketches? Or post other concept art and development sketches??? Again, like Splatoon:

Because if the artist who did frames for the pilot wasn’t notified or didn’t give permission, that’s a big issue.

In my opinion, the copying of the pilot frames, whether they were originally copied to test Charlie’s new design or if they were done specifically for the playbill, borders on plagiarism.

I personally think the only way this wouldn’t be plagiarism is if, as I said before, the artist was contacted, gave consent for their art to be used and was properly credited and compensated. Or if the frames were from the animation that Vivzie herself did and she also gave permission to A24 or the playbill production to use her art.

I really hope that’s the case. I want that to be the case!!

Because properly crediting animators and artists has always been an issue—not just within Spindlehorse (although there does seem to be an alarming amount of artists alleging they were not properly credited on work they’ve done for Spindlehorse) but in general.

I think it’s really easy to dismiss this sort of stuff, but this is important. This goes all the way back to the early days of animation.

The example I always think of is “Steamboat Willie”. So many people think that Disney Animation’s success is due solely to Walt Disney.

But a LOT of the actual animation in Steamboat Willie and many other early Disney cartoons were done by Disney’s partner, Ub Iwerks.

Iwerks co-created Mickey Mouse, probably one of, if not the most recognized cartoon characters in the world. Ub Iwekrs was hugely instrumental to Disney’s success. But most people don’t know about him or his contributions, and that was WITH credit.

Spindlehorse and Hazbin are obviously way smaller, but it’s still so important to credit artists. This stuff matters. And while I don’t know why the Pilot frames were copied and put in the playbill, or if the og artist who drew them gave their consent and were created, I’ve seen this happen with Hellaverse stuff before.

And that makes me think the copied frames in the playbill are closer to being plagiarized than not. I really hope I’m wrong.

[cyandreamzaceattorney]

✦ AA girls getting boba tea ✦

A few days ago I felt like drawing Ema, Kay, Maya and Franziska hanging out and drinking boba tea, cuz I really like the idea of these four having a friendship group :-D however, I unfortunately couldn't fit all four characters in so I (mostly) cut Franziska from the pic. Sorry Fran fans! I do love her but, I wanted to draw the other three girls a bit more (cuz that's just the mood I was in) and didn't want to stray away from this specific concept as I felt really inspired to draw them walking while chatting with boba tea.

Overall I do like how this picture came out, even if I definitely rushed it a bit (I think this was mostly because I got hyped over getting time to draw again, cuz I've been busy on and off). Unfortunately I lost my favourite brush liner before doing lineart on this and halfway threw my other liner magically dried up! So that was frustrating but, I worked around it and want to regain confidence in using fine liners so kind of a useful problem lol. I also decided to change up how I draw Kay in my art style a little and I think I like it :3 And, really like the outfits I gave the girls. Even if they are simple. They're also summer outfits because Australia is once again breaking the record for hottest summer (and it's still technically spring (⁠´⁠-⁠﹏⁠-⁠`⁠；⁠)). Fun fact, Ema is wearing a striped shirt as a reference to the stripe motifs in her aai design!

Now time for boba tea hc's cuz why not XD. Maya has a Taro milk tea with the regular black pearls, because it's purple and in my mind Taro and chocolate being her favourite flavours just makes sense. Kay has a iced tea with lychee jelly (mainly cuz I didn't feel like colouring the jelly but I see Kay liking lychee), idk what flavour her tea is, but it's probably a fruit flavour cuz in my experience ice teas are often fruit flavours. I also have the random hc that whenever Kay gets boba around Miles she gets a weird combo (e.g. chocolate milk tea with green apple pearls) just to see his upset reaction lol.

Ema and Franziska also have boba, you just can see it cuz Ema has them in a shopping bag which Kay is in front of. As for flavours, Ema's is definitely chocolate milk tea cuz her snacks in the English version of the games seem to be similar to tee vee snacks (idk if tee vee snacks are a thing in us, if they aren't they are small long cookies cotted in chocolate, kinda like pocky but much shorter, but thicker and fully coated) though I can also see her getting brown sugar with black pearls. Franziska I could see getting something like the regular tea flavour (which is called "Thai tea" or "original flavour" depending on the boba shop I go to) with no pearls or jelly because in my mind she doesn't like them :P, in general I don't think she'd like a lot of sweet flavours but that's because I hc her as not liking sweet food for no logical reason, my brain has simply decided this ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Hope you all enjoy this drawing and my super austic ramble about what boba tea I think these fictional characters drink XD

Next traditional drawing will be in a new sketcbook as I'm almost finished this one (and the last pages won't be as fanart so I won't post them here). I'm shocked cuz I haven't finished a sketchbook in less than a year for several years now! But this makes sense because I drew a lot this year for several reasons :-P

[jojo-ker06]

The people have NOT spoken about this one, but still, here is:

✨️WoaS Asha Lore✨️

(The first WoaS post of 2025!)

Costumes and Hairstyle:

Asha is the character in my rewrite with the most outfit changes. The outfits are there to show that I can't stop drawing outfits, it's become a problem her character has changed.

Her outfits in Act 1 (plus her cape):

(Outfit for outside) (Outfit for inside)

Her outfits in Act 2 (plus the cape):

("At All Costs" Dress) (Act 2 Outfit)

(Two sneak peeks to other outfits. The one on the left is for her transformation dress, the other for a scene in the epilouge.)

Just like her dresses, her hair will also reflect her character growth, becoming more open the more the story progresses. Here you can see little sketches I made that show her different hairstyles.

(I drew this one just for fun. I might use it in the epilouge or maybe not. But I thought I could show it to you anyway.)

And for those who were (probably not) wondering, yes, I did take inspiration from these pieces of concept art.

I personally like the orange/red/pink colors here more than the purple dress they ended up giving her, but to each their own.

About the Character:

Asha is creative and loves to draw. But she has not alot of time drawing what she wants to draw, for she is almost always busy designing royal invitations. You see, everytime new people arrive to become citizens (that happens times almost every month), the royals celebrate everyone's arrival with a party at the end of the week. It is for this party that Asha has to design and draw all of the invitations for. But it's not that simple because her parents (espacially her dad) are perfectionists and so they are very picky. Asha usually has to come up with 10 designs before her parents are happy with one.

Asha has three different sketch-books, two of which she hides from her parents:

One for all the drawings she does for her parents,

One where she writes and draws plans and ideas down for when she's queen, (She rarely shows it to her parents)

And the third one is her diary. In that she writes all of her feelings. Shr mostly writes about how left out she feels: She's barely in any of the royal family portraits and she's not included in the statue of her family that stands in the city.

She does try to talk about it and while her parents do listen, they don't seem to take it seriously, saying things like that 'a princess shouldn't seek so much attention from others' or that 'she's too young' and that 'she needs to prove herself worthy first to deserve a part in the statue. Her parents clearly earned it because they fought in war and rebuild the kingdom, but she didn't do anything like that'.

So she tries everything to make her parents proud of her: She wears what they tell her to wear (her entire act 1 wardrobe is chosen by her parents, but not the cape), she draws what they tell her to draw (even if it means that she needs to draw behind her parents, and not next to them), she stops talking when her parents think that she talks to much. She even refuses to eat, just so that her father will finally be happy with her appearance.

But everytime her parents hug her, aknowledge her birthday (there were a few times where they did not celebrate it because of the "welcome-parties" that I mentioned earlier) or when they tell her that they love her, she finds new hope and believes that, one day, all her attempts will finally pay off.

During the run-time of the movie, Asha learns (with the help of her friends) to break free from her toxic parents, to fight for herself and others and that she is more than her parents made her herself think to be. She also discovers something that could potentially change her entire life forever...

-The End- I hope you enjoyed reading this!✨️

Tagging Time: @starss-artss @spectator-zee @rascalentertainments @your-ne1ghbor @dangerousflowerpanda

[mintywolf]

A Long Road Home - Page 81

Page 81

Imogen’s outfit here came from some concept art I drew for a 1950s-themed Bells Hells cosplay.

(Which you can see in person on this post!)

The plant Imogen is using to stuff the mattress is lady’s bedstraw, which, as its name suggests, was traditionally used as mattress stuffing because of its vanilla-like scent and natural insect-repelling properties. (She is not actually stuffing fresh damp flowers into the mattress; there’s a desiccated pile of them next to her that she has dried out presumably with prestidigitation.)

The middle panel here was originally different and showed them settling into their new home:

Panel 3: Evening. There's a fire in the wood stove, now cleaned of rust. The loft is furnished with the straw mattress and the blankets and furs from their bedrolls. A sideways wooden box nailed to the wall forms a kitchen shelf on which are stacked a few dishes and cups. (NB every time we see the cups they have switched between being rightside-up and upside-down.) The washtub and some pots and pans hang on the walls. A table made of crates and boards holds a vase of colored leaves. There's a rag rug on the floor. Sitting by the fire, Laudna is sewing a quilt patch from odd fabric scraps she has collected, with Pâté and Calamari beside her. Imogen is stretched out nearby on the rug, reading. It's very cozy.

I even got as far as sketching it but I felt like I needed to address how the two most noodle-armed farm girls in Exandria managed to get the dead tree off the roof with their combined strength of 13. (As unfortunately it’s too early for Imogen to levitate it off using Telekinesis or Laudna to simply ask it to roll away with Animate Objects.)

My friend Snow and I brainstormed for a little bit and came up with using pulleys and levers, having a friendly monster carry it away, or just leaving it there and using it as a coat rack, but in the end I decided that Imogen’s lightning magic could probably break it into pieces with the least amount of visual explanation.

Laudna working on a quilt was meant to be a recurring visual motif throughout this chapter though so I will have to find a way to put that in later.

The underlying sketch of the last panel is REALLY old, it was from that unfinished comic I have mentioned before that I was channeling all of my frantic energy into between episodes 33 and 34. So long before they had any kind of established romantic interest in each other. They were just Like That.

It was late and by the time I was painting the interior objects I was too tired to create a new color palette so the rug is just the Southern Gothic server colors. ;)

[feeling--pink]

Hi 🥺 what if they- 👉👈 what if they got mawwied???? 💕💕💕

Okay hi I’ve been working on these on and off all month (mostly off I got really busy whoops) and I have A LOT of thoughts about a Legbone wedding (ft. the drawtectives cause they really are my blorbos) 

Anyways here’s a list of headcannons that I didn’t get to draw:

So right off the bat let’s talk OUTFITS

To me Legzi and Ryjinah had gone looking for dresses but Legzi wasn’t really pumped about any of them 

So maybe they went on a road trip (because ladies bookclub road trips my beloved) to either go look in a different boutique or to do other wedding related shenanigans 

And on the side of the road Legzi spots this rag 

And of course it’s a torn up wedding dress and suddenly she has a Vision^TM

Just Legzi being more excited about fixing up this dress than anything she could have just bought up to that point 

Because to me Legzi is someone who loves to feel like a part of the process and having all her random skills she picked up from Darkmouth 

Then design wise I wanted something puffy so I could hide how much taller I made her 

Because personally I think her using the leg stilts on her wedding day is not only very Legzi^TM but I also made myself laugh with the concept :) 

And florals because those are fun, green, and easy to make by hand (as someone who’s made a lot of ribbon flowers)!! The vines were places where the dress was really torn and needed more structural stitching 

Ryjinahs dress on the other hand I wanted to take some inspiration from her season 1 design (even though I haven’t seen it) 

Also I love a chance to draw some boob 

so anyways York’s invitation

I’ve said it before but “artists draw fan art of each other’s art” where Karina drew Ryjinah, York, Rowan, and Jacob horse all hanging out is CANON TO ME

Which is why all of those characters were invited!! :)

Anyways I imagine all the invitations had your standard stuff- names, dates, rsvp section

But where it would’ve said +1 I think Ryjinah scribbled that out and hand wrote “+2 ;)” 

Which of course Grandma would be slightly flustered by meanwhile York is like “AWESOME you guys can come!!!” 

I believe in drawtectives polycule supremacy and also York is aroace

Which also lead to my miniature leg wrestling joke :)

Oh but the second York and Rah’ōxah lock eyes they’re going to leg wrestle (Pokémon rules) 

Then they can become friends too and we can make Julia’s drawing in “pro artists redraw their old OCs” canon!!! 

Rah’ōxah is both Legzi and Ryjinahs maid of honor :) 

She’s awesome of course she can do both!!!!!!

I wish I had drawn this but to me Parker the cat officiated :)

Maybe while standing on top of Parker the horse 

Ryjinah was not pleased with this but also couldn’t say no to the combined force of Legzi and Rah’ōxah’s puppy dog eyes 

Plus Parker the cat is the only person (cat) they know who’s ordained

Oh last thing I wanted to but didn’t draw was a Rosé & Rowan interaction 

Or not even so much of an interaction but they catch each other’s gaze from across the room and freeze 

Oh more headcannons but they’re siblings to me 

I mean dyed hair? Knives? Mysterious pasts? Color schemes?? Attracted to himbos??? 

Anyways they both have moved on from their family in different directions 

So to suddenly meet again even from across the room 

Then York or Gramdma calls for Rosé and she looks away and they’re gone

But I digress 

Tbh for everyone’s outfits I kinda just went “you know what would be cute???” 

So floral dress for grandma (obviously) 

Jumpsuit + long gloves for Rosé because vibes 

Unbuttoned shirt and double breasted vest for York so he doesn’t have sleeves 

Similar thought process for Rah’ōxah because they give off similar vibes BUT I made Rah’ōxah’s the same colors as Ryjinah and Legzi so she could match both :)

Then a demon Johnny button on her outer vest kinda like the pin/broach she has in Julia’s drawing in pro artists redraw old OCs 

Rowan I just wanted to look swanky and what’s more swanky than a tailcoat? 

And for everyone but Rah’ōxah I tried to keep to their normal color schemes!! :) 

Are all these outfits practical for what I made a beach wedding on a whim? Absolutely not 

I gave pretty much all of them some sort of heels even if they are technically wedges which is better but STILL 

Beaches are fun and easy ish to draw and I never do backgrounds anyways give me a break lol 

But anyways I think that’s all my thoughts!!!

So Legzi & Ryjinah ride into the sunset on their noble steed Jacob Horse :)

[dokidokitsuna]

Slowly, I think I’m getting a handle on this…I tried studying the character art from my favorite dead MMORPG, Maple Story 2, and I think it helped me find a style for the shading and rendering that’s more dramatic but still sort of cartoony.

Plus, I’ve been doing a bit of script writing, which always helps me figure things out. ^^ So please enjoy the additional work I’ve done on these character concepts.

-Between these two, Magolor definitely needed the most work: you can tell because I basically drew a full character design sheet, which is something I almost never do because I don’t like repetition. XP But it doesn’t feel repetitive when I’m totally lost to begin with. ^^; I think I got a little too abstract that first time I drew him, so my focus here was to figure out the specific shape of his body and rebuild outward from there. In stark contrast to my usual Magolor designs, he’s very tall and muscular, with an imposing silhouette (especially with his cape on). Yes, he IS hiding something under all those purple bandages, but we won’t talk about it today. ;)

-I also like that his outfit gets darker the further inside you go, from the solid white cape and glittering chains, to the silver armor and gray scarves, to the skintight navy blue fit underneath. Symbolism??? Perhaps~

-Blade’s design was already pretty solid, so I just adjusted her cape a little, and then dove straight into the Rainbow Malady concept art. ^^ Phase 1 has her sprout a second eye and wings on one side of her face. Her head catches fire, as the power of the Rainbow Sword attempts to ‘burn away the darkness’. In this phase, Blade is already in a lot of pain, but remains fully conscious and can even speak, when she isn’t coughing up multicolored blood. She can recover from this on her own with a day of rest. Phase 2 is much more serious, forcing her organs outside of her body, and growing star-shaped welts over the rest of her skin. At this point, she can no longer recover without Magolor’s help-- essentially, he uses magic to shove all her organs back where they belong and stitch up the open wounds. It’s like setting a bone after it’s broken-- just as painful as the injury itself (if not more), but necessary for proper healing…which takes about a week.  Phase 3 is the last and worst, transforming her arms into elongated wings and her whole body into burning plasma, on top of all the issues from Phase 2. Thankfully, she can’t really remain conscious in this phase-- she’s usually delirious from fever, blood loss, and her brain literally burning away. ^^; Storywise, she needs about a month to recover from this, so she doesn’t use it too often…of course, as the 'player', you can put her through it as many times as you want. =T

-Fun fact, I guess: So the primary love language between these two characters is food. ^^ I was musing about what I could do with a protagonist arc centered around worsening illness (which is…surprisingly rare), and I thought, “so what do you do for sick people? You put them to bed, you manage their symptoms, you clean and comfort them…and most importantly, you feed them.” And then ^that little doodle basically came to me in a dream, and from there evolved the idea of Magolor showing kindness to Blade by cooking for her.

Most of the time, the little affection Magolor shows to Blade is…basically performative. Think of it like a hammy supervillain petting their cat-- it’s more of a character stim than anything else. ^^; The way Magolor talks to Blade (and especially the way he talks about her…) makes it clear that the hand-holding and headpats don’t mean much.

But on the other hand, giving Blade food and watching her cutely devour it, especially during the times when she’s bed-ridden and he doesn’t see her as often…I like to think that might genuinely endear her to him a little, enough to make it a sort of stand-out gesture. Like, if he strokes her forehead when she’s sick, that’s whatever; but when he spends 5 hours making a Maxim tomato consommé for her to eat, that’s him trying to say he cares. Maybe it’s just a tiny bit, maybe it’s just in that moment, but a small part of him truly wants her to be happy.

[nejishadow]

Shadow Weapon Ken Masterpost [WIP]

Decided I should make something to centralize all the info I have or may make about my Shadow Weapon Ken AU, so people can peruse if they want.

Since this is a rough guide for an AU, I just drew over official art and models. I used Ken's DLC costume image for the main ref. The battle icon for... well, the battle icon. And his Q2 image to showcase some outfit differences. I'll make a whole set of outfit refs... eventually.

This may change formatting or anything else at any time. Feel free to ask any questions on this post or in my inbox. I'm forgetful when making posts like this, or can't think of everything people might want to know, so any answers might be added in!

Everything under read more for now, the way I format this stuff for readability makes it long

If this gets too long it may be moved to a Google doc with this post being a hub or summary of images and fics / links

All fics about this concept will be uploaded to this Series on my AO3. As of Dec 2nd, there are 5

[Basic Info] - Swaps places with Aigis. He is still found when they go on vacation to Yakushima. Aigis' exact details for the swap haven't been decided yet beyond that she's a foreign exchange student, but will be built upon over time / she'll get her own post. - Immediately bonds to Makoto upon meeting him. Their bond in this AU is something more like a parent and his kid. - Programmed to view himself as a real boy and only that. If he ever perceives himself as an android / ASW he either shuts down or forgets / overwrites the realization. - Ikutsuki will not tell them why he's programmed that way, he generally refuses to tell SEES anything about Ken, beyond him being an Anti Shadow Weapon who will be a great help to the cause. - Ken was a major test to see if the Persona of a machine convinced it was fully human, rather than just human-like, would be stronger. Even more if the openmindedness and potential of a child would further it. Especially one who didn't want to lose anything. - He has some falsely implanted memories, thinking he had parents that were lost in an accident, hence his lack of family. This doubly fuels his attachment to Makoto because he doesn't want to lose anyone again. - Tends to be bullied or picked on by other students because he acts just enough different for them to pick up on it. This leads to him occasionally leaving school early or skipping, so on those days he can typically be found at Gekkoukan High with a member of SEES -- usually Akihiko or Makoto -- or in the student council room. If he's wandering around town, he's likely to be at the bookstore or hanging out with the stray cats. - Moves very quietly, so people outside of SEES are likely to forget he's around or not notice his approach. This doesn't help the above point, since he can easily listen in on people talking about him without getting caught, and some kids also think he's weird even for that. - He still is part of the soccer club / soccer team. He sees it as a way to keep his reaction time in top shape and blow off steam. He's the best player, but it makes him no friends, only isolating him farther due to jealousy. - Doesn't like eating food unless he's seen it being made. This doesn't apply to SEES (sans Fuuka for a long long time) after he comes to trust them, as he learns exactly how they all cook. - Has issues with volume control when he gets very excited, headphones or not. Liable to tap his feet or flap his hands when he's happy. Very easily loses track of time when focused. - Has trouble sleeping when it's too quiet, a side effect of his ASW programming constantly scanning for threats. - Can be snide or petulant when overwhelmed or irritated. He tries his best to be polite and mature but he can't keep up that energy forever.

[Visual Info] - Ken's model is closer to Metis than Aigis, more doll-like. He is meant to be very lightweight so he can move quickly and quietly, aiding in his use of his weapon - a sniper rifle. - His headphones are removeable as they simply aid in enhancing or blocking his hearing. He always has to keep his hearing aids on, headphones on or not, to hear properly. He panics if they're touched without permission. - He's almost always covered -- wearing pants, gloves, and high collars all year round -- to hide his body from everyone. - He perceives his body as fully human. This allows him to do things like change clothes and keep up his hygiene without shutting down constantly. He still avoids activities like swimming, assuming he doesn't know how, so it's scary. - Expression defaults to being flat. This leads some people to think he doesn't like them when meeting for the first time. Copies / mimics Makoto without thinking, standing like him or putting his hands in his pockets, and picks up the habit of tilting his head from him. - This AU design is supposed to invoke the smallest bit of P4AU Ken, since the longer/fluffier hair helps hide more his neck / body suit.

[Battle Info] - His main weapon is a sniper rifle. Only one shot per turn, but higher crit rate. - His Personas are still Nemesis and Kala Nemi, to avoid any messy or confusing persona swaps. His reason for having them will just shift (will be added here once expanded upon). - Skills more lean towards battle/support than healing, but Theurgy is still revival in honor of his false memories. - Lower defense stat but higher attack stat. Not quite a glass canon, but good to keep a healer around. - If heavily damaged in battle he shuts down to protect himself. His programming rationalizes this as passing out or being sick.

[SEES Social Info]

- Defaults to addressing everyone as "[Last Name]-San" out of respect. He slowly switches to "[Last Name]-Senpai", or for Akihiko just senpai, as he grows closer and gets more comfortable with them. He always refers to Shinjiro as Aragaki-San, and affectionately called Koromaru Koro-chan.

- Gets along best with Makoto, looking up to him as a leader and as a parental / brother figure. Makoto treats Ken like he himself wanted and needed after his parent's accident, and doesn't treat him lesser for his status as an Anti Shadow Weapon. - Isn't sure about Junpei, but warms up to him. Junpei's just psyched to have a little brother to joke around with, human or not. Junpei may be the worst at slipping up in his wording, but he's quick to correct or redirect. - Yukari is the best at having conversations and treating him like a normal kid. She fully understands the harm that may come to him otherwise, and is determined to keep him safe, in spite of Ikutsuki's blasé attitude. - Mitsuru is a bit more strict with him. Ken assumes this is because he's a kid and so has to be more careful. Mitsuru worries about Ken and helps Makoto keep everyone in line about him. - Still looks up to Akihiko, and respects his strength. Akihiko has a hard time fully addressing him as human, slipping up occasionally, but does his best to keep Ken involved / treat him like a normal child. - Adores Koromaru and will take him on walks whenever he can. He almost feels like he can understand him, unable to realize he can. Koromaru will hang out with Ken on nights everyone else is asleep, and Ken is restless. - Ken is very wary of Shinjiro. If he's in the vicinity of Makoto, Ken won't ever be far off, keeping an eye on things. Ken's programming tells him something is off about him, but unable to pinpoint what. He does still enjoy his cooking, and is cordial for the team's sake. - He respects Fuuka's varied knowledge, and likes hearing about what books she's currently reading or what she's programming. He still refuses to try her food, after the Incident.

[Other Social Info] - Does not like being around Ikutsuki and will keep as far away as possible, usually standing behind Makoto or another member of SEES. He only feels danger from him, but assumes he's just being paranoid so doesn't bring it up unless prompted, and is quick to dismiss it. - Occasionally interacts with other social links, though the majority are rarely out and about so only sees those if he meets Makoto at his school. - Knows Maiko and Akinari from the shrine, but wouldn't consider them close friends. Occasionally hangs out with Maiko, but generally thinks he's too mature to do stuff like play on a playground. Likes to listen to Akinari talk about his book, finding the ideas very interesting. - Thinks Kenji is kind of a loser, but is nice to him for Makoto's sake when he's over. They have a small bond over Featherman, if nothing else. - Sees Mamoru out eating sometimes, and will join him for a break since Makoto thinks highly of him, and since Mamoru is very nice to him since he's used to interacting with kids due to his siblings.

[auxiliarydetective]

Alright, it's time for the first big event of two...

INARI GOT A REFERENCE SHEET!!!

Can I got a "Yippee!" for my girl? And for me, because this took me 17 hours, according to my art program.

Look at her! Isn't she adorable? Open bangs version and LOTS of rambles under the cut, plus a bit of bonus content <3

SO. Rambling time:

The left outfit is based off an even older outfit based off Enel's outfit I drew for Inari back when I came up with her. New and improved.

She's got poofy pants with the same pattern as Enel's pants, though her pants aren't quite as poofy as his. Also, different colors. She's also got the wraparound thingy over it (which I just realized doesn't go all the way around here oopsies - imagine that it does) and the same sash as Enel.

Obviously, Inari can't be shirtless in this society, so I gave her a nice bustier.

The jewelry is also a nod to Enel.

The little purple-ish fabric bit is a nod to God's Army.

NOW. The Post-Timeskip outfit. I had a whole bunch of references for this. The concept that I had in mind was that, before the timeskip, Inari is still struggling with how to be an individual, so she'd be stealing the other Straw Hats' clothes a lot and letting them pick outfits for her. But after the timeskip, she has her own fashion sense - one so girly that it drives Zoro insane.

The shirt with it's peter pan collar and poofy sleeves in reminiscent of the Wonderland theme of Totto Land. Plus a nice bow to go with it.

Lots of the Charlotte siblings wear some sort of fur and a cape, so I wanted that for Inari too. But I had to find her version of the fur and cape, so I settled on a capelet with a fur trim and a cute little hood.

Inari is wearing a friendship bracelet for each of her younger siblings, except for Anglaise - who gave her the caterpillar ring - and Flampe, whom she dislikes.

Kitsune stockings!

Pink mary janes because I can

Congrats, you made it to the end! As a treat, here are all the reference images I used for the post-timeskip outfit.

I decided not to use the ruffled bracelet thingies so I could give her the friendship bracelects instead and added in the kitsune mask later so I could have a reference for the face on the stockings.

Taglist: @starcrossedjedis @oneirataxia-girl @daughter-of-melpomene @bravelittleflower @box-of-bats - let me know if you’d like to be added or removed!

One Piece Taglist: @supermarine-silvally

[hearts401]

do you have any ideas in mind for how swap!evans scrap baby design would look, assuming its different from regular scrap baby? (since yk, its implied(?) they rebuilt themself after getting kicked out of ennard)

oh and how did/do evan and circus baby interact/feel about each other?

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I DREW THIS ASK TODAY AND CANNOT SHARE THE ART BC ITS. ON PAPER. AND I DONT HAVE MY PHONE

But i thought id answer anyways, ill rb with a doodle if i can manage one (maybe in my animation class?)

first of all, he'd not be half as smashed up as liz was. he wanted to be cute and whatever, and his goal is. not killing ppl lmao.

so he goes back and gets a discarded unused circus baby faceplate from the bunker. its old and the faceplates dont move well at all (rusty and stuck together, mostly) but its not horrible. its also cracked a bit but. what can you do?

instead of wires and whatever i think hed want something softer to use for hair so i gave him some sort of fucked up string. its thick and fluffy but falling appart :( poor dude he also got other discarded animatronic concepts that william and henry kept in case they wanted to use them elsewhere. evan still has the claw on one hand but the other is an unnecessarily large paw (he cant exactly remember why at this point, but he loves bears so the paw caught his eye)

his outfit is just cloathes he found in the garbage and therefore doesnt fit well. and his torso is just the usual circus baby torso if not a bit fucked up by all the time itd been left in the bunker. its also cracked and rusty similar to his mask

his feet r just whatever he could find, but those wont even be seen a lot bc hes in the vents so who cares

the big paw is also one of the same as what molten freddy dug up to replace the rubber hose esque hands ennard had (not REALLY rubber hose but meant to look the part yk?)

as for evs relationship w cbby, its complicated. he initially wants nothing to do with the animatronic or possessing it, but when he sees liz he suddenly wants to seize control (hence bouncing between circus baby and evan)

at that time, there was still a pretty clear line between evan and cbby, bc of how hed avoided her n shit in a way bc he cant. he cant leave her lmao but he just didnt try to BE her. still while SL takes place the line does blur between him and cbby.

post scoop he finds mike and tells him about elizabeth and for a while michael keeps him seperate from the other animatronics bc yk, having someone he KNEW was his sibling and who KNEW his identity helped him and michael is the most conscious of everyone. and so he once again was aware of who he was but when michael and the funtimes both dumped him they reallty merged and it became unclear who was who (which lead to his memories getting fucked wehn he was rebuilding himself) and just overall hes weird and Not Evan Anymore. especially because evan being rejected by michael compared to circus baby being abandoned by william and the funtimes and that pain of being thrown to the curb causing anger in both that ended with them having such similar ideas and feelings that they might as well be the same entity

as far as interactions go, they really didnt interact much for a VERY long time and when they did it was quick and uncomfortable. but when evan tried to wrestle control back its started a weird silent relationshi

Circus baby did not want to get rid of him, she didnt entirely know what he was ("I still hear her sometimes" yk?) other than shed killed him and sometimes shed say things she didnt think.

evan didnt like how everything was going with elizabeth, so he wanted to subtly steer her elsewhere. however, between his own bitterness at her leaving him alone and inadvertently causing his death, and circus baby and him becoming one, he eventually began leading her to the scooper.

and evan is a lot more convincing than circus baby was.

its not until he's set free that evan is actually evan again

[hyperactivetransdrone]

Drone god/goddess concept art I drew more information under the picture:

First of all: I don't have a drawing tablet or like a large touch screen and pencil and I don't like the screen moving except for maybe tiny details so I need a large screen with art that is locked in place like paper to draw digitally so I did it on paper

Anyway on the left is the full art which I now realize was a stupid decision as I should have done it on the right to minimize the art streaking because I'm left handed but on the right is the line art. I didn't draw hands as that's the hardest part. I did draw the hands on the glove concept just to show what it would look like if done correctly, same with the heel concept but reverse.

The mask itself has essentially a "breathing hole" in the front. The god doesn't need to breathe so it's there for aesthetic purposes and if anyone wants to make this an actual mask. I took a lot from drones I saw on the internet and tried to incorporate as much as I could into it's design. The tubes on the mask just go into the suit as shown with the head concept the tubes on the mouth go back and into the head and combine onto the larger tube in the back of it's head going to probably an oxygen tank or something. I realize as I was finishing this that it's sort of like the Pokémon Mewtwo but that was entirely coincidental. The visor is, well first and foremost it's eyes but Secondly it can make that visor into a Hypnotic spiral to create more drones although I will go over it's personality later.

The hair isn't actual hair as it doesn't even have a scalp the "hair" is there to make is seem both more intimidating but also less at the same time as the more human it looks the more approachable something is.

It's skin is made entirely of a latex-like substance hence all the shiny bits I did mess up on the legs on that part as I originally used marker but after I did that I couldn't draw in the shadows so I opted for a metallic black paint painting over the original marker so the legs do look a bit jank compared to the arms. The shoulders I stole from some of Lady Gaga's outfits, it also helps to make it's shoulders seem wider, therefore more intimidating.

Originally I wanted to do ballet heels for it's feet instead of normal heels but I wanted it to be more of a "mother of all drones" type thing so it would have to look more dominant so I chose to not do ballet heels, instead opting for near-thigh-high-boot-heels as the lip of the boots (and also elbows) would prevent it from moving comfortably when walking (or doing arm gestures)

I purposely put her in an A-Pose as I just wanted to see her in her base standing form before I put her where she basically lives, which I may also post when I finish this. I would have posted this on my soon to be general blog where that would hold all my story telling things, however as this character is more... erotic in nature I opted to post it here

Anyway with its personality it fully thinks that being a drone is first of all must be completely consensual, anyone caught forcing someone to become a drone against his/her will (Including their but this is storytelling so just assume I mean anyone when I say his/her) due to it being the top of the hivemind and is the only drone capable of independent thought they WILL be caught will be Hunted down by it (or some kind of drone, it depends on how I want to take this story, maybe all active drones) and have something done (don't know what yet) and the person force droned will be taken extreme care of by the goddess and given an option of whether or not that person wishes to leave. Nextly, all human drones (so drone converts) must be human at least once or twice a week, for example if you are being a drone because you are depressed and just don't want to feel, that's perfectly okay with the god but if you never want to come out you will be kicked out of being a drone for 24 hours if you stay a drone for too long. Then it doesn't care why you decided to become a drone, it could be for sex, depression, productivity, but all it does care about is if you take care of yourself. Anyone who does decide to be a drone, however will always not only be taken care of by it but also it will always try to protect it's drones. Finally it will never force anyone to become a drone (except maybe those who abuse the power of dronification to have power over people) and will gladly show anyone who think that what it does is evil, the reason why people come to it to be a drone.

There is of course a hierarchy of drones but I haven't ironed out all the details yet. The place where it basically lives, however, is in a ceo like office on a computer behind the desk where the central Hive of drones go to. That place is sort of like a hotel for drones, and it's free to stay in if your a drone as well.

Final note about my artwork:

Please do not use my artwork without crediting me, if you see some of my art without any credit, please either ask them to credit me or report it to me, with a link, thank you! :3

[geminialchemist]

I don’t even own a stylus, and drew this all with my finger on an iPad, so forgive the quality of the art.

I’ve had tons of ideas for fics, and no time to write them lately. This one is an age swap AU, where everything is the same for the most part on Eda’s end. She gets cursed, and finds the door to the human realm, just like we see in the canon flashbacks. But that’s where stuff gets to be different. Luz is the middle aged one, and takes care of Eda while she sticks around in the human world. Her design remains mostly unchanged, but she does have a red skirt she wears with a tear in it, and black shorts underneath.

The idea I’ve got for Luz is that she’s a single mom, taking care of her daughter, Camila. She’s a burnt out fantasy writer, and lost a lot of her childlike wonder, whimsy, and enthusiasm for the genre she used to love. Her editor is pounding at the door for her next book, but Luz has writers block, and is getting behind on the bills. Meeting Eda, she finds a new muse, and wants to learn about magic in exchange for teaching Eda how the human world works. A lot of her design is taken straight from concept art for her appearance in the epilogue, I just combined a few of the outfits I liked and made her look older.

Camila is Luz’s daughter. She’s not really into the fantasy books her Mom writes, but she loves science fiction, especially Cosmic Frontier. She’s really nerdy and wears her interests on her sleeve. Her love of CF has left her to be picked on and ostracized in school, though she keeps quiet about it, not wanting to pile on more trouble for her mom, when she knows they’re already struggling financially. Her design takes a lot from her appearance in one of the flashbacks when Luz was little, mostly the hair. The glasses are from one of Luz’s concept arts again.

I haven’t really put that much thought into the rest of this AU, so feel free to contribute what you think the rest of the cast would be up to if you’d like. I’d like to imagine that somehow, Luz meets Amity and it’s dorky love all over again, but what Amity is like or what she’s doing evades me.

[darker-overlord]

whoa, she launched!

happy launch day, kayo! she's my little pookie i love her so much that i bully her constantly through the narrative

in honor of today, i'll be dumping some REALLY old doodles (really old = two-three months ago) when i started working on her! unlike most of my dumps, i'll be describing and giving more context to the drawings! think of it as a little timeline of her development :D

*the oc blog is @lilies-and-forget-me-nots .. i forgor

drawing 1: our earliest kayo?!

this was dated january 17 2023. yeah. 2023. this year.

geez, was that really my art style just three months ago?

yes, unfortunately. though i'll attribute the fact that kayo looks 12 here mostly to the fact that i was still getting used to using an ipad to draw--still, you can really see that i had her design 90% down from the start. just changed her parting a little and removed the flower accessory + little ombre(?) in her hair.

at first, she was going to be a LOT closer to yui, but then if she was, she would've intervened as early as more blood, which was not something i was aiming for. plus, isn't it more fun thinking that she barely knows her (and yet pulls the stunt of taking her place for her sake... what a loser)

also, at first, she was going to just be straight up meaner for no reason. like literally just the worst person you can think of, but a problem with that is that she would definitely get killed if she was just horrible and toxic. plus, that was kind of boring on my end as well, so she kind of turned into a meowmeow.

adding to the old concept though, all her endings were supposed to be bad endings! then i scrapped that really quickly when i changed her personality...

drawing 2: our earliest hunter!

same day as the first drawing... yeouch.

as you can see, her hair was supposed to be a lot neater--and flatter--as a hunter. the cross clip is a lot smaller, and her palette was all over the place. like come on, why is her coat pink??

speaking of which, i changed hunter kayo to being a little messier than her old version because of a change in personality. this proto-hunter kayo still feels emotions very well. in fact, even more intensely than bride kayo. she's constantly angry--for what she went through as a young girl, for losing her eye--just a lot of things.

kind of funny that her personality pulled a 180 lawl

drawing 3: early outfit dump

i made the file for this drawing on january 19, but i believe i updated it as late as early march.

as you can see, it's really just outfit concepts. most of them are the same as the current outfit concept art--thanks to, well, me updating this file until march. you might be familiar with the three on the right, and the lost eden + dark fate outfit is practically the same as the one i posted. the hdb/mb outfit changed the most out of those three: i suctioned it to kayo's body to emphasize her figure more lol (i am the biggest kayo simp in the end)

as for the first two, you can see they were labelled for chaos lineage and lunatic parade! the chaos lineage outfit is probably already like 90% down for me, but the lunatic parade one is peculiar because, well, i scrapped it entirely. it's a cute outfit, for sure, but i didn't think it was kayo's style in the end. perhaps it might get the same hdb/mb outfit treatment and get tweaked to match her better, but i think her current lunatic parade design is solid!

drawing 4: early cg concepts

this was dated feb 25!

honestly, this is still really good, and i'm still planning on adding this scenario to laito's route. it's just that, once again, kayo is suffering from the bug-eyed twelve year old syndrome i was going through since january. plus i was (still am) bad at drawing men, so laito kind of came out looking like a really strange looking lady lol. it's so embarrassing i even had to crop it out.

drawing(s) 5: whoa sailor outfits?!

i actually drew this just two weeks after the last one--march 10th! you can clearly see my art style shifting at this point; i'm starting to think it's the switch from sketching with a soft brush to a hard brush.

this was, if you didn't already guess, in honor of the aquamarine series! of course, there are two: one for the hunter and one for the bride!

i have this running theme of "what would reiji (biggest discreet pervert) make bride kayo wear?" and that man loves his kayo legs, so naturally she had to wear thigh highs and an awkwardly short skirt. at least hunter kayo got away with just a crop top.

you can see something hanging on the hunter's waist--it's actually a demon hunting relic!

drawing 6: hunter kayo in ryotei au cgs?!

very recent drawing--dated march 29!

now, hunter kayo actually doesn't attend ryotei at any point of the series. it just so happens that i thought she'd look really hot in the uniform, and ta-da--i made an au! being an au, it's not canon, but i like to think she has a small route with shuu that doesn't really end well as you'd expect.

still, the sight of her kissing him as he bites on her knife is very very cool. keep up the good work hunter!

drawing 7: late highschool kayo!

the final doodle--dated less than a week ago!

this is really just kayo in high school after seiji's treatment of her started getting to her properly. i wonder what she's praying and why...

BONUS 1: CATGIRL KAYO!!

i was in the middle of making this post when a certain catboy-baiter (@poohwhin side eyes...) posted................

i love humans with animal features (i.e. not humanoid animals aka what you'd typically think of when you think of furries...) and genshin already devastated me with not only keqing but DEHYA being fake catgirls, so to recover emotionally i naturally made kayo a catgirl. ougggg she's so cute

BONUS 2: a kayoyui route?!

Yes. and it's finished. i just have to make the cgs and post it.

i mostly made it as a kind of exercise in making routes, since, well, i have to start making a lot. it only has five individual scenarios in the dark, manic, and ecstasy section, but it still has a prologue and epilogue. there are also only two endings!

it also serves to delve a bit more into the hunter's character, since bride kayo is the main focus of the blog. let's give her a little love, yknow!! even if she can't give any back...

[mythicaldemigoddess-of-deltarune]

Spinelluva Boss AU: Spinel’s New Form (2023)

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[Note: This Will Also Be Shown As Cover For A Future Chapter of “Spinelluva Boss: Home Is Where The Spinel Is” it will be posted here and used over to where the story is, and Don’t Reblog Without Permission, Only I can use this drawing for both here and over at the place where the story is at.]

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Credit for Steven Universe Series goes to Rebecca Sugar

Credit for Hazbin Hotel & Helluva Boss goes to Vivienne "Vivziepop" Medrano

Credit for Invader Zim goes to Jhonen Vasquez

Credit for Super Mario Bros goes to Nintendo

Credit for Super Mario Bros 1993 Film goes to Lightmotive

Credit for Sonic The Hedgehog goes to Sega

Credit for Ben 10: Omniverse goes to Man Of Action

Credit for Codename: Kids Next Door goes to Tom Warburton

Credit for Ed, Edd n Eddy goes to Danny Antonucci

Credit for My Little Pony goes to Bonnie Zacherle

Credit for My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic goes to Lauren Faust

Credit for My Little Pony: Equestria Girls & Transformers goes to Hasbro

Credit for Transformers Animated goes to Sam Register, Matt Youngberg & Derrick J. Wyatt

Credit for Vandread goes to Gonzo

Credit for Bendy Game Series goes to Joey Drew Studios Inc.

Credit for Undertale & Deltarune goes to Toby Fox

Credit for Mass Effect Series goes to Casey Hudson & BioWare

Credit for Fallout Series goes to Tim Cain & Bethesda Softworks

Credit for Five Nights At Freddy's goes to Scott Cawthon

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it might be difficult to see the words “Nuka-Cola” on the bottle in between the Fredbear Doll & The Deltarune Symbol, so it might be best to click on the drawing to make it bigger, it will also let you see the Meteor Fragment from The Super Mario Bros 1993 Movie, more better I think....I tried my best to draw that fragment, and I hope I did okay on it.

I also drew a Pyjak from Mass Effect in this Crossover Fan Art/Spinelluva Boss AU Concept of Spinel’s future form (even if it is fanon only.)      

the Chao in this drawing are The Twin Siblings known as "Cheese & Chocola",  

the Omnitrix in this drawing is of course the one from Ben 10 Omniverse. Plank from Ed, Edd n Eddy is in this drawing as well...

also this might be my first Fan Art of Keekee from Hazbin Hotel Series...

also you might recognize the small red skull as something that Blitzo has been known to wear in Helluva Boss.

I wanted to try different looks for Spinel, in the Spinelluva Boss AU...

this would be her third form, she of course had poofed and her conciseness manifestation of light had retreated back into her gem.

in all four concepts of her mature new form, she pretty much looks a little the same, but she is given a more air of maturity.

in this form, she is slightly taller than her two previous forms, but still keeping some of the looks of her second form.

I could think over if the 1# look, could be her first new mature form, and after poofing about three times, before reaching her fourth form where she goes back to having two ponytails, but them being much longer than her previous ones, and her having spiked wristbands and a collar/choker...

the rest of her outfit would still be the same, only some parts of it would be in a different color from the other three.                      

in the 4# form, it has her wearing lipstick...

in all three different concepts of her new fanon form for Spinelluva Boss AU...

she is possibly around Blitzo’s height, but in theory in her previous second form, she may have been around Millie & Moxxie’s height.

and if she was in her first form, she would probably be up to both Millie & Moxxie’s shoulders, possibly have been a bit shorter than them in her first form

but in her second form she would possibly be the same height as them.

but in her third form, she is taller than them now...

in Spinelluva Boss Au, Spinel never met with White, Yellow and Blue on Earth, and end up going with them to Homeworld and becoming new friends & family.

she instead ends up going to Hell, but of course she is very much alive when she did so, and wasn’t shattered...

and yes this is a spoiler from what I had wrote, but she was taken there by I.M.P. but their originally plan was to take out someone who was suppose to be at Beach City, but because of the situation that had to do with Spinel, they had to try again on a later day...and the target happen to be Greg’s Ex-Manager “Marty”....

and while Spinel ends up being saved by the I.M.P and brought to their work place, she ends up becoming a part of I.M.P.

even though she has a different look in this drawing, she is still a Jester...

but she’s a “Freelance Jester”, and if you think about it, she would be like the “Harley Quinn” To Fizzarolli’s or Robo-Fizz’s “Joker”....

picture her reaching in her gem and pulling out a Hammer and twirling it in her hand before getting ready to wack Robo-Fizz or Ozzie’s Fizzy.

and like any gem, she can shape-shift, and not just stretch.

so if she wanted to, she could probably make herself look like Ozzie, Alastor, Angel Dust, Blitzo, Robo-Fizz and possibly anyone else she had met or heard about by watching on TV or from a newspaper.

in theory, when shape-shifting a gem could change the color of their palette to match who they are taking the form of, but their gem would stay the same both in color and on the place it is on their body.

so if Spinel could shape-shift into a perfect copy of whoever she chooses,

what would be different about the forms she takes, even if she matches them almost perfectly, they would end up having her gem on their chest, or rather it would still be her, so it would still be her...

         it be funny if she shape-shift in the form of Charlie’s Dad, and did what Amethyst did when she shape-shift to look like Pearl...

like picture Spinel who looks like Lucifer Morningstar, and ends up slapping “his” own butt while making the same sound that Amethyst did when impersonating Pearl.

and picture Charile, Vaggie and Lilith watching and trying to hold in their laughter from what Spinel is doing in the disguise Lucifer form.

anyway, when I can I will have this drawing be part of a Cover for a Chapter...

to show her four possible new forms.

the fan fic of the Spinelluva Boss AU, which is a Crossover AU...

might not end up being very long, and might end up being a few chapters.

and anyway, that is all I have to say about it...

other than it wont just be Steven Universe & Helluva Boss in the Crossover AU called “Spinelluva Boss”....and of course it is Fanon, so it isn’t Canon.

[twin-books]

Can you draw redraw with this cuties!?

https://at.tumblr.com/sashamoon19/704241433319784448/99wl4qlai8a5

This concept art features Gorgeous Nathan from the gym club (AKA Pre Felix) and Marietta (Or Marinette)!

You have very nice drawings,I like it,Dude!!Very beautiful and creativity.Your drawings are just a masterpiece!!!

Firstly, I must thank you for helping me identify that the dude in this concept is Gorgeous Nathan. I always thought he couldn't be Felix because he seemed different, and it's not just because of the outfit, though that's a heavy reason. I never thought about it being Gorgeous Nathan but that does make the most sense. Also, I must say I very much appreciate you referring to him by his full title. Beautiful. We always appreciate Gorgeous Nathan from the Gym Club. (I will bully this man relentlessly for this title, I swear). For those who don't like using links that they can't be sure where they lead, this is the image anon is talking about:

Anyway, I'm not sure if you were actually asking me to draw them separately or redraw this image. I went with redrawing it. I do have this image and I very much love it more compared to the final product. So I decided to redraw it based on what ended up being the final product and on this sketch version. The final product involves the weird combination of Marinette and "Bridgette" and Felix. There was not much else in the scene besides two people and a car and while I liked the focus on Felix and "Bri" it looked so barren and lifeless somehow compared to all other concept images. That isn't to say the art is bad, of course. The art was very, very good. It just didn't have quite the same life I loved about the other concepts so it's one of my least favorites. Here's them compared side by side:

I quite liked the sketch because of life it had and I wanted to somehow mimic that without people so I decided to add a lot more plant life and hopefully bring more "energy" you could say. I'm not sure I did it justice. I also did some very sloppy coloring because I thought it would be fun. I don't really love the outfit Marietta have so I did my best with what I was provided. That's one of the things I preferred about the final image. I will say I couldn't help myself and added Marietta's necklace even though this isn't quite the Marietta we know because she seemed to have the more Marinette-like bangs.

But here it is... I did my best. I much prefer the original products myself but this was fun. I recommend clicking on it. This image is big so Tumblr makes it look worse. XD

I really had to deconstruct this image. I went through tracing the very basic shapes of it to get the basic idea of the energy then I went to making my own building blocks so I could draw my own style over top of that then it was redrawing it all over again and so forth and so on... I basically drew this image multiple times. Can't say I'm all that thrilled with this one. I actually don't quite like it. But I do try to be honest about my art journey. I am one of those artists who believes it's the fun that's important and I had a whole lot of fun making it. Except Gorgeous Nathan's head. That wasn't fun. Very unfun. You think I would hate his hands but no it was his freaking head. Ironic since that's the stuff I draw the most; heads and faces. I hope you at least like it, even just a little bit. Maybe one day I can draw them again without trying to measure up to someone else's work, I suppose. That's probably what threw me off a lot, that I really wanted to do it justice even though I knew this would be a very simple drawing. Thanks for the request! It was very fun to draw this version of the characters! I also very much like the story this one tells! Also anon, I gotta ask... are you the same anon sending me all the wonderful asks in my inbox? I, of course, appreciate them but it did get me curious! I hope you're having a wonderful day, afternoon, evening, night, or whatever time it is where you are! <3

[plushie-neopet]

Nostalgia

I'm going to relive my history with the site a lil, but it's already running long, so I'll put it under a readmore.

When I was first told of Neopets in ~2000 I was frequenting a Digimon oekaki (drawing board) and drawing Lopmon/Floramon/Kiwimon with alarming regularity. I joined Neopets because friends on the oekaki asked me to. I made a blue shoyru, which I painted purple because I liked the user hrobi's purple shoyru Antorcha and the art on the site card for Antikia Lighten. I think at the time I thought the site made the card based on the user's pet.

I joined my friends' guild, and in a guild event I won a silver paint brush and re-painted my shoyru. It was actually pretty interesting, because I was trying to make her look mirror-shiny in art I made of her, and that taught me a lot about colouring. I played for a bit over a year. I legit talked about 9/11 as it happened in that guilds' lil chat area. I had to calm down an American kid who went by the name 'Piggy' because her parents were REALLY upset about it and she was panicking. And shortly after I lost interest and the login details.

When I came back March 1st 2002, I made my kuroi_muchi account but occasionally I would look up my first account. It was wiped in the purge, however. The first pet I made on my kuroi_muchi account was a gelert... But I didn't connect with the old gelert art and didn't feel inspired by it.. Also, I forgot to capitalise her name, and that bothered me. I pounded her. She still exists on-site, but now she's a Woodland Poogle. As I write this, she is 8005 days old, so she is almost 22 years old, like my account. Her owner plays semi-regularly, but was last spotted about three months ago.

I still have the second pet I ever made on my current main, but she's on a side account. She's a Halloween Aisha named Itla, and given I always drew the red 'outfit' as part of her fur I don't want to remove it to put other clothes on her... She was my first serious roleplay character (a demon catgirl RP'd on MSN messenger) and now I like to joke that she's happily retired.

Shortly after making kuroi_muchi, I found a Neopet-themed Oekaki called 'Sako's Oekaki'. This drawing board was accessed via Sako the then-shadow aisha's petpage. Sako's petpage is now a jumbled mess of broken script, but it mentions the Oekaki to this day.

My Halloween aisha was quite popular there! The board focused quite a bit on aishas and roleplay, as well as art. There was an ongoing theme with angel and demon aishas - and my Halloween girl was obviously one of the demons. I'm not even going to say it was cringe - we were kids playing with concepts of belief and morality. I feel like that's pretty important when you are developing your world views. I made a lot of very dear friends there. Actually, I met my first ever girlfriend there. Long distance, but cute and meaningful. One of my friends from that board wanted to make plushie pets together, to match. Plushie grundo/chomby MPs were under 100k np, so we made those. He made a grundo, and I made Kijiwa the plushie chomby. And I kinda fell in love with plushie neopets after that. I wanted to make more... but then conversion happened and they lost a lot of their charm, and gosh they were EXPENSIVE, so I didn't until much later.

When the purge happened a lot of people had long lists of names they wanted, but I only had one. My name is Rain, and I like birds, and I like the meaning of 'rainbird' - a bird that sings to warn of an incoming storm. Rainbird was the only name I grabbed when it was released, and they became the pet to represent me. For a while I lab zapped them, unsure what would work as 'me'... But I eventually decided that they had to be a bird, and I would acknowledge my love of plushies and try to draw them the way they should look. So Rainbird is a plushie bruce. If Toy had been around I might have been tempted, to be honest! But I quite enjoy my fat purple penguin.

Rainbird is female on-site (but uses they/them) because I made them before my own public transition. It's one of the few things I might like to change, if it becomes easier/cheaper in the future. I am aligned more with masculinity than femininity, but... Well, it's fine to have little markers of how I've grown. Hell, I 'announced' my transition subtly with art of Rainbird. Before the pride flags were added to the site, and when discussion of the subject was against the rules. I wasn't discussing it, though. I just... drew a bruce wearing a bow.

I think I won a gold BC trophy for this picture.

It's probably silly that I can connect a lot of memories to a pet site. It's probably silly that I have a rainbow chomby plushie on my desk right now, when I'm in my mid-30s. It's probably silly how sentimental I'm feeling about all this. It's probably silly to be running a blog dedicated to a 25 year old site and the art that people make based on it. Sometimes it's nice to be silly.

This year I made Teald - based on an OC I have been writing and roleplaying for years. It felt like coming back, looping around to something familiar. I will take inspiration from strange places, and I will bring my inspiration back to places I know. I am glad the NCUCs came back - realistically, that faerie lenny mp probably would have sat in my SDB for years more. I just don't like the converted lenny art. But I knew that if Teal was anything, they'd be a faerie lenny.

I don't know why I felt like sharing all of this. Perhaps this too is a little marker I am leaving online, so I can look at it years from now and remember. If you read it all... well, thanks. Thanks for coming on this stroll down memory lane with me. There's more I didn't add - I have many more Neopets, after all! But this felt worth sharing, or at least writing down somewhere.

Stay excellent.

[sunderedazem]

PLEASE LOOK AT THIS ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS ART BY @trashsketch THAT YUI COMMISSIONED FOR ME-

IT’S KILLUA AND GON AS THEY LOOK IN SEEKING PETRICHOR AND I’M SOBBING I WAS NOT EXPECTING THIS-