#starstruck gijinka

[doggirling]

meta knight origin story HAL won't tell you about

original... i found this meme originally back in the summer before this meme blew up and i immediately knew i had to redraw it with nightmare. it was just a matter of which one of his sires it would've been funnier to do it with... kitty ended up winning. you guys cant see it but she's 1000% needing to stand on a really big stepstool in that first panel

also when i sent this to gala they thought samo was haltmann which was funny as fuck

[starstruck358]

IT'S THE KIRBY 32TH ANNIVERSARY ANIMATION!

sorry if it's a little off beat on some parts

I didn't put in the lyrics because I forgor them and plus they don't really matter. I tried my best to resemble a kirby game by little details and stuff.

anyway, hhhhhhhh what a pain this was to make...

hope you enjoyed it! <3

[sammylatindeath]

Have been thinkin' of making this ever since I designed her current outfit with the flowy skirt and all :3

[adamk201]

🤑➕️🤩🟰💞

[foileadeux]

assortment of hk gijinka sketches, fun little lighthearted alternative hairstyles (with bows) and then a funny little aftermath of the mama animatic

(ear inspo from @/ria-starstruck!!)

[staring-at-a-blank-pagee]

for @starflungwaddledee! i was aimlessly doodling and then realized that if i gave her a ribbon and added some stars she would totally look like starstruck 😂 so here we are! a little gijinka starstruck dee :)

[starflungwaddledee]

Do you have, or plan to design a gijinka of Starstruck waddle dee?

i can confirm that i will almost certainly never do this, actually. i won't say 100% never just in case, but like... 99%. for multiple reasons, 1) bc she'd just look like me and that defeats the point, and 2) most importantly, i'm here to Draw Orbs! i want to draw orbs!

i've drawn humans in my webcomics for 10+ years, and so drawing gijinkas of any kind right now is broadly unappealing to me. i just really like the shape language of the kirby characters as they are. comfy cozy, y'know?

if i were going to do humanoid design work of any kind, what i would probably actually do is fashion/outfit designs, likely with a magical girl flair. almost like cosplay, but not "being the character" rather an impression inspired by the character. i've admittedly spent 10+ years doing that too (flunked my career as a fashion designer due to the gfc and went into designing magical girls instead) but i still find translating motifs and themes into outfit designs quite enjoyable!

[starsh0cked]

okay so. two things!! first of all, over the course of january (and the beginning of february) i participated in the kirby oc secret santa, which was wonderfully hosted by @/moonverc3x. i was lucky enough to be the santa for @/starflungwaddledee, and ended up with two of my best pieces so far!!

these were CHALLENGING, though. which is where the second thing comes in!! under the cut, i'll be going over some of the sketches, drafts and phases of either piece! there's also a speedpaint. exciting!!

i'll be starting with my starstruck piece! the theme here was wanderlust - literally one of the most whimsical words i know - and generally anything to do with the stars. i had a few things in mind, but considering how long it sometimes takes to make artwork, i decided to roll with what inspired me the most.

this is the final sketch compared to the final artwork. certainly one of the crazier transformations i've done. i had a mental image of most parts of the artwork, from the material of starstruck's bow to the lighting cast by the stars. everything except for the grass (i hate grass!!) i ended up rendering the grass and background first, anyway.

doing the background before the rest of the artwork helps define the lighting and shadows! if i decided to draw starstruck before the background, i'd have to draw it according to the lighting.

weird explanation, but in summary: background before character helps the character look like a part of the environment! character before background means extra steps need to be taken before the character fits in the environment!

starstruck's bow was also a decent challenge! i'm a fan of bows and satin, so a satin bow sounded like a good idea. it was, but i've never drawn satin before. the workaround was an active satin study! i stared at a satin bow i found on pinterest and tried to understand how light spread over the material. it's quite interesting!!

you might notice that i flipped the direction of the shooting stars. this is for composition reasons!! i wanted to make starstruck the obvious focus, and while the contrast between her warmer palette and the background's cooler palette easily achieve that, i wanted to cement it. i also added little hand drawn sparklies everywhere. because i like it.

of course, i have to talk about the eyes!! if anything, i noticed that in all of starflung's drawings of starstruck, she had really glittery eyes. literally adorable. so i made it my mission to capture her feelings in her eyes!! i had a lot of fun making them super shiny and adding little stars in there. i also needed to pay attention to the subtle gradient, though - they fade from blue to pink if you zoom into starflung's artworks - and decided to keep it vibrant.

okay. thats all for this one!! i'd like to mention that in the original sketch for this specific pose, bandee was in the background. i really regret scrapping that now. oh, well!

time for morpho dee! i'll be starting for with the speedpaint for this one, mainly because it sort of explains some of the process by itself.

i restarted the shading... three or four times at least? so yeah. i was losing it on this piece. i'll be completely honest, i contemplated dropping it for the sake of meeting the deadline. it wasn't stressing me out, but i had studies to worry about too, and i was worried that it wouldn't be of great quality? but after some advice from my beloved older sister, i managed to turn the tide!!

this is a first for me, but everything here was a challenge. if you scroll through my account and the few artworks i've posted, you'll notice that i draw gijinkas far more than orbs. now, you may be wondering why this didn't pose so much of an issue for my starstruck piece! it's mainly because i chose a far simpler pose for her than i did for morpho over here.

for morpho, the artwork needed to be dramatic. i draw cutesy things - while i've always wanted to draw something dramatic, i've never pushed myself to do it. until this artwork! i went for a dynamic pose which would (hopefully) pull the viewer's eye towards morpho dee. that's what's up with the foreshortned spear! i also realised that the plcement of his feet would be quite significant to the artwork. you might not know this, but feet are my greatest enemy. i'm still trying to figure out how best to draw them for people or orbs, but i'm getting there.

after 'lineart' (which really ended up being a cleaned sketch - this was supposed to be linelessly rendered, but i gave up on that) the pose was no longer a problem. because the shading was! hooray!!

nothing has quite bewildered me like metal shading has. i've shaded gold. satin. cotton, fluffy scarves, shiny things, grass. yet metal shading continues to elude me! this was, hands down, the most difficult part of this artwork. i struggled to make sense of how the lighting was supposed to work, even with references. and every time i thought it made sense, i ended up with something i didn't like the look of. the solution? long breaks, more references and pinterest tutorials. i have no clue how i managed this, but we got here anyways. i finished it off by colouring the lineart according to the shading.

i have experience with drawing fire, at least! it was three or four years ago in an old artwork, but i have experience! i simply had to figure out how to work it into the atmosphere. for the glow, i duplicated the layer, gaussian blurred it and used a slight glow layer! i did something similar for the durst particles, but i used motion blur instead.

i also want to talk about the spear a little bit. you might notice that i added a bit of ambient glow around the blue gem. that was with the light intensity in mind, but also for a sense of realism! i also had to keep the pink light in mind, though. so i ended up using an airbrush to create a base for the lighting and i continued from there. i added a few scratches on the handle just to give it a bit more life, too.

and, finally, a one-to-one comparison between the sketch and the final! i have literally no idea how i pulled either of these pieces off, but i'm quite proud of them.

i recommend you drop by @/kirbyoc-secretsanta for other artworks! a total of 75 artists participated, so there are plenty of super cool ocs to adore over there and new artists to find!! this was my first secret santa experience, and @/moonverc3x made an amazing host (thank you for hosting, by the way!!) bye bye!!

[pleb-the-original]

Day 5: Gijinka

(I'M SORRY I ALMOST FORGOT BECAUSE I'VE BEEN IN EXECUTIVE DYSFUNCTION MODE ALL DAY. Good news I should get a new laptop tomorrow. Anyways as for the actual prompt: once again I needed to stand out from last time. So since last time I had something mimicking humanity for malicious purposes, this time I had something mimicking humanity out of love. And I went the yokai route since mujina are sadly forgotten compared to tanuki and kitsune.)

Name: Takarhito Species: Mujina 

Personality: Naive, overly excitable, starstruck, wanderer, very friendly, extroverted, gullible Summary: Takarhito is a newly formed mujina that’s already shown prodigal power in his shapeshifting skills. But unlike other mujina, he uses these powers to try and live in human society. He has been accustomed to humanity even in his previous life as a regular badger due to living in an urbanized forest area. He was also regularly fed by an old lady which got him used to humans and learning humans = food. Luckily he managed to avoid the typical dilemmas of being an animal stealing from human food sources and managed to live long enough to become a mujina. The first thing he wanted to do was to find the old lady and thank her for feeding him for all these years but when he visited her house instead of her there was a new family living in it. After disguising himself as a person and introducing himself as an old acquaintance, he learned that the old lady had actually died recently. But the family now living there kept some of her old stuff in the attic. After an examination, Takarhito learned where the lady’s grandchildren lived and vowed to visit and thank them in her stead. The problem is that all he had was a few letters with old addresses in cities very far away. That’s when Takarhito set off into the wider land of Japan to try and find the grandkids. This ended up being quite the task as Takarhito is unaware of human customs and finds himself easily dragged into exploring the city and seeing what it has to offer. But even with his detours he is determined to find the grandkids no matter what. 

[syscultureis]

OH MY GOD WAIT WE’VE ALSO GOT A BIBLICALLY ACCURATE ANGEL. somehow shes a caretaker and also her younger brother is here but he just looks like an edgy version of an angel you would typically think of . like the blonde human ones w wings. somehow this had nothing to do with the two week hyperfixation on catholicism. theres also the tandemaus/maushold gijinka i fucking guess

-🔎, starstruck lilypads

Our Angel is a religious trauma holder and an atheist lol

[doggirling]

HAPPY CHAVRA DAY AKA MORDRED DAY AKA MAY DAY TO THOSE WHO CELEBRATE 🎉🎉🎉

[starstruck358]

an art dump :>

mostly kirby cus it's my fav

[sammylatindeath]

I looooooove making these, aight-

[nuclearshxgun]

MAKE YOUR MUSE & YOURSELF.

TAGGED BY.  @goddess-mothra (Thankie so much!)

TAGGING.  Any souls whomst dare wish to steal it

//Boy, I’ve got a treat for y’all with this one, I made four designs cos why not. Three of them relate to various verses... the last one’s a bit of a guest star of sorts. 

P.S. Repost, don’t reblog

Canon

Starstruck

Gojira Titania (Poke-Verse)

Our guest of the hour.

[doggirling]

forcing myself to bed. but posting gijinka lepuveret first

im still on the fence with his hair style + coloring so that'll be prone to change. plus i need him to look older (he was already psychologically 40 at like 12). AND out of his siblings, he's generally supposed to have the most similar facial features to nightmare. its just kind of hard to do that considering he didn't inherit his old man's perma-scowl. so. will have to work on that 🤷‍♀️

anywaysssssss. just looked on my phone and his skin tone is way less warmer than it is on my computer screen. which is pissing me OFF but its late so ill deal with that later.

[starflungwaddledee]

CAKE! literally with my name on it!! yes!!!!!!! thank you so much!! i really like how there's just a little star coming out for my dialogue!!! that's popstarian i think xD the bow is SO big and that is so accurate, and it's so sparkly!! i love that!! also is this a gijinka style design for starstruck? or just a SUPER good guess; because this is just about how my hair looks irl; pink shade and stars stuck in it and giant bow and all 😂 and also the height difference. this is so true. i am very tiny irl; shorter than most high schoolers

Whats starflung favorite cake

french apple rum cake!!! [x] it's my current favourite and so we had it today for a birthday cake!

if you mean starstruck dee and not me personally, she is a sona so i think she'd also like this particular cake very much! bandee's definitely convinced her on the relative superiority of apples 😂

i also think that every single cake eating critter on popstar would go absolutely off the rails if you introduced them to pavlova [x]