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i continue to draw petty comics whenever ppl on reddit have shitty momoi takes

(original joke from here)

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Oh my god I didn’t have official art validating my “pointy side-part Akashi” agenda on my 2024 bingo card but RAHHHHHH LETS FUCKING GOOOO 🗣️🦅‼️

YAAAALLLL NEW AKASHI ART JUST DROPPED

HIS HAIR GUYS HIS HAIR HIS HAIR HIS HAIIIRRRRR😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

UGH HE LOOKS SO FUCKING HANDSOME PLEAAAAAASE

I NEED A CLOSE UP OF THIS SHIT

OH MY GOOOODDDDD HIS HAIR LOOKS SO FUCKING GOOD ON HIM

AND OMG THE WAIIISTTT??????😭😭😭😭🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

y'all my husband is so beautiful

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Happy Birthday to Kuroko Tetsuya, the antithesis of Mr. No Bitches.

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heard this audio and this idea haunted me until i drew it

originally, i wanted kagami there (naturally) but realized aomine would and HAS canonically bawled over kuroko and he'd do it again for sure

i'm not huge into midotaka but like the second half of the audio was so perfectly them i had to. this is like my...second (?) time ever drawing takao? third, if you count his genderbent. i'm sorry king, i gotta draw you more

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ladies and gentlemen...✨🩷her🩷✨

a custom momoi satsuki nendoroid bc i know good smile would never give one to me...i mean i was so shooketh we even got the boys. i painted her torso, arms, legs, and modified two hair pieces with milliput. and of course made her some accessories. so happy that i had the perfect space for her on the knb shelf.

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new ot4 just dropped

Based on this zodiac comparability thing i just did, Mura’s charisma is through the roof, not to mention he has 3 perfect matches (Leo; Kagami, Aquarius; Kuroko, Gemini; Kise), which is what lead to this lol. Murasakibara: beloved by all.

Especially funny to me bc my friend group is composed of a libra, leo, and aquarius. Now all we need is a Gemini.

I wanted this done in time for Murasakibara’s bday (10/09), but alas, life! So it’s a little late and a little rushed. 🙏🏻 Happy late bday, king. 💜

I’ve been having a lot of fun analyzing these zodiac signs for knb but now I fear I know what it’s like to be in Midorima’s head… And what a confusing, intriguing place it is.

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The Color Palette Challenge finale!

Kuroko + Kagami | Kise + Midorima | Aomine + Momoi

I remember I used to always make Mura too pale and somewhat recently corrected that. I was also aware I made his hair darker as opposed to light like the anime, but couldn't tell ya why.

Akashi also I knew I made his hair more red than magenta (like the anime does) because A) in the manga its more of a deep red, and B) "red" ("aka") is in his name, not magenta lol.

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it's Midorima's birthday, so naturally it was time for me to draw his second skin in my animal shapeshifter AU: a regal elk! I think I may use the excuse of bdays to finally draw everyone's animal form. at least the GoM's.

back when I was first writing this au, I had a really hard time picking a predator that fit him, since I wanted the GoM to all be rather intimidating and strong animals. But then I had the thought....what if he WASN'T a predator at all? He then ended up being the only non-predator on the GoM. but don't let his prey-status fool you, his animal form stands at 5 feet tall (152+cm) from hooves to shoulders, not including his head and impressive set of antlers. his stag form weights over 700 pounds (317+kg)!! you definitely don't want to be on the business-end of a pissed-off elk.

bonus(es)!

side note: bird shifters have it pretty easy in my au, since they don't really have a half-shifted form like most other shifters (who can be seen spotting their ears and tails when feeling overly excited/overexerted). Avian shifters only randomly shed feathers and their nails sharpen into talons when half-shifted. poor midorima though gets his ears, tail, smaller forms of his antlers, plus some of the speckling/freckles that can be seen on his animal form's coat. Takao of course finds all these things hilariously endearing, especially since it's not often that Midorima shifts in public, let alone lose control of his instincts enough to half-shift.

Kise's Animal Form | Seirin's Animal Forms | Read My Fanfic Series Here

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I'm a perpetual early bird, so here is my part of @knbexchange 's Valentine/White Day exchange. Surprise, @evelhak , I was your partner! And I don't only have these silly drawings to present to you, but a fic too!! These drawings are actually more-like bonus content that takes place after the fic. The fic details Momoi and Aomine's complicated thoughts as they help kagakuro prepare for a date night, which involves; makeovers, philosophical conversations, gift hunting, emotional confrontations...all that good stuff that you said you liked! I hope I did a good job capturing those things. I didn't get to go into how the date goes in the fic itself, so I figured I would draw it out. :D Can you spot the little hard-to-see surprise in pic 1?

Detailed fic info + link + extra kagakuro rendering below cut:

Title: Tinted Chapstick and the Revelations Made in the Home Goods Aisle of a Department Store

Rating: Teen and Up (for some swearing)

Warnings: swearing (aomine and kagami's fault lol), introspection, mentions of one-sided kuromomo (a little bittersweet, but its for plot purposes and has a happy end!!)

Characters & ships: Kagami Taiga/Kuroko Tetsuya, Kuroko Tetsuya & Momoi Satsuki, Aomine Daiki & Kagami Taiga, Aomine Daiki & Kuroko Tetsuya, Kise Ryouta

Word count: 10.3k

Summary: The inner musings of Momoi and Aomine as they both help prepare Kuroko and Kagami respectively for a date night. Oh yeah, and Kise’s there too.

I hope you enjoy these drawings and the fic. Happy (early) White Day/Exchange!)

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Key:

Mine: the colors I've used the most consistently in my own fanart

Anime: pulled straight from screen caps from the show (i also tried to find scenes where the lighting was most "average" (so no night scenes, or scenes with noticibly harsh lighting)

Manga: pulled from these official manga box set covers (bc they all seemed consistent in lighting and shading)

More info below cut (bc i started to ramble, like always)

Probably one of my oddest projects yet, but I've always wanted to compare what colors I choose when drawing the characters vs what the anime uses vs what Fujimaki uses. Color choices and art styles usually go hand in hand, so I wanted to see how weird the characters would look in my style with the two different canon color palettes. Conclusion; pretty fucking weird (to me, at least).

I've always suspected it, but I think this is pretty concrete evidence that I go bold when it comes to coloring (which I think fits my chonky lineart and cartoonist art style). It was funny to see that the anime colors especially are actually rather "dull", because they don't look it at all to me in the actual show. Fujimaki's style was hard to translate, since obviously he uses traditional mediums and also does a lot of blending/shading. I still tried my best to pick the colors that I thought were most prevalent in his images, even though, obviously, they aren't quite so flat in the actual illustrations. I used the special edition covers for the manga color palette, but I'm not 100% sure if Fujimaki himself drew/colored these special edition covers, so someone please correct me if wrong!

Some conclusions I made;

apparently, at some point, I decided to make Kuroko pale as hell??? i think he's always read as pale to me (bc compared to other average characters like Furihata and the GoM themselves, he's does look fairer-skinned imo. But apparently I leaned waaay into that lol. Once I got the actual canon color tones I was like "....oh. I made him sickly...". TBH tho, I think he looks better paler in my style, but that's probably because I got so used to drawing him that way lol. Please do lmk if you think I should begin to switch things up tho when it comes to my style!

kagami, alternatively, I ended up making tanner than canon it seems. but my (perhaps controversial) anime opinion is that Japanese artists tend to "whitewash" a little bit (aka they lean into lighter tones as opposed to darker when it comes to poc skintones). Now kagami, may or may not be mixed raced, but i've always thought a rich, tan skin tone fit him quite well, idk.

I already knew I did this, but its clear from these drawings that I really lean into the colors of their hair. once I get to the GoM, this will be very obvious ("I mean, the colors are in their NAMES. ofc i'm gonna exaggerate them" -> I'm sure that was my exact logic whilst picking my personal palette over the years).

since i'm lazy, i usually just make the characters hair and eye colors the exact same hue, so it was fun to see the different tones they can take in the canon palettes.

So yeah, I plan to go through all the GoM and compared my color preferences vs anime canon and manga canon, so look forward to that! If you read this far, thank you I love you.

If you guys give suggestions, perhaps I'll go back and make a "voted on" color palette, so please do let me know your opinions, in terms of what colors you think "feel right"/look best in my style! :)

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using the excuse of today being kise's bday to finally draw his animal form in my shapeshifter au

i was playing around with brushes and stuff so slightly different than my usual stuff plus a little messy but i'm happy with it! kise is just so fox-like hehe

bonus:

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I made this cover literally years ago for a grand AU/story that I will never do probably, but I was/still am pretty happy with it, so I figured I'd finally post it. Basically, it's about the Big 4 as Champions in a tournament, from 4 wizarding schools (Rapunzel: Beaubations, Jack: Ilvermorny, Merida: Hogwarts, Hiccup: Durmstrang). The title comes from the fact that 3/4 of them are heirs to kingdoms/tribes.

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my take on season 4/second year of high school hairstyles/last game hair fixes in my style

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old art (circa 2021) of the animal forms of seirin in my animal shapeshifter au. these were originally on imgr + ao3, but i'm pretty sure imgr died so i'm gonna put this here now so I can fix the dead link on ao3, but also I never uploaded these here anyway so.

i'm still super bad at drawing animals, but I do plan on one day coming back and fixing seirin's designs here. especially tiger!kagami how the hell do you draw a tiger i still don't know

note: the second option with different colors for kagami and kuroko is just me visually testing out the look. in my verse, their animal forms have natural color schemes despite Kagami and the GoM's hair colors being, well, rainbow.

and in case you couldn't tell who's who (spoilers for fic!):

indochinese tiger = kagami

long haired chihuahua= furihata

brown bear= kiyoshi

verreaux's eagle= izuki

tabby cat= koganei

ermine/stoat= kuroko

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Part 2 of my little color palette challenge! Part 1 here.

Key:

Mine: the colors I've used the most consistently in my own fanart

Anime: pulled straight from screen caps from the show (i also tried to find scenes where the lighting was most "average" (so no night scenes, or scenes with noticeably harsh lighting)

Manga: pulled from these official manga box set covers (bc they all seemed consistent in lighting and shading)

Kise is pretty consistent, that's rather funny to note. I've always sorta known, but this was proof that I draw Midorima's hair much darker than canon. I'm not sure why it's always "read" as a darker green for me? His skin tone I seemed to have gotten down pretty well! I think within the last two years that's something I've worked on, like I remember making an active change in the color I used.

BTW, if anyone wants to try this challenge, please feel free!

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a little late for halloween but shhhhhh

In-depth notes and headcanons below cut

These were really fun to come up with. Also, let’s say that for this AU, Hogwarts is located in Japan and there are inter-house quidditch teams. I imagine the GoM were all on the same quidditch teams years 1-4 (team Teiko; they were so gifted, they were allowed to play in their first years), but then in their 5th years, split up to join their own teams because they got bored of always dominating

I based their best subjects/magical skills off of their canon best school subjects (and what we know about their skills and characteristics from the series itself).

Normally in quidditch in the series, I think a character picks a position and sticks with it, but it made more sense to me that players should be able to be swapped around. They only play one position at a time, but have the choice to try out any position they’re qualified for, even allowed to swap positions during a single match.

Kuroko

House: Hufflepuff

Best Subject(s): Ancient Runes, Divination

Quidditch Position: Chaser, Beater, Seeker (can play multiple)

Bloodline: half-blood (from a long line of pure-blood wizards on mother’s side)

Patronus: stoat/pole-cat

Other: has a natural knack for vanishing spells and invisibility charms (so much so that he himself is hard to notice), struggles with more advanced types of magic but can Apparate; when his mother left her pure-blood family to be with a muggle, she was disowned and a cursed was placed upon any of her future children, for them to never be recognized by the great wizarding families, luckily this just manifested as Kuroko’s misdirection; also a natural Occulmens due to the curse (his mind can’t be read)

Kagami

House: Hufflepuff

Best Subject: Defense Against the Dark Arts

Quidditch Position: Chaser, Beater

Bloodline: half-blood (muggle father, witch mother[deceased])

Patronus: tiger

Other: went to an American wizarding school before transferring in his 5th year; met Aomine before being sorted, hated him, and wished really really hard not to be placed in the same house as him (which is why the hat ultimately placed him in Hufflepuff and not Gryffindor); natural knack for fire-based magic and flying + flying spells; his mother died when he was a baby, and his father raised him as a muggle so everything was new to him as his powers manifested, Himuro, from a wizarding family and magic himself, was a big help to him at this time; Alex, ex-professional Quidditch player and Flying Instructor at their American wizarding school was another big help

Kise

House: Gryffindor

Best Subject: Transfiguration, Charms

Quidditch Position: Chaser (all positions when he unlocks Perfect Copy)

Bloodline: half-blood (not pure-blood, but family has been magic users for many generations)

Patronus: fox

Other: still a model, often featured in Witch Weekly; always forcing Aomine to duel and always losing; knack for transfiguration; one of his sisters and his father works for the Ministry, his other sister is on a professional quidditch team

Midorima

House: Ravenclaw

Best Subject(s): Potions, Herbology

Quidditch Position: Chaser

Bloodline: Muggle-born (his parents are muggle doctors)

Patronus: stag

Other: made Prefect in his 5th year; while not his best subjects, he is very interested in Divination and Numerology; made Head Boy in his 7th year, finally beating out Akashi at something

Aomine

House: Gryffindor

Best Subject: Defense Against the Dark Arts

Quidditch Position: Beater, Chaser (can do both)

Bloodline: half-blood (both parents are magic, but not from pure-blood line)

Patronus: panther

Other: also pretty good at Muggle Studies; his dad and Momoi’s are school friends; naturally gifted at flying, quidditch, and offensive/defensive spells; grew up in the muggle world, so very familiar with most things muggle, loves basketball still but equally as obsessed with Quidditch

Momoi

House: Slytherin

Best Subject: History of Magic, Numerology

Bloodline: pure-blood (but her family isn’t stuffy about it and are therefore looked down on by other pure-blood families)

Patronus: non-corporeal

Other: made prefect in her 5th year; while not a player herself, she is very obsessed with Quidditch; childhood friends with Aomine because their dads were friends at school; natural knack for Numerology; her worst subject is Potions

Murasakibara

House: Ravenclaw

Best Subject: Charms

Quidditch Position: Keeper, Beater

Bloodline: pure-blood

Patronus: polar bear

Other: frequent shopper at Honeydukes and menace to the kitchen staff, often the last to leave the Great Hall at meal times because he eats so much; family is one of the longest lines of pure-blood wizards, so grew up knowing Akashi before school by family association

Akashi

House: Slytherin

Best Subject(s): all of them

Quidditch Position: Seeker, Chaser (also the Captain)

Bloodline: pure-blood (from one of the oldest/most respected families)

Patronus: lion

Other: made prefect in his 5th year; parsel-tongue (can speak to snakes); seer (sees the future); Legilimens (can read minds); equally gifted at light and dark magic