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I love this frame so much hes like uwu hello im a war criminal

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my lineart over the past years is getting thicker... and thicker.... one day it'll get so thick it'll cover the whole screen

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TOKYO, LET'S PLAY!

AHAHA i'm finally done this piece, i think this took me a couple days of on and off drawing. the hardest part was finding japanese headlines that i could modify for this fake magazine since i know no japanese and grammar scares me. alright let's see, we got:

Let's play in Tokyo

Exclusive interview with this season's top three

JJ Dolls to headline Bakugan Festival 20XX!

Kuso Danma's philosophy of life is "Learn first, earn, and give back"

this was taken after alice was un-masqued! fully embracing her desire to battle she has consistently been in the top 3 in all the seasons she was active. she's so cool!

every day i mourn how she got like no screen time in the later seasons. without her there would never be a villain as poppin as masquerade, and the writers were fools to write her out. anyway shun is number 2 and dan is number 3

other versions!

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I am not normal about them at all

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Soooo I applied for an event but didn't get the table. Might as well post my promotional cutout I drew for submission here lmao

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HERE. I fixed him

+ tiny linus edit

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THIS. THIS WAS SO MUCH BETTER. AND THE BLUE IS SO PRETTY. why did you make him look like he climbed out of a puddle of mud instead? I mean I get it it's cliche to make the brawler's design be in colors of their attribute but still

and besides I feel like wearing clothes in the colors of their attribute for gundalians and neathians wouldn't be cliche or cringe at all because bakugans are probably a very important part of their culture, much more than they are for humans. especially for neathians, I think. dk that whole thing with linus' pendant seemed pretty deep culture-wise, gundalians are probably a bit more chill

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a little rant about linus' design buckle up

the thing that I love about him the most is his hair color!! I dunno its just so unique, this kind of ash blue, especially with the accurate colors from jp dub

his haircut might look boring but I make it work, he always just looks super neat compared to dan with his wild bangs in every direction. and it actually has a shape. it just makes him so much easier to draw, I always struggle with shun for example cuz there's too much strands and not enough shape and it takes me a few tries to make it show-accurate

and back to him being simple, yeah he's plain but to me its such a blessing when I just want to draw something quick and easy linus is the first that comes to mind, I dont have to go search for a bunch of screenshots with him cuz he doesnt have a lot of details. I mean yeah I love spectra almost as much as gus but he's a pain to draw even if you take off his coat, so I don't do it often. and linus has none of that!!! he's just simple and comforting and I don't have to wreck my brain with thoughts about how this particular accessory will look from this particular angle.

I love love his puffy sleeves even if they don't look like much in the show but I make them better. he has so much potential for a very nice silhouette, his canon design just needs a bit more polish

those red things that go around his shoulders armpits are also super unique!!!! I'm not sure how much logical sense it has but I dont care, it's just this crispy detail that makes you instantly go "yeah that's linus"

his color pallete is pleasant, again, especially in the jp dub. I'd change his undershirt though, that yellow just doesn't work there for me

the eyelashes oh my god the eyelashes i adore them. but they're nice on every gundalian and neathian. I love this thing where every humanoid species in bakugan have these little features with which you can tell them apart from each other, its such a neat world building detail, like, they're all human-looking but there still would be noticeable differences between them. he always appeared very majestic to me, the lashes just make it even better. and he got the gundalian pointy ears too!! rafe and fabia were robbed

I dunno why for such a background character he came out to be so nice to look at and memorable, like, he's legit leagues better than rafe or whatever shit shun has going on in s4 arc2

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I love how whenever I try to meet new people and we talk about art and hobbies and I tell them I make bakugan fanart they're always like "what???" and the conversation stops awkwardly

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still think about him every day

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(trying to convince myself that even though I'm not as active in the fandom as before it's still an impossibly huge part of my life and I can enjoy bakugan at my own pace and that's okay and doesn't make me any lesser than other fans)

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not the main hero

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she's super old and I dunno what to do with her but I like her hands...

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