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Yippee!!!!!! Happy to assist with the colour guide :D If you would like to download a high-res version of it for better eyedropper sampling, you can download it from my Google Drive ✨ HERE! ✨

The palette samples are my best approximation of the colours based on the collection of screenshots provided here, with some additional highlight/shading colours from other Saiou renders I found online. I can't guarantee 100% accuracy due to image size and artifacting (seriously, some of these were sampled from like 4 pixels lol) but I still hope it's helpful to you. ^_^ Have fun!

Official reference sheets as well as a handy color guide for Saiou, made by @akysi. Feel free to use as reference when you're working on your pieces for the zine (and if you need any specific screenshots for reference, here is a link to a ZIP with a mass collection of them)!

Which reminder, submissions and templates for the zine will open tomorrow on Friday August 15!

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Decided to polish up another design I had in the WIP pile for tonight, say hello to Anguilla! I’ve been fiddling with this one for quite a while, it’s a combo of concepts that required a very delicate balance of colours and patterns that was tough to figure out at first. I wanted to make sure I maintained a somewhat disorienting effect to match the ribbon eel inspiration without it being too hard on the eyes (compared to my other work at least), and I think I finally got there :D His violin took some doing as well, the first version ended up too much like a guitar even after being stylized, and then the wand didn’t look stylized enough on the first go, so I redid both. I’m glad I took the time to do that, as I think they came out well in the end! Hope you enjoy :)

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⋆｡°✩"VISION" a Takuma Saiou Fashion fanzine project ⋆｡°✩

Welcome to the Saiou Fashion Zine project, "Vision"! This is a collaborative project with fans of Takuma Saiou/Sartorius Kumar to put together a free magazine style PDF of the tarot duelist himself in a range of unique outfits.

Submissions will be open between August 15th 2025 to February 13th 2026 and are open to anyone interested! Guidelines for the template will be provided for full page spreads as well as other guidelines for the content. Resources and references for Saiou himself will also be posted here!

We're looking forward to seeing what sorts of fun outfits people will dress him up in! Feel free to contact for any further questions.

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Heyo, I’m back! :D Randomly felt the urge to resurrect an old art style of mine, and naturally I ended up drawing Saiou again (if you follow my sketch blog on here you already know, haha!) I went rogue on his outfit design because I can, and this kind of art is all about the Shapes™ anyway so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This stencil-like style really takes me back though, I would doodle stuff like this all the time in high school! I never fell out of love for it or anything, I think the only reason I stopped doing it over time is because I feel it hits differently when done in ink or pencil, and I just don’t do nearly as much traditional stuff as I used to. This is one of only a handful of times I’ve done this style digitally, and while it still feels different to me, I continue to love it nonetheless ;u; I think it’s a good combo of my affinity for flowing graphic shapes in my logo designs with my character illustration art in general.

Also I did not plan this whatsoever, but I suddenly remembered that today is once again the anniversary of me posting my art online (15 years!), so doing an old art style with a new muse honestly could not have been more perfect for today. Combining old love with new love, I suppose :’D

It's not currently big enough to fit on much (might be able to fix that later), but I've still put these two designs up on my Redbubble if you’re interested! Thanks <3

B/W Colour

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Been lost in the Art Fight sauce all month (my profile is here if you want to see everything!) but I really, really wanted to post this one here too :'D This is for @iyliss of their Deer Saiou AU design, I love him so much ;u; I don't do dramatic/horror stuff like this as often as I should, so I hope I did him and his story justice <333

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Attack #15! Two bugs for @akysi.

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Artfight time!!! Here's the first wave of attacks from me :D

Characters/designs belong to @viviraptor, @akysi, @cardbored-box, @ryuuseini, ArtsyFella02, @flanngo, @cyberdragoninfinity, @cozymochi, @soogymoogi, @oddberryshortcake

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some recent artfights from this year been having fun! Character credits: Lupus is by @akysi Chroma the Octopus is by @logicalloony Nut is by Boxhalls on instagram Shepard and Felix are by @awnrii Morgan and Adrian are by @gisellesdoodles Thakur is by @magicsewerman Cayde's my blorbo

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Another commission for VioletStrike214 on Twitter of her characters, Axel and Halo! A lot of design work went into this beforehand, so it’s nice to see it all finally come to fruition. Thank you for commissioning me! ^_^

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Oops, forgot to post this here earlier! My profile is here if you want it :D

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Got some design tweaks for Perseus for you all tonight :] Figuring out everything that’s going on on his head has always been a delicate balance, but I think I finally got the shape and positioning of his horns that I wanted to better integrate his symbol. The rest was pretty much just minor cosmetic tweaks to ensure I didn’t mess up the colour balancing along with everything else.

I liked the pose/expression I did for him on his last key art update, so I’ll update that with the new design eventually too, but I just did a standard character sheet pose for now for clarity’s sake. I’m doing this in pretty much the same way as Orion’s new ref sheets, so I’m not sure when I’ll finish part two of this, but I’m at least glad I have this part done before Art Fight next month. Enjoy! :) --------- The constellation symbol for Perseus was originally designed by Denis Moskowitz and Alec Finlay and released to the public domain.

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I’m back with a commission for @psychosistr for some profile picture and banner art for her channel, Arya’s Arcade! Happy to stretch my graphic design muscles a bit with this one, I feel like it’s been a while! I love all these bright colours too, the arcade aesthetic is a fun one to work with :D Thank you for commissioning me! <3

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I've been struggling with burnout for the better part of two months now, so I wanted to try and finish something apropos of nothing (in between my ongoing commission work anyway). So this is Cosmo! Don't know much about her yet, but I'm sure I'll think of something later :)

While all of what you're seeing here is new art, her design is derived from a rough sketch I did back in 2021 that I continued to refine for this. I've loved water/sea creatures for pretty much my whole life, but I feel like that goes a bit underrepresented in my art in general, so I'm happy to add some more now. I think the colours came out really nicely! Does this count as a Mermay submission? xD

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Hey all, it’s been a while! Here’s another commission for VioletStrike214 on Twitter of her character Fleet! Same character as the previous piece, but this one was specifically for profile picture and roleplay purposes :) Thank you for commissioning me!

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Yippee!!!! Collab!!!! :'D I'm always down to paint a galaxy pattern and spread the love for our mutual fave, so thanks for the opportunity ;u; <333 Here's some closeup shots for y'all :]

"Even I am but one piece before fate."

Collaborative piece between me and @akysi (who did the awesome galaxy texture) <333

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Another commission for VioletStrike214 on Twitter of her character Fleet! I’ve never really done anything Star Wars related before so I hope I did it justice, thank you for commissioning me! :)

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Hi there!! Curious, when it comes to the symbols of the former constellations for Starglass Zodiac (ex. Uranoscopus, Noctua, Aranea) did you make them yourself? And if so, are they free to use?

Hi Anon! Thank you for your message, I'm flattered you're interested in my symbol designs :'D The simple answer is, yes to both! For anything in Starglass Zodiac that didn't already have a symbol, I designed it myself. That said, this does give me the opportunity to clarify some things while I'm here, and to provide everything for you in one place.

For the constellation symbols I've designed (which I will show below) you are free to use them, though I greatly encourage you to design some yourself as well! It's very fun :D You can use my designs as inspiration for your own if you'd like! Credit is appreciated if you decide to use my designs verbatim/without any edits, but really, the vast majority of these are so simple that they become ubiquitous and thus cannot be attributed to only me anyway. The Starglass symbol is just a rounded star with an oval in the centre, after all! Please feel free to tag me in anything you make with them too, I'd love to see :D

[Note: Usage of my work in ANY kind of generative AI technology or NFTs/cryptocurrency is strictly prohibited and always will be. You will get instantly blocked if you send me that or I see it elsewhere. No exceptions.]

The symbol designs for Starglass Zodiac have been a big WIP on my end for a while, and thus I haven't actually figured out if I'm done designing all of them, if I'm changing any of them, and which ones I will actually end up using. I will eventually have a dedicated page on the project's site that will delineate the credits and usage permissions for all of the symbols in full, not just mine, but this post can serve that purpose for now I suppose!

The 12 zodiac constellation symbols (plus Ophiuchus) are already in the public domain. The remaining 75 of the 88 modern constellation symbols that I use for my character designs can be found HERE. To quote the page's usage permissions: "Traditional constellation symbols are in the public domain. Lyra, Orion, Perseus, Quadrans Muralis, Ursa Major, and Ursa Minor symbols created by Denis Moskowitz and Alec Finlay for the book One Hundred Year Star-Diary and released to the public domain. All other symbols created by Denis Moskowitz and released to the public domain."

I would have designed all of the remaining symbols myself at the start of this project if I had to, but these already fit so perfectly with the others so it saved me a lot of time! Big thanks to Denis and Alec for that :D Moreover, I've taken inspiration from these for my additional symbol designs so that they're all consistent stylistically.

--------- Here are the designs I've made for some defunct constellations so far, two of the sites I've used for lists of them are HERE and HERE if you need it:

*A note about Tigris's symbol, I designed this assuming it was meant to represent an actual tiger, but it's meant to be the River Tigris instead. Whoops! I've since decided to combine the two for my character as a compromise

*Hippocampus has two symbols because I'm unsure whether the original mapper meant for it to be a seahorse (the real sea creature that shares the Latin name) or the mythical half-horse half-fish creature, so I designed symbols for both options

--------- There are alternate names or previously combined versions of some of the modern constellations that I decided to make into separate constellations/characters, and thus they needed symbols too:

Xiphias - alternate name for Dorado Anser - part of Vulpecula's constellation Cervus - alternate name for Monoceros Medusa - derived from Caput Medusae (Medusa's head), part of Perseus's constellation Vultur/Vultur Cadens - alternate name for Lyra Cerberus - part of Hercules's constellation Phoenicopterus - alternate name for Grus Chara & Asterion - the individual names for the Canes Venatici *Though I did not design the main symbol for the Canes Venatici, since both of the dogs already had separate names, I wanted to make two variants of the symbol based on my character designs for them as well

--------- Some symbols had to be made for other uses in Starglass Zodiac specifically (top row) with Solana and Luna being for my versions of the Gemini twins whenever I need to differentiate the two. The rest are for constellations that are completely made up by me, apropos of nothing other than I wanted to have fun, haha! I used their Latin names so that they match the others:

And as a bonus, here's the symbols I've designed for the Chinese zodiac, including the cat! The same usage permissions apply for these too :)

(Apologies for the inconsistent line weight/quality on all of these by the way, I haven't unified them all into vectors yet lol)