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hello have you played the new chapters theyre quite good and have a lot of content for you

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how do you get the strength to persist at krusie in such a suselle world? (aka what are your thoughts on krusie)

First of all I want to say that I understand the appeal & popularity of Suselle & I'm looking forward to seeing how it develops in canon.

But it's pretty obvious that Noelle has... a specific thing she wants from Susie, if I can put it that way. They don't know each other that well. Noelle's crush has all the intensity & sweatiness that a gay teen crush deserves, and Susie's obliviousness to this is played for laughs (for now). I can see a lot of ways it could develop which would get me more invested but right now it feels one-sided. I do think this is a great storytelling move for Noelle as a character overall! It immediately makes her more complex before we know that much else about her, and it fits with everything we find out after. I have faith it will lead somewhere interesting, even if that isn't necessarily "romantic."

Meanwhile... Kris steps in front of Susie to save her at the end of Ch 1 with no input on our part, Susie returns the favor, and then they're friends.

They're so silly. They're eating moss together. They care about each other in such a straightforward and immediate way. I love how Susie plays off Kris despite us not getting to see a lot of their dialogue, you still get a great sense of their chemistry. Kris has comical underreactions and Susie has comical overreactions but they're somehow matching each other's energy??? The feeling of egging on your best friend to do something stupid... It's truly unparalleled....

Kris lets Susie push and pull them around a lot and doesn't seem to mind. She does "whatever she wants", which is also why Noelle likes her. She's a social outcast, just like Kris. This is the core of their friendship to me. Being a teenager can be so awful, and if your home life is bad and/or you have brain problems it's genuinely like being in hell. And finding another person your age who's weird and unpopular and has their own problems, who won't judge you, who you can just hang out with and crack stupid jokes, who makes you actually want to show up at school... That's real, and that's special.

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Day 10.

Anon... thank you. I know this isn't exactly what you asked for. Tomorrow, I will draw Susie as a worm.

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This is what happened when I first scanned the sketch for the aquarium comic btw, I don't know what settings I had it on but it's giving irradiated cave wall found 10000 years in the future

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I'm still figuring out how I want to draw Kris. It would be easiest to stylize their hair like Temmie does in these battle sprite sketches.

But when I draw their hair too clean or purposefully shaped, it doesn't feel "Kris-like."

Right now my main reference is Toby's old concept art. Charm points: the gross texture, their weird little smirk, and the visible ears.

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Day 9

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Day 8 (The No Bone Zone is an exhibit at the Florida Aquarium where you can touch various anemone, sea cucumbers, etc)

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Day 7.

Bonus

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Day 6.

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Day 5

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Day 4

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Day 3

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I Don't Like the Tangents Inevitably Formed By Susie's Hair and Jacket Collar

It's not a problem in-game because her overworld sprite cleanly separates the two (and her talk sprite doesn't show the collar) but you can tell from earlier iterations that this was an ongoing issue! Some of these designs obscure the collar entirely.

It feels so unnatural to draw Susie's hair spilling over her shoulders without overlapping the jacket collar at least a little. Her hair is messy...

Here are Temmie's sketches of Susie's overworld sprites. Most of these are gesture drawings & don't need a lot of details, but even the stiff default pose in the upper left barely bothers with the collar!!!

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Day 2

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