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@akaluan WIP time! Also design question time! My working Kaito ref sheet, plus a Kaito with Yoruichi because I saw a picture on pinterest and decided I'd grab that inspiration and run with it because it might end up funny.

The first picture is with updated bandage colours and haori diamonds, since they were very uneven and sketched in before (see picture 2).

I recently tried to figure out how to draw expressions and while looking at Shiro's wiki page I realised his teeth need to be black, which made me look at his Zangetsu, which of course had black bandages! (Deadly Darts looks like a baller technique that I'd love for Kaito to learn ngl) So I changed the bandages to black, while this picture still has the white bandages on both as a relic.

My question is basically: colour? Shape? Bow charms coming from where the guard would be, or the pommel, and attached by the same sheath bandage or maybe a chain? This is how I interpreted the blade descriptions (flowing from tang into blade, flipped colours etc) but there wasn't a visual ref like for the bows, so it's good to ask!

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Here's some fanart for a fic I've loved for a while, Dragon Eclipse by @akaluan! Figured it was time to make some! Some other fanart is in the oven still.

I recently discovered the treasure trove that is kaminokatachi and browsed their poses for inspiration, and the bow section had these that spoke to me! That site in general is really useful, and helps me visualise poses in 3d, which most references don't normally give.

I figured I'd put Kaito in various outfits his father may have gotten him; I don't think a lilac yukata would be meant for men, but hey, he somehow found children's patterned adult jinbei, so. He regularly manages impossible things.

For hair, I haven't really figured out how to draw it yet for various poses or in general so it's inconsistent.

The non-bankai bow was oddly the thing that gave me most trouble, and I think I bent it too much when it's drawn, when looking at anime screencaps, but what's done is done.

Some of my favourites here are the upside down bankai pose that stayed in my mind after I read it as SO badass; the top right Kaito sorta lounging and casually giving Uryuu a run around, you can imagine Urahara sitting nearby just chatting; and the bottom right where I hope I conveyed scorched ground and smoke well enough. Poor guy, but he did ask for this.

There's a secret subtle little detail I included that might be overlooked but I'll be happy if someone notices!

(Some design questions for Akaluan; does the white cross on the front of his bankai coat stay after chapter 10? Because the Quincy mantle didn't, after the coat became a haori, and I didn't see other fanart including it so I forgot about it. And I assumed his shirt doesn't change since it wasn't mentioned so he just kept the jinbei top here. Second, are his arrows green glowing with a white centre or black, because his reiatsu turns black when he raises it higher? And of course footwear, though I don't think it's super important; in this I gave him tabi and zori since he's home (and I didn't want to give him the crime that is Urahara with just geta) but I assume he'd wear waraji for the invasion just so he can not think about losing his shoes)

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Definitely the most ambitious thing I've drawn, I started this before November, paused for nanowrimo, and finished right after that. The characters belong to @scribbly-blue-hearts and are the Sirocco sisters meeting up at a national park!

Progress shots after the break!

I wasn't sure what the hair and appearance designs were like for the others so I made them up. The order I coloured their wings in, from roughly the simplest to hardest, both in design and in angle, ended up being Sept, Ashta, Jiu, Fyra, Satu, Zwei, IO, San, Zes and Cinco, roughly. A big thank you to @akaiitori for the help on Cinco!

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Some tropical bridians from summer 2023, these ones with some worldbuilding even! The clothing needs some figuring out but I like the direction it's going in.

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I don't draw winged people actually fly often enough, so I did this at the start of 2023, it turned out nice!

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My attempt at a tundra bridian from the start of 2023. I think I can make the wings even bigger, why not!

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Some wingspan comparisons I drew in 2022. Designs have changed slightly since then as I learned more about drawing, but it still stands up fine imo!

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Fanart of Phantom Thief Minato but with wings, just because, from the fic series Ghost of Mementos by @keylimesiren.

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This is a gift from 2020 for a dear friend, Redwoodroots! These are characters who share one parent and don't meet often so when they get to meet, they play in the air.

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Some speculative tropical bridians I made in 2021. I might rework some of these and keep them.

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Hey look who was itching for their tablet again. Leaf’s has the least detail because my fingers are dying.

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Okay, I can’t keep putting this off. I barely remembered it was mermay and wasn’t that enthusiastic about it so ended up with just 4 pieces. It’s easier for me to make fanart than original stuff, so I found that mermaid AU on ao3 that I loved and read it again for inspiration, loved it again. So uh, @adraggynamedjade here? I hope you like it?

In the first one I misunderstood that Goro was smaller than Ren, I’m sorry about that! Goro is acting hard to get but we all know he’s smitten. Second one, no one likes it, and I keep explaining the prompt was warrior, it’s angery Ren. Third one is when they were out hiding from the investigators on their island. The fourth one, I don’t like Star Wars so I just had them explain what constellations each of them know. This was a great chance to try to learn watercolors too.

I had an idea for the royalty prompt that Ren would find crowns in shipwrecks, or Futaba or Wakaba would show or tell him and he’d set out to make a crown for Goro, because he’s the king of Ren’s life or some other corny shit.

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Finally drew out the wing AU I have in my head, because of course there is one. Akira and Goro have wings because magical creature AU and Akira hides his while Goro trims his own as much as he can, which is very bad, but his new friends will make him let his wings recover. Haven’t written it out yet, sadly. This is May, so pretty recent.

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Finally both new designs are here! Was playing with the length of the ‘’arm’’ in the first one, keeping the wingspan the same, and asked friends for their opinions. Ended up basing it on the swallow tailed kite after all, short arm and all. Then some more sketches, though the fourth picture has the wings too short, don’t think there would be that much blue, more like iridescent, but I was too tempted. The last one had the wing refs, so I tried to give them the human poses.

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Landscapes! First was watercolor with white gouache, and the others were school gouache, with ref. I know there’s issues with values, gonna try to improve that. April and May!

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Paintings! Except the last one. First is gift for best friend, showed her the purples I can make and had her choose her favorite, Prussian blue and quinacridone rose, very great choice, and the second is a gift for another friend, who also chose their favorite color combo, Indian yellow and phthalo blue, for their tiefling Selir. I feel like it has a storybook vibe. Then limited color landscape with acrylics from reference. Hard.

Then Persona, the fic again! And got actual tube watercolors, and the last is ink. February to March, it looks like.

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Some more figuring out how she would stand, look and move, also when Cassius was still based on the peregrine skua, and some drawing from photos because I love birds.