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I dunno, this unlocked a core memory for me. I was just thinking about this the other day and I really enjoyed having this art relay. I miss those days and having the community come together like this. It's a time lost and I won't get back but I appreciate those good times. Miss you guys.

Me and my lack of knowledge in coloring… well, Boron’s breaking out the tinsel while Piko can’t stop looking at her because she thinks she’s so cute…

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I made these portraits in anticipation of making a Stardew Valley mod with Genshin characters but it ended up being a lot of work and very time consuming.. Someone would have to convince me to finish this out... 

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Some Stardew Valley sprites I made of Venti from Genshin Impact. My friend told me to make him Pierre so I can see him all the time so I only did Pierre’s expressions. This is a lot more work than I thought. I’m thinking about making more characters but I’m not sure if it’s worth it or not, who would even use it lol.

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I drew my friend’s original character Hero in copic markers. @maidorome 

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I’m going to start uploading old art I have to my tumblr so here goes

This is my character from Mabinogi,  Leniea. I did this cute sprite art a few years ago.I feel like I still can’t top this for some reason?

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Copic marker art of Kaeya!! His personality is very cool and I thought it would be fun to try to color something with a complex design... It ended up taking me almost 2 weeks to finish coloring this because of sheer exhaustion and waiting for markers to come in ;w; He’s not actually a cat, it’s a costume!

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My friend from college requested me to draw her a self portrait type thing so she can hang it up at her house. She’s in the public health service and I couldn’t be more proud. Here is her in her uniform! done in copic markers

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I’m not sure if I like how this came out, I tried to do some more finer details with colored pencil but it still looks a little bit off. The paper started to push around the dark colors of the dark browns. this was a copic marker drawing I did after sometime of not doing any art at all. 

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A drawing of Xiangling from Genshin Impact that I did in Traditional Copic Markers. It took a really long time and the colors did not scan in quite right but at least it’s done!! 

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For @mistreil!! Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope your day goes better and thanks for writing me back and forth :D It’s a lot of fun. I didn’t really get to do anymore complicated animation for this one because I’m not very creative but I hope you like this!

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I also made a sprite for Qiqi, I didn’t want to animate it since it didn’t really come out the way I wanted it to...

Smol children fight!!

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I made a Klee sprite, she’s from Genshin Impact and is super cute! I’m trying to do more pixel art lately since my regular art isn’t very practiced.

Dodoko, where are youuu?

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Thank you for your kind words about my brother. I’m so glad he impacted you so much and I’m trying to keep his spirit alive.

Holy fuck. Vappyvap88 passed away. He's arguably the reason why the Vinesauce: The Full Sauce channel exists - he was archiving Vinny's streams around the time when he was playing Tomodachi Life, and those stream archives got super popular.

I remember the day that Vinny announced Full Sauce, and he hired Vappy on to maintain the channel as equal partners - it was partway through the Tomodachi Life playthrough, which is what made it so huge. Vappy went legit after uploading all these Vinesauce stream archives, and I was really happy for him.

He spent years uploading and editing streams for Vinny, and I think he was the primary editor for the official Vinesauce highlight page for a while too. He spent years doing this and getting paid for it - idk if it was his only source of income, but it was absolutely his job to keep Full Sauce streams uploaded. Vinny streams every day, and he streams several things - so Vappy would have to get the recording, edit it into multiple videos, possibly cut out some stuff if something particularly screwy happened and upload them to the channel. Every single day. For years. He even kept uploading pre-stream content to his YouTube channel - he was like a butcher, chopping the stream into bits and using every cut in a way so it wasn't wasted.

He left about a year ago, I dunno why. I think it was work related, so he might have been juggling a few things at once. I was kinda bummed out when it happened, because again - this legacy, the Full Sauce channel, started with Vappy's uploads. But he's gotta move on, so there's no sense getting bummed out about it - John Fullsauce, the new channel manager, keeps the uploads consistent too.

It's a year later, and the news has come down. I heard about it from a Full Sauce video called "About Vappy". According to what Vinny said, he died from "complications from cardiac arrest and coronavirus".

And I'm honestly pretty gutted. Vappy didn't introduce me to Vinesauce, but at a time where streaming wasn't a viable method of entertainment for me, he uploaded Vinny's stuff to a platform where I could access it. I think I downloaded a few of his videos using a youtube-to-mp4 webpage at the time, because I was on a slow broadband connection with a tiny data cap and I couldn't even stream YouTube video consistently.

The official Vinesauce YouTube channel always left me hungry for more content. 5-10 minute corruption highlights never left me satisfied, I always wanted more Vinesauce. Vappy's stream uploads gave me access to that content, and it was through these uploads that I became more of a diehard Vinesauce fan. I saw Vappy rise from a bootleg uploader, carving his niche in the fanbase with consistent hour-long stream uploads of Vinny's most popular stuff, to an official member of the Vinesauce team. That was always inspiring to me - sometimes I'd check out his channel and smile, remembering where everything started.

And it hurts to think that he's gone.

Vappyvap88 has been an invaluable member of the community, and I'm truly upset to hear about his passing. My thoughts go out to his friends and family, as well as to members of the community who are as shaken up about his passing as I am. To the Vinesauce community, he leaves behind a legacy in the Full Sauce channel - with his actions helping to bring Vinny's streams to a wider audience, bringing happiness to an untold amount of people who discovered this community through his work. He will be sorely missed.

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A comic I made about the passing of my brother on April 22, 2020 09:37. His username was Vappyvap88. He was a really amazing older brother who I didn’t spend enough time with. I know he did some stupid things in his life but we all do stupid shit. At the end of the day, he was really nice to everyone he met in person, to all of his coworkers, to all of his friends from our hometown, and most importantly to his family, mom and me.

You will forever be missed Jonny. Mom and Hope love you so much. I wish I could’ve done more. I wish I could have held your hand and slept all night at the hospital to keep you strong and let you know you’re not alone. You fought so hard, you were doing so awful then everyday you got just a little bit better. We thought you were going to pull through after your oxygen got better. You suddenly were lost. I still ask myself if it was because mom and I couldn’t be there for you. I wonder if you’re mad at us? I wonder if there was something we could’ve done to help save you. What would you have wanted us to do? Should we have let you go earlier to ease your suffering? I know you wanted to fight but is this how you wanted to go down? You were too young. You had so many things you wanted to do in life and now it’s over. 

But I’m not over. Our mom isn’t over. We’re still alive, breathing (barely), and gauging our hearts out everyday wishing you would come back and this is some sick joke. We want to wake up and find that you’re still in your room playing video games at 3 in the morning ordering a giant box of hamburgers in the middle of the day for no reason. 

I miss when you used to show me pointless clips I didn’t care about from E3 and asked me if I thought it was funny or not. I thought some of them were, but now who is supposed to update me about E3? I remember when you used to play a bunch of SNES and N64 games, even Gamecube games and I would just watch you because I sucked at video games and was too scared to die. Dying in video games gave me real fear because it looked so scary in video games to die. So ironic right?

Some of the games we played together or you played while I watched you were:

Chrono Trigger, Earthbound, Mother 2, Team Fortress 2 (you loved this one), Rust, Kirby games, Super Mario 64, Super Mario Galaxy 1+2, Final Fantasy 6, Donkey Kong Country 2, Yoshi’s Island (this game always scared me because I thought they were going to kill baby Mario), Mario and Luigi Super Star Saga, Pokemon Blue (you always loved the color blue), Tales of Symphonia, Legend of Zelda, Mario Kart, and so many others. A lot of these games I really liked, this is why I got so into Nintendo. 

When I went to college I gave up all video games to focus on studies. I think that’s where we really fell off in talking and you resented me for being smug about finishing college because it was not something you could accomplish due to all of the struggles you had to go through during college. You knew mom and dad were fighting all the time, you felt depressed and alone, one of your roommates killed himself and you saw him die. You were struggling with your sexuality and previously were mocked for possibly being gay. 

I wish I had been there for you and was more supportive. Why hadn’t I talked to you? Was it our Asian heritage that got in the way of our bonding? That cold and distant communication of nothingness reinforced by our parents not allowing us to talk about anything touchy because we would get yelled at? 

I could talk for days about everything I wish I said to you or things we could’ve done together while you were alive but it’s for naught. I would hope that you wouldn’t want me to feel so depressed and sad forever. Just know that I promise to take care of mom and you shouldn’t have to worry about it anymore. If there is an afterlife, please God or whoever you are, take care of my brother and give him all the joy and peace he deserves because when we grew up, he had it just as hard if not harder than I did. He was bullied, beat up, yelled at, mocked, and felt like he had nowhere in life to go except on the internet, where he put most of his frustrations in his life out there. He deserves nothing more than a peaceful time in the afterlife and let me meet him there at the right time.

Hey Jonny. I love you so much. I’m sorry I couldn’t be there for you. It sucks so much that you had to pass away from this pandemic virus that we all so eagerly mocked at something that was so silly and couldn’t possibly get worse. Everyone was and still is wrong. I hope this is my letter to let you know that those who aren’t doing right by other people will soon understand the importance of trying to protect others.

Love you so much Jonny, please say hi to our puppy Bainew and I will see you in due time. 

Your sister,

Hope

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I drew a picture of Kanna. I haven’t been drawing a lot recently because of being so busy with work and training. I’m trying to practice using my copic markers more since I feel like I bought all of these for almost no reason since I’m not even really utilizing them to color my drawings ):.

The pic didn’t really turn out the way I wanted it to but I tried my best. The paper I bought really sucks at blending and I’m not really as experienced with them as I would like to be

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This was back when we did the MapleStory 2 Art trade fro Christmas. I got this person’s character (her name was Bluemi I believe) and I totally forgot to upload it. I hadn’t drawn chibis and stuff in a long time (or drawn at all) so I was pretty happy with the way it came out. I do need some improvement but I think it’s pretty nice how it came out overall :D

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I finally finished my drawing that I started back from May of 2018. It took me forever because of coloring. I’m really lazy and dislike coloring for some reason. I’m pretty happy with how it came out, this is one of my first backgrounds so it’s pretty simple. Too bad I don’t play tree of savior anymore but I’ve always enjoyed the look of a fencer