#I'm working on comms in the bg lol...

[ministarfruit]

LEADER AT 250K!!! LET'S GOOO💙

[migurin-art]

commission for @packofcrowstj on twitter 💕

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[b4kuch1n]

1/ true to luner new year tradition I've caught a cold after finally getting home and being able to unclench my cheeks. minor one probably so its just gonna be very annoying for a while 2/also true to luner new year tradition I've jumped into something new with No preamble so. hopefully I get this one done fast and we have a 12pg scribbly comic on hand 3/ I'm on bluesky now. do not ask abt what Ive been posting on there u will see

[havethetouch]

Here be pirates

2020 - Siti, Mahdi

2021 - Ila, Mel, Eli, Asa, Ava, Ife, Niv

2022 - Ixtia

2023 - Lev, Ora, Dar, Ira, Ayo, Efe, Nia, Jia

2024 - Nor

Figured I throw them down all in one post because why not most people are not even aware how vast the cast of this lil pirate story is, and those are the characters that got their design down, I have some more that I still play around with a bit on terms of colours and shapes. Aside from Ava and Lev, everyone got their first design try on a quick headshot that felt right and then threw colours on. Ava and Lev just got a ref sheet right away because idk I hit the golden moment with those two. (context: I hate doing refs and it usually takes me ages to do them even if if I have their designs down to a T. Mahdi for example.. is after Siti oldest characters created for this story and I only finally got around to finish his ref what? At the end of last year (2023)? Niv only got her ref like in July of 2024. Like fuck you could not pay me to do reference sheets the only reason I even do them is so that I can hand them to the handful of people I like to buy comms from (and sometimes for AF) who need the visuals bc they cannot just see them in my head otherwise I would not bother.)

The order these are drawn in is also not necessarily the order those characters have been living rent-free in my head either. Like there is Wyn who I vaguely know what he looks like for 3 years now but I have not brought him to paper yet lol. However the first few are. Siti was obviously the first, it started with her, Mahdi came second in my head even though back then I didn't even knew his name yet, he was an integral part in Sitis backstory and had the workname "Mapmaker/Scholar" but I knew while I tinkered with Sitis story that he needs to come back into the picture and then I started developing him. Technically it went like this: In the course of Sitis bg story she is faced with the loss of people she considered family (among them the mapmaker/scholar who she shared the closest bond with) during a vicious pirate attack at sea that she is the lone survivor of but even as I worked on that part I was like... "ain't no way that this fucker died, he is probably messed up but I bet he survived I want him to survive and reunite with Siti down the line" - and then a bit later in my head (mahdi, kicking the door in) "Hello there. I have risen!".

It still takes the duration of a decade before these two reunite. Which is also the starting point of Siti being the captain bc those two yearn for the sea regardless of the trauma.

After came the first five, being Ila, Ava, Eli, Mel and Asa. Ife and Niv followed soon after and then it kinda gets muddy with the rest. I had some rear up louder some just slipped in through the backdoor and at some point I started to design those as well. Nor is the most recent design in the lineup which I adopted from someone else because I had her down at her core but I could not decide on which animal which vibes but I saw demi-reality sell this zebra lady on their TH and I looked once, twice, thrice and went "oh. That is Nor." It be like that sometimes. But yeh so that is Sitis crew, at least those of them that have fixed designs. It is funny to look at the first headshot ever of Siti she changed not really much at all from that one aside from the fact that I got her unique face shapes down better in a way that I could not properly bring to paper back in 2020. So much shit happened around those years too, many losses in my family, among them my own father so many of these characters are intertwined with that grief and brainfog and memory loss that came with that trauma. A wild time that feels like a different life at times and I'm glad to have it behind me now. And I didn't even mean to get so personal about it here but those characters are, like I said, very much intertwined with a lot of that which also reflects in most of the early casts stories. But yeahhhh anyway I keep tinkering around, lots of writing going on in the background among some other stuff I have planned.

[pumpkin-spike18]

✨Weekly Progress #35-37✨

It's been a while since the last one...

Weekly Progress #35

Reviewed Spooktober outline

Punk BL marketing plan

Fin 1/3 fan project BGs

Advertised Comms. (Here, btw! ♥)

Weekly Progress #36

Fin pose sketches for Spooktober 3/3

Fin 3/3 fan project BGs

Fin final sketches for Spooktober 3/3

Sketched ideas for fanart

Fin 1/3 Spooktober CG lineart

Lined 1 fanart

Flat colored 1/3 Spooktober CG

Weekly Progress #37

Finished 3/3 Spooktober CGs

Finished 2 fanart

"They put pineapple on pizza..."

Between Demon Slayer, Great Ace Attorney, and now Golden Kamuy, I think my mind is permanently rotting in the Meiji Era.

UnderHolo

This year, I'm working with CuteShadow on a horror yuri visual novel! We've previously worked together on other projects before, you can see all of their stuff here!

We're combining two of my favorite things in this game: yuri and vtubers!! And we're cooking something awesome!! 😆😆 By some miracle I finished 3 CGs in one week (yes, one of them was started at the end of the week prior but I finished them all in the same week okay-) and CuteShadow animated them!

It's so amazing to see my art move like this! His work is incredible!

Fan Project BGs

I don't think I can talk about this in detail just yet lol. But I finished 3 BGs in 2 weeks alongside the CGs. The backgrounds will be used in an MV. It was good practice for getting better at backgrounds. I've still a lot to learn, but I'm getting used to adding details to make a background look less sterile.

TGAA Fanart

I decided to participate in Ryuubowl Week, because I've fallen in love with this game and can't get out. The art pieces I've finished so far can be found here: (1-1) (1-2) (2) (3-1) (3-2)

Yeah, I'm finishing these by the skin of my teeth I rendered for 3 hours straight today...

It's been 17 days into September and I still have yet to finish my September schedule so my devwork has been a bit of a mess (aka non-existent). Hoping to get back on track this week.