#chiko akihari

[alicenpai]

Have you answered Q21 and 30 yet? Would love to hear your thoughts on those :o

21. Art styles nothing like your own but you like anyways

hi chiko!

I think I tried so many different styles over the years, and bc of art school I can probably draw in cartoony or anime styles pretty alright, so I won't pick any kind of animation adjacent styles for this one!

Edward Gorey, Ronald Searle

Norman Rockwell, J.C. Leyendecker

Dean Cornwall, Mead Schaeffer

30. What piece of yours do you think is underrated

this one is tough! as I haven't been drawing a lot of full pieces/posting very very sporadically this year.

like what is considered "underrated"? is it notes? funny enough I think before the pandemic my art used to get more notes, so, would someone consider my recent works "underrated" in that sense? it's tricky. 🤔 I know it's easy to blame the algorithm but there are so many factors at play that we cannot qualitatively control for. being on the right platform at the right time, drawing for the right fandom at the right time, catering to a suitable audience, how you format the post (like do you show closeups or just post the full illust or crop your art? do you just post a video instead??), and a suitable caption (e.g. something witty, relatable, funny, or just something basic like emojis or just 1 word)

for me I consider a work "underrated" or underperforming (I think is a better word for it), is if the drawing is not interesting enough that nothing is said about it. either about either subject matter or artistic techniques. for me connecting to others through art is so integral to the artist experience. if a post gets 1000 notes but it gets 0 comments, then i consider it a failure. if something gets 100 notes but it gets many comments, i would consider it the opposite of "underrated'.

like would original drawings be more underrated than fanart? 🤔 people have trouble connecting to ocs since they don't know the source material, so often those kinds of posts would get less notes or less comments. just interesting things to think about.

it's easy to go into the archive and look at the older stuff that possibly didn't get seen around as much, but i'll try to pull some more recent pieces.

I think this 6 fanarts did badly in comparison to other works because the trend appeared in 2020 but I wasn't able to complete this that year ^__T and the trend didn't come back in 2021... guess I'm not a trend setter..................... sighs 😔 haha

I do want to try this kind of fanart compilation again though! I'm bad at drawing under pressure though so I would have to come up with my own prompts...

this Kekkai Sensen x Trigun piece! I think the crossover alienated fans of both series bc you had to enjoy both T__T and I also didn't draw characters from either series interacting so I don't think it ended up that interesting? bc I wanted to make this a diptych (it's clear that there's a middle divide now that I mention it) but the triptych didn't end up happening!

besides both being created by Yasuhiro Nightow, I haven't come across that many fans who are fans of both, actually...? it's not in the case where the author's work is more or less similar in tone (or same universe), like Baccano x Durarara, Pandora Hearts x Vanitas no Carte, Higurashi x Umineko. I think something like trigun x cowboy bebop would have worked better because people are always unfortunately comparing the two hahahaha.

[1000feuille]

i'll be hosting a limbus company stamp rally with @chiko-akihari and @/ion_nite at otakuthon 2023!

come find me at table N546 :)

[tmin-n]

a lovely commission piece!! characters by @chiko-akihari & @avericesart

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my comms info

[opiumin]

commission for @chiko-akihari <3

[avericesart]

lower one's eyes [X]

artfight attack for @chiko-akihari

[pokeharvest]

Artfight attack for @chiko-akihari!

find me on artfight here!

[lorddacman]

My gaggle of homos have arrived

Thanks @chiko-akihari for these awesome pins!

[jayceecreates]

We ride at dawn!

Collab art with @chikoakihari, Niko riding on a vacuum cleaner roomba at the Refuge. :3 Nyoom!

OneShot by @nightmargin, @elizavq & @girakacheezer

[helisol]

some artfight attacks!

come fight me, I’m crystalphobic on there too

Team Dream for the win

[ghostlyfield]

Attacks for Chiko-Akihari on artfight!

[jayceecreates]

CHIKO! Here's something that I made for @chikoakihari cuz she's a cool artist and, oh! She also works for Outsider! Goooooo follow her if you would please? (not to mention i finished the art on mobile)

[avericesart]

an outfit swap ft. mine and @chiko-akihari 's ocs 👀

(this was supposed to be an april fool's art oops)