#the designs are really crisp and detailed so. i'll take it ^^

[hirazuki]

He's heeeeere! Needs a few adjustments -- gotta take one star off of his shoulders, get a silver belt for the pants, try and wrangle the skirt to something more Ishval-era accurate (tho honestly there's not much material to work with 😔) -- but overall I'm super happy with how it looks!

[inf1nyxw0rlds]

pspspspsps 4 the infinite asks: 3, 18 n 26 :eyes:

oooo ALRIGHT here goes !!

3. what's your favourite part of his design? why?

honestly a fucking difficult question but i'm reaping what i've sown. it's very close between mask and hair – the mask is so iconic in it's shape, i love the asymmetry and the attention to detail in that the right side is blacked out, likely because he doesn't need to see. it's crisp, it's edgy, it's a moment and a vibe and i love it. sure, if you wanna draw it at funky angles it could be a nuisance, but because it's shapes are so distinct u CAN break it down. and use references baby!

his hair i love because i'm just a sucker for guys – or, in his case, guy who is not a Man but is a boy in a dog way – with long hair. let them have it. please. it suits him so well and you can style it in a lot of different ways even besides the iconic locs !!

18. how do you feel about shadow killing squad jackal? do you headcanon otherwise?

okay this topic is one that i've seen a LOT of differing views on, and i definitely understand the divide on it because shadow's character in general is one that can never really be agreed upon among fans. my own take isn't one i've shared here yet so here it is – i think it depends on circumstance.

i can see it going either way depending on how things actually went down. rather than just asking why would shadow kill squad jackal, i like to ask why wouldn't he? both questions make you think about it from a different angle, i think. i can see him not caring either way; they're willing allies of eggman, but they're not a big deal. they're insignificant, whether that means their lives are unimportant, or not worth the energy to take. i don't think he would do it with outright malicious intent, though he is still an asshole.

i veer more toward he wouldn't, because he doesn't really give a shit and it isn't worth the energy. knocking them unconscious suffices just fine and they don't seem to be as dangerous as villains he's faced in the past. at the same time, i understand how his indifference could go the other way. he's also impulsive, and trained to take out anything in his way – it could be instinctual. my opinion of shadow is that he's neither killing enthusiastic or opposed. he deals with things case by case. he's not a monster, but not against doing what has to be done.

these are incidents from different sources, so take it with a grain of salt, but he extended an offer to metal sonic in archie to turn over a new leaf, though in cases like eggman and tinker, eggman shows much less, if any, promise of potential change, and that's where the line gets drawn.

shadow doesn't know anything about squad jackal and why they're allied with him, but on the basis of just working with eggman, would that be enough? i don't think so personally but, that's just me. again, i see it being more instinctual, a means of completing his mission, if he did. tunnel vision sort of deal, you know?

what happens in my fic, however, is complicated. that's all i'll say on the matter :)

26. what does his self-care look like?

it doesn't. okay jokes aside, i think he's always had a rough time looking after himself, between mental illness and being on the road for years fighting for his survival. he cares about his appearance a lot, but at the same time, it's hard for him to manage it and this really applies after losing his team.

he likes baths over showers, though, and if he had the option he would probably like one with candles, just allowing himself to lay there for a bit. he cares a lot about his hair and it has high priority. comfy clothes on a bad day, music appropriate to his energy levels, cookies and a blanket. he tends to take space and just withdraw to reenergise if he can. i also headcanon him letting his emotions out through art, writing, and being very elaborate and often brutal BUT that's post-war

[stepswowdsen]

【KagePro】 Kuroha's Manga Route 2 Design 🖤❤️🐍

New (Version 2.0)

Old vs. New (Version 1.0)

Judar Doodles (Close Ups)

Intro Rambles

Judar doodles (close ups) 🖤 ❤️ 🐈‍⬛

1st pic: OG (Oil Paint Flat brush) 2nd pic: Change brush type to Aalmaluar's weighted lines brush 3rd pic: Filling in the 2nd pic manually with black strokes

Difference is so subtle but interesting… They all look good so it's up to me to decide which one I want

Since CSP makes it easy to change the brush type and size of your lines

Intro Rambles

My first time drawing Kuroha's Manga Route 2 Design 🖤 ❤️ 🐍

I drew the old ones yesterday!

Did a redraw of Kuroha's face cuz I wasn't fully satisfied

New version: Changed the old one's eyes to the new brush type

Yippee!!!

I've been playing around with a new brush. I usually use CSP's old Oil paint flat brush (Version 1.10) but I've been trying out Aalmaluar (@/aalmaluar.t)'s brush set.

It's harder for me to control right now since I'm not used to it, but I love the weighted strokes… It's clearer and sharper than my old brush, which has a blunt softer edge. Both are nice

My style has really prominent thick eyelashes so it just doesn't look good when they can't be seen. I think the compromise for the black snake skin scales on his face is to lower the opacity to a dark gray, use a dark screentone, or use pitch black but outline the lines with white.

I bought from Aalmaluar's brush pack and figure drawing/gesture drawing challenge set, so I wanted to test out the brushes. I wanna level up my art game (over time) 🙏

That brush has a really crisp look… And can draw finer details easier

The oil paint flat brush I'd been using since 2022 ~ 2023 has a blunt edge and softer look

I think using a dark gray or dark screentone looks the best in this case. Both of Kuroha/Saeru's designs are really good (tfw a Konoha recolour is still peak)

I love the Manga design's cute hair tufts, black horns, black snake skin scales on his face, black/red darkened gradient limbs, and braids in the back that resembles a scorpion's tail like Judar's braids 🖤 ❤️ 🤭

Feila's Rambles

Kuroha teasing Ene is so cute 🥰

“Because let’s be for real here, SHAFT would nerf his hotness”

BHBHHBHB I AGREE WITH THIS

MCA ALREADY NERFED HIS HOTNESS

JUST LOOK AT SIDU'S ARTS COMPARED TO MCA

Like both the Black Konoha (Konoha recolour) and the Manga Route 2 design are so good…

The braids and snake scales in this design are so peak

Like the art style SHAFT chose for MCA is sooo… ugly. Doesn't capture my faves' beauty at all

Ene is SO pretty in Sidu's art style and MCA just doesn't capture my wife's cuteness at all (aside from some chibi Ene scenes)

Though content of my faves is still content of my faves, I'll take what I can get

...

I really want to see Sidu's concept art sketches for Kuroha/Saeru's Manga Route 2 design cuz I wanna see what the canon colours are

I assume it's either like… gray and black, or red and black for the top and bottom clothes? Cuz the colours used in the Children Record Re:boot MV don't actually correspond 1:1 to the canon colours, so I wonder…

A: His hair looks like a scorpion tail, which is really cool

Me: YEAHH Kuroha/Saeru's Manga Route 2 design has black snake scales on his face, a braid in the back and horns/tufts of hair on the sides

Reminds me Ohtaka (Magi mangaka) said she designed Magi charas' shape language on animals

Judar's hair braids' shape language is based on a scorpion's tail

I need to draw KuroEne with Kuroha in his Manga Route 2 Design omg

...

KuroEne AU: Dialogue Scripts (WIP)

Reminds me I had this KuroEne AU idea before:

Ngl it would be really fun if Ene in her tsundere denial tries to tell Kuroha/Saeru that she would not be doing this with him (being intimate with him) if it weren’t for the fact that he’s possessing Konoha’s body. Kuroha gets amused by the seeming challenging nature of her insinuation.

So then, Kuroha/Saeru uses Konoha’s Eye Ability, Awakening Eyes, and changes his body, appearance, and clothes, turning into his alternate form (Manga Route 2 Design) in front of Ene.

Ene counters him with how, even if he’s changed his appearance, he’s still using Konoha’s body.

...

F: Also wanna point out the fact that these hair parts looks like hamster ears (specifically the non-perked up ones) It looks like sad animal ears in general 😭 He looks horrifyingly stupid-ly cute

Me: WHDSHHHDSH I NEVER REALIZED THAT'S SO CUTE 😭 Snek (hamster) bf + bunny gf 🐍🐇

Ene: Can I flick your hair? Stuff your cheeks like a hamster's? You think I could put you in my pocket? (:D)

Ene: You don't look too threatening anymore! You look like the sad hamster meme-

Kuroha: (.) 🧍

F: LMAO 😭😭😭 She said that so casually towards someone that's a whole ruler taller than her, the confidence👏

Note:

Takane/Ene: 157 cm (5'1")

Haruka/Konoha/Kuroha: 182 cm (6'0")

Height Difference: 25 cm

[r0b0tb0y]

BIG writeup of process notes, just the first two pages for now:

I can't remember what sparked the original idea: I've done werewolf!Brasso in a fic before, and this is almost a prequel to that fic. I knew the story would work better as a visual narrative than prose, but I really wasn't sure if I could manage the scope or skill required.

Initially it was scripted as a webtoon: I was keen to make use of generous negative space, dynamic panels, colour pops, and the narrow continuous scroll that all work really well with horror pacing. I scripted with numbered panels and no page breaks:

When it came to setting up a canvas on Procreate (I'll start doodling and see how far I get), I decided to begin with the standard screen size and lengthen/shorten the canvas where the natural beats fell. I soon realised there was a natural rhythm to the page-turns (an important skill for print-comic writers, but I always used to struggle with it) so I divided up the script into ten pages. That was really handy if I want to print it, especially when I confirmed I could do it in monochrome.

PAGE ONE

I wasn't sure I could do the whole comic in black and white without even halftones, but I wanted to try and it ended up being great on pages with big backdrops because I was only obliged to scribble a bit of mess and that's as much junkyard as you're gonna get

Made blxcksqvadron find me a crisp cap of Zorbys sign, inked it as one of the final additions to the draft, then decided to replace the sign with the Alibi title

our dropbox has troves of reference images for Ferrix design, which I glanced at before doodling a few lumps and going 'yeah that looks like a ship/house/prop'. The cyclone fencing and keyhole were the least scifi looking features in the end, but both useful visual cues and look, the Andor art team extremely shopped at Ikea

drawing clouds is so fucking difficult. 'they're just blobs' I thought! go fuck yourself

hounds are a delight to draw, and were one of the first things I got stuck into. I thought they'd be difficult, but I based a lot of the poses off my greyhound and the expressions off a friend's pug and they are impeccable pubbies

looking back at early pages, really pleased how intuitive Cassian was to draw and pose

when I first posted this I forgot to put white behind the WOOF panel, so the parallel of WOOFWOOFWOOFWOOF/SHITSHITSHITSHIT disappeared (shitshitshitshit indeed)

thank you Diego Luna housebrick hands for being really easy to draw

the greeble kept looking like it had a cute face, which was fun but became too diverting as a mini-character

I was originally going to have more text, like the popups from the show (eg the Wanted: Kenari Male graphic). This page would explain the greeble was an expensive Imperial gizmo, and later on identify the corpse as a murdered corpo. The labels on the map of Ferrix and the $AFE note on page two were the only captions I kept. Exposition slows the pace down and takes up space, and I always prefer the art to do the bulk of the storytelling work.

The comic is full of rhetorical panels (non-square panels, especially ones where a diegetic detail escapes into the gutter) partly because it adds tons of dynamism to the monochrome, partly because it's a perfect visual metaphor for Cassian sneaking through boundaries, but also because I regularly pencilled too big despite sketching my borders in first.

PAGE TWO

I sketched page one, sketched page two, inked page two. This helped me figure out what would be technically possible/necessary before pencilling the whole thing (if I could finish this page in monochrome, it should be feasible for the whole story). It also meant I could share something comprehensible with the groupchat to keep me motivated. So this was my first finished page, where a lot of the stuff got figured out.

I love the layout on this page, and the squad did too. The manga-style polygon panels happen to look very Star Wars, and lead nicely into the composition underneath with three columns where the hounds recede, Cassian takes a breather, and the big reveal looms.

The borders are made using Procreate's Drawing Guide/Assisted Drawing with 48px grid (my default for lettered graphics). The brush can have a very uneven taper or come out blobby if I use the quickshape tool, so I get better control of border thickness with Assisted. Sometimes I'll do an entire grid then erase the gutters, or draw a set of rectangles that don't perfectly align, depending on how tight I want the layout to be. For the angled panels, I use quickshape on the brush/eraser, which takes some fiddling.

I'm really pleased with how the hites and briffits (💨) came out. Motion lines often end up looking stiff, and dust clouds like chunks of broccoli, but my main brush (True Grit Acrylic Liner from the Rusty Nib collection, without which I wouldn't have even attempted the project) handles them really well.

Generally the onomatopoeia are lettered with the messier acrylic brush, while dialogue and captions are a smoother style (Procreate's Studio Pen with extra motion control, which is my default).

The first running Cassian was freehanded, and I was very nervous about doing full-body action poses! I didn't mind this one looking a bit wacky for the sake of physical comedy, so I didn't go back to fix it.

The next four of him running and jumping use references from parkour photography, which gave me some really amazing angles and shapes to exaggerate. I added the details of boots and cuffs, which were really helpful to keep his shape consistent and to make the references look less derivative. Drawing moving clothing is new for me: I find lapels very tricky but boots are easy (rip liefeld).

I wanted a shot of him swinging around a corner, and the closest references I could find were all from pole dancing, but none of them looked as good as the vault on the left. Just know that Cassian almost used his pole skills, which I know he possesses.

Making the junk pile background where Cassian lands was a challenge: the stuff can't be so detailed it detracts from Cassian in the foreground, but a line in the wrong place ruins the inference of a tall stack of objects. This is where I discovered putting a turbine in an empty space helps: I went back and added one in the trapezium above (also whoops, needed a sense of Cassian's interaction with the space around him).

Had a ball with emanata and onamatopoeia on this page—I firmly believe you can barely overuse both devices. The CRUNCH and Cassian's exhalation were great.

The borderless panel was a really important centrepiece. I didn't want six repetitive blocks in the bottom half, and the bleed signals a moment where the chase slows down inexplicably.

This gives us a bit more space for the first proper close-up of Cassian, which ended up pretty close to my original freehand. Given Diego Luna has such a distinctive face*, I was surprised by the times where I found him easy/difficult to draw. Some panels are traced from screenshot references, but even then I'm obviously exaggerating major features.

The coat was originally flat black or white depending on the contrast in the scene, but as the pages progressed I needed more texture. The grid pattern gives a nice sense of a woven fabric, but I also chuckle at the idea of it being Burberry tartan. Here I went back and added a bit of hatching, but still minimal so it doens't get distracting.

I drew his shirt as seldom as possible. Couldn't be bothered with the crossover V-neck, didn't want to add another texture to shade, and didn't mind the idea that he was barely wearing a shirt.

The vertical pattern as a portent of doom is a technique I love in manga, and it neatly resembles the slope Cassian's just descended here too. I made this with a similar technique to the borders, where I use Assisted Drawing to make a sequence of tapered lines. This looks a bit more organic than a premade texture, and I can control the gradient. Aftewards I erase around the foreground details.

Scaredy hounds were really fun: lots of homages to my beloved late greyhound Grim and his anxieties. A little 'yipe' there because there's a lot of Looney Tunes subtext to this comic. If you look closely in the middle you can see the snout of a cowering hound, my goofy fave. The plewd looks a bit weird, but spiky hackles work well. I can also spot where I started using a grainy brush for the junk, which had mixed results throughout.

We always need reminders the moon! I'm pleased at how the hound paws came out: I worried that drawing their backs and running legs would be confusing, but it seems to work. Backlit house shapes didn't give me too much trouble compared to later: lots of practice with isometric pixel art.

A fun detail: the onomatopoiea of SKITTER SCATTER, and then SKEDADDLE... which could be an onomatopoiea, right?

blxcksqvadron is traditionally not a fan of stories where dogs dislike werewolves (they are family!) but compromised on the hounds being intimidated by a resource-hoarding big dog whom we know is being protective, not possessive.

A little broccoli puff of relief from Cassian, and the cheeky '$AFE' caption of the greeble in his pocket. The shadow coming into focus was something I envisioned as an iconic werewolf trope, but a scribbly edge in a monochrome comic is tricky—especially with the risk of drawing a koala.

Werewolf GROWL cannot be contained by borders: it's too deep, resounding, and a fun game with discourse time when the tapering crescendo creeps up on Cassian.

What is Cassian but a little shadow with big eyelashes?

The final wolf's shadow eclipses the borders slightly—it's larger than life—and the upright ears counter Cassian's drooping terrified hair. Glad I could get the major conflict introduced before the end of page two!

* The robotboy house style for drawing Diego Luna: huge wide-set eyes in a д shape. Heavy lower-outer lashes exaggerated down/out to the cheekbone. Sharp inner eye corners with lots of spikes. Big dark irises with lots of highlights (unless he's terrified: a tragic compromise I made often in this comic). Upper lash line sometimes has a visible lid on the outer side. Left eye corner has a little loop (𐋰) that sometimes appears where it meets the brow. Eyebrows are a curving zigzag that usually meets the outer corner of the eye, spikes down near the pupil, then angles up into a jagged inner edge. Nose has a prominent zigzag at the top, and a triangular tip that can be tilted very askew. A few vertical lines on the brow, a " on the chin. Mouth can be extremely small, generally a ^ shape. Jaw is angled much narrower than reality, with a small squared chin. Stubble only needs thin lines at the chin, sideburns, and halfway along the jawline, plus a moustache with a wide gap for the cupid's bow. High sharp cheekbones, tall brow that tilts back near the hairline, big earlobes often hidden by hair. Hair parts to the right, bigger wave on top with tighter curls underneath—always a few arcing tendrils to cover problems or steer the reader's gaze.

It's full moon! AWOOO!

Thank you @distressednoise @notasapleasure @bright-thorn and @blxcksqvadron for cheer-reading me through my most ambitious comics project to date.

[chiropteracupola]

I am on a foth kick and I would like very much to know about to keep it real and green knight, if you have things you want to share!

to keep it real is currently in a weird state where it doesn't quite know what it wants to be, since it's certainly not the fic I set out to write, but I don't want to abandon the original idea entirely. the original idea would have been a mostly plotless practice scene based on the 'his wife has filled his house with chintz' post/poem, featuring Ewen visiting Keith at Stowe House in some nebulous future, but I got a little carried away with setup, writing interactions with Francis, and attempting to research the location itself.

the trouble with houses that keep getting used is that they do very much keep getting updated, and frankly, it's a little more effort than I'd like to put in right now just to figure out exactly which ostentatious bits of architecture would have been there at the time that Keith would have been! there appears to be some kind of 3d model of the house that might get looked at later on, but I'm still trying to wrap my head around a) figuring out how the ground-plan has changed since the mid-eighteenth century, and b) the sheer scale of these gardens (for the record, I'm using a garden I'm more familiar with as a reference point for the size, and it's only a seventh of the size of this place. yikes and other such exclamations.)

due to the nature of this particular story, I'm going to want a pretty detailed interior design plan for the room, since it's the sort where I'm essentially making what amounts to a dollhouse in my head. so that's taking a while! someday I will pick this thing up again because It Compels Me, but right now I really do not know when that will be.

the green knight story is based on an idea from @tgarnsl, and is basically exactly what it sounds like - a Gawain and the Green Knight AU with Keith, Ewen, and Alison.

it's been slow going writing it, as I'm having trouble settling between my usual writing style and the more poetic, kenning-heavy style that I use for things like Rat Piper, as well as the fact that I thought it would be very funny to get it done by Christmas and that very much Did Not Happen. and then there's the fact that the name Keith simply doesn't sound right to me in the sort of quasi-medieval setting I've been working with - well, there's not really any way out of that one that I like, so that's just something that I'll have to figure out as I go along. or probably I'll just leave him there, all incongruous as he is.

and since you've read all the way through that, here's the prologue for that particular tale:

His mother’s hand is on his shoulder, and his father’s sword is belted at his side, its bright blade so, so, much lighter than it looks.

“Go and do it, won’t you, Keith?” He doesn’t need to be asked. Every eye in the hall is on him, and he steps forward, and lets one knee bend so that he can dip just far enough to take the offered weapon. His fingers are on the axe-handle — good! — and in one smooth motion, he’s up again and that shining arc of steel is cutting through the air with a sound like church-bells. In that half-second before steel meets skin, the strange knight smiles, and tips his head a little to one side, his loosened collar slipping to show a line of pale skin.

Keith strikes true.

He steps back, his footsteps crisp as if against frosted-over ground. A thick slap of meat against stone, a flare of iron-scent in the air, a gasp from the assembly. The head rolls to a stop at Keith’s feet, the seeping blood staining the toes of his shoes as the strange knight falls to his knees.

But what is this? This man so lately slain is reaching out a hand for balance, reaching out towards Keith as he slowly, slowly pulls himself upright. His head is in his hands, gold-green hair trailing over lichen-pale fingers, but his blood runs down red, red, red to splatter on the rushes at Keith’s feet. Keith looks down, the axe now heavy in his hands, and watches as the stain sinks and blurs into the shadows, red turning back to green. His hands tighten on the haft of the axe, its weight solid but not at all reassuring.

Now, Keith no longer has to look up to meet the Green Knight’s eyes, for he holds his head just at the right height for Keith to see. And for all that this man is bleeding and headless, impossible and out of place, he smiles like the sun.

[eternalfrowning]

What kind of reference do you use for those amazing drawings? And the clothes oh my god the clothes. You draw them so well they look so crisp and realistic...omg. how do you do that?

hello !! thank you woohgghhgthgT///T im really happy you enjoyed looking at my drawings!!

tbh it really really depends !! sometimes i draw from memory kinda freestyle, sometimes i take picture of myself when i struggle, wearing clothes close to what i want to draw when necessary (like for shirt collar, i always forget how it looks aha).

looking online is also very useful and efficient as well!

for clothes i tend to forget that im painting a certain type of fabrics, which is actually important af euzgbougze i'd say looking at and practicing drawing different fabrics, metal, etc, how the weight of it and the light work for them is the way, it makes the clothes instantly more believable and realistic!!

my reply is getting v long im sorry aaa im putting the rest below !

oh and you can also think about how you want the clothes to communicate this or that in your drawing (light, heavy, fluid, see-through, ... ) and how you like to draw them ofc; also, the clothes follow the movements, if the character lifts their arm, their leg, then the clothes, depending on the movement and the fabrics, will tag along, wrinkle, or restrict the move! so you can look at the mirror, look at how your shirt wrinkles when you do this or that, then with your jacket, etc! and also draw simple shapes to learn, the clothes you draw will look more realistic in no time !

i'll try to add more with examples of my drawings? i hope it helps a bit,, sadly im no expert, im learning every day with this and tend to just , not think, or crazily overthink and am too lazy to look at ref which would actually end my suffering, but hélas aha

for example, something simple : here, gravity make roxas' trousers drop, while his leg is on movement, the fabric follow his bones, then gravity does its job!

for the flan cushion, i wanted the characters to look engulfed in it and extra comfy, like huge marshmallow?; the shadows are made dark to appear deeper compared to others, and the shape of the cushions is suffering the weight of the character!

now talking more a bit about different type of fabrics, for example for the vanitas drawing; i looked at boots pictures online, looking at several ref to design the shoes and how it would work and be believable. i really wanted him wearing shiny leather!!

on the pictures, we can see that the light hit the leather of the boot 'hard', it's v bright, it follows the quite hard fabric, wrinkles are present where the movement occur (ankles, toes), so i tried to keep it in mind !

but now, for the drape, i wanted it to contrast this shiny leather and its with sharp wrinkles; the cloth has a lot of fluidity, and feels heavy! if he were to stand and walk, his movement would be hindered by the weight and lenght of it. it's like a soft and constricting nest ; also i added little fringes to it, as if the cloth is old, worn

little detail to the clothing can be very cool and interesting, showing if it is often wear, well-loved, damaged and suffering, old or brand new!

more simply, here you can see with a simple shape and just two or three different colors shades, that the dress is light, and the fabric is thin and almost transparent in the light, it's frilly with several layers of puff fabrics

now, with this example, we can see how everything will affect the clothes and the movement of it; riku's grip is taking with it some of sora's sleeve, and the sleeve itself follows the shape of sora's shoulder! the sharp wrinkle of it suggests riku's strong grip , as he's lifting him, supporting sora's weight

again, everything will affect the fabrics, the wind will make float the lighter fabrics, the rain will soak others making them darker/shinier/..., and clinging to the character's body, and gravity will look stronger as they're heavier drenched with water.

concerning movement and clothes, here's another example:

depending on the violence, the rapidity of the movement, clothes will be affected differently

now with examples concerning the way i paint :

i tend to work with simple shapes most of the time (triangles etc); like for shadows, a side (or several, depends!) will be kept sharp to be the wrinkle, while otherwise i'll blend the color ! it's an equilibrium with details and larger shapes, if it makes sense

but for example, i choosed to make ichika's sleeves here following nothing i said here ahhaha, so it would appear more fun and childish ? i just drew the shirt and the pattern on it simply, ignoring the law of perspective and gravity haha

you can see old 'tutorials' i made here but i think i still kinda work like this ? ;; !!!!!!

and also here and here are (old;;) practice drawings, maybe it can give you some idea for practice ?

im sorry i ramble a lot, i hope it still helps a bit !!

im forgetting a lot of things!!! but i just talked about what came into my mind rn; if you have more questions i'll be happy to reply ! (with probably another novel lenght rambling oups)

bye!! and thank you if you made it this far :>

good day/night!!!

[oiphity]

rendezvous between two individuals with questionable morals <3

     The crisp evening air rustled Melisande’s curls as she waited at the designated rendezvous point. Their meetings always took place at night since, well, fraternizing with a persona non grata in the eyes of the government she worked for wasn’t exactly ideal for its already shaky reputation, to say the least. Did she care? Not particularly, especially when that government would be overthrown in a matter of months. With that in mind, she could afford to acquaint herself with the woman who was supposed to be her enemy.

     Red heels clacked against the marble tile of the ornate balcony. Each footstep echoed, preceding the arrival of their maker. Melisande turned towards the source of the rhythmic noise and smiled. "Good evening, Hina."

     Hina returned Melisande's amorous look with one of her own. "Hello, darling. How are you on this sublime day?"

     "I'm decent. How about you, my love?" Melisande asked, taking Hina's hand as the two of them began walking side-by-side. 

     “Only decent?” Hina frowned slightly. “Well, I hope my presence makes your day even the tiniest bit better. I’m doing well myself.” 

     Classic Hina. Of course her presence would vastly improve Melisande's day. She was the most beautiful woman in the world, after all, both in appearance and personality. “That’s always good to hear. Now, to get straight to the point of our meeting, I believe Freyja and Sigfrieda’s efforts to hide their little interpersonal conflict are faltering.”

    Now Hina was especially interested. “Oh? How so?”

    “Well, for one, Sigfrieda could barely restrain herself from being completely and utterly passive-aggressive towards her supposed partner-in-command at the latest council meeting," Melisande explained. Oh, it was such a sight. Sigfrieda was throwing out backhanded statements left and right, barely preventing her face from contorting into an expression of unbridled rage. Freyja was trying to do damage control, but she absolutely failed miserably. Pure entertainment.

     Hina considered this for a second, a contented smile dancing upon her lips. “Hmm. It seems like her true colors are finally starting to show.”

     “Indeed. I'm sure she'll give us quite a performance when she inevitably loses her composure." Had Hina ever witnessed that happen before? Melisande really did wonder, but she knew she shouldn't ask when they had such limited time to converse. Maybe another time.

     Hearing about that would be absolutely wonderful. "I eagerly anticipate it. Please do share every detail of that occurrence with me."

     "I'll be sure to. I know you'd be the first person who'd want to hear about it," Melisande replied, laughing slightly to herself.

    Hina chuckled. Ah, the spite she possessed for her creators was limitless. Every single little inconvenience they endured satisfied her immensely. "That certainly is true. Now, do you have any more information you would like to share with me?"

     Melisande thought for a second. Of course, there were things going on all over Concordia, but much of it wasn't interesting or relevant to their objective. "Well, the situation in the Southern Province is getting worse. Nothing is being done to alleviate the famine caused by the latest drought. The population is in revolt."

     Hina smiled in satisfaction. "Good. We can use this to our advantage. Freyja and Sigfrieda's perfect little façade is finally beginning to crack." 

     "Indeed. I'm sure you know what you can exploit in particular to favor your goals." If not, well, Melisande knew Hina could easily find out. She had her ways.

     "Of course. I am never unprepared," Hina replied, perhaps a bit teasingly. She realized their interaction had to come to an end, though. How unfortunate. Well, she could do nothing but deal with it at this point. The two of them would have all the time in the world to spend in each other's company once those wretches were overthrown. She sighed. "Well, darling, our time together tonight is waning. Do not falter yet. We're too close to achieving the world of our dreams to stumble now. Keep working as you already are and you will be generously rewarded, I assure you. Farewell for now, my dear."

     With that, Hina winked and disappeared in a short display of crimson-colored magic, leaving Melisande alone with her thoughts once again. 

[mysticjupi]

Umineko: When They Cry Review - Episode 0

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Part 0: Notes

This post can't be as aesthetic as I would like due to only having a phone; however I'll make do with what I have. Hello! Thank you for taking the time to read this; assuming you read my info on the header of my blog page, you should also know my dream is to be an author...and that takes me here, to Umineko and the WTC series in general. I finished reading the Umineko Visual Novel, and have watched the Higurashi Anime, and I plan to read the Manga for Higurashi soon.

The following posts will be about my thoughts, experience, and love for WTC, however this post 0 will be about WTC in general, along with miscallenous things.

Needless to say, SPOILERS!!!

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Part 1: When They Cry

My first experience with the series was years ago, when I was a child; and coming across some of the more gorey scenes from Higurashi on youtube, I was curious yet I never persued more of this media. Years went by and it remained nothing more than a afterthought in the back of my head, however, a friendgroup who was big into Higurashi made me watch the anime, and I decided on my own to read the Umineko novel, and since then...I've been very into the fandom for a few months.

I took two months to finish the Umineko VN...

And as you can tell, some days I read very generously. That being said however, it was all time well spent.

Ryukishi's writing has become an inspiration and something I think about greatly, his ability for creating and characterizing his characters in both dynamic and subtle ways has stuck out to me, as well as how he handles abuse and sensitive topics authors usually avoid delving into. This aspect will be discussed more when I get around to talking about characters.

However, the thing that sticks out the most to me is his...lessons. How he makes you think about mortality and the negative and positive aspects of people and their situations. Higurashi and Umineko identify and share their themes strongly, while leaving some leeway for the reader to think about it themselves. God knows I've been rethinking and pondering a lot of Umineko's plot.

Without Love, it cannot be seen. Is a new philosophy I have started to use, for example.

That's where much of my love for WTC comes from, and before you ask, I know nothing about Ciconia but I plan to read it once my technology situation is sorted.

I think that's enough for my introduction, and now you know where I stand on this series that's wiggled it's way into my heart.

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Part 2: Music

Before I discuss the Episodes of Umineko, I'd like to dedicate some to discuss one of my other favorite aspects of the Visual Novel, which is of course the amazing soundtrack that I cannot get enough of.

I never knew a Visual Novel about victorian ladies fucking with people would carry such a banger OST. I'll link some of my favorites:

Patchwork Chimera

Death From Stupefaction

Golden Sneer

Haze

Dream End Discharger

Deep Blue Jeer

The Girls Witch Hunt

Kina no Kaori

Reflection Call

Last End Conducter

I never realized how big of an impact music had on your enjoyment of a story, but Umi's soundtrack compliments scenes extremely well. There isn't much to say here but it's an extremely good listen and one of the major perks of the visual novel. Kudos to the various composers who worked on the soundtrack.

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Part 3: Artstyle and Design

The last thing I should have to say for this post, and of course this section will be talking about the original novel Artstyle, however the others will be mentioned.

Umineko's designs are stand-out and very unique yet remain alluring. This goes both for the hair and face of the characters and their outfits...

And of course, the fact many of the outfits are taken from actual goth fashion being displayed at around the time or Umineko's original releases. Some of my favorite examples:

Wonderful, I think. I can easily tell these characters from their silhouettes which always means good design. Somewhat unrelated but Ryukishi seemed to really enjoy thigh gaps when designing, (Chiester Sisters, Dlanor's Group, Seven Stakes...) and whatever you would consider Gaap's Gap. However this isn't a negative by any means. Most of the men's outfits are suits, however I can appreciate a formal and crisp style and at least everyone has their own suit aesthetic. Original Battler is the best style btw.

To make mention of the other Artstyles Umineko has...

Pachinko: It's...good? Some characters look better like Lambadelta or George but some were...proportioned oddly? Kyrie and her immensely inflated chest definitely put me off. I had the Pachinko sprites option during my read so I swapped between this and original depending on who was onscreen.

PS3 Remake: Very good and faithful rendition while also modernizing and streamlining designs, though it didn't quite capture the rawness of Ryukishi's expressions in the original Artstyle at times.

Manga: Amazing. The Umineko manga expressions are absolutely amazing. Raw, detailed, the anount of time spent on those illustrations is obvious, up there with the original style.

Anime: It's alright.

That said, the expressions of Umi are stunning, which makes sense considering how gritty and fucked up the story can be at times, nothing beats the little laugh that accompanies these expressions in the visual novel.

(Original Novel) Finally, while the backgrounds in the novel can be pretty simple, Ryukishi truly does his best with what he has and works with, and I think the simple backgrounds work well to not detract focus from the characters and text, however I wish he made the glass shatter screen transition a bit less abrupt?

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That covers everything I feel like I should discuss, next I'll be taking a retrospective look at Episode 1 of Umineko...Legend of the Golden Witch.

I think one or two posts a day covering a episode will be how I'll write the rest of this review, I hope you enjoy!

- Jupiter.

As some last notes, feel free to interact with me in dms or asks or anything! I'd love to discuss this story with anyone because hearing differing opinions or just bonding over media is one of my favorite things! I'd love to make friends

This of course is all opinion and not objective! I love seeing different views and all opinions are valid to me!

Have a nice day!

[artificialqueens]

i'll be your biggest fan ( trinity & sasha ) - lily2

[ prompt ] : sasha never thought she would ever get married let alone to her best friend but in the midst of the big day she needs help putting on her dress for the event and she knows exactly who to employ to get the damn thing done.

[ author's note ] : I really love their friendship a lot (and also shea/trinity is a huge brotp of mine) and it's very sweet and so like opposite and I find it so charming, wanted an excuse to write wedding sashea as well !!! I genuinely love trinity and enjoy writing her so so so badly, I'm a proud eastern european girl but I will always appreciate my homestate queen! (人*´∀｀)｡*ﾟ+

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"What if she doesn't like the dress?"

It was difficult for Sasha to even process the insanity that was about to be her own wedding day, her perfectly manicured hands running through her thick blonde curls. The Russian could barely even get a sentence out without wanting to collapse in fear— perhaps not fear but stress though it all seemed to mesh into one demon that kept clawing at her back, that she wasn't good enough for Shea, for this wedding, that she was still scared of the commitment that was about to come.

The issue was not if she was to be devoted to Shea Couleé, the one woman she knew almost instantaneously as her soulmate, her partner, her best friend all these years later.

It was clear the minute they exchanged looks and Shea leaned against the bar, a track from Donna Summer blasting from the stage, Sasha leaning deeper and deeper entranced by her beauty, intelligence, everything. Well rounded and active in her community back in her hometown of Chicago, something the blonde could definitely appreciate considering her own background in both St. Petersburg and Chicago.

"I really should've consulted her, I'm all about fashion but this isn't exactly what you would call my alley way!"

An irrepressible thumping of her heart as Trinity brushed the corners of her hair, putting a box down in Sasha's lap before groaning aloud, the southern girl never shy to share aloud her opinions and thoughts even when not provoked to.

"Sasha Velour, I know damn well you are not trying to talk your mind into stress on your wedding day!" A hair brush in her left hand as she tossed her perfectly sprayed and shortned hair, "Three things in life are absolutely positive: I'm gorgeous, taxes and Shea Couleé being in love with you." The words spitting out her lips before she finished up styling her best friend's hair.

The bride-to-be couldn't help but giggle at the sentiment, it was true, all three facets.

Trinity Taylor was truly a gem on earth, you'd never meet someone with the ability to talk your ear off while almost simultaneously digging a grave for you in Dante's layers of hell. A true southern girl, a beauty queen since high school, everything seemed so perfectly aligned and expected of the Orlando native.

Who needs a degree in economics! Especially when you can just be as gorgeous as I am?

However, expectations aren't always necessarily the reality. Trinity met Sasha, at a bar nonetheless due to a mutual friend and unprovoked, inspired by Sasha's work and ethic as a writer and designer, decided to finally go to college after dropping out her first year after high school. Majoring in business, still a pageant queen at her core and getting a minor in fashion retail as well.

"I'm still surprised you picked me for your maid of honor, if I can be completely honest with you." A smile gently forming across the corners of her lips as she spoke to the girl who was still in her robe, Trinity beginning to put some finishing touches. Sasha's brow immediately cocked and she practically grasped her entire desk.

"What do you mean? We've been close for years! We studied together, I helped you with exams, you introduced me to Shea! Don't be so hard on yourself." The twinge of her still softly reminding Russian accent came out hardest when she was angry or spewing up words, no time to breathe in between sentences.

"Hey! Don't get sappy on me bitch, I have so much makeup on I think our local Sephora might have run out of business." Her hands gently beginning to weave flowers through her hair, taking in a deep breath, learning to be silent and dabbing her puffy eyes when the Russian wasn't looking and closed her eyes, it was awfully emotional.

"You still have to put me in my dress, we have about an hour!" She warned gently, rubbing Sasha's shoulders as the thought begun to truly sink into her memory.

She was going to put Sasha into her dress.

Tears seemed to collect in the corner of her eyes but she brushed them aside, staying strong for the Russian who deserved today: to have met someone as fashionable and sweet as herself though Shea was definitely the best care she had with her isolation of family, it was very heartwarming and bittersweet to the girl who came to the states with nothing but her phone, some sketchbooks and a camera.

Sasha would not budge on her artistic roots and demanded that flowers be in her hair someway, somehow, scattered. At first the brunette could barely stand it, almost bitterly spitting that Farrah could do it instead, hating the idea.

Her intuition however was once again, as if it was a surprise, correct. The illusion was everything, as if she was some sort of gorgeous mythological creature, it was very on brand for her and her own creative processes.

"Told you it would look good."

"Well, sometimes I'm wrong, we ain't perfect but I'm pretty damn close honey."

Flowers intricately being placed in her hair as they spoke with tender laughter, "You know, this entire look, I commissioned the dress and made all the other pieces so I look like Lada, she's a Slavic goddess." Trinity wasn't surprised that she was including her culture in little ways, speckled into her wedding especially being away from Russia.

"Oh really?"

A hint of disbelief in her tone but Trinity knew her best friend well enough to realize her passion for her culture, she kept all her Russian zazz and was delighted to meet Katya, someone to finally share an outlet with, comfortably speak Russian with without feeling targeted or stared at with distrust.

"Yes, a bit of a tribute. Also, my favorite outfit Shea ever wore was this lavender, tulle dress during our fifth year anniversary, it had white flowers in the fabric and I wanted a piece of her in my dress." Her cheeks gently flushing, talking about her (almost official) wife with nothing but devotion and pride.

"That's so fucking cute I wanna throw up."

They laughed and held eachother's hands, embracing in the moment before the robe came off, Sasha sucking in a breath as Trinity unzipped the dress from it's black bag that had been delivered via Bianca and gently held it her hands, being sure to look where she stepped as the dress seeped out of her hands with petals and flowers embleshed adorning every corner of the dress.

It was a nice surprise and breach from Sasha's usual eclectic style that almost always had a paint stain or three, she had her brand down and Trinity could appreciate how confident and how out of the box, creative she was however it definitely made her inner, nostalgic heart smile at the sight of a dress so long it hits the floor on both sides.

"This is really beautiful Sash."

Trinity could only unzip the back of the dress, so beautifully crafted and designed as Sasha was left standing to turn and gently put her legs through the hole of the dress, getting stuck for just a second, careful with her hair knowing Trinity was definitely her smarter half in this situation considering the blonde was simply about to pull it over her head, ruining her styled hair.

"Oh God..." A grumble from Trinity's lips as she zipped her up, it felt almost wrong. This was usually a mother's duty, a family item, the entire process of dressing and making over the bride, no matter how traditional it sounded to anyone else, they know deep in their hearts they were sisters but not having your blood family must sting, especially at a wedding.

It felt strangely therapeutic to tie and zip her into her own wedding dress, she wasn't complaining in the slightest even if the heat from the mirror made her perfectly applied foundation melt and stick just a bit more, she was completely focused on one thing: making sure her best friend was ready and didn't have to do it alone.

Galvanized, Sasha seemed to hold her breath not fully understanding yet that she and Shea would soon be married and finally tie the knot, years of friendship and dating and it had finally happened with absolutely no hesitation from Sasha who screamed "yes!" in just about every language she could speak or name. Trinity touched her back, making sure she was fully snug into her dress before touching her shoulders in comfort, stifling back a laugh.

"Fucking Christ I feel so hideious!" She cried out, hiding her tears with a smirk that spanned across her entire face, unable to erase it as Sasha opened her eyes and seemed to stop breathing for a few seconds, truly taking in the details of the dress and adjusting her bra just a bit before choking up, Trinity quickly intervened, "You better not cry off your mug! I worked hard." The two staring side by side at Sasha together, "My favorite married couple." She sighed as she held hands with the Russian girl who happily was adjusting to the new word: married.

"You can cry once you get down the alter girl, we better get into our shoes because I can already feel us behind schedule, Katya's angry fingers typing away at us to hurry up."

The blonde nodded but not before squeezing Trinity's hand, a silent "thank you" mouthed as she begun to look around for her pair of shoes, her head wondering off to many different places at the same exact time.

"Anytime, any day you need me, I'm here." Her word's crisp as she strapped on her heels, matching her floral wedding extravaganza with a lavendar tulle dress, breaking down her wall a bit and even having shoes with some flowers done in colorful embroidery, Sasha claimed it was a very popular thing in Eastern Europe, that it adorned all their clothing.

"I know, always, when you finally have the confidence to ask out a certain someone especially." The wiggle of her eyes reminding Trinity brutually of her own, suprisingly awkward struggles with love, "Oh you shady!" She gasped, covering her mouth gently and almost hitting her with her bouquet of flowers.

"I'm just saying I see you getting side glances all the time from her."

"Let's not talk about this on your own damn day! Another time."

So they interlocked arms and did one final mirror take, finding it hard they went from senior year of high school, a nervous and introverted Russian girl with a thick accent and passion for fashion shows and politics best friends with the beauty queen, the secretly witty and hilariously instinctive southern belle.

"Let's go bitch, I know well time is a racing!" She yelped as they skipped out the door in excitement though Trinity was attempting to be careful with all the dress material that was sliding across the floors they walked upon, making sure she grabbed Sasha's own flower bouquet filled with Camomile (only fitting to be the national flower of Russia) and odd numbered as she requested.

Hand in hand they walked, unafraid of what was in store and for the future, just as the stories went.

"Well, let's do this."

[nickywhoisi]

Omigosh, this is great. Headcannon time I'm divin' in! *sploosh*

My version of humanoid!Gordon, when it comes to cooking, is secretive. He's someone whom the rest of the team really assumed would not be a cook at all. They automatically percieved him as above - can't cook anything, because he's a big posh snobby bloke who's too above flittering about in the kitchen preparing, eugh, Homo Sapien Foods(tm)...and James, master of coworker impressions, was probably the one who started this fake take.

(The context of this is that my designs for the cast are like...not exactly giant robots, but above average metal golems. Not sure if it's going to be a jointed bot design or chrome skin design, but the point is they all are not humans but are built to be like them anyway, and have wildly varied opinions about food in general, which I'll post after this one!)

So anyway Gords was pinned by nearly all of his coworkers as a stubborn fancylad who's allergic to doing boring menial tasks, and even the more level headed ones like Edward, Toby, Rusty, Daisy and Boco whom didn't assume this...still weren't exactly sure what his take on it was. But nobody so far has asked him? and don't seem to care to at the moment. What Gordon actually does...is food art! And he's okay at it! Doesn't make grandiose displays or large five star feasts, it is actually more enjoyable for him to make small and focused pieces, like cupcake decorations (but it's those ELABORATE ones that look too detailed to eat! you know the ones there are all sorts of pictures) or little steak cubes cooked medium rare or with perfectly crisped edges and rare inside and expertly positioned garnishes. Gordon takes great pride in this controlled, subtle, experimental cooking of his, and it's the one time he can do something very creative! It is also something he finds relaxing and quite dignified, and so of course he goes all in with it. When he's finished working on a creation, he murmurs to himself, "Ahh...excellent, as always. Made to perfection...well done, old boy." >:3c what a dorkus

Being an artisan chef is a hobby that, while he enjoys it a great deal, actually keeps very secret from everyone as he eventually learns of their stories about him 'not liking to cook'. He's initially chuffed...but then has a thought. Strangely finding it too good to burst their bubble right now, Gordon decides to go along with it and hold the truth over all their heads. Often this has been right under their noses to delightful effect! One time, he gave Henry and Thomas some custom made mousse desserts for the holidays, and he had them specially packaged in a shop and pretended that he ordered them from the bakery. The two loved them anyway, and Gordon's little hidden grin just said it all as he lapped up the praise he got for his desserts that eve...or rather, that the unnamed patissiere got for his desserts that eve. ;) It's his secret prank on them I guess!

But just imagine if they ever found out right? I can only headcannon that someone driven to find out the truth might, or just satisfy curiosity. I have decided Boco would be the most likely. He strikes me as a big guy but knows how to move around quietly, and he chooses to investigate when he sees...Gordon? Going into the KITCHEN? o.o The plot thickens. And there, Boco sees the guy all content, making his latest masterpiece, in a quiet moment while everyone else is away. Gordon usually picks times when he knows everyone is not likely to burst through the kitchen door. But Boco is pleasantly suprised to know where those "take outs" and "gifts from the store" really come from! And he quietly watches him work for a while until the piece is done I suppose.

Then...come the next time, Gordon offers him some "take out from a classy restaurant he knows" while they're on a break from work, Boco is delighted to see it's the same one he saw Gordon make! But he wisely knows to keep up the act and takes it without a word. The only hint he drops afterward?

"...You know, Gordon, this was splendid. I should really like to go to that restaurant you got this from."

"Oh, well, I'm afraid it's a little out of the way. Quite a distance. Only someone like me could make it over there, a-as an expressman, of course."

"Out of the way, you say? Here on little Sodor? I find that unlikely. How far could it be?"

"*ahem!* Y-you see, it's...far off to the England gateway. It is nowhere near your usual railway, Boco. I am the fastest engine who goes towards that...line. You, um, would simply not be able to make it, you see."

"Is that right? Hm...what a shame, that I can't see for myself." And Boco just gives him THAT LOOK. Gordon is having a shoujou manga moment. Boco quietly gets up before the other man has a chance to ask him to explain himself...he just smooth strides outta there with that knowing smile and leaves Gordie flustered for a whole lot of reasons at once.

there are two kinds of humanized gordon:

- cant cook for shit

- head chef

and both of these are in character and I cant decide whether my own human gordon can cook or not .

on one hand, gordon is refined and competent- and it seems obvious that he would know (and boast about his skill). But on the other hand. Its also in character for him to have not learned and probably never have tried, for fear of making a fool of himself burning toast.

Maybe Gordon did it once, and it was a disaster he refuses to talk about. And he’d never admit to it because some well meaning soul (like Edward) would try to teach him and he’d be too stubborn and embarrassed to get any farther than boiling water

theres also the middle option of gordon knowing how to make exactly one thing. Toby asks him “can you cook at all” and he just replies “yes” and does not elaborate. He gets put in charge of breakfast and has no idea how to back out of it. so everyone gets exactly 2 eggs and exactly two pieces of toast the next morning. He winds up having to do this more often and kind of impostor syndromes his way through cooking

toby: youre not so bad at this, really

gordon: I have no idea what im doing

…

the one thing other than eggs and toast that he definitively knows how to make is out-of-the-bag frozen chicken nuggets. this is secret though. if thomas or james finds out that he gets up at 4am sometimes to bake them and eat an entire bag before everyone wakes up, he’d probably die of embarrassment

[robgosling-vapemodreviews-blog]

Today I'm taking a look at my daily driver mod (Voopoo Too) and give you my thoughts on what is good and what is also bad about the Mod.

VOOPOO TOO (180w)

54 x 33 x 88 mm

Single Battery 1-80w

Dual battery up to 180w

Colours, Black or white body with dazzle, ditch dark, raisin, turquoise inlays

Connection Thread: 510

Battery Capacity 1x or 2x 18650 Battery

Average Price from U.K Vape shop £50

So what can I say about the VOOPOO TOO that hasn't already been said before in other reviews.

To start I love this mod, it's been my daily mod for a while now, I love how it looks in the hand and how it feels.

Paired with a good RTA such as the Vandy Vape Triple it really shines (Not shown in Picture above, please find in the Gif below) the style of the Mod itself is one of the main selling points for many people.

And why wouldn't it be?, I mean look at it, no really stop reading this review for a minute and go and Google some of the images, I'll wait.

Ah you're back, see what I mean? It's a beautiful mod that looks amazing and obviously a lot of love went into creating this, from the panels to the buttons and controls right up to the screen.

It absolutely billows vapour when paired well.

The firing time is fairly standard across a lot of mods, so I can't really say anything about that other than if you've used other mods before, you know what to expect.

The 510 thread is nicely crafted and not loose like on a few mods I've had previously, the spiral patterns are pleasing to look at and clean as you can see below.

And the screen is very crisp bright and very visible in various lights, making it easy to read, the screen shows you the resistance of your coils and how many volts you're putting through, the standard battery display and how many watts your using as well.

(Please note these two images are taken from google)

Now let's talk about the design of the Mod.

(Image again from google)

The Battery Doors are magnetic and are carved with A and B so you can't confuse which side panel belongs on what side.

The panels are removable so they can be changed if needed, or to fit Wraps.

The magnets are strong enough to keep the panels attached (and annoyingly anything remotely metal close to the Mod itself).

The doors slide which I think is a nice touch, but I often find myself fiddling with them, sliding them open and closed a lot.

Construction is Aircraft Grade Aluminium and Zinc Alloy so it's quite tough, but will show marks eventually, I have my mod placed on the table when not in use and scratches have appeared on the bottom, and not light ones either, I figured I'd mention that as some people dislike scratches, but as of yet I've had no scratches appear on the visible body yet.

The bottom of the Mod has the venting point.

Performance 8/10

Looks 9/10

Crafting and general build 9/10

Screen 0.9inch 10/10, easily readable even by visually impaired, with enough detail.

Feel in the hand 10/10 easily, it feels chunky but durable, I wouldn't drop it though.

Thank you for taking the time to read my first review, I'm still new to this and I know I will have improving to do.

Hope you enjoyed reading this.

Keep it cloudy folks!