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Bit random, but thank you to the people who, even though they don't like ougoku, still not only follow me, but reblog, like, and comment so positively on those ship oriented drawings of mine.

You are all so incredibly kind and supportive, even though you have fully understandable and valid reasons to just avoid those kinds of posts completely, and I really appreciate and respect that.

I just wanted to say this. Thank you again.

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Some context to remember: nothing's changed compared to canon except the minimal parts of Trial 4 development required to plausibly warrant such an outcome. There certainly was a room for that. Till next time!

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You know what, fuck it.

It's not nearly finished, but I'm going to start uploading my Gonta fancomic page by page. This thing, that is.

Once the whole comic is made and published, whenever that'll happen, I'll just reupload it in one big post here and on pixiv, too, since it's better suited for manga format.

The first page's gonna launch from the queue tomorrow. Next ones, we shall see - I suspect the uploads will be rather spaced apart and irregular.

But hopefully it'll be nice read to y'all, all things considered ; ... ;

Ngl, I feel a bit stressed that this will force me to draw pages in chronological order - part of keeping myself motivated was based on the fact that if I get stuck on drawing any given page/panel, I can just hop onto any other bit in the storyboard.

But in the end it actually might be a better option to enforce a more strict, structured and linear approach - jumping around so much created this daunting illusion of nothing ever truly progressing despite pouring tons of time and effort into drawing; Plus one of the problems I created for myself, is that the second half is more completed than the first one, because I was too afraid of touching it and messing up lmao. As a result I keep working on it a bit, then putting it away for a while, because it's just too intimidating as a whole. ("It's gonna be easy now that script/storyboard is all done, and I don't have to figure out anything no more, it's just mechanically completing one panel after another! (' 7 '✿)" famous last words)

Meanwhile finishing one page at a time at least feels like completing a concrete step, giving a boost to keep on going? This is how it worked with my old webcomic at least, and at this point I'll do anything to force my very much unwell sponge of a brain to work at least semi-consistently.

And while I can't promise any regular schedule, neither weekly nor bi-weekly, it starts to feel like posting rarely and irregularly, but still posting anything bit by bit, is a far better option as opposed to working on the project for god knows how many more months/years while stressing out over how much more time it will take, breaks included, without me showing anything. At first I wanted to avoid this, but, well, that was a few months ago, so whatever, change of tactics XD.

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Thank you! I pretty much followed similar color-mixing/layering principles as traditional printing + played around with the line density, angle and pen pressure.

In the end it's mostly about creating optical illusion from a distance.

Gonta's hair is brown + green + yellow, sometimes with additional red for warmth, purple or blue for cooler tones and shadows. Kokichi's dark blue + purple + light blue + pink, same goes for his bandana.

The skin is brown + yellow + pink for blush for Gonta, or yellow + pink for Kokichi.

Gonta's jacket is almost exclusively brown, with added red + yellow for warmth and intensity of colour. There's some black, too, but tbh it's not necessary.

The strap of his bug box is yellow + light blue (to achieve lime green effect) + green for shadows and outline.

The shadow on Gonta's shirt is brown + light blue, drawn with light and sparse lines. The idea was to achieve the effect of grey... I guess it worked, but it was the trickiest bit.

Some notes:

Brown and yellow pens pretty much carried everything.

Brown was a nice, neutral colour for most outlines, also helped warm up rather saturated and vivid green.

Meanwhile yellow is great to warm colours up, and it was used in abundance over the green especially.

I think light blue would be great for cooling down darker colours, too. Overall light colours are your friends when it comes to subtly changing the tone of darker ones.

For Kokichi's image it was mostly purple and dark blue, of course, but adding pink here and there, especially right next to or over blue, created more variety in color.

Baaarely used any black, actually. Felt too harsh, and using dark blue over warm colours, or brown over cool ones, was more than enough in achieving the desired contrast. Tbh I kinda regretted using it anywhere outside eyelashes and stuff like that...

Everything depends on proportion. More brown over green will result in duller, olive green, while more green and yellow will get closer to "grass" green. With that in mind, you can create gradients.

Color theory definitely has a lot of importance here, but tbh I wasn't consciously thinking about this XD. Go off the vibes. Also add a weird color if you wanna. Sometimes "unfitting" colours produce a really cool effect. Like pink or green on Kokichi's purple hair.

Check your pens before buying, my first one was missing orange, lol. It'd really come in handy for skin tones.

Btw. this is the piece that inspired me to try and pick it up. That artist's hatching style is different from mine, and works great. In the end draw however feels most comfortable for you.

have a napkin on the side to wipe the pen tip from time to time, so you don't end up with random blobs of ink where you don't want. That pink spot on Gonta's cheek wasn't supposed to be dangan-blood lmao.

Anyway, it's a really cool exercise, you can buy literally any 10-in-1, 8-in-1, or 6-in-1 pen of any brand - they're all pretty much the same, just go for cheapest one. The only difference I found between the couple of brands I've tried is that one's pink happened to be more neon, and another had a cooler, more blueish purple.

Yay walltext :D But I hope it was useful somehow.

Hi.

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>:P

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do you ever feel like you love a character more than their own writers do

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throw

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Ngl Gonta looks parriable af.

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sometimes I wonder how y'all are obsessed with specific characters and I'm like "why them" but then I remember that sometimes its literally not your choice you just look at them wrong and all of a sudden they're taking up your every thought forever

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Gonta, that 'thing' in your hand is dangerous…

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My big silly bunny

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Lovely Little Butterflies🦋

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This emerald doll is Mitzi ✨💚✨

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If you’re still doing danganronpa requests, draw one of the characters you’ve never drawn before!

Been meaning to draw Gonta so here he is! 🐞🐛

[Danganronpa requests closed]

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do u wanna talk about. gonta <3

give me ur small headcanons about gonta :3 the little details that u imagine about him!

Ah, I'm okay with stewing in my own thoughts, since I know headcanons are very personalized things that others might not be too interested in xD But since you're asking, I'll happily share some. Thank you! <3

I'll try to stick to what I consider pure headcanons - some serious, some unhinged - but I'll mix in some theories/interpretations/speculations or inferred stuff too (to me these are distinct from headcanons, which are made up). Anyway.

Gonta's not wearing shoes, because it's uncomfortable, if not painful for him to use those, and he's not aware orthophedic shoes or foot orthoses are a thing. This is kinda based on my own specific experience (due to my condition I'm advised to walk barefoot or only wear special shoes, anything else, esp flat and soft ones, causes my spine to hurt and affect mobility), but living barefoot influences posture, musculature and gait - and modern shoes *supposedly* can weaken our joints and muscles, or lead to contusion if badly fitted - they affect entire posture, so I imagine finding ones that'd be comfortable long-term would be very difficult for Gonta given how he's fully adapted to live without them.

His hair doesn't make sense to me in-universe. Shouldn't it be cut the moment he was rescued? No specific headcanon here, but I wonder if there's a story behind it. Was Gonta afraid of scissors? Is he simply embracing his wild-child origin? Is this a sensory issue? Or is this some proof of neglect on the side of his parents? Or maybe it's really just unruly like that...

I imagine Gokuhara residence to be built in traditional Japanese style. No reason other than to contrast Sonia's implied European princess castle style and Byakuya's modern corporate background. It's prolly not, given Gonta emulates the british gentleman stereotype, but if I were to include it in a hypothetical fic, I'd explain the contradiction with historic Anglo-Japanese style and mutual cultural fascination between the two countries, and depict his family home interior as mix of both styles.

Gonta's tie is made from golden orb weaver spider silk, and thus extremely expensive!

If Gonta wasn't lost in the forest, I like to imagine entomology would become his childhood hobby, while his actual ultimate would end up being something more, hm... conventionally and imposingly "serious" and "impressive", even if still somewhat adjacent to his initial passion. Perhaps neurobiology? Some type of bio-engineering? Dunno, but... He's incredibly academically smart. He learns so fast. Got lost for 10 years, still caught up to others, and by Hope's Peak rules, he'd have to already be in normal highschool to be able to get enrolled. This guy basically speed-runs 10 years worth of education and social adaptation in what I imagine would be 1-3 years tops. So imagine what could've happened if his education wasn't interrupted. What if he moved on (or was perhaps pressured by his family, bc prestige prestige legacy reputation prestige) to some other, "bigger" things? And what he'd be like, personality wise? Would he be... a bit mean, just like his parents? Or still sweet but broken, just in a different way? Maybe he'd be more outwardly cold and cynical, more indoctrinated into the whole Gokuhara mentality, but secretly unhappy about it... Definitely just as concerned about how others see him as he is now, but with a different undertone to it. I think about "Gonta who never was lost" AU quite a bit... (insert multiverse AU where both versions of Gonta meet each other, and see something they'd wish to achieve or lost in one another.)

Gonta's favourite music genre is heavy metal. No reason for this other than his side-interests are often surprising and it'd be really funny.

[ENG localisation assumption/theory] Gonta's much more eloquent in writing than he is when speaking. Reasons being, that in canon, unless he doesn't know a particular terminology, or misses subtext, he actually doesn't have trouble understanding anything people are trying to say, and even though his speech is broken, it's still packed with meaning and communicates clearly. Plus he wrote a book in DR:S, and said something about making it easy and basic for those who'd like to learn about bugs. Aka his passive vs active vocabulary imo has a gap. That's very common for non-native speakers, and could easily be his case given his situation. Tbh I love thinking about his relationship with language, and I don't begrudge localisation like many people do, even though I always stick to original voice-acting, so JP in this case. Learning or re-learning language isn't a linear process, and there can be a lot of unevenness and fluctuation between reading vs listening vs speaking vs writing, or even understanding vs pronunciation skills. Gonta's language skills seem uneven, too, as his longer sentences tend to be less broken than his short ones (my translator friend had interesting doylist opinion about it to my watsonian one), and imo that's cool show-don't-tell indication he's in process of learning. Oh, and realistically, I think he'd have to learn speech from scratch, like Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja did, which I think is the closest real-world example of Gonta's situation.

Gonta's secretly like Goku or Superman, a member of a super-strong alien race who, when he was an infant, was sent to Earth in a tiny space-pod. But due to his severe self-esteem issues he never realized this about himself. I mean, look at the guy, he even has an aura around him at one point. Also GON-ta and GOKU-hara? That's two shonen references within the big JoJo one.

Alternatively, Gonta is one of Rantaro's missing sisters, except now it's a brother (I can't get over how Rantaro's locks seem like short version of Gonta's hairstyle. Both are green haired rich kids too. Hmmm. Suspicious!)

(tbh I don't seriously subscribe to these two origin headcanons, but I DO find them amusing)

I don't really have settled on anything here, but it always fascinated me that Gonta speaks in third person. Why would he do that at his age, when he wants to be a respectable gentleman? Either way, sometimes I wonder if this isn't a form of distancing himself from... himself. Another expression of how little he values himself. After all, talking in third person, culturally, isn't always to appear cute, but also to show humility, selflessness, or distance from one's own ego. What if in his thoughts, he talks to himself in second person? What if he berates himself the way he was berated by others? To further dissociate, to further de-personalise himself. Not sure. But it does make me think, and I'd be tempted to include that motive somewhere.

Like with shoes, this is just me projecting due to my own conditions and experiences, but what if Gonta needs to wear glasses not because of short- or farsightedness, or for pure fashion, but due to mild binocular vision dysfunction? He does look slightly lazy-eyed in some sprites (left eye). Frankly, it's definitely just drawing imperfection, but hey, it's interesting to speculate about such things.

Gonta's reaction to receiving a sweater during FTE ("It brings bad memory"), his sleeping habits, and particular choice of underwear make me speculate whether he has difficulty wearing clothes. Maybe he even hated them at first. In my mind, there's this scene where he's recently rescued, still unable to speak much - he's forced to wear a sweater and things turn upsetting to both him, and the person who attempted to put it on him. Perhaps his mom? Maybe Gonta panics, thinking he'd be restrained, or hating the sensation of scratchy wool on his skin. Or maybe he was snuck up on. He ends up accidentally hitting, or pushing his parent (likely for him, remember the instances with Shuichi almost falling off stairs in FTE, being accidentally pushed onto bed in LH, or knocked out by being run into in Ch2? OMG AND YEETING POOR KIIBO TOO. Gonta has very consistent pattern of getting physically reckless when emotionally agitated). He feels so, so ashamed and heart-broken, when he realises she just wanted to take care of him in her own way. Things sour, and he ends up being looked down upon as feral or uncivilized. Dunno. But that's my headcanon for what this "bad memory" could be. I'd certainly write a scene like that for him, for that delicious angst.

Likewise, I don't imagine retrieving Gonta from the forest as some peaceful and idyllic reunion. It's hard for me to think it wouldn't feel scary, if not traumatic, depending on who would've found him and what methods they used to capture Gonta… or at least deeply confusing and alienating, even if seeing his parents again would make him happy (but would they provide the care and compassion he'd really need at this vulnerable time?). The forest was his home and the whole world at this point, for pretty much the entirety of his conscious memory. And then he's just brought back, and has to accept this is his life from now on, because everyone else acts like it should be. As human, this is where he belongs, doesn't he? And he just rolls with it. Maybe the wrongness of it doesn't even dawn on him, but the impact is there. Again, thinking about the Pantoja case.

I really love how Gonta makes references to FMA or Layton etc., or talks how he enjoyed spy novels, or comedies, and then goes 'oh, gentlemen should do this, or that!" based on those. To me that's a sign that he's mostly left to his own devices, when it comes to learning about social norms. He's trying to self-teach from where he possibly can, and ends up using insufficient or misguided means, in this case, fiction that he enjoys. It's one of the few sources of knowledge that wouldn't make him feel inadequate, so I wouldn't be surprised if he gravitated towards it. Extremely realistic imo, but also sad, as it might subtly imply parental negligence.

My headcanon/theory for DR:S is that Gonta's life is a bit better in this universe. Maybe his family doesn't treat him as badly or perhaps distance and boarding at Hope's Peak helps. But it stands out to me that he doesn't talk all that much about becoming a gentleman there, mostly about bugs. Barely calls himself stupid, too (I remember only one particular event when he does that).

I think that's more than enough. Thank you again!

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Gng you MUST draw Kaito I am BEGGINGGGG gang 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Do I? :D Who knows, maybe I might one day. I certainly do have some Kaitos lurking in my neverending wip-stash already.

(No context, but each image is its own thing. Wish I could share more but they're either too messy or half-done, but showing them would kinda spoil the surprise.)

His hair breaks my brain so much. And I keep forgetting his goatee and then wonder for an hour what's off about his face (I have the same issue with Gonta's eyeglasses tho lol)