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I adore their comfy looks, but my soul can't let Jamil, with that hair length and thickness, not at least put it in a loose braid before actually sleeping. Artistically it looks great and the vibes are immaculate;
My poor heart can't stand the lack of prep, it drives me nuts.
Kalim out here living that "I can do this quickly with my hands" life, genuinely good for him.
I refuse to believe Jamil would add that much time to his morning routine if it can be solved by just braiding the loose ends.
Real and true and a reminder to give an update on this;
Healing is stored in the other illustrations
He does it with magic. I have gone from horrified to jealous.
He also wraps it in a way in his lil chibi
It doesn't pull up the back, but at the least it maintains the edges and roots, while also discouraging deeper and harder to reach tangles.
Wrapping the head keeps it from falling too easily on his face and mouth while sleeping, and the tangles further from the scalp dont matter as much when you have a flick of the wrist untangle stick.
Rest can be achieved now. The hair has been secured.
I enjoy the cozy set for many reasons. One of those recent reasons is that I noticed one of Jami's pant legs is riding up, and the subconscious Sisyphean task of fixing it came to mind as a fact of life with those kinds of pants.
The fit is giving "Organized group trip out of town where we're all staying at a midgrade hotel that has a pool and complimentary breakfast but is still very clearly not high end via the furniture, the layout, and the most luxury breakfast item being pre-mixed waffle batter to flip into the iron at 6am. It is between 1 and 2am and you are the person tasked with doing the run for ice, and since you're out can you also stop by the vending machine?" energy.
I listened to The Dumb Song too hard and the concept of Kalim tearing up that last minute on the drums to a stupid degree (he's emotionally invested) rocked me. From this point in the song I had real visceral imagery/energy that I wish I could get down some day. Might at least try to throw the colors down.
To all my people who actually play drums, I am so sorry that you probably can't read my scribbles on these when it comes to grip technique, but PLEASE KNOW I CONSIDERED IT AND CAN READ MY OWN SKETCH ðŸ˜I can feel my close and dear drummers throwing something at me. I also dragged a bunch of footage around sat in position for a bit to try and feel things out. I had already gone through a few setups before I realized. I could. Check to see.
I also can see now. That I have not looked at it for a day. Why the perspective was killing me (I was so focused on the angle I messed up the proportions. That is a drum set for ants. I forgot to resize it.)
I am absolutely obsessed with the way you draw the Scarabia duo they kill me with cuteness aggression and im just like
awawawa Thank you <3. The goober ratio correlates with my mood and I'm glad it's enjoyed haha.
Also I purposefully started making them cuter/cartoonier recently so you have given me the perfect opportunity to share those notes whoops;
I needed to be able to meme them quicker so I made a guide ww.
Transcription/elaboration under the cut
The inspo overall for me finally doing this was that I wanted to experiment with something I used to do if I knew I'd draw a character a lot, which was simplify their design down to things I could easily remember. Admittedly THAT thought came from me wanting to emulate one of my old inspirational artists I followed on Deviantart as a kid, Aisha Thani. I read Warrior U as a kid, but realized I could draw characters in whatever style I wanted from their Xiaolin Showdown comics/ fanart. Truly fed into my need to meme, I needed to get back to that.
For reference this doodle page started because I wanted to draw Jamil trying to Cask of Amontillado Kalim. (This is an extended bit).
Because I knew I was about to fall into a hole of doing small, silly doodles, I needed to not have to think too much or keep having to grab references. I want to start having more non-committal fun with my art and it's more conducive to that to Just Draw. I just also want them to be recognizable, haha.
Most of these I actually was already mulling on doing, but it was nice to actually pin them as on purpose. Even in my more detailed style, you may notice I was implementing some fo these, haha
Kalim:
Very distinct outer silhouette
Round organics (hair fluffier)
VERY sharp clothing and accessories. If a rounded object, still should feel "stiff" in comparison [points towards a sketch of his earrings as an example]
Big movements
Somewhat stock posed, however?
Classic, common animated poses
Bolder, thicker [eyelashes]; filled pupil
The principles I employed for Kalim overall (which I realized as I was making notes on what I was drawing and then leaned into) was that he works like a classic cartoon/comic character, primarily ones on television between the 40s and the 70s. Mickey Mouse cartoons of course, but Looney Tunes and lesser known counterparts as well.
The idea is that he has BIGGER emotions and expressions, but over time you start noticing that they're the same ones and commonly seen/approved. I thought having that limitation spoke to him having to overall represent his family and stay within honored tradition, while also maintaining his Kalim-isms. I actually noticed they do this for him in the manga! As much as they call on other character's sprites, I noticed Kalim especially tended to go back between the same few gestures per emotion.
I maintain I've only read volume 1 and gotten other things via guess and some osmosis, so I don't know if that changes, but I think having his design rely on fluidity but he be stuck in the same, pre-approved body language would get the duality across well. It's also why his body is more fluid in shape but all of his clothing and jewelry are built around sharp angles. His silhouette has to be always and immediately decorated and recognizable, but it must also always be "in line".
Jamil:
Jamil is more "angular", but his organic features aren't pointed.
PURPOSEFULLY [has] obscured details in [his] silhouette
Compared to Kalim, he is long (narrow ovals)
[His front bang] is the main "against the grain" [attribute]
Hair [bang and pony tail] always points towards itself.
Minimize silhouette; readable but simple.
Angles and sudden cutoffs
Thin, embellished, fine [eyelashes]; open pupils
Jamil lives on ~presence;
Doesn't need much to say a lot
Expressive, but in a "less is more" way on avereage
Much more reserved, stock keikaku when keikakuing
Varied when surprised/off-guard
Similar to Kalim, I realized what style I was falling into post doing the initial sketches. Where Kalim is meant to invoke cartoons from the 40s-70s, Jamil started to lean more late 90s/2000s. This ends up working out and probably happened because those styles are more graphic/defined, but also perceived as more "mature". Very specifically I think he falls into some of the ones people consider obscure/overlooked haha (Kitty Bobo, Daria, Fillmore). His organic parts are very on purpose narrow but not sharp. I don't know how to describe why that feels more correct.
Jamil falls more on a silhouette that you can see the shape of but can't exactly imply details on. He makes an overall simple shape on the outside, his front being being the big indicator for individual marker. Since that bang always points towards his ponytail, it creates a kind of ouroboros. You can see a little, but not all of it. I also simplified his jewelry but that was straight up to match everything else. I DID make his hair also go in defined, pointed sections though. I find it to be a place he seems to express himself most. This refl;ects in his sprite as well! His inner details are more "fine" than Kalims; they're all much less extreme and a lot more threaded. (eyelashes, for example). That said, he has a lot of sudden cuts from Big to Small shapes as well (ie I tend to grab big clothing he wears and cut it very suddenly when it hits skin).
Expressions and body language wise Jamil runs on presence. He does not talk as much or as loudly as Kalim, he expresses more "small" but those expressions are much more varied in actual drawing-- he may be expressing exhaustion or exasperation constantly, but he's doing so in slightly different ways every time. He does not need to do much to get a lot across. Again, contrast with Kalim, who makes big gestures but they're always the same ones. Jamil does similar when he's trying to be sly or coy ("keikauing"). It's part of him knowing what body language and expressions read to people a specific way. He has a playbook for that.
A final note is that I actually find keeping the little diamond hair sparkles important for twst fanart, but I am probably gonna shorthand them to plus signs/crosses instead of full out diamonds, haha
I am also starting to work on these kind of simple designs for other characters, since my love for all of them has grown 10 fold. There is nto a character in this game I am not incredibly fond of. There's just rotating tiers.
Sorry if too much of a yap, I just. HAD to grab at the chance to say something ;v;.
I finally read the first volume of the Scarabia manga a couple days ago, because my spoons weren't allowing video or sound so I couldn't get the storyline through gameplay.
I understand why people were so baffled by the accuracy of this without me having a single piece of in-game context.
Introducing Juniper's AU iteration of himself that went through a version of events where she doesn't remember the timeline resetting and he sure as hell isn't gonna tell her their crimes little sister, June!
I have had her for over a year now, just never shared any of the art. I love her. Her official design has shorter hair, the first piece was just a concept drawing.
I've drawn something or at least acknowledged Komaeda's birthday for almost a decade now.
But I think I dropped the ball this year for a really good reason.
[Health Update under cut. cw: memory loss, dementia, cancer and tumor mention, general medical unpleasantness]
I have so far lacked the energy and capability to think straight enough to type something like this out, but I've talked about this particular throughline of my health on here enough where I'm gonna say something. Due to the nature of all of it though and on account of me being absolutely and reasonably too exhausted to talk about this with sensitivity and high decorum towards the sensibilities of others, not to mention my arms are stinging like hell, so excuse me if I'm blunt or make jokes or just don't seem to be the "correct" amount of miserable given the circumstances. They're my circumstances and I get to choose the movie.
Anyway so here's the gist of my circumstances
Yes I confirmed have symptoms of demenita/have dementia
I'm not giving details on how that happened until we're sure
I don't have Alzeheimer's or nothin', whatever's going on is most likely able to be stopped in progression if not full out reversed.
That said the recent bout has been progressing for a while; for sake of brevity I've had to start carrying a notebook around with caregiver contact information and a brief explanation of "if I'm wandering around confused I am in fact confused and if I should know you assume I don't and if you need me to know something later write it down." inside.
I have in fact just been getting up and leaving in the middle of a conversation or task, or been midsentence in a Discord call or something and stopped talking, slowly felt even the idea that I was in a conversation leave my person, let alone why I am in whatever room I'm in or what that room is more than conceptually.
Sake of brevity sorry that's not brief, but you can see why I'd like to take this moment of lucidity (that I am losing as I type oh no) to not bother editing.
I also have a small tumor in my brain that is I think highkey unrelated and I think that's funny. And also I probably still have a mass in my lungs. And also my spine is broken. And pressing nerves in another area. And the right half of my body currently feels like it was smothered in icyhot/lidocaine.
This all sounds very dramatic and it probably is, but to me it's become "ah yes day ending in y" and when it's been like this for so long it becomes "yeah sure the dementia yeah that may as well happen add it to the pile"
Illness Georg.
Like so maybe I'm not gonna focus on any actual work for a bit like maybe that's unreasonable to ask myself for like maybe I can't remember the past several years and also yesterday and also anything I said a few paragraphs ago. I LITERALLY have to live in an exact second homie, anything before or past that is nonexistant lmao.
I forgot what cookie dough was--I scrolled up to add something and scrolled down and saw that and forgot I typed it and I think that's more interesting than the situation surrounding the extent to which I forgot the concept of spoons for eating.
I have NO IDEA WHERE I'm going with this. I have health problems. There's an Ao3 Author bit in here, this isn't even a full health update or even an accurate skim, I just wanted to say something and also acknowledge "yo didn't you say you'd start streaming again" I do not want to be mid-stream and suddenly go silent and shut the game off with no explanation, that sounds haunting for an audience.
The Jamil on my Tomodachi Life Island is an absolute failboy and I think he should be allowed to do that.
I would not be saying this if my other miis were an equal amount of fail people; no he has a special brand going on here, and it's both entertaining and fascinating. He cannot be within 5 feet of a soda can without there being a mishap. I don't know why that's a throughline. Maybe it's the caffeine.
I had to test my mic set-up, so I recorded this and liked how it sounded.
UNFORTUNATELY I didn't intend to do a full on cover and didn't spend time getting used to the actual, more interesting melody.
I DID draw art though and wanted to share that, and may as well share the audio too, haha. The character is one of those press the hidden button and they collapse type toys, I like those :D.
