Cammiluna

She./they, ace enby. Art and games blog of Carmen (Cammi) Melendez. I do online comics called Highly Experimental and Immortal Fool and make video game fanart. shitposting is in my alt blog @cantletyoubrewthat  Controversy-Free blog.

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hi!

I've been shipping these two for 21 years now.

drawn on the xp-pen magic note pad via concepts app

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final page of The Intermissions. Thank you for reading/Following!

newest: https://ifooldiaries.thecomicseries.com/comics/89/ archive: https://ifool.cammiluna.com

Anywaym I'm now addicted to Mina the Hollower. I've beaten the storyline and now I'm doing all the missed sidequests and item digging. Especially in that Septemburg area now that I've fucking murdered the jumpscare crow bastard. Way to go, me!

anyway, comic on hiatus for a while.

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Been learning and fiddling with Krita's UI during any micro moments I've had of free time. I found a couple of default brushes that I actually like, but all the textured shading brushes are too soft and blendy. I only like painting when it's traditional.

While this was done on the Android version of krita, I'm mainly learning Krita because I'm doing a lot of testing and experimentation with drawing tablets on Linux, and since Krita is the best thing natively on Linux, it's going to be the go-to software for confirming pen pressure and pen tilt work on Linux. WINE/Bottles and Waydroid can run Windows and Android programs, pen functionality was actually wonky with some tablets.

there may one day be a wave of digital artists leaving windows for linux and i want to help give advice for the transition.

i also want to one day make a video for youtube on how to migrate your workflow from windows to linux and knowing how and where to change krita settings to be as accessible to your normal drawing habits as possible is super important. most videos on transitioning just talk about what Linux is, how to use it, and then they end with "just use krita, i love it"

and man did i hate krita for a long time.

my normal use art programs are still clip studio paint, paint tool sai, and concepts, so i'm not a Linux main user, and i will probably switch to android before moving to linux, but i still want to learn and share.

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Deliveries.

new ifool page art https://ifooldiaries.thecomicseries.com/comics/88/

archive: https://ifool.cammiluna.com

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The biggest debate going on with Artfight is that tracing 3D models is an accessibility function for those with Aphantasia, and I'm thinking to myself "I have aphantasia and I've never-"

and then I realized this is exactly why I've drawn Mario characters off-model for 16 years (and geno as a human because his doll details are too overwhelming for me to draw). This has all been just one big fat stack of Mario universe fanart drawn by an aphantasic.

I just scribble down on canvas what I can vaguely describe verbally in my head and keep sketching drafts until something looks cool to me. this is eye opening to me.

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ever heard of "Bowser's Inside Story"?

new ifool page: https://ifooldiaries.thecomicseries.com/comics/87/

archive: http://ifool.cammiluna.com

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Ifool intermissions is only a few more pages away from completion. I was going to jump into the next Fawful story with the Dark Star after a summer hiatus, but I had ideas since 2023 for another short story that I may make as a sketch comic or an illustrated fanfic (technically, the fanfic was already written in 2023 but I never posted it anywhere).

It's still in the Immortal Fool universe, currently untitled, and it follows kamek's memories spanning between Fawful initially kidnapping him for the Cackletta revival project and Kamek himself being a world famous scientist in Beanbean. A series of events that made his life change shape in the most literal way.

This story would also put some added lore to the star magic research being used in the dark star rescue, as Kamek is a very important part of that.

so here's some sketch ideas for it.

to think this all started as a joke that it took me over 20 years to realize he was supposed to have a shell and then it grew into some dark as hell lore as to why ifool kamek doesn't have one.

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Thanks for expressing interest in this! I promise it won't take over a year, lol!

[cammiluna]

Ifool intermissions is only a few more pages away from completion. I was going to jump into the next Fawful story with the Dark Star after a summer hiatus, but I had ideas since 2023 for another short story that I may make as a sketch comic or an illustrated fanfic (technically, the fanfic was already written in 2023 but I never posted it anywhere).

It's still in the Immortal Fool universe, currently untitled, and it follows kamek's memories spanning between Fawful initially kidnapping him for the Cackletta revival project and Kamek himself being a world famous scientist in Beanbean. A series of events that made his life change shape in the most literal way.

This story would also put some added lore to the star magic research being used in the dark star rescue, as Kamek is a very important part of that.

so here's some sketch ideas for it.

to think this all started as a joke that it took me over 20 years to realize he was supposed to have a shell and then it grew into some dark as hell lore as to why ifool kamek doesn't have one.

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Watched a cutscene compilation of Yoshi and the Mysterious Book. It's actually super cute and has an interesting take on Kamek if you accept the reality that the Yoshi games love to fuck lore up and you absolutely shouldn't think about it too hard.

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Just Starlow!

new ifool page at: https://ifooldiaries.thecomicseries.com/comics/86/

archive: https://ifool.cammiluna.com

"real boy" was over 200 pages ago https://immortalfool.thecomicseries.com/comics/58/

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We didn't forget Geno.

new ifool page at https://ifooldiaries.thecomicseries.com/comics/85/

archive: https://cammiluna.neocities.org/ifool/

and yes, they dated, it was mentioned 40 pages ago. wild.

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i got a chromebook with pen support for shits and giggles and digital art product research. It is also maid day, I was told.

the apron is canon if you've played a game called "partners in time"...

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always a fun reminder that Kamek was always Nintendo's grandest macrophile.

i forgot what social media platform i posted that essay about half of the Yoshi's Island bosses predicted deviantart kinks...

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new ifool page. Gabapentin exhaustion is why this page took 3 weeks to complete (nerve injury on a leg), but Toadette is finally recruited???????

newest: https://ifooldiaries.thecomicseries.com/comics/84/

archive: http://ifool.cammiluna.com

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i talk nonstop about Fawful from my comic every February but I think it's been 7 to 10 years since i last talked about Kamek and updates on his development in the story. I've worked on Immortal Fool since 2010, but a lot of new stuff has been added to his comic au lore since maybe 2023 or 2024

though to be honest, i think the whole "wendy is kamek's biological daughter" thing came up not too long after it was officially deconfirmed that the koopalings aren't bowser's children.

I did think back during the fandom crashout that i was going to keep them as bowser's kids, but then the idea happened, and i liked it, and now i have some vague ideas with other koopalings. Perfect opportunity to completely destroy a nonexistent canon with cringe ideas that i will build up closer and closer to the sun.

i keep thinking a lot of it is going to be eventual comic spoilers, but i'm only working on this comic until i'm physically no longer able to and being almost 50 years old now and with physical handicaps, it'll take more years to cover all the headcanons I want than I can probably last.

Probably gonna do deep dives for all the main characters, which i should probaby do every few years since things change as i write these comics.

anyway, expect a Chesteriffic Kamek Immortal Fool post when I'm done with these design doodles. :)

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2020 kamek art vs 2026 kamek art.

i do miss having more time and energy to draw, but being in my mid-40s has been kicking my butt health-wise.

and yes, if you've noticed him in a recent comic page, he's greying out.

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Nerds.

new ifool page at

https://ifooldiaries.thecomicseries.com/comics/83/

archive:

https://ifool.cammiluna.com