Sarracenian's illustration blog

【Email: [email protected]】 【Portfolio site】 / 【Patreon】 / 【Twitter】 / 【Instagram】 / 【Bluesky】 Chinese illustrator/comic artist from Finland who draws a lot of cartoony & 90s anime-inspired art and toku stuff and whatever strikes my fancy. Alt. blog is cannibal-sarracenian.

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OK so now that people are here:

Hi, I'm Aleksis, a Finnish-Chinese Illustrator + comics artist, emphasis on historical/fantasy & scifi + misc. Currently drawing my own toku-inspired Rescue-Knight and Chinese-Roman fantasy comic called Legionary Extraordinary (available on itch.io)

Email: [email protected]

Portfolio: https://aleksisshi.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sarracenian Ko-fi (Commission info): https://ko-fi.com/sarracenian Twitter Art timeline (various pieces not on portfolio): https://twitter.com/CSarracenian/timelines/822999817630744576

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Hello everyone, I have a New COMIC to show you!

BLACK SWAN ACE, a collection of short comics & art, some not released on public before, feat. occult detective duo dealing with esoteric cases, inspired by pulp Weird Fiction, Showa manga & Chinese horror trappings.

You can buy the full pdf: https://sarracenian.itch.io/black-swan-ace

Or read the comics exclusively: https://tapas.io/series/Black-Swan-Ace/info

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Highly recommend if you love weird fiction, spooky retro anime and toku (e.g. GeGeGe no Kitao, Kamen Rider's first 13 episodes), the works of Rumiko Takehashi and Chiaki J. Konaka, or Naoto Shirogane if she was taken more seriously.

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Its naoto shirogane

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They're studying

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They're studying

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Drawn back in December as part of the Patreon poll, it's Space Cassette Moumou in another faux-laserdisc cover; this time making her debut album! (Reviews are rather mixed)

Extra: Another look at Moumou's outfit:

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Recently, a friend of a friend's children, whom I gave a physical copy of Black Swan Ace to after they asked, apparently got very into it and have been reading it on repeat.

:)

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June is approaching fast so I need to get myself motivated to read more webcomics to fulfill my resolution.

@maxidango's Slaughterhouse Horror Massacre is one I quite liked!

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Been on a PS1 horror game kick lately, and have recently finished playing Resident Evil 3 recently. Great game! It's got Jill in it!

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Somewhere in an abandoned Soviet base...

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Two women from Shanghai

(based on the recently discovered Shanghai cast of the cancelled official Sakura Wars MMO)

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OH YEAH I'm gonna show up here with a table too (hopefully, if things go as planned)

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a belated Li Kohran birthday quickie

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Was supposed to post this yesterday, but I got so tired I couldn't.

Still, a belated New Years! 马到成功，万事如意！

Did you know that in Sakura Wars X, Yue Ying didn't actually use her mech until much later in the game, and instead opted to fight riding a horse in battles. Unfortunately this made her kind of useless as a unit since she had no defensive stats whatsoever so died very easily. But when she does get in her mech, she is so overpowered that the battles became hilariously easy instead for a couple of chapters (until there's another massive difficulty spike).

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a valentine's quickie before going to bed

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Where would you sit?

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Has anyone here played this game called "Sakura Wars X: 万里乘风"?

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Here is the actual sprite graphics.

Imitating how Sakura Wars sprites looked on the PC versions. Had to go through a lot of revisions to work with the CRT filter.