Trigger warning for blood and corpses on some of those artworks! This is pretty long post about old Yansim stuff I have worked on the past until 2023 (only one year basically) and before the chaos. Also apologies for my English! Also all this stuff is from 2022-2023, so it's pretty old and I no longer draw like this, also yes, they were all drawn in Sony Sketch, before I moved to Clip Studio and Rebelle.
Since I saw the update video about Yansim, where in the most recent update the icons I did for Content Checklist back in 2022 (I think, but it was clearly before the grooming allegations happened in 2023) are getting replaced by newer ones. And no, I haven't been working on Yansim nor volunteering for it for 3 (and soon 4) years after what happened, just wanted to clarify. And nor Yandev reached me out after it, just wanted to clarify! While I felt a bit bummed about it, but they're also pretty old and don't really represent my style or original Content Checklist style, so I have plans to redraw them (in both my newer style and also based on old ones) for fun. And I also love newer icons too, they look very well done, although they look even more detailed than older ones.
It's been quite a long time I wanted to share these, but there was always a matter of bad timing, so I was waiting for a better opportunity to do that, and I guess today is the one, even for a bit unfortunate reasons. Also btw, I'm also very aware of r/Osana and folks from it, and I would kindly ask them to only share the Yansim stuff I have volunteered for like icons, covers and stuff like that AND that it also appears in the game itself as well. Newer redraws of the icons and other stuff I have worked on are those exceptions that are also allowed to be posted here. Anything else - nope! Because otherwise I would have to take an action about that.
Anyway, let's start with first icon I made - Miyuki! The pretty magic girl!
She was the first icon I have made back then, I didn't have much issues with it and it's first sketch was straightforward, except for one thing.... Ayano?!
Yes, Ayano was here at first for Miyuki icon instead of Miyuki herself, as a little reference to that Easter Egg of Ayano getting Miyuki's scepter. But it was born out of little miscommunication, as I thought that I was supposed to draw Ayano instead of Miyuki. But maybe in alternative reality, Ayano was here instead of her... Who knows?
Second icon - Life Note and Yamiko from it!
This one was quite straightforward, but I do wish I did make some background like the one from the anime on Ayano's TV instead of white background, it feels a bit lazy from past me. And her hairstyle was a bit difficult to replicate, ough.
But Yamiko had a bit different colors originally! With a bit more red on her cross and her pen, along with her hair having more blueish tone, but Yandev asked me to change her colors (referring to other outfits she had from Mulberry's reference) since she looked too similar to Megami as he said so.
Third icon - the Maid cafe!
One of my favourites and where I wanted to experiment a bit with more Paper Mario-like background and I think it worked pretty well here! In earlier sketches tho, she had a bit more worried look, since wanted to represent that feeling of worrying and rush, and since this minigame can be too fast at times! But Yandev asked me to give her another plate to make her look busier and also to change her expression to happier one, since she had to keep up her appearances as a "normal" girl.
Fourth icon - Panther!
Oof, this one was one of the hardest besides Mission Mode one! It was basically chibi replica of "Panther" cover for Light Music club minigame, but it was pretty hard to do so. Still my least favourite one.
Also it looked a bit different in the sketch, but Yandev asked me to change a bit her chest area, so now it shows a bit more of her boob on final art.
Fifth icon - Snap Mode!
Another one of my favourites, even tho I still feel some edge from it lol, not as much from Mission Mode icon, but still!
On sketches, I wanted to include Osana, Raibaru and Taro on the shards of the glass, but it was decided upon to scrap them, so to not overcomplicate it.
And there is also an alternative version of this icon, but not in Snap Mode colors! Unfortunately I lost that version with glitches, so here is the glitchless one. It was suggested as one of versions of this icon, and Yandev admitted that it was hard to choose which one was more suitable, but eventually he choose the one in the final art.
Sixth icon - Mission Mode!
This one is the most goriest and bloodiest art I have made so far. Not really fan of this one tho, I could have make it better. But I had an idea to make it look like Ayano completing a mission and leaving the school, but it was decided upon that it was less interesting, so it would be better to make it bloodier and making Ayano going through the hall of corpses of those unfortunate targets! Although, Ayano is a professional killer in this universial, she could at least clean this mess up, damn.
This is also the last icon before the art style change, so that's why after it other icons looks drastically different. Why? Because Yandev explained back then that he felt bad about not asking sooner about it, but he also didn't want me to go to redraw them all, so he just asked me to draw next icon in the style that was closer to original Content Checklist icons.
Seventh icon - ABC mode!
Another least favourite one, mostly because of letters and how I drew blood on both Ayano and those letters back then. It was first time replicating that art style, so I had some struggles to do that, so my apologies about that! My main problem was position of those letters, but maybe in a future redraw I could change that.
Eighth (is this a word?) icon - Dance Machine!
I kinda like this one actually, it's very cute, but not a fan of the silhouette one though!
Another one that I had some struggles, mainly with poses for it, so there were three sketches for it, and as you can see, the third one was choosen! Although, I like first one, if I could polish it a bit further and fix the perspective...
Nineth icon - Yakuza!
Not a fan of this one, since it was pretty hard to chibify this guy, and even then, he still looks kinda goofy for me, hahah.
There were sketches of smoke having a different shape, wrapping around him instead.
Tenth icon - Amai Challenge (and now it's Amai Week)!
This is one of my favourites in this atyle, aside from Amai looking a bit too flat imo, but besides that, I like it! There isn't much difference, but in earlier sketches, Ayano had diffrent head shape that got fixed and also different Amai's expression.
Eleventh icon - Yanvania!
It's fine icon, although I still remember the struggle of drawing all of these details on chibi Dracula-chan, hahah. In earlier sketches, there were different expressions and a bit wonky face too.
Twelveth, thirteenth and fourteenth icons - Tapes! So many of them!
Decided to combine into this category, since they all similar, so that's why. Not my favourites, but nothing much to say about them.
Fifteenth icon - Yancord!
Another favourite! Also very cute too, still pretty happy with how I drew Selene's icon here. Although it was supposed to be just Yancord's icon (it's basically Discord clone in the game) with Y letter on it, but I drew other version with Selene's avatar for fun and Yandev liked it more, since it was more interesting, as he said so.
That's all for now, folks!
In my next post, I will share other stuff I made back then, since I'm already hitting Tumblr limits unfortunately, so my apologies for that!
Also wanted to quickly mentioned that I didn't work on Genocide ending icon, it was TORA who worked on it. But before it was decided that TORA should work on it, I also made a sketch of it that I will add in the next post as a bonus.
