Trigger warning for blood and corspes in some of those artworks!
Also content warning for suggestive content of 1980s magazine covers! (Yes, I worked on them too)
This is a continuation of my previous post on the stuff I made for Yandere Simulator (2022-2023), once again, drawn in discontinued Sony Sketch (and also some editing in Ibis Paint too).
This one covers Save Challenges icons and also some miscellaneous stuff like 1980s magazines or original Ichiko's postcard art for example!
And also even a bit of unused content too!
Gonna start with Challenges icons you can see, whenever you want to get some challenge in your game, like No Laugh, Only Knife, No Info-chan/Yakuza and all of this stuff.
Honestly, these are the one I'm proudest of, even though they already showing the age and how I was drawing back then, but I still love those artworks (even kinda inspired me for my own stuff).
But, I actually was planning them to be colorful at first, since I used black-white-red color scheme for sketches only, but when YandereDev asked me about it, it made me think that it would be actually better to be them in this rather than with colors - and I really loved the result! But, I did have a trouble with sketching them at first.
Gonna begin with the first one:
No Friends
The top images are sketches (with mouths and no mouth), the bottom are finished images (with the crowd and without one).
This one was insanely close to final one (and that's a thing with most of them with one exception), aside from no mouths, since YandereDev asked me to remove it. But, this one was and still one of my favourites pieces I have worked on at all, love the vibes of it a lot, since I waw inspired a lot by those images of people being alone in the crowd, so I thought that it would be nice to do it with Ayano, especially considering her story too.
2. Only Rivals
Top and middle are sketches (had a struggle with making Osana stand out, and yes, that's Osana), first one is the one I made, and others two I made with corrections from the Dev in mind, since he said that the rival was blending into background while those blank students were standing out, so I changed that. Bottom is final version.
i like this one as well, even though I had a struggle to make her stand out at the time, based on YandereDev's idea of a rival standing out (with the video example he provided back then)
3) No Laugh
Top are sketches (first one is completely different, second the one close to final one)
Why is the first sketch so different? Because I had an idea of Ayano getting scolded for laughing and it would be like "No laughing like this!", though YandereDev said that he couldn't understand the icon, and yeah, he was right about it, so he suggested to be with her having X on her mouth, showing her with covered mouth. So that's why it was redrawn into the final one.
4) Only Knife
Right is sketch and left is final
Not much to say, since there's been barely any changes to it aside from clean-up, but I did have some trouble with a hand at first, so I was using my own hand for reference.
5) No Gaming Club
First two are sketches and final art!
I had this funny idea for this icon in specific, where instead of usual 🚫 for other icons, I decided to make this, where the gamepad would be thrown to this trash can and be like "Screw Gaming! Screw Gaming Club! Hyah!". He did like that icon, but suggested to zoom it in, so it wouldn't be too far away like in that first sketch.
6) No Info-chan
Left is sketch and right is final art.
This one was also quite simple and I took Info-chan's profile picture as a reference for this icon!
As you can notice, most of those icons were pretty straightforward from get-go, so I mostly did polishing and changing small details!
These were first 6 icons I made for it originally, before YandereDev asked me to make additional icons, like No Alerts, No Yakuza, No Bag and No Newspaper Club! These icons were made later on, so you can see that in this blog post with placeholder icons for No Alerts (with generic alert icon), No Yakuza (NY) and No Newspaper Club (NN).
So, let's continue with other icons I made back then!
7) No Bag
The "No Bag" icon was the most polished one I made, even as a sketch, since I was so committed to replicate that bag as faithfully as possible, hahah.
Also it was made because YandereDev wanted to test out a thing with the bag to limit it, since he felt like it was too overpowering, but he wanted to try out by making it as a challenge instead of outright changing it, since it would be controversial change back then.
And as you can see, that's where we started to think if 🚫 should be big one and cover the whole thing or just be on top of it. But later on it was decided, that it will be on top of a thing it would forbid.
Though in hindsight, I wish I placed that bag a bit more on the centre, since it looks a bit off-centered.
8) No Alerts
Right is sketch and left is final art.
Like with other icons, this one was also pretty straightforward too!
I had this comedic idea, where this student would be FLABBERGASTED at seeing bloody Ayano with all of this evidence in front of them, as she just committed a murder and then Ayano being like "oh crap".
9) No Yakuza
First two are sketches and third one is final art!
I did like to make silhouette for this guy, even tho had some problem with his hair at first!
Also the dot on his sketch was supposed to be an eye, but it was later removed and it looked better this way.
10) No Newspaper Club
Right is sketch and left is final art!
And another straightforward one! Though this one also had different placement of 🚫, but gonna show it in the reblog because of Tumblr's image limit :(
And that's all Save Challenges icons I made for the game back in 2023!
And...
It's time for bonus content!
Some of things I also worked on is on those adult magazines that you can find in 1980s mode in the zen garden as for replacement modern ones for Story Mode (2020s). These magazines were placed as a joke about some students sneaking out those magazines to the school, as Yandev explained to me, it's for both modes as I remember.
YandereDev suggested that I could either could draw those for this joke, or could just make generic ones for the period, and I decided to give it a try and went for former, since I was mostly doing cutesy art and I wanted to do something else at the time.
Back then I tried to draw them in 80s anime art style back then, thought looking back at them now - I'm not a fan of how I made them, so I want to redo them completely.
I remember I did lots of research on that matter, when I was looking for those Japanese adult magazines, but also used text from other magazines as well, so that's why one of them as "Ice Cube" text, since it was in one of adult magazines I saw back then and I found it pretty funny amongst more steamy text in it.
Also I tone down a bit some of more explicit text, as I kept age rating for this game in mind, since lots of them mentioned "sex" for example, so I toned down to less explicit text.
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And the last thing I did for the game, that also was right before the controversy happened, since it wasn't added to the game.
What is this? That's Ichiko's postcard from 1988!
It was based on those Japanese postcards, which are vertical instead of horizontal ones. I didn't know it was supposed to be from Ichiko, since YandereDev said that was establishing that Ryoba "was with friends with someone from Saikou family".
Why it wasn't added to the game, you may ask? Well, because it was one of last things I did for the game before the controversy happened, YandereDev's original Discord account got nuked due to what happened, and I presume that since he didn't save my files - it wasn't added to the game. He didn't reach me out either about the artwork to get files for it, so it just went unused.
So, when the update came in with "Happy Ending" for 1980s mode, it used to have an AI placeholder art for a while, before it got an actual art in it.
Was I upset about it, when I discovered that by watching the update video on YanSim? Not really...
I was more amused than upset by it, when I saw this at first and then I moved on with my life. And I didn't want to cause any scandal with it anyway, so yeah.
But that's all for now! But if someone is curious about this content - I can answer questions, whenever I will be free in that time, since I got a job with master degree and other things like commisions needs to be finished as well.
