Right on, shooting star!

Erika @ Eri. I draw! I would like to work on more original works and comic projects. I post my art here. Art commission: OPEN! Commission page | Doujin catalog | Sketchbook blog | Side blog Twitter | FB | IG |Pixiv

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Moron Police's A Boat on the Sea [1/8]: Hocus Pocus

I am OBSESSED with the 2019 release ever since listening to it earlier this year - it's a brisk 30 min+ of pop progressive rock with wit, humour, goddamn catchy hooks, an biting anti-war and anti-imperialism lyrics Listening to it now with all that's going on feels even more relevant than ever. I'm going to try and work over the next few weeks and spread the word about this record.

ALL ABOARD THE BOAT

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Sebulan Selukis: Season of Spring

Where amazement blooms 🌻

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Touhou Ship Bingo 2026: Devotion +my bingo sheet!

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Touhou Ship Bingo 2026: Games [Fatal Frame]

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Touhou Ship Bingo 2026: Grumpy & sunshine

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Touhou Ship Bingo 2026: Cooking/baking

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Touhou Ship Bingo 2026: A pairing with Seiran

[I'll put up my bingo list at the completion of my bingo streak, trustttt]

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Sebulan Selukis: Horsing Around "Riding a mustang"

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As per last year, I made a list of Top 10 Song Discovery last year for a server I'm in

Youtube playlist

Brief writeup for each tracks:

Jonathan Hultén - Riverflame Love this mix of folk and ambient, with reaffirming lines such as 'Create with joy/Dance while you can/Don't let gloom feed on your heart anymore'. Even if the world seems to be going to the shitter, we must continue to create meanings in our life

Lástima - Septiembre Post hardcore with mix of blackened style vocals and violins. I love how the song concludes with the guitar parts interplaying with the violin. Their rooftop live performance of majority of the album from hate5six from May this year makes me appreciate the album - and the song - even more

All Men Unto Me - Sequentia Sublime, unsettling, the sound and the spiritual theme makes me recall the work under the moniker of Lingua Ignota

Structure - Will I Deserve It What a massive opening to a massive album. The roaring vocals, the atmosphere, the emotive guitar solo… it really sells the feeling of being crushed with the feelings of despair and hopelessness

Messa - The Dress The song really builds up to a satisfying conclusion. Fantastic brass solo and guitar solo

Antinoë - Chaos in the Sky The whole albums feel like something to listen with the lights off, letting it all embrace you like a warm duvet. But really, opening with the lines of 'Who the fuck are you? Who the fuck am I?' does made me turn my head after the piano intro

Moron Police - Pachinko, Pt. 1 The whole album is a joy to listen to, despite - or because of - the zany premise on how "The Devil turned me into a penny dispenser in Tokyo". The first parter to the titular song from the album is a definite highlight, with a lot of sing-able moments and lots of shifts and movements. Hell, go listen to the whole album for some prog goodness!!

[releases pre 2025]

Lowen - Najang Bah Divhayeh Mazandaran Holy shit those vocals! Nina Seidi has incredible set of pipes, bringing forth this Persian tales of 'do not to go to war with the demons of Mazandaran'

La Dispute - King Park A band that I've heard mentioned occasionally under the wave of 2000s post hardcore movements, and the sing-talking style of the vocals was a bit hard for me to get into… but wow this song narration really builds up to rising action, that is undercut with a sudden and jarring conclusion… fitting the story that is being told, on how the narrator 'Don't wanna know how it ends'

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Time to start running Even if the year seems long Best get a headstart

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Look at those two months where I pretty much did not really drawing anything of note...

This year sees me busy like I never had before, with the concluding of my research and the start of my new work in the middle of the year (which would explain the gap of drawings right there). While it's not really indicated in the collection of drawings, this year sees me working on a couple of zines - which was right before I get acquainted with a local comic jam group, which was really great to remind me that there are a lot of other kindred spirits who believes in the power and potential of the medium still...!

I suppose my goals for the upcoming year is the same as it's been in recent years, in that I wish to continue to find time to be drawing, and to try and work on more original works and comic projects. Onward!

2024 art summary

2023 art summary

2022 art summary

2021 art summary

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My submission for this year's Secret Seni, a yearly Secret Santa art gifting over at the r/Malaysia Artists Server I decided to have some fun and tried making a postcard for the gift!

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Today is the 15th anniversary of -回路-kairo-'s 夜明けのセカイと思考回路, and I participated in a book project 'Here lie the tresses of a lossy moon'

Shout out to Rhododendron, Mikkeli Matlock, fukamachi, Nishin, Rinki Sorami, Doremon Bitter, and to all the kairo fans out there

Thank you -回路-kairo- for the memories

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A quick leaf through the Inktober entries in my sketchbook! Honestly the smaller size really helps me with keeping the streak going - there's less real estate that I have to work with, so it doesn't feel as daunting to keep drawing daily Until the next entry~

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Inktober 23-31 Anddddd we're done! Crazy to think I was actually planning to skip this year altogether, but seeing a couple of friends working through the month's prompts (be it Inktober or other prompts) got me to get off my ass and have a go at drawing for the whole month And now... Let's see if I would continue to draw something before the year ends lol

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2nd batch of Inktober

Messing around with brush pen is really fun! I want to return to it more after I'm done with the month's prompts (Is St. Anger or Lulu more fitting for blunder for 'tallica? Hm)

Be back with the final part at the end of the month!

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Inktober 2025 01-12