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Maagi/26/🐘🐘🐘🐘 / stuck in the old tbhk arcs/Clock keepers ily/I don't like Tsukasa or the Yugi's backstory/ SPOILERS FOR THE MANGA [DO NOT REPOST MY STUFF]

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Chapter 25 is one of my favorite for many reasons but Akane not being scared of touching Hanako to make him look at him in the eyes to be faced of what he is vs Him putting his gloves back right away not to make a handshake with hands which were used to kill someone is really important to me

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Hello! Can you maybe explain how you come up with ideas for your illustrations? I looked at the wip game and they are really beautiful

Hellooo so sorry for the long wait for this answer ToT and tysm this means a lot!

I don't have a specific way I come up with ideas but basically a lot of things I put in there are linked to stuff I like

It will be a little bit hard to explain exactly how I come up with ideas without examples so I will put some old illustrations I never got time to explain ^^

Once again, tbhk is a work of fiction so you already got something to work on in my opinion. Characters have themes, objects and images linked to them already. That's something important to me personally.

For example for Aoi I link a lot of things according to the grim reaper arc, her want to disappear, her wish to die etc. Which is why I often represent her with stuff related to Vanities (Vanités) (since 2020 actually lol sorry Aoi)

And once again, there is a whole manga to be based on + AidaIro give us a lot of extra contents so I mix a little bit of everything to come up with ideas

The candle being blown out in direction of Nene is also something I thought of, Akane is the only one who is turning back entirely to look at her but Death Mask is already facing her. Nene is slowly turning back compared to the others students too.

This one too for example is pretty simple but I had fun with my inspirations!

I named it XII (12) referencing Akane's age when he became a clock keeper, you can see that his tie takes the place of the last mark on the clock. Exactly at the 6:30 mark, which is where the hands of the clock are when he stops time.

Which is by the way, an impossible time to obtain on a clock. The two hands cannot be placed like this, it's more the contrary of 12am/pm rather than 6:30, which represents really well for me the idea to Stop Time and Akane's contradicting existence as a clock keeper.

I made sure his hands were visible too in this position. To see that he is kinda see through, and because 12 is the number that was chosen to count time, because that's how you count it on your hands. It's from a sexagesimal system that comes from the Sumers (Mesopotamy). Basically you use the phalanx on your 4 fingers to count so 4x 3= 12. (and then you use the fingers on you other hands to multiply it, so 5x12 = 60)

I am not 100% sure about this explanation, because different explanations exist from different archeologs, but that's what I had in mind when doing this one! (Akanes' existence as a clock keeper, the idea of the present, and Time are stuff I REALLY like which is also why he gets a lot of illustration x))

One of my fav recent illustration (one year ago rip) is the Piranesi effect one!

For the first one I won't explain all the little details linked to the manga but you can find stuff like Mitsuba's altar next to Kou, details of Akane's rooms, Aoi's balcony, Nene's losing her magatama, the chairs of the clock keepers being reflected on the desk, etc...

And my main inspiration come from ofc Escher and Piranesi, that AidaIro directly mentionned too.

I may be wrong but when I saw this I immediately went 'oh okay this is Escher'. Since he is mostly famous for his impossible architecture, the idea that 'Are you really sure a floor can't also be a ceiling?' and that drawing is a deception.

(who is also the guy who created the Droste effect btw, witch hat atelier fans will know which illustration I am talking about :)))

And also the Penrose stairs which can be seen in movies like Inception. Anyways I love this guy. For this illustration though the title is from Piranesi, an architect who also did impossible architectures too, mostly known for his serie of Italian jails.

The note 'Feeling of unease and ambiguity, of Things out of place and time' is from a book that recount Piranesi works called 'The Piranesi effect' I just thought that the sentence represented well this kind of things. It also for me links to the feeling you can have while reading 'Piranesi' by Susanna Clarke (which will be adapted in an animation movie by Laika I am vibrating)

It may seems like smoke around Nene and Akane here but it's silver sand as described in chapter 125 too.

In the end I didn't make a lot of references to Escher and Piranesi but doing a layout that worked with the idea of walls and ceilings being mixed was already hard enough XDD I had a lot of fun with it mostly and I've been a fan of those two artists since middle school so it was mostly my love for their work that inspired me to do an artwork that took me a lot more thinking.

I do really simple stuff too with some ideas even if it doesn't really go in the way I want.

(Tsukasa, incredible on this blog I know)

The red house had always remind me of the book 'House of Leaves' by Mark Z. Danielewski and I linked it here to the short movie 'Falling Leaves' by Alice Guy. Where it tells the story of two sisters. One of them is really ill and the doctor announced that she will die by the time the last leave falls. Her little sister then began to attach the leaves back on the tree, to prevent her sister from dying.

The movie is really different from anything fomr tbhk ofc but I liked the idea so I tried something (I think it's really ugly in the end but you get the idea)

This one really is just 'Visual novels are cool and I like the song 'Song for all my lost ghost friends' XD Nothing more, Music influence me a lot too.

The only thing you can see is the little attributes next to Nene changing according to what is happening in the manga. Here she has a little lightning bolt because she has Kou's staff in her hands in the manga (chapter 3)

Once again the manga also gave us a lot of really cool scene that you can re interpret!

This one really is just chapter 118 in a different angle ahah

Idk if I really answered the questions but basically it's 'yo this seems cools/fun to do' most of the time :'))

Sometimes there is not directly inspirations but just, random thoughts from my mind and I mix everything. I really like slice of life fictions for example which made me create a whole au, and makes me draw a lot of little objects (mostly traditionnaly) etc

If you like something, if you're passionate about something, don't be shy about it in my opinion, you can mix it with what you draw! It will always be really fun to do!

Thank you sm for the question and so sorry for the long answer XDD I hope I gave you some ideas!

Also to note that where I'm coming from definitely influence my inspirations too. Doing researches is cool when you don't know some symbolism but I am gotta be really honest and sometimes I just vibe and it's really personal interpretations that can be seen through what I like, because my main focus is to have fun.

(disclaimer: ofc it depends on what you draw there are subjects where you can't can't just go and be ignorant about it because it directly impacts people! but that's not what I am talking about, it's mostly stuff like, wow I take signification for flowers from France rather than Japan. And If I come of as ignorant or insensitive I am all ears to advice and criticism)

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idk if someone has asked this, but how do you pick your color palette? your style rlly sticks out to me and the colors make me feel like im going to cry (they look so good) how do you do it???

Heyaaa! that's really nice thank you sm ToT so glad you like them!

I never really answered something like that but I am gonna do my best! It's gonna be a little bit all over the place and really how I personally do things so it may not work for everyone!

First of all, the easy thing here on this blog, is that I post fanart only, so characters already have color palette attached to them! For me, Akane is orange/red and blue/green (yellow for the clock keepers), Mei is greenish brown and blue, Mitsuba is pink and with a tiny touch of light green, Hanako is orange and red etc... so the first thing I do most of the time is have those major colors in mind. You can even take official art and just, blur them a lot to see what the main colors are.

First thing when I open a canva too is that I don't start off with a white background, it's usually grey, for my eyes, but also because it makes the colors stand out more once you put back a white background. It helps when doing single character in a white void XD Doing a full black background can be a nice challenge too, because it changes how our eyes view colors.

A thing that helps me a lot is putting a whole block of color behind the characters before doing anything. It helps to have a more 'monochrome' look and is pretty cool when you want to have colors that works together without having to put too much effort in it.

So I know I want the main drawing to be close to this color. Akane is orange/red coded to me, which is the complementary color of green so it also helps. When chosing colors, the thing important to me is to define, the white and the black (this is how I name them personally, for example in tbhk, Hanako's uniform is never a true black, most of the time it's a dark brown, but sometimes it can be blue for example! ) And the white is more yelloish/grey than a true white.

I know that my main picture will be mostly in a green/blue hue, so I also know that my white and black colors will need to have some in it.

Those warm up are quick things so I don't want colors with too much values (if you put it in black and white the colors are flat af ) But I at least defined what my lower and highest value are. And now it's pretty easy, I usually take a color a little bit darker than the background, put it as flat' shadows and I just color pick in the colors I already have to put them everywhere.

For stuff like that my brush opacity is never at 100% too so I can blend everything as I want. I tweek a little the colors I color picked from the character already present (I won't be able to explain how I choose, it's just because they look nice to me ToT) and then boom, most of the time that's it.

I usually use a yellow as the white because I like warm illustrations.

Random stuff I have in mind when doing colors.

Be shameless on your fav colors palette ToT This blue is my fav color ever so I put it everywhere XDD I also really like to make shadows purple.

If you use a warm color palette, when using cold color it will blend and look closer to grey, and the contrary works too. (I think it's color theory actually but I just do whatever I want tbh)

Tbh just use correction layers too, the multiply and highlight one are really nice to be able to see quickly lights and shadows.

I personally do color sketches because it helps to put random colors before starting to clean anything else on bigger illustrations.

I also use a color wheel and I have this in mind most of the time. I like saturated colors but I would advice not going fully into the saturation when you have a lot of colors.

I use complementary colors when doing simpler drawing because it's easy to have fun with them.

Blue and pink go well together, blue and red, green and pink/purple, yellow/orange is actually a color that works with most of them, etc

For bigger illustrations, checking values and saturation is really useful too! But I personally don't always do it because my main focus is to have fun. I recommend checking it though if really you want to have really really good colors and illustrations. Values change a lot of things (I am pretty bad with them ahah)

And to finish, I personnaly don't like color picking from Art directly, but sometimes when I see an artwork I like I try to get the main colors and do them again on my canvas. Color picking is nice, but I personally think you need to mostly train your eye first and not have to color pick everytime to truly have fun with colors, that's my take on it though.

This was a little bit all over the place and mostly random things I think about when talking about colors x)) I hope you will at least find one thing useful 🙏Thank you sm for your question!

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Happy Lunar New Year!! 🐎 - 🐍 - 🐉

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hello, love your works, it's really nice seeing you again!! for the wip game, do you mind sharing the nene illustration?

Heyaaa thank youuu :DD It's called IllustrationNenejsp but there is in fact Akane with her oops

I still doodle her a lot, her design is really satisfying to do :))

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hiyaa there!!! so cool to see you join the game, I'm such a big fan of your work!!

Could you show us "collectionneurs de souvenirs?"

Heyaaa! Thank you so much!

'Collectionneurs de souvenirs' kinda translate into

'Memories' Collectors' (for non french speaker), and it's the most unfinished thing in the list x))

Mysteries kids and their weird grasp on what they are my beloved (it's from my in between au too)

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cannn i know about i will to love :3 pretty please

Heyaaa thanks for the ask!

It was supposed to be a continuation of this drawing with Aoi and Akane

I am kinda insane about Aoi and Akane's theme around Life

(putting the original too so you can see the colors symbolism I was trying to do ahah I was kinda going for a three part illustration serie)

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Microwaved hearts sounds super cool!!

Heyaa, thank youuu

It's related to the first picture here! and I associate it with the trio of Akane, Shijima and Mitsuba who are the mcs of my In between au u.u

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Can we see the warm up sketches? 👀

Here you goooo :DD thanks for the ask!

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Hanako's bd? Business decline? Big deal? Bad day?

I just realized that bd may not meant Birthday like I thought it did biggest rip

The boi!

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Tagged by @mari-lair

RULES: make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous and tag as many people as you have WIPs. People send an ask with the title that most intrigues them, then you post a snippet or tell them something about it.

I have disappeared since like, 4 months, have a billions wips/non finished stuff in my folders so I felt like doing this one :DD (ty Mari for tagging me! ♥) I absolutely don't name my files and I draw a lot of stuff on one canvas so it will be really messy but here we go

• Microwaved hearts

• Collectionneurs de souvenirs

• a lot of warm up sketches

• I will live to love

• Hanako's bd

• illustrationNenejsp (only file with a name and it's a terrible one)

• Another line up I tried

I am not gonna respect the rules because I have absolutely no one to tag 🤡(I mean, everyone I know already got tagged mostly dshds) feel free to use my tag if you wanna do it!

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Clockmaker's niece's name is Marie did you see the new comic?!

I DID (ty Rof Scan for the translation as always)

Man I love them sm and Marie sounds close enough to Mirai in a way while being a popular name that can fit a lot of different time period and locations, it's such a cute addition

And I love her Mices and how The clock maker is dying in the bg. Usual "grumpy old man who pretends he doesn't care but rushes to ger her away from things he deems unsanitary" *proceeds to let her have her 3 rats because it makes her happy*

Always such a good trope

Marie makes me very sad too because this sweet girl just ends up not existing (if what Kako said is true (not sure about that for now)

Akane is right the Mices are lying too (just have to see their little laughs at the end)

They can't even know Marie, they just dream of an impossible timeline, it's so bittersweet

(Or Kako was indeed lying or they were taken in the loop with the clock maker and that would be quite insane but why not)

Love these little bonus a lot aaaah their lore/aesthetic is so cool

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The Beauty of Decay

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She likes dust and to wreck stuff u.u

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The Beauty of Decay

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details:

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I remembered that I am at first a 3d artist and realized that I can use this for drawings

This can either go really well or really bad

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Doodles and unfinished stuff Mysteries edition again