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Here is the cover I had the pleasure of illustrating for the Polish edition of "The Husky and His White Cat Shizun" Published by Wydawnictwo Czarna Owca

#wow #gorgeous art #2ha

aquarianlights

IF YOU HAVE IQIYI, PLEASE TAKE THIS SURVEY BEFORE JULY 16TH!!!

(You get a chance at a free year membership? Ig? Not really important, tbh...)

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For the love of dogs.

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For fucks sake.

WE DO NOT NEED ANOTHER PLATFORM WITH AI GENERATED CONTENT!!!

It takes less than 5 minutes for the whole survey. Less than 3 even.

Here's the prize, if it matters...

You can also leave a comment about that question at the end, like I did, if you're so inclined.

joyouslee

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#hell NO #iqiyi #anti ai #iqiyi apparently wants to use AI actors #boycott AI

thelittledaily-deactivated20260

REBLOG THIS TO GIVE THE PERSON YOU REBLOGGED THIS FROM A GOLD STAR BECAUSE THEY’VE BEEN STELLAR TODAY AND THEY DESERVE IT ⭐️

#you are stellar every day!

aoya

#gorgeous art #zhan zhao adventures #the flow of the lines is so expressive

aoya

#gorgeous art #zhan zhao adventures #bai yutang #love his entrance #says everything about him

virtualtear00

#this is so soft #gorgeous art #love the light #daiya no ace #miyuki kazuya #sawamura eijun

daiyanerd

New KEY VISUAL for ongoing Season 2 of TV Anime "Ace of the Diamond act II" (Diamond no Ace: Act II)

#yes!!!#can't wait for them to finally face off #miyuki kazuya #narumiya mei

kadaogan

I had the opportunity to contribute an illustration for Takeoff: A Miyuki x Kuramochi Wedding Zine, which you can read for free with code 05171117

#so sweet #gorgeous art #miyuki kazuya #kuramochi yoichi #daiya no ace #kuramiyu

hongslice

happy 6/26/26 🤍🌠 i drew this piece for the kuramiyu zine

#this is beautiful #miyuki kazuya #kuramochi youichi #kuramiyu #daiya no ace

lady-byleth

Reading Seki change Miyuki's walk on song and hearing it happen just hits different

It's such a Seido way to show him "we love you, we believe in you, you're our captain and we wouldn't have it any other way"

Tetsu was a symbol to the generations after him. The unbeatable one, the unreachable one, the one and only captain

But Seki took that and said "no, that's not how this ends. It doesn't end with the next captain chasing a shadow, it ends with our generation choosing to follow our captain! He's not inferior, he's not weaker, he's ours and we're going to make sure he knows this"

Like, Miyuki has been following Tetsu's example the whole time. He compared himself to Tetsu, even to his face, he doubted himself, made mistakes trying to live up to what he believed was the ideal, failed and stumbled and then picked himself up and kept going in a role he never wanted but took on anyway and eventually thrived in

And the third years saw that and so Seki said "Lupin III was Tetsu-san's song and now we're giving it to you because you are to us now what Tetsu-san used to be"

But what's so powerful about this is that they used to idolize Tetsu, they don't idolize Miyuki at all. They've seen him struggle, they know how messy he is, how hard he tries. And they're still choosing to tell him "hey, you're the best captain we could ask for"

And Tetsu sees it happen from the stands and knows exactly what it means: it means that the captain he chose to follow after him was exactly what Seido needed and surpassed him without noticing himself how far he came. Hell, the other retired members are fully on board. No teasing, no questions, full support.

And no one at Seido questions Seki's idea. They see him hold up that sign and go "yes, perfect, this is exactly what we need to do"

Amahisa thinks to himself he'd be pissed if someone changed his song without telling him but he doesn't understand the weight this song has for Seido.

I just...adore this part. I'm so proud of Miyuki and I love Seido so much it hurts sometimes.

#this!!!#miyuki kazuya #daiya no ace

spica-starson

Bai Yutang checking Zhan Zhao's pulse. Zhan Zhao Adventures | 雨霖铃 (2026)

I studied medicine to save you, not to send you to your grave.

#they drive me crazy #bai yutang #and his big concerned eyes #zhan zhao #just letting him take control of his pulse point #without protest #zhan zhao adventures

stellahibernis

I was thinking that Hu Xiaochen must have been seething with jealousy at Zhan Zhao way before the events of the drama.

He wants to be a high ranking officer, has these grand dreams of what he'll do then, how he'll help people and will be regarded as something great (as ZZ said when first talking about his suspicious, HXC wanted to be a saint). And not only does he dream of it, he clearly feels like he's owed a position like that because of the great thinks he'd supposedly do. And because he thinks that way, he feels like he is allowed to take whatever action, commit countless atrocities to get there. He probably in some twisted way considers himself a good person, and because of that everything he does is right.

On the other hand, reality is that he's just another small time officer, not really able to climb in ranks, not able to marry (he brushed it off, but obviously his betrothed's family thought he wasn't a good prospect after all). No matter what he has done, he isn't anywhere near to the kind of influence he wanted to have nor on the trajectory to get there.

But hey, at least he did better than his friends in the early years. Liu Hongyi failed the imperial exam and so was limited to what kind of position he could get, and ZZ disappeared to roam the country. Even if he made name for himself as the Southern Hero, it still didn't matter, because it was only jianghu fame, nothing that mattered in the circles that HXC cared about.

And then, ZZ was appointed an Imperial guard at a rank higher than HXC, worked at the Kaifeng Prefecture with Judge Bao, and was even in familiar terms with the Emperor who gave him the title Imperial Cat. Suddenly he had all the things HXC had wanted, and I bet HXC thought he didn't deserve it, coming from the jianghu rather than through the examinations.

HXC also clearly can't comprehend (anymore, anyway, maybe he was less jaded at one point in his life) that someone can get to such a high position simply through integrity, and that's why his plan to negotiate with ZZ completely fails. As opposite to HXC, due to his past ZZ understands exactly why actions are what matter, and that what you do determines what kind of a person you are instead of you being a good person justifying your actions. It's why he decided back then, ten years before the events of the drama, that going forward he had to be truly incorruptible, and he has acted accordingly ever since, regardless of what the consequences are for him personally.

#zhan zhao adventures

spockandawe

Okay! I have been busy. My god have I been busy. So, my little brother got married this weekend! Naturally, I claimed the right to make the guestbook. And also naturally, I dramatically underestimated how much work this was going to be. I have not known rest for the last month.

So, here's the exterior. Nice and simple and elegant!! Very straightforward!

Then, there's the inside. I was like 'hmmm, well, they met when they were working at a video game store together. And they still game a lot together and it's important to them. I know, I'll draw this thing like an illuminated manuscript!!'

Reader, this is where I lost control of the situation. This is where we come to the fact that I'll have to reblog this multiple times just to attach all the relevant images. I came up with eleven "main" images, eleven simple verso images so people wouldn't sign the wrong spot by mistake, two inhabited initials for the couple, and one demo page not included in the book directly explaining the concept for how the pages were laid out (spot for name + spot for message). I finished that last page uhhhh thursday. For a saturday wedding.

Before I get any deeper, i have to give MASSIVE props to the dobie draws 'codex pokemonus' illuminated manuscript zine. I highly recommend checking that link out, because it's a delight. I bought this thing, ohh... I'm not even sure. At LEAST half a decade ago. When i was gathering all my references and resources for this project, this was unquestionably the most helpful one. The influence is most obvious in the venusaur vines the pokemon pages, but it was truly, genuinely a LIFESAVER when it came to references for how hands and feet and faces could be drawn for little Creatures, and I'm so grateful. I would also like to state for the record that i learned medieval notation specifically to transcribe the jigglypuff song and that may be the detail that delights me most in this whole project

And since i have one spare image slot left, I'll also throw in one of my verso images, as a teaser while i line up my next reblog

He's beautiful 😍

spockandawe

And an interlude for the rest of the verso images!!! So here, I wanted to draw from VINTAGE video games, to pander to entertain the older generations attending the wedding. I tried to draw from the atari/activision era, where things had some graphics, but aiming to land before 3d really took off. And at first I was like 'huehuehue I'm so clever, all of these character designs will be so much more simple--'

No. I am boo boo the fool, most of these designs were so simple they were plain impossible for my sleep deprived brain to draw 😂 So some of these draw from the games directly, and some are more from the cabinet or box art, whatever i could find with a visual identity to latch on to.

So, for roll call purposes here, in order on the tumblr post, we've got: qbert, pitfall (featuring a beautiful pixel rope), frogger, major havoc, centipede, pac-man (both man and ghost), space invaders, berserk, yar's revenge, annnnnd et!

I think pitfall was what sold me on this idea conceptually, but et is my absolute favorite of the bunch. Look at him. Look at my wonderful hideous son. One thing i learned on this project is that if you're trying to get an illuminated manuscript vibe and it just isn't landing, try drawing the eyes Wrong, and that's very likely to do the trick

spockandawe

I think I can fit everything into one last post!! Okay okay okay, so i hit three of the BIGGEST nostalgic franchises (mario, zelda, pokemon) in the first post. But then there were also five others, where I drew one page each. Donkey kong was actually the first page i started sketching out of the whole bunch, and by the time i got to king k rool, i was like okay. okay. this is going to work.

All of these pages were SO fun. Browsing the kirby wiki for the funnest little Creachurs was a delight. Working on mother brain was one of my favorite parts. The sonic page is my favorite concept out of the whole lot, using the loop as a frame for the message portion. And of course, once I was reminded of the animal crossing wedding couple, they HAD to feature prominently 😂

BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE. My brother and his now-wife play world of warcraft together. He got her into it, and I think that's a cruel thing to do to your partner, but what do i know. And a few of their guildmates were even invited to the wedding! So a couple months back, i asked them for images of their characters, "for reasons." The reasons were to draw them each inhabited initials for the title page of the book :3c

(my brother, at the wedding: 'i thought you just wanted them for inspiration!!!' me, cackling: 'FOOL. when have i ever practiced self-restraint when it comes to crafts?????’)

And then!!!! In chronological order, this is where i paused to draw the eleven verso images in a fever haze and actually printed the book and made it. Fun story, my printer started misprinting images in the middle of this and I had to make a trip to my parents' place and use their printer to get the actual book pages. But once it was assembled and drying (it was a k118, also, which i don't think i mentioned), I staggered back to my tablet and drew a demo page for how i envisioned the signings. My little treat to myself is that it features haggard versions of me, including skeleton me in the corner.

And it all worked! It all worked out really well!! I'm SO glad its over, and I have two sets of lotr that I made concurrently as gifts that i need to scrape together a post for. But this came together better than I could have hoped, and I have learned important lessons about how long art like this takes me 🤣 But I've also learned how to do these pseudo-illuminated pages and the term 'inhabited initial'! I definitely, DEFINITELY plan to use that knowledge for much goofier and more frivolous purposes as soon as I rest up a bit. This was a much bigger project than I expected, but I'm SO happy with it

#bookbinding #holy wow #this is beyond amazing

zeldacw

【UNWAVERING】

Liu Qingge | SVSSS

#gorgeous art #liu qingge #svsss

swordbrows

korean nirvana in fire trailer, you will always be famous

#omg what #nirvana in fire #amazing #spectacular #they understood the assignment

prawnlegs

This was a hit on twitter, so: My cat. Enjoy her.

prawnlegs

cannot fucking believe how many notes this has and continues to get

#this is delightful #so very cat

memories-of-ancients

A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artif

An interesting game where you are presented with 10 artifacts from the MET. You have to place where the artifact is from and what time period it is from. Each artifact scores up to 10,000 points, and you lose points the further away your guess is and how far off in time you are. You can only play once a day. Thanks to @baebeylik for showing this to me.

Today I scored really well. Yesterday ... not so much.

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