Arcane, Avatar (ATLA (the animated one)), Angel the Series / Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Gilmore Girls, Hazbin Hotel / Helluva Boss (The Hellaverse), Jujutsu Kaisen, MLP (shhhhut uppp), Ouran High School Host Club, Roswell (1999), She-Ra (SPOP), Sign of Affection
MOVIES:
Alice in Wonderland (1951), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), Corpse Bride, Empire Records, Labyrinth (1986), Nimona, Pirates of the Caribbean (the good ones), Practical Magic, Pride and Prejudice (2005), The Nightmare Before Christmas
Studio Ghibli films (Kiki, Howl, Cat Returns, Totoro, and Naussica in particular)
GAMES:
Animal Crossing, The Arcana (mobile game), Baldur's Gate 3, I'm still trying to get into Hades but I am playing it... sometimes haha
BOOKS:
The Cruel Prince series (FotA), HP (but I try not to post/talk about it much bc of JKR, it was just a big part of my life for a long time :'/)
Idk where to put this but I'm a huge Mythology and History nerd (especially fashion history!)
MUSIC:
I listen to a little bit of everything tbh, and I'd love to talk more about music, maybe i can do recommendations based on vibes? or just chit-chat? I have YT playlists that have like, a bit of everything here, here, and here, if you wanna shuffle around and see some of my favs!
Maybe I'll do music art someday too, who knows lmao
The amount of L x Misa fanart I've seen over the last two months has had me feral - I - wfiuehloahida I have to know if I actually like the idea of them or not, I don't think I've seen this show since I was in high school and it used to really fuck up my mental health lmao
I guess lets see if I can handle it now XD
The things i'll do bc of cute fanart istg
For posterity, here are a few of my scattered pre-rewatch thoughts I have on this series from way back in the day lol:
(Includes spoilers!!!)
L and Ryuk were my favorites - L in particular
I found Misa Amane horribly obnoxious (but I was also very defensive over her, wanted to protect her from light, etc.)
I thought Misa's shinigami eyes were cool AF but a wickedly bad deal lmao
This show make me horrendously anxious
As a neurodivergent person, as a kid I had very black-and-white thinking about 'good and bad', and watching a show that centered around someone like Light, and understanding through this show why a person might do something like what he did really freaked me the fuck out lol
When L died and got replaced by Near I was seething bro. I remember having such a palpable, visceral hatred for Near. Idk if that was just bc I was bitter about L or if I also just didn't like Near at all on top of that.
Was there someone who went by 'melon'? I feel like the begginning and end of this show are the haziest for me, with the middle being the part I remember the most details of.
Also wait - doesn't Misa have a whole-ass career? Is Light in high school or university? Is... is she older than him??? That would honestly be a delightful change of pace if I have to suffer through an adult being interested in a hs student LMAO at least it shakes up the monotony of predatory men XD
I'm planning on drawing while I watch this to hopefully circumvent some of the anxiety haha, wish me luck
It was so well written. I really enjoyed it but...
Okay, so... wow that was... okay imma be honest I feel so empty rn. Near said it best "No, you're just a serial killer. Nothing more, nothing less."
Due to the otherworldly nature and power of the death note and the Shinigamis, you really do start to subconciously feel like Light is some kind of god- and I didn't even notice! And I knew he lost the whole time!!! That's good writing for you. When Near said that, it was just like "Well, well yeah. Obviously." yet still some kind of quiet revelation.
Speaking of Near, it was just in fact my sadness for L that made me hate him way back when. I wouldn't say I love that kid (hes literally 22 but whatever) the way I loved L by any means, but I certainly don't hate him.
Is he incredibly similar to L to almost a comical degree? Yeah. But rather than be bothered by that, I can't help but think how comforting it must have been for Near to see himself in L while they were at Whammy together.
I think it's even mentioned in the show, but I'm not sure anyone except someone like L could have possibly caught Kira; Near is and Near did. He couldn't do it alone, he needed Mello in the end, but he did do it. (Cont. under cut)
ALSO its Mello and not Melon as I had remembered hazily pre-rewatch XD
He really bugged me at first (as he ought to) but I actually really liked him by the end of things! I also watch DN in the english dub (its what I grew up with and the dub cast are as incredible as the sub cast imo, both are 10/10 I'm neutral about language versions as long as they're good) but in the eng version - I fully kept hearing Jason Marsden whenever Mello was talking (it's not JM btw XD) and even after I checked who the VA was, I couldn't help hearing it - and I think it made me like Mello more LOL
I mean Jason was Haku in the english Spirited Away, Matt in W.I.T.C.H., and Max in A Goofy Movie + so much more. That man was my comfort male characters haha.
So Mello got some of that cozy squish nostalgia love by virtue of sounding like him haha
Also that man is so gay woah. So many of the men in this show are queer in some way (allegedly, by my accusation XD) but that boy is fruity.
I did not remember Police Chief Yagami dying?!!!? I'm glad he got to pass without thinking Light was guilty in some way but... holy fuck.
Also, strangely, the characters I was most fascinated by on this rewatch were Matsuda (I LOVE HIMMMM!!! <3), Naomi, and Mello????
Wtf is up with that??? (Naomi doesnt surprise me I love a competent and beautiful woman doing her thing)
I wonder if I was less obsessed with L this time bc I was drawing during most of his arc, instead of giving it 100% of my focus. Whereas, I watched the last 7 or so episodes last night and did nothing else during. (He's still in my top 3, he just doesn't hit the same way on every rewatch I suppose.)
I re-rewatched it with my mom, since it's one of her favorites, but even she's a little put off by it. It... well, it doesn't seem to be quite like how either of us remember in different ways. Light going crazy and killing innocents so quickly was a surprise to both of us, as neither of us remembered it happening THAT quickly.
As a child I was horrified by Light/Kira and couldn't see any merit in what he was doing (I have a more nuanced perspective as an adult, but obvi still think Light is fucking crazy) whereas my mother agreed quite a bit with Light when we first were watching it in the 00s. That was... not the case for her rewatching it now LMAO "Was he always this crazy?" "Well the show didn't reanimate itself in the last 15 years" "Oh my god-" was kind of the overall vibe XD
Something I wanted to touch on too; I remember there being moments as a kid where I almost wanted Light and Misa to win (perspective character attatchments wahooo). I didn't have that once this time. They - they're horrid. Maybe it's the climate the world is in the last decade. Maybe it's my unavoidable awareness of devastation due to being online. But I just can't seem to have much sympathy for them. I think the concept of his idea, of ridding the world of evil isn't a bad ambition - that's why a lot of people go into a whole host of different lines of work, but the way he goes about it... holy fuck. It's just so much more brutal and heartless than I remember.
It's interesting too, at the start, almost every criminal Light kills is drawn to be not just conventionally unattractive, but almost caricatures of ugliness, with the exception of Lind L. Tailor - whom Light didn't know was a convict already scheduled for execution - but a man who'd done something horrid enough to land the death sentence - and even when he kills Raye Penber, just before he does it, they let us see that Raye is sexist and kind of an ass to Naomi.
Its a brilliant play of manufactured distance from the crimes he's committing. Holding children hostage, sexually assaulting a woman in the middle of the street, up for death row, and devaluing women. All of these main examples play on men exploiting power and cruelty over a more vulnerable group.
But then... that all changes with Naomi.
She's beautiful, she's kind, she's right morally by the general standards as well as personal ones, and she's incredibly intelligent. She's correct about kira. But she's also painfully human, falling for someone we can all see she deserves better than, and allowing her love and human feelings to guide her - for better and for worse.
And Light has almost an entire episode of floundering, of trying to figure out how to kill this honestly quite marvelous woman that L not only trusts, but remembers.
(That ship of L and Mizora is epic btw I'm so here for it oml)
All at once, the audience is given no more excuses. The act isn't sped up. We get to see all of Light's thought process. We get time to be caught in the tense moments of their all-together very brief encounter. We get to understand, truly for the first time, how far Light is willing to go to win the game he's created.
How, in the end, he's no different than the men he's killed. Willing to resort to force if nescissary "She's a woman after all" as he's physically stronger - and murders her in cold blood, all because she stood in the way if his god-complex power fantasy.
Its the first of many times we feel the words Near will later say to Light, as the reality of Light's manipulation and egotistic fantasies are ripped away:
"You're just a muderer, Light Yagami."
By the time we reach the end of the show, Light's too caught up in his complex to be anything but pathetic. He had so many opportunities to win if only he'd set his ego aside and he just couldn't. Because let's be honest, it wasn't about a better world by then. In many ways it never was. It was about Light creating purpose from power instead of connection.
He's just sad and pathetic. He cries out for Misa, for Takada, but he's already thrown them away. He's thrown everything away. His connections to others, his family, his life. He was willing to kill his sister, he planned to kill his father. He discarded Misa at the first opportunity, and then he got rid of Takada too.
And in his last moments, he saw L, just as L had seen him. Both dying with some awareness of the only person they could have ever really called a friend.
If only things had gone a little bit differently. If only Light had been any other kind of man.
He claimed he wanted a world of light and kindness, but all he ever did was cause pain and misery to anyone with the misfortune of meeting him. Whether personally, or via the TV screen.
In his mind, it was never about right or light, but Light.
Y'all I'm rewatching Soul Eater for the first time in years (I don't remember how it ends, surprisingly!) I've always harbored a love for this show, but seeing Crona now that I'm an adult is just - like - fuck, man. That poor kid. Please tell me that sweet baby makes it through the show :(
(DONT TELL ME ANYTHING XD)
They deserve so much better.
I - yeah. I'm always so excited when he shows up (I just finished ep.15) and then he starts screaming in pain and my smile just drops. As much as I love his design and the story, etc. Seeing that poor child suffer is SO fucking upsetting. I had forgotten just how much.
They're doing a really good job making them equally cool and tragic :(
Anyway, no spoilers please I just wanted to say I'm sad about my baby. (He's my child now I'm revoking Medusa's custody and throwing her ass in witch jail)
Months later, revisiting this draft:
I am slogging through the last arc, you guys TwT the animation took such a dip and now we have characters I dont really care about in the mix and - i'm struggling to finish, I havent touched it in months... I should pick it back up...
I stand by witch jail.
POSSESSING THE LITTLE GIRL??? I had forgotten about that and its - HAHAHA oh my god so horrid. That part really freaked me out when I first saw this way back in middle school XD
Still dont tell me anything lmao
Also forever wheezing that death city and these kids are just IN NEVADA STATE
Then based on JJK, can you draw Toji Fushiguro in a pinup pose please? I'm okay with any pose as long as he has his black shirt, baggy white pants and is barefooted please. What do you think?
I think that sounds dope, so here you go!
This was a great opportunity to practice perspectives, person-object interaction, and masculine figures, so thanks a ton for the great suggestion! Hope you like it! <3 (Speedpaint under the cut)
My asks are open if you'd also like to submit a request or have any questions for me!
Absolutely adore the art direction and animation in S3, even more than previous seasons (insane how do they keep getting away with this) and had to study a couple frames (plus a S1 Meg bc he's baby)
For the first one, I was trying to get the lines expressive and clear, for the second I wanted to study the use of light and form more than lines, and for the third I wanted to push it more into my own personal style more :)
If anyone has requests of things they'd like me to doodle (/maybe even do a full piece of), please throw them in my ask box :3
It'd be nice to have a little backlog of requests for when I need a prompt, especially since I'd be making something someone here specifically wants (*´▽｀*)/♡
Don't be afraid to ask for anything, worst that'll happen is I won't draw it <3
I got Nomad this week, and experimenting with 3D for the first time (besides touching Zbrush like twice in my computer classes in hs a decade ago XD) has been REALLY cool!!!
I wanted to start with an arcane character since the planes are so defined, amd I' glad I did, I'm having a lot of fun with it!
I did feel pretty motion sick after my second session though, so I think I need to work woth more breaks until I get used to it LOL
Here's a video I took from a little earlier on in the process so ypu can get a peek at the profile (its improved now but alas, I'm too eepy to get a current video)
Also my lovely friend who studies 3D has informed me about remeshing, making the eyeballs seperate objects, and the like. So I will be fixing his chest polygons and other stuff next session XD
Two studies and some Sukuna doodles from last night :3
Straight in with inks because I'm trying to get better on my first passes! I'm alllmost done with this sketchbook which is wild. I've been really enjoying traditional art the last few months.
Materials used: (on studies) Tombow water-based brush marker in 743, red ballpoint pen, & Uni Pin Fine Line brush pen in black. (On Sukuna) black Muji-brand gel pen (the clicky ones) in size 0.5.
Jjk hyperfixation is at a consistent low simmer, I just wanna draw all of them all the time TwT
I did have a really fun idea for a toji painting tho, so thats exciting hehe - I blame the artist @/to00fu on here (not going to bother tham with a tag) for my recent Sukuna interest uwu their art is so tasty and endlessly inspiring. Sometimes I'll just scroll through their blog and stare at all their gorgeous work <3
A lil' Yuji digital painting practice! I've been loving S3 pt.1 so much (pfft whaaaat? Hyperfixating? me?)
I'm really trying to loosen up lately. I've spent so many years trying to get technical skills down, and now I would like to play more :3 (speedpaint & more yappy art thoughts under the cut!)
Last night I found the art of Nachal on Bsky and I'm just absolutely in love with it! I immediately had to start painting. Their mastery or color, suggestion, and abstract-and-form balancing - GUH!!!! I'm eating it all. (I obviously wasn't trying to imitate or study their style here, rather just try and some of the texture and looseness they employ into my usual painting style :D)
My itadori painting here took a little under two hours to do, probably saved myself a lot of time not doing an undersketch (I tend to get carried away/attached) and just jumping straight into painting. I was directly referencing the pose from this Pinterest image:
Because it's such a close crop and simple composition, I didn't really feel an overwhelming need for it. Usually on my complicated paintings I like to at least do a quick comp thumbnail or smth. All I did here was make sure I painted Yuji beefier than the reference hehehe
Other than that, I've just been experimenting with layer settings lately. Lots of color, gradient maps, etc. this week or so, it's been fun!
I was originally going to make a Megumi to go with this, but idk... I want to draw him at some point, he's been one of my favs since I first watched the show. My beloved sea urchin XD
I have so many wips rn and I've been busy sewing cosplays (not JJK ones for now, I'm trying to get through the plans I already have LOL) so I've been doing a lot of non-drawing/painting stuff lately.
Posca paint pen, Prismacolor colored pencils, & white Gelly Roll pen on blue construction paper.
Yeah, I love her and need to know everything about her expeditiously. Uro and Kirara are my new darlings of S3 so far.
(Detail zoom + color variant under the cut)
I used the liquify tool after scanning the painting in bc there were a couple bits that needed shifting (my sketch was also in paint so there wasn't really a way to adjust in real time w/o losing the paper color)
The pink/'natural'-toned one was me experimenting with gradient maps and color layers, the multi-colored one is the original. I've been trying to pull myself out of the safety of muted colors LMAO
I tried to exaggerate the shapes and push the shadows, using less of the airbrush than last time to have more texture in the piece.
Basically I wanted to try more of a stylized approach today rather than more realistic (*^ w ^ )/
Below is the reference I used, pulled from Pinterest as well as the speedpaint:
Portrait Study
Spent 2h 45m on this one. It's not perfect (reference & speedpaint under the cut) but I'm still REALLY pleased with what I managed in that time :3
I've been rusty lately so I wanna do some portrait studies (and maybe more experimental pieces?) to push my art back in a direction I'm happy with! Loosen up a little by going back to fundementals & play
( ^ u ^ )/
tbh it probably would have taken me less time if I'd remembered to flip my canvas early on XD so much of the time I spent was just de-wonkifying at the 50% mark LOL
I've mostly been doing traditional work the last few months (painting and alcohol marker work specifically) as well as a lot of non-drawing work like sewing, so my body's mapping system with my screenless tablet is kinda not there rn pfft
I didn't eyedrop any of these colors, I just had the pic up on pinterest on my other monitor so I couldn't be tempted, I've been enjoying mixing colors with my traditional work, and feel a lot more confident in my eye now, even if it's still not perfect
I'm still trying to make that video essay on Vi's character assassination in S2, but everytime I think about S2 I get so mad I end up just setting the project back down XD
I have so much to say TwT
And its not like a hate the whole thing, there were good individual moments, but it was such a gd mess. Nothing close to the mastery S1 achieved :(
I had this thought when S2 first came out, and it will not leave me. What am I supposed to do with this? I want to make something about it but what on earth would I make? The brainworms are throwing a rave and I have no music for them, I fear they may riot.
