✦ Hiya! I'm Noni, and this is my Tokyo Debunker blog I'll fill with everything TKDB!
I'm an illustrator so at some point I'll hopefully get to posting fanart, especially of my favourite boys:
✦ Zenji Kotodama (oshi #1), Alan Mido, Rui Mizuki, Haku Kusanagi, Elias Pratt, Jiro Kirisaki and Subaru Kagami.
I may also draw my TKDB (male) OCs to ship with canon characters, maybe some yumeshipping, who knows~
So get ready for art, reblogging fanart, making stupid memes, weird theories and just lurking around! ✨️
⚠️ Occasional nsfw | not a spoiler free space!
⚠️ DO NOT USE MY ART FOR: AI, TRACING, NFTs, FOR SALE, FOR PRINTING, FOR MAKETING. I do not consent to my art being used without my explicit permission and compensation.
⚠️ DO NOT INTERACT: minors, AI sloppists, tracers, art thieves, facists/pedos/ableists/homo- and transphobes/racists/misogynists etc.
I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard
Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.
Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.
Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.
Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.
SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.
SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.
Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.
Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.
Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.
Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.
Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.
So I didn't get the café job. I feel like a failure of a human being. I feel like absolute shit.
I know my personal, non tkdb posts are barely seen by anyone, but I need to get this out, even if it's just to the void. Heavy words coming.
I had the interview two weeks ago for the anime theme café/bar. The boss liked me and I liked her.
She could only offer me part time hours like a zero hour contract, but honestly, having been unemployed with basically only zero hour contracts for 12 years, I didn't care. I just wanted more weekday shifts and a place where my boss doesn't break the law and ignore their workers' wellbeing.
(I currently work 0 hour contract at an acrylic painting and wine place.)
I didn't at the time have a hygiene pass, but she said if I could take the test and pass it by (last week's) thursday and my test shift, I'd be good to go.
I paid 100€ for the test and a course for it. This amount of money is INSANE for me since I only get like 560€ in unemployment benefits.
I passed last tiesday and went to my test shift thay thursday.
It was super tough, though fun too. The toughness came mostly from everything being super disorganized and not yet decided behind the counter and "behind the scenes" and I was thrown straight into it without knowing the register system, how to run the machines or the recepies for the drinks/desserts.
I made it still and thought that with my sweet coworkers (one of which I know from the local con scene from years back) and once the new company settled, I'd love it there.
At the end of my test shift (6½h) the boss praised me and we agreed I'd send her my banking info and my availability for shifts and that she'd email me of the days she'd need me and when I could sign the contract.
She never did.
During the week I had a convo with my coworkers of how weird the whole recruit process and contracts seemed and how the owners (the boss and her daughter) felt like they had taken on more they could handle on a new field they knew nothing about (except anime).
But I was hopeful that if we all could just meet on a day when the café is closed and go through all the recipes, machines etc. it'd start going more smoothly and that eventually the boss would change my contract to like 28h a week so I could make like 1050€ a month. More than I've made monthly in YEARS.
This would change everything and reduce my anxiety (of which most is caused by shitty jobs, uncertain pay and shifts, unemployment and poverty) SIGNIFICANTLY.
I didn't hear from the boss for the entire last week. So I emailed her yesterday morning asking when's my first shift and when could we sign the contract.
She replied:
"Hi, sorry, I unfortunately can't hire you after all.
Kind reg.
Boss"
I was shocked.
This completely fucked up my nervoussystem as I was getting ready for my friend's housewarming and bday party when the email dropped.
Anxiety attack. I was already inside. I already sent her my banking shit. Oral contract is official in my country, so what she did is illegal. I was this fucking close to a job within my interests with the potential to heal me of my past job trauma.
But nope. Let's add to the injury.
Wtf am I gonna tell my folks? They're also poor and my unemployment has given my mom so many grey hairs. She was so happy for me and so was I, so was my husband (who has to pay for most of our stuff and I feel like shit about that) and so were my friends.
But no. Happy 12 years of unemployment with traumatizing bosses and jobs.
It most likely has nothing to actually do with me. It's a new place and money is prolly tight. But why me? No explanation? Why do something illegal? I don't want to pursue actions to get "justice" because I don't want to see the place again or else I'll cry. And even if brought it up to her that breaking an oral contract is illegal, would I even want to work there anymore knowing what she did to me?
Yet, I feel like I'm a failure. I'm 35 in June, I'm mentally ill, neurospicy and unemployed for over a decade though I have a Bachelor's degree, I'm always praised for my work quality and ethics and skills with people, customers and team. And I'm still struggling with pennies.
This fucking broke me. I'm nothing. I'm not an adult, I'm trash. Worthless.
I can only draw and talk and that's not enough anywhere. I can't even start studying again because student benefits are even worse than the unemployment ones. I can't work and study at the same time, and apparently I can't get a job anyway. My country's unemployment rates are at an all time high, as high as they were during the depression/recession 30 years ago.
I'm just not meant to have a decent worklife. I'm not worth it to have a secure income. I'm not enough to have a boss and work environment that doesn't treat me like garbage.
I don't need millions. I need a place with flexible hours I can predict and not work just weekends and nights (so I can actually see my husband). I need a place with fun, kind nerds as coworkers where we could work with creativity. I need a boss that actually knows how to lead, is compassionate and understands that their worker's wellbeing is more important than capitalism. I need like 1500€/month after tax max. So I could finally pay full rent, pay for all my bills (doctors, therapist, meds, necessities) and start saving for our own apartment (we currently rent).
So I didn't have to have 1€ to my name at the end of the month.
Uuuughghgh, I've been offline a while, it's been a rough week.
Had to study to a hygiene pass test so I could I work a test shift at my city's new anime theme café/bar. My anxiety ridden adhd ass was a wreck.
Though I'm an extrovert and I'm excellent at customer service, a brand new super popular place that with everything still searching its place and having never done cocktails/mocktails before let alone had any barrista experience raised my cortisol through the roof.
I'm currently unemployed/part timing as an acrylic painting instructor/bar server at a wine and painting place, but the bosses are horrible people, the pay and the hours suck and my mental health needs a job that has a lovely boss, normal/steady pay and humane hours.
So I hope this place will settle, I'll get a decent contract and that I'll love my coworkers, boss, the job and actually won't be below powerty line soon. 🫠
Peekaboo might just become the first male of his species to take care of his offspring(s) because he grew up watching haru take care of him as a single father
Hello, sorry if I come across as rude or if this had been answered before. But how do you color your art? Do you just use flat color and continue with shadow, then light, then ??? — or do you color in grayscale and tweak it?
Your art is real pretty!
I finally had some (little) time on my hands so I decided to finally,,, make a simple tutorial on coloring (and i get a lot of asks for these) feel free to check it out! ^.^
Note: This is just how I color and render things myself, this is not objective so you don't have to treat it like a handbook heheheh feel free to be creative about it
COLORING TUTORIAL
Start out with the flat colors.
2. Do some soft airbrush coloring on it. (Usually a blush thingy and a soft skin air coloring on the edges of the hair)
3. Do a simple shadow layer. (be mindful of where the light hits tho so it's more comprehensive:)))
4. (These are all in this one multiply layer) Grab the AIRBRUSH, ERASER, a SOFT PAINT, and the BLURRING PEN. Put some airbrush on the shadows (don't do too much tho), just lil dab there and there.
5. Using the blurring pen, smooth SOME of the edges, DON'T blur them all. Basically make some edges soft but also leave some edges hard.
6. Use the ERASER and delete some of the shadows for where the light bounces back (it's okay if it sometimes doesn't make sense) but again,,, don't overdo it, just erase what feels right for you :333
7. Grab a hard pen,,, as for my case, I used a lasso pen for the little details and again,,, don't overdo it. Grab a lighter color for the light part and use a darker color for the shadow part. You can just make lil strokes there and there, just enough to show depth and details.
8. (THIS IS A REALLY LONG PROCESS TO DO)vBalright now grab the soft painting brush, and all the brushes that I mentioned before. Use the soft painting brush for mixing the colors and use the dark/light colors accordingly. Along with that step, do the coloring method that was mentioned before too (the erasing, airbrush, lasso, etc.) u pretty much mix all the techniques,,, this is what we pretty much call the rendering phase or sumthn like that :>>
9. For tweaking some colors, use the alpha lock (THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT as it only goes to where you did the coloring to) and grab the airbrush again. Pick a saturated color closest to the shadow and dab it a lil on the edges (don't do it to everything, it's gonna ruin your render tehee)
as u can see from the image, the color lightened up a bit and also became a lil saturated.
10. Still with the alpha lock, we're going to use a bluish color (this is optional because i used a different color triad, so it's different for everyone) i went with that color bc it's a common one. Same with the step 9, you do the same thing but ONLY do it on the edges (and to wherever you feel like placing it heh)
11. Now, go to the line art layer and enable the alpha lock again. Choose a saturated color closer to the color over it. Use the airbrush, and dab it a little, more specifically on the lighter side. Treat it like another rendering phase, put it accordingly to where it's light and where it's dark.
12. Now do the same thing on other aspects (eyes, lips, clothes, etc.) Go crazy go stupid with it heh
Lol ok, my personal life posts clearly don't do well, BUT I have TKDB ramblings again.
Being the avid "PLEASE LET US BUY CHARACTER MERCH FFS" guy that I am, I of course checked if our Japanese fellow fans had already bought the new Didara Bocchi collection items to get their blind acrylic stands and if they're already selling the ones they don't want.
And they are.
It didn't really surprise me that the prices are again horrible for very popular characters. The cheapest Haku, Jin and Jiro I've seen go for 9000-12200¥ or like 60-80€ a piece.
I get it, you gotta buy at least 5000¥ worth of boring clothing to get a BLINDBAG of a random stand, so I bet they're just trying to get their money back to gamble again.
BUT! The more unpopular characters? They go for very realistic prices! My husband Zenji for example would set me back only 16€ if I lived in japan!!
Unfortunately... that's before a proxy service fee, shipping and customs. So even the cheapest acrylic stands would cost a European like me about 50€ or so.
Uuuughghgh, I've been offline a while, it's been a rough week.
Had to study to a hygiene pass test so I could I work a test shift at my city's new anime theme café/bar. My anxiety ridden adhd ass was a wreck.
Though I'm an extrovert and I'm excellent at customer service, a brand new super popular place that with everything still searching its place and having never done cocktails/mocktails before let alone had any barrista experience raised my cortisol through the roof.
I'm currently unemployed/part timing as an acrylic painting instructor/bar server at a wine and painting place, but the bosses are horrible people, the pay and the hours suck and my mental health needs a job that has a lovely boss, normal/steady pay and humane hours.
So I hope this place will settle, I'll get a decent contract and that I'll love my coworkers, boss, the job and actually won't be below powerty line soon. 🫠
I have updated the house quiz and now Dionysia is included in the answers!! ＼＼\٩( *ˊᗜˋ* )و /／／ I tried not to make the answers too obvious in order to get an authentic answer, so I can't wait to see how many people will transfer from their houses to Dionysia ↜( `꒳´ ) hope you have fun and pls share your answers with me!!
This is my own interpretation of certain traits that the characters from each house have. If your results don't speak to you, it's okay. Thi
