#astl

[pencilzart]

Got a matching Jigen autograph for my Lupin one!

[falling-pixie]

Hey, so I did an Odd Della Robbia cosplay for ASTL this year! Everyone loved seeing someone from Code Lyoko 👏🥰

[shaeeldera]

This weekend was Anime St Louis. I finally did an actual cosplay after several years of not. I failed to get any pictures of me by myself though, but it’s whatever. Here I am as the DJ from Tom Cardy’s Transcendental Cha Cha Cha. If you haven’t heard the song or seen the music video yet, y’all need to check it out cuz it’s a massive banger.

[chalkcryptid]

Anime St Louis really came together to do a whole bunch of chalk art today. I love y’all and I hope to see you again next year.

[nice-thing-a-day]

Today, my girlfriend, her cousin, a friend and I went to Anime St Louis for the second day. I cosplayed something really niche and actually had a handful of people recognize me and a bunch of people like my costume.

Here’s me taking a selfie with a Soundwave we found because we’re both DJs

[foldedbanana]

mannnn FUCK cosplaying to get recognition im cosplaying brandon heat!!!

no surprise here, not a soul knew who i was but the cosplay made me happy and was very comfy so i dont even careeeeeuhhh…

as you can tell i got a lot of pictures (lies) and im so really good at taking them (lies)

[purpleskelet0n]

I dont often post irl stuff but I met one of my voice acting heroes recently :)

@prozdvoices was at ASTL and I was lucky enough to be second in line!! I discovered his work through skits but watching his roles get bigger and bigger is inspiring and he makes every media he stars in a joy to watch. be it my own voice acting inspirations or just voices i think would fit my characters, hes a hero to me. sorry if I seemed like a blubbering mess in person!!

[lunchtimebedamned1997]

Some fic-art wips and yapping for you today <3

I've been re-editing my early chapters of my ongoing Arcane story A Second Too Late while I work on making a fic guide for myself to make updating easier on myself.

The story is at just under 100,000 words of posted material so far, and it's just gotten to be too much to go back and reread every time I work on something new for it - and I felt like too many details/small plots were going to accidentally be forgotten.

Now I have all my characters organized in order of appearance (Canon characters on the left, OCs on the right)

AND I've been working on doing character portraits (particularly for the OCs) as well as chapter-specific notes on each character when an important event/plot happens with them.

Example of the character portraits:

I also have all the chapters broken down scene-by-scene, and any extra art I want to make upon editing gets it's own reference/planning sub-board as well >:3

I've been doing the thumbnails mostly in my sketchbook and finishing them off digitally which has been a really gratifying experience tbh, I really love doing my sketches tiny and in mechanical pencil bc it gives me the looseness and texture I love while stopping me from going to detail-heavy (bc small) & redrawing 40-billion times (bc tradtional).

Below is an example of the thumbnail sketches vs. the base lines :D

I just moved into a new place, and I don't have a monitor that displays color well, so I've been firmly in the b&w/lineart space with digital work right now, but I'm actually grateful for it bc it's forcing me to slow down and not hyper-focus on any one particular piece.

Idk how many chapters will have art, but I'm having fun with it for now hehe

Sometimes I get kind of down on myself for how slow I can be at updating, but something (I can't even remember what atm it's 3 a.m. rn lmao) resparked the feeling of happy fandom warm-fuzzies I had for years and years, and I just - this is fun. I'm so grateful this is like... a thing, you know?? Ik the internet can be A Lot esp. with the large influx of ppl into the community who haven't learned the culture yet but... idk I'm just feeling... happy about making things again in a very familiar way I had been chasing the last couple months.

Anyways, all this bts work has been a massive undertaking, but I'm really glad I've been putting in the time to do it. I think it's going to make the story a lot better, even besides all the personal perks for my own writing convenience.