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Back with more random Detective Grimoire art! IDK why, but this game's style/character/worldbuilding just really appeals to me? The voice acting is really top notch too

The newest one launched yesterday, and I haven't finished watching it yet (because the person whose playthrough I am watching understandably hasn't fully finished it yet!), but it already made me want to doodle out something.

This time I decided to make proper fanart too as a sort of a "style swap" thing, where I drew the game's mains in my own style, and then drew my mains in the game's style. I couldn't decide what to do with the palette for the latter, so I just used both their actual palettes, and did color picking from the game for the second variation like with the previous ones!

Image texts if you can't read them:

ANGUS: Doctor/Surgeon. Single father to an adopted boy called Clover. Son often sticks stickers onto his things that he just let’s them be as he secretly finds it endearing. Seems scarier than he is, though still quite grouchy and tired.

AVANE: Antique/artifact store clerk and a local snoop. Has a special talisman that acts as a protective shield and communication tool. Alistair’s honorary niece and one of the few people who can talk him out of doing things.

ALISTAIR: Engineer, member of an influential family with lot of connections. He is typically always up to something, and aware what is going on in their hometown. Has a comatose daughter whose condition is a mystery, and he’s been looking for answers for years.

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Finished watching Mermaid Mask yesterday, and it was definitely worth the wait! This one had a much more solid ending; as much as I loved TT, the ending broke my suspension of disbelief a bit too much, and probably would've required some tweaking.

Anyway, as soon as it was indicated they didn't get paid and Sally wants ice cream, this popped in my head and I couldn't really work on anything else until pooped it out of my brain.

I think one of the reasons I love the game setting a lot is because it uses a lot of the type of worldbuilding I enjoy doing myself; just, with more whimsy and humor than I tend to go with. Meaning I could drop these two in Ruska to solve a case and they'd fit in pretty well.

(though in this case where in the games there's usually a reasonable explanation for someone seeming like not-a-human, in Ruska they'd all pretend to be Totally-Normal-Humans for Sally and Grimoire, but with increasingly bizarre/funny excuses for their nonhuman traits and behavior)

((Yes, Yoruga is a Grim Reaper/Shinigami, AND a Cafeteria Keeper, AND a Dungeon Master. That is his DM/Shinigami get up, he has a different outfit for the Cafeteria stuff))

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Some style practice doodles of my my two main ladies Avane and Iris (Iris on the left has kinda become the "main" character for Ruska) and random one about my cat sith Cecil. (not my only cat boy, but favorite)

I basically watched a playthrough of this older game Detective Grimoire; Tangle Tower and I really enjoyed the art style! I rarely get into heavily stylized ones like this, but something about it really appealed to me. Looking forward to watching the playthrough for their upcoming game too as I'm pretty sure the person will play it as well!

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I really liked how Avane turned out in the Tangle Tower style, so I decided to make more of a full look version of her (with her actual palette, and shading and more detailed highlights to lean more into my own style a bit) as her outfit does often include a hat and that very story relevant talisman. The coat was to finish the look as it is not strictly attached to this outfit, she wears it over her other ones too!

Making this also made me realize there might be a color setting issue with my set up, as I realized the hues shift lightly when I save images as PNG which is annoying, as it ended up affecting only the most important colors with her....her skintone, reds and greens.

Honestly this game's design vibe fits her given in her own story she is sort of a detective too, (officially antique/magic artifact shop clerk) just trying to solve a more magical mystery that threatens her hometown instead of a murder investigation.

Here's her actual refs, I actually revamped them recently but had forgotten to post them here: (the skull masked figure is her BF in his Grimmhound form, he usually looks human)

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A short comic I finished recently that relates to the central mystery of my OG storyline. That cat spirit is actually the soul of Avane's honorary little sister figure, who's been comatose for fifteen years. That hooded man (Amaros) is a key figure in the story's central mystery.

I quite liked how this turned out overall; I had planned for more pages to elaborate on what is going on, but ran out of motivation and might make a more direct sequel to this later on anyway that will explain more.

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All my main 3 ships in the Steampunk AU. I might have posted the last two already, but can't recall for sure?

To summarize each ship on the whole:

Alloy (Alistair/Alois): A sliding scale from "There's issues to address, but they will figure it out" to "Doomed yaoi bc one of them falls into villainy and the other isn't on board"

Angelbug (Angus/Vincent): Two people who are really good at being gentle and patient with each other, BUT really bad at applying that to themselves. (Also both need it for different reasons)

Feyhound (Avane/Roman, silly ship name still pending): The "Get Shit Done" power couple, the reliable rock to lean on for each other despite whatever hardship they may be dealing with

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Main OG story tag: Town of Ruska

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The relationship between my 3 "main" characters in a nutshell. (At least for the 3 major AUs, I chose to draw the Steampunk versions for this meme specifically, because they are the Most This Vibe)