#cogneartive

[daipeanutsaiban]

haiiii are there any dgs characters you like but never draw/talk about?

haiii yes there's plenty- in fact i like most if not all of the cast!! but i took this as an opportunity to doodle some of my faves ^_^

thank you for your question!! other faves i dont draw enough would def include ryunosuke or stronghart, but im not the best at drawing them haha

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i saw discourse abt gracexrocky grown rock and rock cock and rock balls was kind of a beautiful sentence so im sending it to you

I hate that I'm still awake and I can't sleep but the way that I Just Now saw this earlier on twitter 😭like I'm not personally into the grace rocky ship but some people are genuinely treating it as if it's equal to beastiality because everyone has it in their heads that rocky is just a particularly smart animal. like no bro he is a highly intelligent sentient being who is more than capable of consenting and understanding the concept of consent 😭I swear people these days do Not know how to be in fandom. again I'm Really not a shipper and im super aroace about grace and rocky but omggg people need to get over themselves For Real

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lyv my oomf changed his pfp to one of the kagamines i think its len but it reminded me that one time you said i was like the kagamines to you

OH YEAH I always saw you in my minds eye as rin or that One particular drawing you did of stephen stills a few years back. oh the stephen drawings....

[daipeanutsaiban]

waittt ive been thinking about mycroft as well. where is he and what is he doing during the events of tgaa and stuff?

i like to keep things as canon compliant as possible when it comes to him during tgaa specifically, so he's off doing his own thing! (well, not really off anywhere bc he stays inside but....u get the point haha) although in the small window of time between the last trial's conclusion and ryunosuke's departure, i like to imagine mycroft would be interested in meeting ryunosuke and susato so that's a scenario i really want to flesh out one day... but as for what he does in general, he's an inventor and vehicle engineer (though he can make about anything). occasionally he'll receive investigation requests but he foists those on sherlock lmao. he doesn't lead a very active life so he's not doing that much outside of work and the occasional book club meeting haha. a very routine person 👍

[daipeanutsaiban]

i was gonna say it on the last post i rb'd but i think i'll say it here cus it really applies to alot of your other drawings lol but i loveeee how your art is so reminiscent of manga like not even just in art style but just SO much of it i cant name every specific part. compositions expressions, small tidbits above the panels sometimes, and also things like the 'extras' in your mycroft comic

ive read alot of manga LMAO and also alot of works inspired by manga but i dont think ive seen anyone capture that manga-esque quality in the same way you do (specifically reminds me of maybe 90s-2000s?? idk) but yeah one of my favourite things abt looking at your stuff <33

omg 😭💞💞 thats actually so interesting and funny that u mention 90s and early 00s manga specifically because rumiko takahashi's and clamp's works (cardcaptor sakura especially) + naruto had a HUGE influence on my art style and how i approach character interaction, comedic pacing and so on..... something i've also always loved including is characters "muttering under their breath" or commenting to themselves being presented at smaller text outside of the speech bubble containing the Actually Important dialogue (not sure if there is a proper term for it) and i feel like that's not something usually featured in western comics :o

(☝️like that) i just think it adds flavor and a bit of complexity to the character's dialogue even when the dialogue itself is relatively simple <3 and i LOOOVED reading the extras/omake at the end of each volume and especially when the mangaka would have their characters occasionally answer readers' questions in character, it was and still is absolutely charming to me..... i've done that like. maybe once here from what i remember but when i was a kid i really wanted to make a character ask blog (then got scared) so it's fun to include that stuff as a little tribute to young fel haha <33 thank uuuu 🥹🫶

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i finished watching phm blows up in your askbox

MY SPORE IS SPREADING ALL OVER!!!!!!!!!!

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should i watch project hail mary im c👀rious

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[loregoddess]

wait hi op of that dgs castlevania post here. do you have any sources saying that CV was a specific influence for nuri? (/gen) cus ive always suspected it (wine glass throw lol. and alot of barok's concepts looking either like a weird sephiroth-alucard fusion) but ive never found an official looking source that said it. i would love to see it lol ive been reading a few of nuri's interviews to find something like that

Okay, just spent a good ten minutes trying to find the source, because ten minutes ago I would have sworn I read somewhere that Nuri cited Castlevania as a source of inspiration and uh, while I didn't not read a line of text mentioning Castlevania in relation to DGS (Barok's wiki page, the trivia section, had a "his wine-throwing habits were likely inspired by Symphony of the Night" note, circa 2021, courtesy of the Wayback Machine, but this note did not have citation which is probably why it not longer exists in the trivia section on Barok's wiki page).

But insofar as I can tell, Nuri's only mentioned vampires (alongside werewolves and shinigami) as design inspirations (in an interview linked on the aforementioned wiki page, but also some of the text in the artbook mentions vampires, in the first paragraph at the bottom of page 72). So vampires yes--a definite inspiration. But it turns out I was misremembering Castlevania specifically being cited as a direct inspiration.

I guess I just made the assumption based on Barok's final design being so similar to Castlevania's Dracula design (or Ayami Kojima's designs for Dracula at least), and seeing Castlevania mentioned once on a wiki page that I saw...literally ages ago bc I haven't really been on the wiki to read articles in a good 3-4 years. It seems my memory just filed everything together into one non-existent "fact" for me to cite incorrectly, whoops.