#cusu-cusu

[posthumanwanderings]

[Dance Summit 2001 model viewer] thanks @juliternity for their info about it!

[ewicomkicks2point0]

Oh Cindy… I’ve missed you so much…

I wouldn’t describe my current state as “in an art block” but I definitely feel stifled in some ways. Something [or, someones, harhar] that makes me feel a little better are my Lord and Saviours, Cusu-Cusu. Lately, I have been drawing nonstop and quite frankly ridden with inspiration but my stupid perfectionism and depression won’t let me finish anything or even be in the mood to. However, those four wonderful ladies bring me so much consistent comfort that even if a drawing is a simple sketch, I may be so inclined to actually finish it. Which is still something I struggle with but Hey ! Look ! This one’s finished and it looks great !! SHE looks great. And it only took me just over 2 hours so I don’t have much of a reason to not do these kinds of drawings all the time.

Sorry not sorry to all the muppet fans that have really made themselves comfortable here again, I know I only post whenever I have a drawing to show but muppets are still fucking hard to draw so you’re going to have to accept this QUEEN. If you want anything muppet-y from me, you’re gonna have to send me an ask or something…. [actually no, send me asks about dolls instead [I collect them [dolls are my biggest interest so ask me things about dolls [not muppets [just kidding you can do whatever you want]]]]]

[lordcusu-cusu]

Unfinished drawings from 2023 and early 2024

I’ve been extremely depressed recently and I’m not getting better, drawings have stagnated because of that, so in the meantime, take some unfinished Cusu-Cusu drawings that I don’t care about or like enough to post on my main account.

This one of Cindy is actually quite nice ! I might redraw it because I changed the colours at the last moment and that really pulled it all together for me. I’ve always liked this one despite how different my artstyle has become [I do not want to go back], but I just never found a reason to post it. Until now, I suppose. All my appreciation for this drawing depletes when I look at the stone ring she’s lifting. I rightfully didn’t want to put any effort into it but despite this whole piece already being quite simple, it does kinda ruin it.

This was a Halloween drawing that I never really planned to post on any upcoming Halloweens at the time, just whenever it was finished, but I lost interest so I never finished it at all due to multiple factors. Sahara is the only one that really works, therefore she’s the only one I started to colour and I should really finish her up and turn her into a solo drawing because she still looks great. Cindy is a vampire with a wooden stake stabbed in her head from where her flower would usually be [I still think that’s a clever idea]. Kei is a ghost, a wee banshee like, I’ve always associated her with flow-y and gloomier aesthetics but it just didn’t really look like Kei, same with Cindy. Me is equally as generic. She’s a zombie, wearing a hoodie/poncho thing over a dress, all very tattered, worn out and covered in all kinds of muck and blood, with one of her horns broken in half. I quite like what I pictured her design to be, second to Saharas, but it doesn’t work well as a drawing, it would’ve looked too flat and boring but putting her in the far back didn’t fix that. Apart from Sahara, I’ll definitely try to come up with something else for the other three at some point. The main issue was that they didn’t follow the same design principles as their original designs, it was just gonna be a straight up black dress for Cindy and a white one for Kei. How boring.

This is an example of having a really specific image, colour scheme and composition in mind, but my artstyle not fitting it yet. This, objectively, looks fine, but I don’t draw like this anymore and I don’t want to. We may not know what Kei’s face looks like but this definitely doesn’t look like what I’ve always pictured in my head [and drawing what I pictured right has taken me some years, even though I still haven’t mastered it yet]. Anyway, at least this piece perfectly encapsulates the colours that I associate with her.

This Sahara one is boring and I abandoned it very quickly. She was gonna be holding one or more of the parrots that show up in the Jungle Rock stage and vines, flowers and other fauna were going to wrap around and frame her perfectly but ugggghhhh I didn’t want to do any of that. Her face is still cute but I really really didn’t like drawing like that anymore and was desperate for change. Somebody else should’ve drawn this.

I have been drawing Cusu-Cusu occasionally up until now, although I really need to hone in on how I want to draw them. Making things more realistic and gothic, really working with composition and solid dark colours is very important to me. But so are they. I’ve always struggled drawing all four of them, and what’s worse is that I want every finished drawing of them to be perfect. I know I don’t have to prove anything, not to you or myself or even Lord Cusu-Cusu, I just really want to make an art piece in general that perfectly matches what’s in my brain. It’s hard, I don’t know when I’ll be able to get back into trying, but I will at some point. Thank you for reading !!

[ewicomkicks]

Cusu-Cusu as Discos Estrus

I've thought about this concept for a long time now- a team dressing up as a different team. But specifically team A as team B, team B as team C and team C as team A. Not just a one to one switch. But Cusu-Cusu as Discos Estrus is all I can think of, which is the least surprising thing ever. Like this is the most ewicomkicks thing, I can't believe I hadn't drawn this sooner.

Also their shoes are exactly how I imagine what their shoes look like, Dragon's might be a bit shorter but Micro's are totally knee-high you cannot tell me otherwise.

Also, also.... Me and Kei....... that's it.

[queenshighschool]

Dance Summit 2001 - Team Select

[juliternity]

So I was researching DS2001 to see if I can find any more info on YouTube, Pinterest, etc, but I noticed how people have mixed reactions on Cusu-Cusu, some people are positive about the team and giving them compliments such as calling them the embodiment of the Y2K Style and the negative side seem to find them controversial and stereotypical hence the theme of the team with someone even saying that their glad twitter hasn't come across it yet.

[ewicomkicks2point0]

Me with a cowboy hat… save me..

Me with a cowboy hat…

Save me Me with a cowboy hat…

[ewicomkicks2point0]

Me and Kei my lovessss

I sometimes forget that we know completely nothing about Kei and Me. I’ve made up so much of what I think they’re like that when I try to look for any proof that my headcannons are right, I remember ‘oh shit, yeah ! We know fuck all !!’. Me and Kei are nothing outside of their curse, I doubt that the designers even had a concept of what their faces would look like when they were being designed. Because they aren’t mean to have faces, in the sense that the reason that they exist as characters is to be cursed. Obviously they have faces in the DS2001 universe and the writers want that to matter to us but as players observing fictional characters, the curse just feels so empty. Did they want fans to theorise? Are the connections to Capoeira intentional? I truly don’t know… People never really draw Me and Kei and it’s either because their masks and horns are hard to draw or they just don’t care about them. And I 100% believe it’s the latter. In fact I know it is. I know it’s partially my fault because I have a really hard time actually posting my drawings but trust me when I say that I’ve completely lost count how many times I’ve drawn them despite archiving all my Cusu-Cusu drawings in a designated folder. My point is; if someone doesn’t like certain characters as much as I do, great! I honestly think that Cindy’s description is a bit boring, but I just can’t accept that when it comes to Me and Kei. I know the writers didn’t give us much but I just need people to actually think about these too for a second. They don’t deserve to only be cursed. The whole reason we see Cusu-Cusu is to help Me and Kei get rid of the curse. I mean, none of their endings are good. The majority of the characters in DS2001 just want to use the Groovetron for harmlessly selfish reasons. Some save the world but some just want to eat some fucking garlic steak. This team just aren’t allowed any peace it seems. BUT THEY DESERVE IT!!!!!!! But as I reach the end, I remember that actually don’t want an uproar of Me and Kei fanart because I still like being the only Cusu-Cusu fan…. Anyway, I love you Me and Kei !!!!!!!!