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I like to think of the advertisement trailer as an episode 1.25 lol

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DR DEMIX V3, AKA: 214

Lineart Teasers, Part 1 - Kokichi, Himiko, Korekiyo, Angie, Shuichi, and Kaede

See Design Documents below: (Shuichi and Kaede text only for now)

Shuichi: Charcoal artist. Design subject to change. Wears his smock under his vest. He draws on his wrists and whole arm often. Prefers to use charcoal and pencils to draw with. Likes the absolute of black n white. Learning to use greys...

Kaede: Anthropologist with a strange expertise in studying kingdoms and dictatorships. Wears many trinkets from her adventures hanging out with kings and learning of how they and their subjects tick (peacock feather from minor Indian princedom, headscarf from the Former Kingdom of Novoselic, Sarong from Brunei, earrings from Oman)

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Hello! After all this effort, behold:

DANGANRONPA DEMIX, THH EDITION!

Dr Demix 2

Finally got the talentswap designs I have for the THH characters one and done with! You can click through the read more section for some fun design insights. I'm intending on uploading a doc containing short lore bits about them eventually.

Kyoko Kirigiri - Ultimate Affluent Progeny

So Kyoko's design was both kinda simple, kinda not, wanted to give her a very fine and regal kinda attitude to her but not arrogant as that's very much Byakuya's thing. Her story is that she loves her dad more than the family business and her grandpa so she abandons detective work and just uses her brain to help her dad out.

Makoto Naegi - Ultimate Novelist

Makoto is a wonderful guy, just great all around. He loves writing children's books and happy stories. This is his main coping mechanism so he doesn't have to process any negative emotions he gets, the rest he can't process… well they go into a murderous psychopath alter.

Aoi Asahina - Ultimate Lucky Student

Shoujo protagonist Aoi. Cute, headstrong, affective, competitive, these are all the traits that make her fight for her friends and clash with Kyoko (and more often than not Byakuya) in the killing game, even when all hope seems lost… she pushes through, unafraid to let tears spill from her eyes for all those lost, but pushing all the same.

Byakuya Togami - Ultimate Detective

This one, I wanna go into more lore territory, cause I kinda memed around his last desc I gave him so here goes:

"A disgraced heir of the Togami household, Byakuya lost the competition that would've secured his riches. Disdainful and bitter, he sought out to get to the bottom of why he lost, uncovering a rabbit hole in the process. By the end, he proved his sibling a cheater, but it didn't matter because by the end as he found the sweet satisfaction of uncovering secrets and crushing liars and cheaters under the weight of their hubris far more satisfying than any inheritance."

Sayaka Maizono - Ultimate Spirit Medium

So Sayaka isn't a clairvoyant at all like Yasuhiro, in fact her entire skillset is completely different, first of all she is like an actual psychic, and I based her design off of the japanese Itako, quite loosely. Very interesting group, look it up, also she'll never use these powers in the killing game because I dunno how to even approach these rituals or what they look like or how to write them while remaining respectful, so she won't do it in a killing game for the express reason of her not having the right tools available and not wanting to disrespect her traditions.

Leon Kuwata - Ultimate Swimmer

I really wanna draw him again, all these characters again tbh, and I wanna show off the patterns on his wetsuit. It's a whole coral reef under there, that anemone and clownfish bit is only one part of a whole reef stretching his midline.

Sakura Ogami - Ultimate Programmer

Sakura has installed chips into her body to help optimize her body processes and also cause why not. As for the muscles, she's an Assembly programmer, the programs she's made can run on calculators she loves it.

Chihiro Fujisaki - Ultimate Martial Artist

Chihiro's design here with the two belts is an explicit nod to his preferred martial art - Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, so unlike Sakura in canon who'd be easy to imagine cracking someone's skull in half with a chop, Chihiro's approach is more crawling onto someone and bringing them down to the floor with grappling like an angry halfling monk. As for the belts themselves, on his head is his final junior belt, while around his waist is his current belt, he's not a black belt yet because he's still too young for it.

Celestia Ludenberg - Ultimate Baseball Star

Celestia actually isn't a legend in this AU, Taeko is. Celestia hates that and wants to start a baseball career going international, whatever the hell that means is up to her own definition, but she wants to be remembered forever as Celestia, not Taeko. Also extra sentence, but this is the SINGLE hardest design I've ever had to deal with here, I think in the future I'll be drawing all her little accessories and I have an alt costume for her I have in mind.

Hifumi Yamada - Ultimate Pop Star

So I changed Hifumi's story as I originally outlined in the OG post with him. He was friends with Aoi all his life, pretty much his only friend at all, and ever since he was little he had an obsession with writing songs, because he was obsessed with stuff like anime openings and was content to just keep the songs to himself. It wasn't till Aoi convinced him to share some of his songs that he started his journey to success, but bc he's not traditionally attractive, his first hits were literally just… his voice being played over other more attractive singers and it wasn't until very very recently that he even performed a song of his for the first time.

Toko Fukawa - Ultimate Fanfic Writer

So while Hifumi was clearly a Doujinshi but due to weird translation, ended up as fanfic creator, Touko is straight up a FF then Wattpad then AO3 girl, who would get obsessed with this really shitty, tripe manga that she didn't even like reading. It did however have super hot dudes in it, so she wrote good stories of those characters when she got frustrated with the actual authorial content - which was always.

Yasuhiro Hagakure - Ultimate Gambler

Quite LITERALLY the never stop gambling meme personified into a guy. He can lose 3 mil on slot machines but always comes out fine because it means if he keeps gambling he'll eventually run into his 1/3 and win giga millions, what he needs to pay off his debts. It isn't just with luck though either because his personality and lack of intelligence or understanding of most the rules of the games he plays means he'll never react the way he should when getting a good hand in poker or a bad draw in blackjack, so he wins those games almost always through just… stupidity.

Mukuro Ikusaba - Ultimate Biker

She's number 16 in her gang, and is easily the most loyal enforcer and taskman of the gang. She does anything she's told, to a grim and disciplined degree not typical for hooligan bike gangers, she doesn't really desire a seat as top dog of the gang though, after all she's got school to worry about, and her sister.

Mondo Owada - Ultimate Warlord

So his relationship and Kiyotaka's is gonna be interesting, because I don't want him to be exactly like Mukuro at all, who was just sort of an all-obsessed Yandere. It's more like he's always chafing under Taka, who is less than friendly with him in this AU, really the main way he even lets Taka boss him around is because he pays incredibly well and helps keep his gang members from devolving back into the unstructured, chaotic criminal life, the same that took his brother years ago.

Oh and yeah, he still looks like Guile, as he should.

Sparkling Justice - Ultimate Killer Killer

Yeah it's a reference to Killer Killer, sue me I love the manga. He has Hajirahara's ahoge, and I thought it'd be cute to also give him a mask just like the other Makoto from a Kodaka game series (Raincode.) Also, while Genocide jack stuffs all her scissors in her skirt, Makoto keeps a truth gun with "truth bullets" as his main weapon, the gun he stores inside the big book in the chibi of just Makoto, and the bullets kept on his person as the red buttons all over his body, which he pulls out when he needs to reload.

"Kiyotaka Ishimaru" - Ultimate Fashionista

Unlike Mukuro and Junko, Mondo absolutely cannot hide the fact that he acts nothing like Kiyotaka, though this is surprisingly fine to everyone else, because unlike Junko who plastered herself onto literally everything, Mondo always obfuscated himself from the public spotlight, at most showing only his suits while he hid his face behind something conveniently placed. Which played primarily to his vision of an ultimate fashionista, who was above everyone and catered to the rich and powerful.

Junko Enoshima - Ultimate Moral Compass

This was a fun one, I decided to let her have her red hair because I believe it to be the "natural" look of her hair, while attaching little clips of dyed hair to her buns as a replacement to keep her shape sorta and keep the strawberry blonde somwehere on her. Understand that while she is the "moral compass" she is still pretty deranged, and the only reason she focuses so much on keeping everyone on their best behavior is because it's endlessly entertaining to her to make her fellow moral committee members upset when she blatantly makes a mockery of the rules while still keeping kids on their best behavior to make a point.

Kiyotaka Ishimaru - Ultimate Fashionista and Tyrant, the Iron Hand of Despair

Taka's design I wanted to sort of focus on this sort of, holier-than-thou idea, where I wanted to make him look a lot fancier and upper-class than Junko does in his standard highschool fit compared to him. I wanted him to have an upper-crust sort of look

If you're reading this after reading this all, thanks! You're a wonderful person :) Signing off...

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Hey y'all! Hope you're having a grand night/afternoon wherever you are. This is the last set of lineart teasers for the individual Danganronpa students for the meantime. Because this month is Art Fight, the ETA for the full lined chibis should be around mid-late August, with some little extras sprinkled in between.

Either way, hope you've enjoy these designs for Maki, Kaito, Kibo, and Miu despite their lack of detail for now. These designs are ones that were really fun for me to design, and might have been the most fun overall quartet (octet?) to design and draw because the design inspo just fed naturally as I sketched each of them.

Either way, this is the last bit from the DEMIX project for the meanwhile, see you all in a month when I have the full set ready :)

See below for design explanations, anyway I hope you all enjoy.

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Some AU Tails and Cream

In the hectic world without Sonic, and struggling with Eggman's petulant heirs and pretenders, Tails and Cream always have eachother to lean on. Childhood sweethearts who never run out of things to talk about. And luckily for Tails, he can fly, So Cream never has to kneel down to give him a smooch

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Lined a bunch of doodles I made last week

Doodle explanations under the cut

Drawing Sonic is really hard so I just tend to smallify him

This song kept coming on while I was drawing, so I couldn't help but imagine Surge as a little waitress before she was abducted and cyborgified

Shadow is really cool

Drawing electricidad is hard

Hedgehogs tend to run circles around their preferred mate, but I don't think a Tenrec would quite get that

If I had the talent, I'd reanimate the entire Powder and Ekko dance with these 2

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Been feeling super nerdy recently, been kinda tuned into both sonic and old superman cartoons at the same time

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This week's set of Danganronpa Demix designs :) we're only like 2 parts left from me really refining these bad boys and getting the full set out in hopefully no more than a month's time. These guys were complex, but quite fun to draw. Tsumugi's my favorite out of this set.

No Design documentation today, but my goal is to finish it by Wednesday this coming week. For now, have some few sentence blurbs for each of them.

Gonta - Raised by lions, the inherent wildness of being raised in the savannah was tempered by respect of a distinct hierarchy. Wants to become a butler, as his want to become a gentleman never disappeared, translating into more of a gentleman servant than a gentleman bug catcher.

Tsumugi - Obsessed with tennis anime as a kid and young teenager, managed to copy straight-up anime moves at some point. Anime moves that caused injuries and at one point... well, she was in the clink for a reason... a couple of reasons actually.

Rantaro - Flashy illusionist and escape artist whose costumes are designed by committee: a committee of the man's sisters! Sisters who want to see their dear brother pick up a girlfriend already. So they gave him a 2000s-era criss angel-type getup.

Tenko - Totally grim and capital E-vil leader of her master's old dojo, an organization led by herself, and helmed by the lost and abandoned of society. Hurt souls she has trained to become a personal army, and weird women's support and self-defense dojo that's pretty effective, if you can look past Tenko's insanity and schemes.

Ryoma - Little freaky, funny guy, once a legend in the cosplay scene, and now out of retirement. Ryoma has an unmatched skill for portraying funny little creatures, but when push comes to shove, he has a pair of stilts he uses to cosplay as the bigger folk. Not that it's any trouble for him.

Kirumi - Goth lady with a pronounced love of spiders. While working as a maid part-time, Kirumi was tasked with cleaning out a particularly horrifying shed for a rich client that had become a spider's den. With her usual brand of selfless devotion, she steeled herself before facing the horrors of - what ended up becoming - a multi-day arachnid affair. By the end of it, she came out of the experience knowing a lot more of spiders than maybe any human being on the planet and a new, peculiar, special interest.