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[deadwooddross]

A little doodle of Garum, as I revisit their original design as an extremely large mummy faced Sphinx thing

They’re quite old, and the same species as Umami

[the-punforgiven]

Dungeon Meshi is extremely, extremely, extremely good, and the first episode hasn't missed a beat. Anime bullshit is nil. Fighterman is indeed autistic and the early narrative is largely him finally getting to explore a special interest he's been told not to talk about for years. And as far as horny goes... honestly there is DEFINITELY a horny undercurrent but in a "earnest undercurrent of eroticism" kind of way as opposed to a "KYAAAA~" kind of way. Tastefully horny, with the only character to ever get upskirts being Senshi the Dwarf, as one very clear example.

And, all of this is happening in a story that is written to be at once full on laugh out loud funny, but built on a framework that betrays an obsessive worldbuilder's long term fascination with ecology and cuisine filtered through the lens of D&D fantasy. Action is really good, characters are each fantastic in their own way, overarching narrative is super interesting- honestly, I can't recommend it enough. As you say, now that the anime is a thing, I'd say you have nothing to lose and everything to gain by giving it a shot. If it's not for you that's all good, but I think you're a lot more likely to love it than to not.

Alright hella, I'm sold lol

[deadwooddross]

Did some doodling today…mostly playing around with palettes and trying to nail down Abby’s overall design a little better. I think they’re perpetually wet like ish, but to a slightly lesser degree. More “freshly showered” and less “walking slip hazard”.

Still figuring out what all their whole deal is but everyone here is a hot mess one way or another, I know that much

[deadwooddross]

I'm trying to post more often! Both here, and stuff in progress on Patreon, bc I realized I am constantly working on something anyway and there's lots of stuff just hiding in sketchbooks forever otherwise SO!! I have no plans to paywall any finished stuff, but if you're interested in a never-ending stream of whatever the hell I'm doodling that day, it shall now be chucked into my $2 tier, over here Here's a little sliver of an Umami piece I'm picking at, having a normal one

[deadwooddross]

I was picking through old sketchbooks and it seems a shame that I only have 3 pages of Public Umami when I must have Hundred(s?) of pages of her elsewhere...so...here’s some select picks of some Oooolder art! Back before I really figured out her shape, and also she was a shapeshifter...She can’t really do that anymore*, but as per her sort of baseline/dubiously Canon setting she’s a thing I just call a tonsil beast- Huge spongy whale things who guard giant VR servers in the icy oceans of...Somewhere. As you can see, she’s pretty people shaped! What an oddball, better leave her with the people shaped locals *She does have dramatic shifts in weight based on how she’s doing tho, so that kinda counts right

[deadwooddross]

Hey Grendel? Buddy? What the hell does that mean???

A little doodle I painted over while listening to their playlist, which I think Sounds precisely like the slow motion full-body meltdown they’re having

And also because I just really liked this face

[deadwooddross]

I don’t know that I’ve ever actually posted these anywhere…have some tonsilbeasts!

Their bodies are fairly malleable and can shift around a lot, but usually they’re aquatic entities in a big icy ocean.

This is also what Umami is, she just came out bizarrely human shaped and not very shifty. That happens sometimes, you leave those ones with the locals.

She has their eyes tho! Kinda!

[deadwooddross]

I felt the mood strike and found myself drawing my favorite little mud family actually Next to eachother for once. Maybe not Exactly proportional but you get the gist, I’ll have to work on the clothes because “Puritan Cowboy” requires more reference than i presently have (patience for)... also Ish is buff now, have I mentioned she’s a little hunky now, PATREON