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Twelve by Twelve Fusion Collab

Here's the art I made for SiIvaGunner's Twelve byt Twelve Fusion Collab.

Laivan Ferroo in Pokémon RSE

Albion Shukra in Pizza Tower

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Todays rip: 05/02/2024

Epic Rap Battles of History: Funny vs. Funnier

Season 5 Featured on: Rips From Around The Way 7 (Hidden Track)

Ripped by DonnieTheGuy Visuals by moralem, Blookerstein, PsychLantern, Myeauxyoozi

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Requested by crickep! (Discord)

Yknow, for as much as I like to go on and on about Season 2 being my favorite period of the channel's life - it may honestly just be due to my own personal investment being at its highest at that point. Its a herculean, damn near impossible task nowadays to actually try and critically evaluate a season of SiIvaGunner in retrospect, and most of what I go off of obviously just comes from my own experiences and memories. It goes to reason, then, that Season 5 is my least favorite season of the channel not necessarily due to any fault of its own, but just due to my own personal investment in the channel being rather low at the time. I say that, because with every rip I cover from the Season - now including Epic Rap Battles of History: Funny vs. Funnier - I'm baffled as to why I'd ever consider the season anything less than peak.

When I have that discussion with other people (or just with the voices in my head), the reasons tend to primarily boil down to a lack of lore developments made during the year. Yet as I talked about way back in Knowledge of the Depths, even that feels like doing the Season a disservice, given just how enjoyable and, in a way, lore-crucial the audio dramas made during Season 4 Episode 2 and Season 5 wound up becoming. Which again makes me point toward my own lack of attentiveness toward the Season as the one to blame: because how else could I have missed out on how genuinely engaging and interesting the lore regarding Lady, Yankin', Masked Wolf and Astronaut in the Ocean was? And as the cherry on top - how could I have missed just how perfect of an ending to it all Epic Rap Battles of History: Funny vs. Funnier wound up being?

I've dissected and talked about Masked Wolf before in Aquarium in the Ocean and Snow halocean, as the figment who best fits the role of a true anti-hero within SiIvaGunner - an agent of chaos whose rips only occasionally bother to actually sound good, yet one we wound up loving despite (or because of!) it all. Yet as Season 5 began to truly ramp up, his role seemed to change from agent of chaos to necessary evil - as the only remaining figment capable of stopping the reign of hell that Lady's "Yankover" was subjecting us all to. No doubt SiIva has had its contentious, long-lasting takeovers before (Harlem Shakeover and Totally Shaaking Out Right Now, anyone?), yet nothing truly compared to the neverending downpour of hellfire cast upon us by one particularly crass rapper singing about her genitalia. And for once, it seemed as if the SiIvaGunner team agreed - Lady became, for all intents and purposes, the actual villain of Season 5, with her figment form reimagined as a full-on demon in need of imprisonment. And small nuggets of lore were being handed out week by week (nuggets that I, again, unfortunately glazed over back in the day), Lady's defeat wound up happening at the hands of HoBART, everyone's favorite mixer from the King for Another Day Tournament. Yet to me, Epic Rap Battles of History: Funny vs. Funnier still sits at the most pure, befitting end to her reign - a battle between the Season's fallen angel and its lawless demon, set to the tune of a game whose entire hype cycle practically enveloped Season 5 in its entirety.

Back in Satinpanties Symphony, I mused over how Friday Night Funkin became a mainstay feature on SiIvaGunner almost overnight, and how it feels as if the two projects share a lot of DNA that make them a perfect fit for one another, in how they handle the idea of legacy. What better game, then, could there be to depict the encounter between these two legends that defined the season, than with the game that defined the year - coincidentally, one entirely focused on duels between rappers. That's not to imply that Epic Rap Battles of History: Funny vs. Funnier isn't an absolute banger on its own - the melodic core of Ugh, paired with the implementation of both Astronaut in the Ocean and Yankin's backings into the back-and-fourth, creates a fantastic re-imagining of the song that's both endlessly relistenable and incredibly charming with the custom visuals. Yet its the same point I made in Take You To The Desert - with all that context in mind of all that led up to this battle, the knowledge of how much the community suffered under the thumb of both rappers yet came to understand one for his harmless-if-strange tendencies yet came to loathe the other...Epic Rap Battles of History: Funny vs. Funnier becomes something genuinely legendary. Paired with so many small flourishes added on top, such as the original track's "Ugh" sample being replaced with Masked Wolf's opening "Astro", the reference to Lady's attempted Thanksgiving resurrection ritual in Twerkey (seriously), down to Lady being positioned as the player character to truly sell home how dominant she was during her reign...It feels like yet another one of those, for lack of another word, Perfect, rips.

The cherry on top of it all though is, of course, the ending. Despite the seemingly even back-and-forth in the battle, Lady is suddenly dragged back into the pits of hell, as Masked Wolf leaves her with his parting words.

I believe in G-O-D, don't believe in T-H-O-T.

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Cassandra!

Lil' art trade thing for @athenamite.

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Drinkin' (June of 2024 Remake)

Just Camille enjoying a drink.

This piece is a remake of an artwork I made in late 2020 (which I placed belowfor comparison). Really happy with how it turned out!

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HEMI

Hey uhh... sorry for not posting here too often. Hope you all don't mind the big post spam I had to do to catach up.

Anyway, have this new oc.

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Brumhilde!

Secret Santa I drew last year for r33d (on Bluesky).

Hadn't done any full pixelart like this in a while, I should try it more.

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Truegreen7 Contest Entries

A couple of month ago, I entered a contest held by Truegreen7to design volutions for 2 different Pokémon of his. These were my entries!

The First one of them here is Odonterror!

This one actually got 27th place on the contest! Ron said I could have made the tail more fantastical and, looking back, yeah I can see that. I guess I was just really afraid of overcomplicating it.

I actually got the thresher spark inspiratin right for it! Though the first thing I thought of when I saw the original Bluffin design was a false cleanerfish. They don't look much alike but I got reminded of it mostly because of its whole concept (a dangerous fish that pretends to be another)

Since the fish the false cleanerfish pretends to be usually cleans other fish's teeth, I decded to mix in the evil dentist trope. The drilll nose, glove hands, "glasses" and "buttons" on the fake fish head and face mask mouths all came from there.

Also for fun, here are some imagesI had conceptualizing Odonterror. I didn't know what its pre-evo was precisely based on so I just named it Toothpyke (toothpick + pike) since it worked with Odonterror's name (odontology + terror).

The other one is Hazpurt!

This one didn't make it to top 50 and I can definitely see why. Admittedly it was pretty rushed and I would tweak the proportions a bit. Overall though, I still like it. Big fan of the palette I used.

I actually got a gut instinct telling me the original design (Numblanc) was some sort of marsupial. I looked it up and it turns out I was right! It's based on a numbat (also known as walpurti), a small marsupial that eats bugs.

The numbat also has some scent glands that allow it to mark its territory. This capacity of releasing substances coupled with the insectivore diet gave me the idea to mix in elements of a pest exterminator. Adding a bit of plague doctor in it felt fitting too since the numbat has a long snout.

Unfortunately, I didn't have much time to conecptualize this one so I don't have images like the ones I had for Odonterror.

Since the names weren't revealed when the designs were released to the public, I nicknamed the unevolved form "Pawpurt" (paw + walpurt) since it had large front paws. Also, Hazpurt's name comes from "hazmat", "walpurti" and "spurt".

Well, this was a fun experience for sure. I think biggest takeaway from all of this is that I could definitely try to play a bit wilder with Pokémon designs (and maybe just design more Pokémon in general lol).

Thanks once again to Ron for hosting this contest and I hope you all liked those two!

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Hissa Redesign

I FINALLY FINISHED ART AGAIN GRAAHHHH!!!

Also first time using CSP.