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[marrickan]

SMASH is this weekend 19-20/august!!! I’ll be with @madi-karp-draws at table #100 in the artist alley, swing on by and pick up some good good merch :3ccc!!!

see you guys then!!! lets have an amazing weekend hehehe

[marrickan]

What items are going to be restocked in your store?

I’ll be restocking most of my P5 date keyrings + monabus, some other misc keyrings and charms, my out of stock stickers, and possibly throwing in some new miniprints up on my store!

apologies for the delay as I’ve been hellishly busy with uni and work and life, but I hope to update my store in a week!

I doubt I’ll restock my P5 pego washi tape this year, sorry >< it’s an expensive process and I won’t have time to run any big reprint orders for a few months TTT

[marrickan]

Hi there! I came across your blog today and I really truly love your art veeery much :'))) for an aspiring artists myself, do you have any art tips? I'm struggling with drawing figures/poses/proportions and my imagination is limited Orz oshietekudasai sensei!

thank you kindly! i’m still learning a lot tbh so i might not be able to give the most cohesive advice.

the main thing i keep in mind is how i can simplify the figure into just 3D blocks and planes. these are some pages from one of andrew loomis’ figure drawing books which i find is pretty helpful explaining in what i mean.

dont overcomplicate, these blocks just form the basic framework to hang your persons skin and clothes on!! tracing these shapes over anatomical figures or musculature diagrams can often help with proportion too.

additionally, theres no shame in using photo references to understand how poses can work. these are just a few stock images i found, and i did some simplified figures next to them. 

everyone struggles whether they’ve been drawing for 10 years or are only starting out, but really the best way is just to keep practicing and doing lots of studies so you understand how the human figure can move and pose. nothing beats hard work and practice so i hope this helps somewhat and good luck!

[marrickan]

it’s been years since I last updated my store buT HERE IT IS there’s limited leftover con stock so grab it while you can!!

after the 27th I’ll be closing my tictail for like a month!!! any possible preorders will open around late-july/early-august. thanks for all the support!!

check out my store ^o^

[marrickan]

your art and blog has made me want to get into persona!! can you give me a gist of what it is and what it's about please to get me started?

WOAH I’m really happy to hear that! The Persona series are all modern day JRPGs, and are generally about a team of sorta outcast schoolkids that team up to confront otherworldly beings influenced by mythologies and psychology. Thematically, the games are always about exploring the human subconscious and psyche, with the characters discovering their true selves along the way ^__^^^ Also there’s usually a fair amount of tragedy and angst making up the backstory of a lot of characters.

I’ve only finished P3/4/5 and those games are generally the most accessible for newcomers to the series, being downloadable on PS3 and PS4. (here’s the openings for Persona 3, Persona 4, Persona 5 haha)

In terms of portability, P3P (the adaptation of the original P3 including a female protagonist!!) and P4G (a port of the original P4 along with new social links, characters, and events) are both available on PS vita.

Persona 1 and 2 are also available for download on PSP/PS Vita, and have more of a classic RPG feel. I really do recommend checking those out too, even if just as an LP, because their stories are incredibly amazing and tragic and heartfelt!!!

BASICALLY:

There’s a few gameplay elements that are iconic to the Persona series!! First is the appearance of personas, which are beings manifested from a person’s psyche, and will help you on your journey throughout the game both in combat and in your day-to-day interactions!! 

The second is the social link system, which was introduced in Persona 3, and is a character interaction element that lets you explore peoples stories in order to help with the growth of personas. And, of course, you can date your social links (although they are het gender locked haha persona Please Let Me Date The Same Sex).

The third is the duality between your every day life and your dungeon grinding!!! With the introduction of P3 came a calender system that helped you keep track of school and events, and dungeon-related aspects, and that continued on with P4/5. A major part of the games is having a balance between these two parts, and P5 really reinforces the whole normal life and hidden secret lifestyle.

Other things that deserve mention is now absolutely amazing the soundtracks are for the games, and how NUTS the gameplay bosses can be, you can play on any difficulty and and a single mistake could really mess up your combat strategies!!! The games have always been so stylish and aesthetically pleasing and have amazing characters!!

Sorry for this whole mess of a reply!!!!!! There’s A Lot to the Persona series and it can be quite difficult to summarise essentially some 500 hrs of gameplay. BUT I HOPE this gives you some insight and I hope you check out the series!!!

[marrickan]

hey, I stumbled upon your post about charms and wanted to ask, how do you exactly convert/work with your drawing so it's in cmyk? could you please explain how you do it and don't lose the colors you got in normal rgb mode?

I am honestly not that knowledgeable about RGB to CMYK conversion, I primarily use SAI then convert to CMYK in photoshop, and one workaround that usually somewhat helps when I’m in photoshop is messing with the curves to make adjustments to tone and colours.

But anyway you should always be prepared for your colours to be desaturated slightly especially if you are using blues and greens. It’s generally unavoidable that you will lose certain colours because you are changing from between two different colour spaces haha….I hope this helps somewhat!

[marrickan]

HEWO like many others in response to that great tunglr ban update, I’ll most likely be hopping off this site. my page will still exist, as I prefer to keep some kind of archive, but the chances of me trying to regularly maintain this blog is Very Low.

you can find me on twitter and instagram for art, merch, and other media updates. 

thank you all for your kindness, patience, and support over the years, and hope to rebuild with everyone elsewhere in the future!

[marrickan]

Do you plan to restock the MONABUS charm at any point?

yes, I’m waiting on some keyring restocks and they should be up on my store again around mid-october! thank you for your interest ^_^

other things being restocked are a few pego charms, stickers and also some miniprints (maybe) so keep an eye out!

I’m glad it arrived safely, thank you so much for your patience and for your support! those boys are are in good hands now hehe