i do a lot of silly stuff of these two but this is how i really see them. they get lots of super cute fanart and that's great cuz they deserve to be happy, but a big part of why i love them so much is their dark past, so i've been wanting to illustrate something like this for a long time. the silly stuff was just to get me over my fear of 'ruining' characters that mean so much to me with my art.
top image is a much brighter version, under the cut is the 'true' art which has blood so i figured i should have this warning.
also i am fully on board with the canon lore that anime wizardmon is made of cloth so would 'bleed' cotton if scratched like this, but i figure most people viewing this wouldn't know that and it would have been confusing/distracting so i did blood instead for artistic reasons.
just some of my favorite shots of wizardmon from the digimon xross wars manga. i did not like how he was drawn in the dreamers manga so i got nostalgic. note there may be spoilers and some stuff is out of order/cut to fit more wizard.
and the fun human tf sequence under the readmore cuz it's better with context but would make this an annoyingly long post
for the record i DID translate the digicode and it's actual nonsense. says something like 'my boss told me to write something cool here'
gotta love wizardmon's resting bitch face, especially in human form. man always looks bored/evil/annoyed but he's actually really cheerful xD
the full manga was scanlated by xros raws, and you can download it there.
i crave a very particular vibe of wizardmon art. i'm extremely fond of robert axelrod's voice acting for him in particular, and so i've always viewed him as a sort of wizened old man, but i don't feel like i see a lot of art that gives him the aged and worn look i'm thinking of. if anything he's usually made too tall, young, and even downright athletic looking despite being THE bookiest bookworm of all digimon.
i'm also super fond of the original japanese voice of gatomon, who sounds very mature and matches her war-torn and tragic past far better than the usual overly cutsey vibes she's given. i want to see her depicted in a more noble and reserved way, more of a warrior and less of a pet/stuffed animal.
i suppose i'll have to remedy this situation myself with more heavily stylized art of both of them... but who knows when i'll get to it T.T
their story told entirely through incorrect quotes i got from pinterest (one more; https://www.tumblr.com/alphagodith/728532659334184961/this-was-too-fun-so-i-did-more?source=share)
@peach-artblog remember when i asked you about wizard art you wanted to see but struggled to make yourself and you basically said 'furries'? well that made me think turn wizard into a furry and then THAT made me think wizgato fusion, and then memes happened and it turned into this. also i saw @daecus has their own wizgato fusion on artfight so i had to finish this so i could put mine on there too XD been sitting on the sketches for quite a while... >>; anywhere here they are; https://artfight.net/character/4457306.wizgato-fusionwiz
EEEEE I FINALLY HAVE MATCHING WIZGATO OTEDAMAS EEEEEE
(fun acquisition tale and bonus pic below)
okay so i started my wizardmon collection a year or two ago, and at the time there were no open listings for this rare stackable tsum-tsum loaf plushie/digi-digi otedama beanbag thing ANYWHERE. so i thought i was out of luck. i got the regular plushie of him but i was really bummed i missed out on this one cuz it's sooo cute.
then, just the other day, my friend @peach-artblog asked me if i had a certain golden gacha mini-figurine in my collection (i didn't but now i do), and that prompted me to go back to ebay again. and guess who finally had a listing! so i SLAMMED that buy button as hard and fast and recklessly as i possibly could.
but then i thought, surely there is a matching gatomon one of these, and it would be cruel to separate the two of them, so i went looking for her and ordered her too. but then i kept looking for other wizard things that might have popped up since the last time i searched, and i found a cheaper gatomon on another site, but i had to wait for the one i'd already ordered to let me cancel it, since it apparently had to be approved by the seller since it had been a few hours. (this is important because it resulted in wiz and gato being ordered several days apart)
then a few days after THAT, i discovered that a certain phone charm i had seen plenty of times before and thought was fan-made was actually official! so i HAD to have it for my collection too, of course, and when i went to order it (from a third website), it reminded me of a funky thing with my address that sometimes causes it to get input wrong. so i went back to the other things i had ordered to make sure that hadn't happened, and guess what? it HAD. specifically with the gatomon otedama. so i emailed that seller right away, and they got back to me within MINUTES. apparently they were JUST about to ship it out (a bit later than i had expected too), so it sure was a good thing i got that fixed when i did! and i ONLY caught it because i had been looking at this OTHER purchase. (so very narrowly avoided further delays on gatomon)
so i'm carefully watching the tracking for the wizardmon otedama because i've been wanting it for years, this is the only listing ANYWHERE within that timespan, and our local shipping center has been fumbling things lately so i'm VERY worried about it arriving safely. and then the worst happens. i get a notification that the package has been 'forwarded' due to incorrect handling/labeling. basically the post office screwed up and sent it to the wrong place and it's being sent back. i feel sick. i have my husband call the post office and the first lady he gets is very rude and unhelpful, then he tries again (bless his heart) a few hours later and THIS lady explains that the vague ass forwarding message just means that it's been slightly delayed but it IS still on its way to us, and not to some random wrong address or back to the seller. so we cross our fingers and wait. (so long story short, wizardmon otedama got delayed)
and today, on the expected delivery date for gatomon and and the last day for wizardmon to arrive without me freaking out super hard, the two of them miraculously arrived safely, and together, despite being ordered on different days from different sellers!
1. wizardmon and gatomon are a complete rainbow together. (wiz can actually be one by himself depending on how you choose to interpret his cape and skin)
2. art doesn’t have to be high-effort to bring people joy so maybe shitty doodles are okay to post
