Day 6 of Inktober... Another one bites the dust! bum bum bum
Once again, I’m using @slylock-syl‘s Inktober Template which can be found here.
Today’s theme was “Monster” which is by far the most vague daily theme when you’re drawing everything based on a game whose cast is mostly made up of monsters. I decided to flip the script this time, much as Undertale likes to do, so Frisk or more accurately the Player became our monster for today’s piece. I’ll be honest, this one was the one that stumped me the most and I wasn’t really attached to it any way like the last 5. However, as I came closer to finishing, I got over my apprehension and saw how well the piece was turning out, putting on some finishing touches. Definitely not my best piece, but certainly not bad by any means. See you all tomorrow for Day 7 of Inktober!
-Zane
P.S will reblog later with a link to a speed paint I recorded.
THE NONKINAVERSE AND YOU - CHAPTER 5 - Diamond Star, New Yor-Kyu: The Hub of Nonkina Ace
In the Inoki mountain range of Upstate New Yor-Kyu, there’s a Diamond of a town hidden in the trees...Diamond Star County, New Yor-Kyu...Come up for a visit today!
-1980′s Diamond Star tourism campaign slogan
Every great story has to have a proper setting. Cromartie High School is set at the titular school, Diamond Is Unbreakable has Morioh and so on.
Nonkina Ace has Diamond Star County, located in upstate New Yor-Kyu.
Established in 18XX4 (1820, will explain the funky numbering later), Diamond Star was a mining town founded by European and Japanese settlers who heard rumors of Diamonds strewn across the plains of the then Eastern United States.
They never found diamonds nor gold, but what they did find was friendship and community, and the mining town became a village before becoming a full blown-county somewhere down the line.
Nowadays, Diamond Star is your ‘average’ ‘quiet’ mountain town where absolutely nothing weird or crazy will happen...GET IT??? THE JOKE IS WEIRD STUFF WILL HAPPEN.
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Diamond Star is made of up 5 townships and a three borough city which I’ve outlined in the second map.
The red area is Ooburi, a quiet little nook outside of the Mid and Downtown of Diamond Star City. Lots of residential and smaller businesses here. It’s also where Ace and Johnny live, and their school, Ooburi Memorial High, isn’t too far off either!
Then we have Otono in the bright yellow. More or less another Ooburi, but it’s rumored that a famous comic strip artist has his secret mansion out in the Southern most edge of town.
Above Otono in the orange is the beach-side village of Aki Bay. Aki Bay Beach is famous for it’s beautiful view and crystal clear water, and the Hermit’s House on the Eastern-most edge.
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Legend says that a man and woman lived in that house during the mining days of Diamond Star’s history. The lovers were runaways from Japan, forbidden lovers caught in the middle of a family war.
Together they lived their happy lives in peace~ But that was until the woman had to sail back to Japan for reasons she kept secret.
The man waited and waited for his wife’s return, rarely leaving the house he had built, growing older and older, sadder and sadder...
The house still stands today as a tourist spot for young couples to explore.
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Now we’re getting into Diamond Star City’s Downtown in the dark purple. It’s your basic Downtown situation: Lots of big business and what not going on. It’s also home to Sue K. and the all girls school she attends, St. Reiko’s, as well as the general Downtown High School.
In the green is Little Italy (which is technically apart of Downtown, but whatever. This is where Dave is at, as well his folk’s restaurant.
In the lighter purple is Midtown, and this is whee more of the fun stuff is. You’ve got plenty of shops and entertainment venues, bars and Game Centers. And you can’t talk about Midtown Diamond Star without mentioning the Diamond Star Coliseum, were sporting events of all kinds go down.
Midtown is also home to Toshiki Technical High School where Johnny used to attend before transfering over to Ooburi so he can challenge Ace, as well as an infamous landmark, The Unfinished.
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Built right before the Great Depression, The Unfinished was to be the largest man made building for it’s time, double that of the Bank of Manhattan Trust Building.
It was to house multiple businesses and 10 different types of sporting arenas.
However the budget was way too big and ended up hurting the city in the long-run. Once the Depression kicked in, project was scrapped, with only the first two levels built, and the supports for what would have been the third floor exposed forever.
It now stands as a reminder of the city’s once dangerous spending in a time of utter turmoil and despair.
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Then we’re in Uptown in the pink. This is where a lot of the hotels and such for tourists are, as well as the famous/infamous depending on who you ask, Edamichi’s Bayside Casino! Rumor has it that the owner, Edamichi Sakamoto, is secretly a Yakuza boss who’s using the Casino as a front to smuggle drugs and other goods across the County.
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“BUT THAT’S JUST RUMORS, AND NOTHING’S EVER BEEN PROVEN IN A COURT OF LAW~!!” said the nervously sweating ‘Legitimate’ Businessman.
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In the light blue above Uptown is the Toki township, which is more of the same with Ooburi and Otono. Quiet, but with a bustling artscene if you know where to look.
And then finally off to the side of Midtown Diamond Star is Noda, the smaller of the villages that ends at the base of Mt. Inoki, where if one knows the way, they can find Jigu-Jo’s secret dojo~
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Any questions about Diamond Star? You know where to ask em~
i literally made this post just cuz i finally regained access to my account after being locked out of it for a month or even more i lost count at some point TvT I'm really so happy for getting this hell site back on my taps again 😭
