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NNSG HEADCANON DUMP

Reccomended to watch NNSG before reading all of these, the whole show is on YouTube

Note: these follow my NNSG AU, which I'll want to turn into a comic and post (where the Bakuneko brings Raku-chan back to life)

Ships: Koraku (Koneko-chan x Raku-chan), Vetce (Vet-sama x Dolce-chan), Bokoshi (Bokutachi-san x Hitoshi-san)

Raku-chan:

- 26, second youngest of the group

- Extroverted and loves going on runs with Dolce-chan

- Plus-sized due to genetics

- Loves salty foods, especially those citric acid coated sweets

- Actually Welsh but moved to Japan for an exchange student program in high-school

- Bisexual as hell

- Met Dolce-chan who then introduced her to Koneko-chan

- Wears jeans on cooler days

- Practices tennis with Koneko-chan (they're doubles partners)

- Loves playing volleyball when they go to the beach, also wears a proper swimsuit because bikinis are uncomfortable for her

- Egg of choice is fried

Koneko-chan:

- 29, often gets told by people that she seems older due to how mature she is

- Wears a coffee and rose perfume

- Almost always wearing long skirts and jumpers to cover her arms and legs

- A total romantic and artist

- Has a designated art studio in her house, full of easels, canvases and various paints (her favourite is gouache and she experiments a lot with texture)

- Friends with a lot of models, mostly does paintings of people in surreal environments

- Has done some model work for students at an art school, and has a permanent (but rotating) art exhibition at the school where she'll visit to talk about her works

- Transgirl!! Been on estrogen for about 6 years

- In lesbians with Raku-chan

- Been BFFs with Raku-chan for 10 years, would usually go wherever Raku-chan suggested

- Winner of the Sato-Sudoku Championship five years in a row (banned from most sport tournaments due to being transgender)

- Egg of choice is hard boiled

Dolce-chan:

- 28, gets told she looks really young because of her glowing radiant aura

- Sporty, usually just wears shorts and tank tops or sports bras

- Very in-tune with her feminine side, will wear skirts to formal events

- Studied veterinary science, Vet-sama's apprentice

- Mostly does the paperwork, accounting and surgeries

- Cisgender but got top surgery (who do you think gave Koneko-chan hers)

- Owns the house she and Koneko-chan live in together (inherited from her aunt)

- Has an older sister who lives in Thailand (also a surgeon but for people)

- Very well known and extroverted, somewhat of a celebrity in their town

- Walks all the neighbourhood dogs (she has more energy than all of them so is loved by the dog owners for her ability to tire them out)

- Egg of choice is scrambled

Vet-sama:

- 31, oldest of the group

- Usually wears suits and skirts, wear veterinary scrubs when working

- Collects lingerie, usually wears strapless support bras though

- Has dyspraxia and discalcula (the only one to get actual disorder diagnoses)

- Really good at cooking, makes really delicious vegetarian meals which are indistinguishable from meat

- Not on any specific diet, she just doesn't like the taste of most meats

- Fell for Dolce-chan only about 5 months into her apprenticeship

- Afraid of knives, was stabbed when she was about 20

- Used to be a scene queen, not embarrassed especially about it and still goes out to raves on occasion

- Saves up money from work in order to take Dolce-chan to expensive date spots

- Enamoured by art and history, often goes to art galleries and museums

- Egg of choice is poached

Hitoshi-san:

- 27, although looks older when wearing glasses (is long sighted)

- American, got glasses at 11 and moved to Japan at 15

- Loves taking care of Bokutachi-san whenever he can

- Threatens to get him pregnant

- Favourite food is pasta, generally loves it filled with various ingredients like tomatoes or spinach

- Works at an apiary nearby, gets to take honey home for free every so often on top of his paycheck

- Can play the guitar but has a terrible singing voice

- Coeliac

- Owns a lot of disability-friendly cooking tools and machinery, as his parents were bakers and left all of their belongings to him in their will (both passed due to complications in old age)

- Still has most of his old stuffed animals from childhood, although donated most of his old toys and clothes

- Loves to treat Bokutachi-san with shopping dates

- Wears stereotypical dad or uncle outfits most of the time, owns at least 5 different shades of beige cargo shorts

- Loves to buy random old movies/DVDs at charity shops for cheap and has the longest letterboxd of any person ever (will watch them as dates)

- Collects puzzles, will mix and match the pieces of ones that have the same structure/layout

- Buys quite a few art pieces from various artists to put up around his house, has a couple of Koneko-chan's (she gives him a friendship discount but he tips her back up to the original price)

- Legal title is Mx.

- Egg of choice is soft boiled

Bokutachi-san:

- 25, the youngest of the group and the only one to fail school

- His gay awakening was Howl from Howl's Moving Castle

- Absolute weeb, incredibly gay for Shanks from One Piece and Inosuke from Demon Slayer

- Big fan of Toby Fox (his favourite Deltarune character is Berdly)

- Used to be high-school sweethearts with Hitoshi but was arrested for stealing Pokémon card packs so they didn't see each other for a while)

- Watches a lot of YouTube in his spare time since he's unemployed, Fuwamoco are his Kamioshis

- Lives with Hitoshi-san, basically a housewife at this point

- Sunburns easily, generally doesn't go outside often

- Had a small family (friends) wedding with Hitoshi-san

- Wears a lot of jewellery, has a few piercings and tattoos but they're generally covered

- Used to be in a band, will flex his singing voice at karaoke

- Has lots of Final Fantasy XIV merch everywhere

- Allergic to eggs

Bakuneko:

- Is kept by Raku-chan as a pet

- Kleptomaniac and hoarder

- Accidentally starting caring about Raku-chan and will steal stuff he thinks she will like

- Likes getting head scritches from Koneko-chan but will never admit it

- Bit Hitoshi-san when first meeting him for breaking Raku-chan's heart (still bites Bokutachi-san everytime)

- Deathly allergic to chocolate (luckily he can come back to life immediately though)

- Sometimes gets brought in to Vet-sama's clinic by Dolce-chan if an animal won't calm down since he can speak to them

- Doesn't like sports and finds them stupid

- Looks just like how Raku-chan looked when transformed

- Somewhat of a Detective Pikachu case, where the group can all hear him and see his wings but most people can't

- Refuses to be cleaned unless he's having a bath with Raku-chan

- Will go swimming but needs little floaties

- Plays a lot of FPS games and gets gamer rage but isn't very strong so the controller will bounce back and hit him (he's better after a couple of smooches though)

If you're wondering why other characters aren't here, they aren't as significant in the comic so I don't have as many headcanons

Most of these will be referenced in the comic when I make it, posting this beforehand though so it can be pinned to prevent confusion once I start releasing it

#nnsg #nyan neko sugar girls #headcanons #bit of a yap #writersoftumblr

kianamaiart

happy pride

blocker476

hey yall recommend me some babys first yuri

fight me if you dare (ignore how shit this looks i made it in 10 minutes from memory)

For reference,

1 - Nox, my persona

2 - Blocker, my brother's sona (I will be revenging any art of him)

3 - Chimyōn, the little parasite in Nox's head who makes themselves look like him

4 - Cheri, follower of Slaanesh who uses he/him genderfluidly

5 - Aci, the swapped version of Nox (see what I did with his name)

#artists on tumblr #artfight #team mystery #digital art #warhammer 40k

literallyzombie

I'M DOING MY PART!

glawkbot

Yippee!!!!

A short animation I made the other day to remind myself that animating is fun, actually

lleyksie

happy year of the horse 𓃗 .°˖⋆

cardboardmoon

You guys the art director has a hand ref sheet if anyone wants some good references

gooseworx

I'm unmedicated as FUCK broooooooo!!!!

screaming-seraph

[Stretch Panic] Here r my depictions of Linda’s sisters ^_^ I’m kinda glad they’re randomly generated ingame because I got to do my own designs 😈

exaltedfuzz

do you have any tips on replicating the ace attorney art style for sprites and stuff? You do it so well! (I’m thinking like what brushes you use, proportions, that kind of thing)

I've been sitting on this ask for a while because I kind of wanted to answer it in-depth, so sorry for taking so long, Anon! The "Ace Attorney art style" isn't really one single thing. I'll try and answer this as thoroughly as I can, but I think the most important thing to do when replicating a style is to get really into it and have references up for whatever you're trying to do instead of playing by hard and fast rules! In context, (and very broadly speaking) Ace Attorney's original art is a fairly standard deviation from the "Capcom" art style. So, I'd like to start there! Pre-AA (and contemporary with AA1), some of the AA style quirks are definitely identifiable in other Capcom series. For example, Here's Ikeno Daigo's cover art for Street Fighter III 3rd STRIKE (1999), and what I think is a 1998 Ryu piece. (Side note: it's these silly illustrations of the characters doing things like their laundry that make Capcom characters so special to me! There's a fair bit of older AA art like this too, and I really wish they still did it for the aa5-6 cast!)

I think Street Fighter designs have a lot of common DNA with AA designs, particularly facially. (There's even a sketch by Iwamoto on Carmelo Gusto's design page that's just Ryu in a chef's hat!)

I think a decent chunk of the SF similarities can be attributed to prolific Capcom official artist Edayan (Shin'ya Edaki) drawing more official art than most people realise. (From what I can tell, from JFA-AJ, a lot of the promo art and character renders are his handiwork. It gets harder to differentiate as time goes on...) Here's a 1996 poster for Street Fighter EX, where you can hopefully see where I'm coming from!

Comparing it to Kumiko Suekane's comic art in Investigate Into the TRUTH (2005), there's definitely some carry-over, except the AA characters don't look quite so tough. (I always think Mia looks a lot like Chun-Li though.)

One of the artists who most people will think of when they hear AA art style is Tatsuro Iwamoto, who did the bulk of the character designs for JFA, T&T, and both AAI games, as well as a few designs in AA1. I always think the most characteristic thing in his work is how angular everything looks! When he draws men, they tend to have clearer bone structure than other AA illustrators. (A lot of the women have the same big almond eye shape and cute proportions...)

From a technical standpoint, I think Iwamoto is probably the best AA official artist, though I do personally prefer the more wide, kind of squishy feel of the original game. These are his work, and you can see the spikiness of it.

Onto actually drawing like this, taking Mia as an example, her official art varies massively. I've drawn her at the side mostly based on the style Suekane used for her first render. She has generally fairly realistic proportions (albeit with very long legs, and a small head) and, on the whole, this is how AA characters are built. Usually they have pretty big hands too, because one of the most important things about AA is that big OBJECTION! point!

Fatter characters usually have less jawline definition, but a little chin bump, which you can see on Delicia Scone, Bikini and Marvin Grossberg. I'd really recommend doing real studies of real people of all shapes and sizes to get better at drawing cartoony characters, because all of this stylisation is based on observation, and being able to draw diversely is a great skill that I think all artists should hone.

One of the biggest things about trilogy characters is that, by and large, you can usually tell who they are by their eye shape, because they're all really distinct. Packing personality into your eyes is a super key part of drawing in... any style that focuses on emotive humans, really, but particularly in these anime and anime-adjacent styles. Take the cast of RFTA, for example, in their default portraits, as designed by Kazuya Nuri:

You can tell a lot about the personalities of each character by how they hold their face: Ema has big, wide eyes, and she's a curious character who likes to observe things. Gant and Darke have crazy eyes and a slackness at the base of them that makes them seem dangerous. (And more similar than Gant would like to acknowledge!) Bruce looks like a puppy, so you know he's just a simple guy. Angel has two distinct personalities that she wants to present, so she has very different ways of holding her face. Mike is skittish and comedic, so he has cartoon eyes that always look wide open. Jake and Angel both have a slight droop to their eyes, so they look tired. There's a lot you can read from little pieces of a design, so when drawing for yourself, you should consider how a character would hold their face, as well as what that face actually looks like. Most of the cast have a simple nose made up from a line and a nostril, but more chiseled/handsome/older characters often have more detail on their nose. (Sorry, Edgeworth, for the purposes of this demonstration, you're not the handsome one.) Usually these are Iwamoto drawings, and you can see that when Iwamoto half-redesigned Edgeworth for AAI, he's a bit better looking! Really, there are a lot of different AA nose shapes, so your best bet is just looking at real noses and trying to stylise them in a way that fits in with the rest of the face.

Usually, the brow to cheek to jaw line from the 3/4 view that's very common in AA art is a lot more vertical than you'd think, especially in the men. Iwamoto tends to include a subtle jowl bump, though, and the chin usually goes in before it goes out. As far as brushes are concerned... For the Mia above, I used a lineart brush called "Funny Haha" which you can find for Procreate by searching just that. For the shading (I know it's not in colour, but I'd use the same brush for rendering that too!) it's one by Deharme from their 2017 pack (and you'll be able to find it by searching Deharme 2017). For these character splash arts for my RFTA zine, I used a different Deharme oil brush for everything, from the sketch to the rendering, and really, I can't recommend this set enough.

When colouring, there's usually a lot of soft incidental lighting that makes things look a bit more 3D and solid in what is otherwise quite a flat style. (Like on Gant's chest.) Having a look at where there are hard shadows and lights versus softer ones can really make things look more legit, and a lot better in their own right. Clothing folds, particularly for suits (which are a hard thing to draw!) are a huge part of AA characters, so it's worth studying how they work in game and in real life. Don't ever be afraid of pulling up a photo reference, because a lot of the time it'll look more game-accurate than if you tried to cobble it together from game art.

This is the same brush. I always think Iwamoto is more of a line artist, and Nuri is a painter. You can kind of tell what each process is like from the artbook scans, so you should look at those. (You can find them online!)

Sprite-wise, if it's OG style pixelated sprites you're interested in, I'd have to point you to spacecoyote's Neil sprite set - from 2008, but I think it's still one of the best resources out there! Nina does a great job of making it accessible, and that was pretty much the same process that I followed when doing this cut-in mockup for Lana.

The HD sprites are a bit more approachable, because really, they're just standard illustrations. (and they're only waist-up!) I was lucky when I was spriting Lana à la Investigations, because Calisto was a reasonable reference for her coat, and Ema was great for her face. AAI sprite lineart is super crisp, comparitively, I think.

I've hit the image limit for this post now. Hopefully it helped! It's a little all over the place. Really, my biggest advice for drawing like AA is to do more studies of both real life and AA art.