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THE ZINE IS HERE!!

The wait is over! Beyond Shapes & Beats: A JSaB 8th Anniversary Fanzine is out!! 9 months in the making, 50+ creators, 100+ pages, and an uncountable amount of love for JSaB and the community that came of it. Everyone on the team is so proud to finally share it with you all!!

The zine and all its merch is free to download on our itch.io site, and free to read online on Heyzine! We highly encourage you download to show us your support - plus, it makes sure you always have a copy of your very own!

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Thank you all so much for all your incredible support. We wouldn't be here without you. And of course, last but not least...

One week remains...

We're just a week away from the release of Beyond Shapes & Beats on May 31st!! And to give you something to tide you over, we're releasing another cover teaser! It's not just the back cover we did something special for - after all, what would JSaB be without its players and bosses? Each character on the front cover is a different artist's take on the Players, the Boss, Lycanthropy, Barracuda, and the Friend/Cube.

I love turning everyone into bugs <3

I'm usually too lazy to come up with fan characters and their stories. But I wanted to try my hand at DoD oc (sona)! >_< Penny PNG

Them like a mixture of human (civilian) and artificial intelligence!! Due to a terrible incident, he is linked to an artifact (because of this weird red eye, it's an artifact) :( (She has any pronouns)

Fun facts?? ✿ She's an Artful fan ✿ Her body is literally like MS Paint windows ✿ She often draws on them and creates new images for herself ✿ Her weapon is PNG images/files ✿ He's very emotional and compassionate, despite his artificial nature civilian and AI before the incident (two of them also have any pronoun) ↓

and silly sketches

Translation of the lower sketches ↓ Artful: I won't cook PNG: I'm hungry and I don't have money for food ...

Lolita MeQuot

(I JUST LOVE THIS, I CAN'T CONTAIN MY EXCITEMENT AT THIS IDEA!!!!)

And all sorts of drawings of female versions of Artful, Devesto, and Pursuer, heh X)

I like the idea that the female version of Pursuer has an orange face, even though it's a joke!!

And the headcanon is that she's bigger than him :)

Yuri artdevesquot ♡♡♡

I cook very rarely...

And silly sketches........

Snug as bugs

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reference:

Goodbye Rock Kingdom...

This is my idea for what specifically the far north-west region of the Rock Kingdom looks like, the part bordering the forested colorful Pop territory, and known as the backwater, hick part of the country. It's very scarcely populated with mainly woolly caterpillar farms and small settlements, and it's where Les and Hed are from.

While the center of the kingdom is a large active volcano which doesn't lend itself to most plant life, I imagine there's more and more the further away you travel from it. My main inspiration for this part of the country were the tundra biome and the Scottish highlands — with the ground mostly being covered in rock and a thin layer of soil and flora: mostly low growing vegetation like lichen, moss and herbs, and nothing taller than subshrubs such as heather and berry bushes. Actual shrubs and trees start to show up only when you start to near the Pop Forest.

The nature is mostly in various shades of reds, browns, grays, and earthy greens, basically the colors Rock Trolls come in, since my headcanon is that their colors are like camouflage in their natural environment. (I don't think Rock Trolls can change the color of their hair the way we see Pop Trolls do in the first movie.)

And their shaggy hair textures are supposed to resemble the environment too. With all the lichen and other rough and patchy textures, I was also trying to bring out a bit of a "grunge" effect. Though I feel like this part didn't come out in the illustrations the way I wanted it to. ':)