Kartrider brainrot go brrrrrr

It's my (belated) 3 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

Brodi and Hantao sketches from this month

to be more exact, I want to get better at explaining the music evolution (...or devolution for me lol) in the Kartrider games (sans KRRP since almost all of the tracks in that game are just reused from OGKR) since out of the 3 "mainline" Crazy Park titles, imo, the Asteria composed tracks in the KR games specifically have a completely different feel to them in contrast to the ones composed by previous studios like Studio EIM.

Uni with da *brings up Google* Saber Shotgun S-1. you don't know much I wanted to draw literally anything else while working on this, but I knew it'd be better if I just stuck with 1 drawing instead of starting a million new drawings and spreading myself thin in the process. this is also my first time drawing a hard-surface object such as a gun outside of practice sketches, and I actually think I did a decent-ish job?

the bio still doesn't make much sense since Kephi's portrayed as cowardly 99% of the time in and outside of the Crazy Arcade and it's tie-in media, and he never really demonstrates any acts of bravery/courage, notable or not, but i figured the bit about his parents was omitted out considering it made less sense to allude to characters that have practically 0 presence in AND out of game

damn i really want to draw Bono in his penguin disguise from the new scenario mode story, but i also have to finish not 1, but 2 pieces for Christmas (which is only 4 days away) and i don't want to get sidetracked by smaller pieces/projects and risk rushing my art on the same day as Christmas just to get something done for the holidays... drawing characters (not saying which to keep it a surprise) that I don't necessarily dislike but I don't think about nor draw much, if, at all is way less therapeutic than drawing a character that I have an emotional attachment to, but I pretty much have to since the only Christmas art idea in mind that seams feasible enough for me entails drawing those characters that aren't as enticing

Luxury Kephi sprite, on the right is him in his Kartrider and onwards purple. I like how the greens/purples came out, but the rest of the colors are too weak, especially his hair

now I don't completely fault the devs for overlooking how a new player would approach Speed Mode, all the entries in the Crazy Park series, including Kartrider, are casual games after all. in fact, I'm pretty sure some older OGKR devs have stated in interviews that they never intended on Speed Mode to be the game's signature mode (which is why most of OGKR's earlier updates were centered around Item Mode) and were surprised by how competitive a majority of the game's player base turned out to be. however, I think it's problematic if you have to consult outside material such as YouTube videos in order to properly enjoy such a significant part of the game