DragonClaude

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Hello! Thank you for checking out my blog. 

If you like creature or monster art, I have a side blog where I post drawings of them! 

#myart and #myanimation tags contain all of my art. I also have #myartfav that has my top 5 favorite works I have posted at the moment.

Asks are open! Questions about art/animation, me in general, fandom stuff or something completely random is perfectly fine but just please keep it SFW and nothing too personal!

I will be diversifying the franchises I draw art for, but for now, there is a link tree below to most of my Danganronpa art if you are interested.

Have a nice day :]

(Has sound!!!)

Mettatonmay day 11 prompt: Connection (late but Ive been busy!)

Sure!! I'll also share my thought process along with it :]

So with my last animation as the example, I always start with thumbnails to brainstorm. I also went in knowing I wanted to try a monochrome pink pallette so I played with that a bit:

My first idea was Mettaton bringing a cake that he slices and shares with Alphys by separating the normal and ghost form of it, but I thought I could make it more personable if they made the cake together instead. That implies their friendship and teamwork a lot more which feels better demonstrating their story.

Next, because the general composition was fine, I jumped to a main key frame pass with changes to show that they made the cake instead:

Also with a few more ideas:

They are instead trying the cake to make sure it tastes good after their teamwork; one taking care of the cake and the other the frosting.

Mettaton goes off screen for a moment so your eyes can focus on Alphys putting frosting on the cake; something easily missable if you were distracted elsewhere. I figured since both of his hands were full from the cake + closing the oven, he would have to go get a fork to try it anyways.

The two end it off with a human gesture they would know from media they've watched, with Alphys doing a simpler ok sign and Mettaton doing a chef's kiss variety which I thought was appropriate.

Though, while I thought Alphys' movements were fine here, I felt like Mettaton's were kinda too flat for the kind of character he is and I made him do the extra thinking pose when making the rough animation which felt way better:

I also made him come back to frame via showing the fork first to clearly answer what he went to grab and it being pointed towards what we were just looking at shows his main goal now that he has it.

But if you also notice, Mettaton separates the ghost cake with a big plunge of the fork and that started bugging me after a while. I decided that the ghost cake should have its own moment for the viewer to see it and process what happened so I changed it to the stab+slower pull up he does in the final.

I would usually make a more cleaned up rough animation pass but because I already draw these characters a bunch, I could jump straight to the lineart pass which was just a lot of finalizing timing and making sure body shapes/details were consistent.

The final lineart is basically the final colored version so yeah! After 3ish days of work this piece was finished. As you can see, thinking about little details is a big part of the process.

Mettatonmay day 2 prompt: Cake

Ah jeez this is a tough choice, there's so many good words.....

For words I like to say, I like names of animals that already sound fun like "shrimp" or "emu" or "cockatoo"

[Jan] [May] [Jun] [Jul] [Sep/Fave] [Oct] [Dec]

This year was full of more work art which I wasn't gonna put here, it definitely slowed my personal art. I am still happy I was able to keep animating, though, here's to even more in the next year!

Non linked:

Feb-Apr: Cover for a fanzine I also head modded! Project took a chunk of my time this year....

Aug: A drawing I forgot to post and tbh I now want to redo but I still enjoy.

Decided to stretch my animation muscles again after a long while.

After letting the announcement sit for a day I think that this was the best scenario for a new danganronpa game with new content and Im excited!

Dr2 characters are already some of the most popular and beloved of the series, it can technically fit in the timeline because of the nature of DR2's virtual world, there was already alternate plot beats thought of in this game's development (fuyuhiko dying instead of hiyoko thing for example) which they could just do now and there's less of a risk if something happens that people don't like cause people can just go back to the original anyways.

I HOPE this leads to a DR1 remaster because that game needs it way more. Imagine if the alternate content for that one was DR If and actually give Mukuro some love, that'd be pretty neat! But I wouldn't be too sad if it was just upgraded graphics and gameplay. (please let us agree with students in that game its so weird not being able to)

A comic of growth...

But! During the breaks I did have, my friends and I have started sharing shows or games we enjoyed with each other and doing so consistently which has made me find a lot of stuff I now love too which has really been soul healing. 

My choice to share with the group was rewatching all of Yugioh (which I haven't for more than a decade) as said friends have never seen it before, and I had a whole new experience with it this time around. I can’t tell you how wonderful it’s been watching again, now being able to understand how stories work way more than when I was a child/teen, and being able to appreciate storytelling choices, do deep character or theme analysis that pinpoints why I love something and actually being able to put it into words. If there’s a media you have fondness over that you haven't watched/played/experienced in a long time, I highly recommend trying to go back and experience it as it is without any other external opinions that may sway you and really analyze what you like or dislike about it. For real, it helped a lot during these stressful times.