JMars'Art

Hi, I'm JMars! A digital illustrator dedicated to character design, building worlds, and unfolding narratives. After a period of reflection, I've decided to prioritize my original projects—introducing my world and its characters, and share the journey of my artist life with you all.

🚀 Current Projects

I am currently developing my main original stories, organizing scattered ideas into chapters that I can finally share with the world. Expect to see lots of concept design, sketches, story snippets, world lore, and process updates here!

🏷️ Find my works by categories:

Original Projects ➔ #JMars_Original

Fanart Collection ➔ #JMars_Fanart

Story Snippets ➔ #JMars_Writing

🎨 Commissions

Commissions are [CLOSED] for now. I'm focusing on stabilizing my creative routine, to ensure I have the best energy for my personal work and future requests.

They will reopen in the future—stay tuned!

☕️ Support My Work

If you enjoy my art and would like to help me fuel my "creative core," buying me a tea is always appreciated! 🔗 Support me on Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/jmarsart

Hey everyone,

It's been a wild ride, but after almost 2 pretty messy years, things are finally starting to settle down and feel normal again! When I last said I was "back," I actually got super caught up with life and work, trying to get everything back on track. It felt like time just stopped for me since 2024 July, and I basically only worked on commissions to keep my art life afloat.

I'm incredibly grateful to those of you who kept supporting me, whether you just kept sticking with me or supported me financially, during that tough period, even when I wasn't making new art. That truly meant the world to me.

Some of you might have heard or remember what happened that summer. The left side of my body suddenly felt really off, and it made me super dizzy. The weirdest thing is, after tons of check-ups, doctors told me I was completely fine, and I just recovered after a few weeks like nothing had happened. I was so confused and worried, but I guess... that's good?

My parents, though, believed that doing art was one of the reasons my health took a hit, which is also why I decided to take a bit of a break. I personally didn't think it was related to my health, as I've always been super careful about my body and well-being, just to make sure I can make art. However, I did think a lot during those days when I was feeling down and sick.

I'm in my 30s now, and it really makes you think about everything, not only just about your body, but also like, can I truly make a living with art, whether it's my main thing or a side hustle? I totally get that my parents are just concerned, but I really, really want to make more art.

I only just found the confidence to start my art pages and career a few years ago. I'm still determined to work hard and become a better artist, maybe even a full-time freelancer someday. That's pretty much where I'm at. I really hope I can keep drawing, and eventually complete "my original projects."

During this time, I've also been constantly refining my original stories. Being away from social media and limited by the system constraints of my old computer actually allowed me to focus more intensely on my own creations over the past year. Compared to the year before, many settings and concepts are finally starting to fall into place. In a way, this has intensified my desire to return to social media and share my originals with all of you.

I know I've been telling you I wanted to share my original work for a long time, but I never shared much because things felt too messy and unorganized. I realize now that it was my perfectionism holding me back. It made it hard for me to show wip pieces or make promises I wasn't sure I could keep, which eventually led to procrastination. But the love I have for my own work and the joy I find in the creative process are real. Even during the days when I wasn't posting anything, I never stopped working on it—so I can only imagine how much more motivated I'll be once I start sharing it and getting feedback from you guys!

So, no matter what caused my body to act up, I'm going to be even more careful than before and take care of myself as much as I care about my artist life. That's why I took the time to rest—not just to catch up on life, but also to ease the worries of my parents, and even my own. To show where I'm headed: I even joined an illustration bootcamp to learn more about art making and the industry (That was the very first time in my life I'd ever talked so much to strangers), and (finally!) I invested in a brand new, powerful computer. It was expensive, but I see it as a necessary tool to keep improving my workflow and bring those original projects to life!

There's still so much I want to do and learn, and I guess I'm not giving up. I've come to realize that I might never be able to fully create games or complete comic series for my original projects. I once thought becoming a freelancer was the way to gain the know-how to reach my dreams, but now I find that my true passion has always been my own original stories and characters.

Whenever I feel overwhelmed, I'm reminded of why I'm here. Being part of this artist community and interacting with all of you is what truly makes my day. So, I've decided to stop worrying about the "big goals" for a moment and simply move forward with what I love. At the end of the day, my strength is in my drawings, and that is where I will focus and refine my craft. My goal now is simple: to let more people know about the stories and characters I've created. As for my path as a freelance artist, I will be stepping back from it to fully dedicate myself to my core.

So, from now on I'm going to focus more on developing my original work, just like I've always promised! I don't want my fear and my perfectionism to hold me back anymore, but I also won't be too strict with myself. So I'll be sharing updates at my own pace, slowly but surely bringing you into my original stories and world.

And don't worry, I'll definitely keep making fanart! Along with the projects I've already been working on and trying to bring to life visually, like my KMTT story and the one about Professor Turo, I'll also be drawing other characters I love whenever inspiration hits!

That's all for now. Thank you for all the support and for waiting on me! I'll be tidying up all my social media pages over the next few days and trying to become active again. Let's see what I can do this time!

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I've also shared the full update post on my Ko-fi. Feel free to check it out there~

It’s been a month! omg… When you start to be in a flow in doing everything, time flies and you wouldn’t even notice. I was like in a time machine again.

I remember it was the golden week, and when I was back to work, there were tons of task waiting to be done. And then my arm hurt and I didn’t know why. Luckily I had gotten my current work all done, so I decided to take some rest for my arm while I was to improve my productivity system and update everything for my art pages.

And it’s a month that has passed. I feel better with my arm now! And with the improved system, I feel like I can start to get more things done!

I've updated my Kofi goal and revamped my commission board and page! Prices unchanged and there will be a supporter discount and discount offer for Pokémon SV characters requests this summer! No new types added yet, but I’m exploring chibi style, sketch collage, and character design—

Especially character design, it’s the comms type I’ve always wanted to do! Just like concept designs I did for my original characters! I think I will open this type someday after I've posted and shared some art of my original characters! Stay tuned if you like my style for the concept designs or are interested in this comms type! I’ll make a pinned blog about my comms and things later!

Speaking of OCs, I’m planning more original content on my art pages, sharing what I’ve drawn for them and making new pieces about them. I’ve been talking about it but now I feel it’s time. Really excited and can’t wait for you to meet them! I didn’t really draw them all so this will go with some concept design process update, it must be fun to share!

Also, I decide to open a new blog for my original work! Actually, that was what I was doing with this blog at the beginning, though it ends up becoming a fanart-focused blog now. I will make this blog remain fanart-focused, sharing mine and rebloging others', and my fanfics will also be shared here.

Then I have to mention my King Mettaton story. I haven't given it up despite translation challenges and everything. I’m starting to think maybe I should share the fic even if it’s still untranslated. The translation softwares can help readers nowadays. After all, if I don't start sharing the story, no one will ever read and know the story. I finally got over my perfectionism I guess… I’ll urge myself that translating at least one sentence a day and call it still a progress, so someday I will eventually complete the fanfic translation. I will stick with the plan that sharing the story on Tumblr. But maybe also on Ao3? I’ve heard that is the site where most people share their fanfics, perhaps I could open an account there for my KMTT story and other fanfics too.

Lastly, I’m launching my Patreon! Some supportors suggested it, and I think it’s a good timing to make another fresh start for my artist journey, after I’ve made this far. Updates on Patreon will sync with Kofi, so you can support me on your preferred platform. I'm exploring more content and offer too!

Life gets busy, but connecting with you all and sharing art bring me joy! I just can’t imagine a life without all of these, so even though I’d be busy sometimes, I will always manage to come back no matter what happened! I’ll keep up the pace and be more active on here!

Stay tuned and thank you all for your support! 💖✨ As always, I'll give a shoutout to people who have financially supported me ☕️ You have my eternal gratitude for being part of my journey!

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Practice sketches for Our beloved King Magnifico 👑💛

I've fallen for this cute king recently 🥰 💞 How he could be just like a disney princess when singing "This is the Thanks I Get!?" among the armour suits! And the way he plays with his staff just like a child having fun... He totally called my attention all along in the movie! These are some sketches I practice drawing him, one in the way I draw disney characters and the other in my realistic style! It was so hard to draw a cute, strong, bold, brave man! But I'm glad I did it~ There are still so many cuteness of King Magnifico in the film that I want to draw! And the fact that disney didn't get the story perfect also makes me have so many ideas for him now 😂 That's why I never get art block, there are just so many to work on for my original stories and for those my fav characters who would keep coming into my life-

And I couldn't help it- I had been brainwashed by the toothless dance meme when I was doing this practice sketch, I gotta get this idea drawn 😆 Btw that green dragon is the forbidden magic itself from the Book of Spells.

I want to draw more of him and Queen Amaya as well! I love this royal couple-a cute king and a tender queen, and the cute couple vibe between them so much 🩷 I'd also love to see how they would have been- an evil royal couple, maybe like a Team evil queen and the magic mirror? 👑🎭 That must be interesting to draw too!

#notdailyTuro100challenge Day 7 ❄️🐦

and (late) Merry Christmas! 🎄

Finally a week of this challenge drawings!!!

I love Delibird! They're fluffy and adorable 🥰 And their abilities kind of remind me of Turo when he doing the research- Vital Spirit and Insomnia. I guess Turo would have a Delibird in his past team (and the same goes with Sada and her Jigglypuff.)

If... 🌳✨

I watched the DLC2 trailer! I knew there was a place that underneath the zero lab or the time machine itself was the source of the tremendous tera crystal power, and there it is! Just can't wait to see what's going on there!

#notdailyTuro100challenge Day 6 🎁❄️

A gift from Sada (*´∀｀*)♡ I had an idea that Turo was wearing something cute and Sada liked that, and then this sweater was suggested, so 🤭 Fun fact is that Sada thought Turo knew how to make Iron Bundle's eyes like that but Turo actually didn't. He just did it accidentally when he put on the sweater lol

#notdailyTuro100challenge Day 1 - Day 5 It's the challenge that my friend made for me. I was not sure if I could do a 100days challenge because it was hard for me to draw a pic a day, let alone for 100 days continuously, so he was like "why not do a not-daily one then?" and here we go LOL

It's a good way to keep updating something while I'm working on some commissions, though it nearly becomes a weekly challenge now. I feel like I do it with more and more details added 😂 They're supposed to be rough sketches! I should do it more quickly and make it more like a speed sketch challenge so that maybe I can really do it daily.

I didn't post them here when I completed each of them above because I thought it was better to post them together. But from Day 6 I'm going to post them as soon as they're done. Till I can really do the challenge daily- otherwise this site will be so quiet.

Well, this page is always like that, though. I guess.. And for this I really appreciate all your waiting and support! 💗💗

Anyway, I will keep doing my best to draw 100 pieces for Turo! Will draw some ideas that I'm gonna work on(I have so many ideas for him to draw!), and some pop-up cute ideas!

Commission for @audacious-herbaceous

An illustration for a future scene of her longfic. Thank you so much for the support!! 💗 And so glad we share the same headcanon of Turo doing journaling! 🥰 .

Doing some figure study with Turo 🟪🌊

Not really getting used to draw male body, especially a slender one. Taking off rash guards or wetsuits is difficult to draw too! I know Turo's cybersuit is more like a drysuit, but I just want to do practices with him-

When I was drawing the first pic, I came up with a story like how he got hurt by Paradoxes, I guess I'll draw comics about it!

THEM 😈🎤🎤😈

I just realized I didn't draw much of Daddy in my realistic style, so I made my official full color one 😎

I feel like making it a poster! Just imagine you have a poster of the two big famous demon stars in your humble room- 💞

You can check out the no eye glow version on my ☕️ Kofi!

🟪 Paradise 🐢🐍 The shading and the environment light of this piece is so hard to depict. Still thinking this could be better but that's all I've got now I guess. At least just looking at it I'm satisfied. 😇 That's probably the paradise the professor was looking into and embracing at his last living moment. I hope I convey the feels- beautiful yet cruel. Could the time machine itself be a part of Terapagos? The Paldea region looks like Terapagos, so if the whole region is Terapagos itself, the time machine(Area Zero) just located right on its back crown where maybe its power pours out of, bringing Paradox Pokemons to life. It's a concept that I draw this illustration for.