The Gallery of the Marquise

Mostly copy-pasted from another post of mine: Long story short, my side blog for my art (i.e. the blog I'm using to post this) was kinda-sorta shadowbanned for a bit? Now it's at the point where my older posts are showing fine in tags/search. But then my image posts from this year so far are all still hidden. I think someone is working on fixing that, but I've no idea how long that will take. :(

On the bright side, it looks like if I make a whole new post it should be viewable just fine. So I'm taking the opportunity to do a promo for the two Canti posts I made so far this year!! The above is just cropped previews of one of the images in each post:

First post, I did two redraws of Canti, one based off an official ref sheet/height chart, and the other of Canti at the end of FLCL Progressive. The preview here is of the second pic in particular!

Second post, every year I like to draw a thing for MerMay, and this year I drew Canti and Takkun the cat as mermaids! There is also a silly bonus image with more of the FLCL characters. :D

Greetings BRC fandom! Long story short, my side blog for my art (i.e. the blog I'm using to post this) was kinda-sorta shadowbanned for a bit? Now it's at the point where my older posts are showing fine in tags/search. But then my image posts from this year so far are all still hidden. I think someone is working on fixing that, but I've no idea how long that will take. :(

On the bright side, it looks like if I make a whole new post it should be viewable just fine. So I'm taking the opportunity to do a promo for the stuff that's still hidden! The above are cropped previews of one of the images in each post:

First post, two pics I made for a BRC oneshot I wrote earlier this year. Said oneshot is also my frist time writing in prose for the first time in many years, which I'm still really proud of tbh. As you can see by the preview, it's focused on a DOT EXE member and a Devil Theory member as a couple!

Second post, the preview is also DE x DT focused, but the full post has some other BRC ships and headcanons of mine!

Third post, I made some reference pics of my DT OCs (two of them are also featured in the pride post btw!). Most of them are asymmetrical so I need it to make sure I draw parts of their designs on the right side. :P

Made these as refs for my Devil Theory characters. 3 out of 4 of them have asymmetry stuff going on (due to piercings and scars and stuff). Even with their masks and helmets, for at least two of them they still have asymmetrical eyebrows. I was starting to mix up which side is supposed to have what, so I guess it's about time I did this anyways.

Time for Pride art! Happy Pride Month to all!! 🏳️‍🌈🎉🏳️‍⚧️

This is featuring a whole bunch of headcanons for Bomb Rush Cyberfunk. Also for those not familar with my BRC art already, this also has OCs that I slotted into place of the crews that didn't get individual names (Eclipse, Devil Theory, etc.). You can check out the alt text for specific names I've given them!

I did the first three here towards the end of April to have them ready to upload in June while I worked on a huge pile o' WIPs I have. At this point, I did manage to get at least the sketches done for all of those WIPs. For me, lineart/coloring/etc. is easier than the base sketching/planning, so hopefully I can finish them all up without any major issues. :D

But then I did the last two drawings here the week before I'm posting this, because I was possessed by the Spirit of Pride to do a bit more art or something. :P

So, at one point a few weeks back, I had a dream where I was reading an omnibus comic thing of a bunch of IDW Sonic issues, focused on a particular arc with a new character. Evidently I liked the story and the character so much, I decided to draw her, lol

Not entirely sure when this arc takes place, but I'm assuming it probably fits in fine with where the comic currently is. Or at least, I don't remember anything that was particularly contradictory, y'know? Anyways, the rest of this is notes on the character and story from what I shared with friends on Discord, under the cut:

This year's MerMay features Canti (the robot) and Takkun (the cat) from FLCL! Plus a bonus doodle featuring those two and other characters from that series. Had to use one of my Canti figures as reference for Canti's pose, and thank goodness for that, he's got a lot of little details I probably wouldn't have gotten right without the reference, lol. Very happy with how both of these turned out! :D

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Did some redraws with Canti! First image is based off an old character lineup for the first season of FLCL, second image is based off a screenshot of him towards the very end of FLCL Progressive. :>

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I will still be posting on this account for the time being (i.e. until Tumblr staff permanently fuck everything up for good). However, I will be drastically reducing my time wasted on Tumblr otherwise. Meanwhile, here are the other places where I plan to be more active in terms of art moving forward:

Newgrounds

SheezyArt

Itaku.ee

Pillowfort (it's a "community" for my art, but it functionally acts the same as a side blog like my art Tumblr here)

I managed to get everything I wanted posted on Itaku and Pillowfort, and I set up a queue for Newgrounds. SheezyArt has a daily post limit, so I'll just work within that limit to get some more old stuff posted. After that, all new stuff will be posted on these sites first, and then my art Tumblr will likely be dead last from now on.

If you're already on one of these sites, I'd definitely appreciate it if you follow me there as well! If you've been considering one of these sites to move to, or other art sites I haven't mentioned, I highly encourage you to do so. Even if you don't end up following me again, still go for it, leave this hellhole, or at least make sure you have backups.

The individual art pages aren't very pretty, it's really just the art and the original description without any background/CSS styles. But at least it works. What took the longest was mainly just extracting the original descriptions from the web pages I saved (and DeviantArt in particular made it annoyingly difficult for some reason!!), and then organizing the text with the associated art onto each page. And also linking it all together of course.

Anyways, sure, my website could just as well disappear in the future. Or Neocities (the host I'm using for my site) could blow up. Or even the entire Internet could be destroyed! But hell, having some sort of archive like this (instead of relying on sites like Tumblr and DeviantArt to keep their fucking acts together) is a hell of a lot better than nothing!!

Next step, start getting some of my stuff onto my Newgrounds, SheezyArt, Itaku, and Pillowfort accounts. It will not be everything, but I've picked out a few things I want to share that I still really like how they turned out.

Once I'm done with reuploads/crossposts to the sites I mentioned, I will probably stick with posting to Newgrounds as my "main" hub moving forward, and then the rest will be quick crossposts. I've decided on Newgrounds because it checks off most of what I want in an art site (allows for multiple images in one submission, working tagging system, filters that actually work, etc). Also, it has apparently really mellowed out in comparison to its original (rather rancid) reputation?? Honestly a welcome surprise compared to the bullshit I've had to deal with on Tumblr and DeviantArt, ngl

For this weekend though, maybe I'll uh, take a break even from drawing. Maybe play some video games. Been meaning to get to the Klonoa Phatasy Reverie in particular, so maybe this is an opportunity to finally get started on that. :P

Whatever, this gave me the kick in the butt I needed to start backing up all my posts on this blog and my old DeviantArt. Just finished with everything from DA (basically everything I was posting from 2019 to 2022), plus all my old stuff on this blog. Oldest thing are some sketches and character drawings from 2014, damn 😆

Will get at least images and their descriptions hosted on my personal website as a backup. Anything new will also be put on my website from now on. Regular postings will continue here for the foreseeable future (i.e. until Tumblr does something else to cause a mass exodus of users).

But, I am also planning to start doing something I've been meaning to do for a very long time: crosspost to Sheezy.Art and Itaku.ee! Sheezy in particular is probably where I will make the actual descriptions for my art from now on. Then, for example, if I crosspost to here, I'll say to just check Sheezy or my site for the associated full description.

The thing that annoys me about crossposting art is having to deal with descriptions, especially cutting them down for post limits on certain sites. This way I can just focus on posting plus tags :P

Tempted to join some other sites like Newgrounds to cover as much ground as possible, but ehhh, maybe one step at a time for now. I'm in the middle of building up a queue, so now's a good time to take care of backing things up to my site/Sheezy/Itaku on the side. :P

Recently commissioned by @diablo-that-first-spark for another chibi drawing! This time of her version of Zeus for the Kid Icarus universe.

I know I said I would try to simplify details when needed for these commissions, but at the same time I felt bad for simplifying some of the cool details here? Well, at the least I still had fun putting this all together!

First new art of the new year, and I'm posting at the end of the second month, oh boy :P

But hey, finally getting back into the swing of things! Or at least trying to! Plus trying to do more stuff than just art. Because along with these two cute arts of Dude and Guy, I also did a (relatively?) short oneshot of them getting together!! You can read that on my A03 here!!

Really hoping to write more BRC stuff, it was fun writing this one! Though I also feel nervous about posting it, I hope at least a few people like it. ;u;

Another commission done!! This time of the two Gemini Sparks from Mega Man Star Force, for @grammars-doodles !!

Aw yeah, first round of commissions done!! @nanaimobars's OC Ember.EXE, Hope Stelar for @rockmiyabideusexmachina, and WackoMan, MagnetMan, and ElecMan for @diablo-that-first-spark! Thank you all for your patience and also for commissioning me, I really appreciate it!! ;u;

I finally finished the commission examples, and set up the commission page on my Ko-Fi! Thank goodness the latter was easy to do, I was expecting it to be annoying to deal with, lol

Anyways, yeah, I'm doing $10 commissions for lil chibi arts like these! One character per commission! I'm open to draw most-any characters, even with complex designs I'll just simplify it to fit in my chibi style.