Nemesis

It makes me so happy that your MC is poc and a guy😭😭😭

There is barely rep for one or the other in the fandom from what I've come across, so when an MC is both??? My eyes get 20/20 vision, my skin is cleared and my crops are watered!!!

Yeah no I get what you mean dawg I feel the same way in fandom it ain’t weird 🚶‍♂️‍➡️

I’m a black latino so seeing insert that actually represents me is like finding a needle in a haystack, because most of the time it’s like Uncle Ruckus was the one behind the screen writing it. Also just the lack of actual gender neutral or masc adjacent stuff is fun to deal with, most of the stuff is catered to straight white women and I am not one of them.

But I still got artfight stuff to catch up on so I’m not really free, I’m suffering from success and a migraine

Anyways here’s the bums

**I can’t reblog y’all’s stuff but I do see it and have a shiggle, if I get nuked on here I do have a twitter but it’s under lock and key currently

France lot against England so Pierrot got crucified, now if Argentina wins we’re gonna have a problem

Also hello all 3 Carol fans

If France doesn’t win I’m crucifying Pierrot this time straight up

Also the little guy on the left does not belong to me that’s @readersofthevoid ‘s labubu not mine

First time interacting with the undertale fandom in like 10(?) years please don’t kill me, I just wanna post my fanart for a fic I read,,, if I get rocks and stones thrown at me I’m going back into hibernation and never to be seen again

@kassymalone is the author so uh yeah 🧍‍♂️👍

The cloaks are bald because I hate drawing that damn cloud

Time to finish Naruto after like 6 years I think. Low key forgot where I left off last time so I had to flip flopping around to try and figure out where to start.

Guys which akatsuki member is the most likely to get stoned, I vote Itachi because that man needs it

Extra: I wanted to mess around with each akatsuki member’s cloak and overall design at one point. Sure they already have aura but what if they had crazy aura and cooler outfits

We got some kaiju and Okonogi this time

Fungus, fish, and reptile what a combo.

I think it would be funny if number nine and number 16 had really off putting stares because their human forms just aren’t the best. Like yes, dead fish eyes and suspiciously bright eyes with white pupils are not going to draw any attention to you whatsoever. Your cover won’t be loan at all. Since Kafka and Dee both have more limbs in kaiju form (Kafka has a tail trust) they would forget that they’re in humans bodies and end up doing something stupid.

Like tossing something at Dee with his hands full and he expects to catch it with his lower arms but nope, only one set of arms are available and now you gotta pick up something extra. Kafka would definitely be more accident prone since he tends to throw himself in front of danger without hesitation way too often. Especially earlier on when he was still getting used to his other body he had the habit of relying on his thicker hide in order to mitigate damage I can guarantee you that he has tried to tank something that he could not have. Kafka has probably fallen on his ass before because he forgot that he didn’t have a tail to lean on while standing.

Enough aura farming let them be dumbasses

Anyways it’s rambling time

We got the height chart and teeth so far. Sorry if the images are hard to see I was using a thin brush this time on a low opacity

The food there shouldn’t be too nasty but who knows, I vote yes

Also bro finally has a name now; Demetri Santos

I wanna dive into to teeth and physical changes between Kafka and Demetri but I have a height chart in the works and I kinda wanna get that done first

Since Dee is a kaiju disguised as a human I think that the change in diet would be fun to explore how that would effect things. I would imagine such a drastic change comes with some sort of hurdle, Dee is a aquatic kaiju with a mostly pescatarian diet so eating human foods would give bro stomach problems. But then the thought of giving a character IBS comes to mind and I think that would be the best excuse for Dee. Plus animals can have IBS so it shouldn't be a stretch to say that kaiju can have stomach problems too.

Imagine seeing your coworker bust their ass out on the field, doing all this physical activity that would tire out anybody and when you finally make it back to base to get some food and rest they just avoid it all together. Very much an odd person to observe but it’s not like he goes out of his way to harm anyone directly. That would probably cause some concern but Dee would just dismiss any of it

Kosuke scrawny as hell bro he needs to eat more, how you gonna be Kamen Rider beast with no muscle? Just gimme a pizza with nothin at that point

Basic rundown of the design choices

I wanted him to look more catlike so I made his weird little eyebrow things into ears because he looks bald. I’ve gotten used to it by now but I had a shiggle whenever I saw him from the front. Didn’t change much with the chest plate, I might go with the fabric option for the dangly bits of the shoulder pad since it’s easier to draw.

I was going to give him a lighter stomach where the gold lines are but that would bring too much white into the design and this off the color ratios. Also, I thought he had knee pads but apparently they aren’t knee pads and sit right above his knee??? I was looking at the magazine and he had his face on the soles of his boots and I think that’s neat

Added paw pads on the gloves and boots it’s very important trust

Emphasis on the nose

Refs

They’re pretty popular so there’s bound to be merch of them somewhere, I know that little kid that Kafka saved has a little plushie of him in his kaiju form. But the thought of there being little ugly plushies of the Kdf is really funny to me. Imagine going to the corner store and you see some ugly plushies of your favorite captain but they’re so ugly that they’re kinda cute so you end up buying it anyways

But look at the Hoshina labubu while I test out more cartoony art styles

Seriously it should NOT be so difficult to draw that bro, it looks like a durian but it’s only purpose is to torture me specifically. If he looks a bit chopped it’s because I haven’t properly found a way to stylize his fuck ass hair, thankfully when it’s longer it’s easier to draw but still.

I still gotta find a way to keep his silhouette without losing any fat since the style I’m trying to copy doesn’t have a lot of variety for fatter characters. Not everybody is a walking skeleton I want more diversity so that I don’t gotta spend 3 hours trying and failing to draw something. I don’t think the combat uniforms get enough appreciation so here we are

Anyways look at my critter

Basic rundown is that it’s a Kaiju from outside of Japan that is currently working in the kdf. Its motivations aren’t particularly strong aside from the fact that working/living as a human is the best way to understand one. Most of what it does anyways is eat smaller Kaiju when it can get away with it and test out venoms on other living creatures.

So far we haven’t seen much of the other countries aside from a brief mention during Kikoru’s backstory and when Hoshina said that the current theory was that kaiju are formed from tectonic fault lines with the build up and release of energy within the earth’s crust affecting nearby mineral and biological matter. I wanted to explore that idea a bit more by making an aquatic kaiju that could survive the deep sea. Plus I wanted a squished looking monster since most of the ones shown are armored to some degree.

See season 2 episode 6 roughly 13 minutes into the episode

I would imagine some countries are used to kaiju appearing here and there, especially if they are on the smaller scale. Sorta like a new addition to the ecosystem, maybe they could be domesticated to a degree. I know Bakko is a kaiju and he’s kinda just chilling with the defense force. But with the integration of kaiju in day to day life would also mean that there are new things to lookout for.

Like what would happen if a human ate Kaiju meat? I can’t be the only one who thought about that. There has to be a market for that kinda stuff somewhere

We already know that kaiju can sense one another, this was shown with Bakko’s dislike of Kafka and the fact that Kafka could also track down other kaiju to some degree. I’d say that it would work like a radar but depending on how familiar they are with one another it would either make finding them a lot easier or harder.

But yeah here is how I personally would draw Kafka. Will I ever draw his face? Maybe, but his fuck ass hair is hard to draw from any angle other than the front

Season 1 Kafka’s wouldn’t have much armor because that man does NOT know what he’s doing, nor what to expect from suddenly turning into a Kaiju. He would be like a baby porcupine, soft, squishy, and without proper quills to defend himself. So I figured that over time after getting his ass whooped his body would adapt accordingly. (Please note that I did not thoroughly plan out the armor this time I just wanted to get the concept out)

Season 2 Kafka is more green and has more color variations so I thoguht it would be cool if he had patterns similar to a lizard’s, plus I gave him tougher and more visible armor with less gaps, different pupil shape, thicker build, and somewhat digitigrade legs

General plan for the design was as he got closer towards the point of no return was him slowly looking more animalistic, eg a more prominent snout, change in pupils, his skin getting rougher, a change in diet and cravings— I wish we elaborated more on Kafka’s eating a bird that one time because that got me thinking about a kaiju’s eating habits and Kafka getting the intrusive thought of him eating a teammate and then being freaked out about that. OR, or, hear me out Kafka’s human body being more/less resilient to things like temperature changes and physical stress. And maybe some skin shedding who knows