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Today I felt like drawing Athena because I really like her colour palette and, have grown to enjoy her character more. Plus I have wanted to do a minor re-design of her outfit for a while as there were small things I wanted to change. Main one being her jacket cuz, why tf do we have a gold button on yellow!? Maybe I'm just too obsessed with having contrasting colours in art, but given the jacket already has blue accents, why not add more? Also made her boots taller (not the biggest fan of her boots but I didn't want to change too much cuz they suit her cuz they look like moon boots imo) and gave her black bike shorts instead of the black tights cuz, the black tights just looked weird to me :/ so it was purely a personal preference thing :P

I enjoyed drawing this a lot and kinda want to do more pages like this of AA characters, but no promises! If I do more characters I'll probably start with more Wright anything agency members and branch out from there if I still feel motivated to :3

Yesterday I did the sketch above because I was in the mood to draw comics but, only did this cuz drawing comics traditionally is a lot harder than digitally (and I've yet to get my drawing tablet out of storage) so I did something simple to scratch that itch. It's of course based off that moment in case 6-4 when Simon fucken jump scares the player and shakes Athena!?

Today I finished this drawing and honestly, I love it so much! makes sense since I drew most of this with my left (main) hand (used right hand for a good chunk of the sketch to help maintain being somewhat ambidextrous) and, got to use an art medium I haven't used in almost a year, after buying some cheap alcohol markers (cheaper than sharpie's cheap) a few weeks ago.

(rest of post has minor spoilers for AA2-5, mostly AA4-5 but I do mention very minor spoilers for AA2-3)

I've been wanting to draw Pearl for a while, especially after seeing her in the DD DLC case (which is my fave case from DD) but than on the 18th I read this fanfic by Samioli and, it was so cute! It made me want to draw Pearl even more! To clarify this isn't fanart of the fic (idk if I ship Pearl and Trucy but I do see them as childhood bffs) but, I do hc Pearly as lesbian thanks to the fic and, I still wanted to recommend it cuz it's such an amazing fic and, it motivated me to draw Pearly hanging out with Trucy.

okay now back to talking about the drawing XD. I decided to re-design both girl's hair-do's and I'm very glad I did. I like Trucy's canon hair but as mentioned in this post I originally thought her official sprite had a bob, and now that I drew her with a bob I think I might continue doing so! Also I don't think she has an ahoge in canon but, I think it suits her so I will always give her one :3 (Edit, turns out she does have an ahoge and it's even cuter that the one I gave her so in future I will draw her with her canon ahoge)

As for Pearl, I dislike that her model in DD basically is just a taller version of her child sprites in AA2-3, so after making some thumbnails on a different page of hair-do ideas, I decided on a hairstyle that's similar to her canon hair-do but, more interesting imo, especially since I made the braids heart shaped on purpose cuz it references her love of romance (very on the nose, but being on the nose is kinda on brand for AA).

I also had a lot of fun designing these outfits for them both! Trucy's bag is of course a playing card and I picked 8 of diamonds cuz she has a diamond motif in canon and, was adopted by Phoenix when she was 8! Her jeans also have a two patches, one of her first daddy's hat/her hat when she was a child and a bunny, cuz that's magic related and cute lol. Also gave her a bracelet that kinda references Apollo but kinda doesn't, because it's on the wrong arm (didn't want it to crowd the hand holding pose!) and it's sliver because I didn't want to add yellow to the colour pallet :P

A few days ago I decided to do a one panel comic based off a head canon of mine, that being that Iris has naturally red hair but, after her sister goes to jail, she felt the need to distance herself from her sister even more and, began to dye her hair black. I mostly came up with this hc because as someone with dark brown hair (that's sometimes mistaken for black :/) I know how much work it is to bleach and maintain a light hair colour and, given she "dated" Phoenix for 8 months, that's going to damage her hair real bad if she's naturally got black hair and, dyed it red regularly in that time frame. Only other option would be that she didn't dye her hair and it's naturally black but Phoenix isn't an idiot, he'd notice if his gf was swapping between red and black hair (at least I think so, he can be oblivious sure but, he can also be hyper perceptive at times so I think it's likely he'd question it eventually in the 8 months time frame), so I decided to hc her as a red head, plus she looks identical to her sister aside from the black hair colour so, them being identical twins makes sense to me.

Also don't worry, Phoenix doesn't hold anything against Iris for being a red head after this scene I drew. I like to think he comforts her after her apology so she knows she hasn't done anything wrong (because having the same colour hair as your twin isn't something you can control!). He's just surprised because she's so good at makeup (another hc of mine) that her brows looked naturally black and, he somehow didn't register that her hair was naturally red in college when he first met her again or something like that :P. I also hc that Phoenix visits Iris every few months, as while I personally don't ship feeniris, I definitely can see them being good friends after case 3-5 as they probably have quite a bit in common, given they both seemed to like each other in college.

For this prompt I did not only one, but two drawings for @okartichoke ace attorney au, which is called ace avian! Why two drawings? Well originally I was going to just do the DiagoxMia one, as I haven't drawn these two enough and I knew they were some of Okartichoke's fave characters.

However, it turned out that at this point he hadn't yet made a design for Diago yet! I thought he did but nope, my brain just made up a post concept (⁠´⁠-⁠﹏⁠-⁠`⁠；⁠). So I started working on the other drawing whiletalking to him about the art I was making for his au. Which lead to him making a design for Diago/Godot and sending the designs to me so I could draw Diago :D! but I still wanted to draw the backup drawing cuz I really liked the post and I enjoy drawing Mia and Maya, so I kept working on it :3.

If you want to know more about the au here is the master post from Okartichoke here, though in short, it's just ace attorney but they got bird wings :P. and I wanted to force myself to draw wings so I knew I had to draw this au for the prompt!

Overall I'm very happy with these drawings, especially the Mia and Maya one as I feel like I drew Diago a bit too skinny oops, hopefully next time I'll draw him better >:-). plus the second pic is my first time drawing Mia in a non-canon outfit so that was fun :-D. Also I didn't quite understand what tinted wings mean for the Fey's, I could of just asked Okartichoke about it, buuuuuuut I instead looked at his art of the Fey's, and took some artistic liberties with colouring the sisters wings, hopefully you don't mind (plus I still gave Maya heterochromia, even though she technically doesn't in the au cuz Okartichoke draws her with dark brown eyes, cuz I like to draw her with heterochromia :P).

Few days ago felt like drawing more AA fanart (as per usual these days X3) and suddenly got an idea of drawing Trucy taking a group photo, maybe with family? But than I wanted to add more characters, and more characters and, I still wish I could add more characters! but I didn't have the space for them :-( I'm sure if I pre-planned the composition I could've easily added way more characters but this was an impulse drawing so I didn't :3

Today I felt like doing a bunch of Ace Attorney sketches, specifically of different sprites for multiple characters (I referenced the HD version of the trilogy sprites cuz they're higher resolution and therefore a clearer image) because, I wanted to both practice drawing a bunch of characters and also, wanted to improve my overall art skills by drawing more varied expressions! I also drew child Pearl specifically to practice drawing kids as I often default to drawing teens-adult characters.

Overall I'm happy with the results, especially the Phoenix's sketches (my favourite sketch is the second Phoenix I drew, 3rd sketch on page two) cuz he turned out way better than I expected lol. Most of these sketches are definitely rough looking but, I'm okay with that as I still feel like I've improved.