Scrap Versions

Redraw of my JuAli doodle from 2024 ❤️🖤💛

I got some time today so I quickly redrew Judar's hair ^^

I'm getting more used to drawing the shape of his hair

I like the clearer shapes now! My fave is the 4th one, then the 3rd one

Scrapped the 5th and 6th ones cuz they don't have very clear shapes to me.

Hand is tentative though I'll probably redraw that

I'm very amazed by how people draw silhouettes and even quickly render using the lasso tool...

I tried the lasso tool method out for making silhouettes because I was bothered that I couldn't get the shapes I wanted at first, so I quickly lasso'ed the shapes of his hair spikes and kept repeating.

This gets made even easier when you have "Add to selection" turned on on CSP (or any similar function)

Admittedly I'm MUCH better at sketching with lines (which is how I always sketch), than blocking out silhouettes with a big brush and erasing from it to make shapes.

Because the 2nd was done with lasso tool, it has some jagged edges (though Ig you could turn Anti-aliasing higher) and has some unbalanced spikes, but it actually helped me get the shapes I wanted much faster for me.

Making silhouettes with lasso tool is fun... I then put the lasso tool version on low opacity, and re-sketched over it (3rd and 4th image)

I was wondering whether to post on side or main but it'll probably get buried under my reblogs and ramble posts since I don't have a solid art tag there

And Tumblr's search function is so finnicky that some of the tags don't work when you search them, so I'll put it here

Once I get the chance to draw Alibaba and refine the rest of it, I'll put it under tags

I love the improvement from my late 2024 - early 2025 style where I've shifted into drawing more thickly lined eyes ^^

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Misc Rambles

Collection of Judar and JuAli doodles from 2025 💗

Tbh I still love how Judar's hair and expressions are drawn in these… 🥺💞

The idea I had for the 1st one was Judar clutching onto Alibaba's sleeves.

Then for the 2nd one, I thought of Judar yanking on Alibaba's rope cord accessory playfully to pull him closer to his face. Like a cat batting at rope 🐈‍⬛☀️

For the 1st one I did not think through how his bangs partially covers Alibaba's face...

I usually draw one chara, then draw the other.

Thankfully, I thought it through with the 2nd one ✌️

The way his hair and eyes are lined, is so nice, I love it... 🤭

Misc Rambles

Just realized I didn't post my Magi backlog on Tumblr. Help...

Hi I miss them sm... 🥺🙏 When I'm not busy I will post my backlog of doodles and rambles of them ☺️

I was thinking of redrawing my old doodles in my current art style (post November 2025 style)

I still like the 2025 doodles tbh! I just wanna update them eventually to my current style.

I also redrew the Unfriendly Hater (Vocaloid song parody) doodle but now I'm tempted to redraw that art, along with the Judar hanfu doodles

I'm so curious what they'll look like in my current style...

(Not gonna tag atm since I plan to make a proper post eventually, so this is just a sneak peek of what I will eventually post on main. Yippee!!) 🤸

I'm pretty picky with how my posts are formatted, and I always want my art posts to be paired with long rambles talking about my art process, ideas for my fave charas/ships, how I felt drawing at the time, etc.

If Judar had to wear a hoe outfit, it should've been miaojiang style fashion /hj

Case and point. 🙏

(See: Posts above)

(Rambles with my friends Jaqui and Cinna)

Tumblr only embeds the 1st one, though. Aight.

(EDIT: Ok looks like the embeds are fine now)

J: Oh but in black and red 👀

C: OOOO

Yo it'd fit him well

Me: Yee for him it should be black and red instead 🤭

I was kinda tempted to reblog in tags with my blorbos tbh

Me: YES JAQUI

Judar Doodles

Judar wearing hanfu (daxiushan (outer coat jacket) and ruqun (hanfu top and wrap around skirt))

Judar WIP doodles

I've been meaning to refine this concept art sketch soon...

Rahhh I keep thinking about that sketch Ohtaka made of him wearing changshan and hanfu... Her sketches are so fluid. Her art is so dynamic.

Me: Judar is wearing Indian/South Asian clothes in his canon design, but the series calls it "Middle Eastern" clothes 😭

Also I just don't want to draw the bastardized/racially stereotyped outfits in Magi, so I'll be proceeding with my HC versions and redesigns instead.

I also love Miaojiang fashion's inspiration from Indian clothing (with the Silk Road elements)

It's why I opt to draw Judar in hanfu/huafu instead in my HC versions to project his ethnicity more on his design. He is from the Kou Empire, so he is Chinese coded.

I'VE BEEN WANTING TO DRAW HIM IN MIAOJIANG STYLE FASHION AND VIET FASHION FOR THE LONGEST TIME RAHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I LOVE HIM. I LOVE MY SON!!!!!!!!!

MY SON WITH A CANON BLACK SUN AND MOON LEITMOTIF... ECLIPSE THEMED...

God Ohtaka's inking, level of detailing, and compositions, are out of this world.

Since it's summer I should eventually get on the grind of translating JuAli doujinshi and KuroEne's old Pixiv Logs/Twitter Fanarts 🙏

I have 15+ JuAli doujins in my hands (mostly SFW, but a few are NSFW), because I bought them from secondhand resellings

I imagined that most JuAli doujins were made during the time while the Magi anime was airing

I have at least 90% of KuroEne's fanarts saved from back then (mostly SFW, but there's some NSFW)

For KuroEne, most of them are mainly fanarts from 2012 - 2016, but there are some from 2017 - 2020+

I got into KagePro and KuroEne when I was like 12.

Kid me was a master archiver that saved most of their fan-works 🫡

Since I tend to gravitate towards niche popular ships (ex. LimGuda) and rare pairs (ex. JuAli, KuroEne, XanLena, IdaTatsu)

I was so pleasantly surprised that 2 of my biggest OTPs ever have old NSFW doujinshi like OMGGG

I'm so shocked about the existence of a few JuAliHaku (NSFW) doujinshis like I am winning ✌️ I have a few of them!

KuroEne had a bunch of NSFW logs back then that I archived

Though, ofc, I understand the gray area of translating the works of artists who are not in the fandom anymore and/or deleted their accounts.

I'll make it more discrete by making a Tumblr post and then linking to one of my public Notion pages.

I first got exposed to fan-doujin culture through KHR, so Ik there's tons of doujins that I would've never gotten to read if it weren't for fan-translations.

Especially since KHR had a really active doujin scene, and was most active during the mid 2000s - early 2010s. KHR was renowned for having one of the biggest doujinshi counts at the time

I have over 20+ LimGuda doujinshi (assumably 20 - 25), but LimGuda's artists are very active in the fanbase, so I won't post them publically to respect their wishes.

Feel free to DM me if you're curious though ^^

I also won't share the doujinshi (publically) of artists who are still in the fandom.

I translated a bunch of comics and fanarts for now so I can post those eventually!

I have a bunch of doujinshi TLs that I started (either translated half-way or are mostly translated), I'm just in the process of editing them/looking them over for typos

I was just thinking about I saw Tonari-san tweet that she was considering organizing and making a JuAli fan-anthology 🖤❤️💛🐈‍⬛☀️

Not sure if it'd be a ship based doujin or a Chindou-gumi ("Strange Journey Duo") focused one.

So Ig it could be either JuAli as a ship, or a gen-doujin just focused on the duo's gen-dynamic (that could be read as platonic)

Though she was wondering if there would be people that would contribute to it. I think I did see some people interested.

She said that if she does put one together, then it'd be for an in-person Magi doujin event in Japan next year.

(Anthology = Collab fan-book/doujinshi where artists and writers contribute illusts, comics/manga, and fic, etc.)

Not sure if it's gonna happen but IF it does... 👀

Omg 🥺🙏

I'd really love to contribute to a JuAli anthology/doujinshi ❤️

But considering my situation as an Overseas mutual/follower who's still learning JP and also can't show up to Magi doujin circle events in-person (considering that I'm in another country), I think it'd be best for me to sit this one out.

Like I WOULD offer but it complicates things imo.

I'm on summer break rn after I finished my 1st undergrad degree, but will be coming back to school for my 2nd undergrad degree for the Fall 2025 term.

Because I can't really predict what my schedule will be like next year.

I feel like I'd probably get really busy due to IRL/school (which is why I'm a lot more active rn)

My posts and posting frequency will definitely slow down a LOT once school starts up again for me.

Though if a JuAli or Chindou-gumi ("Strange Journey Duo") anthology doujin does happen, I will be RIGHT there to purchase any leftovers that get put up online on Booth (hopefully!)

I would certainly be SUPER interested!!! 🙏

Either way, Tonari-san said she'll put up her JuAli fan-merch on BOOTH around July and August, so hopefully I'll be able to buy her recent merch then 🙏

JuAli and AliHaku charms I got from Tonari's Booth 🖤💛💙

THE ART STYLE IS SOOOO CUTE AND I LOVE THE SHAPES AND VIBRANT COLOURS USED...

I'M SO GLAD TO HAVE FAN MERCH OF MY MAGI OTP AND MY 2ND FAVE MAGI SHIP... 💓💗💕

It's honestly a miracle that they still have fan merch 🥺💗💖🙏

Link to charms on Booth: (X) & (XX)

I will post my charm pics on main eventually!

I'll get around to posting more of my merch hauls eventually.

OG pics are 4000 px, but Tumblr can only post up to ~2000 px so I had to resize them to post here

Rambles under the cut about JuAli 🐈‍⬛☀️🖤💛

(Just realized I forgot to post some parts so I'm reposting my rambles)

Magi: Ch. 110, Ch. 196, Ch. 239 - 240

Queued a JuAli dialogue script to post tonight ^^

I started writing down some ideas once I came back home.

I was gonna post it cuz it just started out as a couple lines, but then I got carried away as usual LOL.

I love writing for my evil meow meow mf black cat faves. My fave chara type to write for~ 🐈‍⬛

Judar is especially fun to write ❤️🖤🐈‍⬛

I love my skrunkly who is canonically themed with Black Sun and Moon leitmotifs~ This makes him Eclipse themed too... 🖤☀️🌙🌒

Just like the Eclipse... The Sun eaten by the Moon...

That's why to me, JuAli is, "The Moon eating the Sun," just like an Eclipse. ☀️🌙🌒

I love his character depth ❤️

Ohtaka's writing is generally so clever and well-thought out.

I also love his personality and how he acts, driven by instinct and the childish impulse to "find something to entertain himself with"

I completely understand Ohtaka when she said that Judar has the easiest face/eyes for her to draw. Because Judar is also the easiest Magi chara for me to draw too.

Iirc she said it in one of her early Magi manga Shounen Sunday updates in JP but I'd have to find the post again.

I love how Ohtaka based some of her charas' shape language on animals.

Judar's braids are based on the shape of a scorpion's tail.

The way Ohtaka stylizes his braids simplifies the shape to make it easy to draw and also looks soooo good. I love how it looks all tornado and galaxy shaped. Like a black vortex.

Though for me it's due to practice and cuz I have a favoured chara design type I prefer drawing.

Ohtaka's shapes and silhouettes are so good... My art inspo 💞🙏

Judar is completely my fave type of fictional chara, and his design (face and hair design) appeals to my aesthetics the most, design wise.

When it comes to drawing masc charas, I excel the most at drawing ikemen sharp eyed (tsurime) cat-like masc charas, and I just fizzle out when drawing other chara types outside of my range.

I want to get better at drawing other charas too eventually 🙏

It's what makes JuAli's competitiveness and tension and clashes with each other, soooo satisfying to write.

I'm still adding to my rambles rn, so before it gets posted, I wanna include where I was inspired by and referenced from some scenes from the Magi manga.

I love the design trope/detail where Judar's drawn with spirals in his eyes and eyeliner via the hatched lines above his eyes... It's what inspired me to draw spiral eyes for Kuroha/Saeru too 💞

I clearly have a type with my fave fictional charas 😂

I don't think anyone has more obvious chara tastes than me tbh like it's the most obvious thing in the world LMAO

I named my fave character type (the most common "Sen-core" character type), by the name "Meow meow mf"

My “meow meow mf” faves are distanced from humanity, and/or, normal social interactions, due to royal/divine/non-human status or emotional repression/emotional issues, which gives their ego this very specific "Sen-core" quality.

Putting it like this, every single one of my "Meow meow mf" faves falls into this category, without exception (ie. Hibari (KHR), Xanxus (KHR), Douman (FGO), Judar (Magi), Idate (WATGBS AU), Kiara (FGO), Kuroha/Saeru (KagePro))

They are also my top fave charas ever.

“Being distanced from humanity due to being non-human, which gives their ego this ‘Sen-core’ quality”

I do that that the quality of having an ego/arrogance is what defines them as "Meow Meow Mf."

If they don't have it, then they fall into other secondary Sen-core character types I enjoy.

I always go for this character type, so I called it “Meow meow mf.” A cat-like character with the above traits.

"How do you find these charas"

I can sense it. My cat senses are tingling! 🐈‍⬛ /lh

It's like a radar 😌

Jokes aside, I can tell pretty quickly (usually almost right away) if a chara will be my fave.