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More of those weird creatures

Should I do Tamers too?

Howdy folks, remember that post I made a little while back about remaking my old digimon pride art and turning them into stickers? Well, I did! And if you would like to buy the designs on something, check out the redbubble link below!

It's been a year since that special day when Digimon Adventure Beyond was released as part of the 25th anniversary of Digimon Adventure.

I remember I had just returned to this story after almost 20 years and it felt almost unreal to have something new to watch, even if it was so short.

Back then, I really wished (and I still do) that the idea of a Digimon Adventure novel would turn out to be true.

Last week was the last rerun'd episode (in Japan) of Digimon 02 on Youtube, ending with episode 50--and well, I had actually planned two months in advance to have this picture finished and ready to post by last week, in honor of the 25th anniversary of the last episode!

Well, obviously that didn't happen.

Long story short, physical health issues and art program issues combined with the Universe's usual hatred of me lmao. But I finished it after two months, it's done, it's late, it's out there and I think it looks cool!

I originally struggled on a good idea for a big splashy anniversary picture. I wanna be someone who contributes more art related to the epilogue lol even if it gets ignored by 90% of the Western Digimon fandom, especially through my digimuyo crossover :P But I also wanted to make sure I finished the picture this year, for March THIS year, and not in two years if I went too ambitious. My brain has been a little on overdrive lately, so my little grey cells were overcooked...No ideas coming to me.

Then I remembered digitalgate02's wonderful callback to the iconic 02 eyecatch with her anniversary picture for 02 The Beginning! (Posted on her Rui-centered blog.)

I figured, eh, one more callback picture wouldn't hurt...Plus, as a Ken fan, I always also loved the last image because he's just so happy :') And I like his smiles from the epilogue :')

It was fun figuring out the older expressions as well as the placement of the kids. I think part of my struggle was trying to be expressive without breaking the whole homage, yanno. I also took way longer on this than I should have because I kept waffling between "adapt them to my style" and "follow the style guide" for the Digimon. Trust me, some of the first inked versions looked...Strange(tm).

One day I will be more confident in drawing them lol.

The last thing that made me take some more time on this was that--I genuinely wanted to redesign Miyako's look. Even as a kid, it was the only look that annoyed me so much, I can probably feel it through the sands of time until now. And I did manage to do it!...Then I went back on it because I didn't want people asking too many questions or assuming I was stupid or something. I'm tired. I'm old. I ain't got the patience for some things lol. So I did a best of both worlds and left her alone, but added/edited to some Beyond references instead. (For example, did you know her glasses in Beyond appear to have a red-themed color...) One day I'll post my own version of Miyako's epilogue look.

Eh, I think that's about all I got. Hope y'all like it!