#vapris

For the @vsmp-bat-conservation-event ! When you sleep for 600 years, you might miss some interesting scientific discoveries about what your bat form can do.

Image: Drift, Scott and Shelby are flying as bats. Drift lets out a high-pitched pulsing sound indicated by exclamation points; more exclamation points outline the tops of nearby trees. Looking surprised, Scott asks her “What did you just do?!”

Bat Conservation International: https://www.batcon.org/

Wanted to draw Cherri feeding her cherries, but I couldn’t get the hands to look right.

Bat Conservation International: https://www.batcon.org/

Colored with Prismacolor pencils.

Bat Conservation International: https://www.batcon.org/

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Panel 1: Pearl, in bat form, hangs upside down from a chandelier and narrates in imitation of David Attenborough: “Here we see a bat, in a vast castle that resembles its natural habitat of a cave. This creature’s remarkable claws let it grip even the smallest of crevices, hanging upside down as long as it wa—uh oh.”

Panel 2: Oscar the cat stares upward in confusion. From above comes Pearl’s voice: “Aw, nuggets. Oscar? Can you go get Cleo?”

Panel 3: Pearl still hangs from the chandelier, but now she’s human-shaped and tilting the chandelier to one side. Another bat (Cleo) approaches her. “You know, usually it’s firefighters who come when cats are stuck somewhere high up, not the other way around.”

“Are you going to help me down, or just fly around laughing like a butt?” asks Pearl.

“Did you forget your bat form has a timer?”

See you Sunday!

I just love that the Vapris universe’s version of Cherri sews (mentioned in one of Apo’s letters), because I sew and now I get to imagine what someone who sews like me might do if her beloved came home as a vampire. And since I’ve already been sewing tiny things related to VSMP (which I will post here when more of them are done), now I can draw Cherri doing the same! Maybe she caught one of the decoy bats that appear when a vampire turns into one and measured it so as not to spoil the surprise by measuring Apo. And since a vampire’s human-shaped clothes stay put when they become bats, why not apply the same logic to a little bat-size copy of Apo’s cape?

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One thing a lot of the VSMP members mentioned is how the YT format helped a lot of channels reach new audiences and vice versa. And I've seen plenty of fans talking about how they liked one or more creators that the series introduced them to, enough to watch more of their non-Vampires content going forward.

So I'm curious: who did Vapris bring across your radar?

I made the chart deliberately generic so people can use it for other SMPs besides Vampires if they want—like Bannerfall, perhaps. Here's mine!

Colored with Prismacolor pencils.

I've been posting drawings to Reddit basically since the VSMP sub was created at the beginning of the series. This piece was a suggestion from a regular commenter on my work there...actually, the original suggestion was just "Apo cooks something special for Cherri despite not being able to taste it" but during our brainstorming session it turned into "Apo tries and fails to cook something special for Cherri because she can't taste it." Went for chocolate pudding because a) chocolate looks and smells just as good whether it's sweetened or not, and b) unlike cakes or other desserts, it might be possible to salvage bitter pudding by stirring in sugar afterwards, like Cherri's suggesting here.

My favorite part of the piece is either the pudding itself (I don't even like pudding or cherries but it still looks really tasty) or the ponytail in the first panel. I only tied back her hair (which they dyed in a previous piece, hence the color and white roots) so it wouldn't get into the food, but it ended up looking really cute that way.

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