Live and Learn!

This thing was originally for the Sonic AU Collision, which sadly didn't end up happening, so I forgot to post it. But this whole piece was an absolute blast to draw, especially Angel Shadow! He’s got such a complicated design. I forced myself to actually draw his hand and I think it paid off! It was also really funny to draw Demon Sonic with his arms on since I usually him without them.

Anyway, here's the logo-less and flipped versions!

IT'S HEEERE!!! MY ANGST VIA CANADIAN INDIE ROCK BAND!! (Go check out Good Kid if you've never heard of them. They're so good.) This one has been in my head for a month and I'm so happy to finally be able to post it! :D I'm picturing this scene happening at some point inbetween the Ceremonial Duel and DSOD. Yugi is shopping for clothes and catches a glimpse of Atem through a beam of light behind one of the clothing racks.

Anyway now it's yap time cause I have soooo many things to say about this thing!

Yugi's outfit is taken from DSOD and Yami's taken from this MMD video

I had to draw both of their collar bones and I've never had to draw a collarbone before XD

This art is all about Yugi's grief over losing Atem contrasted with Atem himself. Yugi wears black to reflect his grief while Atem wears white cause you know. Angel. :) I also made the conscious choice to leave the choker out of Atem's outfit so he'd seem a little more free. A little less confined. (The fact that he's also got an entire button on his shirt not done up certainly helps in that regard.)

Yugi's eyes don't have any shines in them, as opposed to Atem, who has shines. This is meant to make Yugi feel dead and Atem feel alive when in reality, it's the opposite. I also wanted to use Yugi's eyes to call back to what Yami's eyes looked like when Weevil tore the bug card that he said had Yugi's soul in it. Yugi also has dark circles under his eyes :) And real quick before we move on from the topic of eyes! Yugi's eyes are more angled out from how I usually draw them, showing he's starting to grow up.

Alright, next let's talk about the environment. The walls behind Yugi are grayer and duller while the walls behind Atem are significantly warmer. The beam of light, which is honestly the same beam of light between the two shots, is fainter on Yugi's side. Likewise, Yugi's checking out a bunch of monochrome and dull clothes while Atem's flannels are vibrant and colorful. Even the very clothes racks tie into all this! The circular racks show how Yugi is stuck in a perpetual loop of his grief while the straight racks show how Atem has moved on.

All this to say that Yugi feels he has died without Atem, while Atem has found new life. Stagnation vs progression. Grief vs acceptance. Death vs life.

Anyway, here's a version without the scene elements and stuff so you can see Atem in all his glory cause I tried out some new colors for him and I love how he came out :D

Warped Perspective AU:

Eclipse the Darkling is a weapon. A weapon to be used. Nothing more. And there’s nothing else he’d rather be. He’s sure of that…when did he become sure of that? Right. When Shadow became a problem again. Eclipse thought they could finally be brothers, it was what he wanted from the start. Now, though, he’s been shown the “truth” about why Shadow or anyone else accepted him in the first place. To use him. Manipulate him. And when the time came? Kill him. So how foolish of Eclipse, to think he should do anything other than he was made for! This time, he will kill Shadow, and avenge his kind, even if it takes the help of the only mortal he trusts to do it. When and why did he begin to trust him? Didn’t he hate Starline before…? Doesn’t matter anymore. Eclipse will do anything to fulfill his intended purpose. Anything.

Shadow, on the other hand, is being forced to come to terms with all the things he’d tried to push away for the longest time after Eclipse goes missing. The truce made between him and Eclipse (with the help of Sonic, annoyingly) was messy, but whether Shadow wanted to admit it or not, it led to a bond later down the line. It led to Shadow…caring about that little alien. Genuinely. Even nowadays he can feel conflicted about that part, given all that happened in the past, everything with the black arms…and if there’s something Shadow is NOT good at, it’s being open about anything. The roles are reversed after Eclipse’s rescue, with Shadow (in his own special Shadow way) attempting to bring back a bond that currently doesn’t exist, and Eclipse wanting nothing more than his “brother” to face his downfall. Even the dark arms aren’t too fond of Shadow right now. And though he feels Eclipse has every right to hate him, Shadow is determined to put Starline’s influence over this whole situation to an end. The question remains: how?

My Brother is a Zombot:

"My Brother is a Zombot" is a fancomic that follows Miles "Tails" Prower as he looks for a way to cure his older brother, Sonic the Hedgehog, who turned into a zombot. Because there has to be a cure- his brother is already a special case after all! Seemingly self-aware to some degree, able to recognize Tails as someone to be protected — there must be a way to turn him back.