Lost In Paradise (Jujutsu Kaisen)

Yuji Itadori, Megumi Fushiguro, Nobara Kugisaki and Satoru Gojo dancing to Lost in Paradise by ALI feat. AKLO, the first ending theme song of Jujutsu Kaisen.

The song is very catchy, it won the award for "Best Ending Sequence" in the Crunchyroll Anime Awards 2021 and it's been on my playlist since I started watching Jujutsu Kaisen. 🎶 It's one of the outro sequences I never skip. And the animation of these four characters is so cool, the art has that unfinished look, so I used a textured pen and a brush pen in CSP and tried to imitate it. I hope you like it.

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Tri-Chain-Ju

Here are the protagonists of three anime shows I've been watching lately: Vash from Trigun Stampede, Denji from Chainsaw Man and Yuji Itadori/Sukuna from Jujutsu Kaisen.

I didn't know there was going to be a Trigun reboot (the original remained one of my dearest memories of pre-Crunchyroll and Netflix times), so this discovery took me by surprise. I was curious about the new style of animation, as well as the reimagined story. I don't like 3D/CGI cartoons and I've always believed that 3D anime have a special place in hell, but it turns out that some of them could change my mind - mostly if they don't look completely CGI and keep the 2D anime aesthetics in the art style, as Trigun Stampede does. The second surprise was the characters' redesign, especially when it comes to Vash, but somehow it works too.

The animation in Chainsaw Man is a blend of 2D and 3D animation - the environments are mostly 3D, while the characters are 2D. Jujutsu Kaisen has beautiful 2D animation and the interesting thing is that both of them are animated by MAPPA studio. They also took over the last season of one of my most favourite anime of all time, Attack On Titan, so no matter if they use 2D, 3D or CGI infused 2D, this studio is slowly but surely coming to the top of my list.

I liked combining these three characters into one drawing (and I'll try something similar in future, probably with Attack On Titan, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Demon Slayer, My Hero Academia, something like that). I actually drew them separately, which is a big step for me. I usually hate drawing multiple characters because it takes too much time and I just don't know when to stop adding small details that eventually become invisible once the image is resized. Even when there was just one character I used to avoid drawing the full body, but now I'm proud of how quickly I finished this drawing and controlled my obsession with details. All three poses are from @theposearchives.

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Spring 2023

It's spring time! Here's a redraw/remake of a drawing I did in 2020, this time as mixed media (digital sketch, alcohol markers, colouring pencils and collage).

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Leprecgnomes

Happy St. Patrick's Day! Here are some "Leprecgnomes" I made for our school project.

This could also be a nice post for the March Mixed Media art challenge. Sketches were made in CSP, transferred to paper and then coloured by alcohol markers and colouring pencils, finished with black and white markers and fineliners and then cut out to look like stickers.

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Happy PI Day

Happy PI Day, 3/14! Yep, that weird way of writing the date with the month first - but without it we wouldn't have these creative celebrations, so I won't be ranting this time. 😉

I combined my fanart for this day with a March Mixed Media art challenge. After drawing a sketch on my tablet, I printed it, transferred it on a thicker paper and coloured it with alcohol markers and colouring pencils. Then I used black and white markers to add the lines that have become my style over last few years and finally cut it out with a craft scalpel. I took a photo of it and added my logo in CSP. So, is it enough to fall under the mixed media category? 😄

As for the pies, I didn't draw what we used to call Disney pies or Tom & Jerry pies, although it's their most recognizable form. We used to see them only in cartoons and couldn't figure out how they were even considered pies, but truth be told, almost anything can be a pie, it depends on different cultures. I drew my two favourite pies - the salty one is made of thin flaky dough and cheese (often with spinach) and the sweet, square one is an apple pie, but it can also be with sweetened cheese or cherries. I adore anything sweet and can't exactly choose my favourite filling. 🤷‍♂️

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Grogu: Revenge of the Freauggos

Grogu: Revenge of the Freauggos

Freauggos are a semi-sentient carbon-based species. They're amphibians, but actually classified as aquatic because in Star Wars lore many lifeforms in this category often fit into other categories (they include creatures that can breathe water, air or both).

There are many subspecies within this species. They are predominantly green, but also brown, blue, red or purple creatures, usually with horns, especially in grown-up stages. They have a stout body, big protruding eyes, limbs folded underneath and no tail. Their skin is glandular, sometimes with toxic secretions. They can get quite big and although they mostly hop on all four limbs, there is evidence of somewhat humanoid forms.

The planet of origin hasn't been established yet. They can be found everywhere, especially the smaller subspecies, but the greatest concentration of species diversity is in tropical rainforests. Possible planets of origin include Felucia or Joralla and even Scarif.

Through two seasons of The Mandalorian we've seen Grogu occasionally feasting on smaller Freauggos, so it would be interesting to see him meeting some of the bigger and more frightening members of the species.

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Grace (Parkasaurus)

After so much time here's another version of Grace, a recurring character from video games played by Josh on his YouTube channel Let's Game It Out. This Grace is from his Parkasaurus video (13 Aug 2021).

But who is Grace and why is she in a lot of his games? I don't actually remember the exact origin, although officially she first appeared in his Startup Company video from April 2019. The thing is that Josh sometimes names one of the characters Grace or there's already a Grace present in a game and then somehow he finds ways to make her a "star" of his videos and she usually ends up in unexpected situations. I've drawn five of them so far, with plans to draw more whenever I feel inspired.

It's not easy to explain Josh's playing style. He ignores the rules of a gameplay and tries to explore as many unbelievable solutions and glitches as possible, often breaking a game, which results in hilarious videos. It's not your average gaming video, it's comedy gold!

This Grace is an employee at the Parkasaurus and the same character appears in different roles. As you start building your park, she's the first character you meet - first she's a ticket seller, later she works at a fruit stand etc. She's supposed to be a background character because the goal of the game is to build a dinosaur park, but it's never the case when Josh gets his hands on a game. 😉

I usually add something from the games in my drawings to make them more interesting. The dino is a Wuerhosaurus (of course, Josh calls it a Warehousesaurus 😄), basically the only dino species for the most part of the video, and Grace is holding tickets and a dinosaur egg. The pose is from @theposearchives.

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No AI "Art"

No, this isn't a March of Robots post, I just drew my Robosona design in Ghostbusters logo style to write a little rant. 😉

What to say about AI "art" that hasn't been said these last few months? I'm not actually an artist and I don't earn anything from whatever I create here. It's just a hobby, but I still consider myself a member of this community and it's difficult to ignore this issue.

When it comes to everyday users who don't even think of any kind of art, it seems like it could be treated as any other filter - if you need a new profile picture etc., something as simple as that (although there are copyright isuess too). The main problem is when they try to make money off it, calling themselves artists and creating something they claim is theirs, without taking art theft implications into consideration.

Basically, it makes creating art look like a chore, something we're forced to do and they present this "solution" as a shortcut, an easy way out. There's difference between brainstorming, drawing ideas and sketches, perfecting your final piece as long as it takes or just typing prompts in an AI generator program. You draw because you like it and if you want (or if you're lucky enough) you can make money off your own talent and effort, not by stealing.

Obviously this kind of technology is here to stay and I guess it could have some useful applications if dealt properly, but not as an ultimate substitute for real artists or a means of infringing artists' rights. We need new laws or any other way to define or repurpose its use.

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Odd Yuckly #60

Nonsense indeed. 😒

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