just practice for derusting

left is a character i made for a foot pic that is kind of jank so i don't feel like uploading srry. his name is dorrmn (pronounced dorm, kind of like the silent r at the end of midgarsormr or jormungandr or garmr), shy stoic fella but can be very caring once you help him out of his shell, a bit overprotective though. species is a more porcine subspecies of orc (pig orc basically). does not have hooves in my canon, humanoid feet instead, but you're free to envision him with pig hooves if u want, it can look pretty nice aesthetically. if you want him to wear shoes, he has some handmade boots handy for entering stores and rough terrain and the like!

his reference pic was an old pic leomon32 did, much love to him, one of the first big name artists i managed to befriend, been looking up to his art since before i turned 18 and started interacting with people in the macro circles in 2015, after i made an account here (used to lurk e621 haha).

right was basically me bullshitting a picture of sakura kinomoto from cardcaptor sakura, an anime that is very near and dear to my heart and many of the people of my age range in portugal. she came out a bit different, looking a bit like choko from arc the lad. not sure what her name could be. ami?

i had precis from star ocean 2 in mind at the time so i'd like to give her an outfit closer to that when i give her another whirl, rather than trying to copy the ccs artwork and clamp's insistence with extremely detailed frilly dresses, need to practice a lot before im able to do one of those. personality and whatnot isn't finalized.

i'd like to also make a black gothic lolita girl who is a necromancer and frills are necessary, as well as studying drawing black hair (forgive me im stale white bread), rachel alucard is a heavy inspiration for the aesthetic along with just how inspired black hairstyles can get, i think they could flow super well with the gothloli aesthetic. she must also have a cute familiar.

sorry, i like designing lots of characters in my head. a bancholeomon evolution for koba with long ass braids, longer than dorrmn's, is definitely a must, a really buff bearwoman sword user too who is kind of a monster lady, a machop fursona for me that can evolve and devolve (inspired by r*pped-s*urian's recent work, censoring his name so it doesn't clutter his results), also a character that's a tete from summon night.

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i've been mostly making mario world stages (one is for a contest that's ongoing, no spoilers), code and have recently been working on music as well: arc the lad (it and saga frontier 2 are compatible with vgmtrans so!!!), phantasy star 1, xanadu dragon slayer 2, thinking of continuing my trails in the sky port and keep training my ear's pitch

also did a mario 3 nes stage and am planning to mess around with that one's disassembly and nodice editor (smb3 foundry will be kept around though for more vanilla efforts, very fun to use) as well as make some smbx 2.0 stuff (levels and lua code) for contests and for the sake of having fun.

making mario stages is a bit addicting when you get a good rhythm and a sort of direction going (shout outs to my friends and a lot of romhacks i've played in the past decade + two years), reminds me of making old jetpack dos levels as a wee lion cub, though those were much more scatterbrained.

either way i felt like making this because i haven't drawn in a long while. i think it came out alright? ami is a bit more sketchy, lithe young girls aren't usually my wheelhouse, im all about the baras and the chonkers. i have drawn asellus from saga frontier a few times though and princess white rose from the same game once (it was shipping fanart), that's basically the most of my experience

for now im gonna maybe draw a bit more, continue my arc the lad and xanadu music ports, and work on my magl4 stage (make a good level contest 4, contest on talkhaus and smwcentral)

have a good day. (^^)v