Uh-oh, it looks like Yu forgot to actually answer this one. I guess maybe this is an “actions speak louder than words” type situation. I’ve been looking for a chance to do something with Yu and the regular, modern version of Nanami (since one of them got the chance to grow up), and this seemed like as good an opportunity as any.
So I’ve been slowly working my way through Demon Slayer for a while with a friend, and only just recently got to the Entertainment District Arc. As of yet I have not met Tengen’s wives, although I have seen them in the credits. That being said, I know they’re relatively in-demand characters, with one or two of them usually getting nominated to the NHML each month. Tengen himself has been in the Studio for a while, with a handful of appearances, so I figured he’d be happy to have his wives join him here. Since I haven’t really met them, I mostly guessed based on their designs how their dynamic might go, and hopefully I got the scene close enough to be believable.
I don’t really think I have anything to say about this one, but I hope some of y’all enjoy it.
So the Subscribers have spoken and they want to see Gwen with a random member of the Studio. Like I said before, this option would lead to a partner selection through the same method I use for series like First Shoot, and via that process we landed on Peggy Hill. I’m actually really excited to work with Peggy here, I think she and Gwen have some good potential and I’m looking forward to seeing where things go between them. I’ve got a handful of fun selections for the next pic, I think, and I’m curious to see which direction we end up going in.
Just some pretty basic brotherly bonding in the Studio here.
The Komi MomSwap’s been on the docket for a while, even before Shuuko’s NHML win, and here it is. It’s a little hard to imagine Shouko going through with an actual meet-up set up through this app, but they’re at least putting themselves out there.
For this one, I kinda thought it’d be cute if Zarbon just earnestly addressed the premise of the question.
So I had an idea for a pin-up series I wanted to try. The premise is that my Subscribers could submit a franchise, any franchise, which would then get randomly selected. From the winning series, I would then pick my “favorite” character, who would get a pin-up. The idea is that, for franchises I know well I’d have a pretty well-informed opinion for that, while for ones I don’t know it’d be mostly based on first impressions and aesthetics.
This pic started as a test run of that concept, with D.Gray-man Hallow winning. I have very little familiarity with this series, having only read the first chapter of the manga back when it was printed in Shonen Jump during my subscription many, many years ago. Looking at the characters, this one named Road Kamelot stood out to me, so I picked her. Now, I don’t even know if this is a villain or a hero, and it seems like she has two different color schemes, but I went with the design I liked best.
While working on this, I decided I don’t really like this premise much for a pin-up series. Rather than pick my favorites, I’d like to change the scope to instead be on Studio debuts. By that I mean, when a franchise wins the raffle, instead of picking my personal favorite I’ll choose a character who I haven’t drawn from that series. I think that’ll make this a more interesting series, and I’m gonna call it Newbie Nudies as a cute little title. Obviously there will still be an element of my personal bias in selecting the characters, but this priority shift will affect not only series I know well (obviously I’ve drawn all my favorite DBZ, JJK, etc. characters already), but also new shows like this. While Road was my favorite character looking the series up, if I’m just drawing someone I haven’t before I probably would’ve started with the protagonist first.
Anyway, I hope y’all will like this series. I don’t plan to do it often, but every now and then I think it could be fun.
So the Mystery Solvers Club is something alluded to in an Ask a while ago. It’s one of a few clubs that haven’t gotten a Club Card yet, so I haven’t gotten to elaborate on the club itself much, but activity I imagine them doing is setting up “mysteries” involving some of the spookier Studio residents of the haunted mansion. The idea there is basically not that different from the ClashMe app, just handled a bit different. I figured Fred could talk about that a bit here, and I paired him with the Ghost Witch of Old Salem for demonstration purposes.
Even as I post this for Subscribers, it’s a bit past the 4th of July, and will be even more so by the time it goes public. Nevertheless, this Lord Tier Subscriber wanted their commission to feature Gon and Killua at a fireworks show, and I did my best to capture that vibe here.
