[a parody of the attack on titan promo poster. youmu standing with her back towards the viewer, and a giant wall in the distance. Marisa towers over the walls. the surroundings are on fire.]

On that day, Gensokyo received a grim reminder:
"Take it easy~!"

Here are some of my favourite pieces from this year's Artfight!

[A humanoid in space in an angelic pose.]

[A human in a dramatic pose, wearing a billowing cape. The cosmos can be seen in the inside of the cape.]

[An anthropomoprhic cat looking down; he is wearing military garb. The perspective is exaggerated. The moon is large is just above the character.]

[An android riding a motorcycle in a precarious way.]

[A humanoid person crouched in the forest, with large wings. The person is wearing a reflective mask. The art style in the reflection is realistic.]

[An antropomorhic rabbit floating in the air]

[A Tiefling leaning against a bar.]

[In the "oh approching me" meme pose, Linkyu is approaching Tapestry.]

[An anthrpomorphic red panda enthusiastically waving a trans flag.]

A quick something I did for Pride Month.

Some concept art for Cosmic Void: Genesis

[A view of feryuu looking up into the high-rises of Cape Namida. Bridges are connecting the buildings.]

The idea with Cape Namida is that it's a very dense city, with very little horizontal space, so it is built very vertically. Because of this, going from building to building can take a very long time if you have to go down to street-level every time, so bridges are built between the buildings to minimize the need for long elevators.

I feel like something like this would require a lot of safety nets, but that sounds like a big maintenance cost, so I'm thinking most bridges are probably enclosed, actually.

[4 illustrations. The first one is of Feryuu, holding a red NO sign while shouting from atop a playfground slide. The second one is Feryuu dangling from a rope with lasers around. Third is Feryuu swinging a bat. Last is silhouette of Feryuu from the back.]

Genesis will have 5 chapters, one for each school year. I want the first 2 to be very light-hearted, to build up the characters, then gradually make them grow through increasingly high-stakes events in the next 3 chapters.

[Feryuu in the middle of throwing a baseball pitch. The scoreboard is visible in the background. It is the final inning, with 2 strikes.]

[Feryuu batting. The sound effect CLINK is floating around her.]

When I started writing Genesis, I didn't expect baseball to even be a thing at all, and now it is a very important part of the story. It certainly didn't help that as the idea grew on me, I looked up baseball representations in other medias and ended up binging all of the Big Windup! manga. That really cemented it for me, like a "oh yeah, this is exactly what I want to add to this story" kind of way.

[Feryuu in a red baseball uniform, leaning on a bat. She looks smug.]

I had a lot of fun designing the uniform, too! I wanted something slightly modern, but with a retro aesthetic, to match the world of Genesis. In the end I used the shield design from the late 1800s, so maybe I went a bit overboard with it... But I guess it fits with some of the anachronistic details of the story, so I'll pretend this was on purpose.

[A comic panel of a convenience store. Feryuu is shouting about needing a president's signature to Maja, who is very confused.]

Ahhh, Conima. This place will come up a lot in the story, as this is the workplace for Maja's side job (she's the kids homeroom teacher during most days). Her appartment is also located just above the store. Because of the close relationship between her and the kids, they end up frequenting this store a lot.

It's a very typical franchised corner store; part of it is inspired from japanese konbinis, but really it's more of a small grocery store, like a Vidal. Well, I guess nowadays there is very little difference between the two anymore.

[Feryuu in several poses][Amy in several poses]

[Kane in several poses][Tim and Stu in several poses]

The main cast! Well, an early reference draft, at least. 
In most of the Cosmic Void story, Feryuu is the main focus point, but in Genesis, she's sharing the spotlight with Amy, Kane, and the twins Stu and Tim. 

I expected writing them to be a challenge, as I don't usually write children characters, but it turned out to come rather naturally in the end.

[A comic page, with Feryuu asking Amy to confess her feelings to someone.]

[Stu and Feryuu are holding Amy above their heads, so she can be at eye-level with someone at a window. She's offering a ceramic frog to the person. Both look ecstatic.]

Amy is someone who is full of love, so I knew early on that she was going to have a crush on a classmate at some point. It ended up being a very fun B plot to write.

[A picture of Feryuu and Amy. Amy is lying down in the grass on the side of the path. Feryuu is balancing on metal bars. Cape Namida can be seen in the background. It is dusk.]

Although a lot of worldbuilding went into Cape Namida, most of the story does not happen there, but rather in the Michitat District, which is right across the channel. I wanted Michitat to feel like a coastal town, but I also wanted to have details around to remind that this is, in fact, still a dense city. Having the towering skyscrapers of Cape Namida in the background often helps with that.

[Uraraka Ochacko with a Halo energy sword. She looks very angry.]

I'll be completely honest, I absolutely do not remember the context of this drawing.

Just some silly drawings of my fursona

[Several red pandas imitating the taunting poses of the game Pizza Tower]

[A 4-panel comic of Linkyu eating a uranium ore rock. Its eyes are glowing afterwards.]

[4 pictures of Linkyu's fursona in various outfits.]

[A winged person wearing a titty window sweater backwards so that the wings can go through]

hear me out

[Samus in her Dread suit, looking down a shaft. The bridge is broken and something at the bottom is broken too.]

My piece for the fantastic zine All The World In One Girl, by dotzines!

You can download the full zine for free here: https://dotzines.itch.io/all-the-world-in-one-girl