Don't ask me what that's an acronym for, I have absolutely no idea- I just wanted to sound cool. Anyone's free to think of what it could stand for, but I'm already using up all my brain juices to write this art dump

But here I am, two days after my birthday, back with another chapter! I'll probably ditch this website sooner or later, I think. It does hold a lot of sentimental value to me though, and I would've loved to get to the end of this book, but this is only the 98th chapter-

I missed pride month, though to be honest I only really did one special thing for it. The month means a lot to me, don't get me wrong, it's just- how do I make my art any gayer than it already is? Haha-

But enough about that, let's start off with a little last-minute collab I had the idea for!

A while back, I wanted to draw Core again. He's such an intriguing character to think about and I kiiiinda wanted to update his design but decided the current is good enough (and I do enough redesigning already). However, after coloring/shading the hair and face, I gave up on the drawing

pastelchromist took over from this point on and finished it for me, which was really nice of her! And may I say, it looks absolutely amazing! I love the reflective shines you added to his hair, the scarf, and I can't get enough of the glowy parts of his body. And the background!

It just turned out really nice, and I'm so grateful you finished it and I ended up getting such a pretty render qwq

Now that I got the chance to geek out about that, I suppose it's time to post the 'pride' part of this chapter- Another collab!

This one was done with none other than Addxiety, who colored the majority of my lineart! Do I even have to mention how well he shaded their hair?? The talent this son of a gun has is just *chef's kiss*

And the flowers! The way he did those looks so real! There's just so much to this I adore qq I did end up helping with the clothing and the heart-shaped flower, since those are pretty dang hard to get right, and I did struggle with them myself- But honestly, I'm just so proud of us both! Especially Add!

So just admire his work for a second with me, would you? He more than deserves this

Oh yeah, I guess I should talk about the actual content of this drawing- It's Saioma. If you're into Danganronpa, you know what it is. I don't think I have to explain other than they're gay for each other, and you can't convince me otherwise

Speaking of Danganronpa, I think it's time I dumped the rest of my drawings related to it. AKA, two more .w.

This one has a bit of a backstory. I went on a field trip with my class and on the first night, we had a little name, and our group named themselves the peaches. My classmate drew a little peach, and I doodled a tiny Kokichi next to it, and boom! Kopeachy was born. Afterwards we both decided to draw our own depictions of him in our room. I dunno if she ever finished hers, but I colored mine on the second day

The drawing itself probably took about a couple hours, and I had to draw it from a weird angle, so I'm not really proud of it, especially his eyes. His pose is very stiff since I decided to stay in my comfort zone for this. I do like the colors though!

So, what did I decide to do once I got home? I drew him again, only digitally this time

If you don't see the improvement, I dunno what to tell you-

Of course it looks better. I took my time with it, didn't have to draw from an uncomfortable angle, and looked at better references for the flowers. And the pose is more like him too!

I still really like this despite it being one of the older drawings in this chapter. The purple bandana-scarf hybrid was a last-minute thing, but I think it adds to it!

I just really like this creation. He looks good with peach hair! Maybe one day I'll do the rest of the cast as different kinds of fruits as well!

Anyway, last thing!

I'm still a little obsessed with this picture. Basically, Add created his own Danganronpa V3 OC a while back, and recently I decided to do so as well. And so, Hikoki was born! I didn't plan to go so overboard with this drawing, but you'll find that happened with most of the pictures in this art dump, haha-

I did a fleshed-out full body, a little sketch next to him, made sure to show the back of his design, and then decided to add some in-game stuff, like the bio, his pre-game version, his (very fiery) death, and I think I nailed his name plate thing!

His colors...are a different story. They took me goddamn forever, I tried so many different combinations and blending modes and I'm still not 100% happy with the one I went with. But I do like it!

Maybe I'll make art of him and Add's character Yurei hanging out in the future, who knows!

Alright, that's it for the Dr stuff, I promise! I guess I should introduce the other new character next, huh?

Meet Scourge! Hopefully you can tell from the doodle at the top, but he's the uh, "fusion" of Beta and Pascal. Though he looks more like their kid-

Being their fusion, of course he has to be sick and twisted with a psychopathic worldview. He murders for fun and only genuinely cares about a few people. I think scourge also means to ruin or something? It definitely has a negative connotation behind it

I also drew a little thing of him being really affectionate towards Zander, because he is. He's kinda all over the guy and Zander can't help but have gay panics. I'd ship it if Scourge wasn't a shit person

Oh! I designed him in Gacha Club, by the way. I figured since I originally created Beta and Pas in Gacha Life, it was only fitting to bring that back for Scourge. And honestly, it was a great idea, because I definitely couldn't have come up with his gorgeous color palette myself-

I could go on about him but I should probably stop- Instead, let's move on to something else!

I found an old drawing recently of Beatrix- Or Star, as she was originally called. And it got me thinking; Bea's design was always the hardest to get right. I redesigned her like, five times and still wasn't satisfied, till I landed on a red velvet cake theme. Only, that theme doesn't...fully get her personality at the start right, if that makes any sense?

Basically, I decided: Why not use both? I drew two versions of her, how she looks at the beginning of the story, and how she looks later. She gradually starts turning into the second design the more she grows as a person, since she starts off as an anti-hero protagonist. I did redesign her 'starter' look slightly, and it made me realize how much I missed the purple-yellow look she had. But since I also adore the red velvet one, it made me realize I wanted to do this

I also gave her one white wing- Don't really know why, and I may not keep it but hey, it looks cool!

I'm curious, which design of hers do you guys prefer?

Speaking of characters changing as the story progresses, anyone remember the changes that Nala was originally supposed to go through?

Yeah, he was supposed to start out with half yellow-half purple eyes, wearing a blue-purple sweater. Super random, but it was an homage to his very original design, where he had a simple blue sweater

I took it upon myself (cuz who else is gonna do it?) to redesign his first look since we all know what he looks like later in the story; he has an oversized magenta sweater with the peace sign and gradient socks!

Here he is! This was probably the quickest drawing I've done in a while, I did it in one sitting! Which is nuts, I usually never have the luxury of being fast. Though this is a pretty simple thing

I pretty much omitted the purple, since it made zero sense whatsoever, and went with pink instead, to match his Angel parts! I didn't think too much about this redesign, just went with what looked good. The socks are meh, but I didn't wanna spend too long on them

Of course, once Nala comes out of his shell, faces his insecurities about being "weak" and discovers his true self, he starts wearing the peace sweater. But let's appreciate younger Nala for a second! He needs a hug

We're still not done with the redesigns! Told you I do too many

Ah, A-Z. I neglected his character for a loooong long time. Even Shae got more attention from me than him, though not by much. Anyway, I originally had no problem with this design and planned to keep it, if not change things around a small bit, but um...

Yeah, that plan didn't last long at all. Not that I'm complaining! I think he looks so pretty with his purples and half-white hair, it just took me by surprise!

So let's talk about it for a second, shall we? I kept his outfit mainly the same and just added some chains to his jeans. It's the colors that I changed around drastically, and I like them so much more! It's just?? So pretty?? I love purple, man. His hair was supposed to stay the same, but I really liked how he looked with the white hair, so, not wanting to completely get rid of the brown, I put the two together, and I'm really happy with it, he looks so unique!

I knew I wanted to give him a batball as a pet, since Azures can turn into small sparkles exactly their size. And thus, Buzzy was born!

I changed his eye color since I was really bored of the bright magenta. Then I added a small full body in the top corner for reference, and did some colored sketches depicting him being the biggest teenager ever, as well as hanging out with his partner Aomo!

I just...really like how this came out. And I hope you guys do too!

Anyway, I don't really have a segue for this next one. On my birthday I decided to draw some lore. I drew some of my characters when they were younger to cope with the fact I'm getting older

And it occurred to me- I've never drawn Autumn with his normal Gold colors! So, now was a perfect time

Look. At. Them. Ahhhh! They're so precious! I suck at drawing different ages, but Autumn's supposed to be five years old here, and Topaz is three!

I gave them some faded, cozy winter clothes since their family was pretty poor, and the area they were from was colder than other places in the Fairy kingdom. I put a little blue flower on Autumn's beanie to hint at what's to come

Ahhhh, looking back I should've drawn tiny Topie stepping in a puddle, that would've been so cute! Ah well, too late now. Less chance of him contaminating his lollipop, I suppose!

I seriously love how these two came out. They look absolutely adorable!

We've moved on to the final two pieces, both redraws. You guys ready? Let's start with the smaller project!

Ah, I remember this. I do still adore Data with all my heart. And since Add recently redesigned him, I figured, why not redraw it once more?

It ended up changing a little more than I expected, but look at them! I got a little sick of seeing Beta with the same expression, so I ended up drawing him being the cheeky flirty bastard he is

Other than that, Dawn's new design speaks for itself, I think. I really like it! I struggled with their profile views a lot, and I do think their heads are too big in hindsight, but oh well! I added some blood since I felt like it made more sense for the characters. Didn't do much besides that, but I still like how it turned out!

Not as much as this next project though, oh no. This was big. And I was in a great headspace when I drew it apparently, because I didn't struggle with it at all, and the whole thing was a really enjoyable experience!

But, before I show that, let's take a trip down memory lane for a second. Starting from September 2018, the moment a drabble was born, accompanied by this illustration

I dunno why I made that sound so fancy. Anyway, Betrayed! Yes, this is the series of pictures I decided to add to. This original one was nothing special, and I can only assume it took me a couple hours at most. Ah, back when my art was simple and quick...Anyway!

Fast forward a couple months, and in November 2018, this was made!

I feel like this is the most iconic version of them all since it's still to this day the cover of my first artbook. Ah, the memories! Already so much improvement after two months as well, wow!

Then came September 2019, a year after the original

This one's...meh. I don't really know what to say about it. It's fine? The hands are huge, they have no noses, I took the background off of the internet, and I HATE that style of magic I used. The text is so huge too, it takes away the focus from the characters

In March 2020, the moment everything was on lockdown, I redrew it once more during online school

Instantly, significantly better. While the background is lazy and pretty awful, at least I drew it myself. The magic still sucks, and on top of that the purple flame thing coming out of his eye is god-awful. But at least they have noses! And I finally redesigned Autumn's prince outfit, which was marginally better. The text is still too big though, and you can barely read it since it's covered

Then, October 2020. The only other time I decided to redraw it in the same year

And WOW the improvement was there. I remember being so proud of this, but looking back now, there's so much wrong with this. The magic, while a little better, is still awful. They look chubby and their heads are too wide, though I guess it does make them look like young teens. Autumn's chin-neck section doesn't make any sense, and what's with the weird random thick lineart? It's really distracting

And finally, July 2022. It's been a long time and here we are once more. You guys ready? I barely am, haha-

Here we are. I don't even know where to start, um...

I definitely got better at proportions, haha! I ended up changing Autumn's prince outfit drastically because you know how I am with redesigns. I don't think I nailed Zander's expression perfectly, but I still like it! I straightened Autumn's posture to make him look more like he's looking down at his counterpart

As you can see, I went full out with the background this time. Like, I even rendered things that I knew would be covered! It could literally be used outside of this drawing. I incorporated all six different plants to further hammer in that this is supposed to be in the Fairy forest. I added some shadows in the foreground so that they look like they're in a forest and it's not just behind them

I'm REALLY proud of that flame in Autumn's hand. I don't even really know how I did it, honestly. The blood and dirt were so much friggin fun to do. Drea's ghost/spirit thing was a last-minute doodle since I completely forgot to sketch it out, but I don't think it looks bad! I really hope the purple hue in Autumn's eye is visible

Oh, and the lighting. Gosh, that was SO much fun! I've never really done it like this before until recently, and I really think it adds to the bigger picture, the lighting from the moon, from the flame, as well as their gemstones was all a blast to do

I made the text small so that it actually looks like dialogue and doesn't take away too much attention from the scene. Oh, and I changed the text itself! Yeah, while the original line is iconic, I think the new one fits Autumn's character better

Can you tell I'm geeking out about this? Because I am >u<

Anyway, Imma stop now before I derail into something else- I'm really interested to hear your feedback on this redraw! But until then, Imma go take a break from drawing quq