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WIP Stream Screencap from today! Made Gumimon today for the Digimon-a-day and sketched out the next episode piece for Digimon Adventure! Hopefully I can get that done quickly... x.x;;

#stream wip

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Birthday Stream!

Doing a special Birthday Stream today with a game from my childhood! https://www.twitch.tv/mizunoryuu_vap

#game stream #will delete later

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4/3/2024 Stream Screenshot Recap

Poked at my Digimon-A-Day and pulled Ketomon!

Otherwise worked on my Digimon Adventure art project!

Oof, now that I look at it, Meramon looks wonky... I'll have to come back and edit that. X.x;;

Again, thank you everyone who hung out in the stream!

#stream recap #stream screencap

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Note to Self - Speaking without Words with Word Balloons

Word gallons are for more than just words. They can be used to emphasis and even add emotions and to a scene

Feeling dizzy? About to pass out?

A lilting playful swirl (Time and Time Again by Deo I)

The white and black of the text has been replaced with a sinister black and the words are off tilter (Sword Interval by Benjamin Fleuter)

The voice is coming from a place deeper and more unsettling and the text is uneven and handwritten

A dismissive comment literally (metaphorically) stabs someone (Marionetta by Míriam Bonastre Tur)

Being interrupted before finishing what is being said

A withering and icy reply (The Secrets of Soulford by the Quincil)

Wobbly uncertain bubbles that even break apart in some parts from dizziness (The Blind Prince by cozycroww)

Pain almost appears to be breaking the usually round bubble into uneven and broken balloons. The little smaller balloons around it are reminiscent of sweat or tears (Heir’s Game by suspu)

#comics and manga #art resources #art tips

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Stream WIP Screen Recap!

Finished Matt+Garurumon vs Seadramon from Episode 3 of Digimon Adventure!

Also refined the Birbdramon vs Meramon piece and sketched out Kabuterimon vs Andromon. :3 Hopefully I can get those done quicker than Matt's. XD I didn't mean these to take so much time.

Anyways, thank you everyone who hung out on my stream!

#stream screencap #stream recap

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Stream Screencap for 3/20/2024!

Worked on Digimon Adventure episode 3's art and brainstormed for episode 4's today.

I did also finish lining a sleeping chibi Iori with Upamon (not pictured).

Thank you everyone who came out to the stream! Hopefully I'll have Garurumon and Seadramon done tomorrow!

#stream screencap #wip screenshot

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Too many artists are held back by outdated and bad color theory rules, or even rules that are fine but have built in limitations that you should know and I want to set everyone free.

#art tips #art fundamentals #color theory

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i want to tell something to people who make art.

i, too, am stupid, weak, foolish, and capricious. i, too, am full of fear, fear about what'll happen tomorrow, fear about things working out, fear about people figuring out who the "real me" is and shunning me once they've found out who i "really am..." but that's bullshit

be you. be the most you that's possible. be so you that you won't be mistaken for anything else.

keep being you. keep thinking about what you want to accomplish. keep thinking about what you want to bring into the world and what you want to exist. keep showing your humanity. ultimately you will bring your best craft into the world by being honest with yourself and what you really care about.

some people won't like you; some people will hate your guts because what you communicated through their art challenged them!!! (good job, by the way, you've probably said something meaningful!)

but, much more importantly, some people will love what you make, and that love will matter to them, and that love will inspire them, and that's the most beautiful feeling of all - that you showed someone that what they care about matters and is real and is meaningful

#art advice #art tips #I agree with this so much

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Had a lovely stream today! First time drawing again in a week and a half since I got back off vacation, but it was good to get back up on the bike. :)

Got some thumbnail sketches out for some plans I have for Digimon Adventure's 25th anniversary, touched my Digimon-a-day and added Cupimon to the bunch (don't worry, I'll be posting my Digimon-a-day soon-ish here, just getting a bunch queued up), and worked a bit more on my Artsing PNGAvatar.

#wip screenshot #stream recap

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Bonus #3: Is there a dialogue (sub/dub) from the series that you quote frequently IRL?

"Don't give up! You can't call it quits now just because of one or two mistakes you made. Man, I've made plenty and I oughta know. You just have to get up and try again." - Tai (dub), Digimon Adventure Episode 18, The Piximon Cometh

It’s not so much that I quote this line word for word, but I’m pretty sure the sentiment clung to me ever since I heard it. As I mentioned in my Day 5 post, this episode left an impression on me as a child.

It’s hard to remember to get back up and try again and honestly, I forgot about this episode until I rewatched the series with my husband. I’m going to keep trying my hardest at everything I do. If I fall, I’ll get right back up again, especially if it involves my passions.

Thank you everyone who followed me and liked my posts for DAWeek 2024. This is the last one for Adventure’s celebration, though I have plenty more plans for more art. So keep an eye out!

Time to get back up on the art and social media bike!

#daweek2024 #digimonadventureweek #Digimon #fanart #taichi yagami #tai kamiya #my art

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Bonus #2: What is the first memory you associate with Digimon Adventure?

Tai and Matt fighting and rolling around in the snow.

Basically, this was my thought process as a 9 year old child on this episode: "What is this Pokemon rip-off, oh god why is the intro theme catchy but also cringy, wait is the main character punching him? And the other guy is crying about his worries?"

… "We are calling this a Pokemon rip-off???? I'm confused. This is NOTHING like Pokemon."

I saw these two idiots throwing punches in the very first episode of Digimon that I got to catch on TV and had to wait for reruns to catch up and find out what exactly the deal was with this show. Kids shouldn't be fighting each other. Also the monsters were cute and cool.

Never regretted my curiosity.

Not once.

Except for maybe when my mom actually brought me to the theaters to watch Digimon: The Movie and had to sit through Angela Anaconda followed by the Digi-Rap.

#daweek2024 #digimonadventureweek #digimon #fan art #taichi yagami #yamato ishida #tai kamiya #matt ishida #my art

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Bonus #1: Which crest did you relate to the most as a child, has it changed since then?

Love and Kindness

As mentioned in day 1 and 2, I related to Sora and Biyomon with the Crest of Love. I grew up with an emotionally abusive mother. I won’t go into exact details of what I experienced to avoid triggering others. My mother’s erratic, abusive behavior, while she considered it was her way of showing love, actually taught me that love was conditional. Because of this belief, if she couldn’t love me, then I couldn’t and shouldn’t love myself. I was unworthy of it.

I fell into the same dark pit of despair that Sora (and Matt) fell into towards the end of the season.

I eventually learned unconditional love from my friends and my husband and his lovely family and finally learned to love myself. While I relate to this crest still, I don’t feel it nearly as strongly as the Crest of Kindness.

I know it’s not an original Adventure crest, so I will only touch on it briefly.

I related very strongly with Ken’s backstory with being compared to an older sibling, but most of all with how he felt with the darkness and dealing with trauma.

Not only did I not love myself, I could not be kind to myself. I would do things and abuse myself mentally and just couldn’t break out of that spiral until others showed me true love and kindness.

I will say, thank you Digimon for having characters that struggled and overcame their own obstacles. Because they did, I had hope growing up that one day I’d conquer my own dark pits and oceans of despair.

#daweek2024 #digimonadventureweek #Digimon #sora takenouchi #ken ichijouji #fanart #my art

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Day 7: Fly, On My Love/Free Day

This is my love letter to Digimon.

I've had a lot of ups and downs in my life. Lots of times when I forgot who I was. And when I forgot, I'd always come back to Digimon.

It would honestly be hard for me to be who I am today without Digimon. While Adventure 02 and Frontier were what really resonated with me, Adventure will always have a special place in my heart, solidifying my affection for isekai-hero-adventure stories (which started with Animorphs, moved to Digimon here, and then eventually propelled me into the Persona franchise, but that's a whole novel of a story that is not one to tell now).

Adventure touched me in a way that other cartoons at the time didn't. It introduced me to characters that struggled just like I did and overcame their problems. It introduced me to characters that were 'real' enough that I wished I could have friends like them.

And it gave me an escape I so desperately wanted in my dark childhood.

Nowadays, it is nostalgia, but it's still an adventure. I'm glad to see these 7 young kids that went to camp one summer and live in a digital land to grow up beside me, go to college, question their futures, and continue living past the struggles of their childhood that carried into their adulthood. This anime helped shape who I am now, and is still helping me through my own adulthood as I find my way through art, storytelling, and streaming.

Small shameless plug, but since the 20th anniversary of Digimon, I have been streaming on Twitch a Digimon game every Friday just to continue my adventure as well as bring others along on said adventure. I'm happy to share my love for what touched me as a child and hope that Digimon or myself will be a help to others as Digimon was to me.

That said, just above is my Digimon Adventure PSP Stream Title Card from 2020, which is also my 20th anniversary art for Digimon Adventure.

This is not my last post for Adventure week. I’ll be going above and beyond to answer the Bonus 3 questions over the next 3 days.

Thank you Tai, Agumon, Sora, Biyomon, Yamato, Gabumon, Izzy, Tentomon, Mimi, Palmon, Joe, Gomamon, Takeru, Patamon, Kari, and Tailmon. Thank you Digimon Adventure.

きっと飛べるさ　On my love

#daweek2024 #digimonadventureweek #digimon #fanart #Wormmon #all of the Digimon kids and their partners whom I will not tag here because so many #my art

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Day 6: Journey/ Favorite Episode

Episode 21 "Home Away from Home" ("Koromon, the Great Clash in Tokyo!")

This episode.

Tai's relationship with Kari.

Going into the series, I didn't know that Tai had a younger sister until he mentioned her. I didn't think she would be ever mentioned or seen in the series, but then he returns to Tokyo in episode 21. I felt like that episode was such a turning point for Tai's character. He could have abandoned all his friends and stayed at home with his little sister that he had great affection for, but decided not to. He realized that it was more important to return to the Digital World to defeat the rampant Digimon, which would in turn protect his younger sibling.

The moment of separation was so gut wrenching to watch in this episode and it left such an impression, so thus I tried to recapture that moment in my piece.

I have an older brother myself. When I was a child, I really wished Tai was my older brother. I wanted someone that could protect me and I could have fun with. I had that but there was also something off with our relationship, or at least how I perceived it. Something tarnished the relationship and I won’t go into detail about it here except say that there is another Chosen that I more deeply relate to which I’ll honorably mention in a DA Week bonus post.

While I don't have a fanart piece, Episode 48 "My Sister's Keeper" ("Bombing Mission! Mugendramon"), also gets honorable mention because we get a glimpse more of Tai's and Kari's relationship growing up. We see how reliant Kari is on Tai and wanting to not be a burden on him and Tai’s regrets for not being a better older brother and not being observant that his sister was sick. This plot shows how far Tai’s come and why Matt had every right to feel jealous of Tai being the ‘better older brother’.

#digimonadventureweek #daweek2024 #fanart #taichi yagami #tai kamiya #hikari yagami #kari kamiya #digimon #my art

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Day 5: Rememberance/Favorite Supporting Digi

Pixiemon and his 'boot camp'.

This was a hard one for me to choose. Growing up, I probably would have said Whamon or Leomon. I could've even said the warm caretaker, Elecmon, of Primary Village/the Village of Beginnings. Upon reflection, I feel like Pixiemon deserves it the most.

Pixiemon/Piccolomon put the kids through a Karate-Kid style training and forced Tai to realize how much of an fool he was. He was the mentor that Gennai wasn't. While Gennai sent the Chosen on quests, Pixiemon is the one that forced them to reflect and think.

This is a bit of a gag fanart, but honestly, I don't think it's too farfetch'd if Pixiemon smacked Tai a few times to get his lesson through to him.

#digimonadventureweek #daweek2024 #fanart #piccolomon #pixiemon #taichi yagami #tai kamiya #Agumon #Digimon #Digimon adventure #my art

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Day 4: Despair/Favorite Villain

Myotismon, hands down.

This arc was terrifying and had me on my seat as a child. I still remember how my heart ached when Kari turned herself in to Myotismon to stop others from suffering. She'd risk her own life just for peace. Of course, while the act was touching, it was obviously foolish. Despite that, it didn't take away from her character as she and Angewomon would find the power to overcome him.

Honestly, I think what got me was the sheer amount of abuse Tailmon took from Myotismon over the years. How she was basically brainwashed into being a servant, being something that she wasn't. Unfortunately, this is something I could deeply relate to in my childhood. Myotismon's evil reached me, and I felt Tailmon's deep despair, and I'm glad that she found a safe haven where she was meant to be and is herself.

As an aside, I do mean Myotismon/Vamdemon. VenomMyotismon/VenomVamdemon is a wholly different horror that gave me nightmares as a child. The psychological and emotional horror that was Myotismon was the true evil.

#digimonadventureweek #daweek2024 #Digimon #fanart #Vamdemon #Myotismon #Hikari Yagami #Kari Kamiya #Tailmon #Gatomon #Digimon Adventure #my art

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Day 3: Unity/Favorite Dynamic

Joe and Gomamon

This is probably the weirdest answer I'll give since I would've answered Sora and Biyomon before and while I was a child. As of my rewatch of Digimon Adventure back around 2018-2019 with my husband, I honestly like Joe and Gomamon's dynamic.

I saw Joe as a bit of a comedy relief, a low-interest character as a child. Mainly, his story wasn't nearly as flashy or loud as Tai's or Matt's, as those two needed a good punch or argument to resolve their issues (though Joe was rather loud himself at times, but it was never out of selfishness, it was usually genuine fear or surprise, and usually the English dub).

I didn't really see Joe past the jokes and the responsibility that he felt he needed to carry until my rewatch of Digimon Adventure in Japanese. I really felt how serious, earnest, and honest he was in Japanese once the constant jokes were taken away. And it also really made Gomamon shine in how much he wanted Joe to be true to himself instead of living someone else's shoes. The two seemed to be complete opposites… but that's what made them work. They carried what the other needed and leveled each other out. The lax Gomamon needed a more responsible and concerned Joe, while Joe needed to a chill Gomamon to get him unwind a bit.

While my husband relates to Joe the most (of course I had to ask him which Chosen he liked), in a way, I almost wonder if I love this dynamic because this is how my husband and I are. Usually I'm the more serious one and he's the one trying to get me to chill, so I'm Joe and he's my Gomamon.

For an honorable mention… My art-ner and I had a discussion on my Twitch stream for this prompt, whether or not "best dynamic" could have been a human-human dynamic (or digimon-digimon). But I'd also say my favorite human-human relationship in this series is Joe and Mimi. I don't see their relationship as romantic, but rather a sibling-like relationship of a younger sister-older brother, much like Tai and Kari. At the end of Adventure, Mimi needed some space and Joe respectfully chose to stay with her so the group could continue while honoring Mimi's feelings. I love that Joe got to have a 'senpai' moment, to be relied on by Mimi, and I could really feel that Mimi needed a person to lean on.

Regardless, shoutout to Jyou/Joe Kido and Gomamon. May your fish keep swimming marching. XP

#Digimon #digimonadventureweek #daweek2024 #fanart #jyou kido #joe kido #gomamon #Digimon adventure #my art