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[bytebun]

found family coworkers (definition multiple) of all time [image description under cut]

Comic 1:

First panel, Ingo and Akari are standing together. Someone off-screen asks “oh, is that your dad?”. Akari has an awkward smile and replies “oh, no no. he’s my...” There’s a long pause as she looks at Ingo. He’s leaving it up to her. She finishes, “He’s my coworker... friend... guy.” In smaller font, she continues “yea. that.” Comic 2: A dramatic panel of Volo, looking pissed off, shouting “who are you to interfere?!!” Ingo tugs the brim of his cap lower. The upper half of his face is in shadow, while his eyes stand out. He looks threatening but has his expression is his characteristic neutral-frown, and he says “...I’m her coworker friend guy.”. In the final panel, Machoke is throwing an incredible amount of punches, a reference to Star Platinum from Jojo. Ingo is pointing with one hand, his battle pose. The background text reads, “What does that even mean??” Volo is experiencing off-screen violence.

Comic 3: The comic is titled “Reunion”. In the first panel, Ingo shows off Akari, with a faint smile on his face. She is labelled “best girl (assigned by god)”. He says, “Emmet, this is Akari, my coworker. She’s the reason I was able to return to this station.” In smaller font, Akari comments to herself, “ooh... so this is the man in white.”

In the second panel, in smaller font Ingo notes “I think I remember now...” He says, “Akari, this is Emmet. He's also my coworker.” Coworker is underlined. Emmet is crying in the background, looking confused, conflicted, distressed, and happy. He says, “Brother...?” In the final panel, we see a framed photograph of all three together. Underneath are the words, Employee of the Month. Akari is dressed as a depot agent, and she and Ingo pose with peace signs. Emmet is red faced from crying, but he’s smiling widely. He looks happy.

#pokemon arceus legends #submas #akari #ingo #pla #comics #bytebun draws #your long lost presumed dead brother shows up with a teenager and introduces you as his coworker wwyd #i'm really pushing the platonic ride or die coworkers dynamic for these two. my agenda #making shitty comics is so much more fun than making nice comics i don't have to worry about panel sizes and shit #yeah it's a jojo reference U_U i was drawing that second panel like wait... this looks like sugim*to g*lden k*muy #and you know who he looks like...? starts with a j #my hand remembers this shape of character #originally it was going to be ingo suplexing the guy. but that's a complicated pose... #messed up the tag... #pokemon legends arceus

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@bytebun I saw your tags and slapped together this quick tutorial for the gold leaf effect I used for one of my recent drawings (after retracing my steps because I’d already forgotten how I did it, oops).

I’m using Krita, I’m sure there are equivalent layer modes and filters in other drawing programms, too. Oh, and I recommend using a noise texture with fairly little dark in it, otherwise it looks odd.

#catch me not working on my drawing skills #and rummaging through all the tools in my drawing programm to save effort instead

[bytebun]

my piece for @thecodywanzine! thanks to the mods who let me go completely ham and cheese on this bad boy. this one's about living longer than you ever expected and not knowing what to do with it

#they're having a leftover sale with free shipping if you want a ridiculous amount of art and merch for an insanely low price #codywan #commander cody #obi-wan kenobi #star wars #comics #codywan zine #i went kinda nuts with the sun symbolism on this one. even i feel like its hamfisted but like listen am i not going to self-indulge #if not in a shipping zine piece then where #hope and love and the sun and etc can be an. omelette. spanish omelette specifically. that you share with your fambly #food cw #its also about looking at your best friend over a table and going. i lvoe you. i love you. i want to spend the rest of my life with you #i want to see the future with you. im so glad we're both alive even though i thought we'd both be dead by now #bytebun draws #lets not talk about the way there is zero consistency in my art style. <3

[bytebun]

attempts at consideration (misunderstood) (ingo would battle all day if he could) (don’t you wish you could hang out with characters without having to beat stuff up)

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4-panel comic titled “do you have games on your phone”.

PANEL 1: Ingo recalls his Pokemon. He thinks: She’s been looking worn out. Ingo says: We don’t have to battle every time.

 PANEL 2: Akari droops. It’s her 32nd attempt at the eevee path of solitude. She thinks: He’s tired of this, huh... Akari says: Oh, uh, then...

PANEL 3: Text pointing to Akari says: doesn’t know what “normal” friends do. Akari says: ...Do you wanna play games on my phone? PANEL 4: They have their backs turned, looking at Akari’s phone. Ingo looks very distressed, with his hands on his head. He yells: AKARI YOU MUST CEASE “SURFING” ON THIS SUBWAY!! IT IS VERRRY UNSAFE!! Akari replies: lol don’t worry it’s a magic skateboard. It’s implied they’re playing subway surfers. Out of frame, Kamado comments: What are those two doing...

#pokemon legends arceus #submas #warden ingo #akari #pla #comics #bytebun draws #if you saw the prev post with spelling mistake no you didn't. english isn't real. #i believe in weird girl akari rights. my headcanon is that she knows how to entertain younger kids but not how to hang out with her peers #or uh coworker friend guys in this case. #they are both neurodivergent & trying to account for other ppl & not always getting it right #but when you're with friends that's not always the same as getting it 'wrong' :]

[bytebun]

OH HIGH MOUNTAIN, HOW I LONG TO REACH YOU BREATHING YOUR SWEETNESS EVEN HERE!

#bytebun draws #pokemon legends arceus #volo #FINALLY. THIS BEAST IS. FUCKING DONE #pretty sure all my art discord friends r tired of seeing wips of this bad boy #[mulan side character voice] now all of tumblr knows you'll use tang poetry for a shitty character fanart

[bytebun]

dance of the sugar plum fairy

#pokemon legends arceus #akari #clefairy #pla #bytebun draws #this one killed my hand and my sanity <3 #I completed this quest completely by accident was just in the right area at the right time #so it made a big impact #the sudden cutscene made me think I was getting jump scared by a boss fight 😭 #I had previously also randomly walked into the giratina cave while trying to level some of my weaker babies

[bytebun]

anti social social club (weekly meetings on mt. coronet)

#pokemon legends arceus #ingo #melli #akari #submas #bytebun draws #pla #to me. ingo is like the manager at idk mcdonalds with his troubled teenage coworkers. except the mcdonalds is being a miko to pokemon god. #also if anything akari would be the manager. #despite being amnesiac & probably having fleas he's the most normal guy there simply cuz he's not a teenager #i don't actually think melli is a teen but he certainly acts like one #no offense to anybody actually bald these reactions r based off of my asian family's reaction the the british princes every single time #'there's no way he's in his 30s' i don't know what to tell you mom. sometimes it just be like that for white guys

[bytebun]

may the 4th be with you (cos you’re gonna need it)

#Obi-Wan Kenobi #luke skywalker #leia organa #star wars #may the 4th be with you #a world where this is 'uncle obi's' biggest problem #🥲 #anakin & padme ringing him up to babysit like. obi wan kenobi ur our only hope #bytebun draws

[bytebun]

SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT!

thanks to @phoenixyfriend for the outfit refs!!

#ahsoka tano #star wars #old drawing i keep forgetting to poast #the clone wars #tcw #bytebun draws #at least i think. gonna be embarrassing if i just forgot to tag #this one... the goal was late evening post-workout under the harsh gym/venator lighting #that time period where you have nothing else to do for the rest of the day #but you aren't ready to go to sleep #if you're a teenage war hero i imagine you might get a little melancholy

[bytebun]

[puts a gun to your head. three guns even] READ MEG'S ROLESWAP FIC NOW

#trigun #trigun stampede #knives millions #that's DOCTOR knives millions to you #please really do go read it i love it so much. i need someone to yell at besides the literal writer #bytebun draws

[bytebun]

clones clones clones! and their little sib

#alpha-17 #commander cody #captain rex #ahsoka tano #the clone wars #fuck it we start publishing the tcw wips they are never gonna be done at this rate #most of these are from a year ago lol i was recently reminded they exist #bytebun draws #wip

[bytebun]

some notes on the details i pay attention to when drawing certain characters in “my style”

#submas #pokemon legends arceus #akari #ingo #emmet #bytebun draws #a friend mentioned they like seeing the notes i make abt my thinking process as i draw in my sketchbook lol so here's some digital ones #i don't usually think this much/it tends to be subconscious... the vision i have for a character just innately influences how i draw them #at this point #really the best way to develop a style is just to draw the same guy many times and see what sticks & is repeatable #my style in quote because this is one very specific anime-esque style lol. if i drew the guys in my sw style #the hooked/high nose would be much more prominent #no id #yes my akari is. free catgirl. and a bit weird

[bytebun]

hey don’t cry. 10 million blorbos from your shows, okay?

#commander cody #obi-wan kenobi #uh. i guess implied #codywan #star wars #bytebun draws #ok on twitter sometimes japanese artists i follow will caption their au posts with 'delusion for those who can accept anything' #(and then explain the au) (or at least that's what google translate tells me) #that's how i feel about this one. #can't imagine a universe where this guy would sit down to play mario cart w his bf's family after an obvious crying jag #but like maybe he watched legally blond or something & got rlly moved #abt the main character finding her own path with an identity separate from her partner without losing the core elements of her personality #and self-expression. and also winning at the law. you know? #au cody can have elle woods as his blorbo. #in my au where he's doing law things re: clone citizenship #but also fuck stylizing crying genuinely hard. idk if i can get stylistically simpler than the first pic & still convey the precise emotion #that i want. i'm cheating there with like some actual shading instead of hard lines... more studying required #it's like difficult to draw people crying bc/ it's one of those emotions that changes the whole shape of your face... the invert of a #beaming smile. the tears aren't the important part... that's why the 'stoic guy sheds single tear trope' is so funny #they're out there w their plastic immobile faces and a fake tear when the important part is all those scrunched up microexpressions #someone trying rlly hard not to cry has the deeper mouth corners & tense brow-eyelid combo & that wrinkle near the nostril #unfortunately all of these lines are also the only indication of old age in most anime lmao so its so so hard to figure out how to draw em #shld do some ch*insawman or g*lden kmy studies probably. those guys r pretty good at funny looking faces

[bytebun]

Yoooo if you're doing requests, can I ask for Rexsoka or Codykin?

when the senpai guy you’ve been trying to impress all this time finally notices you, and oh no

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[ID: Anakin and Cody are standing in front of a GAR ship, presumably waiting for Obi-Wan to finish talking to a Senator. 

Anakin: ...Instead of nat-born pilots we should ask the Senate to send us massiffs next time.

Cody: Hm?

Anakin: They’d do better in a dogfight. 

Cody laughs. Metaphorical sunflowers are blooming in the background. Still smiling, he says: You might be onto something, Commander Skywalker.

Anakin stares at Cody’s laughing face, transfixed. He’s blushing and holding onto his padawan braid, and shoujo style flowers are blooming in the background.]

#anakin skywalker #commander cody #codykin #star wars #comics #bytebun draws #pair: do a backflip #obviously this took 5 million years because i went WAY too hard. this is not a doodle. this is an entire comic page. ajdkls;fmsdlkf #sorry the joke isn't funny i'm no purveyor of witty banter; alas #i think it makes it more in character tho if it isn't funny. anakin of i hate sand fame. cody as somehow a dad joke enjoyer AND a mean girl #.....i had way too much fun doing this in a shoujo-esque style ajdls;kfmsdlkf #tis also why cody is looking a bit more angular than i usually draw him... manga chin & such #but also me too anakin.... turns out i've never actually drawn cody laughing before & was looking at my own sketch like. #ever see a man so beautiful you want to give him money #also. important to me that. anakin is taller than cody but he's just slouching like crazy in these panels

[bytebun]

Bly and Aayla from @petrichordiam‘s sunshine and the shade of poetry chp. 5! Trans woman bly lives rent free in my head forever, best girl 🥰

#commander bly #aayla secura #happy moon festival y'all!` #star wars #realized to post on ao3 i need to post elsewhere first ajdsifjsdf i can tech #blyla #bytebun draws

[bytebun]

cool down

#commander cody #bytebun draws #star wars #get it. it's a cooldown drawing for me and he's cooling down. yeah #left no ref; right with.