Been Reading Some Original Works On Ao3 Recently

So uh….some dude apparently recreated Adobe Photoshop feature-for-feature, for FREE, and it runs in your browser.

Anyway, fuck Adobe, and enjoy!

Black cats are lucky. (via leahweissmuller)

I’m too lazy and tired to go outside to trick or treat so digital with have to do.

If you want you could stop here and I could give you whatever I could find

Happy Hollow's eve peeps!

HI HElLo!!! Sorry for the bother but I’ve been kinda going in circles trying to find more info on Toubyou!! It seems that whenever I look em up, I just find the SMT renders. Is this a case of like, a mistranslation or something else? HES LIKE. Such a Funny Little Guy and my mind craves more info on him.

(They do kinda remind me of those Snake Wine bootles. If only a little) Thank you for your time tho!!!!!!

Let me detail my process for situations like this when I want to find more info on obscure demons:

1 Toubyou is a Japanese demon, so it's likely "real"

2 I search using its name as rendered in the Japanese version of the games: トウビョウ, with the intention of finding how the name is rendered in Kanji (to search again for more info, if necessary)

3 The top two results are its Japanese Wikipedia page and Pixiv wiki (these Pixiv wikis often have reliable information, at least for Japanese stuff) The Wikipedia page offers a Kanji name: 土瓶.

4 Next I'll run what I find through a translator

5 Lastly, I'll compare the new info to an officially translated in-game profile to see if it's in the ballpark/ the original Atlus intention for the demon:

6 The bit about the golden ring around the neck is consistent between sources, so this seems to be what you're looking for

The Wikipedia page has more sources to look through that should lead you down an even deeper Toubyou rabbit hole.

ok so for those of you who don’t know, there’s this twitter account of a japanese local hero mascot named dentman who went viral recently due to this tweet

but yeah he saw the tweet. and his response went viral as well (which is how i found his account)

and he just has like. hourly posts reminding you to brush your teeth

oh and his rival? his name is mr. mutans. whenever dentman posts he makes a post of his own, ofc

but THAT’S NOT ALL. literally while making this post i found a THIRD ACCOUNT that’s all about taking your meds

safe to say i’m losing my mind

anyway the point of all this was that people are ALREADY beginning to draw them ship art 😭

and the reactions are everything

I CANT ADD ANY MORE IMAGES BUT TRUST ME THIS IS SO FUNNY

toxic one-sided dentman yaoi wasn’t on my 2024 bingo card but it DEFINITELY IS NOW!

Out of Touch

With the Raidou Remaster coming out soon and how it adds in new demons not found in the original, I decided to make a list to see just how much was added compared to the original game.

The remake is said to have added to equal 120+ demons compared to the original’s 71, roughly a 50 demon increase.

List down below.

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The original Raidou Kuzunoha vs the Soulless Army demon roster:

Pyro Order/Crimson Lotus Genus

Skill: Ignite

Ukobach, Pyro Jack, Orthrus, Oshichi, Sati, Gdon, Throne, Cerberus, Muspell, Belial

Frost Order/Silver Ice Genus

Skill: Cool Down

Azumi, Jack Frost, Raiho, Jubokko, Okuninushi, Naga Raja, Tarrasque, Ouyamatsumi, Arahabaki, Yamata-no-Orochi

Volt Order/Thunder Genus

Skill: Inspect

Agathion, Raiju, Tsuchigumo, Oboroguruma, Nue, Parvati, Mishaguji, Oumitsunu, Thor

Wind Order/Gale Genus

Skill: Scout

Poltergeist, Muu Shuwuu, Anzu, Feng Huang, Ichimokuren, Kurama Tengu, Hitokotonusi, Power, Sandalphon

Fury Order/Barbaric Genus

Skill: Use Force

Obariyon, Turdak, Oni, Lamia, Chernobog, Yoshitsune, Yomotsu-Ikusa, Triglav, Rakshasa, Shouten, Siegfried, Susano-o

Pagan Order/Foreign-Law Genus

Skill: Read Mind

Alp, Mokoi, Okiku-Mushi, Ghoul, Alice, Utai-Gaikotsu, Nebiros, Gashadokuro, Incubus, Lilith, Beelzebub

Skill Order/Technical Genus

Skill: Demonstrate

Legion (5 different variants), Ippon-Datara, Leanan Sidhe, Nekomata, Thoth, Nagasunehiko, Abihiko, Scathach, Kudan, Futsunushi

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New to the remaster demons - either from Smt V Vengeance or from King Abaddon.

Pyro: Asura, Enku, Fionn Mac Cumhaill, Hi-no-Kagutsuchi, Mada, Onmoraki, Vritra

Frost: Arioch, Artemis, Basilisk, Mermaid, Pabilsag, Preta, Qing Long,

Volt: Barong, Cybele, Hayataro, Koropokkuru, Makami, Nandi, Vishnu, Zeus

Wind: Angel, Archangel, Camael, Decarabia, Dominion, Huang Long, Ophanim, Turbo Granny

Fury: Fenrir, Gozuki, Mezuki, Neko Shogun, Nezha, Shiva

Pagan: Arachne, Black Frost, Mara, Rangda

Skill: Belphegor, Idun, Pixie, Tam Lin, Taotie

Mitama: Ara Mitama, Kushi Mitama, Nigi Mitama, Saki Mitama

Element: Aeros, Aquans, Erthys, Flaemis, Sylph, Undine

@dimiclaudeblaigan asked for a tutorial on how to begin drawing. Good news! If you can draw a funky looking stick man, you have already started!

I think that stick people are a great starting point for artists because of the things you can learn from them that will be important later on.

If you are able to draw a circle and a couple of lines, you can easily put together a stick person.

Congratulations! You have started to draw. :)

A stick person is a very minimal artistic representation of a real life person. It is simple yet recognizable, and is widely used in art, media, and signage.

But what can a stick person teach us about drawing people that look more like… well, people? Lets have a look!

By simply adding a few more lines, we can add a pair of eyes and a mouth. Maybe even a little triangle nose! Or half circles for ears. We can now draw a face, which provides a basis for all sorts of expressions.

These simple additions can allow us to explore the wide range of human emotion and individuality.

This may seem like the basics of the basics. But that is what we want! In order to get to the point where we are able to draw complex, elaborate representations of humans and objects, we will need to start with simple shapes like lines and circles and build our understanding from there.

For instance, lets give our stick person some cool new features, such as hands and feet. I chose little squiggly circles to represent hands, and triangles to represent feet.

We can go a step further and modify the body of the stick person to include shoulders, hips, elbows and knees. These parts of the human body are quite complex in real life But here, all we need to do is add a few simple lines and dots to our stick person.

The lines provide some additional structural elements to our stick person's body, which are the shoulders and the hips. The dots indicate the points of articulation - elbows and knees, the places where the arms and legs bend!

Now we can use our stick person to show us an even wider range of human movement, action, and expression.

Our little drawing of a human being is evolving! All it took was adding a few more lines and shapes here and there.

By elongating some of the existing lines and making the head an oval instead of a circle, we can give our stick person proportions that resemble that of a real life human.

By this point, we have managed to add more complexity to our stick person simply by using our ability to draw lines, circles, and other basic shapes!

These basic ideas are the building blocks that will enable us to create more complex shapes.

The next part may be a considerable step up if you are absolutely new to drawing, but I have decided to include it in order to show you how complex objects like the human body can be built from shapes that are a bit more complex than circles and lines.

For example. Two ovals and a rectangle can be combined to create a cylinder.

Six squares can be combined to create a cube, or a box. Here, each square is distorted slightly depending on which way the cube is facing.

Note that the back faces of the cube and the bottom of the cylinder are hidden. These shapes allow us to visualize that which should not normally visible.

A sphere from all perspectives can be represented by a circle. But we can make it more like a sphere by adding lighting and shadow if we so desire.

Cubes, cylinders, and spheres are examples of 'solid shapes' because they consist of 3 dimensions.

Lets see how these solid shapes can be used to compose the human body.

By stacking three cylindrical objects, we can create a torso. Two spheres have been added to form shoulders, while a smaller cylinder forms the neck.

An arm is an alternating sequence of spheres and cylinders connected together. Note that the hand has been simplified for this example.

We can apply these solid shapes to the rest of the body to give us a more recognizable representation of the human form. It doesn't even have to be perfect. And just like that, our stick figure now has a silhouette that is unmistakably a person!

In the above examples, notice that we kept the stick person at the beginning while building up the shapes and solids around it. This is because the stick person serves as a guide for positioning the body and its various parts -> also known as posing.

You can do the same thing to everyday objects! Here, I drew a wine glass by stacking these three dimensional solid shapes.

The cup and its contents are two ovoid shapes that were cut in half. The stem is a very thin cylinder shape. The base is a cylinder with a slightly wider bottom.

Solid shapes help inform us how objects and parts of the human body may appear from different perspectives.

For example, a sphere can be used to demonstrate how the human head appears when looking up or down, turned to the side, or tilted at an angle.

With these examples, I hope I have managed to convinced you that if you can draw a circle and a couple of lines, you can draw a person! You just have to train your eye to recognize the simple shapes within complex objects. Try it with everyday objects as well! Or even your favourite media! A drawing subject can be as simple or as complex as you envision it to be.

Once you have mastered that, there are many aspects of drawing you can explore from here that may require you to seek additional resources or a fellow artist's advice.

Last of all, remember that drawing is an iterative process. Even if you draw something correct the first time, you will need to draw it again and again to get it right all times! And by making small changes like the ones we explored in this tutorial, your drawings will gradually transform!

I hope what I've demonstrated here are enough to provide the basics of how to get started with drawing objects and people, and also to help refresh more experienced artists. :) Hopefully I didn't go too off topic with what was requested, and let me know if there are any more questions I can answer.

Cheers :3

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