A Light Tarot Reading, Because I'm Still Fond Of What I Cooked Up Here. Expect Allusions To The Ending

a light tarot reading, because i'm still fond of what i cooked up here. expect allusions to the ending of aci and general detailing of my intentions throughout. some nuances omitted because i want to see if anyone else catches on to them....

probably the most obvious thing is the card itself, wheel of fortune. generally it suggests change, cycles, some big turning point in your life. with the eye cutout slashing through the sphinx i meant to encapsulate izaya's plan of flipping the wheel over on the game makers and throwing them under an imitation of their own work.

A Light Tarot Reading, Because I'm Still Fond Of What I Cooked Up Here. Expect Allusions To The Ending
A Light Tarot Reading, Because I'm Still Fond Of What I Cooked Up Here. Expect Allusions To The Ending

there's a distinction in the meaning of the card when it's upright or reversed. looking inward, the card reads upright towards him and reversed as presented to the onlooker. throughout the chapter there's a lot of emphasis on the lack of sincere connections he has, how no one seemed to reach out genuinely concerned about his absence. his attention drifts to his phone a lot as he works, and he continues to work until the end of the chapter which i'll leave here.

A Light Tarot Reading, Because I'm Still Fond Of What I Cooked Up Here. Expect Allusions To The Ending

it's hard for me to articulate but i hope you can see how i also wanted to convey izaya's personal development at this point of the fic.

A Light Tarot Reading, Because I'm Still Fond Of What I Cooked Up Here. Expect Allusions To The Ending

less obvious is the positioning of izaya's finger keeping the lion out of view. i know shizuo is technically an aquarius but that thing looks boring and i'm not partial to the zodiac anyways so to me he's the lion in reference this bit from the first chapter.

A Light Tarot Reading, Because I'm Still Fond Of What I Cooked Up Here. Expect Allusions To The Ending

you could also read shizuo as the bull hidden beneath izaya's shadow which i was also considering as a nod to a bull charges at the stirring of a cape. regardless it can work both ways in keeping him out of view for this part of the plan.

and this one just fell into place for me but wheel of fortune happens to be the element of fire!! which if you know you know.

A Light Tarot Reading, Because I'm Still Fond Of What I Cooked Up Here. Expect Allusions To The Ending

there's a lot i tried to work into this composition and i have to thank rosa again for putting up with me and making it look amazing.... collaboration with me is pretty intensive but rewarding to see the initial ideas get visually realized.

They Say Imitation Is The Sincerest Form Of Flattery
They Say Imitation Is The Sincerest Form Of Flattery

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

This is a collab I did with my friend @loppiopio when we were fanfic book clubing "A Cheap Imitation" back in 2023 man, good times good times

Linking the fic here in case anyone is curious

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durarara shizaya izaya orihara i made a thing i wrote a thing a cheap imitation chapter 49 pretty heavily revised from march 21st 2024 i might share process sketches and dms in a separate post so it looks neater and i have more time to draft it and i could throw in more pics lol there was a lot of back and forth with this one even after i'd figured out the broad strokes i wanted to convey in the piece i ended up having to do a face reveal in taking direct photos of myself at the particular angle and pose i wanted and certain things changed as we tried to make it work the scars were rosa's idea she snuck them in with the lineart and really wanted to have them so i just told her to flip the comp 👍 an added layer to this was to reference the tarot card pieces rosa made for her own ocs https://twitter.com/RosaMaltz/status/1630957731610804226 to imitate them so to say it grew a lot from there but that was the initial root of the idea to this piece i actually came up with the idea for chapter 50 a while before this and that one felt like a deep cut reference that only note could appreciate in full so from there i tried to come up with something rosa would be able to appreciate to help balance it out lol i was already really struggling to come up with anything for this chapter and that helped narrow down the scope and the thought of tarot cards struck me as i recalled some signalis gameplay i'd briefly tuned into earlier that day signalis was also what inspired the previous chapter's wallet idea anywayyys i yearn for someone to notice these decisions and feel excited about them articulate stuff i am bad at articulating here it's my fave thing to do with other people's work and this one is like made made for it moreso than the others

More Posts from Loppiopio and Others

1 year ago
Chpt 1 // Chpt 2 // Chpt 3
Chpt 1 // Chpt 2 // Chpt 3
Chpt 1 // Chpt 2 // Chpt 3
Chpt 1 // Chpt 2 // Chpt 3

Chpt 1 // Chpt 2 // Chpt 3

Chpt 4: part 1 // part 2 // part 3 // part 4 // part 5

(You can find this comic on tapas / mangadraft and spoontasti’s fic on ao3)


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reblog drrr comic shizaya a cheap imitation shigaeru this first shizuo panel is veery cute with the loose cigarette hold i love his attitude to izaya's shit <3 oh wow izaya with his hair brushed back is certainly a look such an evil looking laugh he's got i like the way his hood looks fanned out beneath his head here shizuo gnawing back down on his cigarette there shdsgh the long shot singling out “you'll die and that's the truth” adds an interesting weight to the sound of that line like it's echoing or something with its impact on the topic of death: a closeup on shizuo's throat and collar i really like the nonchalant look of the izaya in this next panel just has that resigned vibe that's kinda rare on him i like shizuo's cigarette snapping for impact uhh since i've started rereading this fic with some friends i've kinda thought about these lines a bit “it doesn't matter if the whole world despises me or if my body breaks” it's a little more obvious in the fic with “if my body broke then I could heal but I ruined myself” sounds sooorta like shizuo doesn't it? “i broke my own principles and lost the right to love all humans” kiinda reflects the way shizuo feels about loving izaya later on anyways his bleeding hand up to the sunlight looks awesome but also was it meant to also look a bit like a hand coming out of the ground like rebirth izaya running in panic !! my head has been looping “better run better run better run” to the image of izaya running in the rain ch31 i'm !! the transition between izaya tripping over the root and falling in the one panel is neat izaya's haaaands they look so grrrrr the smoke trailing from the crushed cigarette on the ground is really nice framing on that panel!! also lol look how isolated he looks there <3 small and hunched the layout around the gang fight with shizuo the center of aaaall the attention and izaya's panels kinda swept to the side ooough the way that izaya's own fucking sisters are in these “actually miss you” panels and shinra's eyes are obscured by the dialogue
3 years ago
Another Fanart. To The Fanfic "Омела и Огневица" By Ариадна видит корабли.

Another fanart. To the fanfic "Омела и Огневица" by Ариадна видит корабли.

The morning after Halloween scene and I post it in the morning after Halloween, lol


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3 years ago
Jus A Lil Guy.

jus a lil guy.


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durarara WHAT WILL HE DO can you tell? izaya orihara i made a thing Here he comes! 🎵 this was originally a squid game redraw of course not there is not a game of squid to be perceived but you’re pretty cool if you can figure out where it was directly referenced from sorry if people are sick and tired of hearing about that show again but uhhh there might be more where that came from i kind of gave up on the initial idea here when i realised i wouldn’t be able to draw the shizuo so now it’s just izaya but you can assume he’s looking at shizuo that was the intention he's also walking backwards haha i’ve got mixed feelings about this one whenever i go on about izaya's coat jacket whatever in the reblog tags i really do mean it spent an unreasonable amount of time trying to get the fluff to look a way i like it then 10x multiplied trying to figure out the shading on and around the poofy sleeve and i'm still not totally satisfied with it i simply cannot compute zoom in on the face though that part is nice i really like how i drew him there this is like my third proper attempt at both shading and colours feels like there's too much going on but not enough at the same time i just kind of experimented with a ton of random colours and techniques that i thought looked neat in other people's art i couldn't really commit to anything i threw on it though but we all have to start somewhere right i've worked on it enough it's time to release him into the wild that's enough serious attempts at colours for a while i think
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