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astralibrary · 6 months
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i had fun putting together the reference boards for my ayuri style challenge so i went ahead and made some for this one too hehe
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waaa i started this so long ago and only just recently picked it up again but hey it’s finally finished!! art style challenge w my girl celestine bc i love her design & wanted an excuse to draw it several times lol
kyoani by far took the longest and i’m not convinced i fully captured it but that’s okay, it just makes me appreciate how skilled their artists are even more! and gives me something to aspire towards ;w;
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astralibrary · 6 months
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style challenge! feat ayuri this time 💖
i also included reference boards so u can compare my drawings to the styles i was trying to emulate and decide for yourself how well i did! and also bc most people probably aren't familiar w most of these styles gkjsdkfj
personally i think my weakest is dress-up darling (it was WAY harder to capture than i expected??) and my strongest is teppen- but that's just me :3c
(prev style challenge!)
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astralibrary · 7 months
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all my pieces from art fight this year o)-<
someday i'll learn it's ok to not do fully lined/colored pieces every single time 🥲 but i really enjoy how some of these came out so!!
in order:
Bun for Skysumi
Lucy for Kenoops
Tina for Duckstuff2008
Ivy for cowdy
Dunce for duncism
Kagan for Zebra_Zee
Kieru for blackcatbard
Leo, Kat & Vio for Fourlegged_Potato
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astralibrary · 10 months
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another year another silan portrait babey.... a few days late this time but we still ballin'
i've been very into manga cover design lately (studying them, making my own, etc) so it only felt right to incorporate that into this year's portrait, right? and go way overboard designing the entire front, back and spine including a blurb and barcodes and retail/publishing info, right?? and then go all in on making a matching japanese version with its own alternative blurb and barcode area bc u can't have one without the other, right?? obviously!!!!
like i said i've been really into manga design-
thoughts & details belooow
funnily enough this ended up being an actual portrait again after i did away with them in favor of illustrations in recent years, but ig it's fitting since this is the 10th one, right? (more on that later i wrote this out of order-) a callback to the first one all those years ago... the other reason it's a portrait is bc art has been fighting back lately and a full illustration probably would have been a lot; most importantly tho i just thought this composition would make for a cool dramatic manga cover heh heh
anyway bro the impossible happened i fully rendered flowers AND completed the portrait this year hello??? this has never happened since the v first year wait i just checked it happened in 2019 too this has not happened since 2019 wowie!!!! i put my whole ass into those flowers pls observe them (except the tall purple ones don't look too closely at those. look at the pansies they're my fave ♥️)
this year we have morning glories taking center stage, surrounded by pansies, forget-me-nots, some kind of nondescript purple perennial or perhaps lavender, and some kind of pink blossom (idk that one was just a space filler). don't ask abt the random petals on his mouth & collarbone uhh theres some kind of flowering tree growing just offscreen it's possible
anyway the morning glories are significant bc they represent sythra, silan's twin sister; in my mind her colors are blue & yellow and it seemed like such a good fit, so i'm officially adding it to the Flower Lore (there is no flower lore)
there is, however, Twin Lore; silan's eyes are brown and sythra's are blue, but when they're telepathically linked their left eyes exchange color (so silan's becomes blue & vice versa). the flowers here are meant to represent that, like sythra isn't here but at the same time silan carries her with him wherever he goes... smth like that
the plot described in the blurb is like, sort of what happens but i simplified things for the sake of a neat little fake manga blurb. nobody asked me to do this yet here we are. if i were being realistic abt it this would probs be like vol 2 BUT i made it the 10th volume bc this is?? the 10th silan portrait??? i did the first one in 2014?? hello??? time is fake (my hc is that it's a slice of life club manga about flower pressing for the first 9 volumes but it pivots hard in vol 10 bc the author got so sick of drawing flowers no i am not projecting-)
now regarding the japanese version: i tried my best*
*(if u or a loved one know japanese ur not allowed to make fun of me ok orz i used 姉妹 bc theres no way for silan & sythra to know who's the older twin & idk what u would do in that situation like do u just pick one & go w it or is there another hierarchy-neutral word for sister, 姉妹 is the best i can do w my limited knowledge and even then it probably just sounds like silan is having twin girls which like good for him but even so if i sound like a dork keep it to urself ok but actually do tell me if u know bc i would like to Learn ik this is probably the least of my worries when it comes to that entire paragraph but rn we are just going to focus on the issues i know about and pretend that everything else is fine as is ok thank u for ur time & have a lovely day ur a star ⭐️)
misc fun facts aka u learn how unhinged i was abt this:
the title is May 16th bc that's just what silan's story has always been called. luckily i have that up my sleeve or i'd have had to come up w smth out of my ass like The Silan Portrait or some shit
the author and publishing company are both called astralibrary yes that's me (it has a nice ring to it as a manga publisher name don't u think). i made up the logo on the spot it's my best work. especially the one in the bottom right of the japanese bar code area where i just typed the name and put a star next to it bc that makes it look professional somehow
i stole borrowed the barcodes from existing manga i have good pics of (bc i have an entire folder in my gallery dedicated to manga covers & jpn typography, unrelated); the english one is hanako-kun vol 4, and the japanese one is after the rain vol 10. i changed all the numerical codes tho (variations on the date 5/16 repeating)
i made up the english prices but i picked ¥640 specifically bc that's the price of the natsuyuu volumes i have in my manga covers folder, my only possible point of reference,
rated teen even tho in my mind it'd be targeted more towards young adults; it doesn't have anything in it that would warrant a mature rating but it does feel strange to categorize it in this way even knowing these ratings don't necessarily dictate the target audience
i thought about messing around w the design of the japanese version more to reflect some of the design sensibilities i've observed in japanese manga, like different placement of the text on the cover or a different spine entirely (since they tend to differ a lot between jpn and eng versions)- i even thought about trying to design an obi (long strip of paper that wraps all the way around the bottom portion of the book, usually has announcements & promotional stuff on it), but that is a whole ass project for another day i think this'll do just fine for now skdjlfkdg
and there u have it, thank u for reading my yearly essay abt drawing i did! sometimes u need to go aaaaaa about smth u drew and that's ok 👌
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edit: oh yea i forgor i should write transcriptions of the blurbs here we go
ENGLISH
Alone with his thoughts? Not necessarily...
Silan has finally discovered the source of the mysterious voice in his head- the long lost twin sister he never knew he had...?! She calls herself Sythra and she has a serious grudge against him- but they need each other in order to uncover the hidden truths about their past.
Why didn't they know about each other? How were they separated? Why can they hear each other's thoughts?
And... What else don't they know?
-
JAPANESE
双子の姉妹がいる⁉︎
サイランは頭の中の声の衝撃的な正体を知るーーどうやら双子の姉妹がいるらしい⁉︎しかも、なぜか嫌われているようで…頑張れ、サイラン!
どういうわけか、この二人は謎に満ちた過去の答えを一緒に見つけるでしょう。
なぜお互いのことを知らなかったのか?どのようにして離れ離れになったのか?なぜお互いの考えを聞くことができるのか?そして…他に知らないことは…?
待望の第10巻がついに登場!
INTENDED TRANSLATION:
I have a twin sister?!
Silan learns the shocking identity of the voice inside his head- apparently he has a twin sister?! And what's more, for some reason she seems to hate him... Hang in there, Silan!
Somehow, these two will find the answers to their mysterious past together.
Why didn't they know about each other? How did they get separated? Why can they hear each other's thoughts?And...what else do they not know...?
The long-awaited 10th volume is finally here!
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astralibrary · 10 months
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another year another silan portrait babey.... a few days late this time but we still ballin'
i've been very into manga cover design lately (studying them, making my own, etc) so it only felt right to incorporate that into this year's portrait, right? and go way overboard designing the entire front, back and spine including a blurb and barcodes and retail/publishing info, right?? and then go all in on making a matching japanese version with its own alternative blurb and barcode area bc u can't have one without the other, right?? obviously!!!!
like i said i've been really into manga design-
thoughts & details belooow
funnily enough this ended up being an actual portrait again after i did away with them in favor of illustrations in recent years, but ig it's fitting since this is the 10th one, right? (more on that later i wrote this out of order-) a callback to the first one all those years ago... the other reason it's a portrait is bc art has been fighting back lately and a full illustration probably would have been a lot; most importantly tho i just thought this composition would make for a cool dramatic manga cover heh heh
anyway bro the impossible happened i fully rendered flowers AND completed the portrait this year hello??? this has never happened since the v first year wait i just checked it happened in 2019 too this has not happened since 2019 wowie!!!! i put my whole ass into those flowers pls observe them (except the tall purple ones don't look too closely at those. look at the pansies they're my fave ♥️)
this year we have morning glories taking center stage, surrounded by pansies, forget-me-nots, some kind of nondescript purple perennial or perhaps lavender, and some kind of pink blossom (idk that one was just a space filler). don't ask abt the random petals on his mouth & collarbone uhh theres some kind of flowering tree growing just offscreen it's possible
anyway the morning glories are significant bc they represent sythra, silan's twin sister; in my mind her colors are blue & yellow and it seemed like such a good fit, so i'm officially adding it to the Flower Lore (there is no flower lore)
there is, however, Twin Lore; silan's eyes are brown and sythra's are blue, but when they're telepathically linked their left eyes exchange color (so silan's becomes blue & vice versa). the flowers here are meant to represent that, like sythra isn't here but at the same time silan carries her with him wherever he goes... smth like that
the plot described in the blurb is like, sort of what happens but i simplified things for the sake of a neat little fake manga blurb. nobody asked me to do this yet here we are. if i were being realistic abt it this would probs be like vol 2 BUT i made it the 10th volume bc this is?? the 10th silan portrait??? i did the first one in 2014?? hello??? time is fake (my hc is that it's a slice of life club manga about flower pressing for the first 9 volumes but it pivots hard in vol 10 bc the author got so sick of drawing flowers no i am not projecting-)
now regarding the japanese version: i tried my best*
*(if u or a loved one know japanese ur not allowed to make fun of me ok orz i used 姉妹 bc theres no way for silan & sythra to know who's the older twin & idk what u would do in that situation like do u just pick one & go w it or is there another hierarchy-neutral word for sister, 姉妹 is the best i can do w my limited knowledge and even then it probably just sounds like silan is having twin girls which like good for him but even so if i sound like a dork keep it to urself ok but actually do tell me if u know bc i would like to Learn ik this is probably the least of my worries when it comes to that entire paragraph but rn we are just going to focus on the issues i know about and pretend that everything else is fine as is ok thank u for ur time & have a lovely day ur a star ⭐️)
misc fun facts aka u learn how unhinged i was abt this:
the title is May 16th bc that's just what silan's story has always been called. luckily i have that up my sleeve or i'd have had to come up w smth out of my ass like The Silan Portrait or some shit
the author and publishing company are both called astralibrary yes that's me (it has a nice ring to it as a manga publisher name don't u think). i made up the logo on the spot it's my best work. especially the one in the bottom right of the japanese bar code area where i just typed the name and put a star next to it bc that makes it look professional somehow
i stole borrowed the barcodes from existing manga i have good pics of (bc i have an entire folder in my gallery dedicated to manga covers & jpn typography, unrelated); the english one is hanako-kun vol 4, and the japanese one is after the rain vol 10. i changed all the numerical codes tho (variations on the date 5/16 repeating)
i made up the english prices but i picked ¥640 specifically bc that's the price of the natsuyuu volumes i have in my manga covers folder, my only possible point of reference,
rated teen even tho in my mind it'd be targeted more towards young adults; it doesn't have anything in it that would warrant a mature rating but it does feel strange to categorize it in this way even knowing these ratings don't necessarily dictate the target audience
i thought about messing around w the design of the japanese version more to reflect some of the design sensibilities i've observed in japanese manga, like different placement of the text on the cover or a different spine entirely (since they tend to differ a lot between jpn and eng versions)- i even thought about trying to design an obi (long strip of paper that wraps all the way around the bottom portion of the book, usually has announcements & promotional stuff on it), but that is a whole ass project for another day i think this'll do just fine for now skdjlfkdg
and there u have it, thank u for reading my yearly essay abt drawing i did! sometimes u need to go aaaaaa about smth u drew and that's ok 👌
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edit: oh yea i forgor i should write transcriptions of the blurbs here we go
ENGLISH
Alone with his thoughts? Not necessarily...
Silan has finally discovered the source of the mysterious voice in his head- the long lost twin sister he never knew he had...?! She calls herself Sythra and she has a serious grudge against him- but they need each other in order to uncover the hidden truths about their past.
Why didn't they know about each other? How were they separated? Why can they hear each other's thoughts?
And... What else don't they know?
-
JAPANESE
双子の姉妹がいる⁉︎
サイランは頭の中の声の衝撃的な正体を知るーーどうやら双子の姉妹がいるらしい⁉︎しかも、なぜか嫌われているようで…頑張れ、サイラン!
どういうわけか、この二人は謎に満ちた過去の答えを一緒に見つけるでしょう。
なぜお互いのことを知らなかったのか?どのようにして離れ離れになったのか?なぜお互いの考えを聞くことができるのか?そして…他に知らないことは…?
待望の第10巻がついに登場!
INTENDED TRANSLATION:
I have a twin sister?!
Silan learns the shocking identity of the voice inside his head- apparently he has a twin sister?! And what's more, for some reason she seems to hate him... Hang in there, Silan!
Somehow, these two will find the answers to their mysterious past together.
Why didn't they know about each other? How did they get separated? Why can they hear each other's thoughts?And...what else do they not know...?
The long-awaited 10th volume is finally here!
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astralibrary · 1 year
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Hi i found one of your old drawings and was wondering if I could use it as a pfp. It still has your old url on the bottom of it.
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yeah definitely, go for it! as far as crediting i'd say just use my current url, astralibrary, or linking back to the original post works too 💖
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astralibrary · 1 year
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The natsuyuu charas in your style is the cutest ever 😍 I am in love
waaaa thank u!! im glad u like them ;w;
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astralibrary · 1 year
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completely forgot about these saiki doodles i did a while back aka my masterpieces
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saiki: psychic powers are hell
toritsuka: AAAAAAA WAIT SAIKI COME BACK DON'T JUST LEAVE ME HERE
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1st panel
saiki: FOR THE LAST TIME I'M NOT GONNA SHIT IN UR MOUTH
(there's already enough shit coming out of there as it is)
toritsuka: WHY THE Fuck NOT!!
2nd panel
toritsuka: ok well i didn't wanna have to resort to this
3rd panel
toritsuka: please
shit in my mouth
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kuusuke: You can control saiki by giving him coffee jelly
saiki: coffee jelly is so good tho
kuusuke: I got him
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astralibrary · 1 year
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completely forgot about these saiki doodles i did a while back aka my masterpieces
text transcript:
Image 1
saiki: psychic powers are hell
toritsuka: AAAAAAA WAIT SAIKI COME BACK DON'T JUST LEAVE ME HERE
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Image 2
1st panel
saiki: FOR THE LAST TIME I'M NOT GONNA SHIT IN UR MOUTH
(there's already enough shit coming out of there as it is)
toritsuka: WHY THE Fuck NOT!!
2nd panel
toritsuka: ok well i didn't wanna have to resort to this
3rd panel
toritsuka: please
shit in my mouth
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Image 3
kuusuke: You can control saiki by giving him coffee jelly
saiki: coffee jelly is so good tho
kuusuke: I got him
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astralibrary · 1 year
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for the 2022 @natsume-ss i was @gaytypo's secret santa!! ey asked for natsume/tanuma/taki so i drew a cute lil everyday type moment between the three of them ♥️
the scenario i had in mind was something along the lines of: taki is bored and wants to do something, so they're discussing possibilities; simple but sweet! i hope you like it, and i wish you all the best for the new year! 💖
nicer quality png version ☺️♥️
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astralibrary · 1 year
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Hey, just wanted to let you know that someone on Tiktok is using an old Danny Phantom drawing you made as a Dream (Minecraft) reference. They did not give you credit, but I commented your name and the actual character it was art of. I hope I didn't overstep, I just have a lot of artist buddies that hate it when this happens so I try to help out when I can. Linking the video below. Your art is super cute btw! 🥰
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTR9CHw8L/
SMH thank you so much for doing that, i rly appreciate it!!! 😭
i guess it's not so much the fact that they used it that bothers me (though in general i'd prefer people Not repurpose my art) as much as the lack of credit, which can be v disheartening- so thank u for going out of your way comment like that, it really means a lot! 🥺♥️♥️♥️
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astralibrary · 1 year
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some funny lil guys i've been drawing lately (spooky edition)
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some funny lil guys i've been drawing lately (spooky edition)
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some funny lil guys i've been drawing lately (spooky edition)
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astralibrary · 1 year
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HAPPY SEASON 3 BABEYYYYY 🎊🎉🥦🥦🥦
enjoy a lovely celebratory/promotional video from the One and Only World Famous Spirits & Such crew themselves! :)
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astralibrary · 2 years
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final week of artfight! i'm a little sad to see it come to a close (it went by so fast!) but that just means i'll have that much more excitement saved up for next year ✨ GG everyone!
this time we got
keyra for yourcupofchii
neve for AnnoyingMoth
sunny for elessar
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astralibrary · 2 years
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artfight weeks 2+3 babey ✌️
so many dnd characters, y'all are Out Here ✊
in order:
Boe for EdiSlendering
Dante, Milo, Dimitri & Eden for DoodlesIGuess
Lumi & Grace for Maymagic
Lance for Duckstuff2008
Breeze for @fourlegged-potato
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