(September 3 - September 22 2023)
I never really know what to say in these things, but I hope the drawings will speak for me. More under the cut (there's a LOTTTTT this time.)
Revisited an idea as previously seen in Feb. 2023 Highlights.
Rejected Sasha sketch.
I realized I had only drawn Milka four times so I decided to rectify that. (But who's to say she isn't in all of my drawings but invisible.)
Quentin makes me happy.
(Will anyone get the reference? I wonder)
(The joke is they are both named Mikhail. hahahaaaaaaaaAa)
(patrick voice) EVERYONE DIED.
I figured out how to make gradients the real way in my art thing. It's over for you all.
Aye aye aye, your eyes hypnotize 🎵
(here I was thinking I was clever for drawing Kitty with hypno-eye swirlies, but upon closer inspection on her model, she had them all along.)
Note: Crystal doesn't have an official birthday. I just chose from a random Virgo date. It happened to be Sept. 22. Yaaaaaaaaay.
I dread to imagine what's inside that box.
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Some more OC beeswax I've had on the mind for a while, or half-OC in Dart's case. I know it's common to depict him either the same age as Raz or younger, sometimes making him the next-generation Intern to Adult Raz, but then I thought 'what if he was older?' And then I threw in an unrelated OC and things mentally blew up. :V (This also plays off my earlier headcanons about Dart's power set)
Razputin wasn't the first psychic to be inducted into the Psychonauts at such a young age - Dart beat him to the punch by nearly twenty years. An orphan permitted to become a full-fledged agent on Otto's personal recommendation, he simply wasn't ready and got overconfident during a mission, indirectly causing the execution of several hostages. Horrified, he deserted the agency, dropping off the grid, only resurfacing years later after studying under a sect of psychic monks in the Himalayas that sent him out on his own to meditate and strengthen his connection with the collective unsconscious.
His journey took him to the obscure Central African country of Makanisi (nestled somewhere between Angola, Zambia and the DR Congo), known for two things: once being privately-owned by a Grulovian businessman, and being the site of the world's largest Psitanium deposit outside North America. He took up residence in a cave, banking on the Psitanium enhancing his astral projection powers.
It was here he met Tandi Ngazu, a psychic teenager from the Makanisian capital of Zoltzberg. A martial arts prodigy, Tandi ran away from home after she lost a championship bout and lashed out with her psychic powers, injuring her competitor in front of a huge audience. Dart found her hiding out in the slums while on a rare excursion into town, and reminded of how he was found by Otto as a street urchin in Rotterdam, he agreed to shelter the girl and give her some advanced tutoring - though due to his own relative youth and the fact he was on his own quest for understanding, he was far from confident. He was always a cynical person, and struggled with the whole 'empathy' thing, which in a way made him uniquely suited for 'taming' the collective unconscious without allowing it to affect his own emotional state.
Eventually, after about five years, a civil war broke out in Makanisi. Against Dart's advice, Tandi emerged from her secluded training to aid the rebels - many of whom she personally knew - in their struggle against the corrupt colonial government. She used Dart's training in astral projection to leave her own body while wide awake and completely ignore pain, gather information from people's mindscapes, and channel background psychic residue into physical attacks while far outside her body. She avoided the same fate that befell Lucrecia by staying guarded against outside influence and maintaining her sense of self even when among the Collective Unconscious, a technique mastered by Dart and soon noticed by the Psychonauts who arrived in the country to secure the Psitanium. She ended up joining the agency after Makanisi secured its freedom, but was unable to convince Dart to return with her.
That was all another five years before canon - Tandi is now 26 and has recently graduated to a full-fledged agent, and there's talk of letting her instruct the kids at Whispering Rock in combining out-of-body projection with physical exercise, provided they can work on her patience. Dart is 32 and his whereabouts are currently unknown, though rumour has it he's been sighted around the Questionable Area?, poking around through caves.
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Razputin, are you familiar with the name: d'Artagnan Astubelieft?
[Raz] You mean Dart? Yeah, we know him. He's easily one of the more skilled Psychics at camp, besides me and Lili. Too bad he has a, eh ...sensitive stomach. He's spends a lot of time in the outhouse.
[Lili] Like, a lot of time. He has his own personal one.
[Raz] That's no joke. The campers actually made a sign for him, saying that only he could use that one. And it wasn't even to make fun of him. We wanted to make sure he doens't have an ...accident.
[Lili] I like Dart. He reminds me of you sometimes, somehow.
[Raz] No, I get that too sometimes.
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(January 22 - January 31, 2024)
Last of January.
You know, I realized just HOW MUCH I draw. One month into 2024 and I've already made 37 drawings.
Anyway, here's Quentin and Phoebe hugging for hugging day, which was January 21. Most of these drawings revolve around them and other campers. If you're down with that, look under the cut for more.
Look, on Quentin's campster bio he says he hugs a lot. THEREFORE, I can draw him hugging his bestie as much as I want.
[quentin singing] your love takes me higher and HIGHERRR
baby, you're spinning me around ... what am I gonna do?
I wanted to draw Kitty grinning like a cheshire cat. I did but I also got very distracted.
boogie on down
I was feeling super hyper when drawing this. (You really think I'd let you go through this without Misha drawings?)
I dunno if I've ever stated it, but I think J.T. is peak character design. He looks pleasant. He IS pleasant. He's a PSYCHIC COWBOY. He doesn't shoot a gun, he shoots BULLETS with his MIND. It doesn't get better than that.
Dart looks down on the other campers for not taking psychic training seriously ... except for Dogen, of course. Dogen is exempt from his contempt. That's how I like to imagine it anyway.
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(March 1 - March 29, 2024)
Back once again for the renegade master, D4 damage with the ill behavior (camper fans come get ya food. more under the cut.)
AW YEAAAH
This is not a comic, just me getting easily distracted in art form. One of my friends thought Chloe's helmet was a TV screen.
Artist's block then began to beat my ass, but we will brute force our way through.
I wonder if Maloof likes Tom & Jerry.
This one's for the bird nerds and/or lovers of corny jokes out there.
Signs of spring.
ELKA DOOM FANS WHERE YA AT? MAKE SOME NOISE (I was feeling inspired.)
With Elka's help, the artist's block was vanquished.
This one is based on a dream I had months ago. They are listening to this because it kept me sane during the inordinate amount of time I spent on it.
Dart's head shape is like a modified version of Quentin's head shape (or maybe the other way around.) Visualizing it this way has made it easier to draw him.
A very important task as Bobby's henchman, you see.
(Note: since people have been unsure of what Bobby means when I show it - he wants Benny to bite into the apple first since he can't bite it with his bad teeth.)
Katherine.
I hope you took some time for Vernon on Storytelling Day (March 20)
There's been this commercial that plays "What A Feeling" and every time it comes on, it makes me think of Crystal without fail.
Is Chops wearing lipstick? The color is similar to Kitty's lipstick ... Did he steal it from her?
A Kitty-less Franke, how sad. I've expended all my energy to draw Kitty, so she has to be by herself.
J.T. has a very nice face. He has a very trustworthy smile. I trust him.
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⚠️ Warning for eyestrain. Some of these use colors that are very intense.
I got an idea back halfway through September to make drawings using the spray paint colors from Kirby. What started as a basic idea quickly grew bigger than I had imagined. It became kind of like a "final exam" to me. It took me about a month to complete the project. Thank you to my friends who encouraged me.
Nov. 2, 2023 [Orange] - "Jumping for Joy v2"
Nov. 3, 2023 [Cherry] - "Hey Girl"
Nov. 7, 2023 [Carbon] - "Confidant"
Nov. 8, 2023 [Green] - "Girl In The Fire"
Nov. 14, 2023 [Chalk] - "Tell Me A Story"
Nov. 20, 2023 [Sapphire] - "Ninja"
Nov. 24, 2023 [Red] - "Dangerous Days"
Nov. 27, 2023 [Emerald] - "Joy of Fall"
Dec 1, 2023 [Ivory] - "The Cowboy and the Canadian"
Dec 6, 2023 [Grape] - "Falling Over The Moon"
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Four doodle pages so far. It just started as me wanting to draw a few campers. A "few" turned into 80% of them. Every camper and Aquato sibling appears at least once (As well as some special guest stars.) I'm sure you can tell who my favorites are by who appears frequently (well except Nils. It's just fun to draw him saying things.) These contain many references and inside jokes between me and my sister, so they might seem weird since I'm presenting them with minimal context. I think they can be enjoyed regardless.
February 18 2023:
February 27 2023:
April 4 2023:
May 20 2023:
Bonus content under the cut
Biblically accurate Milka:
rinse out selecta (reject Quentin sketch):
Fully visible Milka:
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(July 5 and July 10 2023)
I was taking a drawing break. Here's some low effort nonsense.
HUG HER, RAZ. I was going to draw part 2 where he hugs her back but then didn't. oh well
Maloof was supposed to be standing beside him clinging to him, but he kept looking wrong. I liked how Misha turned out, so I didn't scrap the whole thing. Hey I know he doesn't like being called "Mickey" but is calling him "Mick" pushing it or would he still be mad? Cos I used to mentally refer to him as Mick before Misha finally stuck.
When I drew possessed-by-Dark-Matter Crystal I wondered how Clem would react. I think this is accurate.
Tala finds a new friend. Dart was drawn 100% from memory and he looks unexpectedly decent. Might be kinda weird to meet the prototype version of your brother (but they don't know that.)
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Psychonauts Headcanons - D’artagnan Edition
Was just thinking about D’artagnan, the game’s original protagonist. He’s always shown wearing something resembling sleeping gear, with the hat and all (at least that’s what it looks like), and I usually see him with a tired expression... so he’s clearly a very heavy sleeper, right? Maybe he has hypersomnia?
My thought: Dart has the unique ability to astrally project himself out of his body while he’s asleep. In this state he can freely move around and project himself into the dreams of other people who are sleeping, without needing to use a Psi-Portal (with the drawback that he gets booted out if the person wakes up, and of course a dream is only a part of a person’s full mind). Of course, to take full advantage of this ability, he has to be tired at all times. He ensures this by never having a consistent sleep schedule and spending most of his waking hours attempting strenuous mental exercises.
So in other words, it’s something like a cross between the Mindscape from Gravity Falls and that one SpongeBob episode where the titular character found ways to jump into his neighbours’ dreams. :V
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