I had the opportunity to be a part of the Flower of Nohr Zine (@feelisezine), dedicated to our cinnamon roll princess Elise from Fire Emblem Fates!
This is one of many cute Elise-related things included in this FREE fanzine, so please check it out and enjoy what else was done for this project!
Thank you to all my friends who supported and helped me through this project. I REALLY wanted to do her justice!
See Twitter for the zine's download link.
EDIT: It's on Tumblr now too!
There's at least one character in a given FE that makes me go all heart-eyed when they first get introduced. My first Fire Emblem game, Fates Birthright, had such a scene--the part where Elise suddenly appears disguised as a flower girl. That scene nearly became what I chose to reference.
Instead I wanted to reference the fact that she CANONICALLY plays violin, something you'd only know looking at her Revelations support conversations between her and Sakura, which in turned revealed the latter to be a koto player. I happened to stumble across that set of scenes on YouTube and my heart melted on the spot. It was so wholesome! The cherry on top was the inclusion in the soundtrack of an actual violin and koto solo dedicated to them both. (I'm also happy that it's apparently a track in FEH now!)
I considered adding Sakura with my piece, deciding against it due to added complexity and not having drawn any Fates character except for Elise. The violin posing was a lot on its own...
If you decided to read/skim through this, thank you! I hope you enjoy this.
Abacusynth is a synthesizer inspired by an abacus, the ancient counting tool used all around the world. Just like an abacus is used to learn the fundamentals of math, the Abacusynth can be used to explore the building blocks of audio synthesis.
Emergency entry into my [late] VTuber Drawtober prompts for outgoing VTuber Pomu Rainpuff!
I'm gonna miss Pomu. A lot. She's a genuine legend in VTubing and my first oshi not from Hololive for how contagious her passion is. I hope success finds her wherever she ends up next in life!
I didn't pull Pomu out of my list of names for Drawtober last year, but let's pretend I did X3
Context: In her first Metal Gear-related stream (Metal Gear Rising), she mentioned she played violin in high school, so this is a reference to that. (She's also mentioned playing flute before, and has played autoharp on stream too!) While explaining the story of how she knew the song Heavens Divide, she mentioned singing the solo vocals for that song in her school orchestra instead of playing violin.
She was also wearing her then-new Maid Pomu outfit during that stream, plus a headband asset she drew for Metal Gear. The Maid outfit is still one of my favorite model designs PERIOD, not just among Pomu's outfits (which I all like for one reason or another). It feels like such a love letter to Pomu's passion for idol and maid culture in a way that's uniquely her own. Her mama did an incredible job on all four of her models!