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Day 18 (so many days late. Just so many. This was supposed to be done in March) of my Women’s History Month art challenge!

Fujiko Mine! I love Fujiko, but I don’t always love how she’s portrayed in the series (side-eyeing Mystery of Mamo in particular here). Her appearances and treatment in each movie/part is very hit-or-miss I feel.

But overall I like her a lot! Some of my favorite Fujiko characterizations are in Castle of Cagliostro, The First, and Part 5 Episode 6. It’s just fun to see Fujiko and Jigen work together for once, and all it took was the chance to beat the crap out of Lupin :]

Unrelated, but I had said I was determined to do all 31 days of this challenge. But I’m so late and I’m running out of steam, so I think I’m just gonna go for 20 and then try to do the full thing (on time) next year.

Day 17 of my Women’s History Month art challenge (many days late!)

AMY ROSEEE!! Another Sonic character bc that’s like. The only thing I’ve been thinking about these past few months.

I’m gonna be honest, I didn’t care too much for her initially, but she’s really been growing on me. Her design is very cute and I love that she’s a girly girl and she also just has a giant hammer and beats people up with it. I’m excited to see her more in the next movie!!

Day 16 of my Women’s History Month art challenge!

Wolf!! Honestly, I still haven’t finished watching Kipo. I got to like episode 4 of season 3 and just,,,never finished it apparently? I need to do that at some point. I really liked the show though, the art style and animation is amazing and I LOVE the soundtrack. Wolf is also such a cool character, she was maybe my favorite in the whole show.

This is actually a re-draw of an older piece I made in 2020! Here’s the original:

Day 15 of my Women’s History Month art challenge! (Eight days late :,])

It’s been a minute since I’ve played Don’t Starve, and I haven’t played as Wendy too much, but I like her design and her backstory. Abigail is cool too, I like what we see of her personality in the animated short.

While I’m at it, here’s some tgs/don’t starve doodles I did a couple years ago! If I ever have the time and motivation to make a Jekyll and Hyde mod for dst I will do it. Or I will happily draw the assets if someone else who actually knows how to mod dst wants to make one

Day 14 of my Women’s History Month art challenge! (Six days late :,D)

Rachel Pidgley from The Glass Scientists by @arythusa !! I LOVE tgs, it got me really into Jekyll and Hyde as a whole, and it’s also been a big art inspiration for me these past few years. Rachel is great, she’s a very fun, interesting character, and love that she seems to get along with (almost) everyone. The background is based on her kitchen, specifically what’s visible of it on page 15 of chapter 3, since I love the colors and the warm atmosphere, it looks very cozy in there :]

Day 13 (3 days late) of my Women’s History Month art challenge

Mizu from Blue Eye Samurai!! She’s is such a complex character. I think it’s fascinating that she wants revenge against her father essentially for bringing her into existence (and on her mother’s behalf as well ofc). Wanting revenge against someone specifically because they created you opposed to revenge against someone who took something away is so interesting, I don’t think I’ve really seen that before. In addition to being a super complex character, her fight scenes are also just very, very fun to watch. Looking forward to season 2!!

Day 12 (uhh 3 days late) of my Women’s History Month art challenge!

Lucy MacLean! I LOVED the first season of Fallout, really looking forward to the second! Lucy is a fantastic protagonist, it’s awesome seeing her grow as a person and learn how to survive outside of the vault while still holding on to her optimism and kindness. I love characters like that :]

Days 10 and 11 of my Women’s History Month art challenge!

(There’s two characters so I’m counting it as two days so I can catch up a bit)

Alphys and Undyne!! I haven’t played Undertale in years but I was obsessed with it in like 6th grade, I really need to replay it sometime. These two were and are very very cute together :]

Day 9 (two days late) of my Women’s History Month art challenge!

ROUGE!! My favorite treasure hunter/spy/bat :] I’ve been really into the Sonic games (and movies) recently, and I’m always happy to see Rouge show up in them. She’s such a fun, cool character, I love her personality and her relationships with the others (especially Team Dark). Hopefully she’ll get a chance to be in the movies at some point too.

Day 8 (only one day late!) of my Women’s History Month art challenge

I’ve never really tried to draw a game-accurate detailed GLaDOS before, and I’m not sure I want to do it again 😭 there’s so many little parts and I feel like a lot of them are at wonky angles (If you see something that looks off, no you don’t).

Anyways! I love GLaDOS, she’s a very unique character and basically every line she says is pure gold. I need to play portal 2 again sometime soon.

Also, bonus PotatOS art!! I’m sure if/when I play portal again I’ll be drawing her and my other core designs a ton, but until then, here she is :]

Day 7 (2 days late) of my Women’s History Month art challenge

Saoirse!!! Song of the Sea is perhaps my favorite movie. It’s hard to choose just one, but whenever someone asks what my favorite is this is generally the first one to come to mind. The animation, music, story, literally everything is perfect and stunning. Beautiful, beautiful movie :,)

Day 6 (two days late!! Whoops!!) of my Women’s History Month art challenge!

So, admittedly I haven’t finished watching season 2 of Arcane yet, I’m on like episode 3 of it. I will try to finish it soon though!! So this is specifically Mel from season 1, since idk if she has any major outfit changes or anything in season 2 (but I think she does, based on a spoiler-y image I saw while looking for reference images oop).

Anyways, I really like Mel! I think she’s a super interesting character and I adore her design. I tried to sort of combine the show’s style and mine, and I think it works but I’d also definitely like to practice drawing her more.

Day 5 (a day late) of my Women’s History Month art challenge!

Clearsight! Again! I promise I draw other WOF characters too, Clearsight is just one of my favorites and the one I’ve happened to post on here most. Her design is (essentially) the same as the one here, and the colors/background are meant to invoke the Darkstalker cover.

Day 4 (a day late) of my Women’s History Month art challenge!

Lup!! It’s been several years since I’ve listened to TAZ, but I adored Balance. Lup wasn’t there for much of it, but I loved what we got to see of her. I’m excited for her to show up in the graphic novels :] as with yesterday’s drawing, I’ve actually cosplayed her before. The design of her hair and the Phoenix Fire Gauntlet here are both inspired by that cosplay.

Day 3 (a day late) of my Women’s History Month art challenge!

Went with Chica today since I wanted a slightly less complex character than yesterday. I love Chica, I cosplayed as her a couple years ago and I’ve doodled her a fair amount over the past 10 years :]

Day 2 (one day late whoops) of my little Women’s History Month art challenge!

Karlach!! I still haven’t finished my first play through of this game (I keep getting caught up in side-quests and losing interest 😭, I’ll buckle down and finish it eventually), but I literally always have her in my party. I love her I want to be her friend

OOP HI!! It’s been at least a year since I last posted (whoops) 😭

But I’ve been wanting to do a little art challenge for Women’s History Month, inspired by the challenge @southpauz does for Black History Month (go look at her art btw she’s amazing!!!). I figured this year, of all years, was a good time to finally actually do it. So I’ll be trying to do a drawing of a different female character each day this month! Hopefully!! We’ll see if I can keep up with it!!!

I’m already a day late, but for day 1 I’m doing my own character, Tuesday. This is also a re-draw of an older piece from (I think) 2020.

One more thing I might do is put these designs up on RedBubble. I had a thought that maybe I could donate like 50% of the profits to a charity. Still figuring out which one, maybe planned parenthood or something similar. If anyone has any recommendations please lmk! I’ll do my own research on a few options too.

Ocs!! They’re in some animations I have up on YT, I might post/link those here eventually.

Was looking through some human/android GLaDOS and Wheatley designs before taking a stab at my own, and ended up doodling some that really stood out to me!

Now for the arbitrary ratings of each design for each character simply because I can lol

Wheatley

@shrimperini ‘s design: I like this one a lot! He looks very polite. 10/10.

@the-dangerous-mute-lunatic ‘s design: ??? ?????? Why is he so pretty??? I’m confused but I still really enjoy looking at this one. He’s getting a 9.5/10 only because he slays too much when we all know that, canonically, he would never

@zimtdraws ‘s design: This one feels the most like what Wheatley would look like if he was a human (or human-adjacent), at least to me. One of my personal favorites. 11/10.

@cupcakeshakesnake ‘s design: One of the best object head/android designs I’ve seen of Wheatley thus far. The body perfectly matches the clunky, industrial aesthetic that his core already has! 10/10.

@dipworld-dippa ‘s design: This one’s fun! I love the cartoony vibe he gives off. Another personal favorite. 11/10

@demelly ‘s design: I like how unconventional this one is. A good mix of not-quite-human, but not-quite-machine, either. I also like how messy he looks; the curly hair sticking out all over and clothes that don’t seem like they fit him quite right give off the impression of a disorganized individual (which, considering his status as a core that generates nothing but bad ideas and never shuts up about anything ever, is very fitting). 10/10.

GLaDOS

@shrimperini ‘s design: I like this look for her. Very clean and sleek. 10/10.

@the-dangerous-mute-lunatic ‘s design: This one is my absolute favorite. Intimidating, but also very pretty. Also really like how much her chest plate looks like the one for her canonical robotic design. 11/10.

@zimtdraws ‘s design: Another unconventional design, especially for GLaDOS. But there’s something about this one that’s so charming to me. The thick curls and darker skin tone is a nice addition that I don’t see all that often for her. 10/10.

@cupcakeshakesnake ‘s design: Another banger for the object head types! I love how smug and condescending she looks all the time. Just like the real deal. 10/10.

@lacking-hydration ‘s design: This one reminds me of a classic Disney film/Saturday morning cartoon villain. Love that for her. 10/10.

@opthedragon ‘s design: This one is so silly. She’s so small! But that only works to her benefit. I really like how emotive this one is, despite having a potato for a head. 11/10.

(I made sure to credit all of the creators here. But if you don’t wish to be tagged, let me know! I’ll edit the post as soon as possible.)

She walks all big and tough but her legs are so small that she does not move very fast.

“And visions rushed in, visions upon visions upon visions, all the darkness she’d ever seen but worse and worse and worse.”

Had the urge to draw Clearsight and ended up with this!!

I’m working on commissions rn, and I’m still chipping away at the GLaDOS waking up comic, but I wanna draw GLaDOS

Could yall send me your GLaDOS designs? I wanna draw them (either via reblog or through submission)

I did the bottom sketch of this part first and then ended up also making an animatic of it :]

PotatOS!!

I imagine that Wheatley put her in a potato like normal, but then while down in old Aperture Chell finds an unused core body and sticks GLaDOS in it.

For height reference: she is very small. Smaller than Space core. Tiny, tiny little robot potato lady. Who is full of hate.

Interrupting the Portal art for just a moment to share,,,her

Drawing in my free time!

More Portal!! This time with extra Space core :]

I played Portal again recently and then proceeded to spend like two weeks drawing nothing but portal, so here’s a small handful of the art from that. I wanted to try making my own android-ish designs for them, since I’ve seen some really cool designs around :]