Ricis Little Wonderland

Kimetsu Gakuen: Valentine-hen 3

Tengen and his temper 😂

Since people wanted spooky, here's more spooky.

Angus and his sister Franziska. I figured that Angus would probably be some sort of mysterious horrific eldritch entity, that people don't really know what he is exactly. Roughly seems like a shadow octopus merman or something, but has eyes everywhere. (Also his human part is deceptively simple for a reason)

This made me think of the Pirate AU for some of my characters, and I figured since Angus is the ship doctor for the protag captain of that AU (Azul/Chester's pirate version), this could be related. Angus was always going to be a bit mysterious/scary in that AU, where he can summon horrific things from the deep, so...maybe he's just making a call home to ask for a favor lol

(The speech bubbles are Chester talking with the other protagonist and his LI, Diojas)

Sooo..... I didn't plan this to end up with spooky vibes as well, but here we are lol. I guess that's just my favorite theme type.

Anyway, this is Gianna, I briefly forgot about her but recently recalled that yeah, she's a siren; while that mainly means she's a birdwoman, given sirens and mermaids get mixed up a lot anyway, she does have a mermaid form as well.

I ended up giving her white fin because her bird form would also have white/pinkish feathers judging from her ref I do have (I don't have the bird form designed yet). It also looks like a cool evening gown that contrasts nicely with her skin tone.

Finished this; I initially thought of adding more detail to the BG sand, but I concluded I kind of like it like this? just keeping the focus on these two.

Also, almost forgot: the texts if you can't read them well:

Some context: Aiden is my friend @mad-hatter-rici's character and normally a human, whereas his BF Mihail is a Grimmhound (hence the "good boy" comment lol). I couldn't decide what happened here, but either:

(IDK which option is funnier honestly)

Also, bonus reaction from him the next day:

Told you he is a disaster xD

I'm too tired today to try and make two versions of this, like I initially planned (I had plans for spookier version with more details). Anyway, Caelan is showing off his newest big shell find to his favorite cousin/big brother figure. (side note: I might draw other characters too for Mermay, these two just feel the easiest/most optimal to use, given they 'canonically' have merman-like forms lol)

I also realized while drawing, that technically this more humanoid look is Laurent's "battle form," so him casually hanging out on it is a bit ooc. For this particular piece it just worked better for me, than the more traditional merman one he has.

IDK if the tail-fin for this humanoid form looks very.... anatomically reasonable for this pose, but it is what it is I suppose. I also didn't include the spiky bits for Laurent here, to make him look softer.

ene i want to adopt them. Gimmeeeeee

I couldn't decide which version I liked more, so I decided to upload both. The second, bluish one is more accurate to what their colors are, but I like the atmosphere of the first one more.

Laurent's updated Humanoid merman form (He's actually a massive Sea serpent; he has 4 forms total, a full human, a traditional merman with a skull mask, this one, and the giant reptile), alongside his baby cousin Caelan as a kid. He's always been protective of him, as Caelan was the smallest in the family & the only survivor after a human caused disaster that poisoned rest of the family accidentally.

I initially meant to give him the long merman fin ears he has in human form/the more traditional merfolk form, but I decided they just don't fit this look, so I scrapped the idea. (Basically, having them there made him look so goofy lmao)

I wanna huggle caelan ❤️🩵

Second Mermay piece, this time with Laurent's more "traditional" merman form (he's actually a sea-serpent, hence the dragon skull mask). Again two versions, a more colorful and muted one. Certainly gives a very different vibe to the same piece.

I decided to make his bigger, thicker red scales look slightly different in this form, where they aren't fully fused together like armor pieces when compared to the more humanoid look.

🤩 sooop cool

I've been struggling with this for months, but finally, I have something I like. I concluded that due to the lore behind Soul Eaters in my world setting, considering them Warlocks rather than Demonic beings makes more sense, and thus decided that Jurou's "Soul Eater" look is more of a mage outfit essentially, inspired by the look of their King/Deity, Amaros. I couldn't decide if I wanted his hair open or on a braid, so I decided that he does both depending on his mood.

Note: This particular outfit is something he can't just drape somewhere, like any other garment. They are made of pure magic, so if he wants to remove his coat for example, he just de-manifests it. You also can't knock down his hat, if it gets removed it just disappears and re-manifests on his head.

I had a LOT of lore and design explanations in mind that I thought of including into the images, but its just too much text, so I put bare minimum notes into these, and rest will be under the cut for those curious:

Ohhhh so stylish

Fun fact: All of Gwenpool's properly spelled fucks were given to Miguel as a reparations for dealing with Deadpool.

(also shock is stupid, I'm strongly on team let him say fuck ;P)

Sorry for the long delay on everything. We were finishing big work project so I've been bit busy but in free time I was finishing one of my forever wips for the @cindymorganzine and I'm very proud of it but the big reveal will come with time ;)

But as for this comic [first part is here] then [there is bonus drawing with Jeff in his 99 napping glory] and there is obviously [the clear first panel] that was originally posted 2 months ago >.< [and it's sketch]

look how well I've accidentally matched today's theme XDDD

you know what, the old style borders look better for petvengers and I'll continue that way

and yeah, there will be continuation >:3 I've got dumb ideas that I need to get out of my head.

now this time there is actual nefarious reason I'm reblogging those here eve if I run sideblog for them ;3

It'll just take me time to draw it all out >.<

UPDATE: I've decided to adjust Laurent's design as I concluded I didn't really like the one he had. Now, his merman forms will remains as is for now, but I will update them slightly sometime during may, as I kinda want to completely re-draw them.

Also fun fact; "Laurent" is just the way his name is translated/written for the Universal Mirror world language; in his own Sea-serpent Tongue, it is actually "La'ruenn" (pronounced la-wrenn, roughly)

The reason he uses this "universal" name instead is that typically Sea serpents only give out their 'true name' to those very closest to them, typically their own kin/family/love interests. It is more symbolic thing, as often the universal name they choose sounds very similar to their real one.

Aaanyway, bio below:

Since I did those adjustments to my main Goth Dad, I decided to fix another character whose design has been bugging me for a while. There was nothing really wrong about the previous one, it just didn't feel like Laurent to me somehow? (the changes aren't even that big lol)

it's been forever since I drew my supposed "main" character Jurou/Alistair, and I figured he is in need of a slight update. I'd kinda concluded the two-color hair no longer works with him like it used to with his OG design, because his hair is no longer cut into two distinct segments. I also tried to make his hair slightly darker as I feel the red became too bright overtime from what I intended.

Another thing I changed was the use for the name "Araknos" as I just like the name "Blackthorne" as his surname much more lol (I have to update his refs sometime soonish...)

Other than the hair changes, I didn't really change his outfits at all as they were totally fine. I left this looking sketchier, because I didn't feel like doing a neat lineart. Instead, I used the sketches I had done.

(Random fun fact; Despite his mother being the Japanese one, Kouka and her family are related to him through his Scottish/mirror-world native father Harrow instead. I don't know why I find this fact funny.)

The most fashionable goth dad ever öuö

Rainbow ladies 3: Franziska (Cat witch)

Choosing a character for this color proved difficult at first as I didn't initially seem to have anybody where yellow was their primary color/primary accent color. Then I remembered Frankie's main outfit (That I've not drawn since making her ref lol) was majorly yellow.

The BG is kinda silly, but it fits given she portrays herself as very goofy/silly/mischievous to hide the self-esteem issues and trauma.

Also, I accidentally made this bonus version while fooling around with gradient/cutout effect layers and decided I wanted to post it too, even though it's not really part of this rainbow series:

(Side note; she has gray skin due to being a black cat specifically; she's inspired by the celtic/scottish cat-sith myth, rather than being a general catgirl witch. in human form she has lightly tanned skintone)

Mew-Wow öuö

Rainbow ladies 2: Marci (A Warlock)

Drawing this was super difficult, for a couple of reasons: 1. Marci is apparently hard to draw for some random ass reason, and 2. orange is a color I find tricky to use/theme things around, given it very easily turns into a red, or a brown. This is honestly more browns and reds than orange themed....OTL

The OG Kouka one I made for this color came out better in regards to the color theme imo. However, this piece does fit better in the series style that the Red piece with Mariella set up for me though.

As for the BG pattern; it's a combination of the symbol of the group she used to work under the member of, and the moth like thing peeking from within them is the logo of her favorite in-world band, whose member she's even friends with. (the logo is also on her shirt)

(It's kind of symbolic of how her past job still kind of has a major effect on her even in her private life and shadows a lot of things in ways she's not exactly happy with.)

Rainbow ladies 1: Mariella (Tree Nymph)

So I guess I'm doing this rainbow series thing, though I think I'm gonna redo the orange color, as the one I did with Kouka has kind of too different of a style from this. (Although, TBF This is a redraw of a traditional piece I made a while back, so that's also why it looks different lol.)

Finally had use for all the flower photos I've taken from mum's garden, as I decided to change the flowers she's holding from sunflowers in the original, to camellias and roses here to better work with the red theme.

She's naturally very valentine's themed huh, thanks to her nymph form being based on a tree with heart shaped leaves.

I wanted to draw today, but struggled a lot because I had too many ideas to choose from. In the end ended up doodling this Kouka portrait, and thought I could make like a drawing series, where each lady represents a color of the rainbow. Kouka is orange (she was kind of the only one who'd sorta kinda work for the color lol)

Also used this to show off her style outside the bathhouse uniform, and figured she'd have pretty business casual vibe. She would probs dress like this too for the Cyberpunk AU, hence the bg I chose.

I meant to make more doodles about his pre-dad phase, but didn't have ANY ideas left, so I just colored the ones I did have. I also realized that Alexander HAS to have gray eyes at some point, despite his OG ref having red ones, because their son has gray eyes and Mellina doesn't. I came up with a lore-explanation for it too that kinda works, given he's a dog beast spirit.

He and Mellina worked together as demon hunters/corrupted spirit exorcists for over a decade, before actually becoming a couple and giving him his surname, as his kind don't really have ones by default. His kind "manifest" rather than are born biologically to a family.

(Mellina is a sorceress and my friend's character btw, I initially meant to draw her for this too, but she kept failing so I gave up lol)

Forgot to mention, the dog tag does indeed say Alexander, but his full dog name was something wayyy longer and dramatic (think silly nonsense like 'his Royal Highness Alexander Bartholomew the Third') whereas he was mainly just called 'Andy' or 'Al' or 'goddammit dog' by the old man in practice. (The old man also never found out his companion was not a normal puppydog before he died)

.U.; the good boy was once a rowdy