This Is Their Dynamic For Me

I forgot how goatee :( for better or for worse.

I LOVE Seapartist Varian's design. And I wanted to do something with symbolism and Andrew rose fore a while. Originally I wanted something where the rose would cover Varian's face but I decided not to. Then I thought it would be fun to make parallels to what Andrew did to Cassandra, Also I don't know who needs to hear this but this IS NOT ship art.

I had a hard time adding the pattern, I didn't know where to add them. They aren't my favorite but theyll do. I added the lanterns just for lighting and contrast tbh

The hardest part of this drawing was definitely the foreshorting and the colors. I drew the pose before the background and had NO idea where to place them. I was thinking to just make it a one off sketch until I realized I could put them on a balloon. Here's some sketches.

All the references I used/ put into this piece!!

(Disclaimer: All of this is based on the stories I was told. When googling I found vastly different information. Which makes sense, Hinduism is the oldest standing religion. Some things I say not be the widespread belief, but it what I was told and believed.)

That being said!

This is a reference to Lord Vishnu and his bull Nandi.

Vishnu is the lord of destruction, destined to end the world when it’s “done” basically.

I felt this fit Kokichi because of the theory Tsumugi wrote him to be the master mind.

I added a snake on his collar to show he was supposed to be Vishnu. The red tassel is supposed the be a “third eye” of sorts. (Originally I was going to portray him as Brahman who has several heads to represent wisdom, but I changed it. That’s why he has the several masks. I guess it could represent him “playing god”.) I also made his sash the toilet paper. That’s also why he looks blue (that and the purple looked weird against the yellow.)

Nandi’s story is where my version splits from the ones I’ve seen online. Basically Nandi was a boy gifted from Vishnu to a farmer who couldn’t have children. The crops started to suffer and the farmer fell ill, so Nandi prayed to Vishnu in order to help. Vishnu eventually came and fixed the crops, but took Nandi and turned him into a bull to use as a steed. Very depressing stuff.

I figured this was pretty Gonta-core (especially considering there’s some telling where Vishnu attacks using Nandi. There’s also a tradition where you whisper secrets into Nandi’s ear, which fits the whole “Gonta knows the secret of the outside world” thing.

I added a Swastika as a sort of contrast for the tragedy. It Hinduism (and many other religions) it’s seen as a symbol of peace and prosperity. So here it’s sorta like a heart sticker on a gushing wound.

In the west, Swastikas were corrupted into a symbol of hatred. I think it fit since Gonta’s sacrifice and intentions were turn into hatred for Kokichi in the group.

Anyway that’s it! If there’s questions feel free to comment or DM me. It’s pretty late so there might be some mistakes I missed, so just point them out so I can fix them.

Happy Oumota (Valentine's) Day! I hope they have a very character foil evening

headcanon: what if I gave this man a pistol

okay so I wanted hugo and varian to have different fighting styles despite sharing the same skill set as alchemists and I wanted their weapon of choice to also strongly reflect the kingdoms they came from.

for varian, he has his staff and throughout their quest he uses it often to illuminate the group's path, especially in darker places—which makes sense because he's from corona, the kingdom of light.

so for hugo, being from ingvarr aka the iron kingdom of warriors run by technological advancement and utilitarian system—I imagine him owning a pistol that he made himself that he specifically modified to accommodate alchemy wherein his ammos aren't bullets but rather alchemical compounds instead (think like Varian's project obsidian in season 3 but on a much smaller and portable scale) and he's made a built-in switching compartment so he'd have element variety of compounds as ammos ready to go. (think like Honey Lemon's chemistry purse)

it just made sense to me that he'd know how to make and use a firearm (frankly even his DnD counterpart knows how to use a riffle) considering his mentor Donella is a royal engineer and arm's dealer (at least basing this from Varian's Tangled Trials Lore by @i-found-you-justine-time) he's bound to pick up a thing or two from observing and watching her work—plus this provides a practical explanation to why he chooses to wear fingerless gloves instead of a full safety gloves like Varian—because he needs that extra mobility to pull the trigger faster.

and this also says a lot about his character because he made it solely and purely for self defense, designing his weapon with the intent to only immobilize opponents rather than actually inflicting serious harm to others.

Danganronpa Shipping Battle Round 4 - Quarterfinals

30 for the DR ask !

Whose design do you enjoy the most? 

This is hard because a lot of the designs are good in their own way.

For DR1: Kyoko.

For Dr2: Kazuichi.

For DRV3 it’s a tie between Korekiyo and Shuichi. (Ik I draw Kokichi and Kaito a lot, but being an Oumota artist means your cursed drawing possibly the most ugliest character in the game)

Rebloh for recent events

This is how my life’s been feeling as of late

Happy Halloween!!!

Just kidding :P

Got an amazing request from @varian4567 to draw Vamparian! Had a lot of fun and only a little distracted

i love dice from the hit game drv3 + dice yuri