D'artagnan Alstublieft - Blog Posts

(January 1 - January 31, 2025)

I've been Psychonauts-ing for two years now. YAAAAAAAY!

Phoebe outfit design by @technovillain. Thank you for allowing me to draw it.

Big Bad Purple Bad Boy

Some sort of superhero pose.

Vernon's greatest audience

Inspired by this.

Why did you punch that little girl?

(August 1 - August 30, 2024)

Please insert one arrowhead to continue (payment accepted automatically.)

That won't work, Crystal.

Misha doesn't appear in any mental worlds, so we don't ever see him astral project. I drew what I think it might look like if he did (with stuff referencing a drawing above on the side.)

Well, I guess we're all going to die. My whole life is flashing before my eyes. My first memory is of my dog, Lady.

What an Amazing Mirror, right?

I'm glad that my adult Crystal was met with positive reception. I couldn't decide to show with or without color, so just have both versions.

(May 4 - May 31, 2024)

I hurt my hands from drawing too much in April, but I'm okay. During that time I was trying to take a break from drawing, but I was beginning to lose it, so I drew Maloof in MS Paint.

I continued resting afterwards and I was able to draw normally again.

I wanted to try drawing Quentin with different expressions again. It wasn't so bad this time, but ...

[Earthbound mortal damage sound effect]

Might revisit this one. I wasn't feeling it the day I drew it.

I saw that shirt and thought of him.

This is really my third attempt at squirrel Augustus.

Elka is like a cartoon character to me. Her manner of speech is very expressive.

Cutting the bush does not hurt it.

Request from my sister (she is a fan of Gorillaz, could you tell?) Seems that Noodle Fed-Ex'ed herself to the wrong address and The Levitators/Firestarters/Whispering Rockers have a guitarist now.

I wish I could have drawn more. I thought the outfit Elton was drawn in here was cute.

making Bobby go through it in the elaborate music videos that play in my mind at midnight.

Slightly older Bobby (14?)

Rejected sketch. Well, who did you think was the one who cut Raz's head in half? (jk)

I will draw them until my fingers break.

I redrew the first image.

(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.

(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.

⚠️ 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"

(November 3 - November 30, 2023)

I've been working on a project since November 2, and I hope to finish it sometime soon. To keep myself sane during this, I doodled. Most of them are not very high effort, so this will be a bit different. Consider these little scraps and bits n' pieces. Special thanks to everyone who inspired these (you know who you are)

See more under the cut (There are plenty!)

Anime Benny.

I gave Crystal a birthday, might as well even it out and give Clem a birthday too. (This date is not canon.)

Clem lemming (or Clemming, if you will)

I might post the finished version of this.

shut up misha i know

Who said that?

Terra don't think about Quentin challenge impossible

(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.

(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.)

(June 22 - June 27 2023)

I drew some stuff. It's primarily the campers in crossover situations. More content under the cut.

I was going to draw more, but I got distracted thinking about Chloe stuck in Out of this Dimension. It was fun to draw Bobby with a different expression besides contempt. (Chloe's legs are intact. Pssh who would think that her legs were amputated and replaced with robot legs anyway?)

Also, did you know that Sasha is taller than Deoxys? You are now burdened with this knowledge.

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:

May 2023 Doodle Highlights

Alright, I think after this I won't have to make any more highlights and will post drawings as normal. More stuff under the cut.

Well, I have to give context for the first one since it's very strange. There's a visual glitch where Crystal's eye texture will be inside her mouth. My nerd brain decided to draw her possessed by Dark Matter (yknow from Kirby.) I dunno if it warrants a warning, but if you found King Dedede's fight from Dreamland 3 to be disturbing, then I suggest not looking at the first drawing.