Conya

 Let's form a band!!!!!

Some of my recent art of my character, Akio.

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The Great Detective of The East, Kudo Shinichi(?)

he readin

hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

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Genkai Undersea Observatory, Karatsu

I wanted to mention little details I did for this!

Despite Conan being totally a weird cat, the reason the filter has him as a puppy instead is I often see the cat one being locked onto the first person that appears. Similarly the pink first, blue second, and in some filters red first, blue second. Since Conan's short and spends most of it barely in the image, it made more sense to have the placement sort of switched in comparison to the personalities. I definitely wanted to make the poses and such make up for that, regarding Heiji at least. I can see Heiji being more of a puppy lol.

For the poses, I wanted it to seem like they didn't think the height difference through, and that the timing of the booth took pictures while they tried to get them both in frame. Overall a silly situation.

I considered making the theming more fireworks instead of space but the episodes I was watching around the time seemed to focus on the stars more often, so I think that influenced that choice.

The Happy New year label is actually just my handwriting since it was done last. I tried to make it neat though.

There's a few photo booths at a place I used to work, so I sort of took most my inspiration from the strip shapes from those.

Anyway, that's some details I wanted to mention. I had a lot of fun with this one lol.

Hello @elfchensdcartblog!

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I wanted to do something lighthearted and silly, and a photo booth strip was perfect for trying out a few brushes I had sitting unused. I saw you enjoyed the character Heiji, and I hadn't drawn him before, so I was excited to try that out. I added a New Year label version since the new year passing, and a blank one. I tried my best on the handwriting for that, lol.

I hope you enjoy it! I know I'm earlier in my Detective Conan watch journey in comparison, so I hope it fits the personalities alright. I had fun making this, and enjoyed our talks through the anon asks.

Sincerely,

Moss