We were binging some moomins with @minttuperuna.bsky.social and got inspired

Far too few games do the thing where the boss theme gets lyrics in the second phase, it's like one of my favorite hype escalation tricks in the book

Glad Ninja Guyden 4 got the memo at least 🤘

wait a minute, I've played this before..!

The original piece inspired me to try (imitate) a bunch of stuff I've never tried before, like visualizing outlines of solid black shapes and using charcoal brushes to mess around with highlights etc
Fun stuff!

Peak design too, thanks for the inspiration @mockingmoth.bsky.social

Finished Disgaea 3 recently and wanted to slap something on a canvas last night, tried some new brushes and wanted more practice with shading. Biggest challenge was trying to convert my bulky ref pose guy into the slender nerd that Mao is lmao

Quite happy with how this turned out!

Plenty of time to scribble this while he was trying to navigate through some asinine dungeons or slog through a swamp of character dialogue lmao

bro nobody told me marvel rivals has infinites lmfaooo

just wanted to make something outta this bit, peak chapter 2 content

just felt like making something quick

ngl this pixel art- adjacent stuff is pretty fun to do, I feel like I can get away with a lot of "errors" because everything's so vague and up for interpretation anyway lmao

The canvas size is incredibly small and boosky compression seems to be doing a heavy number on it oof lmao