I intended to finish 'this' before the new chapter release tonight, but... for now I'll just post these screenshots 🫠

Actually 11cm height gap is not really that big in real life, so seeing a stark difference between the body size of 🫖📒 in official media makes my heart flutter in weird ways 😂

I really love their 11cm height gap and also the gap in their shoulder length & hand size... The fact that they're both teenage boys makes the gap power even stronger 👌

work in progress 🫖📒

🎐 WB work in progress

maybe this would be more like a short stories collection around the Halloween AU... at least please let me dream of a delusional book cover for this AU...

🫖📒 rough sketch| spring's gonna end and my head's still stuck with all the ideas I came up for last year's Halloween merch

It's just my observation + experience from some of martial art classes in the past so it can be wrong :) I mean we've only seen Nirei doing 2 moves that he learned from his master, he might have more surprises under his sleeve, who knows? (pls make Nirei doing new moves pls pls pls)

Simply put, 🌸's fighting style is like a mixture of survival instinct, parkour moves and instant bursts of energy, 🫖's is calculated mixed martial arts attacks + unpredictable element for best efficiency, and📝's is derived from 🫖's but has more defensive moves.

🎐 WB | attempt on drawing action poses and thoughts on trio 🌸🫖📝 (potential) fighting styles

Fun fact no one asks for: the glasses Nirei's wearing is sometimes called "the fortune-teller glasses" since historical and theaterical fortune tellers are mostly depicted wearing these glasses + dark shade five-panel áo dài + khăn vấn. So if Suo wears Nirei's glasses, he'd look like a con-man...

I want to talk a bit about the background behind the trio... The images of strings of our national flags between local buildings, mostly in small alleys, have become something important and beautiful in my mind when talking about images that depicts the most Vietnamese feel to me.

Cảm giác Sakura hợp với kiểu quần áo tối giản nên mình đã chọn áo dài nam cách tân; Nirei mặc áo ngũ thân tay chẽn vừa có tính truyền thống vừa có độ ứng dụng cao; Suo có vẻ hợp với quần áo mang ý nghĩa trang trọng nên áo ngũ thân tay thụng (áo tấc - dùng trong các sự kiện đặc biệt) sẽ phù hợp nhất.

Trang phục của cả ba đều được phối dựa trên tính cách của mỗi người. 🌸 mặc áo dài nam cách tân + quần bó đen + giày hi-tech sneaker; 📝 mặc áo ngũ thân tay chẽn + quần ống rộng trắng + giày da + đeo kính râm gọng tròn; 🫖 mặc áo ngũ thân tay thụng + quần ống rộng đen + giày kung-fu + đội khăn vấn.

🎐 WB | trio 🌸🫖📝 on Hanoi's old quarter street

update: after chapter 208 I can't see this sketch normally anymore 🙏

Fan: "Ngoài tôi ra không ai được phép khiến hai người đau khổ" 🫴

not gonna lie I always have fun drawing my fav characters wearing painful expressions, though I don't want that to actually happen in canonical media 🫠

🫖📒 rough sketch| valentine's day's over so I'm posting these

Mơn bồ nha. mà tui ngồi sửa với vẽ phác thảo thôi cũng sắp chếc ngất rồi :") Mong là xong được trong năm nay nếu không có sự cố gì 🫠👍

Both books are gonna be in Vietnamese though and I'll have someone I know to be my beta reader 😅 Can't afford myself to be grammatically wrong 🫠

The manuscript and drafts for both said books are 50% finished, I'll see if there's a printing shop that can work this out with me (as someone who has less experience than average artists/those that are familiar with having their projects printed out as physical products)

I'm preparing maybe a comic book (doujin) for 🫖📒 and/or an 🎐 all-character artbook at the middle or end of this new year... It's my first time making one, so I kinda fumble with whatever experience and knowledge I've gained until this point (help).

The printing quality looks so good I'm literally crying for the cover's beauty and for my envy because there aren't so many printing place in my place that can produce such a high-quality book cover along with my demand...

I think besides spending my saving specifically to buy books and fanbooks on toranoana, I should start setting aside some money to travel to Japan someday... RT

シルキーアイスグリーンの箔押し＋ミランダスノーホワイトにマットppで控えめなキラキラにしました
すごくいい感じ！！

FYI, "Giấu như mèo giấu cứt", literally "hiding (something) like a cat hides its poop", is a Vietnamese idiom used to describe the act of meticulously or secretly hiding something... which is often unnecessary to do so since everybody knows lol.

⚠️🌸🌿 sakukoto/さくこと serious & silly sketches

I just included the tags for 🌸🌿 sakukoto (さくこと) and 👔🎤 kanshizu (かんしず) in my bio. I haven't shared many of their sketches on social media, so I'll use Bluesky to discuss them more, depending on the number of scrapped sketches I discover and decide to redraw after months...

等一個拓浦