It's the first year anniversay to Splatoon 3's Side Order DLC, so naturally I would be inclined to make an illustration for this special occasion like many favourite games of mine. Except it's moreso centered around the Lil'Squirt (certainly not getting sick of the name and don't plan on retiring that anytime) and it's comfort toys (or friends I suppose, are they?). It is a newborn in the DLC as stated by the dev interviews, so unlike others where their birthdays happen to be marked so by their debut of their game (sorry blue hedgehog), it actually makes sense here. This happened after sketching the little guy for fun like it's been an eternity until I nailed the one where it's holding on strings (plus I like how I drew its happy eyes). I thought about giving an actual swing, but then immediately went with balloons... because I get to use the Drizzling Capricciosos acting as these, so of course it's better (Tbf, I don't even think they're that bad after fighting them several times, they die off pretty easily... the WHIRLING ACCELERANDOS THOUGH). That being said, their designs (besides Smolly) where very tricky to nail down in my style and I shuddered when I considered about adding in the rest in the background despite the oval shape containing it is relatively small (I'm certainly not good about drawing robots, the angular and especially complex ones at least). Although maybe I tend to have a habit on focusing on foreground characters/elements a lot more than the ones in the back. Guess I can't win at everything. I do at least hope you enjoy looking a TinyOrder having the time of its life celebrating its birthday. Give out some comments here if you want to talk about it or even fave it if you like it. Splatoon belongs to Nintendo. This artwork is made by me.
"It's Raining Deadfish!"
Balloons certainly cause rains and go fshfshfshfsh despite some people not liking that it's even happening.
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