2025 Gateway Fanfest sticker of GNB Kiandra

This sticker has a particular error; forgot Kiandra's aether scar. PLD edition

previous Kiandra stickers:

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Since Seiji was kidnapped for five years, an extremely annoyed Sakura has his ponytail in her hand. “You owe me five years of child support!” Tsubaki has nothing to say about the situation.

A really quick sketch of this scene stuck in my head. Tsubaki is speechless at how ridiculous her parents are.

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Completed picture of the Fanfest sticker, dancer Kiandra in Neo Ishgard of Aiming gear set (boots are from Far Eastern Maiden, gloves are ???) and Edenmorn Chakrams with Mephina’s earring visible. The butterfly hair clip is from the Garo crossover.

All done!!! The Fanfest sticker design is good to go!

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Mostly done with a dancing spriggan. Need to finish the chakrams and the coloring will start then this gets yeeted off for stickers!

Yet another update before I crash for the night.

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More progressing on Kiandra dancer sticker for fanfest trade

Another update, this is definitely locked in, gonna have to figure out how to shove the spriggan in

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Wip of the newest fanfest sticker design (i am not asspulling, I promise. The design was in my head but trapped behind all the yst art that leaked out)

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Sakura in her civvies, 3/4 sleeve v-cut pink top with black capri pants nad black flats. She still has her golden quartz sphere necklace and now sports two sets of pierced ears as well a pair of cat-eye glasses. Slightly shorter hair which is manageable.

Updated look for Sakura. She doesn't have wrinkles (because I apparently don't have any despite being 43, go figure) but added in glasses

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The troopers confused at a very blonde Tsubaki. Although, Shion is looking rather smug/unsurprised as if he’s known about that all this time.

A quick sketch because I haven’t done one of those in a long time where I’d draw troopers making various faces.

Now with YSST flavor.

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Ignore the date, this is just several new layers to showcase what Tsubaki would look like in DST’s school uniform. Her hair is “shorter” and back to her original color (blonde). Eye color has been slightly updated/tweaked.

…updated Tsubaki’s right eye to make it a little closer color-wise

But also designed her appearance in the DST school uniform (colors might not be exact)

…needless it should go without saying that she’s almost unrecognizable without her pink hair.

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A process with Tsubaki in mucha stylization

Even more Mucha stylization

Now trying to draw a kneeling Shion and wanting to eat my keyboard

Accidentally started new wip instead of you know, finshing the older wips -_-

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I guess I tried to practice drawing kanji ... virtues, armor names, and the full title

the little doodles on the other side in ink (likely using .02 or 0.5 micron sakura ink pen)

Back then, I was practicing and on the other side, I was surprised to find a little ink doodle of Seiji and Sakura (katakana says Kia :P)

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Yoroi Shinden Samurai Troopers undergear armor study because it’s very different and it’s making my muscle memory go insane with trying to draw

YST subarmor flavor with Sakura in pink/white version.

Finished my study of YSST’s undergear which has a great deal more details/lines compared to YST’s sub-armor =_=

The only immediate comparison I have is with Sakura’s reference which I drew from memory… go muscle memory!!

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A couple wearing kimono among the cherry blossoms. One is Seiji and the other is Sakura. This is supposed to be of them as older adults.

I thought I’d draw slightly older Seiji and Sakura together.

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Slightly improved picture (and probably 100% done on Sakura portion)

Fixing applied and looking so much better.

I think I’m ready for the second half of the picture -_-

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Another wip (but this is for Valentine’s day seriously)

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Tsubaki suddenly realizing how close he’s been sitting behind her!

Sequel to the horse picture yesterday, Tsubaki realizes too late how close Shion has been sitting behind her.

Afterwards, she calmly unsummoned the horse, dropping Shion before walking off to scream exactly five minutes later.

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Near complete art of Tsubaki and Shion on a horse.

I'm calling this done. #kiaart #kiaoc #shionishida #yoroishindensamuraitroopers

Sakura (pink) and Tsubaki (raspberry), finished piece with posing with the silk scrolls unfurling in the background and cherry blossom petals scattered all around

took me longer than I'd have liked... but I'm happy that it's done!

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In one of the old fics, Kia is standing on top of her dresser with a book pointed at the spider and she's just screaming hysterically.

Now:
Sakura would have exited the room.

Tsubaki would probably have tried to burn the room with SOENZAN!

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Sakura behaves *differently* in front of the Troopers vs her family where she can afford to be a little more Kia-like.

Tsubaki has no such restrictions!

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Looking through my old fics, Kia is a great deal hyper compared to Sakura in Reprise of the Armored Legend.

And I'm definitely cursing Tsubaki with the same "I do not like spiders" issue only that she gets the extreme Kia reaction vs Sakura being like "mmmgh I'll calmly go over there"

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Two people in an embrace. This might be the most unsubtle art I've ever done.

This picture explains everything *and* nothing.

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Mist/Brunhild with the one lightning streak in her hair, running forth. Was an attempt at perspectives by drawing on a tablet. Rather unsuccessful.

Kia in the valkyrie armor (no lightning streaks in hair)

Unfinished coloring of the valkyrie armor

I think the last time I worked on this armor was 2009.

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Watercolor sketch of a valkyrie's side profile showing a partial helmet, five silver feathers and a cherry blossom emblem from where the feathers are coming out of.

There's another character that needs a bit of tweak with design. She hasn't appeared yet but there's been hints regarding her.

The valkyrie/tennin.

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Another redesign... note that the sub-armor looks different because that was redesigned as well.

Cherry Blossom gundam looking MORE like magical girl gundam god why

So many times I tried to redo the armor ... even with a gundam version that somehow looked more like a magical girl (what)

I swear I'm going to finally do a proper armor design of the Cherry Blossom

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I don't know, Kia is in the armor but her lighting streaks were MISSING from this picture

no this woman still doesn't exist, she's just standing behind Kia

I think I kept redesigning the armor because I was never happy with it (it originally looked like a pink knock off of Korin armor -_-)

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Concept art of Shogun, with somewhat garishly colored armor that leans towards traditional samurai armor design-wise.

The main villain was some guy named Shogun. In the original attempt, he was related to Arago (I don't even know?) but this time around, he's a tech billionaire that everyone hates.

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Red Riddle concept-- an assassin wearing red. I wonder if I was unconsciously inspired by Marvel's Elektra...?

Concept art of Robotto, a robot who could hop between two different bodies. She used the adult body most of the time but if she wanted to sneak around, she would switch to the child body and no one would be the wiser.

Looking through my old artwork folders, I remembered these characters from the fic I never finished which is currently the basis for Reprise of the Armored Legend:

Red Riddle: an assassin (now a computer tech)
Robotto: A robot with two different bodies (now software assistant)

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This version should be more readable with ink added

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Tsubaki with a horse concept with SIX exhaust pipes!!

Tsubaki might have consumed too much Basara anime ...

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