I have stumbled into generationally good luck in IS6 and must now wait a week for Irene IS module to release to hopefully have enough firepower to defeat Shuo :P

Alt ED2+ED4 D18 with birds done, Proxy Squad is crazy lmao Overall impression of post expansions IS6 is that it’s really really fun when you highroll and godawful if you don’t, which is exacerbated by the fact that HG is clearly expecting me to draft Hoshi Alt and Silveralt over Irene and Pass

Playing IS6 again for the first time in 7 months genuinely feels like this

We need to kill every questioning statue in Minos #arknights

Amusingly I predicted Aprissa’s entire gimmick 2 years ago, so I guess the design space for 6* blast caster is actually that dire

The H11-4 video gigaflopped but a lot of people saw the thumbnail art so I’m still happy with this outcome lol

Live commentary on a clear while playing it makes for amazing video material actually

Haruka's no good very bizarre victorian concert #arknights

>spend 25 min for 3op with irene >spend 2 hours for 3 op with bibeak Ah, the things one will do to remove one star. Arknights tryharding is beautiful...

Something something lyrebirds are known for their courtship displays so here's Cantabile #アークナイツ #明日方舟 #Arknights

Even in Endfield, I feel the compulsion to bird only...

Experimental brown hair canta doodle that looks mildly cursed

Another possible Canta headcanon- she could dye her hair blue since her fail feathers match a superb lyrebird’s but her blue hair doesn’t. Off the top of my head every other Arknights bird’s color roughly matches their IRL counterpart’s… except for Poncirus, who is green for an amazing reason.

今日のワンドロ アンダーフローさん（とアイリーニちゃん） エーギルの不思議な色の食物 #Arknights #アークナイツ

The new SSS boss is actually good (for the first time in literal YEARS I think) because the only viable solution for birds is SP batterying Erato and the entirety of the Liberi Crowd Control Nexus

finally drawing the thumb for that H11-4 melonknights clear that's been sitting on my SSD for like 4 months

Part of me wants to headcanon Cantabile as having a no-kill rule but also being perfectly willing to maim targets to the point they are no longer threats if necessary, but that doesn’t really sit well with me when her reaction to accidentally injuring someone was starving herself…

Computah, give me a sad girl with green hair during pride month #FE

GENESIS

Ninae

アイリーニ　#Arknights #アークナイツ

Grain Buds, Doom of Trees A fashionably late video thumbnail. #arknights

Happy to see my pixel measurements for calculating Qalaisa's height were reasonably accurate when considering her normal art I also found Astgenne alt to be drawn much taller than her caster version when she released on CN, though I ended up with 185cm with my method. Scientific method...

I know the event is over but I have an edited clear and a thumbnail idea I couldn't get out of my head...

Orchid Alt S2 deals pretty much the same amount of total damage as Irene S3, which puts into perspective the 4 years of AK powercreep between 6* gacha bird releases lmao

Don't expect this series of Cantabile drawings to be finished for a while lol, I still got other ideas to get to first

Ok how long will I put off drawing a thumbnail for this UR-8 5* bird clear

Man I should do this but with Cantabile

Currently thinking about how Cantabile is consistently depicted with a well-developed posterior in official Arknights media- not that I’m complaining, of course. this has been the drifting canta thought of the day

I have Ideas for a new set of Cantabile drawings but the reason I think it’s a good idea it will make sense to nobody unless I make a long thread about why the lyrics of Stranger Than Heaven (RGG pls release the full song) almost perfectly line up with her entire backstory

New video! I really like Astgenne!

RA3 is basically just lowlight saying “what if we put Endfield into Arknights” and it works surprisingly well

arknights loves to design a straight human and then say they're a liberi

Doctor's hard hat in the RA3 background is goofy so I had to give Cantabile one too #arknights

The doorways in Qalaisa’s house (the house we so rudely destroy in IS4) are probably super tall so she doesn’t have to duck through them, now that I think about it

If you include her horns, Qalaisa takes up a staggering 216.4cm / 7'1" of space and can no longer fit through a standard 80 inch/203cm doorway...

The last 4 things i drew took 10-15+ hours each and i think a solid 3 hours of that can be reclaimed by unlearning bad habits from the last 5 years of meandering scribbles I've done

that was a lot of words to say “man I really don’t wanna just be the qalaisa gooner guy”

Reread A Kazdelian Rescue just to refresh my memory on Qalaisa’s whole deal. It’s more info to inform future drawings of her beyond doing so because she’s really tall… and has an amazing figure… ok, that might still be a primary motivation.

Qalaisa is approximately 189cm / 6'2.4" tall barefoot (holy shit) Since she is next to Mitm in a Nymph event CG, I can estimate her height using his known height + pixel measurements

Qalaisa offers her hand... #arknights

however many words of me talking to myself over headcanons I'll probably never get the chance to draw again anyways

the problem with drawing bespoke thumbnails for my clears is whenever i want to upload a clear i need to draw a thumbnail too

I noticed that Qalaisa has no less than 5 moles These are the kind of thoughts you have after staring at reference images for so long

wip of a Qalaisa so good I had to cover her up as to not distract myself more than necessary

Trying to figure out how to draw this bird

One month improvement powered by pure spite towards the unrealized vision of the cantabile birthday art (and bird love ofc)

Golden Hour Cantabile #arknights

Thinking about how Cantabile became my favorite op as soon as I realized her backstory was a veritable choose your own adventure of details to fill in with headcanon