zato art for his birthday this year!! i had a lot of fun drawing him in this pose !!
venom and zato one (zatovenom) for holiday 2025 !! i attempted a more detailed background for this piece. my earliest new year goals was to improve with shading this year, i feel i did.. thus i am soooo happy with this piece's final result !! :)
venom and zato one (zatovenom) for halloween 2025 !! i wanted to do a cute vampire venom after the release of the guilty gear halloween album cover with all the cast in some spooky costumes ! at first i questioned whether to draw zato with his blindfold off or on, but i removed it to have a bit more intimate interaction feel !
a collab piece between me and dicentsalve !! sal is one of my fave artists, they have such an amazing way to shade that looks so smooth and their art style is so easy on my eyes. i was super happy to do a collab with them of our favourite jojo characters !! i remember suggesting formalwear of squalo and tiziano and we went on from there :)
collabs are so fun when participating artists have different artstyles and the characters interact with each other; different anatomy, lineart, style and all... (i may be a little excited about squatiz's size difference in this too...)
ghirahim and zant from legend of zelda!!! this is my first art of 2026. i honestly do not get how it is 2026 now; it always takes me forever to get used to a new year number. i drew this within the same file above an older sketch of them i did back in 2021. i think it is really surprising how much my style has changed over the span of a few years...
jolyne cujoh !! this pose is in reference to her oraora overdrive pose, with her bright manga colours ! this was my most popular piece this year, i was pretty amazed and a bit overwhelmed by the amount of support i got on this from twitter. i think it shows we need more buff jojo girls !!
tiziano enjoying the sunset!! this was originally a zato study of his guilty gear strive pose (my interests are always connected somehow!!)! i was attempting to study the details of arm muscles when arms are raised. this is one of my personal favourite pieces of 2025, his muscles and rendering turned soooo pretty even if the proportions are exaggerated a bit more than i usually have them ♡o♡
a venom and zato one (zatovenom) piece i did in august 2025. this was my first attempt at a different creative process; i refined my sketch instead of creating new lineart on a new yeaer. i found the slight transparency of the sketch "lines" to be a bit different to work with, but this was an interesting challenge !! i think venom's face turned out so cute in this and his rendering turned out really nice on the skin.
zato and eddie summer 2025 illustration! i love how eddie can transform into a surfboard in zato's running illustration; clever and it gives me the idea that he's an athletic outside of his position as of strive... i love how he is portrayed with other eyewear in gg illustrations and wanted to follow that with this piece.
i have a love and hate relationship with this piece... something feels off about it. his right arm (the one on the left for the viewer, his personal right) looks a bit strange and i regret only rendering part of his hair over the line art. it looks weird. i need to study legs muscles a bit more too, the speedo looks a bit flat on the shading as well. i might revisit this idea another time in the summer with a matching venom and millia beach attire scene.
squalo and tiziano in their signature golden wind anime poses! the addition of talking head and clash was last minute to frame the image a bit. i also added some of my headcanons for them both: squalo's larger canines, scars, piercings and chain.. we can pretend we can see my headcanon of tiziano's golden hoops under his hair !!
yume ship art (squamertizi)!! i remember struggling with meringa's hair since i was not too sure how highlights work in jojo harstyles besides diavolo's gradient hair from part 5. however, this art was really fun to make, i was working with a bit less stiffness in pose for this piece and it turned out really cute !! :D
melone from early 2025! he is probably my third fave squadra member despite the fact i never really talk about him much: risotto and formaggio are my personal favourites. i love the way his shading and background came out: there's this warm tinge with a slight purple/red to it on his skin that i really like.
i enjoy mimicking the overdone, bright shading of the late jojo stardust shooters game's illustrations. it adds a lot of vibrancy even if the light sources look kind of all over the place hehe.
ermes !! i remember using a picture of myself as reference for this piece, it was so fun trying to draw ermes over myself hehe. the pose kind of came to me when i was thinking about drawing her; it was around valentines' day 2025 when i was like: "kiss; it's got lips on it and it is a square, similar to a photograph polaroid from photobooths. very romantic.." i also thought about kira's "killer queen" pose from the manga, where he poises his fingers over his face. both kiss and killer queen share that focus on an action by the user itself clicking a detonator and placing the sticker on something, so there is a lot of potential for cool, flexible action poses..
festive roboky and elphelt! i drew this for a guilty gear secret santa event in late 2025. i personally have not drawn elphelt before, and have not drawn roboky enough to say i know how his design looks to a tee, but he is still a longtime fave of mine!! i decided to do a tacky sort of festive outfit... little secret, the background is edited from a screenshot i took in the overwatch 2 midtown map! i added in a window and added more colours for the lights. photobashing is so fun, i should do it more.
squalo colour palette sheet !! this was my first piece of 2025. i find i always draw the anime palette of squalo and tiziano the most; i have to admit it is because most of the stardust shooters references follow those colours for them: it's easier for me to gauge accurate colouring and shading when the colours are already present in the reference. the more i consider that, i think it was also me being a bit lazy to think for myself lol.
the matching tiziano colour palette sheet! i still really like the angles i used on these two character sheets... they look so intimidating, big and fierce and i love that sort of portrayal of them. i honestly need to draw tiziano's manga palette more; but i will say i do not like the colour of his jumpsuit much in the manga... a more lilac colour or pink (like in giogio ps2); cream would have looked really nice and i might consider that rework for future artwork of tizi that is obviously to come.. :3
ramattra i made back in 2023!! i still really like this piece; ramattra's details are surprisingly fun to draw despite their tedious nature.
this was featured in tiktok edits when i was in my ramattra art phase and on pinterest. which was funny? i think it was the first time having my art seen in a tiktok edit and i thought it was pretty cool ... :3
controversially (kind of?) i actually enjoy drawing mecha characters despite their technical complexity. it's a nice challenge when you have references at your disposal and plenty of time on your hands to do said work.