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seymock047.bsky.social
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currently working on getting better as a mecha drawer/designer
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in nearly EVERY appearance after war in the pocket, she get shortchanged... either through wrong details or even completely missing ones...
the robot damashii ver. A.N.I.M.E. zaku kai figure. it's slightly more color-accurate but doesn't otherwise doesn't deviate from the HG kit's proportions sourced from its listing on animota: https://animota.net/products/animota-e-fig6639?srsltid=AfmBOor8JG_7n35-RRix_eYsERhQlqDXxf9aFrylT_nwaNzYolMe9tma the gundam battle operation 2 render of the zaku fz. this one is notable in that it seems closer to katoki's MG concept art, but also has some extremely specific changes. the skirt grenade rack is gone. the cockpit hatch is animated wrong. the lower leg thuster covering got added back, BUT (and it's really ridiculous that this keeps coming up) the thruster under it isn't modeled as working. the zaku f2 is in this game as well. she's specced as more powerful than the fz and is modeled with extra thruster equipment
November 20, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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this wouldn't be so bad if only her HG kit was nerfed. but the HG is often used as a reference whenever she appears in something, so it has a trickle down effect...
some zaku fz-types used by the capital defense battalion. theres some panels of the fz that don't look like this, but in most cases ark performance seems to be using the HG model kit as reference material source: mobile suit gundam the plan to assassinate gihren, chapter 23 the in-game render for the zaku fz from the mobile game gundam uc engage. this one is pretty obviously a near 1-to-1 replica of the fz's HG kit the render for the zaku fz from gundam extreme vs maxiboost on. i couldn't find a transparent version of the render so the image is sourced from this video's thumbnail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yopMmK8CEUY a screenshot of the zaku fz in new gundam breaker. since it's a game about gunpla, the ingame version being close to the HG kit is probably actually a good thing. it really highlights the issue with trying to make her compatible with the other HGUC zakus though, with how lithe and frail it ends up looking sourced from a steam new gundam breaker guide: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1532663164
November 20, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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it's said that the MG zaku fz's thickness was nerfed so that she can have parts commonality with katoki's own MG zaku f2. while we don't know if the HG zaku fz being EVEN SKINNIER is for the same reason, it's probably a good guess.
the HG fz has even skinnier limbs than the HG f2 btw
image comparing a custom HG high mobility zaku, an HG zaku fz and an HG zaku f2. even though the zaku fz is front and center in the image, it's easy to spot her limbs and shoulder armors being skinnier than than the f2's image source: https://itisagunpla.com/hg-ms-06r-1a-zaku-2-black-tri-star/
November 20, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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as a bit, as a joke, in minecraft, i will say that everything bad that has happened to the zaku fz originates from hajime katoki's work. mainly the thickness reduced-lineart in the gundam MG data book and the HG zaku fz that's derived from said lineart
katoki's concept art for an MG zaku fz, from the gundam MG data book. it might not look so different from izubuchi's zaku at a glance but i can list some of the specific design alterations: - the lower leg thruster covers are just straight up gone - the feet are smaller - the lower legs are thinner closer to the ankle, making the leg design flare out less - the upper half of the zaku starting from the skirt armor has been shrunk, with the exception of the head which ends up looking slightly oversized - the shoulder pauldron and shield are further shrunken in proportion to the torso - the hands are slightly bigger sourced from: https://scope-eye.net/model-data/1_100_Zaku_Kai/other_renditions.html an image of the HG zaku kai model kit. referring to the alt text of the previous image, all of the changes made by katoki have been taken even further, with the exception of the leg thruster coverings being gone. sourced from gundam planet's listing: https://www.gundamplanet.com/products/hguc-ms-06fz-zaku-ii-kai
November 20, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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if the pelvis joints are relocated to the bottom of the pelvis, the submounts might be able to rotate at the lower position unimpeded.
October 28, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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fujita's designs for quo vadis 2 have some pretty neat skirting
October 28, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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galbaldy alpha HMT with the gyan missile shield is possibly where it's at. i think it makes sense if you're going all in on offense
how do you feel about more modern missile shields like the one for the jegan?
art and specs for the ms-17r galbaldy alpha high mobility type much of the leg armor has been removed so the art provides a nice look at the galbaldy alpha's pretty gnarly back and leg thrusters. there's also some weapons art, including a beam machine gun, missile shield, and beam saber the art here is done by masato natsumoto (might be wrong on this one) source: Anaheim Laboratory Log
October 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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oh, there she is! i think i drew her too small
the entry for my heavy lobster doodle on my profile on drawafish.com it has my username, a date of creation (august 2nd 2025) and a rating score of 0
August 4, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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a bit of a style change... i drew a crustacean for drawafish.com
it's been a while since i've done digital art, so my linework is a bit off. i like how the coloring turned out though.
the doodle won't appear on my profile view for some reason, i hope she's just taking a while to load
a doodle of the autonomous combat mecha heavy lobster from kirby super star and kirby super star ultra. the coloring is not quite faithfully recreated from the concept art for heavy lobster. her body is mostly gold, except for green glass for the eyes and claw sensor as well as silver for part of some decorative wings on the back and some other areas. the engine exhaust is blowing out shiny blue colored bubbles, as recreated from the source material. with her legs swept back, heavy lobster is moving to the right of the image. i could not find design credits for heavy lobster, i'm guessing she was drawn by kirby super star's illustrator tetsuya notoya doodled in drawafish.com the website's analysis says the probability of the doodle being a fish is 64 point 7 percent
August 2, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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yeah, chest engine setups always seem really aesthetically interesting. i also like the pelvis engines scopedogs are implied to have sometimes. instead of the scopedog's cockpit blowing up, it gets "turret-tossed" like a soviet tank and that's really fun
a scopedog's pelvis exploding underneath its pilot. the pilot is able to open the scopedog's hatch just in time before the cockpit takes off into space. pelvis explosions like this, as well as a scene from pailsen files showing that the scopedog's filler neck is on its pelvis, seem to imply that scopedog's engine is in the pelvis instead of in its torso. image source: armored trooper votoms yabou no roots, specifically sourced from this clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZyd0gjGoaI
August 1, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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i finished watching combat mecha xabungle. it's astonishing how well-crafted the show is overall, and i really enjoyed the tractor-like mecha designs in it. very good show if you like strong women.
July 20, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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IT BEGINS
face of the los angeles charges mascot, boltman. he is looking upwards while wearing rectangular angled sunglasses and an overly toothy grin. i forgot where i got this image from
July 18, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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it's done...!
the pen i've been using kinda felt like it was on its last legs, so i opted not to erase the sketch lines since the inked lines might be weak. sorry if it looks kinda funky, i might post a cleaned up version later
rough sketch of the enemy army IFV from royal space force: wings of honnêamise. it has six wheels, a small turret closer to the front of the hull, a cylindrical hull section in the middle, and then a cube-shaped hull section emerging from rear of the cylinder with exit doors in the back. the turret's short-barreled autocannon is pointing to the upper right, into the horizon. there's some sort of spike on top of the turret close to the gun, and the part of the hull under the turret has a small viewport. the front of the hull has a wide armor panel applied to the bottom of it. the sponsons of the IFV are made up of sections of a thick, wide triangle that extends beyond the rear exit doors. the rear exit has a small two-step ladder under it. the sponsons each have what looks like an air intake and two exhaust pipes sticking on top of the rear side, as well as turn signals at the rearmost parts. the cylindrical part of the hull roof has what looks like two periscopes, a giant quarter-circle exit hatch, and some other panels on the roof. a long radio antenna sticks out of the hull roof, tied down by another antenna attached to one of the sponsons. there's cylindrical side exit doors under the sponsons, between the two front wheels and the four rear wheels. the IFV is going left and slightly into the horizon, so there's a good view of the rear of the vehicle and 5 out of the 6 total wheels. since the wheels are rolling, the details of the inside of the wheels are blurred. the wheels are attached to bent arms on the bottom of the hull as well as pistons sticking out the sides of the hull. mechanical designer is (probably?) hideaki anno
July 18, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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that's most of the details done!
not having a specs writeup for this vehicle really bothers me. the autocannon sorta reminds me of some 37mm guns design-wise, but i'm not sure about the exact size of the gun. i don't trust my writing skill to describe my drawings, so specs help with that
rough sketch of a six-wheeled IFV. it has a small turret closer to the front of the hull, a cylindrical hull section in the middle, and then a cube-shaped hull section emerging from rear of the cylinder with exit doors in the back. the gun is pointing to the upper right, into the horizon. there's some sort of spike on top of the turret close to the gun, and the part of the hull under the turret has a small viewport. the front of the hull has a wide armor panel applied to the bottom of it. the sponsons of the IFV are made up of sections of a thick, wide triangle that extends beyond the rear exit doors. the sponsons each have what looks like an air intake and two exhaust pipes sticking on top of the rear side, as well as turn signals at the rearmost parts. the cylindrical part of the hull roof has what looks like two periscopes, a giant quarter-circle exit hatch, and some other panels on the roof. there's also cylindical side exit doors under the sponsons, between the two front wheels and the four rear wheels. the IFV is going left and slightly into the horizon, so there's a good view of the rear of the vehicle and 5 out of the 6 total wheels. the wheels are attached to bent arms on the bottom of the hull as well as pistons sticking out the sides of the hull.
July 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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this one might take a while to get done
i couldn't find the settei again. and there's differences in details between scenes, like antennae positions or part of the hull being different shapes.
maybe this is what it feels like to draw real AFVs with huge amounts of variation, like the sherman...
rough sketch of a six-wheeled IFV. it has a small turret closer to the front of the hull, a cylindrical hull section in the middle, and then a cube-shaped hull section emerging from rear of the cylinder with exit doors in the back. the sponsons of the IFV are made up of sections of a thick, wide triangle that extends beyond the rear exit doors. there's also cylindical side exit doors under the sponsons, between the two front wheels and the four rear wheels. the IFV is going left and slightly into the horizon, so there's a good view of the rear of the vehicle and 5 out of the 6 total wheels. besides basic shapes the sketch is relatively un-detailed
July 12, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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hmmmmmmmmm?
edit of an image from legend of the galactic heroes episode 2 "the battle of astarte" where the character siegfried kircheis asks another character "are you frustrated?" kicheis's face is cut out at pasted several times in a curving line to give the impression of a snake-like neck image source: this was from a while ago i can't be bothered to remember...
July 9, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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i swear that rat bastard's forehead gets bigger with every episode...
helmut j lecoque very literally flashing a smile (because his teeth are reflecting light like the surface of a car). notably the distance between lecoque's brow and the front of his hairline is quite long, being twice as long as the length of his nose. image source: fang of the sun dougram episode 19 "breaking through the siege"
July 4, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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as in pictures?
i have this set of him in sunglasses that i downloaded from www.tumblr.com/sunglassesya...
he has sunglasses in the novels so apparently this is how he's supposed to look, but it really just makes him look very smug.
image of yang wen-li from the legend of the galactic heroes OVA. he is leaning back into a chair, smiling with his head cocked to the left while holding a mug. the image has been edited so that yang is wearing sunglasses. image source: https://www.tumblr.com/sunglassesyang-blog image of yang wen-li from the legend of the galactic heroes OVA. he is leaning back onto a chair almost to the point of the chair flipping over, with a distressed look on his face. the subtitles on the image say, "the thought leaves me panic stricken." the image has been edited so that yang is wearing sunglasses. image source: https://www.tumblr.com/sunglassesyang-blog image of yang wen-li from the legend of the galactic heroes OVA. he is shrugging with his shoulders and hands while sitting next to a table with a tea set. he has a more subtle smile here. the image has been edited so that yang is wearing sunglasses. image source: https://www.tumblr.com/sunglassesyang-blog image of yang wen-li from the legend of the galactic heroes OVA. he has a disappointed look on his face but is otherwise not really doing anything here. the image has been edited so that yang is wearing sunglasses. image source: https://www.tumblr.com/sunglassesyang-blog
July 2, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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ah! ah! i know this one! it's kazuhisa kondo's aqua gm! i guess whoever drew it here retooled it quite a bit since the cockpit door and skirt are quite different
kazuhisa kondo's design for an aqua gm i ran the image through google translate and have posted some of the translated text here RGM-79U AQUA GM the earth federation's first underwater mobile suit. it was developed based on the rgm-79 gm and is capable of competing with the zeon military's underwater mobile suits overall height 18.0m body weight 56.2t full weight 69.7t baseline displacement 289.0t thruster thrust (back) 25,000kg x2, (shoulder) 8,000kg x2, (foot) 6,000kg x2 apogee motor 10 base armament underwater missile launcher image source: me taking a picture of standby okay 0080 war in the pocket, page 96!
July 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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anywhere above 30, even. the thing is, i have seen people even younger than that put on the hag tag because of the "hag is a personality" argument. 30 is just my personal line in the sand because any younger and it feels just silly
gavlet gablae from xabungle saying "Those punks called me an 'old hag.' I'm going to rip all of their tongues out." she is the cutest image source: combat mecha xabungle episode 8 "the miss who doesn't miss"
June 29, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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i saw people using this anime bingo card a few days ago and felt it might be fun to fill out. my taste outside of old mecha anime seems to be extremely questionable, though... maybe it's like having tunnel vision?
a bingo card of popular anime that one has watched between 2006 and 2024. it seems that i watched significantly less anime from 2013 to 2021, and i watched 0 anime from 2019 and 2020. there's a text printout of the bingo card included on the website, but it's too long to put in an alt text section image source: https://anime-sedai.egoist.dev/
June 26, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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i accomplished my goal of doing a quicker drawing, but i think i still ended up overcomplicating it. drawing a convincing starry sky while pretending that the colors are inverted is surprisingly hard...
drawing of jiron amos from combat mecha xabungle on a monobike and staring at the night sky, facing away from the viewer. the drawing largely consists of white lines on a black background. since the bike doesn't have a kickstand, jiron has his left foot on the ground and his left hand on one of the handles to prevent the bike from falling over. jiron's right arm is limp from it breaking in episode 1. there are two shooting stars going left across the sky, over some mountains in front of jiron i couldn't find settei or credits for the monobike, but it's the monobike that jiron struggles to ride one-armed in episode 2 of xabungle. its design borrows a bit from mopeds while being much more bulky, with two big exhaust pipes next to the turn signals on the back. it is drawn somewhat inconsistently from scene to scene, so the drawing takes a few creative liberties. if you happen to know the bike's model name and designer, please tell them to me (the designer is probably kunio okawara or yoshiyuki tomino but i want to be 100% sure) jiron amos is designed by tomonori kogawa same drawing as the previous one, but without image editing. so the drawing is black lineart on a white background, instead of white lineart on a black background
June 26, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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is it okay to post images with this?
even with pen and paper drawings, knowing some image editing stuff can be useful. for example, inverting the colors on your art could create a cool effect, or let you make a night scene without manually coloring the sky.
qrp with your loading screen art tip!
a drawing of the armc instead armored vehicle from taiyou no kiba dougram. it's drawn isometrically with the hull facing left-down and the turret pointing directly left. so you can see the top, front and left sides of the hull as well as the top and left sides of the turret. five of the eight wheels are visible, and the two front wheels are turned to the left to face the viewer. the hull has two viewports for crewmen but they seem to share a single, rectangular exit hatch. the visible underside parts of the hull are hard-shaded black. the relatively small turret has a cupola with front and side viewports for a gunner. the turret is only armed with a fairly thin-looking linear cannon, although there are mounting points on its left and right side for rocket pods. there's also what looks like holes for machine gun ports, but these are either optics or just don't have anything in them. there are pairs of bent metal bars on the back of the turret and hull where you'd usually see storage baskets. they don't look super practical for storing equipment, so they seem more like charm points to separate them from real-world AFVs. info taken from: https://www.mahq.net/armc/ Unit type: armored vehicle Manufacturer: Bromley Armament: linear cannon x 1 Optional turret armament: double anti-air gun x 1, 15-tube rocket pod x 1, 4-tube recoilless gun x 1, missile x 2, linear cannon x 1 with 7-tube rocket pod x 2, machine gun x 1 Original mechanical designer: Kunio Okawara the colors on this image have had their contrast increased before being converted, making the background black and the lineart white. this is sorta similar to how some machine and architecture blueprints have white linework rough sketch of someone on a monobike staring at the sky, facing away from the viewer. since the bike doesn't have a kickstand, the rider has their left leg on the ground and their left hand on one of the handles to prevent the bike from falling over. the rider's right arm seems to be limp. there are two shooting stars going across the sky rough sketch of someone on a monobike staring at the sky, facing away from the viewer. since the bike doesn't have a kickstand, the rider has their left leg on the ground and their left hand on one of the handles to prevent the bike from falling over. the rider's right arm seems to be limp. there are two shooting stars going across the sky the colors on this sketch got inverted. combined with a light source present at the top of the image, inverting the colors gives the sketch a black sky with a grey-ish terrain.
June 26, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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get his ass
commodore andrew fork getting rolled out on a stroller, voiced by toru furuya image source: legend of the galactic heroes episode 14 "liberation of the frontier zone"
June 26, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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this drawing will be of the mecha show that i'm currently watching! it might not make any sense... i misremembered this scene as taking place during the night, but when i double-checked the episode i realized it took place closer to sunset
rough sketch of someone on a monobike staring at the sky, facing away from the viewer. since the bike doesn't have a kickstand, the rider has their left leg on the ground and their left hand on one of the handles to prevent the bike from falling over. the rider's right arm seems to be limp. there are two shooting stars going across the sky
June 25, 2025 at 8:45 AM