Heading into my dreamer arc

Ahhh, how long has it been since I got into my Zutomayo arc? Looks like almost an exact year. Sure, I did have a Yama arc, but that wasn’t really as meaningful art-wise. Anyway, all of this to say that it seems like I’ve just begun my new long arc that’ll have a big impact on my artwork. Ladies, gentlemen and anything in-between (or not), brace yourselves: my Yume 2kki arc.

Quick context: Yume 2kki is a Yume Nikki fangame. Both games involve exploring dream worlds ranging from total nonsense to the coolest places you could think of.

I’ve only started playing a few days ago, but I’m already in love with the game. I had heard about it in the past, but didn’t know much until very recently. I happened to stumble on a YouTube video of someone’s journey to a world in 2kki called Rainy Apartments, and one particular world in the route struck me: Windswept Scarlet Sands - it was love at first sight. Eager to visit the place myself, I decided to start playing 2kki on the YNOproject website. But before that, I thought that it would’ve been a cool idea to play Yume Nikki as well: the game has been piqueing my interest for years now, what better moment to check it out? Anyway, after a couple days of intense dreaming in Madotsuki’s shoes I finished Yume Nikki and saw a good portion of its content along the way. And finally, the time to get into 2kki had come– oh damn, I really lost track of the main topic here. Putting the story of how I got into 2kki aside (for a future blog post!)…

To kick off this new arc, here are my very first 3 sketches of Urotsuki, Yume 2kki’s protagonist. You’ll be seeing her a lot on my website for the next few months, I’m afraid.

The 3rd one looks really off, the blank expression and plain standing pose are just… boring. I think the other two sketches are cool, even though they’re not really in my usual style. Potential changes to my artstyle incoming?