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◈ Franziska and Miles ◈

Yesterday I felt inspired to draw Franziska and Miles yet again. Not only because I like both characters and, have especially enjoyed drawing Franziska in my art style (wasn't expecting her to be the first AA character I felt comfortable drawing in my art style but, art is often a surprising journey, at least for me :P) but also, because I really wanted to draw Miles again in a casual outfit, to force myself to get better at drawing men's fashion, and I think I've definitely improved!

I referenced mostly 1950s fashion for his outfit for two reasons, one because I find modern men's fashion boring, plus it's definitely either too youthful or too basic for Miles imo and two, look at Miles, and try and tell me that even 9 year old Miles isn't at least somewhat interested in historical fashion, because most 9 year olds didn't wear a bowtie in 2001 lol (at least I assume so based off research into 2000s fashion for I was a baby than). Fun fact, I did originally look at 1910s fashion for reference but, it's wasn't what I wanted for him in this specific drawing but, it'll most likely influence future drawings with him :3

Also this drawing in my mind it set earlyish into the 7 year gap between AA3-4, as not only do I hc Miles getting glasses before his 30 (but needing them even before meeting Phoenix in court) but also, because I gave Franziska slightly shorter hair cuz I hc her slowly shorting her hair as she gets older until it's a pixie cut in her late 20s cuz, like a lot of people in this fandom, I think it suits her :D

✧ NaruMitsu/WrightWorth ✧

Yesterday I finished this drawing and, I almost didn't post it (≧〜≦)!!! Reason is because I just don't like how it looks :-/

I'm definitely not good at side profiles yet and this drawing is an example of this imo. I also made a mistake of not looking over the full drawing long enough before jumping into lining it. Leading to the pose's being off imo and, my anatomy being more janky than usual I think. In fact, I definitely rushed this whole drawing! (⁠´⁠-⁠﹏⁠-⁠`⁠；⁠)

It's my fault for drawing this in public and, letting my fear of the public overwhelm this drawing's process. But I hope as I draw more in public my confidence (not just in art, but in general) grows, and I can draw NaruMitsu (and other things that feel embarrassing for me draw in public, such as art studies) in public libraries and cafe's without being scared of people glaring at me XD lucky I have already gotten more confident as my non-shipping fanart no longer is scary to draw in public and, hasn't been for the last few weeks now (⁠ ⁠╹⁠▽⁠╹⁠ ⁠)

Also, I don't completely hate this drawing. I do like how I drew both their hairstyles here (though I still don't feel like I've fully figured out Phoenix's hair in my style), I also am glad with how nice Phoenix's shoe looks, I even tried to give him socks with magatama print (which didn't turn out how I wanted but I think still looks alright) and, I enjoyed the colouring process though, struggled to give Phoenix central heterochromia (idk if you can tell but it's meant to be brown around his pupils).

At the end of the day, all drawings are worth doing. Even then they feel like a dud it's still worthwhile practice for future art! (⁠ﾉ⁠◕⁠ヮ⁠◕⁠)⁠ﾉ⁠*⁠.⁠✧❁♡✦✭°.*

Also I did make a poll related to this drawing so I felt slightly more pressure to post it as a result :P

✯ Athena and Simon hanging out ✯

Today I finished this drawing and overall I like it. I don't think I've fully figured out how I want these two to look in my art style yet but, I had fun drawing this :D. Also I know Athena here is technically too tall as she's canonically 5'4 (as tall as Apollo if you include his hair spikes!) and normally, I stick to canon heights but, in my mind Athena is around 5'7 and, I just can't imagine her being shorter than that! So for her, I ignore her canon height XD

I shaded Simon's hair with purple as with my art style I don't like to shade shades with shades because it makes my art less colourful and, it being colourful is very important for me. So I used purple as it was one of the few dark markers I have in my budget marker set and, it made him match his older sister's colours a little bit:3

For outfits I was originally going to give Athena a brown plad skirt with white shirt but, the skirt design got really ugly so I made the skirt black and the shirt brown. It definitely looks weird but maybe that makes the outfit more canon and suit Athena's slightly odd personality? Unfortunately I didn't realise I forgot her glove until after doing the lineart, so let's pretend it's in her cropped hoddie pocket or something lol. I also made her hair accessories green instead of blue to match widget :3 and, with Simon's outfit I honestly didn't expect to like it much until I made the crow shirt purple and suddenly I ended up loving the whole outfit! Though in future I might look into men's goth fashion to give him something less simple to wear :P

Lately, to make it super clear, I don't ship these two as a couple of any kind! To me, Simon is a big brother figure to Athena, so I see these two as having a sibling like friendship. On the topic of hcs, I hc Simon as aroace and Athena as trans and lesbian.

✦ Ace Attorney sketches ✦

Today I felt like doing a bunch of Ace Attorney sketches, specifically of different sprites for multiple characters (I referenced the HD version of the trilogy sprites cuz they're higher resolution and therefore a clearer image) because, I wanted to both practice drawing a bunch of characters and also, wanted to improve my overall art skills by drawing more varied expressions! I also drew child Pearl specifically to practice drawing kids as I often default to drawing teens-adult characters.

Overall I'm happy with the results, especially the Phoenix's sketches (my favourite sketch is the second Phoenix I drew, 3rd sketch on page two) cuz he turned out way better than I expected lol. Most of these sketches are definitely rough looking but, I'm okay with that as I still feel like I've improved.

Definitely will do this again in future with different characters (next lot might be older characters like Wendy and Menfred because I really need to practice drawing people who have visible signs of age) but I'm not sure when that'll be ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

❁ Maya Fey and Pearl Fey❁

Today I was drawing some NaruMitsu but after finishing the sketch I decided to leave it to work on a completely different drawing cuz, I didn't feel like finishing it today :P this of course is the drawing I did instead!

I actually really like how this drawing came out! I'm especially pleased with how Pearl turned out as it's been years since I've attempted drawing a child character full body (as recent attempts have be shoulders or torse up). I also once again had a lot of fun designing the outfits. My favourite part was doing the plaid design on Maya's skirt! I love plaid so much :3

At first I was lost on how to draw child Pearl in casual clothes (as she's young and acts her age but, is also very formal and sometimes surprisely insightful) until I remembered that she clearly looks up to Maya and likes cats, so I gave her a shirt and long skirt to match Maya's outfit but, gave the shirt a cat design cuz kids shirts do have random animal designs and/or cartoons on them (source: I have younger siblings and play legacies in the sims), I also gave her tights and flats, cuz those seem to be common in children's clothing aimed at girls and suited the outfit imo.

"He's a ten but he makes me watch steel samurai every time I visit his apartment."

- Phoenix Wright (probably)

Yesterday I finished the NaruMitsu art I mentioned working on in my last post and I think I've finally done some WrightWorth art I'm happy with!

☆ ＼(^o^)／ ☆

The idea for this drawing is the two fighting in a (mostly) playful way because they disagree on what to watch :P don't have much to say (for once) on my drawing, just that I think it turned out pretty fun and I enjoyed drawing the silly concept :D

Also happy yaoi day (it's the 1st in my timezone)!

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✦ console sim girls ✦

Yesterday I felt like doing a bunch of sketching and the first sketches I did were of console sims cuz I felt like it :P

Had fun working on this page, especially since the coloured paper makes the whole page pop out! Only personal gripe I have is that I'm not happy with how Felicity looks, but at least I drew a nice Jayde and Pat! :-D

✧ Mia and Ema sketches ✧

Yesterday I felt like doing a ton of sketching and after doing some Sims fanart I did some ace attorney fanart ✧⁠◝⁠(⁠⁰⁠▿⁠⁰⁠)⁠◜⁠✧

Originally I was going to do one page with a bunch of ace attorney characters on one page but after drawing the first Mia portrait (the one I coloured in with crayons) I felt like I had finally found how I want to draw Mia in my art style! So I dedicated the whole page to her because I was hyped to draw more Mia!

Than I still felt like drawing but, decided to draw a different aa character on the next page and picked Ema, cuz she's a cool character and, I haven't drawn her with my dominant hand until now :3. also gave her a shirt with a myth busters reference cuz I feel like she'd at least casually watch the show ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Just a simple teen Pearl Fey sketch I forgot to post till now :P. I drew it with my right hand because I don't want to completely forget how to use it, even if my left hand is healed and clearly the superior option lol X3

✿ Iris and friends ✿

A few days ago I decided to do a one panel comic based off a head canon of mine, that being that Iris has naturally red hair but, after her sister goes to jail, she felt the need to distance herself from her sister even more and, began to dye her hair black. I mostly came up with this hc because as someone with dark brown hair (that's sometimes mistaken for black :/) I know how much work it is to bleach and maintain a light hair colour and, given she "dated" Phoenix for 8 months, that's going to damage her hair real bad if she's naturally got black hair and, dyed it red regularly in that time frame. Only other option would be that she didn't dye her hair and it's naturally black but Phoenix isn't an idiot, he'd notice if his gf was swapping between red and black hair (at least I think so, he can be oblivious sure but, he can also be hyper perceptive at times so I think it's likely he'd question it eventually in the 8 months time frame), so I decided to hc her as a red head, plus she looks identical to her sister aside from the black hair colour so, them being identical twins makes sense to me.

Also don't worry, Phoenix doesn't hold anything against Iris for being a red head after this scene I drew. I like to think he comforts her after her apology so she knows she hasn't done anything wrong (because having the same colour hair as your twin isn't something you can control!). He's just surprised because she's so good at makeup (another hc of mine) that her brows looked naturally black and, he somehow didn't register that her hair was naturally red in college when he first met her again or something like that :P. I also hc that Phoenix visits Iris every few months, as while I personally don't ship feeniris, I definitely can see them being good friends after case 3-5 as they probably have quite a bit in common, given they both seemed to like each other in college.

Than I felt like drawing more Iris art but with Lana Skye because I hc them as friends! Which might seem strange, given these two do not interact in the game but, not only do they end up in prison around same time (only a few years apart), they also have had to deal with being pawns for other's and probably were able to relate in some ways to each other as a result. Plus I like to hc that Phoenix and Ema talk about their respective prison friend/sibling to each other and, are both glad to hear their friend/sibling has a best friend, neither realising that the best friend is the other prisoner involved in the conversation until both girls are released from jail. cuz I of course hc they get released from prison some time after SOJ (or before, or during, still haven't finished SOJ) and at same time because, the chief prosecutor figured out they were friends and, was able to convince the right people to change one of the girls release date to match the other girl's so they can enjoy the release day together!

✧ A couple of silly AA drawings ✧

Few days ago I originally do to a page in my sketchbook that was dedicated to going wild with my fluro paints... that didn't happen and instead I decided to draw my personal hc of what Trucy and Apollo look like when they perceive. This hc is inspired by people typing joke references to the perceive ability with the two eye emojis, for example saying something like this "Apollo when he see's the witness lying: 👁️👁️" because the idea of their eyes looking so cartoonishly bit and uncanny is unreasonably funny to me XD.

Than I drew a random Trucy who's wearing a crop top with sunflower on it cuz she do be around a lot of lawyers and the cards coming out of her hat kinda have meanings, the 8 of diamonds have same meaning as they do in this fanart I did, the 7 of hearts is of course a reference to the 7 yr gap which, I see as a bittersweet time for Trucy as I'm sure she felt loved by Phoenix but at the same time, she still lost her bio Dad and didn't grow up in the best circumstances, hence why the card has hearts but is black, than the ace is a lazy reference to case 4-1 :P.

Than after the drawings were done I got out the paints and well, unfortunately the paint and glitter glue around the perceive the page got wet and some of the ink from the last page bleed threw :( than a tissue got on the page and stuck :[ I could've fixed this by painting over these areas again buuuuuut, I didn't feel like it :> and sketchbooks are meant to be messy (right?) so I think it's fine (⁠✿⁠^⁠‿⁠^⁠)

✰ group photo ✰

Few days ago felt like drawing more AA fanart (as per usual these days X3) and suddenly got an idea of drawing Trucy taking a group photo, maybe with family? But than I wanted to add more characters, and more characters and, I still wish I could add more characters! but I didn't have the space for them :-( I'm sure if I pre-planned the composition I could've easily added way more characters but this was an impulse drawing so I didn't :3

Overall though I do really like this drawing, even after making a ton of errors and being reminded of why I prefer to draw pics with a ton of characters digitally (did miss having layers and a eye drops tool a few times, amongst over conveniences) I still think it came out really fun and cute. Though definitely need to draw more Klavier as I don't think I've found him in my art style yet but, I do enjoy the ponytail I gave him and plan on drawing with with many different hairstyles :3

♡Miles in some frilly shirts plus WrightWorth♡

Yesterday I was feeling pretty down so after doing sketch studies and walking I felt the urge to draw Miles Edgeworth in some cute frilly shirts! Do I think he'd wear these in canon? Highly doubt it! But they were still fun to draw and, the full body Miles I think is the best Miles I've drawn yet!

Than I drew some NaruMitsu/WrightWorth because I felt like drawing cozy shipping art and still felt like drawing Miles so NaruMitsu it is! Don't have anything to say about the first image, aside from the fact that I love that in canon Miles has pink PJs! So of course he's wearing them! And for second image I drew Phoenix bitching cuz while they're both (for lack of better word) bitches, I think Phoenix is the only one between the two to openly bitch about someone to close friends and partners, while Miles would just be a condescending jerk to the person annoying him in the moment and leave it at that XD

also I have once again changed up how I draw Phoenix's hair and eyebrows, will I ever have a set way of drawing these? Who knows ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ not I

✭ Athena Cykes ✭

(another sketch and spoilers for case 6-4 below)

Today I felt like drawing Athena because I really like her colour palette and, have grown to enjoy her character more. Plus I have wanted to do a minor re-design of her outfit for a while as there were small things I wanted to change. Main one being her jacket cuz, why tf do we have a gold button on yellow!? Maybe I'm just too obsessed with having contrasting colours in art, but given the jacket already has blue accents, why not add more? Also made her boots taller (not the biggest fan of her boots but I didn't want to change too much cuz they suit her cuz they look like moon boots imo) and gave her black bike shorts instead of the black tights cuz, the black tights just looked weird to me :/ so it was purely a personal preference thing :P

I enjoyed drawing this a lot and kinda want to do more pages like this of AA characters, but no promises! If I do more characters I'll probably start with more Wright anything agency members and branch out from there if I still feel motivated to :3

Yesterday I did the sketch above because I was in the mood to draw comics but, only did this cuz drawing comics traditionally is a lot harder than digitally (and I've yet to get my drawing tablet out of storage) so I did something simple to scratch that itch. It's of course based off that moment in case 6-4 when Simon fucken jump scares the player and shakes Athena!?

Truly iconic moment, than again Simon is so iconic for the whole case, that man is now my favourite co-counsel which I kinda feel bad about cuz all the "weird girls" are super iconic characters and I like their characters overall more than Simon (yes all of them) but, if we're talking just as a co-counsel, he's my favourite. His dialogue alone made 6-4 go from meh to good for me.

✭ Apollo Justice✭

Today I decided that I will do more full page drawings of AA characters. Unfortunately I don't think I drew a very good Apollo, but in my defence AA is the frist franchise I've hyperfixated over were I've not only cared about the more than one or two male characters but also have had a few of my favourite characters be male! So I'm much more comfortable drawing female characters (⁠´⁠-⁠﹏⁠-⁠`⁠；⁠)

Also I didn't change up his design aside from giving him the brown shoes he has in the AJ: trilogy promotional art instead of black shoes he has in older official art because I like it and it's actually my second fave lawyer suit design (favourite is Diego Armando's suit).

Anyways I've also decided I'll share my hc's for these characters for as long as I do this series :D, because I didn't share hc's for Athena on her post I'll share both Apollo and Athena hc's below, spoilers for AA4-6:

Both Apollo and Athena are trans and both socially transitioned as kids and grew up in trans supportive environments cuz in my mind the AA universe is queer friendly to balance out how dystopian their legal system is.

Apollo has no fashion sense aside from having a surprisingly good eye for men's formal/professional wear. So good in fact that Kristoph wouldn't of hired him if his suit looked bad (cuz he's that petty).

Apollo doesn't see Phoenix as a Dad but does simultaneously see him as a role model (though he'd never admit it) and hate him

he does however see Trucy as a little sister, even before learning she is actually his half sister

Apollo is gay and Athena is lesbian cuz one day I thought "hmmm image if the lawyers were trans and MLM and WLW solidarity?" and than it became a hc :P

I ship Apollo with Klavier and I like to think that Phoenix tries to give Apollo dating advice but Apollo ignores him because his advice is terrible! (Not on purpose, Phoenix is just really bad at relationships but it's works out for him cuz his partners are always just as bad, or somehow even worse at relationships than him)

however unlike Apollo I don't ship Athena with anyone, just don't feel like it lol

Athena met Phoenix in Europe at a park one of the many times Miles had him and Trucy come over to visit, by chance Trucy was doing magic tricks for random people in the park and Athena was one of these people. She was reading a book to study for the bar exam so Phoenix immediately talked to her about law after Trucy's trick.

Athena is fully multilingual (knowing most active European languages) and says non-english words by accident most of time (if she does it on purpose it's always to sound cooler in her opinion).

also I hc Athena as Austic cuz I can >:-)

Widget uses a Voicaloid sound bank, personally I like it imagine it's specifically Oliver because that's funny to me.

Widget also uses a custom OS that Aura Blackquill designed specifically for all the tech she built with Athena's mom.

✭ Phoenix Wright ✭

Today I drew a Phoenix and I think I'm slowly but surely getting better at drawing him and enjoyed drawing this, especially his full body pose :3. I also found myself appreciating his AA5/6 suit design a lot more but still changed some details, like making the buttons on his vest pink to match his tie and making the vest light blue like it looks like it is in AA5 was was changed to white for AA6 which kinda makes me mad cuz a white vest on a white shirt!? WHY!? I think the white vest bothers me more than him suddenly getting blue eyes, though I think that opinion heavy influenced by fanon Phoenix having heterochromia, presumably because of the AA6 official art (cuz his model in AA6 still has dark grey eyes!? and they did the same with Maya, why???).

Now for some Phoenix hcs I have:

After much consideration I've decided I personally subscribe to Phoenix's being a Theatre art major however, I still hc him as being good at painting and I like to think he helped paint a lot of the sets and props.

He is also massive art snob, to the point Miles refuses to go to art galleries with him, otherwise he'll deal with Phoenix loudly criticizing each and every art work.

He's an only child and was raised by his Mom. His Dad and her divorced when he was a Toddler so he doesn't remember him. His last name is from his Mom.

he got his phone in 2008 as a teen (it was his first phone) and never upgraded it until 20 years later when it finally died. Trucy, Miles, Larry and Maya all bullied him into getting a smart phone.

He has ADHD but wasn't aware until Athena one day made an off hand comment towards him with the assumption her boss was diagnosed.

I also hc him as bi, cuz why no ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

✭ Trucy Wright ✭

Yesterday I drew Trucy and I really like how this picture looks, definitely my favourite out of the 4 AA sketchbook page drawings I did and will be the last one (at least for now, may go and do more in future if I feel like it).

Didn't change a lot lot of her canon outfit aside from making the brooch gold instead of sliver, to match the gold earring, buttons(?) and accents on the cape. And I also changed her boot design as the original boots looked too much like rain boots to me (which works for her child design but, even at 15 rain boots feel too juvenile imo). So after much thought on different boot designs (even considered white Demonia's!) I realised that go-go boots look really similar to rain boots, and decided that they'd actually work for Trucy! Especially since the shape of her dress does kinda remind me of the silhouette of a lot of mid-late 60s dresses and go-go boots (while more associated with the 70s) I'm pretty sure are from late 60s so it works (hopefully!).

Now for some hc's:

Her and pearl are childhood friends

She has a really good vocal range and is pretty decent at doing accents thanks to performing Mr.Hat from a young age, I like to think Mr.Hat has a really deep masculine voice and a fancy British accent

She is bi because the idea of her coming out to Phoenix and him just going "same" is funny to me

Trucy runs social media accounts for Wright anything agency, however most posts on the WAA accounts are re-sharing posts from her Trucy Gramarye social media accounts (she manages 6-8 accounts total across like 5 different sites, how she does it no one knows), which further adds to people not realising most employees at WAA are defense attorneys.

✭Franziska (and others) sketches✭

(thoughts and non-coloured version under cut XD)

Today I went for a walk and wanted a break from doing digital art so I did some AA sketches (I do love digital art but it's often stressful for me while sketching traditionally is relaxing so that's how it's an effective break for me XD). I mostly sketched Franziska because I find her to be the most fun AA character to draw (which I wasn't expecting getting into this franchise but I'm not disappointed, she's definitely one of my top 10 fave characters!) and felt like drawing her in a ton of cute outfits X3

Now for some context behind some of of my sketches >:-3

1/2 (left): both are just outfits but one is a copy of this outfit while the other I made up! but the pose for second pic is based off a model pose I found on google ages ago because I learnt the creator of Jojo references model poses for his manga and I love how cool Jojo poses are so I of course had to save a ton of model poses XD

3 (left): Felt like trying to draw Franziska being disgusted and while I think I failed the facial expression I ended up enjoying drawing this still. In my head canons Franziska isn't homophobic (Than again I don't even hc Manfred as homophobic), but would shit on Miles for liking men because I also hc her as lesbian and asexual, so the idea of being into men makes no sense to her. She would also caller herself "gayer" as if it's a competition because it is to her.

4 (left): Just tried to draw an older Fran, I like people giving her a pixie cut so I of course had to do that too. Not super happy with result as I think she looks a bit older than late 20's (which is what I was going for) but it's fine :>

1 (right): Just Miles in this pose (sorry it's a pinterest link) cuz why not XD he got sunglasses on because in my mind it adds to the silly concept

2 (right): Tried drawing Miles and Fran being smug, I dislike how I drew Miles but I really like Fran here.

3 (right): based off a meme (Idk the original ver but it's always the same setup as this drawing), probably my least fave of the sketches but it was still fun to draw, I like to imagine in the background a child Trucy is just swallowing a super tall American style burger XD

4 (right): My fave sketch out of all of them! the dress is based off the last picture in this post but I did change it's colour and design a fair bit :P

now for non-coloured versions, originally I was going to post the sketches like this but when I got hope I felt like adding some colour and I'm glad I did:

✪J-fashion girls✪

A while ago I felt like not doing fanart and just drawing some cute outfits heavily inspired by 2000s Harajuku fashion, so I grabbed my copy of fresh fruits (which has to be my fave book I own! though if you don't have the book you can still read the whole thing on internet archive here!) for inspo and ended up creating these funky characters XD

I had a lot of fun drawing these two and, definitely want to draw more J-fashion, especially decora, fairy-kei and gyaru styles as I find these styles more visually appealing but I am mostly focused on drawing fanart atm so idk how often I'll draw J-fashion looks in the foreseeable future :P

✦ AA girls in formalwear ✦

(close ups and context under cut)

Today I felt inspired to draw some AA characters in dresses because last night I decided to start writing another fanfic that's set after my previous fanfic (which I'm now done! but won't post just yet cuz I'm currently unsure if I'll get it beta read first or not >w<) and at the start the characters are wearing formal outfits so I really wanted to draw the outfits.

I used to find formal fashion to be super boring but I think I'm starting to change my mind, though drawing characters I like certainly help XP also this was my first time drawing Adrian and I'm quite happy with how she looks. Also the characters here are post SOJ/AA6 so I inserted my hc of Franziska and Iris getting shorter hair do's into this pic :-D