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mayday & zuke + mayday and zuke and a HINT of ellie

good lord some of these have been marinating for like 3+ months

the first artwork is probably the longest i've spent on something yet (like a week of on-and-off attention? and then another few days of tweaking and polishing things) mostly because i am so not used to doing painting & perspective like that and i have learned two valuable lessons:

1. gmod and blender are GODSENDS when it comes to D.I.Y-ing my own reference material

2. it is O.K to not be totally satisfied with the result . (however i do still think it's really good for something so far out of my comfort zone🔥🔥)

also ... zukebob image is an inside joke between me And my bestie ...

so i'm ankle-deep in the process of writing an MTV Cribs parody fanfic for Bunk Bed Junction juuust for shits and giggles right. like going through their base in freecam and taking notes and stuff. eventually i remember that their bunk beds should totally have relevance and in my mind i'm picturing a normal conventional setup. can't find anything! i start thinking to myself "it's kind of funny that Bunk Bed Junction has like a gazillion rooms in their sewerpartment yet no visual representation of their bunk beds" and then i'm like Wait a second

...do they have little stacked capsules/pods ingame as opposed to normal bunk beds?! i think the ladder is what lit my lightbulb because it's the only other one in the sewer (besides, well, the entrance) + there's also the ladder present in the Bunk Bed part of the band's logo. and the cluster of papers on the top cubby's door seems like a very Mayday thing to have... i dunno. and those conspicuously placed glowing rectangles COULD be implications of labels for each pod?

or maybe these are just. unrelated doors, and their bunks (or bedroom -- if they even have a separate room for that) are somewhere not visible via the sewer map... hrrrmmmm. i've also seen countless depictions of them having normal beds both in fanart and official art so. like. who knows

part of me feels like mayday would be one of those people who default to Capitalizing Every Single Word In Their Sentences when she messages folks or posts online

scenario where Mayday sits and watches Zuke as he maintains his locs/wicks because she knows how much his hair means to him & is dead set on learning how to upkeep it . especially on his behalf for days where he isn't feeling his best

hello 💔💔💔 Why is tumblr doing that thing where it doesn't show your post in any of its tags .

i thought it was an interface glitch because it's happened lately when i've been scrolling thu the nsr and no straight roads latest tab (i thought i was just insane and not noticing other peoples' art) but it seems the visibility monster has got me too

there is nothing i want to do more than to learn how to draw cityscapes so i can live out my fantasies of drawing out the scenes in vinyl city i've always been thinking about ...

Mayzuketober Day 5: Comfort

nothing too fancy schmancy tonight ... this was colored at first but it looked completely different. Then i realized i wasn't the biggest fan of the colored version so i focused on the lineart instead. and thennnnn i was like. Well i can't just *leeeave* it in black & white. so i put on some color layers and fancy blending modes and shit and i realized This is kind of fire

more nettsy ramblings below.......

lately i've been thinking a lot about disabled Zuke ... i've seen a lot of headcanons about him having something in his legs/back/shoulders (based on how his drumsticks have a cane form ingame) + one of the mayzuke fics i read daily mentions him with multiple sclerosis and it's kind of stuck with me since then i think Zuke is often busying himself with Something in order to take his mind off the baseline pain but the way he does it is. like. really subtle. he doesn't jump from thing-to-thing like a metronome, but he'll get really really absorbed in books or projects in his workshop or transcribing drum tracks before he gets the chance to dwell on it. i feel sometime after actually starting the band with Mayday, he had talked to her about it, and it's lingered in the back of her mind since. of course, she encourages Zuke to go all out -- always has, and she always will -- but, like, she never forces him to over-exert himself. she'll remind him to. like. Listen to his freaking body. ...but May won't force him to stop what he's doing, either; won't hang his condition over him like an oppressive weight, she just takes precautionary measures to minimize the chance of it biting him in the ass later on . because at the end of the day it's Zuke who knows himself best & she trusts that he's aware his own limits. she's not a tether ... she's more of a safety net. so Zuke can focus on enjoying all his body has to offer instead of worrying hard about how he'll feel later on and... if Zuke's fine, then Awesome! if he needs May at his side for whatever reason, be it some assistance, or to listen -- or even just for the sake of Not being alone -- she'll be right at his side in less time than it takes to say 'Bunk Bed Junction.' which, i can't really say that this is exactly what's Going on in the drawing itself because it's sort of ambiguous and up to interpretation but. i had this all vaguely in mind while making it. inspired by today's prompt being 'comfort'

it hurts just a little bit to realize most No Straight Roads characters will never get to experience the joys of picking a crazy ass booger out of yheir nose because of their stupid ridiculous hands and massive fucking fingers relative to their faces. ithat also makes me realize that monkeys and primates also might have flared limbs like a lotr of the humans do and i'm not sure how to feel about that. were the neanderthals also fun colors? this nsr biology anthropology shit gets serious

i miss dumping all my bullshit on tumblr it's so cozy here. very big fan of whenever zuke's eyes are a little wider than they usually are

thinkin bouttt... Thinking bout mayday

i know human geneticists in the nsr universe have always got a fucking headache

hmmm.... what if dk west is a literal redhead because he inherited a certain recessive trait from his mom and dad. (It would be kind of funny if neither of them had red hair but were instead carriers ... and it skipped out on everyone BUT west for some reason. he's just special) And instead of it. like. Being a red/orange hair trait like us, in the NSR verse it just makes the person's hair complimentary color scheme-wise to their skin color .... Not a direct equivalent but like you guys get what i mean right

since zuke's hair is blue... i have two ideas in mind: 1. zuke has a gene that just makes his hair a 'middle ground' color between his parents' hair colors (which... are probably just shades of blue)

2. zuke has a gene that makes his hair analogous to his skin color. and since he's green, that would make his hair blue (even though i still think they're all a blue haired bunch regardless . well. Besides west.)

ONE LAST THING FOR NOW I think there's also a monochromatic hair trait. Which is what mayday might technically have (albeit on the Veery Light side of things) i keep on ticking back and forth between the headcanons "mayday has bleached her hair to HELL" and "mayday's hair is just naturally that light" but i think monochromatic hair would go both ways. Dark orange is literally brown. and Yeeeess i knoow her canon hair is not quite a light orange but rather a light yellow. but for favoritism (nettsy bullshitting) purposes let's just say there is a little TEENSY itsy bitsy shitsy color hue lenience factor for monochromatic hair. i can make a pleasant gradient from orange to off-white without the use of Hue Saturation Luminance Gymnastics therefore it is passable... Anyways i am just chitterchattering on now . Mayday monochromatic hair. Thank you for reading

oh my godd im only realizing 57 min later that the wuality is ASS. Fuck my stupid chungus life

edit: FALSE ALARM IT WAS Just loading on my phone for a while. I love my wonderful chungus life

i think i need to stylize the way i draw nsr characters more . i often get caught up on being super on-model and my ;4(8!!7!6?5,4,57zz suffers as a result (i couldn't think of the word)

mayday and tatiana... the Weirdly Detailed Teeth Havers of the cast... coincidence...? i think not....

very enticed by the idea of mayday's big elf ass ears being weirdly expressive for someone 100% human . Yes as a matter of fact she CAN move her ears independently from each other and yes she CAN angle and pivot them (within reason... they're on a human head after all) in a given direction to hear someone better ... yes they flatten when she's pissed ... it's just an odd little quirk she has

i will KILL them with a rock

i love that one picture of mayday LUNGING at the cameraman before/while being dragged out of the Lights Up! Audition building . One of my favorite renditions of her .