My first time using Clip Studio Paint!! My first study of Arcane characters: Ekko

We wanted to introduce our art mod, @hoshidensha! With their great eye for art, we know they'll help all the artists in this project make their pieces their best potential.

If you were interested in being a contributor, please feel free to follow this link and the applications will be there.

Extremely honoured to be helping out with this project, and very excited to see all the pretty art! ♡

Contributor applications for art, writing, and merch are open for 2 more weeks so go go go!!

Here’s one of the pieces I did for the @tgaacspringzine (great ace attorney spring zine)! I will post the piece of merch I worked on tomorrow!

The zine is all digital and all free :) you can find the link to the google drive below!

 At last, the TGAA Spring Zine is available for download! Check out the work of over 20 people for free using the link in the post below! Happy spring!

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/11rPQO0dW6T7tkBQNrdkVCBL9xMY7VECw?usp=sharing…

The drive folder contains: 

- PDF of the zine with a beautiful cover by @cassiferlynnart​ -

 Ryunosuke, Susato and Kazuma icons by @arillb​_b_r 

- Recipe card, art by @Arikabooboo and recipe by @muffin_writes 

- Planner by @pumpkinsouppe​ on Tumblr 

- Stationary by @muffin_writes

Full credit list can be found at the end of the zine, plese consider supporting our contributors!

It is really important to me that all of you learn about Al Bean, astronaut on Apollo 12 and the fourth man to walk on the moon, who after 20 years in the US Navy and 18 years with NASA during which he spent 69 days in space and more than 10 hours doing EVAs on the moon , retired to become a painter.

He is my favorite astronaut for any number of reasons, but he’s also one of my favorite visual artists.

Like, look at this stuff????

It’s all so expressive and textured and colorful! He literally painted his own experience on the moon! And that’s just really fucking cool to me!

Just look at this! This is one of my absolute favorite emotions of all time. Is Anyone Out There? is like the ultimate reaction image. Any time I have an existential crisis, this is how I picture myself.

And then there’s this one:

The Fantasy

For all of the six Apollo missions to land on the moon, there was no spare time. Every second of their time on the surface was budgeted to perfection: sleeping, eating, putting on the suits, entering and exiting the LEM, rock collection, setting up longterm experiments to transmit data back to Earth, everything. These timetables usually got screwed over by something, but for the most part the astronauts stuck to them.

The crew of Apollo 12 (Pete Conrad, Al Bean, and Dick Gordon) had other plans. Conrad and Bean had snuck a small camera with a timer into the LEM to take a couple pictures together on the moon throughout the mission. They had hidden the key for the timer in one of the rock collection bags, with the idea being to grab the key soon after landing, take some fun photos here and there, and then sneak the camera back to Earth to develop them. They had practiced where they would hide the key and how to get it out from under the collected rocks back on Earth dozens of times.

But when they got to the moon, the key was nowhere to be found. Al Bean spent precious time digging through the collection bags before he called it off. The camera had been pushing their luck anyways, he couldn’t afford to spend anymore time not on the mission objectives. Conrad and Bean continued the mission as per the NASA plan while Dick Gordon orbited overhead.

Fast forward to the very end of the mission. Bean and Conrad are doing last checks of the LEM before they enter for the last time and depart from the moon. As Bean is stowing one of the collection bags, the camera key falls out. The unofficially planned photo time has come and gone, and he tosses the key over his shoulder to rest forever on the surface of the moon.

This painting, The Fantasy, is that moment. There have never been three people on the moon at the same time, there was never an unofficial photo shoot on the moon, this picture could never have happened.

“The most experienced astronaut was designated commander, in charge of all aspects of the mission, including flying the lunar module. Prudent thinking suggested that the next-most-experienced crew member be assigned to take care of the command module, since it was our only way back home. Pete had flown two Gemini flights, the second with Dick as his crewmate. This left the least experienced - me - to accompany the commander on the lunar surface.

"I was the rookie. I had not flown at all; yet I got the prize assignment. But not once during the three years of training which preceded our mission did Dick say that it wasn’t fair and that he wished he could walk on the moon, too. I do not have his unwavering discipline or strength of character.

"We often fantasized about Dick’s joining us on the moon but we never found a way. In my paintings, though, I can have it my way. Now, at last, our best friend has come the last sixty miles.” - Al Bean, about The Fantasy.

There’s also Alexei Leonov, writer and artist and first person to conduct a spacewalk!

This is his art.

You can’t forget this, the first art made in space.

March 1965, Alexei Leonov made this drawing only moments after narrowly surviving the very first space walk.

Ah, yes - Is Anyone Out There? - also known by YouTube users as the “AEIOU” meme, which would live on in infamy thanks to Moonbase Alpha’s Text-to-Speech processor.

ace attorney writers be like apollo has whatever backstory we need him to have for the plot, and if that means he has seven different childhoods then that’s just a sacrifice he’s going to have to make. maybe if you work hard and roll up your sleeves you, too, can be the long lost son of world-famous magicians who grew up with astronauts and was raised by an insurrectionist revolutionary leader and is also a lawyer. also his mom is beyonce and he has superpowers. truly a renaissance man.