From Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters, it's Dark Magician Girl! I won't lie to you, I don't play Yu-Gi-Oh! or anything at all. What I can tell you, though, is that Dark Magician Girl is cute, and I wanted to draw a cute magical girl, so that's how we ended up here. I'm sure that's not a problem, right?

From Touhou Koumakyou ~ The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, it's Flandre Scarlet! The younger of the vampiric Scarlet sisters, she's just looking for someone to play with. Problem is, she has the vaguely-defined and terrifying ability to just, uh, destroy anything. So she doesn't get many visitors. While most art of Flandre has her wearing Mary Jane-style shoes, when I was looking for reference pictures I saw this art of her by TOKIAME from Perfect Memento in Strictest Sense and noticed she had boots with cute socks / frills, so I went for those instead. Sometimes, it's nice to mix and match character designs for a long-running series like this, you know?

If you hear a low rumbling, that's me spinning wildly in excitement because this week's Arcade Archives release is Numan Athletics, so here's the star of the show, Sharon L'Halles of France in MS Paint form! Stay with her, OK? Never met anyone who didn't like Sharon, she's so good. Please play Numan Athletics!

April is a busy month for Love Live! and iDOLM@STER character birthdays, none more busy than this week with two birthdays almost back to back- You Watanabe on the 17th and Maki Nishikino on the 19th. So I figured I'd put them in one post! I also like to theme these two, so this year the theme is 'casual clothes with slightly different hairstles for them'. A hat is a hairstyle, right? Anyway, an anime character's birthday always serves as a good excuse to draw them, so that's why we're here.