Kirby

[image: a pixel art drawing of kirby's smiling face (just his face, not his limbs) against a cyan background]

this community hasn't had a post in five days, so here's something i just finished today! (it only took forever to get that mouth looking reasonably good...)

edit: moved the eyes and cheek blushes closer together because it turns out bandee would've been too wide otherwise. also revised the mouth, again. it's hard to make it look good with such a limited number of pixels, but that's the tradeoff when working with low-size pixel art: fewer pixels that need to be worked with, but also fewer pixels to work with.

edit 2: changed the background colour because it was too close to elfilin's colour.

for a while now, i've had an idea for some reasonably low-effort oc content that i could post here. would take quite a bit of upfront work (which is what i'm currently doing), but afterwards i'll hopefully be able to put something out semi-regularly for this community. not sure when i'll be done, but again, this community hasn't had a new post in 5 days (and it hasn't had a new post from someone other than KirbySSM in 11 days), so i'm making this post now.

in the meantime, i might be posting some non-oc stuff over the next few days, just so c/kirby has some new stuff to look at. i encourage everyone else to do the same -- and also comment on other people's posts, if you have something to say!

https://www.deviantart.com/keke74100/art/Mirror-Kirby-300135826

The Kirby Gang Discord sings Kirby: Right Back at Ya main theme from the Kirby anime, Kirby: Right Back at Ya!

what are some minor/subtle kirby details that you'd like to gush/complain/infodump about? #kirby

trying out the microblog thing here on kbin, let's see what this looks like on lemmy.world

edit: yay for more federation-related issues. if you want to contribute to this post from lemmy.world or lemm.ee... well, i personally wouldn't mind seeing each minor observation in its own standalone thread. i'll make a lemmy.world repost if i really have to...

[image: the lemmy logo, but with elfilin's eyes, cheek blushes, ear notch, and general colouration. still retains the original whiskers, ears (size-wise), and nose.]

here's the more polished version of elfilem that i promised! it was pretty fun to work on, and i'm quite proud of the final result. instead of just roughly eyeballing everything, i leveraged the power of code (i.e. wrote an svg file by hand) and used Precise Numbers™ to dictate the position and size of things.

seems like lemmy doesn't support uploading svg files, so instead i uploaded a png version. not sure if and how i'll share the original svg -- would certainly love to! i commented the code specifically so that others could get a better understanding of what i did to draw each thing.

edit: never mind, just pasted the svg source code into a comment below

list of notable changes from the original elfilem:

• eyes are now significantly higher up than they were originally
• cheek blushes are now larger, fully visible circles
• inner orange part of ears now extends fully downward to more accurately match elfilin's appearance
• eyes now have a dark blue outline
• various colours have been changed

created with the help of the following:

• notepad++
• this tutorial, along with google and stack overflow
• the same lemmy logo from wikipedia that i used last time -- only, instead of editing the file in an image editor, i simply used it as a reference this time around.
• wikirby and its elfilin pictures, particularly the merry magoland mask

this is the most effort i've put into a drawing in a long time. but i think the result is worth it! :)

edit: the white outline was lost in the background the first time i uploaded this. after some shenanigans on my end, here's a version that includes the white outline as it's supposed to!... unless you're on kbin apparently edit 2: made the new image properly spaced instead of "cramped" (cropped to have no extra space)

[image: the lemmy logo, modified to look like elfilin. head is now cyan. eyes are now large blue ovals with smaller white ovals inside. nose is now orange. pink cheek blushes added. ears are now orange on the inside with a cyan outer rim. right ear (our left) now has the Elfilin Ear Hole™.]

as you can tell by my decreased posting activity the last few days, i've run out of ideas for reasonably-low-effort oc content to post here! this was my final idea of this sort -- kind of a spiritual successor to kirbby. (i do have some other things i want to make and post here, but it'll probably take a good while to actually make them.)

this time around i actually had to manually draw some details instead of just copy-pasting stuff, so it took a bit more effort to make and the technical quality's not as good. still, hope you enjoy this little guy!

created using paint.net and this lemmy logo that i got from wikipedia

Animation done by Doodleanimations on YT. Other Socials:

Reddit

Twitter

Deviantart

could be from the anime, smash bros, concerts, memorial arrangements, kirby cafe, anything other than the kirby games themselves!

[let's hope this one isn't as big of a disaster as the awoofy port.]

in ipa: do you say /əwufi/ (/u/ as in “goose”) or /əwʊfi/ (/ʊ/ as in “foot”)?

yet another way to put it: do you say awoofy or awoofy?

or maybe you say it a secret third way?

[image: kibby, the unofficial kbin bird mascot, coloured pink like kirby. a cheek blush similar to kirby's has also been addded.]

although my accounts are mostly on lemmy, i actually mainly browse using kbin.

i just saw this post declaring the new name of the unofficial kbin bird mascot to be "kibby". to celebrate, here he is in kirby's colours

created using paint.net and two of the pictures in the image linked in the linked post (the normal version and the one with the blush and bow). colours were chosen to be consistent with my quadrupedal kirby drawing.

(posted on this account instead of the lemm.ee one because kbin.social federation is being weird and i want people at kbin to be able to see it.)

in ipa: do you say /əwufi/ (/u/ as in "goose") or /əwʊfi/ (/ʊ/ as in "foot")?

yet another way to put it: do you say awoofy or awoofy?

or maybe you say it a secret third way?

edit: hey look we have enough posts to get a second page of posts now! :)

just a fun post

[image: awoofy sleeping on box. hand boopy awoofy nose]

boopy the awoofy.
you know you want to.

just making a relatively low-effort thing to verify that my posts will be visible on lemmy.world.

made using paint.net
images sourced from wikirby: awoofy, hand (colour edited)

(not to be confused with awoofy poopy. awoofy follow mizu6079's example for that)

[This is a rewritten version of a post I made on r/Kirby 8 months ago.]

One day, I came across the following passages in Elfilin's character entry on TV Tropes (final entry under "Other Heroes"):

Cosmic Motifs: According to the official guidebook, Elfilin's ears were designed to resemble the waxing and waning of the moon. This was meant to represent "having lost the quality of a single existence", that is, having separated from Fecto Forgo.

The Fog of Ages: According to the official guidebook, he barely has any memory of his time as a test subject in Lab Discovera anymore.

At the time, I wasn't able to find anything else that talked about this information. At some point, I checked out this official(? It's official enough for WiKirby.) guidebook myself. This is the relevant page (it's also the final page in the preview).

My attempt at a transcription of the relevant passages (I can't read Japanese):

ともに旅をしながらアドバイスをくれるカービイのパートナー。本人の記憶にはほとんど残っていないが、ID-F86の中に残されていた小さな博愛の心が分離して生まれた存在で、かつて研究者たちには"ID-F87"と呼ばれていた。再び融合することを目論むID-F86によって、とらわれの身となってしまう。

月の満ち欠けをイメージしてデザインされたという耳。1つの存在だったものが欠けたことが表現されている。

Based on machine translations, the TV Tropes descriptions seem pretty accurate. And according to a commenter on the original Reddit post, in the Kirby light novels (separate continuity from the games, so take the implications with respect to game canon with a grain of salt), Elfilin also doesn't remember Lab Discovera. So that's some not-so-new-at-this-point-but-still-not-widely-talked-about Elfilin lore for you.

[image:
OMG ELFILIN
(kirby and the forgotten land postgame, kirby's house)
Elfilin: "My power to create vortices isn't very strong, but I can open one to Planet Popstar anytime."
(zoom in on "vortices")
ELFILIN PLURALIZATION GOD]

why say "vortexes" like a normal person when you can instead use the cooler plural that's consistent with "vertices", "matrices", and "indices" (among other words)? (for the record, wiktionary lists both words as plurals of "vortex".)

here's the "slightly higher effort meme" that i promised. it actually took a stupidly long time to make because of various technical difficulties. again, not an expert meme maker. not yet.

made with oajoo image editor
image screenshotted from this youtube video

[image: "Expanding Pupil" meme
"The pupil can expand as much as 55% when you look at something you love"
(small pupil)
(happy elfilin)
(BIG pupil)]

chimchila our beloved

am working on a slightly higher-effort meme right now, but that's probably going to take a while with my current toolset (i only have access to mobile these few days) and meme-making experience (approximately none), so in the meantime have this thing

made with oajoo image editor
meme template: modified from some random example on know your meme
elfilin image taken from wikirby