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A collection of analyses on my current fixations. I go by Nes.
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Here are some panels from my section of ‘Kevin Party.’ 

I don’t think it’s really a secret at this point but have a great time writing and drawing Kevin. He’s such a jerk! I can’t give enough props to his voice actor, Andrew Kishino. He kills it every single time.

note: Ben is not actually a judger! He’s very nice!

“Ben’s not actually a judger!” XD

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Some Diamonds and Pearls from ‘The Trial’. I’d never drawn/written them before so I went nuts… especially on the Diamonds, who I think are fascinating +_+ <3

Loved working on this episode with the incredible Paul Villeco, and was completely knocked out by the powerful BG color work by Elle Michalka and music by Aivi + Surasshu. One of my favorite episodes to be apart of during my many years on this show. 

Amazing even without the colours.

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Here are some drawings from “The Zoo”. Ages ago, Rebecca pitched The Zoo to Lamar and I as this absolute utopian, hippie society full of beautiful and healthy people with no concept of pain or sadness. So we went to town drawing as many different kinds of hot people as possible! 70s sci-fi, hippie communes, The Time Machine (1960), The Footlight Parade (1933), and the Centaurette sequence from Fantasia were all influences for this episode. 

It was interesting and fun to depict humans who had somehow been appeased enough to coincide with the gem idea of perfect order and routine. I loved writing their eerie, almost understandable optimism, that ultimately gets destroyed in the hilarious ending scene by Lamar. Overall a really fun episode to work on, J10 and Y6 are easily some of my favorite characters in the show <3

Wow! I really like the backstory behind this :D

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I wonder if it's possible to spin some analysis on how certain characters and situations are generally handled by the same writer/boarder teams (like nearly every lars and sadie episode being raven and paul, or nearly every flashback involving Katie Mitroff); though outside of Ian JQ leaving and Joe being promoted to director, there isn't any variance with the outline writers (Matt and Ben with ideas from Rebecca, Kat, and Ian/Joe)

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This is something I’ve discussed before in this ask but let’s talk about it again :D

I would say the outlining process gives us the bare bones of the plot. What needs to be moved forward? Who needs to develop to set up for a future episode? Who gets introduced? It’s a very big-picture process when working on a show.

At the same time, outline writers may have specific big moments or imagery that needs to be conveyed, sort of like a vision. That’s why Rebecca has mentioned sometimes she gets into boarding the scenes herself, because there’s a specific thing she wants to show and it’s much clearer for her to do it herself. 

Once the direction has been said, the meat of the story has to be fleshed out. That means dialogue and mannerisms. The kind of non-word sounds like “Hnggg” and *splutter* are part of this. So it’s possible some things in the original draft get changed in the process, should it be more believable or in-character for particular characters to do this instead of that. 

The reason I think we have the same people working on particular characters, is that it supports the rationale of the show. It’s based on real-life relationships. That means outside our protagonist, Steven, the characters are protagonists in their own stories. They’re also growing and changing and it’s a little more difficult to get into that mindset of the character from a big picture, since there’s a bigger plot that needs to get moving. In that regard, I’d say particular work teams have better expressions, visions for these characters and it would make sense in their development to have the same people handle them.

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From ‘Steven vs. Amethyst’

I had a lot of fun doing the last action scene. I feel like I finally got drawing Amethyst down! Now to just hold on to it…

I gotta give Kat, Amber and Rebecca big props too for helping me as well. It’s not like you get more time to do a board if you decide to make your action scenes big and all over the place. 

It’s a relatively old episode, but there’s still a lot of discuss about it and I really like how the boards pause at these action-in-motion scenes.

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Last One Out of Beach City (please drive safely y’all)

Thanks Amber for cleaning up and giving extra love to Pearl struggling with those pants!

pearls big ol floppy ballerina feet on gas pedals is so funny

Pearl’s CHEEKS and that blush. I love how each boarder’s style really shines through but meshes in a coherent and seamless way in the actual episode. These behind-the-scenes moments really make me appreciate every member of the Crewniverse.

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Here are some boards I did from the Steven Universe episode “Last One Out of Beach City”!

I love going to shows, but maybe even more than that, I love making things about going to shows.  Cars, convenience stores, awkward social interactions and of course music is somewhere in there too.  So I was super excited when the idea came up to take Pearl to a house show.  Hilary Florido & Lauren Zuke boarded the episode, but I got a chance to put in some bits and even draw my buddy Mike Krol singing.  If only there was somebody skanking.  Nevertheless, this is one of my all time fav eps.

“I love going to shows, but maybe even more than that, I love making things about going to shows.”
- Ben Levin

This is a great quote. Art and life, life and art. :(((

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