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Shaun A. Noordin

@shaunanoordin.bsky.social

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aka Darke Shard. Draws comics, builds games, makes jokes. Web dev at Zooniverse & tech writer for The Star Online. Widowed. 💔 This account is 90% art & video game tweets. 🎨🎮 shaunanoordin.com twitter.com/darke_shard

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Shaun A. Noordin @shaunanoordin.bsky.social · Jan 29

Happy Chinese New Year! 🧧🐍🏮
shaunanoordin.github.io/cny2025/

Chinese New Year 2025 - Year of the Snake greeting card. A red snake looks happy to see you. Text reads "Happy Year of the Snake", along with the Chinese greetings 恭喜发财 (gōngxǐ fācái, congratulations and be prosperous) and 万事如意 (wànshìrúyì, all the best). A small note indicates this was created by Shaun A. Noordin, and dedicated to Tay Ni-Choon. ❤️ There's a link to the CNY game-card at https://shaunanoordin.com/cny2025/

Shaun A. Noordin @shaunanoordin.bsky.social · 10h

Inktober Day 10: Sweep 🧹
掃く
#KemonoFriends #けものフレンズ
#inktober2025

Inktober x Kemono Friends sketch. Arai-san has collapsed from carrying such a heavy backpack! Fortunately, she collapsed near the Church of Kemono, and Cleric Serval is sweeping the front. Arai-san waves at Serval.

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Shaun A. Noordin @shaunanoordin.bsky.social · 1d

Inktober Day 9: Heavy 🪨
重い
#KemonoFriends #けものフレンズ
#inktober2025

Inktober x Kemono Friends sketch. It's Knight Arai-san's turn to carry the backpack, and oh boy, it's really heavy! Wizard Fennec happily floats on her magic staff, behind Arai-san.

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Shaun A. Noordin @shaunanoordin.bsky.social · 2d

Inktober Day 8: Reckless ❗
無謀
#KemonoFriends #けものフレンズ
#inktober2025

Inktober x Kemono Friends sketch. It's time for adventure, and Knight Arai-san excitedly charges forward out of the Adventurers' Guild and into the wide world! "Watch your step, Arai-san", thinks Fennec, as she watches her friend almost run into an open manhole.

Shaun A. Noordin @shaunanoordin.bsky.social · 3d

Inktober Day 7: Starfish ⭐ (Star + Fish)
星 + 魚
#KemonoFriends #けものフレンズ
#inktober2025

Inktober x Kemono Friends sketch. Fennec is packing for the adventure, and Arai-san wants to add both a Super Star (from Super Mario) and some taiyaki (a Japanese snack). But there's only room for one item in the backpack! The backpack currently contains: a healing potion, a map folded into a paper airplane, a compass, an onigiri, an onion, a frying pan, and a journal.

Shaun A. Noordin @shaunanoordin.bsky.social · 4d

Inktober Day 6: Pierce ⚔️
突き刺す
#KemonoFriends #けものフレンズ
#inktober2025

Inktober x Kemono Friends sketch. Knight Arai-san is excited to start an adventure! She raises her sword in excitement, accidentally piercing through the light bulb that she just screwed in. Fennec can only sigh.

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Shaun A. Noordin @shaunanoordin.bsky.social · 4d

Weekly drawing session with friends ✨

VII Coyo-Chariot 🐺🃏
VII コヨちゃんのチャリオット 🐺🃏

#KemonoFriends #けものフレンズ #coyoart

Kemono Friends x Tarot card illustration. VII Chariot features Coyote-chan riding a chariot, wielding a large stylus like a rod, and being pulled by two Coyopotatoes (one white, one black). The chariot charges forward, even as Coyote-chan holds no reins.

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Shaun A. Noordin @shaunanoordin.bsky.social · 5d

Inktober Day 5: Deer 🦌
鹿 (ニホンジカ)
#KemonoFriends #けものフレンズ
#inktober2025

Inktober x Kemono Friends sketch. Knight Arai-san is screwing in a new light bulb to light up the dark Adventurers' Guild. Wizard Fennec sheds some light from her magical staff, to help Arai-san with her task. Suddenly, the door slams open, and Castle Guard Sika Deer comes in with an important quest: RESCUE PRINCESS KABAN!

Shaun A. Noordin @shaunanoordin.bsky.social · 6d

Inktober Day 4: Murky 🌑
暗い
#KemonoFriends #けものフレンズ
#inktober2025

Inktober x Kemono Friends sketch. In a dark location somewhere, Knight Arai-san picks up an orb. Behind her, Wizard Fennec sheds some light from her magical staff.

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Shaun A. Noordin @shaunanoordin.bsky.social · 7d

Inktober Day 3: Crown 👑
王冠
#KemonoFriends #けものフレンズ
#inktober2025

Inktober x Kemono Friends sketch. Oh no, Ninja Cellval has kidnapped Princess Kaban! Her crown (and hat) lies on the floor as King Lucky Beast panics. Will the princess be saved? Will a heroic hero stop the villain? Tune in tomorrow to find out!

Shaun A. Noordin @shaunanoordin.bsky.social · 8d

Inktober Day 2: Weave 💫
縫う（人々の間を縫って進む）
#KemonoFriends #けものフレンズ
#inktober2025

Inktober x Kemono Friends sketch. Someone is invading the castle! Ninja Cellval weaves through the guards and heads towards the throne room.

Shaun A. Noordin @shaunanoordin.bsky.social · 8d

I forgot to add the title to the picture!
絵にタイトルを入れるのを忘れてしまいました！

Inktober x Kemono Friends sketch. King Lucky Beast sits on his throne, sporting a mighty moustache. Behind him stands Princess Kaban.

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Shaun A. Noordin @shaunanoordin.bsky.social · 9d

Inktober Day 1: Moustache ✨
ひげ
#KemonoFriends #けものフレンズ
#inktober2025

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Shaun A. Noordin @shaunanoordin.bsky.social · 11d

Weekly drawing session with friends ✨

Silent Hill F...riends 👻🦝
サイレントヒルfurenzu 👻🦝

#KemonoFriends x #SilentHill
#けものフレンズ x #サイレントヒル

Kemono Friends x Silent Hill illustration. Arai-san is running around scared in spooky Silent Hill. Behind her, Fennec is effortlessly beating up monsters, and protecting Arai-san.

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Shaun A. Noordin @shaunanoordin.bsky.social · 25d

Bonus / おまけ

Bonus Kemono Friends illustration. Beaver and Moose are looking at the Kemono Friends In Autumn illustration, thinking of sweet potatoes. Arai-san drools, wanting to eat some too.

Shaun A. Noordin @shaunanoordin.bsky.social · 25d

Weekly drawing session with friends ✨

Autumn is here! 🍂
秋は来たました！ 🍂

#KemonoFriends #けものフレンズ

Kemono Friends illustration. It's autumn in Japari park, and all the leaves are red, orange, and gold. Arai-san is playing in a pile of leaves. Serval is behind her, in the process of pouncing into the pile. Fennec is watching the impending collision.

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Shaun A. Noordin @shaunanoordin.bsky.social · Sep 7

Weekly drawing session with friends ✨

Kemono Friends... IN SPACE! 🌠
宇宙でのけものフレンズ！🌠

btw, Arai-san is holding the flag of the Japari Space Federation. 🎌
ところで、アライさんは「ジャパリ宇宙連邦」の旗を持っている。🎌

#KemonoFriends #けものフレンズ

Kemono Friends illustration. The Kemono Friends gang are in outer space! Arai-san is in a space suit, holding the flag of the Japari Space Federation in one hand, and a space blaster in another. Fennec, also in a space suit, is offering a Japari Bun to a small green alien creature that looks a lot like Cellval. Behind them, there's an orange-and-white spaceship and a Lucky Beast that looks like R2-D2. In the sky, there's a UFO in the shape of Kaban's hat, and inside there's Serval and Kaban.

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Shaun A. Noordin @shaunanoordin.bsky.social · Sep 1

Weekly drawing session with friends ✨

Like Arai-san, I too went to the USA, and boy is everything just so much larger there. 🦝🔴⚪🔵
私もアメリカに行きました。アメリカでは本当に何もかもがずっと大きいです。 🦝🔴⚪🔵

#KemonoFriends #けものフレンズ

Kemono Friends illustration. Arai-san has returned from a business trip to the USA, and she complains to Fennec that everything in America is too big. Cue Fennec imagining Arai-san as a tiny person sitting in a big chair ; eating a huge hotdog ; and getting chased by a turkey that's twice her size (as Coyo-chan from KemoV watches on, in a cameo appearance).

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Shaun A. Noordin @shaunanoordin.bsky.social · Aug 31

Happy Merdeka, Malaysians! 🔴🔵🟡⚪

Illustration of a man carrying two flags of Malaysia. Text says "Merdeka 2025".

Shaun A. Noordin @shaunanoordin.bsky.social · Aug 30

Choose your starter. 🍃🔥💧

#KemonoFriends x #Pokemon
#けものフレンズ x #ポケモン

Kemono Friends x Pokemon illustration. Title says "Pokemono Friends". Professor Arai-san offers Pokemon Trainer Fennec an option of starters: a Bulbasaur Lucky Beast, a Charmander Lucky Beast, and a Squirtle Lucky Beast. Fennec throws her Pokeball at Arai-san instead.

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Shaun A. Noordin @shaunanoordin.bsky.social · Aug 29

I wrote about #RuneFactory, #StoryOfSeasons (nee #HarvestMoon), and the history of farming games leading up to #GuardiansOfAzuma. 🧑‍🌾🐮🌾🐉⚔️

Happy farming, everyone!

Published 25 Aug 2025 in The Star

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