So yeah, I was doodling in my sketchbook last Tuesday morning when it hit me – JJK characters are so damn confusing for newbies! How many times have I seen people mix up Nanami and Gojo? Or worse, think Geto’s actually a good guy? Decided to finally make a simple reference sheet. Grabbed my beat-up MacBook and headed to the neighborhood coffee joint.
First mission: track down decent character pics. Tried scribbling my own but dang, my Megumi sketch ended up looking like a potato with spiky hair. Surfed fan art sites instead, took me like two hours just to find less horny versions of Nobara’s artwork. Seriously, why do artists always give her massive boobs? That ain’t her vibe at all.
Faced three big headaches straight away:
- Half the wikis contradicted each other about who’s still alive (no spoilers here!)
- The official art was scattered like cursed spirits after exorcism
- My cheap laptop froze every time I opened more than five browser tabs
Almost rage-quit when Photoshop crashed for the fourth time. Drank three cold brews and started over using plain old Google Slides instead. Copy-pasted the cleanest images I could find, slapped labels underneath each character like name, cursed technique, good/bad team. Got obsessed with finding the perfect shade of purple for Sukuna’s title bar – my friend Carlos called me nuts for spending 20 minutes on that detail.
Surprise twist came when sorting characters. Always thought Inumaki was pure hero material until I checked his wiki page. Dude’s family straight up betrayed jujutsu society back in the day! And what about Choso? That redemption arc wild, man. Had to rearrange my whole “heroes vs villains” section twice because of those curveballs.
Final setup ended up looking like this:
- Heroes on left: Gojo, Yuji, etc – all bright colors with smiling pics
- Baddies on right: Mahito, Sukuna – dark backgrounds looking grumpy
- Confusing ones smack in the middle with yellow warning triangles
Posted it to my blog at 2am last night. Woke up to find three comments arguing about whether Toji counts as a villain. Guys, seriously? The man literally murdered Gojo! Anyway, coffee’s cold now and I gotta reheat this damn mug again. Next time maybe I’ll do Demon Slayer or something simpler – at least their bad guys don’t keep switching sides every five minutes.