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I didn't use references, since I was sketching these guys Physics class XD. I think I leaned too much on my couture influences.

IG this album is more Emo-pop, but whatevs. After two years of hunting down Midwest Emo CDs in my country, I've finally managed to acquire one!! I am in tears rn. This one is a Japanese pressing from 1999. It doesn't have a booklet?? What? To anyone else who owns this pressing, is this normal?

I watched a couture fashion illustration tut and drew these guys.

Youth Crew Prom girl is wearing a tank top, converse, black gloves with Xs on the knuckles, long pencil skirt with a camo pattern, a belt with a bunch of Xs, an X necklace, an X earing, and even her hair is shaped somewhat like an X. I even wrote her name in Letterman.

Scene Queen Prom girl is donning the iconic sideswept bangs, coon tails, fishnets, striped arm warmers, layered belts, a ball gown with a checkerboard pattern, a top with XD printed on, and a tiara with centerpiece being XD.

Over the past few months I've really been LOVING this beautiful genre called Skate Punk! It's like melodic hardcore, but with skate boards. Or if pop punk decided to go faster.

As of now, my fave scene is certainly the 90s Swedish one. It's just super melodic, which tickles my fancy immensely. I'm still looking for CDs by bands like Adhesive, Passage 4, Venerea, No Fun At All, etc.

Skate punk CDs are surprisingly cheap! I managed to easily acquire 90s Japanese first presses for what was essentially the price of 2 hamburgers. Super common as well!

My japanese pressings in the pic:

Same Old Tunes (It has Disney Time instead of Diznee Time! I thought this was cool)

Life On A Plate (no obi)

For Monkeys (my favorite of all time punk album of all time!!!)

Hero Of Our Time (no obi)

Rev

The rest are American pressings.

Also, if it wasn't obvious enough, my fav band so far is Millencolin! Got any recommendations?

I had the audacity to sign it XD

For context, this is a passion project of mine XD. the town is named Rudebrook, after my favorite Millencolin song "Entrance At Rudebrook". The story is simultaneously a deconstruction and a love letter to those shitty forgotten 2000s teen movies. Rudebrook is basically a reconstruction of American Suburbia made by a rural kid half the world away who grew up watching Dan Schneider Nickelodeon sitcoms, direct to dvd teen movies, Angela Anaconda, reading crappy late 2000s YA novels (Ghostgirl - Tonya hurley in particular) and listening to Skate Punk, Landfill Indie, and Midwest Emo. In this town, everyone drives the same T12 Nissan Bluebird, everyone owns the same pink house from Pulley - Together Again For The First Time, the local Catholic church is named after the patron saint of thieves, and there's a record store that has declared ideological war against the entire Hardcore family tree.

My main influences for the art are Alex Ahad, Aaron Alexovich, Roman Dirge, Crab Scrambly, and an old DeviantArt user named Lithium Tears.

Also, pls add me on SpaceHey y'all!!!! https://spacehey.com/billybobsbiblechurch

I've decided to just boot Shmap n Shmazz cuz I live in South East Asia and original Capn Jazz CDs, rather, Midwest Emo CDs in general, aren't exactly being sold around here. I made custom art and an obi strip at least.

I'll explain things this time. Just keep in mind that these aren't supposed to be high art (obviously) but rather just what I thought looked the most cool haha:

The Impossibles - Back 4 The Attack

Awesome emo-ska EP. What I did with this one is I just redrew that girl from the original cover. Also, I renamed it "Back 8 The Attack" cuz I added three more songs that made the song count total 8.

Hey Mercedes - EveryNight Fire Works

I love Hey Mercedes!! To me, they're basically a pop punk Braid, and I love Braid too! So what I did was I edited the band members to look like mallcore kids. Also, Charlotte Usher (from the novel Ghostgirl, read it!!! It's frickin awesome) is here too cuz mallcore.

Mineral - The Power Of Failing

Ngl, this was the second album (from Shmap n Shmazz) that I legitimately shed a tear to. All I did was add Charlotte Usher to the park bench. Dagnabbit I'm getting lazier with these covers.

As for the obi strips, I just copied from the Japanese Millencolin cd I had at my desk. If you're wondering, for the front cover the songs are most popular + my personal favorites.

You heard it right! Not just for Millencolin. Not just for skate punk. But for all of punk as a whole! From ska all the way to grindcore. The jewel case is absolutely abysmal, but you know what? I love this album so much I'll let it slide for now!

Compilation from Thrashingfist Productions. Limited to 500 copies. It contains their LP " Zygotical Sabbatory Anabapt", their demo "Rumpus of the Undead", and their EP "Upheaval of Blasphemy".

Excuse me if this may sound ignorant, but why exactly did Helmkamp leave Revenge? The only thing I could find was this article, but come on. There's gotta be more reason than just "individual music directions".

The booklet is so mean bruh 😭 Why do they hate cd collectors?

Why is there a song titled Wolflust? Is Helmkamp a furry?