I looked up Artrageous and honestly that game seems up my alley, at least for high school and college me. It would definitely unnerve me out as a kid though lol, but it looks really cool! I'd like to play it sometime.
Thank you! The variety of faces took me the longest to create out of everything in the game. It actually isn't too hard to come up with a list of styles and I had a lot more planned (like Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe, Danganronpa's eye style, etc) but my stamina on drawing them all fizzled out lol. As for the sprite and bg, thank you! I based both on impressionistic style painting, where the thick brushstrokes and color abstract the figures in a way I adore. Plus, I needed to make the portrait itself look like a painting, so in turn Graey looks like he stepped out of a painting. Might as well make everything look like it's from a painting, right down to the GUI lol.
Sometimes I wonder if I'm blending humor and serious well in my writing, so I'm glad it came off well! Especially the ending names lmao, I couldn't have come up with anything better so they stayed. I'm glad you enjoyed playing my game! Thank you for the thoughtful and kind words, I really appreciate it! :D