Amakami Konomi Finishes a Costume-Swap Illustration, Then Tries to Go Without Her Verbal Tic

MILLIONPRODUCTION — Amakami Konomi of MillionProduction (0th Generation) drew a live illustration on Thursday in which two fellow agency members swapped outfits, then followed it with a challenge stream built around not saying her own verbal tic, “ehehe.”

The drawing stream began with her spinning a roulette of MillionProduction members twice. It landed on Yuragi and another member, and she set out to draw each in the other’s costume. She called Yuragi’s outfit heavily decorated and said the other member’s design was one she rarely draws. She roughed out the pose first, then moved to line work, flat colors and finishing touches, answering viewers’ questions about pens, frills and hair along the way. She said a drawing made on stream reaches only about half of what she can do with unlimited time.

“No matter how widespread AI illustration gets, the reason to draw doesn’t change. Anyone can draw simply because it’s fun.” — Amakami Konomi, on why people draw

Partway through, a viewer pointed out that Clip Studio Paint lets users convert a raster layer to a vector layer and then adjust its anti-aliasing. Konomi said she had not known that and that it solved a long-running frustration. Asked about AI illustration, she said it makes her glad when people start drawing because of her streams, and that the reason to draw does not change however widespread AI images become. She finished the piece and said it showed the two members’ differing personalities, with Yuragi upbeat and the other member a little shy. She said she would consider a second round if viewers liked it and asked for requests for pairings in the comments.

The broadcast then continued in a second stream, the fourth installment of a series in which saying “ehehe” ends the stream at once. Konomi said her shortest earlier run was 1 minute 51 seconds, that the longest was around 16 minutes, and that she hoped to last an hour. She read Super Chats nervously, asked viewers not to flood chat to bait her, and said she was afraid to laugh. Chat sent 14 paid messages in the second stream.

The run ended when Konomi disputed a call that her previous laugh had not been “ehehe.” In the course of the argument she asked whether saying “that wasn’t ehehe” was itself ehehe, and chat ruled it out. She thanked viewers and closed the stream, well short of her one-hour goal. Chat asked for an encore.