Today I noticed that some of Jin’s music was on Spotify, so I decided to draw Seto and Mary from Kagerou Project for day 22. ^^ Not much else for me to say except I love these two so much and I’m happy with how it turned out~

I had other plans for inktober day 21, but Shevi informed me that it was Eli’s birthday today (from Love Live!), so I decided to draw Eli and Nozomi together wearing outfits from one of my favourite card sets. ^^ I haven’t drawn these two together before… like, ever. Weird.

Something more cute to balance yesterday’s angsty picture!
I was a little inspired by the meteor shower that’s supposed to happen tonight. Plus, I’ve been wanting to try using washi tape to create a pleated skirt for a while now, so I combined the ideas~
Turned out a little weird but I also like it, so yeah. //shrugs

Okay so, this one might be confusing or even creepy unless you’ve watched or read Genroku Showa Rakugo Shinjuu – but I’ll see if I can explain the gist of it without spoilers:

This features Kikuhiko (the elderly man) and Sukeroku (the ghost), two men who as children were both adopted in the showa era to become apprentices for Rakugo – the traditional Japanese art of storytelling. They were childhood friends, like brothers, but also rivals.

I won’t say why or how, but Sukeroku dies a tragic early death. Kikuhiko feels intense guilt for the rest of his life (and that’s putting it lightly), even as decades pass and their generations continue. He sometimes he sees an apparition of his old friend, Sukeroku; which could either be 1) an actual apparition or 2) a metaphoric representation of him being haunted by his guilt.

However, I don’t believe Sukeroku would have held a grudge against Kikuhiko, so maybe he’s there to offer comfort (in my picture)… but with Kikuhiko complains instead. (A completely normal occurrence for them.)

…Have I intrigued anybody enough to watch this hidden gem yet?? :P It’s not a popular genre but it’s very interesting, full of drama, mystery, historic facts, romance and quality storytelling. It follows from the showa era to modern times, and how the art of Rakugo changes. It’s available on on Crunchyroll if anyone’s interested~

I personally wish I had watched it sooner. I put it off for maybe a year, and I watched it slowly because it dealt with dark subject matter such as death. But by the time I finished it, it had become a favourite of mine, and I wish other people would give it a chance too.

No sleepless night caused by a wind storm could stop me from drawing fanart of my beloved Hyouka!

I’ve drawn Chitanda and Mayaka’s outfits before but not Oreki’s, so that was nice. His outfit is supposedly inspired by Gentleman Thief Arsene Lupin, just like the protagonist from Persona 5 so… he’s doing the glove-pulling thing that the protag does!

But yeah. When I was going through some scrapbooking paper I bought years ago, I started thinking this paper would suit the ending song “Kimi ni Matsuwaru Mystery”. I think it suits the historical/literature aesthetic well! Thooough… I probably should’ve saved the technique for a day when I wasn’t so sleep deprived, but I’m fairly happy with how this turned out anyways. ^^

The other day, I was standing outside with my sister’s dog and a crow flew overhead. I couldn’t help but think, “this would make a nice Haikyuu fanart.” and today I finally drew it. x’D

Shoyo Hinata in front of the Sakanoshita Shop! Not sure if the buildings are 100% correct but otherwise I’m very happy with how this one turned out. Maybe one of my favourites of the ones I’ve done so far? Besides my October 3rd drawing for FMA day, anyway.

Also happy to finally draw more Haikyuu fanart in general!! I remember thinking “Eh, I’m not really into sports or sports anime but I’ll give this a try”, but before episode 2 ended I was totally hooked.
I love the intense animation, expressive characters, competitiveness and analogies… I’ve only done a few sketches and also some button designs but… not much for illustrations or anything? So it was about time to change that!

An Animal Crossing fanart of Isabelle and my main mayor for today’s inktober~
For my scan, I couldn’t get the whites to be very white without losing the light greys. :(

This morning I watched a livestream of my favourite webcomic, Grey Is… and drew fanart of the main characters! ♥ I’ll assure you, I was happier than White is in this picture when watching haha. He must have a headache. :(

If you haven’t read the webcomic yet, I REALLY recommend it. While it covers many sensitive topics, they are handled so well, and there’s just the right amount of comedy to balance the darkness too (though don’t get me wrong, there’s SO MANY FEELS.)
And don’t even get me started on the beautiful art!! *_*

Click here to read it!!

Felt pretty tired today so I turned to one of my favourite characters to draw – Sakura!
My scanner didn’t pick up the light pinks in my illustration (rude!), so I had to add that back in digitally. :c

It was so hard deciding on yesterday’s inktober topic – I wanted to do something about Friday the 13th, but didn’t start it until late in the day and finished this morning.

Eventually I settled on drawing Akira Kurusu from Persona 5 – the boy who had horrible luck with fate, but that very same fate led him to a wonderful found family (including a black cat). ♥

Expect more fanart of this game eventually!! I love it so much aaaa