aimee fleck draws things

Saw Monsta X at Radio City Music Hall last week and now I can’t physically stop listening to Monsta X. 🤷

The last few years I’ve been doing birthday self-portrait illustrations -- this year I bought myself some gouache as birthday gift and I finally got around to trying it today! So here is my belated birthday selfie. I have never used gouache before, so this was... a challenge. But I think it turned out okay!

If you made it to the panel, I hope you had as much fun as I did!!

The fundraiser ends 5/27 (so your shirt arrives in time for the second half of pride month), so get yours now!

Also, turns out it’s a lot more fun to draw comics about your day when that day involves: bunny.

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If you have not yet read Gideon The Ninth, and you are picking up what this goofy pin-up is putting down, may I recommend to you: reading Gideon The Ninth????

That said, I’m already improving, and it’s been fun to brush off my drafting skills! In the order I painted them, left to right & top to bottom: Wang Yibo, Satoshi Ohno, Matsumoto Jun, Kim Jonghyun.

TL;DR: thank you to Arashi for making both 2003 and 2020 bearable for me, and specifically, a message for Aiba: THIS PERFORMANCE WAS SO GOOD!!!!!

I learned to draw for ONE REASON and ONE REASON ONLY, which was: to draw anime characters kissing. It is good to think about occasionally, lest I Forget where I came from. Anyway, I blame this interview for reminding me that DNAngel existed.

A take on Pygmalion -- I did this for a fandom exchange earlier this year, but totally forgot to post after reveals. It’s definitely the most intense illustration I’ve done in a while, and I had a lot of fun!!

S-Rank Mission = Date Night? Sasuke & Naruto are either very badly adjusted OR extremely well-adjusted, considering everything. I don’t know if anyone is 100% sure which it is. They are also super in love.

Not to dismiss the dedicated summer goths, but you can definitely tell when everyone’s ready for the weather to change because we’ve all slammed the ALL BLACK OUTFIT button getting dressed that morning.

I loved these kids when I was 14 and it turns out I also still love them now! I recently reread all of Naruto for no reason other than that the spirit moved me, and it was an extremely emotional and enjoyable experience. So I drew Team 7.

FLAMECON YEAR FIVE: Catch me at table #O133 (with the phenomenal @careydraws!) for art prints, comics, hockey bullshit, and a new autobio zine! Come to FlameCon this coming weekend, August 17-18... if you’re in NYC, I promise it’s worth braving Times Square to come check out! It’s always a wonderful time, and I’m so thrilled to be tabling again!

BONUS CONTENT for last drawing... one of the coolest things about Procreate is the ability to record your drawing! This particular drawing took more deliberation than it otherwise might have because its my first real stab at working like this, but I thought it might be neat to see anyway.

I was recently lucky enough to be able to get an iPad Pro, and I drew a moody summer selfie to try it out! It’s taking some getting used to, but I’m excited to get better at it and get to do more drawing in places other than my house (like friends’ houses!?!?!). Also, the pencil brush in Procreate is AMAZING.