Kip

Since they arrived the weekend before Christmas, I decided to wrap them up real pretty and put them under the tree, even though my sister and I just bought them for ourselves and already know what they are.

For those who aren’t aware yet: they’re from @theegh0st ‘s ko-fi shop, so go check out their account and such to see more cool art things.

And some closeups of the keychain:

I don’t like it quite as much as the Shadow one I made earlier, doesn’t have the same spooky vibe, but fairies rarely do.

Anyway here is the lineless version as well, since it’s pretty neat too.

First time I’m doing a “draw this in your own style” challenge and I’m not even full filling what it says in the name, whoops.

I was playing around with a pencil brush and colouring the sketch, and it turned out way cooler than what I originally intended for the drawing?? So I just kept messing around with a fun inky brush for the lines and different layer settings and ended up with the drawing above.

Craziest part is that it took less than an hour total to make this thing! Art’s weird sometimes

And here is the colour on its own: slightly different vibe but still really cool. (You can see why I just went this route instead, right?)

So early last August I ordered keychains from theegh0st, a Legend one for myself and a Four for my sister(@somariart), and they arrived late August. We would have a shared birthday celebration at the end of September and I figured I’d use them as gifts then.

I wanted it to be a surprise, so I wrapped the keychains up preemptively, and put the little Sky drawing on my pinboard. HOWEVER, this was apparently not good enough, because my sister saw the pinboard with the sky drawing, recognised the sky drawing as theegh0st’s, and knowing that I know that Four is her blorbo concluded that I got her a Four keychain. …my surprise :(

But although the main gift may not be a surprise anymore, I still had a trick up my sleeve. I would simply make the things around the gift, de gift wrapping and the birthday card, completely customised with her blorbo.

So over the course of September I customised two gift bags(one for each of us) and a birthday card for her! The gift bags are based on Minish Cap (and Four Swords) and A Link To The Past, whereas the card is a little comic featuring the colours’ LU designs and shadow, with the characterisation based on the manga.

This ended up getting the happy freak out reaction I was hoping for :D. It took a lot of time and dedication, but I’m very happy with the results.

Drawn based on a doodle I made on some scrap paper while waiting in a restaurant last summer.