Fanart Artist~

Hey guys, how's it going! I hope you're able to enjoy wonderful spring weather by now! Thank you so much for your feedback on last week's post!! ^-^ <3 I'm glad you enjoyed it. In hindsight, and with your positive critiques in mind, I'm feeling a little better about that last piece - maybe I was a bit too "harsh" with my self-critique. ^^'

So this is the other piece I've been talking about last week. As I already mentioned I wanted to draw something different for a change, so here we have Daimon. ^^ He's definitely one of my personal favorite Mark Bearers and I've been meaning to draw him for a while now, so this was a good opportunity. ^^ I wanted to try to add some color into my ink drawings - just one color as a highlight - and thought his violet shirt (I used lilac-colored ink for it) could work well for a first try. Just the background was giving me some troubles - it seemed so empty at first… ^^' That also was the part that frustrated me a little with this piece, because I tried so many things (in the digital sketch) but never felt satisfied with the results. In the end I settled on this brighter violet "area", to pick up the highlight color again and fill the space a bit more. (Another idea had been to draw this typical white curtain in front of windows you see in practically every doctor's office, but it still left too much plain and boring white space in my opinion…^^') Seeing the finished result now I'd say it came out okay. Ah btw, filling in the color in the background did indeed go much better with a bigger brush! The paper still doesn't like the water though, haha. But I'm gonna keep using this sketch block for these drawings until it's full. Let's see if I can fill a whole sketch block with Death Mark content only - it's just 69 more pages to go! xD

In this piece I imagined Daimon sitting at his desk and taking a moment to look out of a window and be lost in his own thoughts, just for a minute or two. What could he be thinking/wondering about? I'll leave that to your own imagination! : ) - Aaaand I just realized that I forgot to add some details again - the clipboard in front of him was supposed to be a patient chart…. 'xD u_u'' Ah, anyway…

"...So you mean to say that you can recognize a person by such small details like their scent or sounds?"

"Or feeling. For example I could recognize Satoru's hands out of hundreds."

"Nah, there's no way, old man! How is that supposed to work??"

"I can show you if you want. Here, give me your hand..."

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Hey guys, how have you been! I hope you had a good week and nice weather. Spring is such a wonderful season! ^-^ As always thank you very much for your commentaries from last week!! <3 I'll never get tired of hearing your thoughts and opinions, and I'm super happy that so many of you enjoy this little AU idea of mine! ^w^ As for today's post - so here we have the main source of my mentioned frustrations last week. ^^' After taking a break for a few days I decided to get back to it and draw the ink version after all, because I still liked it enough to think that it deserved a chance. But - as expected - it's really been a disaster until the end. 'xD It's not bad enough that I hate it but I don't like it that much either. But I figured it's better than posting nothing, so here it is. 

Before I go more into detail about the mistakes I made, let me explain my thoughts behind this piece real quick. After drawing so many Yashita content recently I thought that I probably should try to get a little bit of variety in by drawing other characters as well. I chose Shou for this because he is one of my favorite side characters and I like Yashiki interacting with the kids (yes, to me Shou still feels like a kid, even though he's already 18). And since I said I wanted to emphasize hands more in my future works, I needed an idea that focuses on hands. Which I think is very fitting for to the Blind!Yashiki AU, because here feeling things with his hands is a very important part in Yashiki's life. Since he can't see people's faces he gets his impressions of other people through different things (like their smell, voice, the sound of their personal gait/way of walking etc.) one of them being their hands (heavily inspired by @otokowrecker's works to this AU! ^-^). So for this piece I imagine that they got to this topic randomly while talking and Yashiki ends up showing Shou his method of noticing and remembering small individual characteristics on a hand. Shou got some scratches in his face and arms - maybe he got into a fight before his visit or got them while doing sports? In the background we see Mashita walking up the stairs (this is supposed to play in the foyer of the Kujou mansion). He patched up Shou and is taking the med kit back to where it belongs while listening in on their conversation. And maaaybe he gets a liiiitle bit jealous when Yashiki grabs Shou's hand to show him his "tricks", but just a little, haha. xD (I imagine that for Mashita and Yashiki - a happily married couple in this scene -  touching and entertwining each other's hands is a very meaningful and intimate gesture that they do a lot. And even if this is a harmless situation with no meaning behind it, I imagine Mashita could still get jealous over it. He just seems like that kind of person to me - he doesn't want to share his husband with anybody, haha.)

Alright, let's get to the part of my self-criticism, for everyone who is interested. One major problem (for me) was that there's three areas/plains here (foreground, middleground, background) instead of two, which makes it much more complex than my previous ink pieces. I've been so focused on drawing - either that or my brain was just temporarily shut off - that I didn't realize this problem until the piece was finished and I started thinking about the inking process... u_u'' To get a clean look and make every detail easily discernable it is important to create good contrast between them - which is not so easy when only using black ink on a white sheet of paper (at least for me as an amateur in traditional art ^^'). After filling the background with black I was left with the question how to visually seperate the middleground from the foreground. The idea to use hatching for the stairs wasn't very appealing to me (I feared it would make everything look too chaotic) - and it also would have clashed with the hatching of the sofa Yashiki is sitting on. So I went with adding one relatively neutral color instead. Which didn't turn out so great, as you can see... ^^' The brown color you see is sepia colored ink that I mixed with water to brighten it up. But filling in these big spaces didn't work out as well as I'd hoped (I guess I should've used a bigger brush). But even if it had worked out, it wouldn't have compensated for the whole image's less than optimal composition. I tried to fill the black space out a little and hopefully make the image look more interesting by adding the candle and smoke silhouettes on the left side - but I guess I might have making it look more chaotic instead... ^^' What also irks/bothers me is that I messed up Shou's hair (this struggle just never seems to end... ^^') and Yashiki's face (it looked so much better in the digital version and even in the pencil sketch... T_T). Haah, but it's okay, not every piece turns out good and through mistakes we learn...

Hey guys, good friday to you all! I hope you had great holidays. ^^ Thank you so much for your interest and commentaries on last week's post! <3 I'm still working with ink as you can see, here's hoping you guys are not getting bored by all the black/white pieces recently, haha.

I'm still stuck on my BlindYashiki AU I'm afraid. 'xD Since it's more challenging to make his blindness noticeable on black/white-only images I was searching for different ways to get it across. And then remembered something that inspired me. Many years ago I watched a let's play of a horror themed video game that had a very interesting concept: Everything in it is pitch black and you can only see your surroundings if you make noise (by speaking into your mic) which sends out soundwaves that "light up" everything around you. But you can only see the rough shapes/silhouettes. And I thought this would fit very well, since Yashiki would rely a lot on his hearing, aside from his cane, to orient himself in this pitch black world that he's living in. Maybe that's how Yashiki's "Echolocation" actually works, haha (sorry, I couldn't resist that pun - everyone who has read Lonely's "Craniopagus Parasiticus" knows what I'm talking about. xD).

I imagine this scene happening in Rinne General Hospital (adopting that from Lonely's stories, I hope you don't mind @otokowrecker ^^'). Mashita and Yashiki talking with each other, perhaps standing in the corridor, while some people (other hospital staff or patients/visitors) are bustling around in the background. Yashiki hears the noises but blends them out for the most part, listening with interest to Mashita's voice. I added these black dots into Mashita's silhouette to make him seem more palpable/less hollow and also prevent him from blending in too much with the background. Btw. (it might be obvious but) I didn't draw Yashiki's sunglasses in here because I wanted more focus on his eyes.

Hey guys! Sorry for being late today, I've been working on this last minute until now - and still couldn't finish everything... u_u'' 'xD Anyway, happy Good Friday to you all! ^-^ I'm back with another digital-traditional piece - I've tried myself with another mini comic this time. Thank you so so much for all your positive feedback on last week's post!! <3 <3 I hope you'll like this one as well, even if it's a little darker/more dramatic. Prepare to be hit with another wall of text below, because I'm gonna ramble a lot about this. 'xD

This time I remembered to draw the pages like I used to - read from left to right. But my scatterbrain found another opportunity to make a mistake instead: I put the pages (on the sketchbook overview) in the wrong order...... 'xDD Aaaah, but it's okay, I'm sure it's easy to figure out which page comes first, haha. Also you might have already noticed that the texts in the digital and traditional versions differ from each other. I dared to try myself at Japanese again - the thought randomly came to me - I just like the look of the Japanese lettering! ^^ It took me a while to research all of the japanese sound words, haha. I tried my best to write everything aesthetically and readable and I hope I didn't make any mistakes (my moderate knowledge of the Japanese language has become a bit rusty over the years...^^'). Though I had to make a little compromise because the text on page one (lower half) is a little different than the english version -in the japanese version Yashiki just says "There you are. So, shall we go?" - which isn't quite what I was going for, but because I wasn't sure if the translations I found were correct I chose to play it safe by keeping it more simple. ^^' 

But about the content: Here we have more Nurse!Mashita and Blind!Yashiki again - I'm still loving this AU idea and I'm still planning to draw a lot more for it! ^-^ Though, what you see here is not supposed to be a canon happening in this AU, but rather me exploring some alternative scenes/ideas just for the fun of it (sort of like an AU of an AU, haha xD). But to be honest, I don't really have a "canon story" for this AU, since my brain isn't made to invent complete stories - my strenght lies more in creating short scenes like this one, haha. 'xD What comes closest to a canon would be the amazing works of @otokowrecker with their own story version of this AU, which I really love and like to orient myself on for my own ideas - for anyone interested, you can find their works on their AO3-account.

For this scene I took inspiration from the canon story's spirit Hanahiko and fanart of Mashita that often shows him covered in rose vines when under the spirit's influence. So this might be the AU version of Hanahiko that takes control of Mashita in this scene, or perhaps a similar themed spirit - you're free to make up your own story for this. And I guess the rest of the story is pretty much self-explanatory: Mashita gets possesed by the spirit (which shows by the many rose vines growing out of his body) and tries to kill Yashiki when he approaches him. Since Yashiki is blind and cannot see what exactly happens in that moment, he is shocked when he feels himself getting stabbed/pierced by a person he trusts. The "why" Yashiki asks himself in that moment is not really supposed to be accusative towards Mashita though, but rather the question "why did this happen?" - at least that's what I imagined, but you're free to make up your own version. I know this stands in pretty stark contrast to my last post - I just was in the mood for something darker/more dramatic again... ^^' But, even though it might look like it, I didn't draw this scene with the thought that Yashiki would die here - rather with the idea that Mashita will snap out of the spirit's control right after this moment and has enough time to initiate life-saving measures before that can happen. (I imagine this scene happens in the hospital or somewhere nearby, since Mashita is wearing his work clothes) The original idea for this scene btw was a lot longer, but I changed a few things and shortened it down to two pages. The reason for that is that this was my first try to draw a comic scene traditionally with ink and I didn't want to start with a bigger project. These two pages alone took several days to make, from first sketch to finished pieces (the traditional pieces taking at least double the time than the digital ones)... 'xD Anyway, in case you're interested about the original idea for this, I tried myself at writing it out into a short scene (that starts after page 1) that you can find below (marked with >> <<) Just a heads up: There's gonna be detailed graphic descriptions that could perhaps classify as (light) gore? - I'm not completely sure but I'm gonna play it safe, so you've been properly warned:

>>Without a warning Mashita wordlessly grabs onto Yashiki and pulls him close. The sudden yank forward comes so unexpected that Yashiki loses his grip around his cane, he hears it landing on the floor ​with a clattering sound. Puzzled by this unusual behaviour but fully trusting Mashita, Yashiki lets himself be pulled into his arms without protest, asking if something is wrong. He gets no answer. Instead he feels a sharp sting in his chest a moment later - something is tearing through the cloth of his shirt and pricking into the skin beneath. Instinctively he tries to back away but Mashita's grip is like steel, the arms that are wrapped around him pull him even closer, holding him tightly in place so there's no escape. Alarmed, Yashiki calls out Mashita's name, hoping that his voice will reach him somehow and break him out of the spell he seems to be caught in. But Mashita does not seem to react. Then his skin breaks, followed by a stabbing pain. Nothing more than a gasp makes it past Yashiki's lips as the wind is knocked out of his lungs, then the dreadful sound of his own ribs cracking reaches his ears when something shoves itself past them. If it wasn't for Mashita holding him in place, his legs probably would have given out under him that moment. All of his energy seems to have drained from his body. Excruciating pain is burning him from within, the spirit's hate that took control over Mashita is almost palpable, seeping through him, trying to tear everything apart. The sickening sensation of unknown objects moving inside his chest makes him nauseous, but with the way his chest is being constricted, dry retching is all his body is capable of. It feels like several ropes are curling and digging it's way forward through his flesh, like a plant sapling travelling through the earth in search for the surface. His shaking hands wander in search for something to hold onto, anything to distract him, to endure this torment. They find a hold on Mashita's back, fingers clinging tightly to the facbric of his scrubs. At this rate he was gonna die if this continued - he needed to do something! Heaving, fighting the urge to vomit, Yashiki raises his head towards Mashita. At the same time something wam rises up his throat with the motion. As he parts his lips to speak a sudden wet cough beats him to it.  A metallic taste spreads on his tongue and he distantly notices something running down his throat from the corners of his mouth, dripping down from his chin.  Choosing to ignore it he musters his remaining strenght to adress Mashita a second time with desperate pleas. Was it only in Yashiki's imagination or did he just feel Mashita's head move in his direction? A flutter of hope spreads inside his burning chest...<<

Aaaaand that's it - Sorry, but I had to make a cut here, because it's getting late and I wanted to post this today, not tomorrow, haha... 'xD I got the idea to write this a little too late, so I wrote this scene last minute. Unfortunately this also means that there was no time to let it be beta-read, so I can only hope that this is not too terrible... Maybe I overdid it a little with the drama? To be fair, I've spent so much time writing today that my brain was very tired when I wrote this. And with the many time's I've read over it, at some point I couldn't tell anymore if it's good or not... 'xD But I'm not a writer, so there was no high expectations to begin with. ^^' 

Also, I could kinda see Yashiki partnering with Dusknoir; the lore suggests it guides lost spirits home which kinda fits the MO of the Spirit Doctor!

Hey!

Thank you very much, and also thanks a lot for your interest! ^^

That's a good question! In this piece I imagined Shou with the 'normal' version of Quilava as his partner - but your idea sounds very interesting as well! Perhaps he will find himself a Hisuian form at a later time, then he'd have both versions in a team - like twins, haha! xD

Hey guys, good friday to you all! ^^ It's finaly spring time, yay! Let's celebrate it with a Yashita drawing. :D I'm still enjoying drawing with ink, so here's another piece, plus the digital version of it (the top one). Also, once again thank you so much for your feedback on the last pieces guys, I'm glad you liked them!! I always love reading your comments!! <3 <3 ^-^

So here we have yet another Yashita piece - I just can't draw them enough. Hope you're not starting to get bored by my very one-sided content, haha. 'xD This is supposed to be another BlindYashiki piece (hence no glasses and white eyes), but I guess you could overlook that and see it as normal Yashita work as well. I wanted to draw something cute and romantic and it's been a while that I drew them kissing, so that felt like a good idea. Also I've decided that I want to try to focus more on hands in my future drawings, because I have fun drawing them and would also like to improve on that.

For inspiration and to broaden my horizons (on interesting hatching, effects or backgrounds) I've looked at a lot of other artist's ink drawings and I found that I really like pieces with what I'm gonna call 'unfinished lines' - meaning on some places lines break off abruptly, drawing the shape not completely but enough to make it recognizeable what it is. I tried myself at this in this piece, it was quite a challenge for me as it was hard to decide where lines should be and which parts to leave blank to create an interesting composition. In the end I ended up drawing more details than I intended - so not quite a success - but for my first try I am satisfied with the outcome. I like the effect how Mashita's arm and Yashiki's neck are kind of blending/merging together - you can "see" both in the lines, but not at the same time. Kind of like these optical illusion pieces where you can see two different images depending on how you look at them - I've always been fascinated by these. 

Is it already friday again? xD Hey guys, I hope you had a good week! Thank you so much for the many positive reactions and feedback on my last post!! <3 I was very happy that you seemed to like the GrandpaYashiki & BratMashita idea. ^-^ Today's post is less spectacular, but still took me quite some time to finish (at least half of it, haha).

As you can see I tried myself at traditional art again. I did the sketches digitally first, that way I could experiment with the composition and correct mistakes easier, before drawing them again with ink on paper. It was a lot of fun to work with ink again but damn, it takes so much longer to get it done - just filling the black space on one piece alone took more than an hour... 'xD And to be honest, when comparing both results, I find that I still like the digital versions much better. ^^' Though to be fair I have to say that the (bad quality) photos do not do the traditional pieces justice - I think they look better when you see them for real, but unfortunately I don't have any better way to show them to you now. ^^' 

There's not much to tell about these drawings, I was honestly just brainstorming for some interesting motifs/compositions for ink drawings (I wanted to draw images where I can fill a lot of space with just black, because I think it looks very nice). But there was at least some thought behind them.  About the first piece: I just wanted to draw Yashiki in a pose that shows him in despair, struggling because of something (a spirit most likely), and I wanted to put great emphasis on his hands - because I like drawing hands, they can be so expressive! I drew the "strings" in the background with the thought that perhaps they could symbolize Mary's influence/control over him. And just now I remembered that I had intended to add the Death Mark on his hand, but I forgot - whoops. Haaah, there's always something I forget... u_u'' Whatever, I think I'm gonna keep it like that. 'xD (also don't mind the crooked looking line of the black box in the backround, that's just because the paper started "wrinkling" (?) again because of the ammount of ink...) About the second piece: I've been wanting to draw another BlindYashiki piece for a while, so this was a good opportunity. I came up with this cute image with Mashita putting his hand on Yashiki's shoulder, and he turns his head towards his general direction with a fond smile - I just love to draw Yashiki smiling, he looks so cute that way. ^w^ I wish I could've added something that would've made it more obvious that he's blind there, but couldn't think of anything that would have fit. There was no space to add his cane in and since I wanted the focus to be on his eyes, drawing him wearing his sunglasses would have been kinda counter-productive. ^^' (what annoys me a little is that I messed up Yashiki's face a bit here - that's exactly the reason why I prefer digital art over traditional... ^^') Btw. I snug in a small extra detail to the traditional piece - I wonder, did anyone notice...? ^-^

Heeey guys, it's finally friday - I've been so looking forward to today! ^-^ The project I've been talking about is done and I can finally share it with you. Please note that the reading direction this time is from top left to down right! (I forgot to pay attention while sketching and accidentally drew it opposite to how I normally work... ^^') And once again I want to thank all of you for your support, you guys are amazing!! <3 All your comments and positive feedback are a big motivation to keep drawing! Alight, heading now to the section of my weekly ramblings: 

So, about this idea - I think I'm gonna call it the GrandpaYashiki/BratMashita AU haha xD - and how it came to be: I can't explain the complete process in my brain that lead to this, but one factor definitely was the recent discussions (on tumblr and the discord server) about Yashiki's age and that the game developers keep making him younger. I for myself would rather have Yashiki (and the other adult Mark Bearers) stay the same age or maybe even a little older, because one factor that made me like this series immediately was the rare circumstance that the main character here is an adult and NOT a kid or teen (as seen in hundreds and thousands of other Japanese Video Games/Manga/Anime) for a change. I might be wrong, but I had the impression that I might not be alone with that (or a similar) opinion. And before I knew it, this funny idea had formed, haha. (But I want to mention that other artist's works found on pixiv might also have had an impact on me to some degree. It was not recently, but there I've seen art depicting scenes with either Mashita or Yashiki turned into kids through unknown circumstances. Sadly I can't provide any links, it's hard to find them again on pixiv... u_u')  

The "story" of this idea: Yashiki and Mashita are conducting another spirit investigation, but the spirit is more powerful than imagined and they end up getting cursed again. Although, they don't realize it until later when they start to feel its effects. This curse is different though - unique - in a way, because it formed an invisible connection between them. It is stealing Yashiki's lifetime and adding it to Mashita at the same time. As a result Yashiki ages very fast - his hair is greying and his body turns into that of an old man - while Mashita is getting younger and eventually changes back into a kid, enabling his body to live through the same ammount of years again that Yashiki lost (his memory stays unaffected though). If they cannot find a way to lift the curse, it'd probably run for as long as it takes until one of them dies. But no worries, they'll find a way like they always do! ^^ I haven't put much thought into what kind of spirit would do this kind of thing, but it's probably the spirit of a vile person with a taste for cruel games. Btw, about their relationship in this concept: I kept it more like it is in the canon story, so they're not (yet) together here, but there's definitely some unspoken/unconfessed feelings between them. That's why Yashiki offers the guest room to Mashita on page 8, but Mashita (sincerely worried about Yashiki, but maaaybe also using this as a convenient excuse to stay with/get closer to him) comes back and asks if he can stay in his room. 

Even though the drawings make it look like the changes all happend at once, the original idea was that the changes happen bit by bit over time - and I'd rather stick with that one. ^^' The drawings look different because it was the best method to show the changes on Mashita's body clearly by making him tiny again (making his hair shorter on the first page didn't have the desired effect, and I guess it would have been similar with drawing him only a little bit shorter ^^') But what also played a role was that the drawing process went a bit chaotic, because I started sketching scenes randomly at first without a proper plan. 'xD Or rather, I did not plan to draw this many sketches. I was thinking to draw two, maybe three pages max. for this, and it wasn't supposed to get almost comic like but rather a bunch of sketches thrown together. But then the ideas kept coming one after another, haha. 'xD Eventually, after the flood had stopped, I decided to combine the sketches and create a series of pages in a way that each page can stand on its own, but when put together they all tell a continuous story (hopefully?). I focused mostly on funny or cute moments, because they were my main motivation for this concept. ^-^ Some more sad/dramatic scenes were planned as well, and I had a lot more ideas I would have liked to show, but I scrapped them for now because I didn't want to put even more time into this project. After several weeks of working on this, I just wanted to get it done already... ^^' Maybe I will get back to them some other time, it honestly depends on my motivation.

I had a lot of fun drawing Mashita as a kid - especially in his now very oversized clothes - he is such a brat, haha! (I do hope though that I did his character justice and his actions don't seem too out of character) It was so hilarious to imagine that scene from page 4, where little Mashita is trying to walk holding up his pants with his hands, while his jacket is dragging on the floor like a chapel train(?) on a wedding dress! x'DD And drawing Yashiki as an old man has been very interesting as well! I hope I managed to draw him like a proper grandpa, haha. Don't know if it's quite accurate, but I imagined he'd have to deal with a lot of back and knee pains and walk a little bent over because of that - the poor guy. And of course he's not as fit anymore, meaning less energy/stamina and the need to take a few naps in between - very much to Mashita's dismay. xD (I remember my own grandpa used to fall asleep a lot on his armchair, especially while we were watching movies). About the cane he's carrying in the later pages: I imagine it either formerly belonged to one of his ancestors and he found it somewhere in the mansion (I can definitely imagine this being stored away somewhere in that big old building) or maybe one of his friends gave it to him. 

About the coloring: Once again I'm not sure if I like it - is it too de-saturated/grey-ish...? I tried to keep it simple and use only two colors, to create a better contrast and make it easier to distinguish the characters and their speechbubbles. But - once again - I got carried away on the later pages and added more details and shadings than I originally wanted. 'xD I hope Mashita doesn't look too much like an alien with the green color, I was going for that Yashiki & Mashita "color sheme", using the colors of their jackets.

Ahhh, I made it!! Late, but still in time for Yashiki's birthday (at least in my time zone). I wasn't so sure if I'd have something to post today, because I had a hard time thinking of something to draw... u_u'' The image is not super great or really fitting the occasion but hey, at least I managed to improve the quality a little bit compared to last year! 'xD

So uhm, this miiight be the first and last post for this week, since my progress on the mentioned project is going not as fast as I'd like. ^^' I think I'm about halfway through polishing up the sketches, it depends on if I'm gonna add more drawings or not.

Hey guys, good friday to you all! ^^ I'm sorry this is not what some of you might have expected after what I talked about last week. I would have loved to show you the new art project I've been working on, but once again I need more time to finish it. ^^' It grew wayy larger than I'd anticipated!! I've already got a pile of sketches and I'm not even done yet, not to speak of polishing them all up later. So it's gonna take me a little longer to finish that. But I hope you'll like this piece as well - I found it in my WIPs folder from last year and finished it for today. It fits perfectly into the line of my recent crossover works, haha. xD Which I wanted to thank you all for the positive feedback I got from you guys. Thank you so much for your support, it means a lot!!! <3 ^-^

I'm pretty sure the image motif here is easy to recognize, since the franchise is very popular, but in case anyone isn't familiar with it, this is a crossover with Five Nights at Freddy's, a well known horror game. The figure behind Yashiki is supposed to be Freddy, a bear-themed animatronic (from an pizzeria-chain called Freddy Fazbear's) that got possessed by the spirit of a child that got killed there (if I remember correctly). I've been thinking for a while that this would be a fun idea for a crossover, I could definitely see Yashiki investigating that case to bring the spirits of the dead children peace. I've had some other image ideas for this crossover that I never got to sit down and draw and I'm gonna share one here since I don't know if I'm ever gonna draw it: I imagined Yashiki and Mashita are asked to investigate one of the many pizza places, they don't know what they got themselves into but realize pretty quickly that they should run and hide from the animatronics. Inevitably they end up getting chased and, for the lack of time and a better place, they both hide in one of the many lockers that are conveniently placed everywhere. I imagined it would make a fun picture to see both of them squeezed together uncomfortably in that tight locker space (an image where the locker door is transparent to show what's happening inside). x'D A few curses slip out of Mashita's mouth until they hear the animatronic approach and Yashiki quickly covers his mouth with his hand to shut him up. They watch the animatronic nervously through the small slit in the door, nearly getting a heart attack when it peaks through it for a second. But it doesn't spot them and continues on its path. And then later Yashiki has that totally stupid idea to put on masks of the animatronics to fool them (like you do in the game). Mashita hates it and argues that it's never gonna work, but it does! x'D

Hey, guys! Sorry for the delay, I've been sick last week therefore couldn't get anything done during that time. u_u'' But now that I'm better I made sure to finish these for today, I was so excited to show this to you! I believe I already mentioned last time that I was working on another crosssover-ish project, so here it is: The Mark Bearers with their own Pokemon-companions. ^^ I'm very curious what you guys think about this. The idea came to me through the discord channel, when I saw an art post with sketches of Yashiki and Mashita surrounded by Pokemon. The inspiration for something similar that had been ghosting around in my head some time before was reignited and formed the idea for this "project" - so a big thanks to @scorchdfeathrs for sharing their cute Pokemon sketches now on tumblr as well! ^-^ It was challenging but I wanted to draw every single Mark Bearer for this and I tried to pick a companion that fits in some way to their characters. A big thanks to @moonflowerwrites for helping me pick a few of them! ^-^ I'm gonna say a little bit to each of the characters, so this is gonna be a looong post again. ^^' So let's get started, these were my thoughts about this project: 

Mashita: For our favourite ex-detective with the sharp steel eyes I was looking for a Pokemon that immediately reminded me of him just by its looks. There is quite a few that have a similar intensive "steely" stare, honourable mentions are: Sneasel, Luxray, Houndoom or Zangoose that made it to the short list, but in the end I just had to pick Zoroark. It's one of my personal favorite Pokemon, but what's more important is that it has a face similar to a fox which I thought was very fitting to Mashita's character. Also, I thought it funny to give Mashita a comparatively rather big Poke-companion. He may not be the tallest adult of the group but he has a big Pokemon, fitting to his ego. xD I thought it even funnier in contrast to Yashiki, who is taller than Mashita but has very small companions. ^-^

Ai: She was the first one I drew. For some reason Staryu was the first Pokemon that came to mind when I thought about Ai - maybe because she's a "star" herself with being famous idol, haha - so I just stuck with that choice. The posture was a bit challenging, and I'm not sure I drew it correctly, bur I really like how it turned out.

Shou: For our very impulsive, hotheaded youngster Shou it had to be a fire-type Pokemon. Quilava not only fits the job description but also has a similar style of hair - spiky and short - I thought the two of them fit together perfectly. I imagine they go training together every day. Shou is secretly in a competition with Mashita, he wants his companion to grow strong and evolve fast so it can keep up with Zoroark, haha. xD

Tsukasa & Moe: I put them both together pretty much for the same reason as Suzu and Eita. Don't know why but I've always thought of them a little bit like they're brother and sister (and they have similar hair styles, lol). About Tsukasa: My thought process behind this was pretty simple - the small boy gets a cute teddy bear. But thinking of how Teddiursa's evolution looks like, it might be a good fit, because they both seem a little grumpy, don't you think? xD About Moe: Figuring out her companion was also a little tricky. Initially I was thinking maybe Morpeco or Espeon/Umbreon, but with Moonflower's help I went for Screamtail instead. (I like Screamtail's design better than Igglybuff, because it looks  more Japanese) I know lore-wise it doesn't make much sense that she'd have one since it's an ancient, extinct Pokemon that can only be found in that super secret Area Zero, but maybe she is one of the few lucky ones with a permission to go there. And to top it off she found herself a shiny (because I like the red eyes better than the yellow). 

Christie: A graceful looking Pokemon seemed a good fit for her, because Christie always appears very well dressed. It was thinking between Froslass and Gardevoir, but I chose the latter in the end because it somehow reminded me a lot of Christies looks. With her job as a TV reporter I imagine Christie is often very busy but her Gardevoir is helping out, noting down her shedule so she won't forget anything. 

Hiroo: She was one of the more troublesome characters to find a suiting Poke-companion for, but with the help of Moonflower I decided on this one. Hiroo can be such a silly character (in my opinion), so this silly Salandit fits just fine to her, haha. xD It's a bit mischievous and loves to play tricks on her.

Banshee:  As someone living on the streets I imagined it would fit very well to Banshee's lifestyle if he made friends with Pidove and Thrubbish. And yes I'm aware that my first drawn picture of him looked kinda similar, lol. 'xD  Tbh I find Banshee a very challenging character to draw, because I haven't fully grasped/understood his character yet. 

Suzu & Eita: I put the two of them on one piece because we see them together most of the time and also tbh I wanted to be done quicker, haha. About Suzu: I had a lot of ideas for Suzu's companion - mostly small, round baby Pokemon. But with Moonflower's suggestion I settled on Sylveon instead. It's colors and the many ribbon-accents fit very well to a cute little girl. Sadly I couldn't fit much of it in the picture. Because it's so small I went for a very close perspective, like a cat that is standing too close to the camera. About Eita: He was another trouble character for me, because I couldn't decide what could fit him best. Thanks to Moonflower for the idea of Wobbuffet, now that I see them I really think they fit together because they're both fun, goofy characters. Fun fact: the German name of Wobbuffet is "Woingenau" which can roughly be translated as "(To) where exactly?" which I always found very amusing. xD

Daimon: As a doctor I definitely wanted to give him a "healer"-Pokemon. But I didn't want to pick the "obvious" choice Chaneira, because it's already so prominent in the series and kinda cliché. So I settled on Audino. I like that it uses it's "antennae" on its ears like a stethoscope - just imagining the two of them tending to a patient together painted such a cute picture in my mind! ^w^  

Yashiki: I gave him two Poke-companions here because I couldn't settle on just one (and he's the main character, so he gets special treatment, lol). Litwick was one of the first ideas I got for him and it stuck. I knew I had to give him a ghost type Pokemon as a companion, that was just a given with his line of work as spirit hunter. But I especially liked the idea to give him a super tiny baby Pokemon, because that'd fit so well to his very underdeveloped sense of self-esteem and confidence. It's my headcanon that in the game series we only see glimpses of Yashiki's spiritual powers, because he doesn't know they're there or how to use them. I made the Litwick a shiny here because I'm a big fan of neon blue flame look. The other companion I see as a great fit for him is Chimecho. This rests heavily on my own personal opinion, but I always thought of wind chimes as very calm and soothing, which - to me - is the very essence of Yashiki's character. I see him as a very softhearted, kind and gentle person and I like to think that he has that kind of an invisible aura of calmness around him that makes other people feel more relaxed and safe when at his side. Similar to the soothing sounds of a wind chime. (Or maybe that's just my obsession with this character speaking here ^^') The fact that Chimechou is also one of my absolute favorite Pokemon is just another very happy coincidence. 

Saya: It just had to be a bunny for Saya. Sadly there was no black bunny Pokemon (that I know of). Scoppel seemed the best choice to me because it has a rather dark fur and is small enough to be carried around. It could have evolved a long time ago, but it chose not to because it likes to be held and carried around by Saya. ^-^ I couldn't fit it in here, but I also imagined that Saya and Yashiki both could have an Indeedee as another Poke-companion - the male one for Saya and the female version for Yashiki. I just thought they would be very fitting, because they (to me) look a little like small butlers/maids and  the Kujou siblings live in a big mansion. 

Yasuoka: This was one of the fastest and easiest picks. Just like with Yashiki it went without saying that Yasuoka would have a ghost type companion, and Mismagius seemed perfect to me. It has the look of a very wise, knowledgeful being which fits very well to Yasuoka who has a lot of knowledge and experience when it comes to spirits. 

To anyone who cares about my thoughts about the work process: I tried to keep the pictures rather simple with mostly flat colors. For the shading I copied a "technique" I've seen many other artists use that I really like and that is to paint all the shadows in black. I might have cheated a little bit by using other, very slight shadings, but I kept that to a minimum. I also lowered the opacity of the Pokemon's shadings a bit to create a contrast to keep most of the focus on the characters. The lines look very messy because I used a brush with zero pressure sensitivity for almost everything, meaning the line thickness does not vary. When coloring my goal was to keep each piece monochrome-ish and arrange them all in the order of a rainbow, maybe you've already noticed that tiny detail. Don't know if I did a good job there, some of the colors might not fit as great (had to get creative with some color variants, since we have more characters than colors in a rainbow). But I think it came out okay enough.

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed the results of this project a little. Thanks for taking a look, I hope you're gonna have a good week. Let me know what you think if you like and if you have a favorite. Until next time. ^^

Hey, good friday to you all. ^^ I hope you had a good week! Thank you so much for all the positive feedback to last week's post, I'm glad you liked it! <3 ^-^ I managed to finish those WIPs, so here they are. 

For anyone who hasn't seen my post from last week: These works are kind of a crossover with Kingdom Hearts that I drew inspired by comments and reference sheets/mood boards in the discord server (a great thanks to @enjoyjellime for those inspirational sheets! ^^). If you want to see those sheets or want to know more about my thoughts and drawing process check this post where I'm rambling a lot about that, haha. I don't really have much to add to that other that I'm glad I got the colored versions done without the struggles and frustrations from last time. I even got the alternate version of Mashita with the beanie done. I didn't switch out the phone with a lighter (as a keychain) though, hope that's not too disappointing. 

Surpriiise, a small (very messsy) sketchy doodle drawing in-between! : )

The inspiration for this came, like my last post, to me through the discord server. You guys keep having such interesting ideas! ^-^ Basically, the gist of it was the idea that Yashiki or Yashiki's glasses got cursed or possesed by a spirit in a way that Yashiki sees everyone else wearing the same clothes as him. Which makes him very confused, thinking it might be a prank at first. One of the suggested ideas really amused me: That Mashita keeps getting confused messages from the other Mark Bearers asking if he knows why Yashiki is behaving so strangely around them, to a point where he gets so annoyed (and maybe a little concerned) that he drives to the Kujou mansion to check on him and seee for himself what's going on. So I'm adopting this setting as background of what happened before this 'scene' here. Mashita is very confused at first but it will probably only take a few moments until he figures out what's going on, haha. xD

As I read through all the comments in the chat it sparked the idea for this picture, so I grabbed my notebook and made a quick sketch for it to be turned  into this messy, sketchy drawing today (sorry, I just don't have enough patience to do it more neatly atm ^^') to share it with you guys. I hope it's somewhat accurate to your imaginations. 

Hey guys, I hope you're doing well! I'm glad I made it (kind of) for this week's post. ^^' Excuse the unfinished pieces this time - I just didn't manage to get them finished for today. u-u I think this is a first that I'm posting unfinished WIPs here, but I figured this would be better than nothing. I was sad that I didn't have anything to post last week, so I definitely wanted to put up something today. This was a fun and strange week for me in terms of drawing - good, but at the same time nothing went the way I had planned, haha. 'xD 

I started the week working on a completely different project, one that consists of a lot of individual drawings, and I realized I wouldn't be able to finish that in time for today. So while I was thinking about what I could draw as an alternative, a happy coincidence occured. I got inspired by one of @enjoyjellime's posts in the discord channel - some very interesting reference sheets with ideas how different Yashiki and Mashita's outfits could look like if they appeared int he world of Kindom Hearts (gonna add them below. hope that's alright). I've always been a fan of creating/drawing alternate outfits for characters, so that got me hooked. So I started working on these images, and I had a lot of fun, especially with designing their keyblades! ^^ I tried to put in elements that fit somehow to their characters. Some of them might be a bit hard to see/recognize, so I'm gonna describe them for anyone who's interested (if not, just skip the next paragraph). 

For Yashiki's keyblade I was able to put a lot of different things in there (which I am a little proud of): a rabbit (where the cross-guard (?) would be on a sword), the pattern of the couch from the Kujou mansion on the heft, a 'depiction' of Mary's hat as the pommel and the 'teeth of the key' are formed like the upper half of the death mark pattern. For the ring of the key I took inspiration from the Kujou mansion's fassade - the small pillars on the guardrail of the small balcony and other eye-catching characteristics. The small keychain attached to the blade is supposed to be a small coffee mug. ^^ Mashita's keyblade was a bit more challenging, but I decided to go with a lot of roses and rose vines aesthetics because of the Hanahiko case in which we see Mashita for the first time, and it's also the most prominent spirit Mashita has to deal with (in my opinion) in the first game (and this is also a common theme in other fanworks ^^). The heft and cross-guard are supposed to resemble a revolver, since he's a former cop and still owns at least one gun that he seems to always be carrying with him (at least during spirit investigations). The keychain seems a bit boring I admit, I couldn't think of anything else than a cell phone/flip phone. 

I drew Mashita without the hat/bonnet first, but when I'm finished with both of the images I might do a second version where he's wearing it (I like the design!). It just wasn't my priority at the moment because I was so occupied with the coloring. I had a very hard time with that part. Again... u_u'' I put so many hours in, trying to make this look good... which is also why I didn't manage to finish these in time. It also doesn't help that I went with a way more complex coloring method than I originally intended (was planning to do some quick works with flat colors and only a little bit of shading), don't know how that even happened. ^^' But at least now it feels like I'm on the right track. Hopefully, haha. 'xD It's weird how there's times where I manage the coloring part well right from the beginning, and then there's these other times where I'm struggling all the way through... 

Anyway, I hope the preview of these works has been somewhat interesting to look at. Hopefully I'll be able to put up the finished versions next week, and then get back to working on that other project - I'm very curious how you guys will receive it. I got my inspiration for that one from the discord channel as well, but I don't want to spoil anything yet. So, after all this rambling, I'm hoping that you're gonna have a nice week. See you next time! : ) 

It's friday! Hey guys, I'm back with new Death Mark art. ^^ Thank you so much for the recent positive feedbacks and commentaries, I really appreciate them!! <3 <3 ^-^ I hope you're gonna like this new one. 

Another Blind Yashiki piece to add to the collection (I hope it's recognizeable enough that his eyes are white). I tried to paint this a little more realistically - at least the face - but I'm not sure if I did a good job or not (the face gave me a bit of trouble, especially the nose. It's always the nose... Need more practice. ^^'). I did so many last minute changes that I can't tell anymore if I made it better or worse in the end, haha. 'xD One of the changes was adding some wrinkles after I saw @enjoyjjellime's recent post (I agree with you. Oh, I really really hope they're not gonna make Yashiki younger in the remake...).

The (very messy) claw-like glowing hands are - you guessed it - supposed to belong to a spirit that's creepying up on Yashiki from behind. Poor Yashiki can't see them because he's blind here, but with his heightened senses he's able to pick up on its presence nearby and knows it's closing in... But he'll be fine - Saya will save him for sure. ^^

Hey guys, I hope you had a great week! Thank you for the sweet responses to my last work. ^-^

Continuing on with the (lazy) messy and sketchy works, this one was inspired by the prompt "POSSESSED" in @lilithhound's Death Mark December 2025 challenge. I know I'm super late to this, I'm sorry. u-u I had been really excited to participate in this challenge when I saw this post back in october, but then I got hit by art block and I just couldn't think of anything for these prompts... TT_TT Well, at least I got ONE done - I started working on it in december, so I hope that still counts. ^^' As for the image: I guess the prompt says it all. Mashita got himself possesed by an (evil) spirit, hence the glowing eye and the crooked(?) smile. The red stuff on his hand and cheek? It's probably just ketchup, nothing to worry about... 'xD

Don't know how long I'm gonna continue working in this messy style. I'm just feeling very lazy right now and it's so much quicker and easier to work with. ^^' What do you guys think - did you like my previous style(s) better? Or maybe you don't really care. 'xD