Mikawa🃏

Gold for the bride? Say less.

Shout-out to my friend who saw me go through the stages of grief throughout the making of this drawing. I wanted to finish this before June (got stuck with the vows), finished yesterday but had a lingering doubt about the groom attire during weddings AND TURNS OUT MEN WEAR A BLACK CEREMONIAL GEAR WITH GOLDEN RUNES. Originally, I thought "Gold is for weddings" not "Gold for the bride." So I had made a golden jacket and made him wear gold as well but had to spend most of the day recoloring it because I am insane. 😃

And truth to be told, if their wedding happens in TWP, I will only read that part. 👏🏻I👏🏻DEMAND👏🏻THEIR👏🏻WEDDING👏🏻I need it.

Also, there are little to no fanarts of weddings. And most of them the men are in simple black suits, which is fine for a groom... But when the bride is IZZY LIGHTWOOD?! And the brother-in-law is THE MAGNUS BANE?! Yeah, no. He needs to look just as fine as her. I just wanted to go all out for her. Now I can go back and rest because this drawing took all of my will to live with all the details. 🥹

(June 5, 2024)

And I think I kicked myself in the foot because now I like him more than before. 💀

I tried "fixing" whatever they did with the angle of his face and to make him look a bit more his age. Since he doesn't look 29 in the game at all, I gave him a few aging and smile lines, because I'm not really sure FB does them for whatever reason or at least not that detailed if they're not from BB.

Even if Kai may have some amazing genetics (he prob does), he looks like the type to be very expressive, so it's normal for him to have some lines. Hell, Trent and Noah would have them too. 🤷🏻‍♀️

But I did change very small things. I used a model as reference that I thought may have looked a little more like him, so I gave him a different nose and without realizing I tanned him more than necessary (that's probably how he'd realistically look by the end of the season anyway lol). I don't color pick the colors from the pictures, I tried to guess.

But yeah... I think I made myself fall in love with this man 🫠 he was supposed to be my placeholder until casa and shield from Rui. I'm going to have a hard time in the future unless they ruin him too.

And I have finally finished this thing. When I literally started it a year ago. 😬

I wanted to attempt to get a more paint effect on my drawings and it took about a year and 20 brushes later. 🫠 But I'm slowly trying to get my groove back, and I want to slowly expand and try other fandoms.

Do you see the difference? 😭 The miniature was for reference from the other drawing I was doing before I abandoned it (the overthinking hit me again when I saw the anatomy). So I wanted to do another portrait close up before I go ahead and redraw that one.

But OMG 💀 I changed the coloring so many times bc I don't even remember how I picked the base for the skin tone, but she came out like one or two shades darker than Will and the eyes were freaking me out, she looked like that picture of Miley Cyrus. You know the one.

And yes, I never did the full body drawing of her with the accurate historical dress. But I DID have the sketch, I just never finished it because the dresses were a nightmare which, in hindsight, is kind of ridiculous considering they were LESS complicated than Jessamine's. But I was basing it off the book cover and the other one was the wedding dress.

wip of one of the many drawings I start and can't finish 🥲 I'm trying to trust the process even though I'm following it blindly while I'm trying to change my coloring style.

Though it's mostly for myself and for the fanfic I'm writing with an OC 🤡 So... Yeah.

Answering this super late but I truly appreciate this.

I have been in an art block for probably the longest time ever and just when I was going to slowly get out, I got a new job and I haven't had the time nor energy to get drawing until today.

I was honestly thinking about working on Jonathan Shadowhunter, his sister Abigail, and David the Silent just because one day I woke up with the idea. But I haven't been able to finish the sketches and just today wanted to work on an OC.

But hopefully I can finish that. It was either that or finish the period accurate dresses for Tessa that I never finished but whenever I open the drawing the laziness comes back instantly. Thinking about having to look for a dress she'd wear and draw it gives me a headache lol. It's not Tessa's fault, it's the dresses.

Idk why every time I have all the time in the world I get an art block and whenever I'm completely busy and tired my inspiration flows back in. It's happened more than once lol.

I'm trying to do some research and study of THE Jonathan Shadowhunter and I forgot they give the name Jonathan away like candy and I had to specify which one I was looking for on the search bar.

It's kind of hard to look for fanarts of certain characters. IMPORTANT characters in the plot, but somehow they have less fanarts than I have emotional stability.

Because then I do things like this.

(June 15, 2022)

I appreciate that 🤍

I stopped because I realized the proportions of the face were wrong AND I need to change the color for the lighting. And also because I wanted him to look more sick and I couldn't do it properly.

I remember I was bored and I just had the sudden idea to make Jem both victorian and dilf—sorry, healed mortal version.

I love him in every era. I never played with him. I don't even remember if I still have the sim in my gallery to be honest.

I DON'T THINK I EVER POSTED THIS ONE HAHAHA IT'S BEEN YEARS

I'm looking through my Instagram account but it's not there. I'm actually shocked I don't remember if I never posted it lmao. It's been sitting in my gallery for YEARS.