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Awe thank you, this made my morning! :D

I believe the actual reason he does that (because I highly doubt he just does that on a whim to rile people up- although he does like doing that) is that he's connected the memory of his senior to smoking. Whether the act itself or an aspect of it (like the smell or sight of the smoke, sound of a lighter flicking, etc.)

Mashita's personality is one of showing care through duty- actions over words. And if his memories of his senior were of them hanging out during smoke breaks in the force, or having a smoke after work at an izakaya or restaurant together, in his mind it keeps him alive- not just a memory. It's why he holds onto his seniors lighter like a treasure.

So when a non-smoker chastises his habit or calls it gross, to him- deep inside - it feels like a dig against his senior. And so he retaliates. His personality is one of fairness and justice. So to him, blowing the smoke in their face feels like a fair trade, in his mind he's protecting his seniors legacy cause that's just how much he meant to him.

Heyyy guys, I hope you're all doing well!!!! I know it's been a while - I hope I haven't turned into a stranger yet, haha... 'xD I'm sorry for disappearing without a word, these past two months haven't been very easy on me.  Without going into detail, me and my family received a couple of bad news which lead to a lot of changes and accomodations to my normal daily life, and I haven't exactly been in a state to think about drawing in that time. It might be getting a little better now - at least I've been able to draw this new piece - but it remains to be seen if I can keep it up or not. So sadly I cannot officially say yet that I am really back. But I hope that I will be soon.

Sooo, about this piece. I was partly inspired by the first cover of the Death Mark 2 manga (I really liked the red eyes and Yashiki's serious stare there), but also by a WIP piece you haven't seen yet - wow, I just checked the date of the first draft and realized it's been almost a whole year since I started that WIP... 'xD This other piece also features Yashiki/Masamune with spider lilies, with the same color sheme of mostly red and black. There's just one detail that I'm still not quite happy with, I hope I can get myself to sit down and fix it some time so I can finally post it - it's really about time, haha. ^^' Anyway, back to today's piece. The three pieces you see here are the first pencil sketch, the digital sketch I did afterwards (to figure out the inking/coloring) and the final traditional piece. I drew this with Masamune in mind more than Yashiki, hence the more serious expression (and also the red eyes make me think more of the Kujou name for some reason). I would have liked to draw him with a black/dark shirt like he is portrayed in the manga, but that wouldn't have worked for this piece - it would have been too much black/dark area and made it hard to tell apart the shirt from the hair/background. There's no real deeper meaning or thought behind this picture - I just wanted to draw a piece with some flowers in it and play around with creating highlights by using one bright color. Also I've seen that "trick" of 'the character's hair merges with the background' by other artists before and wanted to try it out myself. For the colors I brightened the red with a little orange and mixed a bit of blue into the black ink to make it brighter and more harmonious with the red. Originally I had planned to make it completely black but then I thought it would look better if some hair strands would be visible - if only barely - within this huge dark area, and perhaps make it a little "friendlier" to the eye. I really like how it turned out, I think it creates a nice cold/warm-contrast. 

I admit the digital drawing was done with less care than normally (because I'm still not quite back into the "drawing mood"), but to make up for it I spent more time to make the ink piece look good. In the end I realized I would have liked to add some decorative elements to the frame, but do do that I should have left more space for it. I didn't want it to look too cramped so I decided against it. 

My CDs came in! The art on them look so nice 🥺

I'll show the backs and insides under the read more!

mashita and yashiki chibis (theres also akira, seiji, and kaoru but these ones are my favs)

Volume 2 of the DM2 manga released (please refer to my past posts in the #👻 OOParts Updates tag for links to purchase) so Ena has been sharing posts from bookstores across Japan with their DM displays, very nice 🥹

We'll probably be getting another livestream next month (fingers crossed) and it seems one of the topics for it will be about Spirit Hunter NG this time! Can't wait to see what that'll be about!

Also some tweets about the reboot- they're currently exploring the idea about making "Death Mark Zero" DLC which is speculated to be a prequel DLC about Saya, which is interesting to think about.

And also potential plans for Chapter 6: Red Riding Hood in the Rain to also get the reboot treatment, I wonder what would change.....

*chanting* Mashita on the bed. Mashita on the bed. Mashita on the bed. Mashita on the-

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