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So that DMM Scratch lottery commemorating Death Mark's 9th anniversary that I mentioned before had a slight update, they've now posted the prizes! There are no pictures yet at the time of posting this, it's only showing this:

(I will make a post when the images finally do get revealed!)

This is also a lottery event that we'll have to look out for secondhand as the website requires a VPN for people outside of Japan to view, so I'll link to both Buyee and Zenmarket here. (You can also just download a free japan specific VPN off your app store if you're just wanting to see the website yourself. ^^)

But I will still let you know what the prizes are, the probability of winning them, and what characters will be a part of each tier. Under the read more as usual ^^

Happy Man Mansion Monday everyone!

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. 

mary had a little lamb (－ω－) zzZ

or smth; when i mentioned an artwork that could definitely be finished in days yet i let it drag for almost a whole month i meant this one ww

and i ended up doing all of it in the past two days 😭😭; but i said to finish it before this evening so ykw the deadline worked \\ it’s kind of scuffed but i like it so it’s done in my heart ( ⏑‿⏑ ) ⁾⁾

I love how my place looks in Pokecolo Twin, it's perfect for them <3

Also they released a mermaid themed gacha recently, so you know what that means....

Looks like @chipchopclipclop's store is open once again, which means their wonderful Death Mark merch is available!

yashiki trash comic because i want to actually finish drawings instead of spending literal weeks working on one drawing that absolutely could be finished in days orz

so i might do more trash comics where i don’t fuss about how i want them to look and get into . actually drawing

also i was thinking about who could possibly ask for extra sugar when buying an already super sweet drink and then he popped into my mind

Happy Man Mansion Monday everyone!