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Posting extremely late, but this is the Christmas card I made for one of my best friends from high school! ^_^ She and her husband just had their first child in December, so I painted their baby with a poinsettia flower crown based on a picture of her with a regular flower crown. ^_^ <3

#watercolor portrait #baby #flower crown #poinsettia #baby drawing #christmas #portraits #christmas cards #flowers #megansoriginalart #meganstraditionalart #megansdrawings&illustrations #meganswatercolorart

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Posting extremely late, but this is the Christmas card for @lycorogue! It’s Miyo and Kudo from My Happy Marriage! ^_^ Instead of poinsettia like I usually do for Christmas cards, I went with camellia because they’re red like poinsettia, are a symbol of New Year’s in Japan, and have a flower meaning of passionate romantic love. ^_^

I love this manga and anime, Miyo and Kudo are just too cute! ^_^ <3 So I had a lot of fun getting to draw this for Dana! :D

#my happy marriage #miyo x kiyoka #miyo saimori #kiyoka kudou #watashi no shiawase na kekkon #christmas #camellia #flowers #christmas cards #meganstraditionalart #megansfanart #megansdrawings&illustrations #meganswatercolorart

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Posting extremely late, but this is the Christmas card I made for @godtier1! It’s Touya and Yukito from Cardcaptor Sakura baking Christmas cookies! ^_^ I'm always so happy that Allie requests these two for Christmas every year (it really is a little series at this point XD ) because it's so much fun getting to draw my OTP! ^_^ <3

#cardcaptor sakura #touya kinomoto #yukito tsukishiro #touyuki #touya x yukito #yukito x touya #christmas #christmas cards #christmas cookies #megansfanart #meganstraditionalart #megansdrawings&illustrations #meganswatercolorart

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Posting extremely late, but this is the Christmas card I made for @missingrache ! ^_^ It’s Dream and Hob on a Christmas date with Dream making it extra festive with images from Clara’s dream of the Nutcracker World! ^_^ While my only knowledge of Sandman is from friends squeeing about it + researching for making cards for Rachel, I feel like these two have become one of those ship-in-laws for me. Aka even though I'm not in the fandom, I really love their ship dynamic and enjoy seeing the fanart of them when it crosses my dash. ^_^

#dream x hob #the sandman #dream sandman #hob galding #the sandman netflix #sandman fanart #the nutcraker #nutcracker #christmas #christmas cards #megansfanart #meganstraditionalart #meganswatercolorart #megansdrawings&illustrations #tagged for rachel

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Posting extremely late, but this was the Christmas card I made for one of my best friends from high school! ^_^ He’s Greek and told me that his favorite Greek Christmas song is Hristougenna by Despina Vandi, so I drew that for his card this year based on the music video for it! :D

#Despina Vandi #Hristougenna #greek christmas #christmas #christmas cards #meganswatercolorart #megansdrawings&illustrations #megansfanart #meganstraditionalart

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It’s Momo and Tenn from Idolish7 at a cat café! 😊 This is also in a way the birthday card for @godtier1 ! 😀🎉

I usually make a colored pencil birthday card for her. But this year she asked that instead of making a card for her to make fanart for myself because it would make her happier to know that I took some time to relax and finally do one of the watercolor projects I’d been putting off in favor of using my rare free time to make art for other people. Which I thought was so sweet!! 🥺 ❤ She even told me to not rush it and that it’d be okay if it was late (I had the sketch done on time, but yeah, the finished version is very late 😫). I have a massive mountain of Idolish7 fanart ideas, but I chose this one because Momo often takes Tenn to the cat cafes as a way to force him to relax (Tenn is very much like me in that he will take tiny breaks every day, but unless forced to he rarely takes big breaks because work always comes first 😅). So it’s basically what Allie wanted me to do with this art! 😊Momo and Tenn are also my favorites from Idolish7, so they're fitting for my first fanart from this show. 🥰Hehe and I had to include the mon plushies as the cat toys because I love Pumpkin Momo and Mouse Tenn, and they both seem like plushies kitties would love to play with. 😆 The kitty that Tenn has is modeled after the kitty I had growing up since he had a Tenn-like personality! 😊 While the kitty Momo has is the one that my family had from senior year of high school up until earlier this year when he died of old age (even though I only lived with him for that one year before leaving for college, he was my kitty too and I miss him so much 😭) since he had a Momo-like personality! 😊 And the kitties in the background are Allie and her wife’s kitties! 😀

So once again, happy birthday, Allie!! 🥳 I had a lot of fun making this and I had a lot of fun at your virtual birthday party! 😀 Thank you for being a Momo-like friend to my Tenn-like self! 🥰

#idolish7 #kujou tenn #revale momo #momo idolish7 #tenn idolish7 #cat cafe #idolish7 fanart #momose sunohara #kujo tenn #idolish7 mon plushie #cats #megansfanart #megansdrawings&illustrations #meganstraditionalart #meganswatercolorart #tagged for allie #birthday cards

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I'm going to post the finished version in a moment, but I really loved the sketch stage of the painting I did of Momo and Tenn from Idolish7 at a cat café! ^_^ If I had known it would be 2 whole months after sketching it before I got a day off to paint it, I would have posted it back in August when I drew it. 😅 (Also wow I've been away from tumblr too long, everything looks different here! :O The layout and the making a post screen! :O )

#idolish7 #kujou tenn #revale momo #tenn idolish7 #momo idolish7 #momose sunohara #cat cafe #megansfanart #meganstraditionalart #megansketches

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This is the Christmas card I made for @godtier1 ! ^_^ I went with the usual Touya and Yukito celebrating Christmas (hehe it’s like a series at this point) since that always seems to make her happy. ^_^ But since this year I didn’t get the time off at Christmas I usually do and all my regular days off were Murphy’s Law days where I wasn’t able to work on cards, I didn’t even have this sketched before the Christmas season ended. ^^; So I decided to change it up and make it more of a winter-themed Touyuki card with some Christmas colors, rather than overtly Christmas-y like my initial plan. 

#Touya Kinomoto #Yukito Tsukishiro #cardcaptor sakura #touyuki #touya x yukito #Touya and Yukito #yukito x touya #christmas #christmas cards #megansfanart #meganswatercolorart #meganstraditionalart #megansdrawings&illustrations

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This is the Christmas card I made for my very best friend! ^_^ He asked for his doggie with a Santa hat under their Christmas tree. ^_^ His dog is an adorable tiny FLOOF and I had fun figuring out how to paint realistic dogs for the first time. ^_^ 

#dog #doggies #lhasa apso #animals #christmas #animal drawings #christmas cards #megansoriginalart #meganswatercolorart #meganstraditionalart #megansdrawings&illustrations

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This is the Christmas card for @lycorogue ! ^_^ She asked for a wholesome Honda Family Christmas, so I went with Katsuya and Kyoko reading little Tohru The Night Before Christmas! ^_^ I imagine that Tohru and Kyoko did all those construction paper crafts during the day while Katsuya was at work to surprise him with a festively decorated apartment. ^_^ 

#Fruits Basket #fruits basket prelude #Tohru Honda #kyoko honda #katsuya honda #kyoko x katsuya #kyoko and tohru #christmas #christmas cards #megansfanart #meganswatercolorart #meganstraditionalart #megansdrawings&illustrations

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This was the Christmas card for another of my best friends from high school! ^_^ She asked for Taki and Mitsuha from Your Name! :D I based this on a picture of that friend and her husband celebrating Christmas in the traditional Japanese way. ^_^ <3 

#your name #taki x mitsuha #taki tachibana #mitsuha miyamizu #your name taki #your name mitsuha #christmas #christmas cards #megansfanart #meganswatercolorart #meganstraditionalart #megansdrawings&illustrations

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This is the Christmas card I made for one of my best friends from high school! ^_^ He loves the evil eyes and I thought they would work really well in snowflake patterns! ^_^ 

#evil eye #nazar evil eye #nazar #nazars #snowflakes #christmas cards #megansoriginalart #megansdrawings&illustrations #meganswatercolorart #meganstraditionalart

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It’s a llama shepherd Nutcracker! :D

I saw a bunch of those art year in review posts and realized that aside from my 5 min daily drawing from a ref pic drawing practice (still haven’t missed a single day in the entire 11+ years I’ve been doing it! :D It’s as much part of my nighttime routine as brushing my teeth at this point XD ) and birthday/holiday cards made for family and friends, I didn’t make any art this year. I usually don’t post the birthday/holiday cards on tumblr, but I love the Christmas card I made for my mom this year (and she super duper loved it <3 ). So I’m sharing that here! ^_^ Happy New Year, everyone! ^_^

#nutcracker #llama #christmas #christmas cards #nutcrackers #megansoriginalart #meganstraditionalart #megansdrawings&illustrations

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This is the Christmas card I drew for @lycorogue ! :D She asked for Marinette and Adrien from Miraculous Ladybug as Clara and the Nutcracker Prince! :D I had fun figuring out how to make their normal outfits into the ballet costumes. ^_^

#miraculous ladybug #marinette dupain cheng #adrien agreste #adrienette #marinette x adrien #marinette miraculous ladybug #adrien miraculous ladybug #christmas #christmas cards #nutcracker #clara and nutcracker prince #meganswatercolorart #megansfanart #meganstraditionalart #megansdrawings&illustrations

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This is the Christmas card for another of my best friends from high school! :D Moana has become one of her favorite Disney characters, so I decided to do that for her card this year! ^_^ I thought it’d be fun if instead of the ancestor’s memories she was able to see the memories of the Christmas angels singing under the Christmas star. ^_^ Since I don’t think poinsettia flowers grow where she lives, I used hibiscus flowers instead to be a festive red color. ^_^

#moana #moana disney #disney moana #moana fanart #moana from moana #christmas #christmas cards #Angels #christmas star #megansfanart #meganswatercolorart #megansdrawings&illustrations #meganstraditionalart

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This is the Christmas card I drew for @godtier1! :D She asked for Touyuki again this year and it’s fun that now I have a little series of Touya and Yukito celebrating Christmas together! ^_^ <3 I had less time this year to work on cards than usual so it’s probably the simplest of the three. ^^; But it always makes my heart all warm and fuzzy to draw my OTP and I hope that even if it’s a simple painting it makes everyone who sees it feel the same way! ^_^

#cardcaptor sakura #Touya Kinomoto #Yukito Tsukishiro #touya x yukito #touyuki #yukito x touya #Touya and Yukito #christmas #christmas cards #christmas tree #megansfanart #megansdrawings&illustrations #meganswatercolorart #meganstraditionalart

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This is the Christmas card for one of my best friends from high school! :D He’s Greek and his favorite Christmas ornament is a Greek Christmas ship that his grandma gave to him. So I drew that ornament as if it were a real Christmas ship! ^_^

#greek christmas #Greek traditions #christmas ship #christmas ships #christmas #christmas cards #megansoriginalart #meganswatercolorart #meganstraditionalart #megansdrawings&illustrations