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[ID: A digitally coloured pencil sketch of my OC, Zara. She has dark skin, dark tightly curled hair tied back at the sides, and dark brown eyes. She is drawn from the chest, up, against a light green background / end ID]

zara my friend zara. she's funnnn to draw. and she's also the first and so far only oc i have ever paid for an art commission of so she's special to me in that way :) i have a few more sketches featuring her that i'm working on so we'll see more of her soon ^_^

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really quick and sketchy updated meet the artist :)

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[ID: a digitally coloured pencil sketch of my character, jaiden. he has tan skin, green eyes, and dark curly hair. he is shown from the chest up, and is looking to the side, vaguely discontent. he is against a high-contrast background, with a bright white circle framing him. /end ID]

sad! your mother is hosting another party. and you have to wear your fancy shirt.

#also FINALLY. jaiden gets a solo coloured drawing that i actually want to post. it only took. um. forever. #i still have his and zara's gouache paintings to work on. they're both started but i just don't have time to break out the paints

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we’re in the omibashira mind labyrinth today

#okay yay. on my art blog now.

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[ID: a very messy pencil sketch coloured digitally of my two original characters, jaiden and maitiú. jaiden has dark curly hair, tan skin, and green eyes. next to him is maitiú, who has red curly hair, pale skin, freckles, and hazel eyes. they are both looking off to the side, frowning. /end ID.]

my beloved kids in a wonky sketch whom i love. 😭😭 i want to get seriously working on their story they've existed in my head for around a decade but i have yet to get anywhere close to having written a coherent story for them. someday i will share them but for now. wonky sketches every few months is all i can offer.

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[ID: three messy sketches of shinobu from natsume's book of friends done on graph paper. in the first, she lifts her head from her hand, and looks off to the side at someone. in the second, she stretches her arms above her head. in the third, she rests her arms on her knees, and looks down at her dog. in every one she is wearing a tanktop and shorts. / end ID]

ultra casual chilling at home shinobu. and kevin the dog.

#not. main tagging this one lol.

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[ID from alt: a page of messy pencil sketches done on graph paper of yorishima from natsume’s book of friends /end ID]

peepaw <3

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[ID from alt: a gouache painting of a teenager with light skin and short red curly hair, shown from the bust up. he’s wearing a white turtleneck and a blue shirt with embroidery along the collar. /end ID]

maitiú my friend maitiú!! my first time painting in a little over a year it’s been fun. and probably my first colour illustration of him in several years i’ve missed him dearly.

#i gave up on the bg so quickly lol i was having the most fun on his face

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[id from alt: a coloured pencil sketch of hiiragi from natsume’s book of friends. she has her head tilted, looking down. /end id]

hiiragi!

#natsume yuujinchou #natsume's book of friends #hiiragi

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mikey & eilidh and the messiest sketch on the planet….

MIKEY AND EILIDH. they exist in the same universe as maitiú and co. just their story is like. a decade or so after maitiu’s which is fun. mainly i just didn’t want to worldbuild again. AND. it gave me an excuse to build upon the magic. in magical realism. except it’s set on a fantasy planet but yknow. magical realism. even though maitiú and co have ~~~~~~some connections. with it (sighs.) it’s really not explored much. i created these two back in. [checks my ig archive] uhh. 2016-17? they used to have other characters among them that aren’t in maitiu’s circle but those characters remain forgotten (aka i haven’t drawn them in years).

mikey is really fun to me i love getting to play with their character because truly they are hard for me to grasp… it’s fun. characters like maitiú and jaiden are easy for me because they are generally very cautious (?) characters (like me) and it’s easier for me to understand their motivations. mikey is the exact opposite. they met eilidh in the woods one day and after like a month they decided yeah i’ll live with you why not 😭 when in doubt join your non-human friend in the woods it’s fine…. luckily eilidh isn’t a horrible person. just don’t be like mikey.

eilidh is a mikey-enabler truly they are just as bad in the. not impulsiveness but close enough. and such. but they are definitely the one who will and does think situations through. they are just not good at standing their ground in that regard 😭 though there are some situations within the story that freaks them out so bad. rightfully. and in those situations they are the source of stability that mikey just. is not good at providing. but yeah they are the same/similar genre of insane which makes these two fun for me to play around with. most of my characters are generally not like that…

#slowly forcing myself to post abt my characters #because my entire sketchbook is oc stuff but i never ever post any of it #sorry for the essay 👍

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THE KIDS. my kids. my oldest ocs forever and ever. these guys were created in 2014 and have been my close friends for ages. these guys are all roughly the same age group- this story takes place over several years, but when they meet they’re all roughly 15 years old, give or take a year.

kae and jaiden are twins who recently ended up in the town where the other four live. jaiden becomes fast friends with maitiú, who introduces him to zara, gabi, and vasko.

zara and maitiú are childhood friends who just began living with maitiu’s cousin, tonia, and her wife, lena. gabi is lena’s younger sibling, and lives with them, too. vasko is gabi’s best friend, and through them he becomes close friends with maitiú and zara.

vasko cannot stand jaiden- he finds him annoying (potentially true), and pretentious (he is not- vasko is just irritable), and weird (this is true), and all-together just no fun to be around (they have nothing in common). he thought much the same of kae at first, but he accepts her much quicker than jaiden.

kae struggles a lot with feeling like she fits in with the larger group. she gets along fine with everyone, and she and gabi frequently get involved in minor (!!!) shenanigans, but she has a hard time clicking in the way that jaiden does (negating the vasko situation).

#need one of those relationships diagrams for this whole story truly #there’s so many side characters….

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[id from alt: a digitally coloured pencil sketch of yorishima from natsume’s book of friends. he is drawn from the torso upwards, and is looking off to the side, annoyed. /end id]

peepaw <3

#natsume yuujinchou #natsume's book of friends #yorishima #mr yorishima

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[id from alt: a digitally coloured pencil sketch of tanuma kaname from natsume's book of friends, shown from the chest upwards. he's wearing a purple cardigan and has his hair clipped back on one side. / end id]

tanuma my friend tanuma kaname.

#natsume yuujinchou #natsume's book of friends #tanuma kaname #natsuyuu

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[ID from alt: a digitally coloured pencil sketch of shinobu from natsume’s book of friends. she has her sleeves rolled up, and is holding a small, white dog in her arms. she rests her head against the dog’s head, and has her eyes closed. /end ID]

shinobu and kevin by request of @coquelicoq !!! i love kevin and i love drawing them….

#hope you enjoy!!! #natsume yuujinchou #natsume's book of friends #shinobu #kevin #ban has to walk that thing

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[ID from alt: a drawing of a bunny girl from the waist up. she has white hair, red eyes, and light skin, and she is wearing a frilly two-toned pink dress. /end ID]

@ginkgo-mist’s bunny girl!!!! who is so cute i had so much fun drawing her

#yay hope you like it :)

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[ID from alt: a digitally coloured pencil sketch of matoba seiji from natsume’s book of friends drawn from the thigh up. he’s wearing a black turtleneck with flowy green pants. his hair is down and framing his face. /end ID]

matoba as per the request of @norstrum !!

#thought it’d be fun to fashion experiment so i went with. flowy fun pants. lol. vaguely-fem matoba #matoba seiji #natsume yuujinchou #natsume's book of friends

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@arytha’s oc, xena!! ^_^

#yay hope you like it :)