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I finally got some real inspiration again after months of playing around with chibis from an ebook. This is my OC wearing a Chii cosplay from Chobits. I remember watching the series in the early 2010s, it was one of my first anime shows ever. 🥰 I think, I'm gonna let her wear more cosplays~ ✨

#drawing #anime #chobits #chobits chii #digital art #oc art #oc #cosplay

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This one was created during the holidays. It wasn't planned to have some free time, but then I started this drawing. Well, the lineart is actually from a template on esle.io. You can find it here: https://esle.io/coloring-page/manga-cute-girl-1 I re-drew the whole lineart and had no idea what colors I should use. I started with the hair and gave it a vibrant red to easily find gaps. I liked the tone so much that I created a palette with similar colors. Even the skin tone came from this palette. Colorizing this drawing was so fun and I played around with some tools I never used before. I'm satisfied with this one, even though I wish I could create such lineart by myself. I still have to improve and will reach the goal.

If you have any idea how to name this girl, feel free to comment. I feel like it won't be the last time I drew her...

#drawing #anime #digital art

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One year ago, I drew this scene from the Vocaloid song "Yowamushi Montblanc" by DECO*27. This song is an important one for me since 2013. I made various fanarts through the years, last year the first one with my new drawing tablet. This tablet is not new anymore, but I wanted to draw the same image again and see how my "skills" have changed. I'm still a beginner but I can see improvements in my drawings I made this year. Yeah, I'm still not confident enough to share all of them, but this one turned out to be good for me. I hope you had a nice year and will have a good 2024. ❤️

#yowamushi montblanc #gumi megpoid #deco*27 #vocaloid #drawing #anime

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I never was into jewelry until I saw these.

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It's been a huge while since I posted a drawing here. I started this one of Neura-sama almost three months ago and didn't find the time to finish it due to many conventions and events. When I turned on the tablet recently, I found that only the eyes were missing... Well, it's still far from good and I still have to study how to draw manga-styled pictures. Neura-sama was recommendation by a friend and I started to enjoy the livestreams. I like Neuro's design and therefore I've got some inspiration. 😊

#neuro-sama #neuro #vtuber #drawing #fanart

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I thought about diversity in media. Books, Movies, Comics, whatever.

I create a lot of stories and OCs. I don't share a lot of them online but they are there, running around in my head. Most of my characters are very german, like me.

Lately, diversity in Media has become more and more talked about. And more and more media gets critizised for it - either not having much diversity or having forced diversity or diverse characters that just feel wrong because they are portrayed badly. This has me thinking about why so many of my characters are just white europeans or do not really have an ethicity (because fantasy) but are white. Some asians where in the mix but it took me years to even have one black OC.

It's because I'm german.

Look, black people for example have been living in America for multiple generations now. There are black Americans living there with their own culture, own struggles and own history in that country.

And then there is Germany and I don't think I have to tell you why a few generations back, non-german people where not really living in germany. (The entire country was run by racist people that commitied genocide, if you need a reminder.)

Of course that isn't the case anymore and non-german people are immigrating to germany again. We also had big waves of refugees coming here.

But it's still like one or two generations only. There are more Asian people than Black people, and also more asian people that grew up in germany, but still not a lot. Most black people I see on the streets didn't live here for very long yet, and depending on where you live, you don't see a lot of them (Big cities like Berlin obviously have more non-german people living there than smaller ones). And I feel like people from other countries tend to stick together, probably because people where raised so diffrently. Especially people from islamic countries don't really seem mix with germans and stay amongst each other.

So of course young me did not really think about drawing a dark skinned person, because I never really got to know them. I barely created a few east asian ones because there where more of them where I grew up, but I didn't really get to know them either.

And when I did make a black character, I felt really unsure what to do with them. I know one black person, and they are mixed and grew up in germany without the black parent, so they know not more about other peoples culture than I do. If I ever create a comic about my character, I wouldn't feel confident writing her without getting something wrong.

Big Studios, like Disney for example, can and should hire a diverse cast of ceators to make their movies, so that they can be diverse and accurate. But a book written by one person, spcifically if it's a hobby project, might be not as diverse because their live isn't as diverse. That's probably also why manga and anime aren't really diverse, because the culture in japan isn't really either. And in the end, we are inspired by our own life.

I want to make my art more diverse, and this was just going trough my head while thinking about it.

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happy new year!

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Yowamushi Montblanc

Now this is my very first drawing I'm willing to share. I've been practicing digitlal drawing for about one month now and I'm kinda proud of the outcome. This image is a scene from the music video of DECO*27's "Yowamushi Montblanc", a song with a special meaning for me personally. It pulled me out of a hole almost ten years ago and simultanously dragged me into the Vocalsynth scene. Thank you, DECO*27.

#vocaloid #gumi megpoid #yowamushi montblanc #drawing #deco*27 #coward montblanc #digital art

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"We Are Pretty Cure"💕✨️

Simple sketch of my queens 🛐💕

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