2021-2023 mamiya art I never posted here. I thought i'd drawn other characters, but it's mostly just natsumiya.....
SPOILERS for the entire game + additional doodles below the cut
design sheets for the gals
ayano girl!mamiya drawing i did in 2021 that i liked but could never figure out how to frame to look interesting
the following is evidence that I can draw characters who are not natsumiya:
ok back to natsumiya (and one more mina). umineko au
ryoukiteki high school life
beach episode outfits. these ended up being a prototype for my entry in the summer zine. natsume's wearing an asuna t-shirt (don't you think he'd be a HUGE kiriasu shipper??). sao aired in 2012... but the first season only finished december 23 2012, so he missed the last few episode. aw:(
although i heard the second part of sao s1 is bad, so maybe it's a good thing he missed it? lol
looking back at all this art, this sure is a lot of natsume and girl!mamiya, huh...
i HAVE drawn ryou and keito, okay. you can see it in the summer zine and also the white day zine!
Who would even notice those lashes. It was intentional tho, because u know how Natsume is probably linked with the sun, and man i know its just delulu but don't those lashes resemble the sun 🌞
Green is not my comfort zone but at least i tried.
Happy birthday, Natsume!!! I spent forever thinking about what to draw for him, and after going through a million cursed ideas (lmao), this is probably the least cursed one I could come up with!
This piece was actually inspired by a love letter I wrote a while back, but looking at it now, I’m pretty sure I wrote it while I was high on MAMIYA. Posting the drawing alongside the letter just feels way too fitting, haha.
Below is the content of the letter (with some parts omitted because they’re meant only for the recipient). I’ve also translated it into English since there’s no way I’m letting anyone else see the original. It might not flow as smoothly as it does in my native language, but I hope you don't mind!
Love.
The love I hold for you and all its shades.
Have you ever wondered what those shades are like?
What form they takes, what scent they carry, what sound they sing?
What it’s like to touch them, to cradle them within your palms?
No beginning to trace, no end in sight—
That is the love I have for you.
I remember someone once said, “love” is an overused word.
Some even liken it to a fire—blazing bright, yet destined to wither into ash.
Perhaps they weren't wrong,
But I still adore it—
“Love” is such a beautiful word, don't you agree?
We hold that love close,
Make it our own,
Even as we delude ourselves,
Foolishly believing that "love" was always meant for something else.
They say love is fleeting, selfish, blind,
Detached from reality.
Yet even in its selfishness,
Isn’t there beauty?
A beauty steeped in selfishness,
Do you see it that way too?
I've always thought that, in truth, to "love" is to "be loved."
Not by the object of your affection,
But by love itself.
I’ve always yearned for a love as gentle as water,
Perhaps that's why I falter before gentleness.
And, well, isn’t it said—
“Eventually, you’ll become what you desire most”?
So, in that way, perhaps—
Love has always answered me back in kind.
“Gentleness” is a cruel word,
And “love” a selfish one.
You are cruel. And I’ve long since become cruel myself, haven’t I?
You—to me—are a long scarf.
Long, so long, endlessly winding.
Tight around my throat, shrouding my eyes, binding my hands,
Making me a frog unwilling to leave the boiling pot's searing heat.
A scarf so long.
A warm embrace, a shielding blanket, a tightening noose.
That’s "you"—that’s my "love".
A warm embrace.
I give it back to you.
A shielding blanket.
I’ll give it back to you.
A tightening noose.
I give it all back to you.
My existence is a love letter—a letter pieced together from countless fragments of love.
Its traces linger in every dot, every comma, every sentence, even in each rise and fall of the tone.
I’ll give this love back to you; I’ll curse you for a while.
I love you.
No beginning to trace, no end in sight—
I cannot say when it sparked,
Only that, at some point,
"You" eclipsed almost my entire world.
Isn’t that cruel?
But yes, it is what it is.
This letter is like a river,
Unceasing.
No beginning to trace, no end in sight.
“Even as you're being born, screaming, loving, struggling, or breaking apart; the river flows on and on.”
“Never resisting the flow of the water, I let my nerves get eroded.
I'd been repeating this for so, so long.
Like in a delirium.
As if nothing had happened.”
“...I can't say I like it.
It's so black, and very noisy when it rains.
But I know it well.
I know it well because I don't like it.
...That's just how it is.”
On the verge of suffocating.
On the verge of exploding.
On the verge of shattering into a maelstrom.
On the verge of flooding the world with thousands venomous curses.
Happy White Day! To celebrate, here's a Valentine's/White Day-themed collaborative MAMIYA fanzine!!
Featuring lovey-dovey art & fic from 12 creators!
Read it digitally or print it out yourself!
⚠️ DDD spoilers
Get it here! ➡️ Google Drive (pdf)
Directions for printing/binding + contributor credits below!
PRINTING
This zine was designed for letter paper, but I think it should print fine on A4 (I haven't tested it, sorry). If it helps, each individual page is 5.5 in x 8.5 in (140 mm x 216 mm).
We're going to print using the Booklet setting, which requires Adobe Acrobat or Foxit to use. Both programs can be downloaded for free. (I'm using Acrobat for this tutorial, but Foxit works the same way)
To print:
Download the zine file to your computer and open it in Acrobat/Foxit.
Open up the print menu using ctrl+P or by finding the printer icon near the top of the window. The print menu looks like this:
3. Select your printer from the "Printer" menu, then select the "Booklet" option under Page Sizing and Handling, as shown in the image above. You can also check the box near the top of the window to "Print in grayscale (black and white)" like I'm doing, or leave it unchecked to print in color.
4. Select the "Print" button to print.
BINDING
Honestly, you can bind however you want! I chose something fancy this time (because I'm trying to show off for photos), but normally I go for something simpler. Here are some methods I've used to bind zines/booklets before:
Three-hole ribbon binding (this is the method I used here)
Stapling
Pamphlet binding/saddle stitching
Methods I haven't tried but would probably work fine:
Another three-hole ribbon binding method + ring binding
Perfect binding
Machine sewing
Regardless of which method you use, I always recommend pre-folding all the pages before doing any binding. I usually try to fold like 1-3 sheets at a time--enough pages that it doesn't take forever to fold all of them, but not too many pages because I want to ensure each sheet gets creased really well.
Watch out for page order, by the way, because these pages aren't numbered!!
Depending on how you've bound it, it should come out looking something like this. Isn't it so cute??
Feel free to contact me if you need help!
CONTRIBUTORS
Thank you to everyone who participated in this zine!
It was my first time organizing something like this, so I'm really glad it turned out so great!! You guys are all so talented and awesome and I love what we've made!!!!!!
janainaart
vaporwave
baratheonpilled
andulkaphoto
pixelskylines
areudirty
germansingergirl
