finally delivering on the princess tutu headshots i promised... love these dysfunctional teens 🩰💖💕
LOTS of notes about headcanons/design choices under the cut! like. a lot. dont say i didnt warn you
starting with my specialest guy fakir:
i had a suuuper clear vision for fakir, and i couldnt be happier with how he turned out, he looks exactly how i imagine him! trying to translate his Bird-Shaped Hair into my style gave me SERIOUS homestuck flashbacks. my affinity for knights with Problems knows no bounds...
adding the hyperpigmentation around his eyes and his acne scars is what really solidified this for me-- i put those in and was like oh!!! there you are!!! my boy!!! and you can tell because i gave him acne scars + thick eyebrows that he IS my boy... there are very clear trends among my headcanons for my faves lol. big noses, thick eyebrows, skin imperfections, heavy eyebags, long dark hair... and fakir truly has it all 😤 he is so Ideal Character Design to me
i think fakir is actually pretty self-conscious about his appearance tho! we see characters like pike and lilie say hes handsome to ahiru, but i dont know how often he actually hears that? and im sure its hard not to compare himself to mytho, who is straight out of a fairy tale; being a regular teenager dealing with regular teen body stuff is hard enough without your roommate being a magically beautiful eternally youthful storybook hero. i think he probably internalises more that people see him as scary and angry, and that the girls who do have crushes on him always frame it in contrast to mytho, who is Good and Kind and Handsome, implying (or sometimes outright stating!) that fakir is Bad and Mean and... Well...
fakir is very sensitive but quiet about it, so i think its a very private point of self-consciousness. i think he puts a lot of semi-secret effort into his appearance; canonically he has a lot of very funny and clearly customised clothing, and he chooses to keep his hair long and in a very particular style (i have a whole breakdown in my mind of how he achieves that style and it involves a surprising amount of pins and an unsurprising fuckton of teasing. i think his hair is a little fried from heat damage!), and i think that probably extends to other things, too, like manicuring his eyebrows and doing a lot of very Teenage Skincare that doesnt actually help his acne much lol. i think he probably has a lot of self-injurious habits and BFRBs like skin picking and chewing, mostly at his acne and around his nails (both of which he hates, because he knows he shouldnt but does it anyway). i think if he does it enough that theres noticeable evidence it feels, like, world-ending for him, ESPECIALLY if anyone asks what happened lol. do not perceive him except in the very specific ways and contexts he approves of THANKS
on to the narratives favorite princess, mytho:
again, i had a pretty clear idea of the vibe i wanted mytho to have going into this-- i want him to have, like, extreme prince charming vibes, very Classically Handsome without necessarily being 'conventional.' i thought a lot about 'the happy prince' story while i was working on this, and really wanted him to look like a cross between how the prince statue looks in my head and a porcelain doll. and also a cross between jonny brown and brigitte bardot? lots of very direct influences for him lol. so! lots of gold tones, gemmy eye color, cute little tooth gap, quivering wide-eyed thousand-yard-stare doe eyes and big ol dolly anime lashes, which were the very last thing i added because i was NERVOUS about pulling those off lol. they turned out cute tho! ive only done a handful of pieces for this series and i can already tell princess tutu is gonna make me up my lash drawing game considerably, these kids all look like they blink and cause a hurricane from the gale force wind of their falsies
also wait i lied the very last thing i did was add his freckles/beauty marks because he needed that little extra oomph and those were It. i think he probably has some on his hands/wrists too 💕
i was a little unsure if my idea for his hair would translate with this flat-color approach but im pretty happy with it! its supposed to be afrotextured hair (somewhere between 3b and 4c i think? wide range of potential i knowww but im still kind of hammering out my headcanons okay, this is exploratory lol) thats been rolled and finger-styled into his little feather shapes. i think loose, chunky twists would be another fun way to interpret his hair and twists are one of my fave styles to draw do i might draw him like that at some point too...
i guess fakir is the one who styles his hair for him before mytho gets his heart back? i imagine fakir is pretty meticulous about maintaining mythos health and appearance, even at the worst stages of their relationship. i think itd be hard for fakir to frame the way he treats mytho as For Mythos Sake if he wasnt doing some level of actually beneficial care for him, so being really fastidious about things like mythos diet and sleep hygiene and hair care and such gives fakir an outlet for his 'you just have to do what i tell you' thing that helps him convince himself it really is helping, no really, hes doing this for mythos benefit and he just has to be strict with him because mytho doesnt UNDERSTAND he needs PROTECTING and fakir is the ONLY ONE who can do it so mytho HAS to let him because if he doesnt then why does fakir even EXIST, if he cant manage this then what is he good for, and--
yknow. the usual complexes. and their relationship is so complex!!! but also so simple, but like. in a good way. fakirs behavior is complicated but his motivation regarding mytho is SO straightforward which makes that downward spiral into harm really easy to map out... i wont go much into that in this post since this is about visual/appearance-related headcanons but just. augh. i love this show and i love these characters!!! and i hope its apparent in my work that i do love them so <3
im hoping to do a set of these for the girls next!!! i have some other stuff to finish first but hopefully... Soon... Some Birds...
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As some of y'all know, my cat Mariah has been in poor health lately. Her vet bills have already reached $1,165.89 and we still don't have a diagnosis. The vet estimated that her next round of testing (and medication to try to stabilise her until those results come in) will be an additional $400. As such, I'm opening up a few discounted emergency commission slots to help cover some of these costs. Here's what I'm offering:
✨sketch✨
bust: $30 | hips/thighs up: $63 | full body: $93
✨basic color✨
bust: $51 | hips/thighs up: $105 | full body: $156
✨full color✨
bust: $63 | hips/thighs up: $126 | full body: $189
These emergency commissions are heavily discounted and commissions will no longer be available at these prices once I've covered Mariah's care!
Prices are per character and may increase for very complex designs. Things like props, backgrounds, fully rendered hair, adult content, etc are all available as add-ons with an additional charge. Please be aware that I work on a queue system, and given the volume of work I will need to do to pay off her vet bills, there may be extended wait times. I will not be able to offer rush commissions at a discount. Thank you for understanding!
If you have any questions, please check the /commissioninfo page on my blog or feel free to reach out via DMs!
Additionally, if you're not in the market for a commission but would like to help with Mariah's vet bills, I am accepting donations through my Ko-fi (/marcmorrigan) and Cashapp ($MarcMorrigan). Anything helps-- even just a reblog of this post! Thank you so much to everyone who has helped so far, it really means the world to me.
Mariah passed away on the evening of August 31st. I made a post that goes into a little more detail about her passing here.
Thank you so much to everyone who has helped donate to her care, and to everyone who has sent kind words and condolences about her deteriorating health. You've all been a huge help to me and to her in what has been an extremely stressful and upsetting time. Thanks to everyone's donations, I was able to get her medication that helped ease her pain in her last days, and I was able to ensure that I'd be able to bring her remains home with me after she passed.
The cost of her care before she passed ended up totalling $1,512.83, and thanks to everyone's donations and commissions so far, we've been able to cover $436.38 of that. I'm so grateful for the generosity and compassion that has already been shown. These vet bills have basically wiped out my savings, and it would have been much worse without your help.
I'm going to continue offering discounted commissions until all her bills are covered, and any donations I receive until then will go straight to covering those costs as well. Thank you again for all the help and hope everyone sent our way. This was always going to be difficult, but you've all helped it be much easier than it might've been otherwise.
To my clients, thank you for your patience so far, and please offer me a little extra patience moving forward while I grieve. I may need some time before I can get back to work, but I will keep you all updated on the situation and let you know when I'm able to continue your pieces.
Other than that, all I ask is for those of you with pets to please give them a little extra love, in Mariah's honor. Thank you.
As some of y'all know, my cat Mariah has been in poor health lately. Her vet bills have already reached $1,165.89 and we still don't have a diagnosis. The vet estimated that her next round of testing (and medication to try to stabilise her until those results come in) will be an additional $400. As such, I'm opening up a few discounted emergency commission slots to help cover some of these costs. Here's what I'm offering:
✨sketch✨
bust: $30 | hips/thighs up: $63 | full body: $93
✨basic color✨
bust: $51 | hips/thighs up: $105 | full body: $156
✨full color✨
bust: $63 | hips/thighs up: $126 | full body: $189
These emergency commissions are heavily discounted and commissions will no longer be available at these prices once I've covered Mariah's care!
Prices are per character and may increase for very complex designs. Things like props, backgrounds, fully rendered hair, adult content, etc are all available as add-ons with an additional charge. Please be aware that I work on a queue system, and given the volume of work I will need to do to pay off her vet bills, there may be extended wait times. I will not be able to offer rush commissions at a discount. Thank you for understanding!
If you have any questions, please check the /commissioninfo page on my blog or feel free to reach out via DMs!
Additionally, if you're not in the market for a commission but would like to help with Mariah's vet bills, I am accepting donations through my Ko-fi (/marcmorrigan) and Cashapp ($MarcMorrigan). Anything helps-- even just a reblog of this post! Thank you so much to everyone who has helped so far, it really means the world to me.
As some of y'all know, my cat Mariah has been in poor health lately. Her vet bills have already reached $1,165.89 and we still don't have a diagnosis. The vet estimated that her next round of testing (and medication to try to stabilise her until those results come in) will be an additional $400. As such, I'm opening up a few discounted emergency commission slots to help cover some of these costs. Here's what I'm offering:
✨sketch✨
bust: $30 | hips/thighs up: $63 | full body: $93
✨basic color✨
bust: $51 | hips/thighs up: $105 | full body: $156
✨full color✨
bust: $63 | hips/thighs up: $126 | full body: $189
These emergency commissions are heavily discounted and commissions will no longer be available at these prices once I've covered Mariah's care!
Prices are per character and may increase for very complex designs. Things like props, backgrounds, fully rendered hair, adult content, etc are all available as add-ons with an additional charge. Please be aware that I work on a queue system, and given the volume of work I will need to do to pay off her vet bills, there may be extended wait times. I will not be able to offer rush commissions at a discount. Thank you for understanding!
If you have any questions, please check the /commissioninfo page on my blog or feel free to reach out via DMs!
Additionally, if you're not in the market for a commission but would like to help with Mariah's vet bills, I am accepting donations through my Ko-fi (/marcmorrigan) and Cashapp ($MarcMorrigan). Anything helps-- even just a reblog of this post! Thank you so much to everyone who has helped so far, it really means the world to me.
hey yall! im opening FIVE-- thats right FIVE-- slots to help pay for my upcoming cross-country move, and more importantly for my cat mariahs upcoming cross country move, because she has to fly on a plane for the first time in her life and its gonna be a couple hundo to cover her necessary vet appointments/paperwork/spot reservation on the plane, not to mention pet rent once we get to our new place. cat tax will be paid at the end of this post, dw, but first, some prices and examples of what im offering!
✨sketch✨
bust: $45 | hips/thighs up: $90 | full body: $135
✨basic color✨
bust: $75 | hips/thighs up: $150 | full body: $225
✨full color✨
bust: $90 | hips/thighs up: $180 | full body: $270
prices are per character and may increase for very complex designs. things like props, backgrounds, fully rendered hair, adult content, etc are all available as add-ons with an additional charge. if you have any questions, please check the /commissioninfo page on my blog or feel free to DM me!
you made it all the way to the end, so as promised, cat tax under the cut! heres ms mariah:
hey yall! im opening FIVE-- thats right FIVE-- slots to help pay for my upcoming cross-country move, and more importantly for my cat mariahs upcoming cross country move, because she has to fly on a plane for the first time in her life and its gonna be a couple hundo to cover her necessary vet appointments/paperwork/spot reservation on the plane, not to mention pet rent once we get to our new place. cat tax will be paid at the end of this post, dw, but first, some prices and examples of what im offering!
✨sketch✨
bust: $45 | hips/thighs up: $90 | full body: $135
✨basic color✨
bust: $75 | hips/thighs up: $150 | full body: $225
✨full color✨
bust: $90 | hips/thighs up: $180 | full body: $270
prices are per character and may increase for very complex designs. things like props, backgrounds, fully rendered hair, adult content, etc are all available as add-ons with an additional charge. if you have any questions, please check the /commissioninfo page on my blog or feel free to DM me!
you made it all the way to the end, so as promised, cat tax under the cut! heres ms mariah:
hey yall! im opening FIVE-- thats right FIVE-- slots to help pay for my upcoming cross-country move, and more importantly for my cat mariahs upcoming cross country move, because she has to fly on a plane for the first time in her life and its gonna be a couple hundo to cover her necessary vet appointments/paperwork/spot reservation on the plane, not to mention pet rent once we get to our new place. cat tax will be paid at the end of this post, dw, but first, some prices and examples of what im offering!
✨sketch✨
bust: $45 | hips/thighs up: $90 | full body: $135
✨basic color✨
bust: $75 | hips/thighs up: $150 | full body: $225
✨full color✨
bust: $90 | hips/thighs up: $180 | full body: $270
prices are per character and may increase for very complex designs. things like props, backgrounds, fully rendered hair, adult content, etc are all available as add-ons with an additional charge. if you have any questions, please check the /commissioninfo page on my blog or feel free to DM me!
you made it all the way to the end, so as promised, cat tax under the cut! heres ms mariah:
We hope everyone enjoys going through the Mulian zine we have put together. We cannot thank all the contributors enough for their hard work and patience!
Dewdrops at Dawn is a free digital zine with both SFW and NSFW themes. Aside from art and fic, there are also some downloadable goodies.
You can find the zine here and the folder with merch here. 🌸
