my webcomic: Tokyo Miracle! It's a tokyo mew mew next-gen fancomic. It draws from every tmm source (manga, animes, video game, etc) and updates weekly. You can follow @tokyomiracle for notifications on when exactly it updates, news, etc!
Prints/stickers for sale HERE! (if there's something specific of mine not listed and you want to buy a print or sticker of it, tell me and I'll see if I can add it for you :))
Commissions info: OPEN! I accept commissions via ko-fi or vgen, my kofi has a pay what you want option as well as a membership for $3/month where you can get early access to art, the comic pages, coloring pages, etc! more info:
My main blog is at @sanchoyo, and anyone is welcome to send me asks on there about any of my art, ocs, or anything really! :D
My socials: instagram, youtube, and my artfight!
Common tags on this blog:
#tm2 (my tokyo mew mew next gen story/OCs. I generally do not like to spam the tokyo mew mew tag with this since I post about them so often, so it's better to check that tag than the tmm one for them!)
#fanart (for any characters that are not mine) #original (for characters or designs that I did make to some extent)
#ocs (all of my characters, mostly fan characters but some from original stories as well!) #zines (stuff I'm in or did! I love free and cheap zines, so if you're hosting any and would like me to be in them, drop me a message!)
I also try to tag character names but am I lil inconsistent with it. I will tag any common triggers and mark with mature community flags as needed ^_^ Thank you for visiting! ✨
lets hear it for Mira's SECOND popularity poll win (her first one was back in 2024)! Thank you to everyone who voted! We actually had to have 2 rounds of voting because between here and the IG poll, there was a 3-way tie!! She managed to pull through through silly underdog means like barely pulling through the first round of voting, then SWEPT the last round, which is a CLASSIC Mira move. 😏
this was for a magical girl crossover collab on instagram, where we all took our magical girl characters and designed them to be in a different series 💕
comparison between their normal designs. these makes me laugh a little. just... when I was drawing, I thought 'jeez, these look to similar to their prexisting designs, don't they??' NO I DON'T THINK THEY DO WHEN THEY'RE SIDE BY SIDE. I am pretty happy with the fact they're still all still recognizable at least... a lot of aqua's design specifically does reference some of her older designs!!
I was a HUGE winx fan as a kid (I think it did come on the same channel/day as mew mew power did?? along with ygo.. like what a good lineup. formative to me.) I haven't revisited it in years, maybe I should...? 👀
for these I drew more inspo from the upgraded winx forms like enchantix etc rather than the base forms (as iconic as those are, I really wanted to do more detailed designs, since this was a design-based collab, yk?) I love that winx style gave me an excuse to go as ham on the sparkles as I always want to. also, the proportions!! They are like bugs, to me... kind of fun but also very weird for me to draw. I def still added my own lil touches/style in there when coloring 🤷♂️
here are the initial design sketches I did before the illustration!
I ended up simplifying them a lot to make them work more for that and changing up colors, but I think it's fun to show these early stage concepts sometimes🥲 rip masayume's big awesome boa!!! It just wasn't working for the angle BUT if I ever revisit these designs, rest assured she'll get it back. also you can read my silly little notes and see how I just. ignored the ideas I had for the wings when I actually sat down to draw them lol like sometimes it truly does turn into a 'no i dont think i will go with that idea' flow state where I just black out designing smth 😭
I originally kind of wanted mira's wings to come up behind her head and look like donkey ears, but i just could NOT make it work. if anything, sapote's lil headband wing situation looks more like ears 😔 oh well!!
process gif:
if you can believe it, the lineart took the longest out of anything... clean thin lines, my enemy... the full PSD file is on my kofi btw if you wanna look at the layers!! here :> (tho be warned, it is a BIG file!!!)
Process gif. Details that got lost in the shading: my Beloved Berries 🫐….. moment of silence for them…. Anyway fanart for this show is overdue. I mean I have gwen doodles but like. Proper Fanart yk. Love it love the 2D love the concept love it alllll yeehaw 🤠
I'm going to keep them open for a week or so here and on instagram for offers. I really wanna keep them as a set. you will get the main ref, transparent + separate refs, and the dot overlay (for easy redrawing/coloring) ^_^
AEDIT: closed! These designs now belong to @/minty_magica on IG 🩵
Please be willing to pay via ko-fi when the bidding ends. They accept most payments! My general rules are no AI/NFT usage, no whitewashing or genderbending, and no reselling for a higher price than what you bought them for.
I made an Aqua playlist! It's been in the works for a few months now... if you've been wondering what those random little aqua animations were for, this is it! Every song has it's own visuals, including some aqua animations I haven't posted here :)
her base was daisy jean from barbie (I just adore the dream besties, I think they're like. a cute cross between barbie and bratz):
I thought, those proportions are prettty close to how I draw characters when I saw the doll, and I had it in my head that I could TOTALLY style her already pink hair! Um. wrong! I am Not good at styling doll hair, it turns out. I ended up shaving it off. #bald
(I still think the accessories are perfect for aqua too, tho, esp the cotton candy. But unfortunately I cannot find them after the process of moving rooms...I know they have to be in my craft drawer SOMEWHERE, but. Like. Can't find em rn...)
I think the sculpted hair at least fits aqua's lore a bit better?? if nothing else since she really is actually canonically always wearing wigs?
I didn't add the bows that are on her shoulder straps because I could NOT get them to look decent, and her boot bows are higher up on the doll than her actual design (realized midway they just look better up there...)
I didn't add a tail, because I want her to stay pretty posable and I thought it might get in the way of her sitting... the doll is pretty posable! Which is nice, compared to Pheobe, who just. Does not have articulation at all, poor thing... She's also like, a full head taller than Pheobe too. it's not only that she's a larger doll, it was the boot sculpt I had to do to get Aqua's feet the right shape, that sorta megaman-esque vibe yk?? They're a lil lumpy if you squint too close. Please be nice about her Lumps I don't know how to sculpt and was working with hot plastic and dollar general air dry clay TwT
I think the fur trim being rly big is kinda funny. It was that, or pipe cleaners for the fur, which... you could see the wire thru, so I did not like as much. I also tried metallic paint the first attempt at painting her skin, but promptly removed that and swapped over to matte + glossy clear coat to get that metal look, because although the metallic worked SUPER well for her kitty form, it just. was SO patchy on the doll for some reason?? Sad, because the metallic does have a pink shift TwT oh well!!
I really wanna make a fake box for her at SOME point, as a kinda reference to this sketch I never finished:
the colors without the filters are a bit more vivid irl! All these photos were taken in a low light, but here's closer to the actual colors:
OH ALSO: SHE DOES HAVE HER BLUE KITTY PAW PADS PAINTED ON THE BOTTOM OF HER FEET. I didn't take any pics of that, but they are too iconic for me to leave out. :3c
Thank u to everyone who voted for them back in January! The accompanying fic for this illustration is here. it's not 'canon' to the tm2 webcomic or essential reading to understand anything! Just for fun! 💚💙
Commentary:
Mostly I tried to combine both my comic layout skills with my illustration skills and I also do like. Hobby collaging so I've wanted to include that more in my art in general?? This year I just want to try a bunch of new and weird art techniques and combine my preexisting ones. Like we’re gonna get experimental ✨
I’m kind of irritated this file turned out so big bc I had to squash it down so much to post it on tumblr 😔 so have some close ups:
I did also post the full sized huge version and one with no stickers/overlays on kofi, (esp nice to see the photo booth strip better!) along with wips, and the lineart. I was working very ‘out of order’ but I had fun…. the file is hugeee, kinda scarily so!! I never do over 200 layers but I think I crossed that threshold, even after combining some layers... I had to keep my tablet plugged in but it was struggling to charge thruout. like im so grateful it didnt crash TBH 😭
I tried pretty hard on the sketch to emulate Mia Ikumi’ old manga style in the chibis, but during rendering I fear it got a little lost. That airbrushing shading is surprisingly challenging! (I knew this already from the lisa frank drawings but...airbrush and me have such a hate/love relationship 😔) I also tried some lasso shading in places, which I’ve never done before but wanted to after seeing a video abt it on YouTube… it’s a great way to do that hard edges to soft shading blur vibe that’s esp prominent on the panel of them sitting 👌 I will be using that trick again, it’s so nifty! (this art was made mid/late jan, so If I post stuff with that technique between now and when this is posted with that vibe...YEAH)
if the Japanese is wrong on the tickets ......well I don't have the text layers anymore so its just going to have to be janky. I don't wanna hear about it 😭
I've been itching to draw smth in a vaguely 2000s moe style for a while now. aqua is the perfect victim for this style, she fits the vibe perfectly 😤 speedpaint under the cut!
this year we're doing something interactive! YOU will choose who of my characters goes on a date, and where, and I'll make art for it for valentines after tallying the votes from here and instagram!
(the location poll will be in the reblogs of this one, since I can't add two polls to one post, apparently, so I ask that you reblog that version with the location poll included!!)
Who will Mira go on a date with this Valentine's day?
Even counting the comments on IG after the fact, Cara and aquarium location absolutely swept these polls on both sites 😂 thanks to all who voted! I will begin prepping art soon >:3 mandatory Date.
Tokyo Miracle chapter 6: wingbeats between worlds, is starting tomorrow and updating every Monday & Thursday! ✨
read it here, or start from the beginning of the comic here! Tokyo Miracle is a Tokyo Mew Mew nextgen fancomic. and follow @tokyomiracle for news and updates! 🐾
lil progress gif too, I think its really funny how the colors gradually warmed up... even tho I intended for it to be a kinda color night scene I just can't help but add warmth back in 🥲
