Shannon Mora Sanders @shannonmora - Tumblr Blog

Amy and Rouge

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#amy the hedgehog #amy rose #rouge the bat #sonic the hedgehog #sonic fanart #kawaii fashion #kawaii #will print this later this year!

Not sure anyone here would care but I just opened preorders for a t-shirt and support would be very much appreciated.

My goal is to create a fairy kei “capsule wardrobe” and this is the first step.

#fairy kei #fairy kei fashion #harajuku #harajuku fashion #kawaii #kawaii fashion #party kei

Hi I know this is like, really late and also idk how often you check your Tumblr but I just wanted to say I was at your fairy kei panel at ctcon this July and I thought it was really inspiring and interesting and fun! I had been searching for a fashion style that really suited my tastes (I love lolita but I find it a little too formal/expensive for daily wear) and your explanation of fairy kei just sounded perfect for me. I actually put together a fairy kei look that Sunday and stopped by your booth, but I didn't end up saying anything because I wasn't sure if I had the right booth lol (I have terrible face blindness, if you remember a girl in a pink/green sweater vest outfit, that was me!) Anyway just wanted to say your art is really cute and thanks for doing a great panel!

Omg this is so sweet!! I never check my tumblr but I’m so glad I did and saw this 😭😭😭 Thank you for checking out the panel and work, I hope you have fun on your fairy kei journey!

🧸 🎀 Saturday Night☎💿

#city pop #kawaii art #illustration #digital art #Digital Illustration #pink art #pastel aesthetic

Back at it again with another diary post! I had to force myself to stop typing last night lol my brain is always poppin off.

Today I want to talk about the three short stories I’m working on that I will be writing for Camp NaNoWriMo next month. My current goal is 30K words since scripting a comic uses way less words than a novel. I hope this will force me to expand every idea as much as possible. I have a bad habit of getting stuck at a part and just writing down something vague. Even as I’m drafting Ghost Story there are parts I haven’t fleshed out. Again, it’s a bit of a procrastination tactic of mine to go back and try to fill in those gaps but for now I’ll let them be. Since it’s the first pass of the first draft find it important to just shit out as much as I can handle. Even if it’s a flimsy finish, at least I have the story figured out for the first part.

Okay, on to the first story. I’ve actually drawn the characters in a recent illustration. I’m still not 100% sure what to call it, but for now I call it “To Say ‘I Love You.’” It features a catboy and doggirl, a completely visual metaphor lol, kinda like how Loveless gives virgins cat ears. Instead of virginity it’s more of a personality signifier. I tried to draw this comic last year and I even got kinda far (I think the early pages are really good and I hope to still use them). I didn’t like how I was presenting the story after a while though, so I am trying to iron it out.

I placed a lot of my feelings of love and relationships on to the Catboy. I once saw the question “Is it easier to love or be loved?” and I was caught of guard. I had only ever seen people talk about how self love is so hard for them, that they can hate themselves and love so much unconditionally. I didn’t even know how it could be possible to be the reverse, to take other people’s affections so easily but have trouble loving back. But now I know I fit into that category all to well. And it sounds cruel. But ultimately it’s just my personality. Finding someone you can confide in completely about your feelings can be very difficult. People don’t always expect someone being hesitant to love you back. I hope this story works without getting too long or boring, haha. It’s hard to show character’s personalities and relationship in just a few pages.

The next story is one slightly based off an ink drawing I did in 2019 of a cool satyr boy finding a black kitten in the rain. I love fantasy settings but I’m not very good at worldbuilding, haha. So I’m hoping setting short stories in this little universe will help me develop it. I’m a little hesitant to talk more about it because I don’t want to give away the theme and story, but it’s a story I hope will touch people! I think the romance part is rather straight forward, but it ties into a deeper idea of finding where you belong. I’ve yet to think of a good name for it, knowing me I’ll rip it from a song lyric.

The last story has roots in a much older project that I decided to scrape: Dreamscape. The original was supposed to be a fantasy epic of a girl who creates a fantasy world in order to escape her life. I didn’t really develop it very far and it’s just been at the back of my head for a long time. I figured I have too many fantasy epics I want to do so I took the basic idea and spun it into a shorter story. I love the idea of fantasy as escapism but also as a reflection of our problems. I’m rushing getting this story out since I have just had it sitting in the back of my head for about a year. Even as I type this I can feel the ideas coming!

I don’t when I’ll be able to actually DRAW these stories. I much prefer drawing on paper when it comes to inking, though I know my drafting skills aren’t the best. I really want to make the most of what I know and to use both digital and traditional techniques. My plan would be to make the drafts digitally then print them and ink traditionally. I also want to create 3d environments to help me with backgrounds, something that is a HUGE pain for me.

April begins tomorrow, which means social media will be nothing but “friendly reminder to not post triggering content uwu” and literally nothing fun. I have work tomorrow so I’ll do my best to have my 1k out before work. I also REALLY need to finish outlining Dreamscape, seeing as it’s not even half done yet. Oh god...

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In the spirit of it just being fun to document things, I want to talk about the projects I’ve been up to. I’ve been “working on something” for as long as I could form a coherent thought, but for the first time in a while I actually feel like I’m getting somewhere. I’ve started a lot of things and have finished almost nothing, at least in terms of storytelling. I’m pretty sure the only thing I have every actually finished are school assignments.

It took me a while to figure out why I was bad at finishing stuff, but now that I’m 23 I get it. I’m very good at thinking up cute ideas but not really full stories or even character arcs. I still have a lot of projects on the back burner that still need to be formed into actual narratives. And I think failing at a lot of projects has helped me better understand what doesn’t work for me. I have a better understanding at how I like to tell a story. I know I need to have a story’s theme figured out before I start writing, and I need to have it fully written and scripted before drawing.

At the beginning of the month, my tablet broke and had to be sent for repairs. I focus so much on illustration that I let writing fall by the wayside. So for as frustrating as it is to have my tablet gone for so long, it has left me to focus on something I neglected for so long. Camp NaNoWriMo is next month and it’s been a long time since I last touched it! I’m using it as an opportunity to hopefully make real progress on some stories I’ve been dying to do.

A few months ago I had a dream. It was a pretty scary one, which is unfortunately pretty normal for me. However, in this dream I died and lived as a ghost. This was such a weird thing for me, and the funny thing is it’s something I thought about before. I can be a bit morbidly curious and have wondered how the people in my life would react if I passed right now. I just have so many feelings about it, the moment I woke up from that dream I grabbed my phone and noted it. I’ve taken this dream, my fear of death, my anxieties about my family and boyfriend, my love for art, and put it together into this story.

“Ghost Story” (as I’ll call it for now) is about halfway done in its first draft. I don’t think I’ve ever been this sure about a story’s direction. Writing middles is always really hard for me and I still need to figure things out. I have a pretty solid plan for the ending though. I tend to jump ahead and write out endings when I’m not done yet, but I’m holding myself back. It has consistently been a great way of me procrastinating the un-fun bits.

Ghost Story is also not my Camp Nano story! Though I’m going to try my hardest to work on it in tandem. For camp I have three love stories. I’ve had these all for a while and really just want them to be pushed out really quick. They are one-shots but I have found I can’t make one-shots simple and easy. I tend to hate my short stories quickly. So I have to really put a lot of work into the writing to make sure it is perfect.

Tomorrow I’ll talk more about the short stories. Writing four stories at once isn’t my greatest plan but I never said I was smart.

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y’all just love reblogging my old AG art.

Have this Halloween illustration I did last year.

#mouthful of cavities #<thats the name of the series #judy #howard #my art #my ocs #halloween #halloween art #illustration #witch art #kawaii art #kawaii illustration #anime art #anime illustration #cute art #halloween illustration #pastel #pastel art #pastel kawaii

It’s my birthday!

I’m old...

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#my art #art #original #artists on tumblr #illustration #digital art #original art #digital illustration #kawaii #kawaii illustration #kawaii girl #anime illustration #fairy kei #fairy kei fashion #i think?#my understanding of fk has changed a lot in just a month lol #close enough

Posting sketch a day may stuff here. This is day one, which also goes along with mermay. I’m not a mermaid person tho so I won’t be doing those exclusively.