This year I haven't had time to draw something new ;w; but I guess I can share the manga I drew for OTABESCENCE & BEKASTAN (first 3 pages) and the continuation I drew last year! (read it the Japanese way, from right to left)
Finally I can post the comic I did for @yoiroyaltyzine 👑
It was a joy to draw Prince Jean Jacques of the Maple Leaf Kingdom and Prince Otabek of the Altin Kingdom in a mixture of fantasy and real language references for the Kazakh language!
If you wish to know more about Жан / Жаным check under the cut! (also for a little surprise :P)
Just 2 words on Жан - zhan - soul (Жаным - zhanym - my soul):
In Kazakh Жан sounds like Jean with French pronunciation (THIS post by @kinoglowworm explains really well how possessive markers works in Kazakh language, if you wish to know more details).
If you're curios to hear, let Dimash Kudaibergen sing ZHAN for you (right at minute 0.20 of THIS video) and here you can find part of the lyrics.
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And, if you thought the statue on the first panel was a random one..it was not! :P if you know me, you know I love Alain and Nathalie (JJ’s parents) maybe not as much as JJ, but pretty damn close so...I had to include their fairytale in this! After all, Jean and Otabek are strolling in the Royal Gardens of the Maple Kingdom, so a statue celebrating the love between the current King and Queen of the Maple Kingdom was kind of mandatory right?
I’m so happy I managed to finish these 3 pages for today!! :D
My initial plan was to have them ready for BEKASTAN, since they are the direct continuation of the comic I drew for Otabescence (and that is now in BEKASTAN as well) but they work well also as a stand alone :P
I live for club19 shenanigans & happy Otayuri! <3
My head canon is that JJ, Leo and Otabek spent at least one year training all together under Celestino’s care in Detroit, and that’s when I placed this story :)
The feeling upon first meeting a person that the two of you will inevitably fall in love.
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Since I’ll be attending the London MCM Comic Con on 25-27th of October I thought to collect most of the Otayuri comics I drew between 2017-18 and posted here on tumblr and some sketches and b/w illustrations in one little book 🙈✨
Otayuri 🐻🐯
English, PG-16
40 pages b/w comic
A6 format (105 x 148 mm / 4.1 x 5.8 in)
If you’re interested, you can pre-order it HERE
🐻https://www.kitsuneart.net/store/koi-no-yokan 🐯
I will ship all the copies after the Con (or you can collect it at the Con if you're attending)
I was over the moon when @findyouranchorpoint commissioned me to draw more for her amazing fanfic I Put a Spell on You (Because You’re Mine) after the first pages I did a while ago *__*
I feel so grateful! <3 ! love this story (you should go and read it now, if you haven’t already!) and I love these two dorks <3
After finishing a personal project that will be published sometimes this year, I was struggling to get myself into drawing comics again...
Then I remembered this fanfic I fell in love with: I Put a Spell on You (Because You’re Mine) by @findyouranchorpoint
It has all the things I love: JJBek, witches, shifters and...well, I must admit I’m weak for shifters. Druid is my favourite D&D class, I always love to play characters that shifts into animals, and that explanation JJ gives about what it means to be a shifter is so perfect. It stuck with me. And the whole scene was really cool, so I felt the need to draw it!...I hope Kiri will forgive me if this is a bit of a spoiler from the fanfic but..I really needed to draw this and it helped me overcome my block so...thank you for writing this story, I can’t wait to read more! <3