mikawa13

[mikawa13]

Your art gives me the happies, and you deserve a cupcake. 🧁 (it can be whatever flavor or frosting you want)

Answering this super late but I truly appreciate this.

I have been in an art block for probably the longest time ever and just when I was going to slowly get out, I got a new job and I haven't had the time nor energy to get drawing until today.

I was honestly thinking about working on Jonathan Shadowhunter, his sister Abigail, and David the Silent just because one day I woke up with the idea. But I haven't been able to finish the sketches and just today wanted to work on an OC.

But hopefully I can finish that. It was either that or finish the period accurate dresses for Tessa that I never finished but whenever I open the drawing the laziness comes back instantly. Thinking about having to look for a dress she'd wear and draw it gives me a headache lol. It's not Tessa's fault, it's the dresses.

Idk why every time I have all the time in the world I get an art block and whenever I'm completely busy and tired my inspiration flows back in. It's happened more than once lol.

But again, thank you and everyone for the support. It's really good after moving from Instagram to here.🤍

[mikawa13]

This should be considered a jumpscare

I'm trying to do some research and study of THE Jonathan Shadowhunter and I forgot they give the name Jonathan away like candy and I had to specify which one I was looking for on the search bar.

It's kind of hard to look for fanarts of certain characters. IMPORTANT characters in the plot, but somehow they have less fanarts than I have emotional stability.

Thank you, Cassandra Jean (we all say in unison).

[mikawa13]

Same, Alastair... Same...

(July 31, 2021)

[mikawa13]

This is why you can't show me anything I can potentially use to make fun of the Herondale men

Because then I do things like this.

(June 15, 2022)

I saw this one in my gallery and it was from my stories in Instagram.

[mikawa13]

Your art is literally amazing like if I could I would personally make sure each piece has approximately a billion notes

I appreciate that 🤍

Switching from Instagram back to Tumblr is a little tedious. But I'm glad that the memes and fanarts are quickly getting attention. Especially now that I'm in a really ugly art block, it's really reassuring.

[mikawa13]

You guys want to see another unfinished fan art I have to redo? BOOM

I stopped because I realized the proportions of the face were wrong AND I need to change the color for the lighting. And also because I wanted him to look more sick and I couldn't do it properly.

So it's been sitting unfinished for under a year. 😐 Art block is funny like that. It was at the same time I was doing that Sizzy wedding fanart, I burned out so fast but at least they're slaying in gold. ☠️

[mikawa13]

Not a fanart, but here's an attempt I made of Jem a while ago in the Sims

I remember I was bored and I just had the sudden idea to make Jem both victorian and dilf—sorry, healed mortal version.

I love him in every era. I never played with him. I don't even remember if I still have the sim in my gallery to be honest.

This game is probably the easiest way of making references lmao. I made Simon in the Sims 3 as well hahaha.

[mikawa13]

"If the baby is missing any toes..."

Ragnor has a few to spare if you don't mind them in green.

[mikawa13]

I DON'T THINK I EVER POSTED THIS ONE HAHAHA IT'S BEEN YEARS

I'm looking through my Instagram account but it's not there. I'm actually shocked I don't remember if I never posted it lmao. It's been sitting in my gallery for YEARS.

Well, there you go, another meme.

[mikawa13]

Here's a weird one I forgot.

Okay LISTEN—WAIT—

HEAR ME OUT IT'S NOT WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE!

No, actually it is what it looks like, but let me explain.

This is from I think 2020 or 2021. I got into a group in Twitter and we would make stupid jokes about the silent brothers' telepathy and how convenient it was that they would start calling Brother Zachariah when he was out looking for Will's long lost family.

So we just started joking around that Brother Enoch was jealous and was always calling him back to the silent city. And I was the only artist in the group, so I did the funny thing to draw them like this and it just makes no sense and it's still funny to me.

It was during Covid. No one was in their sane minds. Shipping Brother Enoch and Brother Zachariah was a joke.

But I'll tell you what isn't: I do genuinely ship Jonathan Shadowhunter and David the Silent.

The Parabatai ceremony is almost like a wedding. It was the medieval times. You fill in the blanks. 🤨 That oath is a little too much like wedding vows. They're not slick, I see the rainbow from centuries away. 🏳️‍🌈🫵🏻

"But Julian and Emma—" David became the first silent brother so the bond was broken before there were any repercussions. Boom. (I'm delusional)

[mikawa13]

WELL, NOW THAT I RAN OUT OF COMPLETED DRAWINGS HERE COME THE WIPs ☠️

I'm so angry at myself with this one. Not because it's bad. I LOVE IT I just don't know where to go next with it. I was on autopilot for the most part and then suddenly I was like "... So what's next?"

It's been MONTHS and it's still like this.

[mikawa13]

I still remember the shock on my face when I came into Instagram that day and my notifications were blowing up ☠️

[mikawa13]

Gold for the bride? Say less.

Shout-out to my friend who saw me go through the stages of grief throughout the making of this drawing. I wanted to finish this before June (got stuck with the vows), finished yesterday but had a lingering doubt about the groom attire during weddings AND TURNS OUT MEN WEAR A BLACK CEREMONIAL GEAR WITH GOLDEN RUNES. Originally, I thought "Gold is for weddings" not "Gold for the bride." So I had made a golden jacket and made him wear gold as well but had to spend most of the day recoloring it because I am insane. 😃

And truth to be told, if their wedding happens in TWP, I will only read that part. 👏🏻I👏🏻DEMAND👏🏻THEIR👏🏻WEDDING👏🏻I need it.

Also, there are little to no fanarts of weddings. And most of them the men are in simple black suits, which is fine for a groom... But when the bride is IZZY LIGHTWOOD?! And the brother-in-law is THE MAGNUS BANE?! Yeah, no. He needs to look just as fine as her. I just wanted to go all out for her. Now I can go back and rest because this drawing took all of my will to live with all the details. 🥹

(June 5, 2024)

This was the last fanart I officially finished and posted on my Instagram. Since then I was hit with an art block. Sizzy sucked the life out of me lol.

[mikawa13]

Getting charged with trespassing ✌🏻 Called Magnus to "bail" them out.

Believe it or not, I was going to do this meme in May of 2023 with Magnus, Ragnor, Catarina, and Tessa getting arrested in Peru but it was around the time I hit the very long art block. So it's a LONG overdue meme. When I was looking back at the unfinished sketches I thought it would be better to change it and I think it's funnier this way. When I was drawing Simon my head just made the connection with Scooby Doo so it was X10 funnier in my head.

Like in a random alternate reality the police dept. was called about some disturbance at the hotel Dumort and they all got arrested for trespassing. I don't know, I just think it's funny. I would also like to point out that Izzy is like 1 or 2 inches taller than me. That made me feel a little better about myself.

(May 22, 2024)

[mikawa13]

... And shoot chandeliers...

(May 9, 2024)

[mikawa13]

I got hit with an art block and I was finally able to draw this since um... *Looks at the date* NOVEMBER 30 😃

I am trying to do something, and I was liking it until I hated it and then when I made a quick sketch of one of my OCs, and did the bare minimum with coloring that turned out better than what I was doing with them. So now debating whether or not to redo the color (that I spent weeks on) or not.

I was expecting it to be like a full, complete, drawing for 2024 but I'm nowhere there yet. So I might just start posting sketches for now until I eventually get them done.

The problem is that I'm starting to lose some interest in TSC and I don't feel confident enough to be drawing HP or PJO (the fandoms scare me so much). So we might try those 6 characters fanarts things I do every now and then.

For now, this is all I got. 😭

(January 9, 2024)

Now, on to 2025... HA ☠️ This is still NOT done. The more I looked at it, the more I didn't like it, and the base colors made me realized I also had to fix the anatomy proportions and I just hadn't been able to touch it since.

[mikawa13]

Every time I look at fanarts of TID I have to take a deep breath because some of the clothes aren't completely period accurate, so I wanted to try to draw them with more accurate dresses.

Charlotte did not take as long as I expected, probably because I always imagined her style in a more simple and elegant style.

I used Cassandra Jean's design for the gear and tried to adjust it a bit following the Codex's information about older versions of the female gear having a skirt, but I just decided to make that padding around the abdomen and hips longer and simulate a skirt (but not too long to not reduce the mobility), whereas the male gear would be shorter and the way that Cassandra Jean did it.

RIP Charlotte, you would've loved jumpsuits QUEEN

(February 4, 2024)

Little Miss Barbie x Regina George (1878 Edition)

Jess was a bit more complicated because she does care about her appearance more and has a more intricate style. And normally I try to not add a lot of detail with Victorian characters because Queen Victoria didn't like makeup and found it vulgar, so women usually went for a natural look. Jessamine paints her dark circles whereas Charlotte naturally has them for obvious reasons. ☠️

Low-key, I loved doing Jessamine's ghost form.

And please let's not talk about my strange doodling attempt with the electrum lace design on the parasol. Halfway through it I started telling myself Henry is not a fashion designer and he tried his best to mimic a lace design with the electrum and hide some runes for her protection.

(February 13, 2024)

I will be honest, I struggled with the color of the dress because I do not imagine Cecily with a plain color dress, but not too intricate as Jessamine's. Everything looked too blue at first and I switched so many colors until it ended up like that. And don't get me started on the hair... It felt ✨WRONG✨ to give her a historically accurate hairstyle considering everyone gives her straight hair down.

So in my head her hair IS straight, she just has to appropriately wear it up. But nothing too complicated. And it's worth mentioning my memory is starting to blur out a lot. I had to check her wiki for the weapon and whatnot, and I found that she was petite and thin. In my head she was about Tessa's height. But I barely remember a lot from the books by now.

But I did try to make her look closely similar to Will. And I think she does look like a female, better, version of him. Also, if you're wondering why she's not wearing the necklace: I didn't realize I didn't add it until I finished coloring the dress and by that point I was so sick of it I left it like that. I had the sketch of the necklace, I just forgot to put it with the dress. 🫠

(March 2, 2024)

Gideon is so lucky. 😩

The suits might discourage me from doing the men because there's not really much difference aside of small details of how each man wears it. But anyway... Back to Sophie.

The damn maid dress. It's simple. It is ten times simpler than Jessamine's dress and YET I was struggling with it. And don't get me started on the scar.

The wiki said it was a big, silver, scar on the left side of her face from the corner of her mouth to her temple. I had an existential crisis trying to figure out how to do it, because in the other set ups of these drawings, I depict them like they're facing me, so the portrait wouldn't have shown the scar.

And it's a problem because I also suck at drawing scars. The first try looked fine but it wasn't silver, then I did this and in one part I guess it's fine because I didn't want to make a pretty scar when it's supposed to be bad and shocking for the time period. But a part of my brain thinks it looks like the fungus from The Last of Us. ☠️

Anyways. You may be wondering, "why didn't you do the Shadowhunter gear?" And it's a simple answer... I wanted to see her in a pretty dress. Of course, I could have done the portrait with the maid dress, the middle with her fancy dress, and the second full-body drawing with the gear but I didn't think about that until 10 minutes before posting. 🫠 And that gear is COMPLICATED (Not really, I'm just tired after the dresses).

(April 10, 2024)

If you are wondering why there is a huge time jump from the last fanart to this, I had a really bad art block and the frustration from the inaccurate dresses brought me back lol

Unfortunately I am currently in another slump 🫠

The next one was supposed to be Tessa but the dresses really frustrated me and I never even started the sketch. Idk if I'll ever finish it. I hope so, but don't get your hopes up.