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luckily i have a boyfriend and parents who are 'supporters of the arts' haha.

my first painting teacher said his best advice for young artists is 'to marry a supporter of the arts' lol.

my hands right now

i am so happy

Ooh, yeah, same, I'm the happiest when I have charcoal/graphite/whatever everywhere.

"Marry a supporter of the arts" must be the advice my husband got haha!

There is a quality in your paintings on the first page that remind me so very much of Degas.

aaa Mekatra you're a lucky one.

Thank you so much for bringing up Degas that's such a compliment. I'm highly influenced by impressionism and post impressionism. I didn't start drawing dancers because he drew dancers, I started the dancers because I think dancers take the human form to it's most beautiful impossible limits but once I started them I certainly was spending a lot of time looking at Degas's dancers.

I did something new. Kind of combining this anime thing I was doing based on Hikari Shimoda's work but with more of like "My style" this time. I'm really happy with this. I call it "shōjo manga"

u cant tell from the photo but there is literally so much glitter on this and all over my apartment (thanks for not complaining about the glitter, doug.)

close upssss

Oh it's cute! I remember when Shoujo Beat magazine came out and my oldest sister had a subscription to it. She was obsessed. Your art does a great job of capturing the kind of softness that the genre is known for.

My husband is the lucky one, lol, he's the artist, I'm the supporter. XD

Your love of impressionist and post-impressionist art really shows, but not so much that it looks like you're just straight up copying styles of artists.

not gonna lie. I really want the stickers.

xD

lmao glitch i need more stickers now ;-;.



what kinda art does hubby make mekatra?

i actually used an issue of shojo beat in this. i had two of one issue so i tore it up for this collage.

He draws and does graphic design. He does a weekly norse pagan comic strip too. He also runs our chainmaille/other stuff shop online.

oh wow thats really cool!

i got more stickers in the mail today finna make another one

the 2nd and 4th painting
you got a cool style

thank you so much, i really appreciate it.