This is how I spent part of my weekend!  Anime Detour has a charity auction every year and I try to come up with something to put in it.  This year is the first year I thought ahead of time  ^^;;;  J. Michael Tatum will be at the convention and I thought, “What if I woodburned a big picture of Sebastian?  And he signed it?”  I’ve been emailing the people in charge of the auction and they like the idea!  

The burning is done (yay!) and now all that’s left is to have him sign it.  The plan is for it to be signed the night before the convention, so it’ll be autographed when its put in the auction on Friday  :)

Along with the finished picture is some progress pictures.  This was something I started to do on Saturday and finished about half an hour ago  ^^

Picture one:  All finished, red eyes and all!

Picture two:  The start of the project.  The picture is sketched onto the wood in pencil, very lightly, in case I had to erase anything.

Picture three:  Penciled in the parts that will be woodburned.  

Picture four:  Started to woodburn, took a picture to show the difference between the woodburn and pencil  :)

Picture five:  All the burning is done!  

This was fun to do and I’m kind of surprised it didn’t take as long as I thought.  My poor little woodburning probably hates me, though  ^^;;;  If you’re going to Anime Detour, be sure to check this out in the auction!  

As always, feel free to check out my Etsy store or my DeviantArt  :)  I haven’t done too many large woodburnings, so I hope this turned out o.k.?

Just sketched out a heart-shaped coaster for crossdressing!Kanji that says “Get Bent,” and am now sketching out a crossdressing!Yosuke button that says, “Strawberry Shortcake.”

Fucks given = 0

More soon to be woodburned sketches.  What to do with rectangle blocks of wood?  Well, THIS, obviously (at least if you’re a crazy Persona fan)  ^^  The first one is of Yukiko in those glasses, you know, THOSE glasses  :)  The second and third are Kanji and Naoto.  I think, next, I want to do Adachi with caution tape.

What am I doing?!  Now I’m pairing personas together along with their masters?  Well, if this is the road we’re going down, let’s just do it!  

I thought it might be cool (maybe?) to show progress pictures of the things I make, sort of a before and after.  Starting with two new coasters of my OTP, Kanji and Naoto!  Before I burn something, I sketch it on the wood first, then burn over the lines (and sometimes paint parts, too, still deciding on that for these two).  

In the first heart-shaped coaster is Kanji and Naoto kissing.  I don’t really draw kissing (in fact, this might be my first time) so I thought I’d give it a shot.  The second is of their personas, Take-Mikazuchi and Sukuna Hikona, with Sukuna Hikona kissing Take-Makazuchi on his cheek (possibly might make the awesome, big persona blush).

Lately I’ve been doing a LOT of Persona 4 things.  I’m trying NOT to, because I need to make a variety of things for our table at Anime Iowa (and our Etsy shop in general) but I can’t help myself!  I’ll post more things tomorrow, probably, including the Magician glass progress  ^^

Stepping away from anime, manga, and video games comes… DISNEY!  I love that silly ol’ bear and his friends.  These are the only two Winnie the Pooh related clocks I’ve made, but I’m always willing to make more if anyone could use some Pooh bear in their lives  ^^

Revolutionary Girl Utena is one of my favorite anime series of all time.  I always try to make something when I’m at a convention.  I’m always trying to improve my Utena things, since I feel like they have to be ridiculously fancy  ^^

As always, everything is hand made by me and I take commissions on everything.  Be sure to check out my tumblr, which has links to my shop, or just ask on here  :)

The last item is a combination of scratch boards, painted, scratched, and hot glue  ^^  I would love to make something like this again, the shadow girls are awesome and it was fun to come up with it.

Two Black Butler/Kuroshitsuji mirrors.  The first one is Sebastian and Ciel from the opening of season two, because I really like the silhouette of them together.  I was going to put the logo on it somewhere, but I thought that would be a bit much so I left it as is.  Completely done in pencil, the ruler was my best friend/worst enemy >.<

The second is of Grell, but done in a strange style that I had an idea for.  Grell’s not colored in, not really, instead the colors are written out (red and black) to color in the picture.  The only thing colored is Grell’s eye  :)  

Both of these mirrors have sold, but you can always commission me for something. The shop page (etsy AND facebook) are on the side of my tumblr, or you can just ask me on here.  Enjoy!  

Manga style mirrors, Naruto edition.  I love the black and white of manga pages, so I decided to sketch out and paint mirrors in the same style.  So far I’ve only really done it with Naruto, and I haven’t made a mirror like this in a while, so I definitely need to make more. 

As always, feel free to ask questions or send me notes here or on my Etsy, I take commissions and would love to make more items  :)  

Some of the mirrors have other things painted, like Naruto’s eyes, or young Kakashi, small things like that.  The Naruto and Kyubi mirror was a complete accident, I was going to paint the whole thing but left it partway painted before I had to go to work.  My partner saw it when I came home and was like, “No, leave it!”  It’s not quite manga style, not really, just… well it sort of is, I guess?    

Because Persona 3 needs some love, too  :)  Made this mirror a while ago, but I definitely need to make more P3 things (as much as I love P4, I also love P3 too, if it weren’t for that one I probably wouldn’t be so hooked to the franchise).  I want to remake this mirror and sell it, because I think I’ve gotten better since then  ^^;;  

This was back when I did glass etching too, which worked with the P3 in the corner of the glass, but when I redo it (eventually) I want to do something fancy, like paint the logo or the Shin Megami Tensei symbol or something.

Kind of nervous about posting this, not sure why…

It’s no secret that Kanji and Naoto are my OTP.  In fact, they might be my favorite OTP of all time.  I could go on and on about why I love them so much, but I’ll spare everyone.  As always, this is hand drawn/painted by me  ^^  

The words on the mirror say, “Love is Tender and Knows no Gender,” because I think these two fit that message perfectly.  This is because there seems to be this debate on whether or not Kanji is gay, Naoto is transgender, ect. ect.  To me, it doesn’t matter either way, because these two are such great characters with some powerful things to deal with, and they are great together (particularly in the anime where it goes beyond Kanji’s crush, they also fight together and work well with one another).  I don’t want to spend time debating whether or not someone is gay, straight, transgender, whatever.  What I want is to celebrate the fact that these two would be a great couple.  It works no matter how you look at it.  If he’s gay?  She’s most comfortable posing as a boy.  If he’s straight?  She’s adorable as a girl.  If he’s straight and just understands that she’s more comfortable as a boy?  Awesome.  If she feels comfortable as a woman by the end of the game?  Sure.  If she still wants to be the boy detective?  Sure, that works too.  If she actually wants a procedure to be turned into a male?  Sure, why not.  Anything and everything works, what matters is that these two can love one another no matter what  :)  

Oops… guess I went on and on about it after all  ^^;;;  Regardless, enjoy the mirror, it actually didn’t sell at the convention I had it at so it’s available for purchase  ^^