One-shots, bios, visual shorts, FAQ, behind the scenes, and other stuff to make you go "yasss," related to Lena's books, including:
Our Strange Love (OSL)
Smile for Me (SfM)
When Best Friends Kiss (WBFK)
This is Not a Tragedy (TiNaT)
2021 Disclaimer: If you are someone who plans to share art or improve your drawing, I don't recommend tracing. In many cases, tracing is theft, even if you tweak it after. Younger me didn't know better. Good news: Some artists create bases you can trace, but those are specifically noted by the artist that tracing or redrawing is allowed.
Yo. Just wanted to show you some art I created a long time ago.
This is a cover for I made for OSL:
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The original drawing of Riley and Eran was done in 2014 for the cover. This is the original from back when I thought it was going to be a light novel (at that time, Riley was not a POC):
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Pretty sure it took me months to finish (not even including the color edits that you see in the above cover). I used Junko-sensei (a BL mangaka, also the author of "Kiss Him, Not Me") as inspiration for the style. I looked at many different mangaka and loved her style the best. I probably like Ogawa Chise more now. Just so you know, Riley's hand is 100% traced from a manga panel. 😅 Even now, I still can't draw hands completely on my own. I take pictures of my own hands in different positions, trace, then tweak to make it more manga-like. I looked at so many tutorials for the other parts and practiced like hell, trying to come up with my own style. That's why it took months. 😂
Art #2:
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This wasn't as serious and was done for fun, so, as you can see, about 95% of it is traced. Here's the original (from Junko's manga):
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If anyone is curious, I drew these on my phone (Samsung Note 3) using my stylus and the stock software Sketchbook (by autodesk). Now I use my phone and PicsArt just for editing, while I do drawing using my wacom pad and lately Photoshop.
