meraki-art book III

87 - heyo heres stuff

so remember how I said I think yesterday that I was gonna go design some guys

here they are :>
we got a Mexican boy cos I want myself a Mexican boy and his aesthetic is grunge and then he's got a trans bf who's emo bc I low key have a thing for emo boys and the emo boy is in a lil rock garage band typa thing and he loves it and he's actually the lead singer and he's pretty good at it
uhhhhh what else what else... oh they're like 17/18/19 something like that I think that they're gonna be in hs still so I'll prolly have them both be like 16/17 or something idk I'm figuring this out as I type instead of stepping back, thinking, and then just typing out my decision <33 but uh yeah they're pretty cool and also I think that Charlie—grunge boy—is like an introvert and then unnamed-emo-boy is an ambivert but they like met in middle school when emo boy was pre-t but still emo and so Charlie's been there since the start of it all but yeah Charlie's gay like mlm gay and emo boy is bi, and so Charlie didn't like him romantically when emo boy was pre t but then he started his social transition and that's when Charlie started to fall for him :>
idk imma do some name research and maybe change Charlie's name as well as give emo boy a name
oh and these two are for the sole purpose of being drawn—I will nOT MAKE A STORY ABOUT THEm because I tend to lose interest in my books and then I abandon all of the amazing characters I made for the book and it's very heartbreaking ((not really I'm actually kinda unaffected lmao)) so I'm gonna leave these two aLONe.

sowwy for ranting pookies 🥺👉👈

ok now for some sketchbook stuffffff :]]]]

here is the digital sketch I'd done for my sketchbook cover

I had initially wanted to just reference this and draw it out traditionally, but decided against it bc I realized how much more complicated that would be and I knew I didn't have the patience for that lolzies

so I js finalized the sketch vvvvv

this was like also some space-planning bc I wanted to know ahead of time where everything was gonna go yk so yeahhh
I love it sm

wowowowowowo sketchbook cover ((finally))

inside of sketchbook ((this is all I have so far 💀)) also yall remember that illustration on the right??? that's the one I'd been planning a few chapters back!! and that's the FINISHED VERSION THAT I NEVER SHOWED YALL AHAHHAHA

uh I bought most of those stickers but I made the bluey one myself 💝 oh and those aren't all of the stickers I got, I js haven't used all of them yet

these are the business cards or whatever from the people I bought the stickers from!! I wanted to keep them js cos I thought it looked cool

I made it so you can flip them over and stuff!! interactive 💝
also the sketchbook came w a lil pocket at the back!! so I made a color swatching page and put it in the pocket :DD

I thiiiink that that's it
byeeeeeee
—Raiden 😰🚫‼️🔥