Sweet tips + art update

Hey!

Today I wanted to make a small update with some art I have made recently, 

and also a recommendation for you all! ^0^

I´ve quickly mentioned it before, but recently I have been reeeeeally into reading a manga called 

Yumeiro Patissiere

It´s about a girl named Ichigo, who loves eating cakes and sweet treats, and she has a very refined taste for them. One day she is picked out to start at a school for confections and baking, 

so she can learn more about making cakes! ^^

There she meets others who likes baking, and she also meets the sweets spirits. The sweets spirits are small, fairy-like creatures that has been sent to earth from the sweets kingdom to learn about making sweets and cakes! So, they have to choose a human to be their partner. 

Ichigo meets a sweets spirit called "Vanilla" (whose speciality is vanilla flavoured things)

 and they become great friends <3

After a while she figures out some of the others also have sweets spirits, and they all have specialities they are good at (and their names usually give them away ;-3 ) 

I love this manga because it features gorgeous shoujo art, and tons of details just drowned in cuteness ;v; Seriously, even though either Ichigo or any of the others are lolitas, 

they dress in super frilly clothing with tons of adorable alice-like details, 

bows, buttons, frills, lace, pintucks and sparkly little gems all over the place. So If, you are looking for a cute comic to read, that can fit with your sweet image, or just to please your kawaii-craving soul, look no further, this is it! It is an incredibly cute story, filled with all the most delicious and dreamy treats you could ever imagine ( new ones in every chapter!),  combined with adorable fashion and wonderfully sweet shoujo faces (enormous glittery eyes anyone???) and elaborate cute hairstyles. Forever a favourite in my heart, now that I´ve found it. I wish to purchase the actual manga books as soon as I can afford it, and I will try to watch the anime series as well. For now, I´ve just got to settle with reading it online as it updates >.<"

Since I completely fell in love with this series, I couldn´t stand not making any kind of fan art to show my appreciation of it, and thus.... these two pictures where made :3 

This drawing I made about 1-2 weeks ago, using paint tool sai ^^ I am very pleased with the result, and I think it is the prettiest digital drawing I´ve ever made ;v; 

So I am actually quite proud of it, and not afraid to say so! 

It is Vanilla-chan, Ichigos sweets spirit! ^0^ I really love her design, so I just had to draw her! She has the cutest hairstyle, don´t you think? I had no idea what to put in the background, so I made some bows, and cakes (first time drawing digital food like this!).... I am sorry the cherry pie looks a bit derp, it´s my first time drawing it >.< I like how the cookie came out though! It looks like it has actual texture and everything :D yay!

 I also find it hard to draw gold, so the spoon might look a bit funny :-/... All in all though, I am really happy with it! ^0^ I hope you guys like it also! Please let me know what you think <3 

The second fanart picture I made, I finished only today! 

I have promised myself to draw more male characters this year, because I am quite bad at male anatomy and such >.< But I really like how (some of) this came out! I only used my own hands as reference, live-acting the poses, not even taking pictures while I drew ^0^

This is Kashino! One of the "sweets princes" that Ichigo befriends at the school. He is actually not the kind of guy to smile, but I wanted to make him look happy for once ^^ His sweets spirit is called Chocolate, so you can guess her speciality ;-3 hehe... 

The story of this picture is that Kashino just made that delicious café latte, mocca and physalis cake (with pocky topping) and he is letting us know that he couldn´t have done it without the help of his wonderful fairy friend, Chocolate ^^ hihi <333 

I made this only using photoshop for the colouring, so I know it´s not as good as the previous one... I really wanna become good at using photoshop also though, 

so I need to practice even though it´s kinda tedious at times >.<"""""

The one thing I see that is really off in this picture, is his shoulders... but I find it very hard drawing shoulders underneath clothing like that, so I guess that´s just something I´ll have to practice... 

Please let me know what you think of this one also!

So yeah, If you feel as enchanted about this adorable manga series as I do,

 and just wanna get to reading it straight away you can do so 

HERE

I, for one, can´t wait for the next updated chapter ;v;

 It fills me with fuzzy warm feelings when I read it.

Do you make fanart of things you like?

I hope you enjoyed todays cuteness tip, and artupdate!
Tuning out from kawaii-land, until next time, with more cute everyday life

Kawaii tip of the week: stickers!

I have never wanted this blog to become one of those blogs with eternal whining about not having the time to update, or school taking all of my time... but really, what else can I say? I decided to do a quick update anyway, since I needed to take a little brake ^^

Since I got my new moleskine sketchbook, I have been in a desperate need of new stickers! Why, you might ask, well... that is simply because good art supplies have this little thing with them that almost always makes them equal boring design. I can almost asure you, that if you find a really good quality sketchbook, it is bound to be either black, or some other dark, boring colour. 

I have a certain addiction to "cute-ify" all of my art things, if they don´t allready come with cute designs. The quickest, simplest and easiest way to do this, will be with stickers! ^^

I offcourse went on a sticker hunt at once, and after some searching here and there, I ended up with a couple of super cute ones :) 

Supporting smaller businesses is really important to me, because I love that fact that people are able to create something unique and share it with the world! ^^ It is really nice also, because you can get really nice and special handmade things, one of a kind even :) 

I decided that the "theme" for my sketchbook this time, would be bunnies ^^

 These little cuties are currently all over the cover of my moleskine, 

and I can´t help but squeel a little bit every time I see it x3 

I bought them from this really cute store called 

Sugar bunny shop

both of them together were only about 7 $! The shop is owned by a lovely girl called Samantha, I really reccomend checking out her super cute designs if you like kawaii things ^^ You can find loads of other really adorable things in the shop ! Both apparel, mugs, plushies and other stationary <3 

Since I couldn´t really decide on what stickers to get, 

I also got these reeeally adorable ones from another artist as well ^^

(sorry for the yellow-ness of this picture >.<)

Her artist name is Kaiami, while her real name is Bianca! ^^

I just adore her cute studio ghibli drawings so much *v*
I fell in love instantly, and just had to get them!

Check out her store!

Kaiami at Storenvy

These couple of sticker sheets were only about 9 $ in total! I was really surpised also, because the big one is acctually A4 in size! so its really huge! :D

I can´t wait to find something to stick these ones on also. I just love them so much >w< iih!

do you decorate your stuff with stickers?

Thanks for reading!