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vah!

@arinavah / arinavah.tumblr.com

Arina | 25 | artist
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Hello! I absolutely adore your art!! It really makes my day when you post!

Are you still planning on releasing a chosoyuki zine? Me wanna spend the big bucks on your masterpieces 🥹

Hope you have a wonderful day!

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I’m slowly working on it and plan to release it in July🫡 but there’s a problem: I’m not sure I’ll be able to sell it abroad. Payment service I used stopped accepting PayPal, plus new export laws and parcel returns from customs make everything very complicated. I HOPE I’ll be able to open my international shop with Chosoyuki zines, I’ll do my best to do it, but I just can’t be sure for 100% it will happen. 😔✊

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HAVE YOU SEEN IT?? This video was made by shounen jump, and there are Chosoyuki crumbs there! And… they’re smiling to each other?? Talking to each other?? BLUSHING?? Yuki hugging him? And I guess his hand is on her waist because it’s not visible?? And they seem to be drunk?? God, thank you Chosoyuki shipper from Shounen jump department for your service ❤️

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(sorry if someone has asked this before) when did you start drawing? :3

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(warning: after reading your question I felt nostalgic and accidentally made a long-ass post about my whole art journey) As every kid I’ve been drawing from the very childhood, but everything became more serious when I started to attend local art classes in 2006 when I was 10y.o. I’ve been attending them for 7 years and here are drawings from the middle of that period when I was ~14y.o.

After graduation in 2013 I drew this and that occasionally but nothing serious, just doodling in sketchbooks during boring classes.

Around 2016 something happened with me: I discovered a lot of new art creators and bloggers, they had a huuuge influence on me, so after ~3 years of kinda artblock I finally felt a desire to create and started drawing like crazy. I could fill a whole sketchbook within a month, and is wasn’t just mindless doodling, I put effort in each page, imitating those art bloggers with pretty sketchbooks.

Then I started to learn how to draw digitally and it took me months to find normal brush and make something bearable.

And then around 2017-2018 I created my first art blog, in 2019 I started making merch and then in 2021 I quit my job and became self employed artist!

my first (2019) vs last (2023) artist alley

Soooooo it’s been 18 years!

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