Can you actually tell who it is? x_X I don't do stuff like this often because drawing actual people is incredibly difficult and I'm a wuss. There's so much pressure when you know it has to be good enough to be recognisable ;_;

Justification/self-defense:
This was a birthday card for a friend (aren't they always?). I got the idea after flipping through a 'Gackt file' she had and being traumatised by some of the photos. The card was presented with the plain image of Gackt on the front. Inside the card was a clear plastic transparency, taped at the top so that the reader could flip it over the front of the card and read the comments written on it. I've juxtapositioned them for comparison. This was also my first experiment in using copics over a sketch instead of inking. I didn't feel confident enough to remove the pencil-shading I'd sketched in, so kept it there as a guide for the markers.


2B mechanical sketch, Copic Markers, clear transparency with permanent marker. Apologies to anyone that genuinely likes Gackt and finds this offensive.