It's a sunny but chilly autumn day here at Studio Mikarts 🍁🍂 I only have a little time to dedicate to studio work before I go help my sister move into a lovely new apartment, so I thought I would use it to share this illustration I finished last month. It was my 9th wedding anniversary gift to my husband 💖
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ink, marker, colored pencil, collage, and glitter on marker paper 4x6 inches 19 September 2025 |
It took about eight hours to create this. Like most of my work, it involved a big mashup of media and techniques. To start, I took a photo of us from our recent vegan cruise vacation and digitally collaged some wolf and fox ears on—it's been my thing for ages to make myself a wolf and Sean a fox 🐺❤️🦊 I also added some willow branches, because willow is one of the 9th anniversary symbols, representing the flexibility and strength necessary for a marriage to last so long.
Once the digital collage was complete, I printed the image and traced it onto a sheet of marker paper using black ink. I used alcohol marker, colored pencil, and white ink to add color and texture. The final step was more collage, this time using physical media. I cut out a red paper heart and pasted it on, then finished the piece off with some red glitter paint (the glitter effect doesn't come through in the digital space, unfortunately).
Studio Mikarts ★ 9th Wedding Anniversary Present, Part 1 ★ Live Art by Denise みか Hutchins
I livestreamed the entirety of this piece on Twitch. It's one of the last pieces to be so documented, as I decided a couple weeks ago to take an indefinite hiatus from livestreaming. The video above is part one of three. If there is greater interest in seeing my art made live sometime in the future, I may return to livestreaming, but for now, I hope you'll enjoy this and the hundreds of hours of artmaking footage going all the way back to 2018 on my YouTube channel 📺
That's all for me today. Thank you for reading about my most recent illustration! Until next time, may you remain happy, healthy, and safe 💖
