eeep! i have been working on this gosh darn picture of Izumi for THREE WEEKS!!!! She just would not let me draw her! i tried and i tried to make a pen and ink like the rest but she was all "Whatever you, I should be in color!" So i fixed her little red wagon. I made her REALLY colorful. Izumi would mostly likely never be caught dead in such colors, but the clothes work. She is difficult to draw because her style is all over the place. I thought she'd be easy, she came to me before the Gyaru did, but she appeared with dark skin and white blonde hair. This is because she is dark and menacing and is very much on the Visual Kei scene, which is another music scene/fashion trend in Japan. It's what Miyavi was before he went solo, it's what Blood, that goth/industrial band i saw in Boston, is. Visual Kei is usually a style reserved for androgenous men, and when girls dress like it it's generally considered Goth Lolita. But they too, bleach their hair and wear insanely elaborate costumes that are goth mixed with punk. So usually Izumi would wear more black and if there were a color involved, let it be red. But here Izumi's gonna go half gyaru because as i stated earlier today, i can't get them outta my head.
So Izumi is the bitch of the pack. She isn't mean, really, she just doesn't care at all what you think of her or about your opinions. She will argue with you at the drop of a hat, but her arguements are very frustrating because you know right away, you can never win this. Izumi is studying to become a lawyer. She is very anti-social and a huge RPG nerd, when she is emersed in one of these games, the other girls may go for weeks without hearing from her. But when she comes out to play, she can get them into any club and she is a great singer so karaoke is one of her favorite past times. She also can drink most of the other girls (save Sachi, that darn westerner) under the table. Sachi is terrified of Izumi for the most part and thinks Izumi doesn't like her because she is not Japanese. This is false, Izumi doesn't dislike Sachi at all, she doesn't care either way. Aside from disappearing into video games, Izumi frequents the countryside to visit her Grandmother and sing enka songs for her. Izumi is a skilled cook and will make you a 3 course meal (at least) if you catch her at home when she's not playing video games.
i apologize for the color pencil. it's all i have till i get a decent paint program.
These are some examples of Visual Kei, it's Mana,an innovator of the style (visual kei means Visual Style). Then Vidoll, a band that's way better than Vidoll....They got a lot better over time, but have always looked awesome. Then my new Mana, Hizaki, HE rules the metal/industrial side of the visual kei fence right now. and look at him, isn't he pretty?
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