The fourth drawing I made for this project was based on a sketch I found on the Internet (probably fan-made) of Naoki and Kotoko from Itazura na Kiss. Personally, I am a fan of this story and watched the anime and all drama adaptations that have been made up to date. I just think they make a wonderful couple ^^ never mind how predictable the story may be 😀

I turned the couple into Kei and Megumi. Why? Because I was looking for a couple in which the boy wouldn’t be looking overly tender or romantic or cheesy, but rather stoic. Kei is like that. I think this image is really fitting for MeguKei because they are like that as a couple. Megumi is very energetic and romantic and Kei is very stubborn and stoic and doesn’t show his feelings most of the time. But he’s not as jerkish as Naoki :’) I can imagine Megumi calling him ‘Irie-kun’ for fun, though. I didn’t change Naoki’s shirt, but I did change the style of the face. At first, Kei’s face was more like Naoki’s in the drawing, but then I thought that that wouldn’t be very me, so I changed his face to my own style :3 Also, Megumi is wearing something else and I love how her hair came out.

So here you can see the original image versus my version (don’t criticize me too hard, still and still an amateur~)

The third drawing I made for this project is based on a title chapter drawing from the manga Say I Love You (or ‘Suki tte Ii na Yo’). The couple from this manga kiss a lot, but I was looking for a special image to use and this one caught my eye.

I turned the couple into Riku and Yamiko because they kind of have the same feeling around them as Mei and Yamato. I love Mei’s hair!!! (:3) so I decided to draw Yamiko’s hair like that too. I didn’t really change the expressions because the way they look in the original image would be about the same as YamiRiku would look.

So here you can see the original image versus my version (please don’t criticize this one, I’m still an amateur in training~)

I may have gone a little far with this drawing since I purposely added elements from the lyrics into the drawing instead of just going with the flow. Anyways, this is a song I don’t specifically listen to a lot, but one time I did I decided that I was going to draw something for it. I have to say I am not entirely sure what it’s all about, but what my imagination made of it can be seen in the drawing.

It features Yura and she is trapped in a tower. There is a lightning-shaped crack in the wall through which she can see the outside world and she is making her way towards it, climbing sideways against the wall. Behind her is her shadow, ‘luring under evil intentions’ as it says in the lyrics. The drawing turned out very abstract in my opinion. I took some lyric-elements quite literally, like ‘the voice of captivity’ as a mouth voicing the Japanese character for ‘captivity’. And the palm of a hand reaching towards the girl is the ‘identity which she cannot escape from’. Although I prefer just letting my imagination run free next time and not focussing too much on stuff from the lyrics, the abstractness kind of has something.
Also, the print on Yura’s dress is based on the Tower of Babel.

(You can find my English translation to this song in ‘Nice Music’ > ‘Nana Mizuki’ > ‘Impact Exciter’ > ‘Toraware no Babel’.)