Fuvk man why didn’t any one tell me that Old man Yaoi had Hands
^shikamaru’s visuals for my fic “the twelfth guardian” posted like five minutes ago.
okay, context: for the longest time i had this plot bunny about naruto being raised at the daimyo’s mansion and i finally wrote it for a shikanaru fic. only, it’s entirely from shikamaru’s pov and it’s plot heavy and i ended up writing it out for four days straight (it’s not complete but mostly it’s done) and i had way more fun with it than i thought i would. sometimes, writing for fics helps you articulate a thought you never realised you had and it happened quite a few times with this fic. i ended up making art for it because i was so absorbed by the images in my head (i’ll upload more stuff as the other two chapters come out). currently, the doc sits at 24k+ words and this will end up being around 32k i reckon. also, most importantly, this is the reference image i used for shika! it was originally from a tutorial. i’m not good at making up characters from memory or creating believable poses (using a laptop-app for digital art for the first time!) but i’m good at sketching from a source. so this helped immensely. making his sword was super fun!! anyway, goooo read if the summary is your vibe and lemme know your thoughts!
happy holidays!! <3