When a special occasion rolls around for someone in my family (birthday, Mother's Day, what have you), I try to whip up a card for the person of the day. I think they usually turn out alright for something I crafted in about an hour or so, but they are usually nothing really worth showing off. This time, however, something just clicked, and I made this for my little sister's 20th birthday.
Here we have the front, inside, and back (from left to right) of this birthday card I made yesterday. For those unfamiliar, this is based on the anime Death Note, which I have been watching with my sister for a few weeks now. The creature on the inside is our favorite character from the show, a Death God named "Ryuk". He mainly comments on the events of the show from behind the protagonist's shoulder, and he loves eating apples from the human world so much that his body contorts if he goes without one for several days. On the back is the Gothic letter M (the first letter of her name). This is meant to reference another character from Death Note who originally only communicated with the officials he worked with using the Gothic letter L as his avatar.
It took me about an hour and a half to make this card, and then another half-hour to scan and edit these images. Even though it didn't take long to make, this is probably one of my favorite cards that I've made. Sometimes, the idea just comes and yields results. Hopefully, the next card I draw can come this easily.
Death Note is a comic that ran in Shonen Jump magazine. It was originally written by Tsugumi Ohba and drawn by Takeshi Obata. Any credit for Death Note or the character "Ryuk" goes to them.
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