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Time to complete the new Mori Kei 30 Day Challenge prompts! Let's go! Day 1: How did you discover mori kei? What attracted you to the style? I've talked about this before on the internet, but it's been a while. So let's start at the beginning! I first discovered mori in 2013. I remember it pretty vividly. Before finding mori, I wasn't that interested in fashion. I wore jeans and t-shirts most days, was obsessed with my bright pink converse, and the only non-mainstream fashion pieces I owned were a black punk-style skirt I bought at Hot Topic and then styled once with a t-shirt, and a pair of long black lace gloves. Enjoy some pictures of pre-mori baby Kathryn. Look at those massive lace gloves and those uggs. Oof. In 2013, I was casually interested in anime and very interested in Japan. I can't remember exactly how, but I had come across Lolita fashion on the internet. I believe it might have been through anime art? Which I was very into at the time. I liked Lo...

Many, many years ago (and by that I mean almost 10 years ago now wow I feel old) a tumblr user called Shady Oaks made the first and most well known list of mori prompts, known as the Mori Girl 30 Day Challenge . The prompts were very well loved and many people completed them multiple times, including myself ! But by this point, the prompts are kind of old and some of them are a little too specific to the time, in my opinion. So, I thought, why not make my own list of prompts!  I decided to use some of the original prompts, but I've also added some of my own questions to spice things up. Hopefully you enjoy, and please make sure to link me your responses if you complete this challenge! The Prompts How did you discover mori kei? What attracted you to the style? What was your first mori outfit? Share pictures or describe it. How does it compare to your current style? What are your inspirations for your own fashion style? Do you have anyone that inspires your style? Or any themes? How ...

Quite a while back, in 2015 in fact, a lovely person who was active in the mori community at the time made a set of prompts to follow for drawing, known as the Mori Challenge. I completed the challenge ages ago on Instagram, right when I was starting to take my art more seriously. But I recently started revisiting the challenge this year. I'm working through the prompts slowly, but I felt like sharing them with you all here, including a little behind-the-scenes info and inspirations. You can find a list to all of the prompts archived on my blog here . Feel free to try them out yourself! You can also keep track of my art on the art Instagram, forestsandtea_art ! 1) Comfort Food: I have many comfort foods, but my ultimate Japanese comfort food has been curry and rice with pork katsu! The taste is so delicious, and it can easily be purchased at any family-style Japanese restaurant. So it was an obvious choice for my first piece. (Also, this was one of my first finished pieces with Pro...