#nyotamichael

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I do not consider myself a good artist but Nyota/Michael ship has no art and @adorkastock inspired me by their hilarious post.

[Image description: a coloured pencil drawing of Nyota Uhura and Michael Burnham from Star Trek. Nyota is holding Michael in her arms newlywed style while Michael has one of her arms thrown over Nyota's shoulder and is aiming with a phaser somewhere off-camera.

Nyota is vaguely based on the Zoe Saldana portrayal from the Kelvin Timeline films. She's a black woman, she has dark skin with cold undertone, she wears her black straight hair in a high ponytail. She's wearing a peach-coloured Ops sweater uniform from Where No Man Has Gone Before, black trousers and black combat boots with the laces in colours of the lesbian flag. She also wears a golden Starfleet commbadge on her chest and a pair of small red earrings, also her nails are painted red. She's looking down at Michael attentively with a smile, her mouth half-opened.

Michael is a black woman with slightly darker skin with a warmer undertone (based on the portrayal by Sonequa Martin-Green). Her hair are styled like in season 2, short curls at the sides and freer curls on top of her head. She's wearing a sweater uniform from Where No Man Has Gone Before, coloured light-blue, black trousers, boring sleek black boots and a golden comm badge on her chest. She's aiming off-camera with a Discovery style phaser and looking concentrated where she's aiming to.

The background is white and there's some text, made to look slightly like an instagram post with comments. On top, there's post description from the user 'ensign Tilly', saying, "Nyota Uhura supporting a bisexual." In the bottom corner, a comment from J.T. Kirk, saying, "l.m.a.o. were u taking pictures in the middle of a firefight." Esign Tilly reponds with, "yes." J.T. Kirk responds with two 🙏 emojis. /end description.]

(1. the pastel sweater uniforms because they are the best. 2. I normally am better with Michael's hair but... shit happens. 3. emojis are sometimes so hard to draw haha)

again, please check out the original post by adorkastock. (image description in alt text). they have a ton of awesome pose references, don't miss out on them!