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I just realized that I never introduced you all to Katydid, nugget’s cagemate that we acquired over the summer. He was found under the hitch of a friend’s fifth wheel after they’d gotten to their campsite. Which is honestly really depressing because it means his siblings fell out on the way. But on a brighter note, he does not have spinal trauma, and he and Nugget get along wonderfully and banter like the sillies they are.

He really. And I mean REALLY. Likes baths. And he jumps on my hand to play in the sink water every time it gets turned on. He is stupid.

SHOP UPDATE IS LIVE EVERYONE!!!

Some highlights:

Little baked good paperweights/desk buddies

THE MOSS AUTISM CREATURE

PINS- designing these and their backs was so fun-

Stickers of little fall mammals doing cute things

All the new opossum and starling items

Do you ever just. Wake up one day and decide you need to make a jackalope shadow puppet?

Also the concept art and the puppet in the light.

BEES

This will be available as a print on my shop within the next couple weeks. Working on a full shop update.

Edit: PRINT AVAILABLE NOW

I know it’s seven AM, but I just finished this little guy and I just really need to share him.

Pricing will be $3.84 and the sticker would be about three inches tall.

Edit: IT’S AVAILABLE NOW, FIND IT HERE

YOUTUBE SHORT CAN BE FOUND HERE (showing all their little details is just easier in video format)

@canisalbus i made your silly little dog men as a gift for a friend (we frequently scream at each other about them because they are precious and we mutually adore them) and yeah. That’s all. Here they are- Small beans that they are.

Bet you didn’t think you’d learn what human and 100% troll Fass looked like today, did you? Or what his parents looked like. Or what he looked like as a human kid. Nope, betchu didn’t.

But anyway. A bunch of miscellaneous troll/changeling information just because. Also trolls are born as beans like bears. Just so everyone knows. Female trolls are called sows and males are called bores. That’s all.

I’m so normal about them.

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Finally got around to painting this concept I’ve had floating around for a few months. This is Enya’s mom, Briony. (Above the water is her human form, below the water is her true form) Honestly really happy with how it turned out, especially since I haven’t properly water colored in about a million years, but yeah. Here she is.

Also, here’s where you can find her playlist and moodboard (just really like her playlist and everything I’ve scrounged up for it)

DECEMBER-JUNE ANSWERED

These are all arranged in alphabetical order, btw. Just seemed less spammy like this ;P

anon

*flaps hands and buzzes so much-* This seriously means so much on all the levels and I will go find a corner to melt and and ;-;

Also I’m glad at least that I can fool people into believing I know how to do backgrounds lol

@ghostkitt018

I would just like you to know- this is like the highest compliment I could ever receive and I’m very glad that’s how it translates because my greatest aspiration is for everything I make taste like mushroom soup. And maybe myself too lol

But seriously thank you. Also your English is just fine

@giltine13

Because your art is cool and your poses are always super dynamic and nice and I really like your character designs and- *gestures*

*vibrates* thank you- <33

@nyaboshi

THANK YOU SO MUCH JPKYGESYJ <33

I really love Achlys, he’s adorable and his wings and his clothes and his little face- sorry, tangent. But.

@0m3n-0f-d3ath

I LOVE YOUR ART. All your little guys clothes are so aesthetically pleasing and their hair is so nice and all your salmon and. It’s. All of it is just very good.

@paleopup

SO IS YOURS- IT’S SO FREAKING SOFT AND SQUISHY AND PETTABLE AND MMMMM

@recklessidi0t

HGJINTDR THANK YOU- I just really like birds so I draw them a lot. They are silly. And Nugget is very photogenic, so we take pictures and use them as reference, because.

Also I’d just like to say I’m just slightly a little tiny bit utterly in love with your art style and your composition and colors they’re just. They’re just very nice.

MY ETSY SHOP IS FINALLY LIVE!

I recorded all this back in February and March but never got around to editing it all together, so here it finally is. Definitely not because I’m really bad at talking to a camera and I feel like the whole thing awful. I’m gonna get better pictures in the morning, because I have a migraine. But this is my little whaleshark buddy. Any name suggestions?

Part 1 - Next Part ->

Masterpost - Speach & Text Key - Character Ref Pages - Prompts List

This is prompt one through six. I finally finished them and I’m honestly pretty happy with most of them. Page four is a little chaotic though, hopefully it reads okay. The next part is only four pages, so hopefully it won’t take as long to finish.

MerMay 2024 - Masterpost

Speach & Text Key

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PART 1 - 1. Marine Biologist 2. Carnivorous 3. Dwelling/House 4. Healer 5. Revenge 6. Midnight

PART 2 - 7. Breakfast 8. Market 9. Semi Aquatic 10. Recycle

PART 3 - 11. Repaired 12. Glass 13. Crying 14. Kelp 15. Siren

PART 4 - 16. Sharp Teeth 17. Communication/Language 18. Migration 19. Literature 20. Begrudging

PART 5 - 21. Plankton 22. Lab 23. Colors 24. Game

PART 6 - 25. Cave 26. Found 27. Security 28. Passenger 29. Message 30. Reconciliation 31. Pod

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Character Ref Pages - Prompts List

FINISHED MY LIST OF PROMPTS, GUYS

If anyone uses these, please feel free to @ me, I’d love to see how people interpret them. I guess you could also just use a tag. #piddermermay I guess? Idk. I’ve never done anything like this before.

I wanted to paint something yes i’m still hooked on the sol brush, leave me alone, but I feel like I’ve done too many headshot type things recently, so I decided to just do my main three’s eyes. ‘Cause eyes are half the fun of a headshot, so why not. I’ve also been considering doing some anatomical painting studies. We’ll see.

I gave enya like- pseudo eyelashes that are vaguely inspired by leopard geckos, even though she’s more amphibious than reptilian. Also, why are dark eyes so satisfying to draw? They’re just very nice. Anyway. Yeah. Eyeballs.

First drawing I’ve done of Cosmo in about a million years. I drew him older than he would be in canon because I was in the mood. Slightly addicted to the SOL brush.

He’s nicknamed Bee/Honey Bee, because y’know how when honey bees sting, it pulls out their guts and they die (females anyway, because males don’t have stingers, but still), and he faints or gets very dizzy half the time when he sees blood, let alone actually bites. Also he tends to wear yellow. Anyway. Thoughts are not coherent and I’m gonna leave this here and go-

I have a migraine, but really wanted to draw, so it needed to be dark, and this is what happened. Mable is so fun to draw, idk why. She just is. She’s probably either just woken up from a nightmare, or it’s two AM and she hasn’t fallen asleep because night thoughts.

MERMAY 2024 MAIN CAST- look at my stupid, idiot little children, I love them so much. If I can keep up, this year is gonna be fun; I have angsty plots >:3

MerMay 2024 Masterpost

Relative size reference and anatomical ramblings below cut.

Here’s a vague size comparison thing for all of them. And a human for perspective

I really, desperately want to make an illustrated guide to my merfolk lore, because it’s extensive and I’m really proud of it. But that sounds slightly overwhelming, so idk, but here are some random scraps that pertain to these four. My fish mers aren’t allowed to have hair; they have a variety of different fins on their head to mimic it instead. Oviparous fish (e.g. remora) lay their eggs and their mer counterparts do likewise, and therefore don’t have nipples and/or breasts. Eggs of ovoviviparous fish (e.g. manta ray) hatch shortly before giving birth and do not consume anything resembling milk, so their mer counterparts do not have nipples and/or breasts. Viviparous fish (e.g. lemon shark) essentially nurse when in the womb, so their mer counterparts nurse after having given birth and have nipples and/or breasts. Mammals (e.g. monk seal) are self explanatory.

Also most animals hatch or are born with navels, because even in eggs, there’s a cord from the embryo to the yolk sack. Oviparous and ovoviviparous creatures just tend to be better at healing the scar. However, I’ve decided that mers are not as good at healing the scar, and thus, have bellybuttons.

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

+*. STORY TIME .*+

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So today, after having been horsing around with my brother; being the absolute feral little gremlin that I am, I scuttled off and he called after me “Don’t you come stick your face in my window-” (there are windows inside the house between his bedroom and the living room ‘cause it used to be a porch) So naturally, I decided to come stick my face in his window, but with my techno mask on for extra shock factor, y’know? Except I thought he meant the outside ones. I didn’t feel like putting real clothes on (I was in a sports bra and pajama shorts), so I went out wrapped in a blanket- all you could see was the mask and my feet.

I start walking up the side of the house to get to his room, and this pickup slows down in front of our yard. There is no other reason I can think that they would have slowed down other than them having seen me- and I was in plain view from the road. And I’m just highly amused. That I probably just significantly confused one of our neighbors. And that this is what they would have seen.

This was originally a doodle I did during church with no pose reference (which, I’d like to add, I’m very proud of because it’s a weird perspective and it’s two people interacting and it actually turned out alright for once) and decided I really liked it, so I colored it.

And then proceeded to realize it reminded me a lot of this drawing I did two years ago, and it made me happy cuz I feel like I’ve actually improved which is nice.

Anyway. Yeah. My scrunklies which I love very much. Working on filling the rest of the page they’re on now.

I’ve been working on a new plushie and I just realized I never posted the last one which is just very sad. We must fix that. I would like to introduce you to Sasha, my Heavy Jumping Spider (vaguely anyway). He’s based off an old character of mine and I love him very much.

I have had this concept buzzing in the back of my head for a while, but never got around to doing it cuz there were logistics I hadn’t quite figured out yet. Finally ended up doing it tho and I think I’m happy with it. Might still tweek it some, idk. We’ll see.

Just some vague representation of Faas’s forms cuz why not

I was putting my pin curls in while Nugget was out last night and she kept jumping on my hand to try and steal my bobby pins. And then she proceeded to try and bathe in the back of my wet hair. As annoying as it was, it made me happy, so I doodled it.