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date a selkie, but don’t hide her cloak. let her go home and visit her family now and then, knowing that she’ll come back and hang her seal cloak in the closet like she always does. trust is important.
Concept art for Song of the Sea by Cartoon Saloon.
I recently visited an island (?) where seals live, here are their photos!! There were quite a lot of them, 10-15≈ individuals
Carving, wip, a little preview of the next block
The behemoth
Wip.
Someone asked me the other day if I transfer images to the blocks I want to carve and the answer is no. Every print is essentially 3 separate art pieces, all sketched and done directly on the block. The pencil layout, which establishes the composition, the ink layout which sets up the loose guidelines I follow, and then finally, the carving itself, which is a completely different part of my brain to the last two stages.
The final scanned image to a project that spanned more than a year in the making. The end feels happy and sad, but also freeing to return to a backlog of other ideas.
The seal with the spots is based on one I swim with up here, a nod.
Selkies
I love Selkies. The idea of being a seal makes me feel so free and safe, however then I remember most of their stories are of them being robbed of freedom, on the positive side they always get back home. You can’t keep nature contained or trapped for long.
ed as a selkie <3
(lineless version)
lil selkie
(he’s trans)