MerMay 2018!

Yay I did it!  I drew a mermaid for every single day in May!  Wooo!  Here they all are in a big ol' Twitter Moment!

MerMay 2018


And - AND - because I love you, some bonus mermaid art and fun stuff I posted elsewhere during the month, with bonus bonus comments, like Instagram:

Gotta say, this is a really nice Sketchbook. #showmeyourillo #sketchbook #meta #mermaid #mermay

A post shared by Trish A. (@babbletrish) on May 3, 2018 at 10:33am PDT

Great day in the morning, the Illo is a fantastic Sketchbook!  I've gone through a rash of Moleskine-alikes and this one is my favorite so far.  Perfect size, takes all the media I like joyfully, and scans like a dream.  You know a Sketchbook is quality when you've moved on to the next one (which isn't even bad, just very very different) and you already miss it and want to get more of them.

Heck yeah it’s #MerMay! #mermay2018 #mermaid

A post shared by Trish A. (@babbletrish) on May 3, 2018 at 10:32am PDT

How about I apologize for that last post with some #workinprogress photos. #mermay #mermay2018 #sketch #showmeyourillo #mermaid #triciaarnoldsart

A post shared by Trish A. (@babbletrish) on May 4, 2018 at 8:43am PDT

Bonus, cause it’s late, WIPS! #workinprogress #triciaarnoldsart #mermay

A post shared by Trish A. (@babbletrish) on May 12, 2018 at 10:16pm PDT

Work in progress! Initial sketch through inks. #workinprogress #triciaarnoldsart

A post shared by Trish A. (@babbletrish) on May 15, 2018 at 11:39am PDT

My first time playing with liquid frisket and it worked very well. #workinprogress #triciaarnoldsart

A post shared by Trish A. (@babbletrish) on May 15, 2018 at 11:40am PDT

From now on, if I can help it, I'll never not use this stuff when painting Loons.

Wulver and Selkie WIPS, including an earlier composition that’s harder to “read” but has a cool pose. #workinprogress #showmeyourillo #triciaarnoldsart

A post shared by Trish A. (@babbletrish) on May 17, 2018 at 1:48pm PDT

And now, a very silly bonus for my fellow #MyLittlePonyG1 people. #silly #weird #mermay #mylittlepony #animorphs

A post shared by Trish A. (@babbletrish) on May 19, 2018 at 12:18pm PDT

This was just a silly thing I made for fun but I broke the first rule of Animorphs cover parodies: the eyes are the "anchor".  Woops.

And for younger "My Little Pony" fans thinking, "Wait, I don't get it?" enjoy.

#workinprogress pictures! If anyone’s wondering how to distress Sketchbook paper in a hurry, the answer, as it is with so many other things in life, is coffee and lots of it. #triciaarnoldsart #showmeyourillo #arttechniques #undyne

A post shared by Trish A. (@babbletrish) on May 20, 2018 at 9:45am PDT

And stuff from Tumblr:

https://babbletrish.tumblr.com/post/174245482931/its-towel-day-my-book-collection-and-a

Now, I'm a little burnt out so maybe I won't be doing the daily JuneFae Challenge, but a periodic piece of Fairy fun isn't unreasonable.  Here's a little rainy day Fae:

Hooray, It's Mer-May!

I'm starting to warm up to month-long daily/weekly art challenges.  Not sure if I'm going to do weekly wrap-up posts or do a long one at the end of the month; we'll see.  Anyway, I love Mermaids, you love Mermaids, let's spend this whole month making art of lovely ladies of the water.

The Faebruary Gallery!

Whew, I did another month's worth of daily art challenges!  And I made my first Twitter Moment to share them.  Enjoy:

#Faebruary 2018!


I'll be honest, part of why I turned this into a Moment is to see how one looks like here.  Storify is going down in May and I need a new home for my Tweetmentaries after all...