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As promised I finally created my official guide! I will say the adjustment period from the move has been tight so at the moment I don't have a capped amount I will take on a month until I can get a good flow of what I am able to handle consistently. But if you're interested just send me a message and do your best not to sound like a scammer please.

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So at the end of April, I did something exciting that I never thought I'd do. I bought a house! It has been quite a journey to get here and It's going to take some time before I'm fully settled but I'm very proud of myself. I am also very grateful for the team & support behind me that got me to this point. At some point, I'm hoping I'll do some drawings of my journey and beyond. Here's to a new chapter!

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Last mermay post for this year focuses on Saira. I went the aquarium this past weekend and got inspired for her tail shape while there. Its honestly surprising that I hadn't already done Saira as she is lowkey one of my favorite OCs.

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It took like 10 times before the wheel chose someone I hadn't already drawn for mermay before. It was delightful when it finally chose Ember, my fire imp OC. Thought it would be fun to draw a fire based mermaid instead of having her underwater. I'd like to think she's swimming through lava.

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The wheel has decided and Arielle is the subject for this week's drawing! I couldn't pass up the opportunity to make her a catfish inspired mermaid. I cannot resist drawing Arielle showing off her claws.

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I was very worried that I wouldn't be able to finish this week's drawing in time because I've been busy but I got it done. Thankfully, Leith ended up being an easy model that I could draw quickly. Ngl I love the excuse of drawing flowy lines in these mermaid drawings.

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It's May, so time to bring back the mermaids! I let the wheel decide which of my OCs gets to kick off the month this year so we have Hepsiba. I really love how this turned out. The arm fins are a nod to her usual shawl.

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Back to doing fun drawings again! Castalia has the ability to manipulate wind so here she is floating. Used this opportunity to play with coloring techniques again.

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Finally finished that big drawing I was working on but didn't have time for a more involved drawing this week. Thought it would be fun to do another quick chibi so the wheel chose Calder for this week. Decided to let him much on his favorite food.

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Still working on the bigger drawing since the deadline was extended. I've shared this drawing before but not by itself. This is from OC birthday drawing series from 2018-2019. I really want to revisit drawing Denise's tattoos at some point.

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I've been working on a bigger drawing for something else so I did a quick OC doodle. I let the wheel decide who to draw. It's been a while side I just colored under a sketch like this and Liz was a nice subject to work with.

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A couple years ago, I signed up to participate in a MAP. It ended up being delayed due to low participation but we began it last year and I illustrated this background based on the animatic. I did a rough pass but the MAP seemed to fizzle out so I'm sharing this at least.

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Last night I had a silly idea for a drawing, so here's my werewolf OC Kane sneaking some snacks at night. Since he's a werewolf, his eyes would reflect light in the dark and I thought it would be funny for something so mundane.

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I was looking at the cover art for the First Take for Omokage by milet, Aimer, and Lilas Ikuta and wanted to draw the pose. It was a no brainer to use my spy trio: Techer, Simone, and Rielee. The pose just fit them so well. This makes me want to find other thumbnail poses and redraw them.

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Utilized the OC wheel again and it selected Mason. I decided to show him off brushing his hair since he has a lot of love for hair. Since it's a simple pose, I tried some brushes I haven't really used before. Not sure I'll use the markers for lineart ever again and the pastel was tricky to manage.

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Last weekend I went and saw GOAT and it made me want to do a drawing with my OC Arielle. I wanted to show her off angry and then decided to try some new coloring techniques , not sure if it made much of a difference but it was nice to try out.

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Last Saturday, I saw Mamoru Hosoda's newest film Scarlet and finally finished watching The Rose of Versailles (1979), so naturally I was filled with the need to draw women with swords. This made me realize I'm lacking sword wielding OCs (aside from Belinda) so I just gave a few of my OCs swords to scratch the itch.

I really need to get into doing studies of drawing weapons just to give some variety in props for the future. A fun detail is I drew Castalia unsheathing her boyfriend's sword. He would definitely be overseeing this to make sure she's not goofing around too much.