Shideh

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"Welcome, he who holds the Spirit Stone" ✨

Liete of Alent. Grandia fan art.

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The mermaidiest hair I've ever painted ✨ I finished this last year for Mermay but never uploaded it here on tumblr.

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OC painting <3

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OC sketches! From top to bottom: Randro, Leyla, Reelith and Aska.

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"Moon"

My OC Will, hanging out with some friends ^_^

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Some autumn coziness featuring my OCs Eileen, Leyla and Reelith with some fluffy cat friends ^_^

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Aviendha! As close as I can get right now to my inner picture of her, at least. Capturing a likeness that I see in my mind feels oddly difficult. But maybe it isn't odd at all :) Does anyone relate? Anyways, looking forward to season 2!

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A couple of sketches done with coloured pencils depicting my OC Reelith. I've missed drawing her, and I also realized that I''ve missed using coloured pencils! Looking forward to sketching more <3

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Blue hair <3 I had so much fun painting this one! She's one of the mermaids I sketched for Mermay two years ago. Here are all of them.

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Trying to capture my vision of Alanna Sedai.

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A close-up of the fox friend in my previous painting :) Click to see it in better quality.

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Meeting a friend!

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Some sketches of Nynaeve from The Wheel of Time (as I imagine her from the books). I love drawing her long braid! Lots of fluffy hair in any shape makes me happy ^_^ Lately I'm trying to let go of the need to make everything as perfect as possible since it creates a huge amount of unnecessary stress for me, and honestly kills the joy of drawing entirely. So I try to allow roughness, imperfection and wonkiness, and I find that I like that imperfection much more than I would have thought.

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Wheel of Time! From top to bottom: Nynaeve, Moiraine, Elayne, Egwene. Tiny pencil sketches (about 3x3 cm each) coloured in Painter Classic with some adjustments in Photoshop.

Aaaa – I want to draw more characters!

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The mermaids I sketched during Mermay this year. With a guest appearance from Tiny Floating Whale from Steven Universe in the last one! :D I recently made a sketch account on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shideh.sketches/

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I’ve found colored inks to be most enjoyable to paint with! I love how intense their color is and how they separate a little from each other after being blended, so that interesting color variations appear :D

I worked on damp paper and painted with a mixture of J. Herbin inks (rouge caroubier, vert olive and ambre de birmanie) plus black Pelikan ink. When it had dried I defined some details using charcoal and chalk pencils.

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I couldn’t resist painting a matching portrait of Eileen to that one I made of Aska! These are so much fun! :D