Sylvia Strijk

Freelance artist. Crafter of pretty things. In love with design, illustration, photography and art.

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Curvy mermaids also need some love

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One of my favourite things to do is read a book

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I like the concept of more celestial/godlike mermaids

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I'm very happy how this mermay went and especially considering I've been offline for a year. I plan to continue with mermaid sketches for another week and after that I'll be back to posting every Wednesday and Sunday.

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Mermay is almost over trying my best to finish one more painting. But finishing paintings is still difficult for me.

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Work in progress...

I was like fins yes please. Now they don't completely make sense. The solution probably is more flowy fins.

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Decided to make my master study mermaid themed. Curious if you can see which painting I used as reference/inspiration

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Love this design I would need to work a bit on the proportions. But I'd love to play a bit more with the betafish mermaid concept

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Another mermaid couple sketch

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Im playing with the idea for a painting of two cuddling mermaids. I've done a couple off sketches for it, still unsure which one I like best.

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feel there's always a big style difference between the sketches I use reference for and the ones I don't.

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Attempting some mermen

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Revisiting leafy sea dragon design

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Most times sketches are just loose and messy.