Art Process & story: Celestial Companions (from the Selkies' Skins universe)

 This is a little late posting here, but this was the last piece that I did for this year's Mermay. I am particularly pleased how this fully digital piece created on my iPad turned out, and eventually will be producing it as a poster. Here, in this video, you can watch the time-lapse of the art process. You can also listen to the short story, expounding a bit more of the lore in my Selkies' Skins related books' universe.

You can also read along at my deviant art posting

https://www.deviantart.com/amehanarainstardrago/art/Mermay-2023-Celestial-Companions-963539181

or my Patreon posting

https://www.patreon.com/posts/mermay-2023-83345898

Ame's Art Desk: Mushroom Sticker Art

There are other mushroom pieces I will do for a sheet of mushroom stickers. I don't expect I can afford a booth at the local Mushroom Festival this year or get items produced in time for this year. I am focusing on being able to afford my yearly booth at the Lumberjack Fiesta in McCloud and need to double-check how much I owe for this year's calendar ad (only one of the two ladies involved in calendar expenses has contacted me so far). However, perhaps the sheet as well as Lumberjack-related sticker art will both be ready and printed by that time.

The first one played around with in this video is inspirited by the Blue Oyster mushroom. The second is taking extreme liberty with the Inky Cap mushroom.

These are done in Procreate on an iPad (9th generation) using an iPencil (1st). The first one used mainly the studio ink brush in the inking. The second focused on using the waterbrush from the calligraphy set.

Before anyone asks why so much more time was spent on the first it is because I became dissatisfied with the colors. And style. And picky.

Music: "Magic Moon - Restless heart (rnb beat mix)" by RobbH 

available at https://ccmixter.org/files/RobbH/32463 

2011 - Licensed under

Creative Commons

Attribution (3.0)

https://www.linktr.ee/Amehana

1978 Chevy K30 Squad Cold Start with Brimstone 667 of Youtube

I helped with a video the other day for my brother's Youtube channel. He mentioned that he needed help with exhaust footage on cold start videos of some vehicles of his that were at my house. I was happy to help. He gives me a lot of assistance and with my condition I can't do a whole lot. So it was nice to be able to do a favor to repay him.

I will help him soon with getting a linktree set up that he can use for his Tiktok and similar.