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mossypidder · 4 hours

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Oh also, PSA that I forgot to mention. I’m planning to release my MerMay art in six parts, or I guess they could be considered chapters, both for suspense purposes and for my sanity so I don’t have to finish a piece every single day and will at least have some small semblance of wiggle room. So my first post probably won’t come out until May 6th.

#mermay 2024 #mermay #artists on tumblr #small artist #young artist #idk what to put here

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mossypidder · 8 days

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FINISHED MY LIST OF PROMPTS, GUYS

If anyone uses these, please feel free to @ me, I’d love to see how people interpret them. I guess you could also just use a tag. #piddermermay I guess? Idk. I’ve never done anything like this before.

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mossypidder · 11 days

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I’m honestly a little disappointed with the MerMay prompts this year and I’m considering making my own list. If I were to do that,

#also if anybody has ideas for prompts #feel free to throw them in the comments #because input on what people would actually want is always good.#also I am so tired and my brain feels like someone stuck it in the microwave #so hopefully any of this at all makes sense #mermay #mermay 2024 #art prompt #art prompts #drawing prompt #drawing prompts #mermay prompts

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mossypidder · 15 days

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This is a drawing I did for a potential MerMay workshop ad, so the girl isn’t really a character in know much about. She doesn’t have a name or backstory or anything, but she’s based off a pygmy seahorse. In doing research to make this, I learned that male seahorses actually have heightened levels of prolactin (the hormone used to regulate lactation in female mammals) while they’re pregnant, which is honestly even weirder and more fascinating than the males being the brooding vessel in and of itself. Animals are cool and very interesting.

Anyway, that development resulted in the conclusion that female seahorse mers do not have breasts, but I’m still debating whether males would instead? By all preset rules for my merfolk thus far, they should, so probably? But yeah. Weird little guys.

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mossypidder · 23 days

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A banner I made for a rehabber friend. Lil Man (opie) and Hercules (squirrel).

You can find her page here. Love her so much.

#my color brain is being rude and it doesn’t want to cooperate #but I think I’m mostly happy with this #I love how their faces came out #artists on tumblr #small artist #digital art #my art #kawaii style #opossum #squirrel #opossum art #squirrel art #possum

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mossypidder · 1 month

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I wanted to paint something yes i’m still hooked on the sol brush, leave me alone, but I feel like I’ve done too many headshot type things recently, so I decided to just do my main three’s eyes. ‘Cause eyes are half the fun of a headshot, so why not. I’ve also been considering doing some anatomical painting studies. We’ll see.

I gave enya like- pseudo eyelashes that are vaguely inspired by leopard geckos, even though she’s more amphibious than reptilian. Also, why are dark eyes so satisfying to draw? They’re just very nice. Anyway. Yeah. Eyeballs.

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mossypidder · 1 month

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First drawing I’ve done of Cosmo in about a million years. I drew him older than he would be in canon because I was in the mood. Slightly addicted to the SOL brush.

He’s nicknamed Bee/Honey Bee, because y’know how when honey bees sting, it pulls out their guts and they die (females anyway, because males don’t have stingers, but still), and he faints or gets very dizzy half the time when he sees blood, let alone actually bites. Also he tends to wear yellow. Anyway. Thoughts are not coherent and I’m gonna leave this here and go-

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mossypidder · 2 months

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Enya’s most accurate ref to date

Finally finished the board for Enya!

#I apologize for all the sh*tposting #but I made a stimboard for enya #and I wanted to share-#mossypidder motion #stimboard

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mossypidder · 2 months

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I have a migraine, but really wanted to draw, so it needed to be dark, and this is what happened. Mable is so fun to draw, idk why. She just is. She’s probably either just woken up from a nightmare, or it’s two AM and she hasn’t fallen asleep because night thoughts.

#my brain is fried #idk what to put here #I’m gonna go sleep now like I should have when the migraine started #y’know like a responsible human #but I am not responsible #mable art #the grey in between #TGB #TGB art #portrait style #regular style #artists on tumblr #small artist #my art #young artist #digital art #painting #digital painting

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mossypidder · 2 months

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MERMAY 2024 MAIN CAST- look at my stupid, idiot little children, I love them so much. If I can keep up, this year is gonna be fun; I have angsty plots >:3

Relative size reference and anatomical ramblings below cut.

Here’s a vague size comparison thing for all of them. And a human for perspective

I really, desperately want to make an illustrated guide to my merfolk lore, because it’s extensive and I’m really proud of it. But that sounds slightly overwhelming, so idk, but here are some random scraps that pertain to these four. My fish mers aren’t allowed to have hair; they have a variety of different fins on their head to mimic it instead. Oviparous fish (e.g. remora) lay their eggs and their mer counterparts do likewise, and therefore don’t have nipples and/or breasts. Eggs of ovoviviparous fish (e.g. manta ray) hatch shortly before giving birth and do not consume anything resembling milk, so their mer counterparts do not have nipples and/or breasts. Viviparous fish (e.g. lemon shark) essentially nurse when in the womb, so their mer counterparts nurse after having given birth and have nipples and/or breasts. Mammals (e.g. monk seal) are self explanatory.

Also most animals hatch or are born with navels, because even in eggs, there’s a cord from the embryo to the yolk sack. Oviparous and ovoviviparous creatures just tend to be better at healing the scar. However, I’ve decided that mers are not as good at healing the scar, and thus, have bellybuttons.

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

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mossypidder · 2 months

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+*. STORY TIME .*+

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So today, after having been horsing around with my brother; being the absolute feral little gremlin that I am, I scuttled off and he called after me “Don’t you come stick your face in my window-” (there are windows inside the house between his bedroom and the living room ‘cause it used to be a porch) So naturally, I decided to come stick my face in his window, but with my techno mask on for extra shock factor, y’know? Except I thought he meant the outside ones. I didn’t feel like putting real clothes on (I was in a sports bra and pajama shorts), so I went out wrapped in a blanket- all you could see was the mask and my feet.

I start walking up the side of the house to get to his room, and this pickup slows down in front of our yard. There is no other reason I can think that they would have slowed down other than them having seen me- and I was in plain view from the road. And I’m just highly amused. That I probably just significantly confused one of our neighbors. And that this is what they would have seen.

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mossypidder · 3 months

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This was originally a doodle I did during church with no pose reference (which, I’d like to add, I’m very proud of because it’s a weird perspective and it’s two people interacting and it actually turned out alright for once) and decided I really liked it, so I colored it.

And then proceeded to realize it reminded me a lot of this drawing I did two years ago, and it made me happy cuz I feel like I’ve actually improved which is nice.

Anyway. Yeah. My scrunklies which I love very much. Working on filling the rest of the page they’re on now.

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mossypidder · 3 months

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I’ve been working on a new plushie and I just realized I never posted the last one which is just very sad. We must fix that. I would like to introduce you to Sasha, my Heavy Jumping Spider (vaguely anyway). He’s based off an old character of mine and I love him very much.

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mossypidder · 3 months

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I have had this concept buzzing in the back of my head for a while, but never got around to doing it cuz there were logistics I hadn’t quite figured out yet. Finally ended up doing it tho and I think I’m happy with it. Might still tweek it some, idk. We’ll see.

Just some vague representation of Faas’s forms cuz why not

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mossypidder · 3 months

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I was putting my pin curls in while Nugget was out last night and she kept jumping on my hand to try and steal my bobby pins. And then she proceeded to try and bathe in the back of my wet hair. As annoying as it was, it made me happy, so I doodled it.

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mossypidder · 3 months

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So I was wanting to dye my hair pink midwinter so it’d fade my spring, I’ve been meaning to make another skull mask, it was supposed to snow the third week of January and somehow Technoblade always seemed to end up in the snow. Therefore. Things happened. I was only intending to take photos of it, but then I heard this song and my brain just went MMMM THIS SCENE AND THIS SCENE AND THIS SCENE AND- so I made a short. Or at least it was intended to be a short, but for some reason, YouTube won’t upload good audio, which is annoying, because tumblr doesn’t like high res imaging. Regardless, I’m really, really happy with this. Also here’s the slightly shortened youtube version if anyone’s interested.

Here’s the concept art for the costume beside what it actually turned out as. Material list below cut.

Mask: foam core which is a staple, but I tried duck masking tape instead of regular scotch tape in hopes the paint wouldn’t peal off it’s held up so much better thus far. Tusks and teeth are cosclay. Then acrylic paint and I don’t remember what the clear coat is called.

Crown: also foam core, but I did use scotch tape for it. Not as happy with it because there are a lot of creases, but I was too lazy to try and find a different medium. Painted with an oil based gold paint which actually covered very well and I barely used any of it.

Actual Mouth Tusks: also cosclay with acrylic paint for the white and the same oil based gold for the tusk cap thing.

Cloak: red fleece that I weathered with acrylic paint (and painted myself and the kitchen floor in the process), and long pile fleece for the hood lining. The buttons are cosclay that I, again, painted with the same gold. And the chains I just bought in bulk off amazon cuz I’ll probably use it again.

Corset Belt: some random faux leather I had leftover from a former project, and the laces are just ribbon.

Sword: a past friend made it for me forever ago, and it’s just been lying around.

Shirt: a random find from Goodwill that I about shrieked at when I found.

Pants: I can’t remember where I got them, I’ve had them for a while, they’re just high waisted corduroy.

I really wanted glasses, but I couldn’t find the ones was planning to use. Which is obnoxious. Because Techno deserves to see. But it’s not supposed to snow again for a while, so unfortunately, no glasses.

Also, this is the first time I’ve wished I had long hair since I cut it off almost three years ago because aesthetically it would have been really nice, but I’m less hung up on that than I am the glasses lol

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mossypidder · 4 months

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I’ve been wanting to make art for Gus since it happened. I’ve been wanting to. I haven’t been able to bring myself to do it. I’ve known she deserves it. I’ve wanted to. I think I’ve been afraid to remember. I’ve wanted to. But I haven’t.

This has been my mourning song for her. Nugget and I have been singing it together for months. I’ve cried over it. I was talking to my mom about ideas for Etsy stickers because I thought I might finally be ready to begin making starling art again, and she mentioned something about a silhouette of a starling with the night sky on it’s back, and this is what immediately came to mind. So. After too long. Too long. I drew her. My beautiful, first Star Child. I can’t sell this version for copyright reasons, but I’m okay with that. This was for me. This was for her. And that feels right.

#Gus #Gus art #European starling #starling #starling bird #starling art #bird art #bird #artists on tumblr #small artist #my art #digital art #kawaii style

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