My First Mermay Piece Inspired By The Vocaloid Song Deep Sea Girl. I Am Excited To Do Mermay, But There

Day 7/8 because that is how this week is going.

I’ve only been posting art for a little while, here and on my Instagram, and honestly, it’s been really nerve wracking for me. I kept wondering why I even decided to do this, but something happened that made it all worth it for me.

I was out and about with my family and ran into one of my old church leaders from when I was a kid and she shared a story with me about how my art had helped a girl. This leader has worked with foster kids for years, and is working on getting her masters in something related to helping teens and kids. As part of that she is working as a therapist for some kids, and in one session she was sitting with this girl. This girl was completely stonewalling her, wouldn’t say anything, wouldn’t even look her in the eye. My leader knew that she liked anime, and remembered all the anime art that I post, so she shared my art with this girl, and that helped her to open up. after that she wouldn’t stop talking.

I personally know how helpful therapy can be, and the thought that my art helped that girl to open up and be able to get the help she needed, well it makes it all worth it for me. I started making art because it makes me happy, not because of a class or for someone else, but because I love it and it makes me happy. I think I lost sight of that. so, I’ll keep making art, because I love it, and I’ll keep posting art, because maybe, just maybe, there is someone out there who I can help with my art.

Lunch time

Terms and details and other nonsense below.

I can accept payment through PayPal or Venmo. I will need at least half before I start on pieces over 10$. I’m happy to help work through design iterations on a character, but I may add a fee of 10$ for extra sketches and design time before the final drawing.

Commissions will usually take anywhere from a week to a month, this is something I do in my free time. Please feel free to contact me frequently during the time I’m working for progress shots and updates. If something doesn’t look right let me know, then I can change it. No major changes once I have started shading, but anything else is free game.

Currently I am only doing digital commissions, that means I send you a file. The images are yours and you are more than welcome to print them off for yourself or you friends, but not to use them for commercial purposes.

My style tends to change frequently as I experiment and learn, if there’s a particular piece that caught your attention let me know.

If you would like a commission, or have any questions, please feel free contact me at shekorlaart@gmail.com or through my DMs.

Got bored at work. Let’s call this a rhythm practice sketch.

what are you majoring in?

I am working on a bachelors in animation and game design. Its a computer science program that focuses on teaching students everything they need to essentially make indie games and build up a portfolio to get work after the program.

My program has branches for folks who want to get an animation job at like Disney, but I am focusing on making games. I enjoy animation but I dont want to do it for a career. I prefer 3d modeling and coding. I like rigging but I am absolutely awful at it!

the other day I was playing Pokémon sword, and I noticed that alcremie has a bow on her back. It made me think that she looked like she was in a little wedding dress, so I drew this!

And because I no impulse control I made all 70 versions.

Day 10

Lunch has been eaten and we are back!!

Streaming lego starwars Skywalker saga over on twitch at shlie_mae! Come say hi

Made a little character sprite for my coding class. I have no idea how the resolution is going to show up on tumblr.