Sketch Diary: Snake tail mermaid character

This is what happens when you just go for that gesture/pose... but don't pay attention to positioning on the page or ratio between head and hands, etc. Still like her. She a lil' sassy.

Yo - watch me draw this madness...

5x speed

1x speed

with love - M

Sketch Diary: Snake Wedding in color

Snaaaaaaaake! So here's a quick color practice, thin paper unfortunately. But I still enjoyed coloring this drawing... despite the weird color choices on the snake part. Whatevs. I'm over it.


(...not over it)


with love - M

Sketch Diary: Inked Snake Wedding

Took some time to ink this older sketch so I can keep up with practicing my coloring with my Copics. I'm excited to practice coloring the translucent fabric hanging off her headpiece. Should be a good challenge.

with love - M

Sketch Diary: Snake wedding

Badger badger badger badger... I don't know where this idea came from exactly but I  ran with it. We all know I love serpent-like, mermaid-y folk. I showed it to a couple people and the consensus was that it was some kind of wedding and the woman turned into a snake thing and the dude fainted or maybe she accidentally killed him or something to that effect. Whatever the background, I wanted her to look concerned but confused/curious. I hope that came across. It was a lot of fun to sketch this out. Snake-y forms are always very satisfying for me.

with love - M

Sketch diary - snake girls

I do love me some serpentine women. No seriously, I've always been attracted to drawing mermaids, snake ladies, whatever. Something about the half and half thing is cool but I'm pretty sure there's something else going on, too. Snake-ity-snake. Snakes are really amazing creatures. I think I just want to switch out my lower half. That's probably what it is. I don't need legs. I wanna hang around in trees and swim all snake-y in the water and wrap my tail around my boyfriend so he can never leave... cough.

Anyway, I like their faces. In the sketch, not actual snakes. They don'e make faces. They have one face. Silly.

Ugh what is up with that HAND. Weird.

with love - M