Shideh

OC Eileen with sleepy kitty 💛

Liete of Alent. Grandia fan art.

The mermaidiest hair I've ever painted ✨ I finished this last year for Mermay but never uploaded it here on tumblr.

OC painting <3

OC sketches! From top to bottom: Randro, Leyla, Reelith and Aska.

My OC Will, hanging out with some friends ^_^

Some autumn coziness featuring my OCs Eileen, Leyla and Reelith with some fluffy cat friends ^_^

Aviendha! As close as I can get right now to my inner picture of her, at least. Capturing a likeness that I see in my mind feels oddly difficult. But maybe it isn't odd at all :) Does anyone relate? Anyways, looking forward to season 2!

A couple of sketches done with coloured pencils depicting my OC Reelith. I've missed drawing her, and I also realized that I''ve missed using coloured pencils! Looking forward to sketching more <3

Blue hair <3 I had so much fun painting this one! She's one of the mermaids I sketched for Mermay two years ago. Here are all of them.

Trying to capture my vision of Alanna Sedai.

A close-up of the fox friend in my previous painting :) Click to see it in better quality.

Meeting a friend!

Some sketches of Nynaeve from The Wheel of Time (as I imagine her from the books). I love drawing her long braid! Lots of fluffy hair in any shape makes me happy ^_^ Lately I'm trying to let go of the need to make everything as perfect as possible since it creates a huge amount of unnecessary stress for me, and honestly kills the joy of drawing entirely. So I try to allow roughness, imperfection and wonkiness, and I find that I like that imperfection much more than I would have thought.

Aaaa – I want to draw more characters!

The mermaids I sketched during Mermay this year. With a guest appearance from Tiny Floating Whale from Steven Universe in the last one! :D I recently made a sketch account on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shideh.sketches/

I worked on damp paper and painted with a mixture of J. Herbin inks (rouge caroubier, vert olive and ambre de birmanie) plus black Pelikan ink. When it had dried I defined some details using charcoal and chalk pencils.