#tiinasaurus

Sad to find out MLP:FiM has ended. But it’s always nice to see such a long running show get a solid ending instead of just fizzling out. ✨

This year I've been making an effort to work with pencil more. And if you’ve also been working almost exclusively on the computer, you probably know just how paralyzing starting on the first blank page in a fresh sketchbook can be.

But something I found really helpful is to just close your eyes and aimlessly mark the page. Seriously. Show that pristine blank page who’s boss by scribbling all over its clean white face. It’ll remove so much of the pressure of “what should be on the first page of the new book.” All the ideas you’ve been wanting to mark down will no longer be warring over which is most worthy of going first, because none of them will have that honor! :D What you draw out the scribbled mess will!

And this stupid griffin-thing had mine.✏️

🧜‍♀️ HAPPY MERMAY! 🧜‍♂️

This piece was started on Isabela Island in 2008, after reading Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut. It's a fictional story about the last fertile remnants of humanity surviving on a small island and slowly evolving into sea mammals.

Kurt's description of their "sealion-like" features was so fascinating I HAD to draw it right then and there, and ever since then it's remained an unfinished sketch. But a friend of mine liked it and encouraged me to submit it to Art Order's publication, Beneath The Waves, so... here it is!