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Happy birthday to all Aquarians!! This piece went through many variations before I landed on this pose. You can see my exploration fo poses on my Instagram account. In the background I've added the Aquarian constellation. one of the stars is shining where the water is coming out of the vase:) The birthstone, Amethyst, is featured on the mermaids necklace. I tried giving her earrings but it didn't look as good, I'm terrible at drawing jewelry:P Thank you for checking out my artwork. If you're interested in staying up to date on my latest projects and WIPs there's no better place then my Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/yasu.art.studio/ You can also buy this print at: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/yasuartstudio/

It's the koi Pisces mermaid. Happy Birthday to all the Pisces! When I started this piece, I knew I wanted it to be a koi mermaid with koi swimming around her but it was actually very difficult for me decide on a pose. I was really set on drawing her from the back at first, with her looking over her shoulder but I just couldn't get it to look right. After abandoning that and exploring some other poses from the front I landed on this one. The next trick was getting her eyes to look like she was looking at the koi. You'd think it's easy but it's not. I'm still not sure I got it right. As with my past zodiac pieces I've added the constellation in the background and added the Pisces birthstone aquamarine in her earring. I hope you enjoy:) You can see more of my art and WIPs on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/yasu.art.studio/ This print is available on my print store at: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/yasuartstudio/mermaid-zodiac-pisces/

Mermaid Pool Party 🎉 ! This was also based on a sketch I created for Mermay. My first attempt was to color over the sketch but it didn’t look quite right to me, so I completely redrew the piece from scratch. 
Swipe right to see my first colored attempt and the original sketch and let me know which one you like more:)


This was such a challenging piece to work on! I redrew it 3 times before I landed on this piece. My original concept was to have her attacking a submarine but I couldn't get it to work the first 3 times so I decided to change it up. It's clash of the sea monsters:)   For this piece I really wanted to focus on her muscles and strength and also a more painterly feel.  I hope you enjoy it. You can see more form this series on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yasu.art.studio/

Here's the colored version of my Mermay rascal sketch. Looking at it she doesn't really look like a rascal...in the first version of this colored illustration the mermaid was sneaking up on a diver who was taking pictures of fish. But my wife told me that it was too creepy and that she looked like a stalker. So as that was not the vibe I was going for I changed the diver to some dolphins. You can see some of my work in progress images along with the diver image I talked about on my facebook page : www.facebook.com/Yasu-Art-Stud… Let me know if you'd liked to have seen her sneaking up on a diver instead

Really enjoyed working on this piece. My first idea was to have a a great white shark with it's mouth wide open but as I started drawing I decided to change it to a Mosasaurus type creature. At this point I think it's to late for the mermaid but one can hope:) You can see more form this series on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yasu.art.studio/

Continuing on with posting my colored versions of my Mermay sketches, here's May the 4th Colored. I've never done a space illustration before so this what a lot of fun and who doesn't love Star Wars!? I looked at a lot of star wars posters to help get the creative juices flowing for this piece, I hope you enjoy. You can see more of my art on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/yasu.art.studio/