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Mermay 2026 🧜‍♀️✨⚓

I've always loved the idea of mermaids with American Traditional tattoos. If they weren't such small images, I might have fully made all their tattoos sexy sailor boys - but they're 3.5 x 2.5, so I didn't have much space. This was a fun series to work on!

Featuring Daiso office supplies to step up my game for cheap. I do a lot of my art while traveling or at coffee shops, so I wanted a kit to keep my materials clean and organized without feeling too precious.

My solution:

Item 1 is a B5 zippered pouch that fits everything inside. It’s semi-rigid and about 1” thick, so it doesnt feel like its crushing my paper or tools and holds space in my backpack.

Next is a clear clipboard and an envelope of pre-cut & measured bristol paper. I like doing 2-4 on one page so you’re not dealing with curling edges on a tiny image, and I cut them into individual pieces later.

If I have individual pieces, I put them in a 2.75x3.75” box to keep them safe. This is usually for finished pieces.

My favorite part of the kit is a double-sided pecil case! It has a place for erasers (which were getting horrible and scrunly in my general pouch), ink (wont save me from a big explosion but hopefully small spills), and my brushes on one side. The other side is undivided, so plenty of space for pencils/pens/etc.

This whole thing zips up in a nice kit to take with me anywhere.

For storage at home, I also got a trading card-specific binder and extra refills. Not all trading cards are the same size, so if you want to store ACEOS (2.5x3.5”) this is the right size:

Some green girls! I had originally meant to give them all instruments but… idk what a guitar looks like.