Art Journal

Test run of a pics-for-fics exchange idea with alabaster_demon . This belongs to her fanfic The Mirror in the Waves, so go read it if you want the image to make sense.

( The picture, though I do ask that you read the fic first if you can. )

Even though I really like the idea of a fanart for fanfiction exchange, I don't know how I'm going to go with it. Requesting things from others is unexplainably awkward for me, even in exchanges when it's an equal trade. Which after five years of doing exchanges elsewhere, it hasn't gotten any better. :P I just get stuck when asking for things.

This month hasn't been good for art.

Mermafied is pretty much the only 'club' I belong to. It's an online only (we're from all over) so I don't know how that effects the definition.

Anyway, Mermafied is an art club dedicated to the practical mermaid. Meaning real animals, or adaptions you'd expect to see in a water animal are used and they don't have human skin tones anywhere. Terms such as mer, merman, mermaphrodite, merfolk, and transplant mers (for those disney mertypes you see everywhere) are used to discribe the various kinds there are.

Exchanges are a fun way for people to draw each others characters, while getting something in return. Who draws who's character is completely random and I got Chael's (an awesome artist you can see on dA, who is also founder of the club) dumbo octopus mermaid named Dee to draw with a halloween theme. That's a big FAIL on the halloween part, but I desparately wanted to get my part done and with the end of the month when it's really due. With roughly the last two weeks of the month looking like chaos I really didn't want to miss the deadline just because I was somewhere without computer access. Chael wanted glowy and I couldn't think of anything else, too busy worrying about losing time to trying to come up with something better.

( Resizing and jpegging hurts pictures something awful. )

I hope Dee is well liked, they haven't seen the picture yet.