Digital drawing of @starspeakerarts.bsky.social 's merman Qyllin lounging among some lily pads

midna twilight princess what a character she's painty and cool she's looking at you and your jaw is on the floor

Midna Twilight Princess!!!!!! BUT PAINTY!!! ily so much...

I grew up on Kiki's Delivery Service, but I got to see Princess Mononoke in a century-old theater before its more public release in the States. They wanted to do a trial release to see how people would react to the film. Life-altering experience, that was.

Absolutely! It's super cute and shapey, but still immediately recognizable as yours

A black ink detailed illustration of a mermaid witch with flowing long hair and squid like hat, swimming among the bubbles and tiny fish. Gold ink is used for the outline of the bubbles, outline of the fish, tips of the fins, and details on the squid hat.

Another angle and close-up of the detailed illustration, showing off the shine of the gold ink.

Another angle and close-up of the detailed illustration, showing off the shine of the gold ink.

Witchy Hat, Day 27: Mermaid - Want to swim with me?

#art #inkchallenge

I could stare at this forever, there's so much to like about it! The gold ink highlights, the little details around the eyes, the composition, the fine linework on her fins...

Gorgeous work

Fair. Heck, now that you mention it, I'm pretty sure I've heard ミーガン in the wild years ago. I'm only a novice JP speaker at best, the movie title was just one of those things that stood out as a potential multilingual pun.

This is just speculation, but "Miigan" sounds like a localization trick to maintain the pun. M3gan → M三gan → Mミgan. I feel like Japanese localizers do this sort of thing a lot, and always find it clever.

Realistically, the goal is more to menace your opponent and put them on the defensive than actually expect to end a fight, but it was still a key feature of the style!

I briefly did iaido, and we did have this concept! Though I never learned if it had a name. Most blocks and parries we learned, done right, should have ended with your sword pointed at the enemy or in an ideal position to transition into an otherwise-somewhat-risky overhead strike.

Show off your snake #art ! blblbl

Thank you! I love seeing your vignettes of Alti and her party. Always a treat

🐍 drop some SNAKES 🐍

🐍snake! 🐍snake! 🐍snake!

Most are pretty harmless, though, and tell sites that you actually read their newsletter, that you bought something from a sale banner, that sort of thing. Actual user tracking is done with cookies, but that's a whole other thread.

Which is not to say you can't or shouldn't remove source ids from urls, but it's important to know that all params aren't tracking. Some can be, some are other arbitrary data, and some are an important part of the URL you want. Look for "si," "src," or even just "s" in the key for source ids...

In the top example you gave, it would just tell the site you got there from an email list.

Google's ids are probably more sophisticated, and if they're unique enough could be used to figure out who is sharing a link, but importantly, they only mean something within Google's ecosystem...

Source ids are common, but are neither a shared standard nor all that complex. Most sites and companies have their own unique param names ("si" being Google's, for example) and the data attached to them is typically not anything more than "where did this navigation come from..."

Speaking as a professional web developer, most of this isn't true. The stuff after the ? are called query parameters, and just have additional data for the page you're loading, like your search query in Google or the article you want on a lot of WordPress blogs. They're divided up by & characters...

Yeah! I had never really enjoyed drawing animals before, but after doing those lessons I gained a new appreciation for them. By that point I was looking forward to whatever the next lesson would hold.

It is kind of tedious at first, but doing drawabox exercises during lunch breaks with a cheap ballpoint pen was the single most effective method for building up line confidence and technical proficiency for me. Definitely recommended, and those exercises are still good to revisit from time to time.

Seconding Printful, for sure. I got a job that took priority before actually getting a storefront up, but the quality of their samples/proofs and communication were great.

Huion's screen tablets are great. I've been using a Kamvas for years, and while I never had a screen Wacom, its pen and software are much nicer than the Wacom stuff I did use. It's quite affordable, too.

I'm just a Stranger on the Internet, but the most eye-opening advice for identifying unusual or chronic pain for me was "The correct amount of pain for daily life is none."

If small tasks are physically painful and that sort of pain is consistent, it's worth bringing up to a doctor.

Thank you✨

A drawing of a pair of identical mermaids in witch hats, swimming in a spiral pattern and reaching towards each other. The radially-symmetrical composition is a bit like a playing card, and it's rendered with simplistic, flat shading.

Mermays 28 and 29, 🧙‍♀️Wicked Gemini🧜‍♀️🧜‍♀️

This is a comfort zone piece for me for sure.

#mermay #mermaid #art

A rough drawing of an oasis with fluffy clouds, palm trees, and a pair of mermaids in the water. One lounges in the sunlight, while other chats with a traveling woman modeled after a gerudo from Zelda.

Mermays 24 and 27, watercolor oasis🏝.

I've always wanted to learn how to use digital "watercolor" brushes, but I still don't feel like I mesh with them very well.

#mermay #mermaid #art

Thank you✨

Two characters relaxing at the pond surrounded by a ghost cat and a ghost frog.

Pond 🐸

A drawing of a small neon tetra mermaid napping in a round fishbowl. The fingers of one arm peek up above the water line, her tail hangs out of the bowl's opening. Aquariam plants fill the empty space of the bowl, and provide the mermaid a modicum of modesty.

Another twofer, 🐠Aquarium and ♻Redraw. This was originally from the 2020 Mermay.

#mermay #mermaid #art

A drawing of a mermaid girl in simple clown makeup with a ruffled collar and cuffs. She leans forward with at big smile and wink. Her lower half is, predictably, a clownfish.

Mermay 20 🤡Clown(fish)

I'm sure lots of people did this, but I'll not turn my nose up at low-hanging fruit.

#mermay #mermaid #art