marycapaldi

Inktober 4 & 5

Pentel Pocket brushpen with a little multiliner for the first image; multiliners and Kuretake Fudegokochi for the second.

For the previous Inktober pieces, here's the Inktober tag! Also check out my special event p...

Inktober 2 & 3

Mostly Pentel Pocket brushpen for both of these nature scenes.

For the previous Inktober pieces, here's the Inktober tag! Also check out my special event post to learn how you can take one of my Inktober drawin...

NEW Florescent UV Insect Charms!

New UV-reactive florescent insect charms are now in the shop! Check out these three fabulous bugs and pick your favorite (or nab all three!)

The royal walnut or regal moth (Citheronia regalis) is a beautiful, large North American species. They're best known to many by their caterpillar stage named the "hickory horned devil."

Inktober: Take home an original!

I'm taking part once again in the Inktober challenge, which means by the end of the month I'll have finished 31 original ink drawings after doing one every day. I'm using a few different pens this time around, including my classic Pentel Pocket brush pen, my Kuretake Fudegokochi pen, and perhaps a little multiliner here and there when needed. I intend to go from what I learned last year to make a bunch more neat and interesting pieces this year! Here's #1:

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September doodles

Sunday morning light across my sketchbook. It's mid-late fall here in Estevan. Gonna be pretty weird to hop right back into late summer temperatures when I fly back to Philadelphia in a few days!

Metallic Honeybee Bugdanas are here!

Big bandana restock today! All three Honeybee bugdana styles are back in stock as well as more Moon Meditations and Cerulean Beetle bugdanas, too! Preorders will be shipping out shortly, and there's still plenty of stock if you haven't ordered yours yet!

Here's a detail look at that metallic bandana, featuring a nice golden metallic flake ink:

All thr...

Moods

Couple of recent vent doodles of Moth Monarch. Heavy is the head that wears the crown.

(I'm okay now, don't worry!)

Insecta Geometric Enamel Pins Kickstarter NOW LIVE

🐝   CAMPAIGN NOW LIVE! CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO!  🦋  

Four unique geometric insect pin designs celebrate some beautiful bugs  in style! Originally part of my pattern “Insecta Geometrica,” all four  insects are now ready to stand out on their own as bright and  fashi...

Freehand Moths & Bugs 32

A mix of Pentel Pocket Brush pen and Kuretake Fudegokochi.

To see the whole series, check out this tag on my tumblr. 

Switching to "Charge Upfront"?

So I'm thinking of switching this campaign's setup to charge pledges upfront, when pledged, rather than only processing new pledges during the next cycle. This will let new patrons access content faster and protect me better against fraudulent pledges! What do you folks think? Here's a little more info:

- Existing pledges won't charge any differently than they do now. Ongoing patrons will see it go through the first of the month as always.

- New pledges will charge right away, granting a...

Good morning. ☕

Summer Lunas

The moths I've been caring for this season have all eclosed in the last two days! The top one with slightly warmer colors is a male; the other two are female. Two of them have an interesting stripe on their wings that I've not seen on lunas I've raised before. The females are Dawn (no stripe) and Willow (stripe), and the male was named Angel by a friend.

I've been drawing them a little to relax and keeping an eye on them to see if I might get a pairing. Here's a peek into my sketchbook:

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Me and the New "Friends of Anthrocon" Standees!

Five new Friends were revealed at the con last weekend - here they are! I worked hard on all of them and was delighted by their overwhelmingly positive reception.

Monthly update coming a bit later than usual (but soon) as promised. I have a lot to talk about!

Relax

8x8" mixed media! To be available in the Anthrocon art show.

Create

8x8" ink and watercolor! Also to be hung in the Anthrocon art show. I'll have prints available soon, and some process photos for the patron sketch pack.

Sea Breeze

2x2" ink and watercolor mini piece done for the AC art show! Framed as shown with a lil burlap mat. Just a fun small thing!

Kickstarter Stretch Goal Pin

Everything went better than expected!!

I am truly amazed by the support shown to my moth pin campaign yesterday - we hit funding in only 13 hours! That's pretty impressive, at least to me running my first campaign. People really want this pin!!

In response to this momentous milestone, I'd like to reveal one stretch  goal for our moth pin campaign - the Spa...

Kickstarter Now Live!

It's finally here! 

This unique and beautiful hybrid moth design depicts a real hybrid that results from an unusual pairing between Spanish moon moth (Graellsia isabellae) and Chinese moon moth (Actias dubernardi)  parents.With its beautiful vibrant colors and trailing tails, it is  truly distinct and lovely among insects. The pin wi...

Reveal: Bug Club Reward for April pledges! 🐝

So I mentioned in the March review that the next reward for Bug Club patrons will be a special color print of the Honeybee Bugdana. Since we're getting near the end of the month, it's about time to let you get a look! This yellow-on-black version of the design will be sent out in May to all Bug Club members. They will be arriving here the first week of May with the rest of the new bandanas. Only a dozen of this colorway are being made during this run.

If I have any extras after pledges have be...

Website updated!

Thanks to your help this month, I was finally able to find some time to get my website caught up! There's probably an odd or end somewhere I could tweak still, but the portfolio should now be up-to-date as well as the events schedule and links throughout the site. Hooray!

Adoptable Character: Metallic Sweat Bee

Recently I had some interest in adoptable characters, particularly bees, on Twitter,  so here’s one I made between projects this week! It’s from a metallic  “sweat bee” species found in the US & Canada. She doesn’t have a  home yet as of this post! 

There's kind of a secret bonus to being a patron I haven't advertised as a perk because it doesn't come up that ofte...

Firefly Pins & Tiny Bugs sticker sheets are here!

The Firefly enamel pins  have arrived and started shipping out! And, as if that weren�...

Freehand Moths & Bugs 31

 It’s been entirely too long since I posted one of these!

To see the whole series, check out this tag on my tumblr .

Quiet Time

Here's a doodle from early this afternoon. I just started drawing, with no intention or direction, and ended up here.

I honestly like it and am thinking of perhaps doing it as one of this year's ink and watercolor pieces.

Postcard Reward Upgraded!

I just got the next couple batches of postcards from the printer, and I have some great news. I've upgraded the postcards from the previous size, which was about 4.1" x 5.8”, to a larger 5x7" cut! They're on the same sturdy cardstock and are still perfectly mailable if you so desire, but now they're the same size as my small prints and can be framed or displayed in the same way. I hope you like this change and those of you signed up for the "Postcard Perk" tier or higher are looking forward to...

January Sketch Pack Now Out!

It's time, folks! $5+ patrons, please check your Patreon messages. This month we have some badge art and sketches from FC, drawings and plans done on the iPad Pro, high resolution files and PSDs from commission work, scans of the blue & gold freehand Bug Club drawings, doodles from my planner, and more! I've made a point to include as much variety of content as possible - I always want to be giving you folks what your patronage is worth! Thanks so much, and I hope you enjoy!

If you aren't ...

Inktober 31!

And that's it! Happy Halloween and I hope you've enjoyed all my inktober drawings this month!

For the previous Inktober pieces, here's the Inktober tag! Also check out my special event post to learn how you can take one of my Inktober drawings home - TODAY IS TH...

Inktober 29 & 30

Mostly Kuretake Fudegokochi for these with a little help from the Pentel Pocket and Copic multiliners.

For the previous Inktober pieces, here's the Inktober tag! Also check out my special event post to ...

Inktober 27 & 28

Both of these were entirely freehand, mostly with Pentel Pocket brush pen.

For the previous Inktober pieces, here's the Inktober tag! Also check out my special event post to learn how you can take one of my...

Inktober 23, 24, 25, 26

Pentel Pocket brush pen, a little Copic multiliner, and a new brush pen I've quickly grown to like - the Kuretake Fudegokochi.

For the previous Inktober pieces, here's the Inktober tag! Also check out my 2016-10-27 22:19:07 +0000 UTC View Post