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My (Tumblr) Year in Review:

I posted 51 times in 2022

42 posts created (82%)

9 posts reblogged (18%)

I tagged 51 of my posts in 2022

#my art - 23 posts

#traditional art - 22 posts

#ask answer - 22 posts

#elena of avalor - 22 posts

#a-lilacsong art - 22 posts

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#small warning though if you're afraid of spiders and how they move there are a couple scenes in the movie that might freak you out

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Some quality time with a few animal friends! 

[Image ID: A watercolour fanart of Antonio Madrigal from Encanto. He is petting Chispi the capybara, in his other hand he is holding a hummingbird. Pico the toucan is sitting on his shoulder. End ID]

37 notes - Posted January 13, 2022

#4

Since your still taking requests can you draw Rebecca? If you can you draw her celebrating Passover (no pressure)

Of course, here you go!

37 notes - Posted April 15, 2022

#3

If you are still taking requests can you do li’l Flores cousins (like in Día de Madres)

They're having so much fun at carnival! Queen Lucia even let Elena wear her special tiara! :D

39 notes - Posted July 2, 2022

#2

Are you still taking requests? If so, can you please draw a crossover between Elena of Avalor and Encanto?

They are having fun making music together!

50 notes - Posted July 6, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

1,106 notes - Posted May 4, 2022

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I think you make a good point about Carla giving up her life on land. I’d say the same thing for anybody who ships Marzel with Elena or Naomi. They also have hobbies, friends and family that they would miss. Unlike Ariel, the girls never show dissatisfaction with their lives on land. Ariel can be transformed into a mermaid to visit her friends and family under the sea whenever. If one of the girls chose to give up their legs, they would become a Sirena permanently.

Exactly. Plus, they have Master Royal Wizard Mateo, who I believe would 1000% be able to create a shapeshifting spell/object that was only temporary if it were so desired.

It's interesting you bring up “The Little Mermaid,” I believe Ariel would have chosen to live a life on land whether she had a crush on Eric or not. It's just that everyone both in and outside of the movie assumes that she ONLY did it for the romance, which just isn't true.

Once I thought to myself: "How would King Pescoro travel around on land? Probably with a superchair." So I made this. Cristina is showing him how to use it.

Lineart under the cut. 

[Image ID: A pencil crayon and ink drawing of Cristina and King Pescoro from Elena of Avalor. They are both in wheelchairs and Christina is showing him how to properly use one. There is a potted plant and a barrel in the background. End ID]

A certain person asked me how I paint with watercolors so I guess I'm going to tell you all! Now I'm not professionally trained, I just learned what I know from experimenting, asking questions, and looking up tutorials. So this may not be what the experts do, but it's what works for me.

How I paint:

Materials: I have a watercolor palette, a little jar full of water, my paint brushes, some paper that is thick enough for watercolors, pencil, and some paper towel to help mop up excess water. I always put down some kind of rag cloth or newspapers down on the table first so I don't get any paint on the table. Watercolors don't stain as much as other kinds of paint but it's best to you be careful.

I always use a watercolor palette to make my paintings. This is a very different system from oil paint or acrylic paints or even liquid watercolors or watercolor pencils, so you need to keep that in mind with the rest of the things I tell you

Step 1 (Start): I decide what I'm going to paint and make a little pencil sketch of it on the paper, It doesn't need to be detailed it just needs to give me a rough idea on how big it will be and where various shapes will go. (I sketch it very light so that you don't see the pencil lines on the finished painting but you can make it dark if you still want to see the lines).

Step 2 (Layers 🧅): I decide which colours would be best to be put on the bottom layer and which colours should be put on the top layer and then begin painting accordingly. For example I painted Mirabel's skin before I painted her hair, so I could have bits of her hair going down on top of her skin. I mix the colours together on a scrap piece of paper first just to test how they look.

Step 3 (How to apply paint): I dip my paint brush in water and then swirl it around in the needed colour until I have my desired amount, then I begin to paint in the shape that I want. Whenever my brush needs more colour I put a very small amount of water on it and then rub it gently against the paint palette then brush it again on the paper. For dark colours I swirl it around longer in the paint to get more paint on it and then lay it on thick. For lighter colours I put more water on the brush and less paint on it and then use the water to spread the paint even further across the paper. Important tip: Never press your brush too hard against the paint palette or the paper when you're painting, otherwise the bristles could be bent out of shape or fall out. Use the same amount of pressure you'd use if you were petting a kitten with the paintbrush. (You shouldn't actually do that, it's just a metaphor.)

Important tip: If you ever have too much water on your paintbrush, use a paper towel to mop some of it up. You can also use a paper towel to help get unwanted paint off your brushes.

Step 4 (Waiting): After filling in one shape with a specific colour, I move on to the next colour. If I don't want the colours to mix together I wait a minute or two for the first part to dry before I continue on to the next part. But if I do want a gradient then I start adding the new colour and brush them together a bit with water.

Step 5 (Small details): Watercolours mix together really well but that means to get good looking light colours you have to apply them directly to the paper, where there isn't any paint, otherwise if they are mixed with a dark-colour they could become muddy looking. For things like Mirabelle's glasses I painted the skin around them first, leaving a white blank space and then once the paint had dried I very carefully added the light green, making sure not to get the brown paint wet again. (I also use this process for the butterfly on the accordion and the earring.)

Step 6 (Optional Final touches): Sometimes I used paint for the pupils of eyes but they never seem as detailed as I want. So instead what I do is I leave the eyes as blank white circles, and then once I'm finished painting everything else, and everything is completely dry, I use a small pen or marker to draw the black outline around the eyes as well as pupils and pencil crayons to colour the iris. I also use pencil crayons for the eyebrows, lips and dress butterflies.

Repeating these steps for a very long time eventually leads to a finished painting. If you have any questions let me know.

Madrigal sisters!

Remember that time where Miranda nearly drowned?  Honestly, I don't think we talk about that enough as a fandom.

Hi there, this is a Random headcanon that I had about Carla: In an episode Carla said "I can play him like a Violin" So I thought that maybe she can play the violin. what do you think?

Yes, headcanon accepted! I can picture it now, her in the carriage travelling with her father practicing it as they roll along together. Anything from a piece with a slow melodic flow to a fast-paced gig.

I've always headcanoned that Victor can play the accordion (Esteban and Elena were learning to play the guitar and he wanted to be different) And those two instruments go very well together! Even in their song “Way Back When” two of the main instruments are the accordion and the violin, so it works thematically as well.

*How to Train Your Dragon referances intensify *

@traumas-mermay-2025 Day 22: Shells and pearls

Miranda x Roland mermaid AU!