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 2017-10-07 22:16:23 +0000 UTC View Post

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 ...

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...

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 ther...

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 order...

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 beaut...

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'...

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 wa...

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 ...

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 ...

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 arrivin...

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 doe...

Firefly Pins & Tiny Bugs sticker sheets are here!

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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 p...

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 ...

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 2016-10-31 19:18:25 +0000 UTC View Post

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 2016-10-30 20:01:49 +0000 UTC View Post

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 2016-10-28 19:35:06 +0000 UTC View Post

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 th...