Mermay #06 - OllinderSomebody Said Do A Beluga Mer And Guess Who Popped Up. XDOriginally From @cielaroses

Mermay #06 - Ollinder Somebody said do a beluga mer and guess who popped up. XD Originally from @cielarose‘s squadron of mers, Ollinder was handed off to me after the disbandment of an old threeway project called Sol. Now he floats around awaiting a potential revamp and story update whenever the heck my brain gets around to it. XD Usually he’s just a humanoid with belaga-esque features and skin coloration, but it’s Mermay, so I decided to do him as a proper mer. I did him during Mermay last year as a small thing, and now he’s shown up again for this year’s Mermay. XD He’s really fun to draw though. My first couple sketches of him came out pretty effortlessly. I redrew this one a couple times because the pose was giving me issues, but other than that he was fun to draw and fun to color. XD I would have touched it up more, but my eyes are closing and I’m officially two days behind Mermay as of this writing. XD I was going to slap some buffer sketches up on tumblr to compensate but I never got around to it, so. I dunno. We’ll see if I get caught up or just resort to using a few sketches from my buffer stash.

Mermay #16 - Max Another belated request from CC, Max looking completely done with everything. XD Because that’s his norm.

Mermay #15 - Finny the Yellowfin Tuna Mer So I’ve had this yellowfin tuna patterned guy and decided to make him into a mer to see what would happen. I think the pattern is kinda messed up actually I wanted to show off more of that gorgeous blue these fish have, but it was kinda hard from a front-ish view XD; I had some other ways I was gonna configure the pattern on the arms but this way was the only way that made logistic sense given the patterning and I had to do all kinds of crazy things to figure out how this pattern would work on arms, including marking myself with marker to denote which way the pattern would turn with the movement of my forearm. It was interesting, for sure. XD; Still not totally happy with it, but whatevs.

Mermay #07 - Swordfish Mer Usually swordfish are depicted blue but I found a picture of one that was brown so I kinda went for it. Was fun busting out my markers and paint for this one. XD

Mermay #08 - Alex This here is a betta mer I adopted from CC (original design here). Once he was trained to fight in a betta mer arena. He escaped, and is trying to live a normal life now. Of course when other mers come along trying to befriend him, that makes things challenging, giving his propensity to attack other mers on sight thanks to his training. This picture was probably from when he was still forced to fight into the arena. He was still terrified, even back then. XD

I’m alive! Here’s my first Mermay drawing for 2017, a Green Moray Eel mer! ...Not that you can tell it’s green. XD; but yeah. Went for a more eel-like approach design-wise. Kinda had trouble with it at first with a lot of erasing to get the silhouette just right, but it worked out in the end. XD; As weird as this thing is... is it even a mer anymore? I dunno. I was influenced by @enjoliquej‘s approach to Mermay and went for a more fish-like approach too. Though not quite to reverse mer level... XD;