Mermay #12 - North American Darter FishTried The Random Fish Generator Again And After A Couple Dozen

Mermay #12 - North American Darter Fish Tried the random fish generator again and after a couple dozen tries I found this lovely kind of fish XD I just had to make a mer out of it for Mermay!

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.

I realized I never uploaded these! These are reference sheets for the main characters of my story, Aliens. I recently made a page for it on my tumblr with all my tagged stuff from it, but I realize it’s pretty disorganized. XD So, step 1 towards organization, uploading the reference sheets for my MCs! These are Naru and Shiido. I never did color Shiido’s reference but then his outfit’s kinda complex anyway... maybe too complex XD; I did one of those things where I browsed pinterest and just kept adding stuff that was cool onto them XD; But anyways so yeah. Here they are!

Well... my random fish generator keeps giving me eels O.o Go figure. Day 1 it just gave me eel so I went with green moray, but this time it gave me European Eel. XD So here it is. But one of the things that haunted me when I gave this one fish lips was the eerie resemblance to Pepe the frog... but screenshotting the WIP and showing it to my friends I decided by their reactions maybe the resemblence wasn’t that much of an issue. XD So I kept drawing and here it is. Technically I reffed a scientific drawing of one instead of a photo, but the drawing version inspired me more so I went with it. XD So. Here’s this monstrosity XDD

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 #09 - Spotted Boxfish Mer So for this one since my first attempt came out more Fishtale-esque fish anthro I decided to do a second one beside it that was more mer-like. The plus side to that is I got to use the anthro version as a test run for my colors and didn’t screw up the colors as badly on the mer. XD Though, I would have liked to have gotten that beautiful indigo as the main body color instead of the shirt color for this here mer, but that proved to be a bit complicated without the excessive use of white acrylic like I used for the shirt, which I’ve found is probably the best medium to blend marker on top of. It blends super well with my markers... though they end up getting a bit of white on their nibs as a result XD; Doesn’t really seem to harm them though if I use them a few times afterwards. But anyways... so yeah. Fixed it up a bit in PS and here we are! Some nice spotted boxfish mer and anthro. XD And with that, I’m all caught up with Mermay! Yaay~ (Though technically it’s the 10th, I’ll have all of tomorrow to work on today’s so that works. XD; )