Welp. I Didnt Expect This But Somehow Another Inktober Thing Spawned.. I Think The Prompt List Is Really

Welp. I didn’t expect this but somehow another Inktober thing spawned.. I think the prompt list is really helping XD I woke up this morning and I was like, oh yeah! I have prompts!! So this happened. And it looks like the girl from last time is back, investigating a mystery. Wonder what happened to the person she was texting before? Hmmm... >w>

Mermay #01 - Owlmer A little late in starting this... not super late, but later than I’d have liked. XP Welp, @niwawings15 gave a suggestion about an owlmer and after wondering about the legitimacy of a ‘mer’ that isn’t even partly humanoid, I kinda just went for it XD; Has to be one of the weirdest (and most likely biologically improbable) things I’ve drawn and posted publicly in a while XD;; And welp... I dunno if I’m gonna do the full 31 day Mermay run this year, but we’ll see what happens. Here’s the first. XP

The irises are in full bloom again and you know what that means? Iris Shiidian time! I was going to edit this more on PS and still might… Need to fix a few things. But golly, compared to last year’s? I’m really proud of this XD; It helps Autodesk Sketchbook for mobile is now free if you have an account ;;w;; *cries tears of joy* So many new features. MORE LAYERS. CANVAS SIZES. MORE BRUSHES. Brush customizability, lines, SELECTIONS!! So long I suffered with the cruddy free version ;;w;; now the whole thing is free ughhh IT PAID OFF. The disappointment of last year’s update with its lag and enduring through the changes paid off ;w; Autodesk peeps were playing a long game with that update but golly just look at the difference what I can do compared to last year!! But uh, maybe I should explain a bit while I’m still here. So for a while my alien species the Shiidians only had a generic leaf shape until years ago I decided to branch out and gave different sub-species of it have flower heads, and others have vine hair or lily pads and various kinds of leaves. So this one’s an iris and with the irises in my backyard blooming, it’s become a bit of a spring tradition to use one as reference in redrawing it as a Shiidian~ She’s also sort of become a theoretical character. Not sure where she fits into the scheme of things but she feels like a model to me. But with Shiido’s race being enslaved I’m not sure what that means for her. Different galaxy? Media conspiracy? The plot thickens… XD;

So I found out what I'm doing.

I legit have no idea why i did this-

feel free to use it- but pls credit me ^^’

Saw @niwawings15 posted her part of the art challenge so I thought, why don’t I post mine? ...It looks scribbly and childish and horrible, that’s why. XD; and yet here I am... Ignore the horizontal line going through the sail, I drew this on two pages of marker paper because I didn’t want to have to redraw it because I placed the boat up too high... XP

Mermay #02 - River Stingray + Jellyfish Mer I’m submitting this with way less work and effort than I intended but alas, I can’t stay up much longer tonight. ;_; So I’d been eyeing these river stingrays for a while wanting to turn one into a mer, but I never really had the chance to settle in and really focus on another Mermay pic until tonight, so here one is. Didn’t think I’d go for a jellyfish-ray at first, that just kinda happened. XD; makes me think of Ao and EJ’s mer-mixes so I guess I unintentionally hitched off that idea. XD; Anyways uh. Gosh I really want to do better on this one but will I ever get back to improving on it...? That is the question. So take a scrap for now I guess. Wish I coulda improved on it more but oh well... maybe someday... ewe;;