Mermay2017 - Tumblr Posts

A quick little thing inspired by Mermay art. Mostly because I miss the sea.

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May’s Artsnacks provided a lot of color!

I decided to start posting stuff, cause why not. For mermay2017. I’m clearly late but, better late than never.

Haha a little mermaid for Mermay (✿´ ꒳ ` ) another print for a con in between commission work

Apparently mermay is a thing, so here you go.

HAPPY MERMAY! LOL. Since I missed making a mermaid for May last year, I said that I was NOT going to miss it this year, so here we are. Plus it gave me an excuse to play with backgrounds- which I definitely need to do more of. Done in Gansai Tambi watercolours, Fine Tec gold paint, Pentel Sign pens, Uniball Signo gel pens, and a Pilot G Tec pen.

Art meme: MerMay

Meet my fancy mermaid boy.

i think i did a good job in this one.٩(｡・ω・｡)و

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;

Mermay #02 - Aidren as a Mer

So... this one really did not come out as planned. Guh, it looks awful... but, my friend CC wanted me to finish it, sooo here it is, against my better judgment. I was gonna try to make another one because this one is so sketchy and bad and not really exactly what I had in mind but Heaven knows I probably would have procrastinated it forever XP Soooo I guess something’s better than nothing. Even if that expression looks /really/ off and we won’t mention the hands or the tail or the shoddy coloring job or that this doesn’t look like Aidren at all to me... but uh. whoops. Guess I just did XP

Mermay #03 - Ithiel as a Mertaur/Hippocamptaur My centauress Ithiel as a hippocamptaur! XD I missed Mermay yesterday so I’m uploading this as a buffer. Behold, Mermay #03!

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 #05 - Narwhal Reverse Mer After the random fish generator gave me a third eel in a row, I knew it was time for a change. So after being bombarded with suggestions from friends I went with the one that inspired me the most- a narwhal mer. And well, it wasn’t meant to be a reverse mer originally, but my thought process went something like this was I was drawing: *sketch sketch* Okay I’ve finally got an idea of what I’m doing. I’ll make the head kind of anthropomorphic narwhal, and... wait what’s happening. No this is an anthropomorphic narwhal I need there to be a human aspect still for it to be considered a mer--*starts drawing legs* ....this is turning into a reverse mer. I blame @enjoliquej this is all her fault. SHE STARTED THE REVERSE MER TREND. BLAME HER FOR BRINGING ME DOWN TO HER DANK LEVEL.

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 #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

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; )

Mermay #10 - Remus the Betta Mer

This here’s Remus, a hyperactive bundle of joy owned by my friend CC. This here mer can hardly stay still and tendstotalklikethis which makes his dialogue a bit hard to decode at times. XD But all the same he’s got a really fun design and was both a hassle and a joy to render out traditionally XD Definitely learning more about how to blend my markers better. Seems like lighter colors tend to blend darker colors better, especially when placed on a darkish midtone so you won’t really be able to see your mistakes as well. XD That or the baby blue copic marker I got for my birthday just rocks at everything. There’s that too. XD but my indigo blue prisma’s kinda tricky to work with so it’s good those two work well together at least. But anyways I’m rambling. XD; Enjoy the mer.

Mermay #11 - Eli Another CC request, because she has mers and I’m open to ideas for Mermay XD He was really simple and nice to marker out. I think I only used... I wanna say four? Four colors? For this whole thing? Blue, two shades of green... no, five total colors. Blue, two shades of green (though it was mostly just one shade), skin color, and cool gray for the shirt. Any colors other than that were probably caused by darkening/lighting the pic in Photoshop. But anyways... So yeah he was a fun and simple mer to draw. I’m a day behind in Mermay now (or actually two since it’s the 13th already?) because I procrastinated on this one and chose movie screenshot drawing instead over Mermay, but I’ll see if I can’t get caught up again today or tomorrow XD;

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!