Well... My Random Fish Generator Keeps Giving Me Eels O.o Go Figure. Day 1 It Just Gave Me Eel So I Went

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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #13 - Mahi-mahi Mer Another day, another mer! Here’s a mahi-mahi mer who looks quite grumpy XD Not that mahi-mahi have fangs like that, but I thought it fit the persona. XD