The Last Mermaid! It Was Already Several Days Into June, So I Spent A Little More Time On This One. Im

The last mermaid! It was already several days into June, so I spent a little more time on this one. I’m very pleased with her tail. This mermaid lives in a lotus pond, and may be more of a water spirit than a physical animal. Thanks for following my mermaids! I’ll be collecting them in a little zine, so watch out for that if you liked the series. :3

I forgot to post my mermaids! NOOO! For day 14 I asked Sammy what I should draw, and she said Gumball to match Darwin from the day before. I didn’t have any better ideas so here he is! He’s a catfish, of course. I think I’m getting somewhere with the water-and-felt-tips combination, but I haven’t worked out how to get muted colours yet.

Day 12′s mermaid was inspired by the blue whale skeleton at the Natural History Musuem.

Inktober 2019 : day 4 - pentel pocket brush and ink wash

Lottie wears her hair over that eye for a reason.

This one also snuck past my 90-minute time limit, I think it took just under 2 hours. I’m not as quick with the brush pen as I thought!

Day 21 is a friendly little vampire squidmaid! She’s appeared in a portfolio piece in the past. Be careful as you approach, she may try to hug you without considering all her teeth. I was messing around with masking fluid again (I learned it’s not as good with ink because the mistakes are harder to fix) and I tore the paper, so I decided to go in with the rubbish novelty pencils again and see where their limits really are! I still think they hold up surprisingly well? Don’t let cheap materials hold you back kids.

Day 15 is a freshwater pearl mussel! This mermaid is rooted to one spot. She can produce a pearl of rare size, but getting it from her will be tricky. I fell behind a bit on day 14 (I used my comic-drawing time to go and see Detective Pikachu, so I had to use my mermaid-drawing time to do my comic, and ended up with no time for a mermaid), so this one was lagging about a day behind.